eBay chatboard archive: Jan-08-07 to Jan-14-07 week

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-14-07 at 22:16:26 PST   Listings
Linda's monday bookmark....
Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 21:55:55 PST   Listings
The latest from the ONION…

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 20:43:16 PST   Listings
Matt in AZ… I think there are 127 recognized authentic precancel Arizona towns. I have all but three, acquired over many moons of combing eBay for them. Whenever I find a higher value, such as the 23¢ from Thatcher, I replace a more common item in my collection. Many of the small towns in Arizona that bear precancels are near Phoenix—Buckeye, Tolleson, Youngtown, Cashion, Avondale etc., so they really are from a very large metropolitan area.

I suppose any town is eligible. All they would need is some kind of club—garden club, veterans club, even a stamp club—that wants to save money on their monthly mailings, thus they apply for a precancel permit. Too, I believe the federal government often decided whether or not a community needed precanceled stamps, and I believe many were printed for towns which never found a use for them.

When you are at ARIPEX at Tucson next weekend, can you be on the lookout for the three precancels I don’t have? They are HUACHUCA CITY, INSPIRATION and JOKAKE. Don’t make a point of searching for them, but if they happen to cross your path, I would be interested. I will email you my phone number, so you can call collect if you happen to find them. The JOKAKE is the scarcest, by far.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by billsey   ( 840 ) on Jan-14-07 at 20:25:32 PST   Listings
toytown2005, I don't know what your reserve is, but the plate block should sell for somewhere around 85-90% of face value. The other lots offered are unlikely to sell unless you offer standard first class mailing instead of the Priority Mail. Each of the lots aren't worth the cost of the shipping with PM. :-(

You should spend some time with the 'Yellow Boxes' posted here every day. There are lots of links there that will help you in deciding the best way to market your friend's collection. Unfortunately, unless he has some material that's much better than what you've got up, he's not going to realize enough to help much with his housing costs.
Posted by toytown2005   ( 2512 ) on Jan-14-07 at 20:09:06 PST   Listings
A friend of mine gave me a big stamp collection to auction off on Ebay (to help fund his new assistance living residence). These are like greek to me!! Does anyone have any tips on any websites that can help me with identification? I started posting some lots of ones I sorted by name, but there are many that I have no clue about! Any help would be greatly appreciated!! THANKS
Posted by due2cents   ( 23 ) on Jan-14-07 at 19:44:24 PST   Listings
Earlycopper
Jaywilds little link
as seen here LINK!
will explain the Grill question.
Posted by abt1950   ( 222 ) on Jan-14-07 at 19:41:12 PST   Listings
Good night to all and to all sweet dreams of ice skating in Oklahoma (hope everyone is ok), Sayasan's Burma (or Myanmar if that's your preference), and T'ing off for this week's treasures. Anne
Posted by earlycopper   ( 1818 ) on Jan-14-07 at 19:28:52 PST   Listings
I have what is probably a very basic question. I have been looking over auction descriptions and they describe some stamps with GRILL. What is GRILL? I inherited a stamp collection from my father 10 years ago and have finally had some time with the bad weather to look into a few of the boxes. Just trying to get my bearings and terminology so I don't throw out anything meaningful or don't sell something I should know better about. Thanks in advance. Bob
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 615 ) on Jan-14-07 at 19:14:52 PST   Listings
John4zip Thanks now I don't have to finish watching the game I started earlier. I guess my new DVR can still be neutralized.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 615 ) on Jan-14-07 at 19:11:28 PST   Listings
T-T Is for:
Thurn & Taxis
&
Tannu Tuva

Fun Stuff...........
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-14-07 at 19:07:00 PST   Listings
Jim (Jaywild),

All those Arizona precancels -- some are from very small towns. What are the overprints used for? Why have them precanceled? 23c from Thatcher? I can understand using precancels for mass commercial mailings but you have surprised me with the range of small towns.

ARIPEX is next Friday thru Sunday (19 Jan-21 Jan) in Tucson. Anyone going? I'll be there Saturday.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:59:38 PST   Listings

For the world outside the USA: the American Football (NFL) playoffs are in full swing. The Chargers of San Diego lost to the Patriots of New England (Boston) today and play the Colts of Indianapolis next week. Also, the Bears of Chicago (Congrats Paul!) beat the Seahawks of Seattle so they face the Saints of New Orleans next week.

The winner of the Patriots-Colts game plays the winner of the Bears-Saints game in the Super Bowl, in Miami.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:59:01 PST   Listings
T is for Tempe, Thatcher, Tolleson, Tombstone, Tuba City and Tucson Arizona.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by john4zp6   ( 226 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:52:40 PST   Listings
i am a pissed off Charger fan atm... and i was trying to change where i store my photos from photobucket to my own server and TL wouldnt show the photos at all.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:49:45 PST   Listings
OK then.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:49:36 PST   Listings
taodave… In that case, the S honors go to sayasan, Richard W, for his amazing Burma—Myanmar—Shan States material. Next runner up is bwiphilately, followed by saphilatelics, then Knud-Erik. Of course I could go on and on…

J

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by john4zp6   ( 226 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:49:23 PST   Listings
thanks Matt but i think i figured it out... my firewall had blocked TL from the internet.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:48:50 PST   Listings
TurboLister: Can you view the auction page prior to uploading?
Posted by john4zp6   ( 226 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:48:29 PST   Listings
sorry to bug u all... was my firewall 8D
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:46:53 PST   Listings

I use TurboLister - what's the question?

Matt in Arizona
Posted by john4zp6   ( 226 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:44:49 PST   Listings
TL wont seem to load my photos anymore... have been using for over a year but now it doesnt work. I downloaded TL 2 and it times out trying to connect to the internet/ebay. it might be something with my firewall but i dont think so.
Posted by john4zp6   ( 226 ) on Jan-14-07 at 18:42:19 PST   Listings
can anyone help me with a Turbo Lister question?
Posted by taodave   ( 135 ) on Jan-14-07 at 17:53:43 PST   Listings
Jaywild (Jim)---

Many thanks for selecting me, but as I indicated previously, I withdrew from competition after my third win earlier in the alphabet. Please award the laurels to one of the other deserving posters.

taodave
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 441 ) on Jan-14-07 at 17:40:07 PST   Listings
The Patriots have a great D but without Brady I doubt they would have even 1 ring.
So he's like the MVP of the league, but enough people don't think he's a pro-bowl player....
It's just one of those things that I just don't understand, at all.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 441 ) on Jan-14-07 at 17:36:42 PST   Listings
Yeah, Brady isn't a pro bowl player. Right. What a joke huh?
Best QB in the league PERIOD. End of story. How many times does he have to prove it? 20? 30? 40?
He will, and there will still votes against him for certain honors.
It's laughable.


Posted by wrd3   ( 99 ) on Jan-14-07 at 17:36:11 PST   Listings
A question on stamp hinges. At the bottom of a box lot from a local auction was a metal box of Cosmopolitan Stamp Hinges. The box appears complete - there are 10 bundles of non-folded hinges, bound by pink paper, in the box as well as instructions. The instructions include both instructions on how to use the hinges as well as instructions on how to use the watermark detector on the bottom of the metal box (the bottom is black, with a slightly raised edge). On the front of the box is Made in England. The box is about 10 cm x 5 cm x 1.5 cm.

Googling I found several references to Cosmopolitan Stamp Hinges ..... there were three different types of tins listed, with three different dealers names (Scott, Robinson Lowe and Leonard Gill). But none of these references had any real information on the hinges. Does anyone have any information they could share? Any guess as to approximate age? Was this a brand of hinge that was sold to various dealers under their brand (or at least with their name printed), or did the ownership of the company change? Were the hinges any good?

Bill D.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1178 ) on Jan-14-07 at 16:20:56 PST   Listings
In keeping with the "T" One of the Taxes to help pay for WWI was on parcels over a given postage. I don’t know the details off the top of my head, but here’s three Documentary stamps from Terre Haute, Indiana that were precanceled for paying that tax. These are harder to find than the revenue Tax stamps with postal cancellations. click here .

Jim L.

Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 15:34:26 PST   Listings
Thanks Bill D.
Posted by wrd3   ( 99 ) on Jan-14-07 at 15:15:58 PST   Listings
FWIW the "s" entries can be seen here.

Bill D.
Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 15:12:49 PST   Listings
Bob in WA… Here is your newspaper stamp, courtesy of Scott’s.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by rclwa   ( 947 ) on Jan-14-07 at 14:59:17 PST   Listings
Well, somewhere I have a beautiful copy, but can't find it to show (been looking for hours!), but I at least should mention, for an unusual face value, the U.S. Newspaper stamp (Scott PR24 or PR71) with a denomination of $1.92!

Bob in WA
Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 14:56:05 PST   Listings
My choice for S winner is taodave for his W.T. Sherman letters and his Wm. Seward AYP FDC and associated proofs and interesting side story. Both figures—Sherman and Seward—were extremely important in American history.
William Tecumseh Sherman is one of the true brilliant stars of the American Civil War. He was also entirely indifferent to political office—it was Sherman who said, when people were clamoring to have him run for President, “If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve.” Can’t beat that for blunt. It shut everybody up completely.

William Seward engineered the purchase of Alaska in 1867, for approximately 4¢ an acre. It was widely derided as “Seward’s Folly” and “Seward’s Icebox”, but the acquisition has since proved its worth many times over.

Seward had contended with Abraham Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1860, and of course lost it to him. After his election, Lincoln invited Seward to be his Secretary of State, a job he accepted. At first he was contemptuous of Lincoln, as were almost all the other members of the Cabinet, but he quickly recognized the President’s abilities and his devotion to honesty and the Union, and before the first year was out Seward was Lincoln’s greatest champion.

The assassination of Lincoln was part of a plot to kill not only Lincoln but Vice President Johnson and important members of the Cabinet as well, Seward among them. While John Wilkes Booth was shooting Lincoln at Ford’s Theater, his associate Lewis Powell fought his way into Seward’s home and slashed at him with a Bowie knife. He was in bed, recovering from a carriage accident, and the metal brace he wore on his neck saved him from death, stopping Powell’s knife just short of his jugular vein. While Seward recovered from his injuries, the news of Lincoln’s death was kept from him, but he figured out what had happened nevertheless. From his recovery room he could see all the flags of the capital at half staff, and he knew that Lincoln would have been the first to visit him had he been still alive to do so.

Honorable mention should also go to saphilatelics for his Saxony exhibit, bwiphilately for his St. Vincent forgeries, and sayasan for his Burma material, including the Shan States and Saya San.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by jaywild   ( 909 ) on Jan-14-07 at 14:54:04 PST   Listings
“S” entries… Herewith are some of the S’s I considered, by no means all—
  • saphilatelics… A brilliant Saxony exhibit, most amazing.
  • de66… for swine duty stamps, as well as other South Australian tax stamps.
  • Io… for Soufriere and other sputtering, smoldering and sulfurous sites of volcanism. Best name award goes to you for Snaefellsjokull.
  • Ant-Ra… for superb “S” country showings, as usual.
  • greenwave4u… for Spanish Civil War items.
  • bwiphilately… for Street letter boxes of Jamaica & St. Vincent forgeries.
  • taodave… for the extraordinary William Tecumseh Sherman covers, and the William Seward AYP FDC.
  • Knud-Erik… for stationery fakes.
  • The Reverend Jim L… for his serendipitous pre-release Ella Fitzgerald cancel & Space mail.
  • Richard W… for Shan State(s) and Saya San.
  • billsey… for snowy scenes at the Seymours.
  • Anne… for seals & sphinxes.
  • Roger H… for St. Croix (x2) and Strubels.
Many nice entries here. Lets see, what should I do—?

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs

Posted by bjornmu   ( 858 ) on Jan-14-07 at 14:14:23 PST   Listings
Knuden, I think that's what the Swedish 27 öre stamps were used for too, I find it now in Facit. Norway also increased the "Nordic" rate to 12 øre, but registration was 20 øre. There was no 32 øre stamp though.

Speaking of "missing" stamp values, the rate for most double weight or registered letters to foreign destinations outside Sewden and Denmark, had been at 40 øre from 1879 until 1921, but it wasn't until 1917 that a stamp of that value was actually issued. Until then such covers were usually franked with two 20 øre stamps. Wonder how much paper would have been saved. :-)
Posted by knuden   ( 2185 ) on Jan-14-07 at 14:08:08 PST   Listings
Here is the 27 øre on newspaper stamp.

K.E 
Posted by knuden   ( 2185 ) on Jan-14-07 at 13:58:09 PST   Listings
Meeting topic - The danish newspaper stamps.

The danish newspaper stamps had a short life - from Oct. 1907 to Dec. 1916. The characteristic is a nice design, interesting colors and unusual denominations as 7, 8, 29, 38, 41 and 68 øre. But if one look at the rate, one can understand why.
0,5 øre by the number of newspaper to 35 gr.
0,75 øre by the number of newspaper to 75 gr.
1 øre by the number of newspaper to 125 gr. (maximum weight.)
Minimum to be paid was 5 øre.
A postal use (which are very rare) of the newspaper stamps, can be seen here.

After the newspaper stamps became invalid, the remainders was overprinted with 27 øre. The reason for this was a raise from 10 to 12 øre, in the rate for letters to Sweden and Norway and, as the registration rate of 15 øre remainded the same, there were a use for a new 27 øre stamp. The 27 øre provisionals was isued June 1918 and first Nov. 26, 1918 came a new 27 øre definitive stamp.
The 27 øre rate was short lived too and ended July 1919. In March 1926 the rest of the 27 øre stamps was overprinted 7 øre, to be used as the first class printed matter (0 - 50gr.) rate.
Items with newspaper stamps are very rare.
Items with 27 øre overprint are rare.
Items with the 27 øre definitive are scarce.
Items with the 7/27 are very unusual but here is one from my collection.

