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| Keywords: KievIII1rub.jpg Ceresa May 1986 The Postage Stamps of Russia 1917-23 2 Ukraine Part 9/13 The Trident Issues of Kyiv Types I II and II 210-213 Russian Philatelic Desk Top Publications Felpham Great Britain B0007BFS90 </ref> Signed Seichter Initially independent Ukraine allowed postage stamps of czarist Russia to be postally used On 20 August 1918 the Ukrainian Postal Ministry ordered all postage stamps used on Ukrainian territory to be overprinted with the national emblem the trident After 1 October 1918 Russian stamps became invalid without this overprint Ukraine had six postal districts Kiev Poltava Katerynoslav now Dnipropetrovsk Kharkiv Odessa and Podillia Each district utilized a number of distinct overprinting devices Trident-overprinted provisionals thus varied in size color and form About seventy-five basic overprints with at least fifty variants are identified including local ones The total number of different types of overprints is estimated to exceed 1 500 Provisional trident-overprinted stamps remained in use for some time after the fall of the Ukrainian government The latest authenticated date of usage is on an Odesa postal card from Pryvilne to Kharkiv dated 8 February 1926 Many counterfeit overprints exist Catalogue Kyiv type III Ceresa 597 1919 1923 Scan of original Government of Ukraine PD-Ukraine PD-old Sources reflist Trident issues of Ukraine Kiev Overprints on stamps of the Russian Empire Stamps possible wrong license | ||||
