Description
Three imperforate stamps from the Isle of Stroma, issued in 1969, and featuring “EUROPA 1969” overprints on the dog stamps issued earlier that year.
The full Europa 1969 set – not included here – is believed to comprise three more overprinted dog stamps, as well as six further overprints on the same year’s fish issue.
U/M / Unmounted Mint / MNH / Mint Never Hinged.
About Stroma
Stroma is a Scottish island, located in the Pentland Firth between Caithness and Orkney.
Background information on the 1960s labels that bear the island's name is reasonably hard to come by. However, the island's abandonment by its last permanent residents, in 1962, suggests that its stamps were produced for collectors rather than as part of any genuine local postal service. Either way, the stamps of Stroma count as Cinderellas by virtue of the island being part of the UK, and not an official postal administration in its own right.
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