K.E 
Posted by bjornmu   ( 858 ) on Jan-14-07 at 13:48:16 PST   Listings
For Norway, the smallest number which hasn't been used either as øre or kroner is 16. Can't answer off the top of my head for any other country. BTW the value 1.60 is also the lowest multiple of 10 øre which hasn't been used.

Posted by sirrinepeter   ( 180 ) on Jan-14-07 at 13:38:06 PST   Listings
David B.
Mahalo for the insight as to that may be aFORGERIE
I guess if it's too good to be true it just might be too good too be true.

Andy C.
Posted by rclwa   ( 947 ) on Jan-14-07 at 13:30:54 PST   Listings
Bjorn -- I suspect he wasn't paying much attention to 1-25, as all but the 23 were covered by the U.S. Prexy series, which he had complete elsewhere.

An interesting question for U.S. collectors, which often catches some, is ''What is the smallest whole number that has NOT been the denomination of a U.S. postage stamp?''

Bob in WA
Posted by bjornmu   ( 858 ) on Jan-14-07 at 13:00:44 PST   Listings
Bob, nice page but I find it odd that the space for 2 is empty, surely there are lots of 2 whatevers around? I also not one Norwegian stamp and three of the "odd" Danish newspaper stamps.

Posted by dbenson   ( 7730 ) on Jan-14-07 at 12:49:43 PST   Listings
sirrine,

yes, it would be a nice addition to a Hawaii collection, especially a collection of Hawaiian forgeries,

David B.
Posted by rclwa   ( 947 ) on Jan-14-07 at 12:43:28 PST   Listings
Well, my scanner is working fine today. I guess whatever the problem was just needed shutting down and restarting the computer. I couldn't get it to work last night for anything--tried three times.

Unusual face values -- Looking for other items, I came across THIS interesting page that my father started to put together. The numbers and most of the notes (I added just a few) are in his handwriting, and he died in 1972, so he did not have access to the gazillions of issues since then from which to find denominations. Anyone interested may wish to copy a few of those Scott numbers and check them out, if they cover a missing number in your own efforts. (I still like the idea of 100 different countries--no sense making it too easy! :-)

I also ran across THIS cover to myself for the Last Day of the 49¢ nonstandard surcharge rate (37¢ + 12¢) which includes envelopes outside the allowed aspect ratio. I believe the range is 1.3 to 2.5, as anything too square or too long for the width will not work in the machines and must be hand processed. Even so, the stationers still make square greeting cards, most with warnings about excess postage, but some without, leaving the buyer to perhaps find out the hard way. (Actually, one returned for additional postage would make an interesting rate cover.) The stamp depicts the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as it should appear when the second span is completed next year. It is from the initial experimental series of Photostamps, which ran for only a few weeks in 2004, and are the scarcest of that genre in the U.S.

And here at last is one of my covers with the S is for SEX and also Skeleton and Slovenia. The STAMP is from 1995 and the image is called ''Death and the Bride''. I'll forego the anticipated puns involving words like ''bone'' and ''meat'', and rather than describe it myself, let you read all about the stamps HERE, although I think the phrase ''…settled on the recumbent young girl's body'' rather dances around the obvious imagery of the pose.

In 2000 I found an eBay seller in Slovenia who rounded up some commercial envelopes and contrived some covers for me. Although philatelic in intent, and posted 5 years after the stamp was issued, they did go through the mails. At least one was registered, and I know one was strict solo use of the stamp, but this is the only one I could lay my hands on today. He sent all to me in a large oversized envelope with a huge block of them paying the postage! I was pleasantly surprised they weren't heavily defaced by prudish American postal workers, but it arrived with nice cancels. All in all it was one of my more delightful eBay transactions, in going on 9 years.

Bob in WA
Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-14-07 at 12:36:12 PST   Listings
Rainer Sorry I'd love to be able to help. I know it can be done but I have no idea how or what program you need. There was a discussion once in the Bdph Forum about it but I don't remember where or if that discussion was saved. I'd also one day like to learn how to take a used stamp and be left with just the cancel.
Posted by knuden   ( 2185 ) on Jan-14-07 at 12:34:30 PST   Listings
Bjornmu - You must be refering to the 2 provisionals on this cover.
To quote Facit: " The isues of 55 and 80 øre (and 12 and 90 øre) stamps was announced in the Swedish Post' circular no. 37, June 27 1918. From this day the stamps could be obtained from the stamp agency. On each of the 55 and 80 øre stamps 1000 were delivered to the post office of Värnamo at the second of July 1918, the same day it was desided that these stamps should be used for production of 27 øre value by overprinting. Earliest known date of cancelation is the third of July 1918. About 50 copies were postaly used on money orders and dispatch notes. Of these at most 10 have been preserved - usually the 80 øre stamp.
The remainders - 40043 copies 55 øre and 47143 copies 80 øre - were officially destroyed on October 7, 1985.
When the remainders were burnt in 1985 it was possible to calculate that further 982 stamps of each value could be on the market. Most of these stamps have probaly been gifts from the Swedish Postal Administration."

Origian unoverprinted stamps can be seen here.

K.E 
Posted by sirrinepeter   ( 180 ) on Jan-14-07 at 12:25:29 PST   Listings
keleofa,
Know,I just thought it would be a nice addition for someone
who does Hawaii.
By the by its been realy cold in Oregon and I would love to
be on the beach just now.

Andy
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-14-07 at 12:19:07 PST   Listings
Andy,

Did you have a quetion about it?

Matt in Arizona
Posted by sirrinepeter   ( 180 ) on Jan-14-07 at 11:38:59 PST   Listings
ALOHA from Junction City , Oregon

Has anybody seen this yet? 130068200919

Andy
Posted by dbenson   ( 7730 ) on Jan-14-07 at 10:44:13 PST   Listings
claghorn, looks like a Fournier, you are showing the block upside down for it to be a T,

David B.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 858 ) on Jan-14-07 at 10:25:17 PST   Listings
Meeting topic: My favourites would have to be the 1.98 and 2.12 kr overprint on the Swedish Gustav V "Medallion" stamps. The other overprints are also unround: 7, 12 and 27 öre. Guess which two stamps I would much prefer to have without the overprint?

I think the 1.98 and 2.12 were used on parcels to Finland/Russia.

On the next page in my album are also some peculiarities, namely overprinted semipostal on overprinted semipostal. How about "7+3 on 5+5 on 6 öre" or "12+8 on 10+10 on 24 öre"? this is the last of three sets, and Landstorm III with the double overprint are actually the most common. Though almost all used copies appear to have been favour cancelled, as they have a partial STOCKHOLM cancel, often exactly sideways for some reason.

From the same album will also come my contribution for the letter T (later).
Posted by prochute   ( 65 ) on Jan-14-07 at 09:48:46 PST   Listings
David Snyder YES. Billions & billions of others used the USPS self service machines. For results, point your browser at:

http://www.others.com
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 397 ) on Jan-14-07 at 09:29:38 PST   Listings
To further complete Sheryll's collection:
47 61 73 77 89

These will go in the mail to you on Tuesday together with the others I posted earlier.
Posted by djs127   ( 549 ) on Jan-14-07 at 08:32:50 PST   Listings
Last Sunday for the first time I used the new self service machines at the post office and it was great. I was able to mail an item priority mail and used my credit card with no problem. Seems to accept most everything except media mail.
I wonder can you insure a priority mail box with that machine or do you need to go to a postal clerk for that?
How have others found this new self service machine in the US?
Thanks,
David Snyder
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-14-07 at 07:23:37 PST   Listings
San Francisco Earthquake - 1906...

The big earthquake hit San Francisco 18 April 1906 at 5:12am. It was a Wednesday morning.

How much mail survives postmarked SF on April 18th? I suppose a lot of mail was destroyed as the main post office at Seventh and Mission was heavily damaged.

I found a commercial cover postmarked San Francisco April 16th, posted to the Presidio in SF, with a Presidio receiving marking, 17 April 1906.

Just wondering if anyone has researched earthquake mail --- seems like an interesting topic.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by 22028   ( 1545 ) on Jan-14-07 at 07:02:37 PST   Listings
Is someone here experienced in image manipulation and is able to extract the postmark out of this image?
I believe to read KUDAHRAH, 5 APR 35.
http://www.fuchs-online.com/iraq/postal_history/Stations/1422.jpg
Posted by iomoon   ( 1038 ) on Jan-14-07 at 06:45:37 PST   Listings
Good day all.

From a wet Scarsdale.

T is for Tristan da Cunha.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-14-07 at 05:24:44 PST   Listings
T is for TAXE and here is my Favorite TAXE block

D2 what do you think?

Yes, Fournier
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3306 ) on Jan-14-07 at 04:49:04 PST   Listings


Good morning from a very frosty North Texas

Jeff

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1173 ) on Jan-14-07 at 04:02:44 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Jim L.
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-14-07 at 02:26:13 PST   Listings
Ooops..... The UK non-denominational stamps are here.
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-14-07 at 02:24:04 PST   Listings
saphilatelics - Many thanks! CYE.

eUSC meeting topic (cont)

Linda - Here's a group of UK Christmas stamps, making up what could well have been the correct rate to Oz in 2001. None of them has a denomination, and they include an "E" stamp.

S2
Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-14-07 at 02:20:01 PST   Listings
I know we are on the "T" but can I ask that people don't post their T items until after the EUSC monthly meeting has closed.I ask because we have all next week and after 3pm today to post anything related to T. The monthly meeting is only running for a few hours.
Odd Values My contribution is an interesting article on the 1874 1/4d Farthing Essays.

Posted by bjornmu   ( 857 ) on Jan-14-07 at 01:35:46 PST   Listings
Of course, the stamp I showed just before the meeting opened was a Danish 29 øre newspaper stamp overprinted with 27 øre to be used as a reglar stamp. The newspaper stamps also come in 38, 41 and 68 øre among others.

Both Denmark and Sweden has issued 27 øre/öre stamps, both regular and as overprintgs, but Norway has not. Not sure what rate they were for. The Swedish may have been for registered domestic and/or express local mail.
Posted by 22028   ( 1543 ) on Jan-14-07 at 01:08:20 PST   Listings
T stands for Tete-Beche Pair.
Here is a rare registered cover, sent 1904 from Pokhara to Kathmandu, franked with a total of 7 Annas, the rate for a registered cover with a weight of up to 2 tolas (1 tola = 11,66 grams). The cover is franked with a strip of three of the 1901-1907 issue, 1 Anna, recut frame (H/V 27), plus an additional 4 Anna stamp on reverse, making the total of 7 Annas. The middle stamp of the 1 Anna strip of three is inverted, forming a tete-beche pair. Not a major rarity but tete-beche pairs on cover are hard to find. The stamps are cancelled with the standard square cancellation of Pokhara, Type C83, furthermore the negative hand-dated postmark of Pokhara, type N44, dated (AD) 19. March 1904, (BS) 6.12.1960) and the arrival postmark of Kathmandu.
http://fuchs-online.com/my_ebay/images/27_Nepal-tete-beche-cover.jpg
Posted by bjornmu   ( 857 ) on Jan-14-07 at 00:53:05 PST   Listings
Peetah, nice stamp, I considered putting it on my watch list but I normally lose out on these. "318" is TØNSET, somewhat uncommon. As for the hits, I don't know. I remember sometime last year, it was discovered that any item with the word "worthless" (yes now I used that word) in the title got literally millions of hits, but this is neither worthless nor that many...

Bob and Sheryll, nice numbers! I was about to offer an 84pf from Allied Occopation of Germany, but I see now you have that covered.

Another 10cm of snow during the night and -1C here, and lots more of the popular tracks (also down to 200m) are being prepped by snow scooter today. I will definitely go skiing! :-)
Posted by knuden   ( 2183 ) on Jan-14-07 at 00:26:02 PST   Listings
Rats - Too early of the day for this - I need at least another cup of coffee!!

K.E 
Posted by dbenson   ( 7722 ) on Jan-14-07 at 00:25:27 PST   Listings
upper, we only have 2 international rates, at the moment A$1.25 for NZ, South East Asia and most of the Pacific Islands and a rate for the rest of the world A$ 1.85, it makes it easy when posting,

David B.
Posted by knuden   ( 2183 ) on Jan-14-07 at 00:17:49 PST   Listings
Alex - Hi. Thank you for your gift. It will go straight into my meager collection of these. :O)


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K.E 


Posted by rclwa   ( 947 ) on Jan-14-07 at 00:05:22 PST   Listings
I just realized my ''Sex Stamp'' cover was not the Solo use I mentioned, but one with a multiple. (I have more than one cover using this stamp.) But when I went to scan it my scanner refused to work, sending a message it is not recognized! Don't know what that is about, but I am at least temporarily scanner-less! When I get it working I'll post it.

I do have another item that fits both the Meeting topic of unusual face values and the letter S category, however. I've posted it before, so I'll just reiterate a short version:

In 2002 I purchased an eBay lot from a seller who is NOT connected with stamps, but who agreed to accept some mint stamps to cover postage costs. I sent him some nice ones, calculated to accommodate the then 34¢ letter rate, including a booklet pane of the 29¢ ''Buck Rogers'' space issue. To my surprise, he used the stamps I had sent to send the lot to me. There was a bit more added, but not enough to cover the Priority mailing! The mystery was solved when I realized his post office had accepted the booklet pane he had affixed UPSIDE DOWN as Sixty-Two Cent stamps, as seen HERE! Add another S for Serendipity!

I think using the word Stamp or Scott for S was stretching it a little. But now it's after midnight, ''T'' time!

