I have had these for many years, I believe they came from 'Broadway Approvals' UK back in the 50s. VETEKEVERRIA & EMIRDITES do not translate in google but it autodetects Hungarian - still no translation. Any Albanian speaking collectors out there? Regards, James.
According to a couple of links I found the stamps are "local" stamps from a short-lived unrecognized northern Albanian republic. The stamps were never issued. http://catalogue.klaseboer.com/vol2/html/alban2.htm 1921 Non issued two headed eagle for the Mirdites Republic, Inscription 'POSTA VETEKEVERRIA E MIRDITIES' http://www.philateca.com/country/Vetëkeverria e Mirdities
Thank you H. A little more info' to add to the database. Following your lead I found a little more at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Mirdita Thanks, James.
Scott: Stamps of these types (as shown above) and with TAKSE overprint were unauthorized and never placed in use. Michel is more blunt: Diese Ausgabe ist Mache. (This issue is bogus)
Hi - I have just obtained a translation for "Vetekeverria" from an Albanian speaker. "Vete" means "self", and "keverria" ("qeverria" in modern Albanian) means "government". So, the whole translation of the inscription on the stamp is something like "The self-governing (area / district / province) of Miridites". It took me several months to crack this - great to have scored a win! - Alistair, Scotland.
Hello Alistair, first welcome to the forum. At this point I usually ask what do you collect? WW, countries or themes? and where in the world are you based please? I hope to see more of your input, questions or answers or some scans of your stamps. Thank you for the translation, I do not have any Albanian speakers in my village so had to rely on google translate and babel which more or less came to the same result. Regards, James.
