Postage Stamps used in the German Marshall Islands
Stamp Identifier -- Step 4
by Dirk H.R. Spennemann

Please follow the prompts provided to identify the stamp

  • Stamp with Yacht image motif
  • Stamp with overprint
  • Overprint reads "G.R.I." (and value)

    • British Occupation Stamps


    Following the occupation of Nauru by Australian forces at the beginning of World War I, a number of German stamps were confiscated, taken to New Guinea and overprinted with the letters "G.R.I." (for Georgius Rex Imperator) and a value. These stamps were used in occupied German New Guinea, but were never used on Nauru or the Japanese occupied Marshalls.

    See here for details


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