Bob in WA
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 394 ) on Jan-13-07 at 23:36:29 PST   Listings
Sheryll,
here are
51 and 56
Send me your address via ebay e-mail, and I'll drop them in the mail to you.
Posted by billsey   ( 840 ) on Jan-13-07 at 23:31:50 PST   Listings
Bjorn, yes we were down for a few hours today with what we believe to be some ice melting on the antenna on one of the 5.7GHz radios. Once the weather got a little colder things cleared up again. Hopefully it won't go back down tomorrow...

Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-13-07 at 23:00:11 PST   Listings
S is for Sydney Stamp Expo 2007, which I plan to attend in June.

Bob - Bridge alert!!!

eUSC meeting topic

(Another post for Bob.....)
Here is my collection of denominations on stamps, from 1 to 100:

1-33 (complete)
34-65 (missing 47, 51, 54, 56, 61)
66-100 (missing a heck of a lot!)

Someone at the Philatelic Society of Canberra suggested this idea for a quirky yet not onerous collection a few years ago, so I thought I'd try it, with whatever came to hand.

S2
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-13-07 at 21:33:28 PST   Listings
L… Well!!

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by malolo   ( 835 ) on Jan-13-07 at 20:57:06 PST   Listings
iomoon -
Jim sorry, CYE again. missed a digit, auction closes 24 hours from this post.

Roger
Posted by kathmoon   ( 244 ) on Jan-13-07 at 20:22:07 PST   Listings
uppercanadian: If you cannot find them at an office supply store - my wife suggested a craft store, in the "scrapbook" section - all kinds of paper punches there.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7722 ) on Jan-13-07 at 20:12:21 PST   Listings
Lindy, what a question without notice, I presume it was 45c. less 15% discount for bulk, which would equal be 6.75c. = 38.25c, semi rounded out to 38.50c.,

Is there a mathematician in the house,

David B.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-13-07 at 20:11:48 PST   Listings


hahaha
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-13-07 at 19:59:02 PST   Listings
Well, I had to open my mouth about how warm it has been here, so today look what happens...

And it's only 8 pm here, so it will surely get down into the 30s, since the skies are clear.

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-13-07 at 19:54:51 PST   Listings
Odd denominations.. I have always liked the various letters of the Alphabet stamps, as outside the country of origin no-one knows how much they actually cost. This E stamp from the UK is the only one I have ever seen used on cover unfortunately, torn! Posted to Australia with a variety of Machins in July 2002.

I'm not sure about this next envelope (actually 2 envelopes posted same day in 2005). (when the local postal rate was 0.50c) the are franked by a meter for 38.5cents -- - maybe David B knows why the discount on postage?

Linda

Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-13-07 at 19:46:35 PST   Listings
Odd denominations… The 19th Century “battleship” proprietary stamps of the US featured odd denominations, such as this, 1?¢ (one and seventh-eighths cent).

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by antonius-ra   ( 615 ) on Jan-13-07 at 18:54:13 PST   Listings
Bob Wa Of course there is always the Hanover 1/30th (position 2-2).
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1173 ) on Jan-13-07 at 18:48:03 PST   Listings
Brad/Upperc
Nice work. You’ll have an album that will do you proud.
I also prefer the photos and illustrations in black and white. That lets the stamps shine.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a Stag card 46-10.

and a sleigh ride in progress card 28-12.


Jim L.
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Posted by iomoon   ( 1038 ) on Jan-13-07 at 18:06:09 PST   Listings
I don't have any catalogs with me but, unusual values stand out like a sore thumb.
Within my collecting interests the GB 7d and 11d definitives of 1952 onward stand out.
I have no idea why they were ever issued.
Probably the GB equivalents of US singular prexie uses, if you can ever find a legitimate singular postal use.
Posted by wrd3   ( 99 ) on Jan-13-07 at 17:31:44 PST   Listings
uppercanadian having included color images on some home-made album pages I strongly suggest you stay with black-and-white on your pages. The black-and-white looks much nicer, and doesn't distract from the stamps mounted on the page. Based on your two pages it looks like you will have a nice album when done (if it's ever done - I think albums are always works-in-progress).

Bill D.
Posted by rclwa   ( 947 ) on Jan-13-07 at 17:31:23 PST   Listings
I'm still way behind catching up on the board from my power outage, but I have most saved and am working my way through. (I know I still promised that Sex cover, too!) But I wanted to post the following right away.

Meeting topic -- Unusual face values

Bjorn
, congratulations for once again coming up with a most interesting topic! It so happens I have thought of that same idea for many years, and upon receiving the email notice I immediately went to an old ciger box labeled ''numbers'' where I had been putting such items aside. I have long had the idea to assemble a page or two containing 100 stamps whose denominations are each of the whole numbers from 1 to 100! A further consideration should be that they are from 100 different countries! I don't know if it is even possible, and one thing that would help immensely is if Scott catalogs on CD become searchable to the point one can search on denominations! I don't know if they are, yet, or not. Otherwise one might waste many hours searching through print catalogs, or clicking page after page on your monitor, seeking a 97 silver whatevers that may not exist!

I noticed some of the stamps I had put in the box a few years back are now common in the U.S., thanks to postage increases and stamps issued to cover the 2- and 3-ounce rates. Also the Photostamps have offered the nonstandard rate, originally 49¢, which otherwise was never represented in a U.S. stamp. Some higher rates such as $1.06 also exist in those formats. But I'm assuming we want official Government issues here.

Anyway, I grabbed a few I thought interesting and threw them on the scanner, HERE! The China denomination may be a bit hard to read, so here is a CLOSER look! So far it is the highest PRIME number I have found as a denomination. Anybody know a higher one? And I'd also like to see any smaller number than the 1/15 (= .0666…) on the Hanover stamp. And for either, if you don't have one to show, please still mention them.

Bob in WA
Posted by peetah   ( 456 ) on Jan-13-07 at 17:20:51 PST   Listings
I have 823 hits on this 120072417818 item. What is it that is so interesting??????
Posted by horadam1   ( 432 ) on Jan-13-07 at 16:08:15 PST   Listings
Matt, thanks very much. I knew the board would come through. {:0)
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-13-07 at 16:05:35 PST   Listings
Uh-oh, our eUSC home page is down again? My email to billsey bounced, maybe there's a connection.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 839 ) on Jan-13-07 at 15:45:31 PST   Listings
Don't worry, it is not like I am going to post every new page I make, but I am just trying to set the standards now that I will follow for the next 20 years or so.

Albume Page 2 Here

This next page is the rough copy not yet printed on the good paper. I have the plate block, and then an error. I would be grateful for quick feedback on how the page is set-up. I was going to do the error in colour, but then thought that it would detract from the stamps, so have decided wherever possible to do the pictures in black and white.

Alec


As time is progressing, I am thinking that i would like to try and enter some competitions. To date, I never have, nor have I spent a lot of time looking over frames at shows. I will do so in the future. I have been collecting for most of my life, but have never really progressed into any specialty interest until very recently. I want to take it to the next level now - so to speak.

Kathmoon Thanks for the kind words. That is a great suggestion - I didn't know they existed. I will pick one up tomorrow.. Thanks!!

Brad

Posted by matthew1999   ( 148 ) on Jan-13-07 at 15:29:47 PST   Listings
Odd amounts

I've always scratched my head over this one: £1.41

Some of the Aussie states fiscals are pretty odd too.

Actually, I always thought the Natal £1.10 was just a pound and a half. Am I wrong?

Mh
Posted by kathmoon   ( 244 ) on Jan-13-07 at 15:24:03 PST   Listings
uppercanadian: Your page looks great. Office supplies stores - in the section with paper hole puches - have little specialty punches to round corners. I use them on my pages. It does make them look better, and does prevent the corner bends.
Posted by prochute   ( 65 ) on Jan-13-07 at 15:16:17 PST   Listings
Odd face value One of my favorites is NATAL's £1.10 keyplate design from the Edward VII era.
Phil
Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-13-07 at 15:02:45 PST   Listings
Brad/Upperc I like your latest design. How much or how little information you add is entirely a personal thing. The important point being that you like it. If you were writing up for a competition entry exhibit then certain things may have to be changed or added depending on the competition rules.
I am one of those that does enter competition sometimes and so I try to write up my pages in a style that I like and I hope will also be suitable for competitive entry.
The difference being though that when it comes to postal history in particular you are forever having to redo pages as new material is bought. For stamps the same can apply of course when you have special items like plate blocks etc.
As to wether saving such a self designed system onto a file and selling it on ebay, I have no idea on how feasable that is. In principal though it sounds like a good idea.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-13-07 at 15:00:23 PST   Listings

eBay User's Stamp Club Meeting January 13-14 NOW OPEN



This weekend, until 3PM eBay time Sunday, we are holding the monthly meeting here on eBay Stamp Chat. The topic I have picked for this meeting is:

Unusual face values



Many face values on stamps are round or small numbers, but some stand out as more "odd" than the others from the same country. They may be exceptionally small or high, or very "un-round" numbers. Or perhaps an unusual overprinted value. Do you have any favourite "odd-valued" stamps?



Also, officers report if they have anything to report.

Home page for the eUSC.

- Bjorn, President eUSC
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-13-07 at 14:53:40 PST   Listings
OK, I got inspired by this auction item as I was typing in for the local club auction, and so I will soon announce a topic for this month's meeting.

It seems that winter has finally started here (though we did have one that lasted a few days at the end of October). We've had a bit of snow and the temp is just below freezing. This morning's "skiing condition report" said that only a few of the main tracks at higher altitues (400-450m) had been prepared in "Bymarka" outside town, so if I go there tomorrow it may be crowded. Oh, and I'm talking horizontal skiing of course. :-)

There was actually much more snow the last weekend in October, but then I couldn't go. :-(
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-13-07 at 14:42:47 PST   Listings
Lindy… Did you get my email thanking you for the Oct 5 covers? If not then I thank you profusely here. I got one I didn’t have yet, and have replaced three others with better ones you sent.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by flip138   ( 359 ) on Jan-13-07 at 13:42:57 PST   Listings
NOIP

The only way I know to get local PO cancels on British fdcs these days is to send them Special Delivery, which doesn't cost that much more than the face value of many of the sets. I am not interested in the non-operational "special" cancels; as Richard stated, those have not been anywhere near the relevant post office.

As a collector of cancellations, I can still get a free Certificate of Posting at a local PO for any item I mail. However, some clerks prefer to use their computers to print a type of till receipt. The latter are not datestamped, so I sometimes have to insist politely on them using the old-style Certificate - I carry a few unused certificates with me, as POs are sometimes out of stock. Today I visited parts of the Black Country - Dudley and Tipton.

Phil
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 839 ) on Jan-13-07 at 13:26:06 PST   Listings
Linda,

How very interesting. We have a 6% GST here plus a provincial tax (in Ontario it is 8%). When you purchase a stamp, you pay the 6% GST. Whether you use the stamp for domestic or international makes no difference. But you are saying that the Australian GST is applicable only for international postage??

I was wondering, in Canada, we have a special rate to the United States, which falls halfway between the Canada and International rate. Does Australia have a similiar arrangement with New Zealand, or are they just considered international?

David B

Yes, a very strange coincidence with Bessarabia. I just won another couple of covers, although I am not sure that they are going to be what I think they are. It was impossible trying to get information from the seller so I thought I would take a chance.

Canada Stamp Album

Thanks to the suggestions from a number of you, I have re-worked my template for the pages of my new Canadian album. I have added the quantities issued as per Mr.Benson. Hopefully it is not too cluttered. Have a look at the Album Page Here. So, I now have 2 pages of an album that will probably outgrow 3 binders by the end of the year if I can keep this up. Each time I do a page, I am getting faster. I quite like the subtle border with the maple leaves. It took me a long time to design that, going through piles of different ideas from just a border to using very fancy 19th century borders.

I have bought fairly heavy bond paper. One reason for my choice of paper was that the producer has been around a long time and has been producing this brand for over 10 years. I would hate for the paper to disappear in a years time. One disappointment though is that the outside corners of each page are not rounded.

Would love more feedback - positive and negative. I would rather here it now, than when I have designed 100 pages!!

Lastly, I was wondering the value of saving each page as a digital file. Unlike most album pages out there right now for Canada, this one will be for plate blocks, from at least the year 1932 and going forward. Perhaps there could be a market somewhere down the road allowing me to sell it on Ebay. What are the chances of that??
Posted by dbenson   ( 7722 ) on Jan-13-07 at 13:15:51 PST   Listings
Lindy, I am bit worried that if I use any of the new international stamps to England some of the recipients may think that it is not " Cricket ",

David B.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-13-07 at 12:45:06 PST   Listings
David those RubberStamps are used in the hobby of Scrapbooking to decorate album pages. For those readers who dont know Scrapbooking, its the putting together of photoalbums and crafts in one volume, lots of embellishments and really big business in the Craft World these days.

Brad we have lots of 'licenced' Post Offices here in Australia too. A further problem here is that 'domestic postage stamps' and 'international postage stamps' are separate, due to our Goods & Services Tax System,(currently 10%) and technically 'domestic' stamps are not able to be used on international mail.
However, if you use domestic stamps, and add a further 10% worth, you can post them overseas, but most PO's dont know that!
Linda
Posted by dbenson   ( 7722 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:41:16 PST   Listings
Alec, by coincidence I used thta site last week to ID a reprint,

It is most probably the clearest reference to the material that has ever been produced in English (and it saves buying the book)


David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7722 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:38:43 PST   Listings
NOIP, This is the all of the fake stamps, postmarks & handstamps the company has for sale in their " Faux Poste " category. It looks like they have no idea of philately as they have a lot of items described under the wrong country, overprints as postmarks & vice versa,

http://www.stampfrancisco.com/Search.asp?Action=Show&ListSize=All&SetLS=1&sb=kw&q=Faux++Poste

I wonder if any of the buyers of the handstamps are Ebay stamp sellers,

David B.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:34:56 PST   Listings
For anyone interested in distinguishing the genuine from the numerous reprints of Helgoland is a site worth saving.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7722 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:31:15 PST   Listings
Postal, the Leeward Sexagenary handstamps have always been problems since they were issued but both of yours look OK although there are some very good forgeries. There is a good handbook which shows the known forgeries and it should be available through the philatelic libraries in the US.

