FISCAL SURCHARGES:

The Carmine 1 ruble

There has been some discussion within the Club on the net about the possible existence of this rare stamp. (Mirr #43.) A block of four was thought to be shown on the cover of a catalog, but efforts by many members to trace that have proved fruitless.

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Possibly the rarest stamp of Tuva
– but was it actually issued?

At last a photo has turned up! In process of hunting thru old auction catalog cutouts to illustrate this website, our Pacific Regional Secretary Bruce Grenville discovered the page from a Harmers of London auction photo.

Click the stamp above to see the block of four. See TbBA #25 for an in-depth report on this issue.

Usual form of the 15k surcharge,
here overprinted on the 6k fiscal

POSTMARKS:

Got any Tuva postmarks?

Chadan

The Tannu Tuva Collectors' Society Inc. is currently trying to update our listing of postmarks used in Tuva, both presently and in the past.

To see the present listing of postmarks, click here.

Kochetovo

Turan

Kyzyl

OUR JOURNAL:

TbBA #26 out June 2002.

Issue #26 of TbBA with June 2002 byline, was mailed out worldwide in June. The issue is the third from editor Bruce Grenville in Auckland, New Zealand.

Bogus Tuva stamps exposed.

Main features in this issue include part one of our in-depth exposé on the illegal stamps now flooding the globe and threatening to kill philately, the 1934-36 philatelic covers of the pictorial series, some good websites about Tuva, and some angry words from Clive Feigenbaum, notorious producer of illegal stamps and frequent litigant. To see the cover of the latest issue, #26, click here.

1938 Provisional 5k (Mirr #110)
shown in TbBA #26.

If you are a member, you should receive a copy in the post by June's end, but if you haven't, please e-mail us or write, and CLEARLY PRINT your name and postal address.

1934–36 STAMPS:
Great report now on Club website

James Negus' classic study on Tuva, Philately's Ugliest Ducklings: Re-habilitating the 1934–36 issues of Tannu Tuva (1960) has now been added to this website.

There are a lot of recent postmarks in Tuva which we do not yet have photos of, such as those during the Soviet period (with CCCP and star at the top of the circle), and also the recent ones (with ROSSIJA at the top). If you have any covers or

Shagonar

examples of postmarks not illustrated on our Postmark Page, could you please send xerox copies or scans to our Editor? Thanks!

PRE-STAMP ERA :

Early years at Belotsarsk

Tuva's capital Kyzyl was known as Belotsarsk (= Town of the White Tsar) until after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War.

Belotsarsk, Yenesei District

Belotsarsk postmarks on cover are among the rarest items in Tuvan postal history. Please be on the lookout for them on Russian envelopes and postcards prior to 1926. If you find any, please send a scan or photocopy to the Editor.