{"id":17,"date":"2010-08-06T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T13:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-08-09T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T08:00:40","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a collector of the stamps of Armenia that have been made and  used from the start of the First Republic in 1918 till the end of the  Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1923.<\/p>\n<p>Soon I encountered a big problem. All the stamps that were used  during that time have been massively forged. When you see Armenian  stamps on eBay, Delcampe, even by your usual dealer (I know only one  exception), the chances to see genuine overprints and stamps is not very  high. What to do? Ask an expert? There was none and several years ago I  decided to become my own expert.<\/p>\n<p>Based on publishings by Tchilinghirian, Ceresa and Zakiyan (to  name the most important ones), lots of time and lots of stamps to  compare I got better and better.<br \/>\nThis page will allow me  to post comments on topics of current   interest: research findings, questions of common interest to other  collectors of Armenian stamps and generally news regarding the world of  Armenian stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Lets see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a collector of the stamps of Armenia that have been made and used from the start of the First Republic in 1918 till the end of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1923. Soon I encountered a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/?p=17\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s11E12-welcome","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampsofarmenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}