I was looking through the web and noticed that a Rubber Stamp maker has a ready made handstamp in stock, presumably a duplicate that he made for someone.

http://www.stampfrancisco.com/Product.asp?Sku=100-372&Desc=Leeward+Islands+1897

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:15:26 PST   Listings
Well then, never mind!!
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:15:04 PST   Listings
ajmax37… Click on the SECURITY CENTER link at the bottom of the page, then follow the links to report the auction.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by ajmax37   ( 360 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:13:06 PST   Listings
It's removed.
Posted by ajmax37   ( 360 ) on Jan-13-07 at 11:09:29 PST   Listings
How do you get rid of the porn shown when looking at us stamps?
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 839 ) on Jan-13-07 at 09:45:11 PST   Listings
Decay of Post Office services


I have talked before about the lack of services in Canada's Post Offices. Most of the real Post Offices are gone. Now, most of them are situated in the back of pharmacies (chemists or apothecaries as you Brits call it), or office supply stores such as Business Depot and Staples. The staff are generally very poorly trained, and I have had to straighten them out on many occasion. For assistance, they have to call staff at one of the few remaining real post offices, often being kept on hold for 10 minutes or more.

These people are resonsible for ordering their own stamps for their outlets. They usually stock the definitive booklets, low value definitives, and perhaps 1 sheet of the most recent commemorative, which usually sells out in a day. They can order any stamp that they want, they just don't bother. I usually cringe when I ask them for a corner plate block, and the first thing they do is lick their fingers to get better traction. I now generally insist that they let me separate stamps from sheets and coils.

Mail boxes, including those that are right outside post offices, get picked up and taken to the main sortation centre in Mississauga. There, they have the generic postmark put on them, bars with Canada and the date. There are no longer any CDS cancellations in Toronto. At most outlets, I have to fight with them just to get stamps for parcels. They would rather print out a label.

Still Canada Post churns out the stamps for collectors. Recently, they put out a Pane of 16 stamps, consisting of four se-tenant blocks. In an effort to get collectors to buy the entire pane though, they printed 4 different pictures across the entire back of the pane. Fortunately, they have a much smaller number of issues than the United States though, and have committed to reducing the number of issues. There was quite the scandal when the new director took over Canada Post, and in her opening statement alluded to the fact that Canada Post could save money by ceasing the production of stamps - YIKES!! That plan has fortunately been shelved though.

Postal rates are going up again on Monday, but in a strange move, Canada Post stated that they would honour last year's 51-Cent stamp on all mail in 2007, despite the fact that the new rate is 52-cents. I guess there is talk that they are reaching a critical point in their ongoing public relations problems. In another move, they have issued Canada's first Permanent stamp. There are a couple of sets of defninitives marked with a "P". They are currently being sold at 51-cents each, but on Monday will go up to 52-cents. They will remain valid for domestic mail until further notice. I am not sure how that is going to work though when it comes to using those stamps for more expensive US or International post.

On the positive side, Canada Post maintains it policy of high quality. They continue to issue a number of engraved stamps every year. The current New France issues are becoming very popular, and are very beautiful.

All the best,

Brad

Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3306 ) on Jan-13-07 at 09:07:02 PST   Listings
4d

7d

Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3306 ) on Jan-13-07 at 09:04:24 PST   Listings
will try again
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3306 ) on Jan-13-07 at 09:03:07 PST   Listings
Good morning from an iced-in North Texas

Can anyone confirm that my 2 Leeward Jubilee overprints are fakes?

The 7d looks very suspicious.

4d

7d

Jeff

Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-13-07 at 08:18:31 PST   Listings
Horadam,

Also interesting: US Navy designations

Remember the Navy has an army and air force and the Army has a navy and air Force and the Air Force handles space.

Matt in Arizona

Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-13-07 at 08:14:41 PST   Listings
Horadam,

I found this:

USA Military aircraft designations

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3335 ) on Jan-13-07 at 08:11:47 PST   Listings
Horadam,

P is for Pursuit. I believe the Air Force changed all P's to F's (Fighter) in 1948.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by horadam1   ( 432 ) on Jan-13-07 at 07:50:43 PST   Listings
I realize this isn't askeusc.com, but wondered if someone knew? My son and I were watching the history channel last night and were talking about the prefix designations for US military planes. We knew the "T", "B", "X", and the "U" designations, but why were fighters designated as "P", and when did they change to "F"? Thanks for the help in advance.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1038 ) on Jan-13-07 at 07:02:23 PST   Listings
Good day all.

From a wet Scarsdale.

S is for Seggi

Roger

Wrong number!
Posted by dbenson   ( 7722 ) on Jan-13-07 at 04:03:29 PST   Listings
Lindy,

a minor comment,

My local PO allows me to send letters insured if I pay parcel rate to countries that accept them. It costs a bit more but it is a safeguard if you are sending pricy items.

Paypal is completely wrong with their ideas and need to have a long and detailed discussion with sellers or sellers will start using their allowable opposition (of course they mighn't be allowable if too many use them).

David B.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-13-07 at 03:56:17 PST   Listings
PS. thought this auction was cute... finished without a bid
140071650105

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-13-07 at 03:53:49 PST   Listings
Canadian Brad, and others. Registered/Insured mail from here in Australia...
International Registered is for LETTERS & DOCUMENTS ONLY. Goods merchandise and valuable items may not be sent by Registered Post International (ok so most of us use the service, even tho we aren't supposed to, but it ensures signature on delivery.) Drawback is that there are only 2 size envelopes (stampless of course!), regular is 5x9½inch, and costs A$10.50 anywhere in the world, larger one is 10x14 inch and costs A$17.
International Insurance is only available on packets and parcels, and starts at approx. A$10 minimum airmail PLUS $a7.50 for $100 coverage (so small stamp purchase of say, $95 costs $17.50 to send)..... and $2 per $100 thereafter.... UNFORTUNATELY, this is not available for all countries, (including NOT AVAILABLE TO CANADA, as I found out recently AFTER making a sale!!)
So, eBay and PayPal simply saying, tracking is essential does not work in a Global Market (and they pride themselves in being a Global Market but make thier policies only work for USA sellers/USA buyers!!).

OK, thats my 2c worth!

Had a lovely day today with 7yr old grandaughter, travelling on a vintage Steam Train in the hills just outside of Melbourne. Tired now, so off to bed!

Linda
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1173 ) on Jan-13-07 at 03:24:45 PST   Listings
<:8^(
Guess I need to get a cup of coffee.
"isn to offering" = is not offering
Last night my HTML skills went to sleep before I did and this morning my typing skills have yet to awaken.

Jim L.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1173 ) on Jan-13-07 at 03:22:13 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


infla-alecAs far as I know the Post office isn to offering that service to any of the cachet printers here in the USA. If they did it would be an even longer drive for me to get to any of the larger printers that might take advantage of such a service.
My only chance would be for the backdating, and I’d be hesitant to ask for that. I’ve already been asking about the local precancel devices, which seem to pretty much have disappeared from the local Post Offices also. :8^ (


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a couple skating
card 16-2.

and a shield card 17-9.

Jim L.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-13-07 at 01:36:24 PST   Listings
Richard W Yes it is a dying service that many post offices worldwide seem reluctant to provide. Not that I have ever collected FDC's but I do sympathise with those that do & like to have a local connection cancel.
Posted by sayasan   ( 540 ) on Jan-13-07 at 01:24:21 PST   Listings
Jim, Alec - locally mailed fdc's for every issue are a thing of the past, surely? At least in the UK. Commemoratives, sorry - "special stamps" - are philatelic bureau "collectible" creations that are rarely if ever used for postage and are largely unavailable from actual working post offices. But if I miss a payment with the philatelic bureau and need to obtain an fdc retrospectively, they will print me one, back-dated, with no problem, once I've paid up. (Not that is has ever been anywhere near the name on the fd cancel, nor have the stamps on it actually paid postage, as it arrives in an envelope paid by a PPI.)

I take it the US is going the same way.

Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-13-07 at 00:40:28 PST   Listings
Jim L I don't know about US stamps but here in the UK a few of the larger dealers are allowed to receive an advance supply of new issues to enable them to prepare in advance FDC's. Maybe a similar thing operates in your local area and a friendly local dealer can either make you one or at least sell you a copy of the stamp on the day of official issue.
The only other option would be to ask if the local post office can back date a FDC whenever you do get the stamp. Though I doubt this is allowed but I know it does happen here in the UK sometimes at local friendly post offices. Mainly in the rural village ones where staff do not always follow the rules so strictly.
Posted by bradstonian   ( 1099 ) on Jan-12-07 at 23:29:27 PST   Listings
Hi Brad,

Just catching up with the board, after being too busy to check in for a few days, and I can't see that anyone answered your question about the £3 Story of Wedgwood booklet.

The SG catalogue number is DX2, and the cv was £8 in 2004.

They don't sell on eBay, and I have recently used 20 purchased at below face for postage.

I hope this helps,

Martin.
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-12-07 at 21:05:52 PST   Listings
OK, I get it.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1173 ) on Jan-12-07 at 20:35:12 PST   Listings
Jim (Jaywild)
Yep, that's the stamp, but I wanted it to make a FDC from the town in which I live. So, buying that way can't get it here fast enough. Now that the Post Office is closed for the day making a local FDC is not possible. :8^(

I've had trouble in the past getting some of the current commemoratives at my local post office. Don't want to raise a ruckus, but it sure is inconvenient having to spend about 3 hours on the road to get to where I can buy them and back. It's also common for me to get there and find that the Philatelic Window is closed for some reason. They want me to come back tomorrow, but....
Guess the Post Office only want collectors to live in the big cities.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a Sulky, club card 14-8.

Jim L.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1173 ) on Jan-12-07 at 20:18:57 PST   Listings
claghorn1p
The part of Linn’s that I was looking at made no distinction between the Ella Fitzgerald stamp and the Oklahoma stamp. Guess I’d forgotten about the earlier articles. I’d still like to know if there is a USPS web page that deals with distribution of new issues. The upcoming Alaska SS for international mail is an example. Are the small P.O.’s without a philatelic drawer going to receive any?

jaywild
I’ve had similar happen lately with a closed lot. The seller claims that it’s come up missing with no idea what happened to it. As they were event cancels for a national show outside of the USA I’m sure that more copies will turn up. What will make it take time is they are not expensive items.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a Scarecrow, club card 13-10.

Jim L.
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-12-07 at 20:16:14 PST   Listings
Is this the Oklahoma stamp everyone is talking about? It’s available at USPS.com. Just click on the link.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-12-07 at 20:14:22 PST   Listings
Prochute There are two "Proof of Mailing"

Getting Proof You Sent It
Certificate of Mailing
PS Form 3817

Do you need proof to show that your item was mailed? Use a Certificate of Mailing.

* Complete PS Form 3817 at the time of mailing.
* Available for all classes of domestic and international mail.
* Fee in addition to postage: $0.95.


ALso Form 3877 which I use.

Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-12-07 at 20:14:04 PST   Listings
Further to my post on Mt Saint Helens, here's a photo taken this afternoon from Hillsboro airport.

Alec - Congratulations on your purple star!

S2
Posted by malolo   ( 835 ) on Jan-12-07 at 20:04:17 PST   Listings
jaywild -
I have. It happened to me on an item offered by an SF auction company at a very favorable BIN. Turned out they couldn't find it so sale was not concluded!

Roger
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3306 ) on Jan-12-07 at 20:02:39 PST   Listings
Actually it is Certificate of Mailing form 3817, for single mailings, domestic or international, and there is a sheet form for multiple mailings on the same day. Cost of the single form is 95c which is attached in some form of postage. They make an interesting collectible in their own. I use them for most overseas mailings over $20. Don't know how legal they are as far as PayPal goes. Only one time a buyer claimed non-receipt of a shipment. I sent him a scan of the certificate. He agreed it was mailed and as such fell under the TS category.
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-12-07 at 19:59:59 PST   Listings
Never saw this before—“The seller ending this listing because the item was lost or broken.”

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by prochute   ( 65 ) on Jan-12-07 at 19:48:37 PST   Listings
due2cents PayPal makes it quite clear that an online tracking number is necessary DOMESTICALLY for a seller to prove delivery. A certificate of mailing means nothing. However, your seller friend might have meant either DELIVERY CONFIRMATION OR SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION. I have never heard of "proof of mailing". What USPS form number is it?
Posted by prochute   ( 65 ) on Jan-12-07 at 19:42:07 PST   Listings
uppercanadianYES, Paypal insists on computer tracking which only works here in the US. The USPS will track a parcel up to placement on a carrier ie, ship or airplane. After that. they will tell you it is out of there hands. SIMPLE FIRST CLASS LETTERS ARE NOT TRACKABLE ONLINE and that's that!

In fact, your problem to/from Botswana is not covered under PayPal's policy regardless of what is or not traceable through Canada Post
Posted by due2cents   ( 23 ) on Jan-12-07 at 19:39:12 PST   Listings
On the tracking of Mailed Items
I thought that PP required a proof of mailing
not tracking (maybe I need to read all the fine print again) I saw an ebay seller at the PO the other day, she was getting PVI's on everything , Told me that what was required was Proof of Mailing that DC only meant item got to the recievers PO and not proof of reciveing by buyer.
She took the receipt from the PO it showed every item with the Zip mailed to date time etc. I noticed because she was using stamps and the clerk was affixing .10 or less PVI's she just made sure that the stamps were slightly underrate . She was very sure of Just the Proof of Mailing requirement.
She has 8 or 9 hndred Feedbacks. Again what she told me was two buyers tried to file against her But she had Proof that the items shipped. So no chargebacks. She offers optional insurance which had been declined by both buyers.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-12-07 at 19:33:12 PST   Listings
Jim Lawler They are correct. Look at the recent issue of Linns. It says that the Oklahoma stamp is "only available in Oklahoma" and has limited distribution. Look at Linns.
Posted by malolo   ( 835 ) on Jan-12-07 at 19:17:07 PST   Listings
IO -
CYE

uppercanadian -
It's my understanding that registering a first class letter gains a maximum of $40.00 coverage when sent internationally. I don't believe one can add insurance to a registered letter.That leave insuring a letter,which I belive is not possible, only packages, which was brought up below. It is, therefore, pointless to send items registered as a means to have financial compensation, if the item is lost. So the only reason for registration is to document a loss. My philatelic insurance covers full value, if I send registered thus leaving out the PO policies. One is at the mercy of the postal systems and honesty of one's business partner.

Roger
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 839 ) on Jan-12-07 at 18:49:25 PST   Listings
I am not sure why some people say that a letter posted in the US, can not be tracked if it goes overseas. In Canada, we can send letters and parcels anywhere in the world and have them tracked. Your standard letter is not tracked, but if you Register the letter, it can be tracked anywhere, and if lost, Canada Post will reinburse you for the full total including postage. Now, to register a letter, it costs to the US or anywhere else in the world, is the standard postage rate + $11.00, which includes up to $60 of insurance. Thereafter, you must purchase more insurance, but it is pretty cheap. Parcels go with Delivery Confirmation, and you can purchase up to $2000 in insurance. Does Paypal insist on computer tracking?? How much does it cost to register a letter in the US??

I recently had a problem with a lost shipment coming in from Botswana. For some reason, Canada Post sent it back to Botswana, but I was still able to track the parcel on Canada Post's website. There is no explanation, but it did same "Sent back to Botswana". Now, if Canada and Botswana can have traceable mail, I am not sure why the US and other countries can't. Perhaps I am misinterpreting something though.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1173 ) on Jan-12-07 at 18:25:52 PST   Listings
infla-alec
Please let me add my “Congrats” on moving up to the Purple Star. :8^ )

Anyone know where I can find a source for letting me know what stamps the USA issues that have restricted (Philatelic) delivery? The Rushville Post Office is telling me that the Oklahoma Stamp is a philatelic issue and that they cannot even order it. My gut tells me that this may not be quite right.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a couple of Snowmen.
card 28-1.

card 19-12.


A steamboat cancel card 43-3.

And a Singer cancel that ties an orchid stamp to the Kokomo Club Card. card 45-2 .


Jim L.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1038 ) on Jan-12-07 at 16:50:47 PST   Listings
Milenko

You might enjoy this time-lapse footage of Villarrica.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-12-07 at 15:15:59 PST   Listings
Jaywild, thanks! Note that I also collect other errors besides inverts, like wrong or impossible dates.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7717 ) on Jan-12-07 at 15:12:04 PST   Listings
Paul, show us the finds,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-12-07 at 15:11:03 PST   Listings
NOIP-----Finish breaking down a huge lot of British Colonies A.P.S . salesbooks today .Well worth the money I paid for them .The books were untouch from the 1960's when they were put together .A few good finds because they were put together with the old Scott catalogs ......paul
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-12-07 at 14:53:03 PST   Listings
Bjorn… Upside-down year cancel. Nice and cheap, too.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by dbenson   ( 7717 ) on Jan-12-07 at 14:41:34 PST   Listings
Jay, hot, yesterday it was over 40C. here although 40k. away on the coast it was only 28C. Last night I drove home from a party at 11pm. and it was 28C.

UpperCanadian, talking about the party last night, it was my friends Birthday party and she had just returned from a vacation to her cousin in Seattle. They were going through some old family albums and came across 3 interesting items which my friend suggested I could give advice on. They are Russians from Shanghai who were interned during the war in Shanghai or Hong Kong. One of the items was from her father in Benderi in 1912 to Vladivostok before he moved to Shanghai. It has lost the stamp but is an amazing coincidence. She wants to keep it as a memento of her father. The other 2 items are extremely rare and I have advised her to contact her cousin to sell them on Ebay. They are from an Aunt in Japanese Occupied Hong Kong in 1944 to a relative in Shanghai, written in English but uncensored. They have a return address of Red Cross Hong Kong and would be in huge demand by Hong Kong Postal Historians but I doubt they will be sold even though the result would be high. I will be sending scans to a friend in HK who studies material from the Japanese Occupation period,

David B.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 71 ) on Jan-12-07 at 14:37:36 PST   Listings
Jim Here in south coast UK we have yet to see winter, today 11C. Had lots of high winds over the past 2/3 months and a hell of a lot of the wet stuff. No doubt the seasons are shifting and the words global warming on everyones lips.
Peter
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-12-07 at 14:24:39 PST   Listings
Ed and (everyone else in Europe or Asia)… How is the winter over where you are? We’ve barely had one at all in California. If it gets into the 10°s C (50-60° F) one day it’s 25°+ the next (75-80° F).

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-12-07 at 14:17:38 PST   Listings
S is for Mt Saint Helens, Washington, a volcano that I can see on clear days when driving around here in Hillsboro, Oregon. This view was taken from just east of Portland, and shows the south-west side, with Mt Rainier in the background.

According to the family's 1980 calendar, after the 12 June eruption ash had to be cleaned up for 4 days. It was best swept up, and those who used hoses had a mess on their hands.

There was a minor eruption in October 2004, but nothing startling to be seen since I have lived here. I leave Io to fill in any holes in my story. Stamps courtesy of Matthew Healy.

S2
Posted by peterc8888   ( 289 ) on Jan-12-07 at 13:50:36 PST   Listings
Alec

Congratulation in getting your Purple Star before your 5th year Anniversary!

PC
Posted by ed845   ( 4288 ) on Jan-12-07 at 13:37:19 PST   Listings
Well, he got one thing right.

Congrats Alec on your new star.

Ed

Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-12-07 at 13:21:08 PST   Listings
Alec… Yes! Congratulations on the poiple stah…

J

Also, looks like the end has come for theendisnear.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-12-07 at 12:37:30 PST   Listings
Alec, welcome to the purple star club! :-)
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-12-07 at 12:36:47 PST   Listings
Alec, not this club but the local stamp club! We have large auctions twice a year, with 300 or so items. My job (before the auction) is to make the raw material for the list by typing in all descriptions etc. and numbering the items.

Posted by iomoon   ( 1038 ) on Jan-12-07 at 12:36:32 PST   Listings
Alec

The new star looks good!!
Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-12-07 at 12:28:45 PST   Listings
Multiple reports seem to work :-)
Posted by ed845   ( 4288 ) on Jan-12-07 at 12:07:00 PST   Listings
jaywild
Or better still 'reported'. Hint, hint.

Ed

Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-12-07 at 12:01:56 PST   Listings
the end is near… Perhaps if you took the trouble to edit your post, leaving only the pertinent points, it wouldn’t look like a useless mishmash that is begging to be ignored.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by greenwave4u   ( 71 ) on Jan-12-07 at 11:39:35 PST   Listings
Paul I couldn't agree more with your statement about slippage as you call it. We do not live in a perfect world, business is always a risk and it's how both the buyer and the seller quantify those risks. Items will always go astray for whatever reason from time to time.

bwiphilately Thanks for a very interesting posting, I am now puzzling over my own St V's and studying hard:-)

taodave Excellent posting its a shame your links take a long time to load, but probably my ISP.

cheers

Peter
Posted by infla-alec   ( 500 ) on Jan-12-07 at 11:27:01 PST   Listings
Richard F No need to apologize as I took no offense to the term, "amused" regarding your recent RF exhibit. I know what you meant and I thoroughly enjoy seeing how others collect, even small side line fun collections can be very entertaining. So thanks again for showing the material.
Ebay/Paypal Reading the statements below it does seem to me as ebay need to re-think their policy. The problem I feel is that we as philatelists are looking at everything purely from a collectors point of view. To be honest the vast majority of collectors are down to earth honest people.The amount of fraud on ebay involves other items many of which are high value. I can see why ebay are trying to offer some sort of protection but I do agree they are going to force many sellers to refuse Paypal payments. More so to those selling outside of the US. Only a matter of time really before the other ebays worldwide follow suit.
Bjorn Club Auction ? Can you explain that a little further please ? Is it donated material ? Charities to receive the funds raised ? I don't recall ever seeing a EUSC auction before but I do remember IO/Jim I think mentioning it once before.
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1641 ) on Jan-12-07 at 11:24:02 PST   Listings
Just got back from medium sized stamp show.
Here's my purchase.
In keeping with the "S" category, I'll refer to item by its Scott catalogue number.

USA Scott 27

Posted by taodave   ( 135 ) on Jan-12-07 at 11:00:48 PST   Listings
S is for "Seal" and "Seward."

Today I want to tell the story (using some of the essays and proofs from my Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exhibit) of how political pressure turned a beautiful seal into an ugly politician, resulting in a stamp which has been branded an aesthetic failure ever since it was issued.

The story begins in the waning months of Theodore Roosevelt’s administration, when the backers of Seattle’s AYP Exposition, which was due to open on June 1, 1909, approached Postmaster General Meyer to issue a set of stamps to publicize their endeavor. This, after all, had been done earlier in the century for the Buffalo, St. Louis and Jamestown extravaganzas. Why not for Seattle? Much to their surprise, Meyer refused, but he did authorize a single 2c stamped envelope.

The Bureau’s designer of stamps, postal stationery and banknotes at that time was Clair Aubrey Huston. Huston designed for the stamped envelope a very handsome seal on a block of ice. His design was approved by the Postmaster General and sent to the Mercantile Corporation, which was the Post Office Department’s envelope contractor at the time. Alas, in early 1909, the Mercantile Corporation informed the Department that they were so back-logged that they would be unable to manufacture the envelopes in time for the opening of the Exposition. (So much for private enterprise.) The Department then decided that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would rush the design and production of a single adhesive stamp, which we now know as Scott #370.

Huston’s first seal essay was for a stamp the size of the then-current Washington-Franklin definitives. He made a black and white ink-and-wash drawing of a classically simple frame, and for the vignette, pasted in a photo of the seal he had designed for the envelope:

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=AYPfirstessay.jpg


Huston’s second seal essay (confusingly numbered three in Scott and Brazer) was for a larger stamp, the size of the Jamestown Exposition commemorative of 1907. He modelled an ink-and wash frame containing a veritable forest of acanthus leaves, and again pasted in a photo of the envelope’s seal vignette:

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=AYPsecondessay.jpg


This design was approved by Frank Hitchcock, the Postmaster General in the new Taft administration, on April 3, 1909. Since less than 2 months remained before the stamp had to be available at postoffices throughout the country, engraving of the die began almost immediately after Hitchcock’s approval.

Then all Hell broke loose. The Exposition’s backers learned, (evidently for the first time), that the stamp would show a seal on a block of ice. This was unacceptable to them, since one of the major goals of the Fair was to attract tourists and settlers to Alaska. They mounted a national press campaign against the seal design. They implored the Secretary of the Interior and their congressmen to have the seal replaced by a mining scene, or perhaps a panorama of the Alaskan Riviera---anything but that damned seal!

On April 11, they were told by Senator Piles of Washington State that the space was too small for what they wanted, but that he might prevail on the Postmaster General to substitute the head of William H. Seward, the Secretary of State who purchased Alaska from the Russians in 1867. They accepted Seward, despite his big ears and nose, as the lesser of two evils.

Since time was running out, the Bureau’s engravers continued to work on the frame portion of the approved seal stamp while Huston modelled two Seward designs. His first essay used the frame of the 1908 Washington-Franklin definitive series, on which he inscribed the dates 1870 and 1909 onto the ribbons. (I have been unable to determine the significance of the year 1870 either in the history of Alaska or in the life of Seward). He cut out the oval vignette and pasted on the back of the essay, so that it would show through the resulting hole, a die proof of the half- ounce snuff stamp of 1891, which happened to contain a portrait of Seward of just the right size:

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=AYPthirdessay.jpg


For his second Seward essay, Huston photographed the earlier approved seal stamp essay, cut out the seal vignette, and mounted the frame over a photoreduction of another Seward portrait that had been used for an 1876 bond. This second design was approved by Postmaster General Hitchcock on April 24, with the proviso that Seward’s name be inscribed under his portrait. Hitchcock’s choice was logical in view of the time restraint, since the frame for this design had already been engraved on a die:


http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=AYPfourthessay.jpg


Incredibly, the essay submitted to Bureau Director Joseph Ralph for approval of the added Seward name tablet has a seal, not Seward, as the vignette! I suspect that this was done on purpose to elicit a chuckle from Director Ralph, who like everyone else at the Bureau, was very unhappy at having to substitute Seward for their lovely seal. In any event, he approved it:


http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=AYPfifthessay.jpg


On May 6, engravers completed the die and a large die proof was prepared for offical approval, to which Postmaster General Hitchcock affixed his signature:

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=AYPLargeDieProof.jpg


The bureau’s siderographers then made transfer rolls from the approved die and prepared printing plates. The presses began to roll, and within the next few days the Department began fulfilling orders from thousands of postmasters throughout the country. On June 1, 1909, opening day of the Seattle Exposition, the AYP stamp was placed on sale in postoffices throughout the country.

The public reaction to the new stamp was less than lukewarm. It was immediately reviled. To quote just two contemporary comments:

“The stamp is lacking entirely in distinction, balance, and beauty”

(and)

“Many persons incline to the view that the Seattle Fair monstrosity is the ugliest thing that has yet been forced on the public.”

Of course, these people had never seen the Poultry stamp of 1948, or for that matter, many of the recent USPS productions. Perhaps I’m just an old fogey, but I’ll take anything designed by Huston (even a politician with big ears and a big nose) over the current Time-Warner and Disney publicity labels masquerading as U. S. postage stamps.

Hrrrrmmpph.

taodave

Posted by sayasan   ( 540 ) on Jan-12-07 at 10:59:41 PST   Listings
Don't be fooled. This may appear to be a cheap fake with forged Japenese(sic) stamps that someone has used to light a cigar with, but in reality it is obviously a rare crash cover worth every cent of twenty dollars.




Posted by bwiphilately   ( 337 ) on Jan-12-07 at 10:57:42 PST   Listings
D2 and prochute - Thanks for the compliments.

Prochute - The cancels on the St. Vincent revenues were all applied privately by bogus cancelling devices. They do look legitimate, but the genuine "A10" cancel is sharper.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1167 ) on Jan-12-07 at 10:27:06 PST   Listings
Greetings,

I was a bit frustrated this morning at the local Post Office. According to the individual who orders for the office it seems that the Oklahoma Statehood stamp that came out today is “a philatelic item, which we can’t get here.”
Anyone out there know how I can know which new issues will be classified as “philatelic?”
It’s over an hours drive to the nearest Philatelic window, and it’s usually been closed when I get there, so, with work, travel is not a workable option..


nomad55
I believe that I’ve some duplicates around here somewhere. Send me an email with your address and if I can find them I’ll drop you one.

prochute
I really prefer a personal check. There are two benefits, 1) I get a cover with the possibility of a nice current stamp on it. 2) I get to keep more of the money. PayPal takes their cut, and on low value items the minimal eBay fees when combined with the PayPal fees can end up getting most of what the lot brings.


Jim L.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-12-07 at 10:21:55 PST   Listings
PROCHUTE ---CONT.----It looks like most sellers already allow for some slippage in the postage and handling cost which can be a dollar or more and then turn around and use a 39 cent stamp for mailing .So it can be accurately said some sellers are self insured by picking up 20 or 30 cents on each transaction ...paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-12-07 at 10:11:31 PST   Listings
PROCHUTE ------A little history before e-bay came around .I sold boxes of stamps for about 20 years thru ads in the stamp newspapers .I sold thousands of boxes something like 3,000 to 4,000 boxes these sold for $8.00 to $16.00 a piece .

Here is a break down from my years as a seller ----1 in 75 boxes got lost ,that would be really lost or the customer just wanted another free box . 1 in 121 were bounced checks. 1 in 20 sent in a repeat order or sent additional funds for a bigger box ,two or three of these went into the thousands of dollars .

As you can see ,it was the cost of doing business ,the price you put on your product should reflect a slippage cost ....paul

Posted by prochute   ( 65 ) on Jan-12-07 at 10:01:06 PST   Listings
bwiphilately Nice St. Vincent!

Questions. Who applied the cancelletions to the De La Rue 1882-1885 revenues? Government or privateer? If government, would they then be CTO? Some cancels look very real!
Posted by prochute   ( 65 ) on Jan-12-07 at 09:48:20 PST   Listings
PayPal & sellers While paypal seems to support SELLER protection, its policies are in fact, quite the opposite.

Seller protection assumes the product sold is INSURED and has a TRACKABLE ONLINE bar code affixed to the parcel. This can only be accomplished if said parcel is delivered to a UNITED STATES ADDRESS. For example, if a buyer claims an item is not received but a search for a delivery or signature confirmaion tracking number brings up a confirmation of delivery, the seller is fully protected in THE UNITED STATES. However, sellers can have buyers purchase insurance for air mail parcel post and the express mail services and be covered by UPS, FEDEX & USPS. BUT THESE SERVICES ARE REALLY FOR OVERSEAS PARCELS ONLY AND ARE RATHER COSTLY.

So what's my point?

We here tend to buy stamps which are usually very light and are usually mailed first class all over the globe. PayPal offers NO protection at all for these items. Sure a US seller can stuff a domestic mailer to 3/4" thick in order to have a trackable number affixed but then there is the cost of the mailer + the added postage!

Again, PayPal covers NOTHING sent overseas. Global Priority Mail is not signed for and while registered mail is signed for, insurance is a mere $44.85 regardless of the value enclosed. Currently, these services are not trackable online.

eBay & PayPal have probably accounted for a 25-35% GROWTH in the USPS's bottom line for fiscal 2005 and most assuredly better for fiscal 2006!

And yet a huge proportion of stamp sellers use PayPal and sell worldwide with no real protection other than private insurance. So what's to stop a buyer from claiming a first class letter, containing $100.00 in stamps, never arrived? Honesty? Is that enough? Perhaps. I know most mail does indeed get to it's destination.

However, I feel PayPal should work the the USPS to provide some sort of first class protection regardless of where a simple letter containing merchandise, is sent. Lastly, I have started to notice MANY US sellers no longer accept personal checks from US buyers. Why bother to wait for a check to clear when PayPal can put the funds in your account immediately? Makes sense to me.
Phil

Posted by djs127   ( 545 ) on Jan-12-07 at 08:22:24 PST   Listings
Brian cute. Seems I will be too busy to list the Israel covers for a while sorry.
David Snyder
Posted by soggy333   ( 54 ) on Jan-12-07 at 07:39:31 PST   Listings
djs
If I were you I would not accept any job offers from any company unless the CEO is a stamp collector.
Brian
Posted by nomad55   ( 850 ) on Jan-12-07 at 06:41:00 PST   Listings
Jim Lawler - according to Mr Langford, about 100 items were postmarked with the Holy Cross flag, but he's not sure if they were all philatelic or if any were actual normal mail. He just happens to own two of the cancels on postal cards. I have a color scan of one, but have never seen the cancel personally.
Posted by djs127   ( 545 ) on Jan-12-07 at 06:05:30 PST   Listings
Had my 4th interview yesterday but was told they won't discuss my job application till Tuesday. Meanwhile an agent set up an interview with a different company for Tuesday and I had 3 messages on my answering machine to call back.
David Snyder
Posted by iomoon   ( 1038 ) on Jan-12-07 at 05:56:01 PST   Listings
Good day all.

From a slightly warmer Scarsdale.

S is for Surtsey.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1167 ) on Jan-12-07 at 04:19:48 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Linda I suspect your right. It may lead to the elimination of lower value items from eBay as shipping will no longer be able to go by First Class Mail. I see it pushing out many of the sellers offering much of the material I'm seeking. I'd be impressed if they'd lower the PayPal fees to offset the increased mailing charges, but they'll want the sellers to charge the buyers for that. I suspect that this will reduce the number of lots in the $1 to $10 range.



In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a few Star cancels from the Kokomo Club Cards

card 10-2.

card 12-3.

card 45-9.

card 45-11.

card 45-12.


Jim L.

Posted by lluehhhb   ( 226 ) on Jan-12-07 at 04:10:34 PST   Listings
For those interested in crash covers, there is an interesting group of five different in the January 30 auction from our local society.

lots can be seen here (287 to 291, the last ones).
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-12-07 at 03:33:20 PST   Listings
I think its the thin edge of the wedge, the general phasing out of all payment methods besides Paypal?
I mean really!!....statements such as.....
and we do allow other established payment methods on the site,
hello????? we do allow other payment methods...?

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm will be interested to read other sellers comments.

Linda
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-12-07 at 02:56:43 PST   Listings
Hutch That increases tremendously the risk for sellers, especially US sellers shipping overseas, especially to countries with risky destinations such as Italy.

The overseas buyer can simply claim they did not receive anything and the seller loses the stamps and is hit with a charge back, double whammy. THe problem is that PayPal REQUIRES electronic verifiable proof of delivery. That is not available for international shipments. Proof of shipping is not good enough. Neither is a statement in the selling terms that the buyer is responsible for insurance and that liability of the seller ends at the post office.

Comments?
Posted by knuden   ( 2181 ) on Jan-12-07 at 02:22:07 PST   Listings
In a recent lot I won, there is 3 covers which I want to mention:

Here is a small lady cover sent locally in Tondern in a part of Denmark, which Germany had occupied from 1864 - 1920.

Here is a cover, which have a complete set of the Nurburgring Auto Races from 1939 - with a stamp showing the vw car. I would be more than happy to get a commercial cover with any of these stamps. :O)

Here is a commercial Air Mail cover sent by catapult mail to Uruguay with the high values x 2 of the nice Air Mail issue from 1934. Can anyone comfirm the rate? It was very expensive to use the catapult mail.

K.E 
Posted by cwhutch   ( 610 ) on Jan-12-07 at 01:51:46 PST   Listings
Good morning.If you want protection from ebay you must pay with Paypal.

Hutch
January 10, 2007 | 09:02AM PST/PT


Rob Chesnut
Hello...This is Rob Chesnut, eBay's Senior Vice President of Trust & Safety. I've been working with my partner at PayPal, Dan Levy, Senior Director of Consumer Protection, on a joint effort to increase the protection we offer buyers on eBay. Buyer Protection is important to the Community – buyers and sellers alike – because the confidence and trust that buyers have in transacting on eBay fuels the whole marketplace.
As you know, we've built our Online Dispute Resolution system to ensure that buyers and sellers get the opportunity to work things out before a dispute results in a claim. But when a buyer is making the critical decision whether or not to place a bid or buy an item, just knowing up front that there is protection answers the "what if" questions – this peace of mind gives buyers the confidence they need to choose eBay, especially when buying more expensive items.

To help increase buyer trust on eBay, next week we will be expanding coverage on eBay.com in the U.S. and eBay Canada on items paid for with PayPal in these ways:


PayPal will be offering $200 of protection with NO processing fee on ALL PayPal transactions for tangible goods in the U.S (excluding Live Auctions and vehicles). In Canada, all PayPal transactions for tangible goods will be covered up to $315 CA. PayPal is offered on over 95% of listings in the U.S., so buyers can choose to be protected on the vast majority of listings. There is no processing fee, no minimum purchase price, and no seller requirements.

PayPal Buyer Protection will be increased to cover up to $2,000 for tangible items listed by qualified sellers in the U.S. This is a huge increase in coverage for high-end items being bought and sold on eBay. It doubles the current $1,000 coverage offered for tangible items listed by qualified sellers. And over 75% of listings in the US qualify. Note: in Canada, tangible items listed by qualified sellers will be covered for up to $2,000 CA.
Qualified items will clearly indicate the amount of coverage available on the item page. This means that buyers will know – right at the time they are making their buying decisions – that they are covered if they pay with PayPal.

There is one more important change we'll be making at eBay. Beginning next week, eBay will discontinue the eBay Standard Purchase Protection Program (SPPP) in the U.S. and Canada.

This program, which was established in 1999 before eBay acquired PayPal, has covered all eBay transactions, except for items paid for with cash or instant money transfer services, for up to $200 minus a $25 processing fee. In the early days of eBay, the program served an important function, providing some measure of purchase protection for paper transactions (cashier’s checks, money orders and personal checks) that constituted the bulk of eBay transactions. The time and costs associated with verifying a dwindling number of non-PayPal paper claims, however, has led to a poor user experience. Buyers also expressed frustration with the $25 processing fee.

But there's another issue with SPPP that becomes more important as eBay grows. From a risk management and fraud prevention perspective, SPPP is flawed, because it offers coverage on the riskiest payment methods. This is clearly not in the best interests of the marketplace long-term.

While eBay has established an Accepted Payments policy and we do allow other established payment methods on the site, one thing is true - PayPal is a safe way to pay on eBay. PayPal enables eBay members to shop without sharing their financial information with sellers, and PayPal's sophisticated fraud prevention mechanisms are eBay's best defense against internet fraud. We want to build on this solid foundation. These changes in our protection programs are important in our efforts to encourage safer transactions, improve customer satisfaction, and provide more coverage for more transactions than we can today.

These changes to the protection we offer buyers are important to the future health of our marketplace and the growth of our sellers' businesses. We'll be answering questions about these changes in an upcoming workshop, so please stay tuned for the date and time.

Sincerely,

Rob Chesnut
Senior Vice President, Global eBay Trust & Safety



Posted by jherek99   ( 360 ) on Jan-11-07 at 22:40:21 PST   Listings
Roger's Swiss stamps reminded me of one of the nicer Swiss miniature sheets.

1945 Victims of the War.


Victims of the War


I saw earlier in the 'S' some Spanish nationalist material. Well here are three
pieces from the legitimate Government of Spain.


150th Anniversary of the United States Constitution Issued 1 June 1938


Spanish Republic


2nd Anniversary of the defense of Madrid. Large and small overprints.

Issued on the 7th of November 1938.
Spanish Republic 1


I always remember when I see Republican material of the last lines of Auden's
poem Spain



The Stars are dead. The animals will not look.

We are left alone with our day,and the time is short, and

History to the defeated

May say alas but cannot help nor pardon
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Posted by malolo   ( 834 ) on Jan-11-07 at 21:21:17 PST   Listings
Aloha -
Letter S has many possibilities for a collector of Sitting Helvetia and Standing Helvetia, but I'll stay away and show this Ste Croix, if fact there are two Ste Croix'son opposite sides of an ocean, as seen on this card.

Can't forget a selection of Strubels. These were printed between 1854 and 1862 which preceded the perforated Sitting Helvetia of 1863. This cover shows both issues during the period of overlap. This is not mine. Darn!

Roger


Posted by dbenson   ( 7717 ) on Jan-11-07 at 20:16:06 PST   Listings
BWI, a nice assembly of forgeries & fakery,

David B.
Posted by lloydstamps   ( 542 ) on Jan-11-07 at 19:20:11 PST   Listings
Wilson Hulme, philatelic curator of the National Postal Museum in Washington, died suddenly Wednesday of heart attack while in Florida on business. Details and discussion are in The Virtual Stamp Club message board starting at http://forums.delphiforums.com/stamps/messages?msg=24593.1
Posted by bwiphilately   ( 337 ) on Jan-11-07 at 19:02:20 PST   Listings
S is for St. Vincent forgeries. Here are some items from my collection.

This example shows an attempt to forge the 1883 surcharged issue by printing a bogus surcharge on a four pence Panelli forgery. The genuine stamp is a surcharged one penny value.

Forged cancels were sometimes added to genuine stamps to make the resulting combination more desirable to collectors. Shown here is a quite good forged K abbreviated datestamp. The block would be quite desirable if the K cancel were legitimate as the cancel is not known used as late as 1895, and is not known on that particular stamp.

This next example shows various revenue stamps with forged postal cancellations added. At one time, mint revenue stamps were not generally collected, and the addition of the bogus cancels was an attempt to make them acceptable to collectors.

This legitimate used revenue stamp on the right has been painted over in an attempt to give it the same color as its more valuable cousin on the left. The forger botched the job, not unlike some of the bad hair dye jobs one sees every day.

Shown here are two examples of an intersting forgery of the Queen Victoria 5 shilling keyplate issue of 1899. The forgeries were made by first bleaching a common used Ceylon 5 cent stamp to obtain the correct watermarked paper. The cancels did not bleach out and consequently, partial Ceylon village names remain on the stamps. The forger did not do too bad a job with the design, but the green ink is more of an olive shade than the genuine stamp. Close inspection of the white areas of the forgeries shows a ghost image of the original Ceylon design.

This used Edward 2 shilling forgery is on genuine blue watermarked paper and the vignette appears legitimate, but the country name and value tablet have been crudely drawn in, and a forged Kingstown cancel has been added.

Here is another example of an Edward forgery, this time of the one pound value. This forgery is quite crude and would hardly fool anyone.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1167 ) on Jan-11-07 at 17:13:19 PST   Listings
nomad55
That sounds very much like something he’d do. Thanks for the information. Any idea of it’s rarity rating?



In keeping with the "S" theme here’s Some Kokomo Club Cards with the SStork, sure hope he’s not headed your way.
card 22-1.

card 19-1.

card 24-1.

and

card 10-1 .

Jim L.
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-11-07 at 16:44:23 PST   Listings
NOIP… Speaking of General Sherman, here is a very nice engraving of him.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by uppercanadian   ( 832 ) on Jan-11-07 at 15:09:10 PST   Listings
I finally unloaded those Confederate State Essay Cards, and for a reasonably tidy sum of $77.00. I wasn't sure if they were going to sell at all so put them on with a starting bid of 99-cents.

Confederacy
Posted by 1covers   ( 1268 ) on Jan-11-07 at 14:48:00 PST   Listings
Infl-alec, my choice of words was poor. I meant "commented positively"
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-11-07 at 14:44:19 PST   Listings
Alec, yes, sorry about the December. I will set one off this weekend.. Maybe I can find inspiration among the items for the club's spring auction, which I will be typing in.
Posted by billsey   ( 840 ) on Jan-11-07 at 14:44:17 PST   Listings
We had some snow here too... The 4-5" that we woke up to was the deepest that my father has ever seen at the coast. Here are some pictures (needless to say, only the last batch are snowy).
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-11-07 at 14:20:03 PST   Listings
Make that the Salween.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 499 ) on Jan-11-07 at 14:19:08 PST   Listings
Richard F I was one of the, "amused" and it is wonderful to see how others have managed to make a very small area look so complete and interesting. Take it as read I have been, "amused" yet again by Frederick Mayer's exhibit.
Anne I am always amazed at the wonderful Egyptian things you manage to conjour up.
Richard W I also liked your style of exhibiting. Goes against all traditional rules I know but it's good to see an imaginative display put together in such an informative way.
Bjorn Can we expect a EUSC Topical meeting anytime soon ?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-11-07 at 14:17:29 PST   Listings
Richard....sayasan

I had the opportunity to visit a volcanic area to the NW of Tengchong (which itself used to be a British ambassadorial town) but my Chinese hosts were frightened retiscent about going to the area.

From what I gather, it is also one of the most climatically inhospitable places anywhere. Though the Salwan does boast a freshwater porpoise, if my memory serves me correctly.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1268 ) on Jan-11-07 at 13:36:47 PST   Listings
Since a couple people here were easily amused by my "RF" exhibit, here is an exhibit (Frederick Mayer's) of Spanish Marianas.
Posted by abt1950   ( 222 ) on Jan-11-07 at 13:20:44 PST   Listings
I hate html.

Try here for the fantasy cover:

http://hometown.aol.com/Abt1950/egyptfantasy.jpg
Posted by abt1950   ( 222 ) on Jan-11-07 at 13:17:51 PST   Listings
Afternoon/evening/morning from a sunny NJ. We had snow yesterday--at least my students told me we did.

S is for Sphinx and also for Seals of the interpostal variety. The Sphinx has been featured, along with the Pyramids, on many Egyptian stamps. http://hometown.aol.com/Abt1950/egyptfantasy.jpg>
This cover, however has a twist: it's pure fantasy.
It started out as a basic stamped envelope with an embossed Sphinx and Pyramid and then had a De La Rue 1 piastre blue applied. The manufacturer also put on an interpostal seal from a much earlier vintage than the stamp, pencilled in a couple of cancels, and added a few more postal and other markings. There's also a very nice hand done picture in the upper left hand corner. I've shown this one before, but not recently. It's one of my favorites.

Here's another cover with Sphinx and Pyramids that could politely be called a "fantasy." (We won't say what it might be called in less polite circles) The cover itself started out as a genuine usage properly franked for local usage, but it had a little bit of "enhancement" in its afterlife.

And finally, for a little comic relief, we have George Washington Sphinx.

Anne
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-11-07 at 13:15:09 PST   Listings
Richard W
thanks for that insight into modern day Burma covers. Although as you say, not set out like a traditional stamp exhibit, it is the kind of exhibit I personally would stand in front of at a Show and read every word!

Linda
Posted by sayasan   ( 539 ) on Jan-11-07 at 12:03:22 PST   Listings
Oh yes, and S is for my namesake Saya San (Teacher San), the leader of the Burmese peasants' rebellion of 1930-31. Saya San's men were much given to tattooing themselves with magical designs, believing that this practice would make them invulnerable to British bullets. Unfortunately it didn't. But it is said that they still strolled calmly into the opposing firepower as if they led charmed lives. Having said that, Saya San's rebellion was not quite the archaic mystical-millennial thing it has been made out to be; the rebels were well organised in many respects.

Oddly, he has never been shown on a Burmese stamp, so instead here he is on a Burmese 90 kyat banknote of 1987, which will have to do. "Why such an odd denomination as 90 kyats?" you may ask. "Why not 100?" In that year all banknotes of regular values were suddenly demonetized, wiping out half the population's life savings at a stroke. They were replaced by notes of values such as 45 and 90, allegedly because these were multiples of nine, the astrologically auspicious personal number of the ghastly old dictator who ruled Burma at the time, General Ne Win.

Richard W.

Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3305 ) on Jan-11-07 at 11:48:25 PST   Listings
taodave Thanks for the image of the Seward card, an absolutely stunning item.

Here hopefully is my Seward contribution from my US Commems on cover collection.

Jeff

Posted by sayasan   ( 539 ) on Jan-11-07 at 11:33:01 PST   Listings
S is for Shan State, or the Shan States plural as they used to be - a vast plateau about six times the size of Belgium in the East of Myanmar (Burma), bordering onto China and Thailand. The old princes of the Shan statelets were allowed their autonomy under British rule, as per the Indian native states, and under Japanese occupation the area was ruled directly, and not given the quasi-independence awarded to the rest of occupied Burma. Since the early 'sixties Shan State has been a hotbed of political and ethnic insurgency, coupled with widespread opium production, and is still a troubled land today.

Eight years ago I put together this nine-sheet exhibit for an area federation open class competition. It samples the more recent philatelic history of Shan State. The entry got the highest vote, maybe because it was designed for open class, and not just nine sheets taken out of an existing traditional exhibit. Here are reduced size jpeg's of each page. All the philatelic items - cards, covers, stamps - are the real thing, but everything else is scanned in. I wanted to produce something like a colour magazine page, rather than a stamp album page. Some bits are crowded and not that well designed, and I'd do it differently today, but I still quite like the general look of it.

I'm most proud of the very unprepossessing cover mounted vertically at the left of sheet 8. I sometimes try sending stamped self-addressed envelopes to post offices in interesting parts of Myanmar. Usually they never come back, but this went all the way to and from Pangsan, right on the border with China, which used to be the headquarters of the insurgents of the Communist Party of Burma, after their Chinese-backed invasion in the 'sixties. Most of the Communist troops were from the Wa peoples, reputed to be the wildest tribals in Burma, and until fairly recently recreational head-hunters. After the mutinies of 1989, the Wa communists transmogrified into opium-running militias, and they still control the area. Pangsan at the time my cover reached it was a lawless border town run by narco-bandits controlled by the notorious and paranoid warlord Pao Yuqiang, who was much given to spontaneous public executions. I don't think it's much better now. The post office did not even have its own cancels at the time, and the town name is written in by hand over a borrowed registration handstamp.

Anyway, here is "Civil War in the Land of Opium" ...

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Richard W.

Posted by infla-alec   ( 499 ) on Jan-11-07 at 10:49:42 PST   Listings
Brad I also recently bought myself a Dalley and can highly recommend it. I don't speak a word of French yet found it very detailed, clear and easy to understand.
Saph Your translation yesterday of the script on Knud-Erik's cover was very accurate.
Posted by nomad55   ( 849 ) on Jan-11-07 at 10:24:39 PST   Listings
taodave....that's an absolutely gorgeous FDC card.
Can you email me "off board"?
I'd like to ask you some more questions regarding it.
I did not know you were 'into' AYPE. We need to compare notes.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 832 ) on Jan-11-07 at 09:16:36 PST   Listings
I just received the 2002-2003 edition of Dallay "Catalogue de cotations de Timbres de France". It is a specialised catalogue for the stamps of France, written in French. Unfortunately, I do not have an Yvert & Tellier or a Ceres catalogue to compare it to, but I am very impressed with it so far. Dallay is fairly new on the catalogue scene, first publishing in 2001. They caused quite a stir on the French philatelic scene, as they were using the Yvert & Tellier numbering system. Yvert took them to court in March 2005, and after arbitration, Yvert et Tellier began to sell the right for its competitors to print an index of Yvert stamp number at the end of their catalogs. Dallay started to do this with their 2006 catalogue.

The appearance of Dallay, with their detailed listings for each stamp, forced both Yvert and Ceres to lower the retail prices of their catalogues, and to start adding more information.

Dallay is in full colour and covers many areas that the Scott catalogue user will never have seen. Scott has an index of French stamps to help the user find them in the catalogue, but it is often difficult to use because the index is in poorly translated English. Dallay's index is broken down first by theme, then by individual issue - which makes it pretty easy to find the stamp. Their coverage of the early era is excellent, with all of the various varieties clearly pictured right up to the Sower Issue. The back-of-the-book material is also excellent with section on special commemorative blocks, booklets, corner dates on blocks, railway parcel post stamps and their proper usage(Colis Postaux), Specimens, Military Franchise, Military covers and stamps from 1849 to 1948 (fascinating!!), newspaper stamps, gutter strips, precancelled, roulette perfs and officials.

The 2002-2003 issue runs 672 pages. There are four columns for pricing, the criteria varying as to the age of the stamp. There is pricing for stamps on cover as well. I haven't read all the introduction yet, so I don't know where they get their pricing data from.

I bought mine for 6 Euro on Delcampe. Hope this is of some use.

All the best,

Brad
Posted by taodave   ( 135 ) on Jan-11-07 at 08:39:27 PST   Listings
S is for "Seward," whose face appears on Scott 370-371, the U. S. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific commemorative, and also for "Seattle.".

(Yes, another respite from German East Africa, this time an item from my AYP exhibit. If I have time later this week, I'll post the AYP essays under "Seal" and "Seward.")

June 1, 1909 was the opening day of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle and the first day of issue for the stamp commemorating it.

Here is a piece which covers both bases--- a postcard mailed from the Exposition Station on opening day, (over)franked with the 2c AYP commem on its first day of issue. The sender, William Lindsley, mailed several of these to himself and members of his family as mementos of the occasion. The wording varies slightly on the cards I have seen, but most mention President Taft opening the Expo by pressing a gold key in Washington.

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=FirstdayAYPpostcard.jpg

taodave


Posted by nomad55   ( 849 ) on Jan-11-07 at 07:38:36 PST   Listings
Jim Lawler.......

You mentioned Ed Amos. About 2 months ago I had a telephone conversation with Frederick Langford, and he told me that Amos created the hand applied Holy Cross (Alaska) flag cancel that was used one day only, on 14 September 1966.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-11-07 at 07:23:15 PST   Listings
Today is your lucky day if you need a Gibbons album or catalog at retail price plus $23 shipping to the US.

There are at least 800 of them!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-11-07 at 06:46:53 PST   Listings
Good day all.

From a freezing Scarsdale.

S is for Saint Helens, Oregon.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3305 ) on Jan-11-07 at 06:01:29 PST   Listings
Matt

Forestburg is 10 miles south of me on FM455, still an open post office, I drive thru it every time I go to Fort Worth.

Jeff

Posted by wrd3   ( 99 ) on Jan-11-07 at 04:50:52 PST   Listings
dbenson, jaywild and bjornmu I see the "9" now - when I first looked at the stamp it sure looked like "8". At least I know to keep an eye out for date errors on loose stamps.

Bill D.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1167 ) on Jan-11-07 at 04:44:39 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


gucci1949
IF the stamps are not canceled by the Post Office then it’s probably not going to be considered a First Day Cover. It will be interesting to see how having commemoratives issued nationwide will affect collecting First Day Covers over the next few years. There should be an increase of “Unofficial” FDCs. It may be that the quality of the Art Work will become even more so the deciding factor in desirability.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s something you don’t see every day, Space mail.
Front of first cover.

Reverse of first cover.

Front of second cover.

Reverse of second cover.

Front of third cover.

Reverse of third cover .

It may be hard to see in the scans, but they all have the left edge very slightly trimmed by Pinking Shears, removing just enough to give a zigzag appearance and still leave a complete flap on the back of the envelope. These were prepared by Ed Amos of Kokomo, Indiana. For many years he was the printer for the Kokomo Club Cards. There are also some other interesting print jobs that he’s behind.

Jim L.

Posted by keleofa   ( 3332 ) on Jan-11-07 at 04:32:01 PST   Listings
Gucci1949,

First Day Cover collecting is fun! And it would be less expensive to pick up Royal Mail FDCs at the Post Office than from stamp dealers (at least for current issues). Good luck with your collecting!.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by gucci1949   ( 88 ) on Jan-11-07 at 03:02:35 PST   Listings
should i get first day cover postage stamps franked in the post office
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-10-07 at 22:52:23 PST   Listings
Jaywild, thanks! And wrd3>, thanks buf I'm pretty sure that says 1923. Otherwise yes I do collect errors on loose stamps too.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1167 ) on Jan-10-07 at 21:48:02 PST   Listings

thebriguy1
Your 1988 technology would up-date the system we’ve got to deal with here where I live. Verizon’s land line was buried in the 1950’s and the switch box, I’m told, was last updated in the 1960s or 1970s. When it rains the static on the lines is very, very loud. Verizon bought out the previous phone company, but, I’m told, has only provided repair service and not upgraded the equipment or the lines.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a Saint Mary’s In the Woods, Indiana precancel on a 1969 Christmas stamp with a Church surrounded by trees. Wonder what the name is? click here .

Jim L.
Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-10-07 at 21:44:35 PST   Listings
Bjorn… Here’s a very inexpensive upside-down postmark item, and from a true good guy, Terry Hines.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by jaywild   ( 907 ) on Jan-10-07 at 21:23:42 PST   Listings
Bill D… The cancel on that Washington coil is 1923. See here, blue arrow. What looks like a line completing the 8 into a 9 is actually a brown line that is part of the design.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by uppercanadian   ( 832 ) on Jan-10-07 at 20:57:50 PST   Listings
Damn - I missed the most obvious point. It is from Great Britain!!
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 832 ) on Jan-10-07 at 20:57:22 PST   Listings
Could someone help me out and give me the Stanley Gibbon number for the Apr.16, 1980 £3.00 Wedgwood Story Booklet. It is Scott # BK145.

Many thanks,

Brad
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-10-07 at 20:12:25 PST   Listings
BRIGUY ---WATCH OUT FOR THE CABLE INSTALLER .....if we find you in the bathtub drowned ....then we know you got a comcast system ....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-10-07 at 20:08:58 PST   Listings
JIM/MATT----Here is the right stamp RYUKYU ISLANDS only stamp to show the mountain ....paul
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Jan-10-07 at 20:07:41 PST   Listings
hungaryjim Hello there! I don't know what it is you've sent, ....but it didn't get here. I can be reached at OldcancelsRkool(at)AOL.com

This address may or may not be temporary. You see, the great day has FINALLY arrived. The guys are coming out on the 19th of this month to install my new CABLE connection!! Soon I will leave the world of a dial-up schmuck behind. Believe me I know what I've been missing, as I once HAD a high speed connection, but lost it when I moved into the last little isolated island of 1988 technology in the universe.

According to the new "free" AOL terms for broadband I should be able to keep that above E-mail (and will if possible), but that is yet to be seen, especially since its not AOL I'll be going high speed with.

I can't wait. :o)

I will send an update to our yellow box maven either way.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-10-07 at 19:53:49 PST   Listings
oops
Posted by keleofa   ( 3332 ) on Jan-10-07 at 19:47:49 PST   Listings
Io,

Your first scan is the Philippines.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-10-07 at 19:39:04 PST   Listings
Ok, I found stamps.

I need to scan them when I get to Texas.

Suribachi on map of Iwo-Jima.

Suribachi flag-raising.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7714 ) on Jan-10-07 at 19:25:54 PST   Listings
wrd, can't see an 8 looks like a 9 to me,

David B.
Posted by wrd3   ( 99 ) on Jan-10-07 at 18:58:03 PST   Listings
Two questions on the cancel on this stamp. Is the "1823" at the bottom supposed to be the date, or is it something else? Second question bjornmu assuming it is supposed to be the date, does this fit within your interests (it's not a cover)? If so, let me know - I saw it on another site while browsing; I can give you a pointer to the stamp if it's of interest.

Bill D.
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Posted by keleofa   ( 3332 ) on Jan-10-07 at 18:17:46 PST   Listings
Jeff (Postalhysteria),

Found another Montague County postmark:

Forestburg, Texas 1908

Matt in Arizona
Posted by due2cents   ( 23 ) on Jan-10-07 at 18:14:05 PST   Listings
Thanks Jaywild
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-10-07 at 16:59:27 PST   Listings
Io - Here's a pic of Sakurajima, seen from Kagoshima.

S2
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-10-07 at 16:50:28 PST   Listings
S is for Suribachi Class of Ammunition ships in the US Navy.

And when I find them, the stamps.
Posted by due2cents   ( 23 ) on Jan-10-07 at 16:46:56 PST   Listings
thanks for the Info DBenson
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-10-07 at 16:36:42 PST   Listings
DAVID S. ----Hope for the best in your job interview and maybe a better salary.
Posted by knuden   ( 2181 ) on Jan-10-07 at 14:30:19 PST   Listings
saphilatelics & D2 - thank you for the informations.
By the way - it was nearly a miracle I was able to save the envelope, as a vandal had glued a brown paper tape of old style on top of most of the envelope, so only the stamps was visible. As there weren't written anything on the top of the tape, I took the liberty to wet it and carefully remove the tape and the result was'n so bad, as I feared.
I forgot to mention, at the back at right hand at the top, there is a owner cancel or a expert signature "KLICKOW" (that's how I read it.) Anyone reconice it?

K.E 
Posted by de66   ( 1029 ) on Jan-10-07 at 14:26:00 PST   Listings
Clag

you are only giving me half of the story

D1
Posted by nomad55   ( 849 ) on Jan-10-07 at 14:24:11 PST   Listings
Ken Lawrence of APS just reported that Wilson Hume, director of the National Postal Museum in Washington, died this afternoon of a sudden heart attack.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-10-07 at 14:21:10 PST   Listings
djs, good luck!

There was heavy competition, but I can now add some real money to my collection. The clue here isn't the stamp, but the $2 bill, which was issued April 13.
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-10-07 at 14:07:42 PST   Listings
David Snyder… Good luck on your 4th interview. If they have asked you back four times, I take that as a very good sign.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by stamps54321   ( 6 ) on Jan-10-07 at 13:51:07 PST   Listings
David Snyder
good luck
Posted by dbenson   ( 7708 ) on Jan-10-07 at 13:34:40 PST   Listings
sa, your right, I didn't see your post and realise it was an internal PO envelope. I don't understand why it mentions favor cancels unless the enclosed had requests for favor cancels which would have been against regulations.

David B.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1166 ) on Jan-10-07 at 13:30:01 PST   Listings
S is for Serendipitous.
The scans are cropped from a cover that arrived today with payment for an eBay lot. The postmark predates the release date for Ella by two days and it’s backstamped on the day of release. I guess that makes this a commercial pre-first day, first day cover with philatelic connections.

Backstamp.

Ink Jet cancel .

Jim L.
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 394 ) on Jan-10-07 at 13:23:13 PST   Listings
dbenson,
it just occurs to me that you may not have seen my post of Jan-10-07 at 09:34:54 PST where I translated the message. You may want to refer to that.
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 394 ) on Jan-10-07 at 13:19:39 PST   Listings
dbenson,

let me try one last time: the letter is addressed to "Kaiserl. Postamt Kieta". That means: Imperial Post Office Kieta. It is NOT addressed to a person. I do not understand why you keep referring to an addresse and speculating as to who he might be. The letter was addressed to an entity, not a person.

The notation states that the letter was favor cancelled against regulation (apparently on 4 March 1912), that two letters are being returned, and below is what looks to be a dated (on re-examination, looks like 8 March, not November) signature of the postal officer who made that determination.

Posted by nomad55   ( 849 ) on Jan-10-07 at 13:13:35 PST   Listings
David B....that also is a distinct possibility.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7708 ) on Jan-10-07 at 12:44:22 PST   Listings
due, neither, it was the section of the GPO Sydney which handloed mail destined for urgent delivery to a ship. The GPO had a series of letter drops which allowed senders to mail items directly to the variuous sections of the GPO for quicker soirting,

SA, at that time the only Germans at Kieta would have been Government Officers or managing the various German Copra Plantations, I presume the addressee was one of the plantation managers and the notation may ave had to do with additional mail held at Kieta PO waiting to be picked up,

David B.
Posted by horadam1   ( 432 ) on Jan-10-07 at 12:33:29 PST   Listings
djs, good luck. As they say, the 4th time is a charm.
Posted by due2cents   ( 23 ) on Jan-10-07 at 12:21:42 PST   Listings
D.Benson
Is Ships Room on this card 1911 a town or does it = Paqubot
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 843 ) on Jan-10-07 at 11:56:22 PST   Listings
thebriguy1 Hi Brian, CYE please! Hopefully it is still the one I found at the EUSC site!

Jimbo2
Posted by dbenson   ( 7708 ) on Jan-10-07 at 11:55:46 PST   Listings
sa, Rabaul is on New Britain, Kieta is on Bougainville, Northern Solomon Islands. It most probably was added by the postal clerk on arrival in Kieta. Kieta was under the control of Rabaul PO which would explain the usage of the term Kieta, Rabaul Postal Agent,


David B.
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 394 ) on Jan-10-07 at 11:28:04 PST   Listings
dbenson,
the addressee was the post office. Likely, the writing is from a postal clerk, which would explain the "Kieta/Rabaul Postagentur" in the signature.
Posted by djs127   ( 541 ) on Jan-10-07 at 11:18:49 PST   Listings
Just got an email for a 4th interview Thursday morning at
a consulting company in NYC. Wish me luck.
David Snyder
Posted by dbenson   ( 7708 ) on Jan-10-07 at 11:08:51 PST   Listings
Knuden & sa, of course the cancel is Rabaul, German New Guinea,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7708 ) on Jan-10-07 at 11:07:23 PST   Listings
saphilatelics & knuden,

the appearance of the writing on the front of the cover makes it appear that it was added later by the addressee. Internal German New Guinea mail are not common. It would be interesting to get it translated,

Nomad, I doubt if that envelope ever saw NY, it was a commemorative issue for the NY World's Fair and used from SL to NY.

Claghorn, interesting item, I am not sure if the other half is a postage stamp or a cut out from a Postal Stationery Envelope. The margins look too big for a regular stamp. Should be easy to tell as the cutout woulod be without watermark whilst a stamp would be watermarked Crown NSW,

David B.
Posted by nomad55   ( 849 ) on Jan-10-07 at 10:19:49 PST   Listings
dcd....re: Sierra Leone

A souvenir cover, bought at the worlds fair. Purchaser addressed it, probably to himelf. Then the cover transported as cargo (or luggage) back to Sierra Leone where it was mailed. Several countries did this as a way to generate revenue and cater to collectors.
I have a similar card from Vatican that I created at the fair. It was carried back to Rome and mailed there.
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 394 ) on Jan-10-07 at 09:38:28 PST   Listings
It just occurred to me that the 8th line on the front may be the name/signature of the postal clerk.
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 394 ) on Jan-10-07 at 09:37:04 PST   Listings
Sounds to me like the sender was aware that he/she was going against regulattions, thus the note on the back, you know Germans and regulations! It sounds like originally, there were 2 favor cancelled letters, that were returned in a bundle, with an explanatory note added to the top one. All this is just conjecture, of course, it may make more sense to someone who know German Colonies postal history.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 615 ) on Jan-10-07 at 09:36:14 PST   Listings
Taodave Very nice covers and write up. I love the U.S officials. Wish I had some nice covers like those.
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 394 ) on Jan-10-07 at 09:34:54 PST   Listings
Knuden,
the back reads: "Bitte diesen Brief guetigst zu befoerdern" (Please kindly forward [as in transport, carry, NOT as in forward to someone else after having received it]) this letter"
The back is a little more tricky:
1st line: I can make out for sure "Nach den" after that, I beleive it says "Postvorschriften" (=according to postal regulations)
2nd line: "ist eine Ge-"
3rd line: "-faelligkeitsabstempelung" (favor cancellations)
4th line: "nicht zulaessig" (are not allowed)
5th line: "Anbei 2 Briefe" (enclosed 2 letters)
6th line: "Kieta/Rabau[s?] 8/11.12" (Kieta/Rabaus Nov. 8, 1912)
7th line: "Postagentur" (postal agency)
8th line: no clue, maybe "West"? (West?)

Underneath, the letter is addressed to: Kaiserl. Postamt Kieta" (Imperial Post Office Kieta)
Posted by taodave   ( 135 ) on Jan-10-07 at 09:10:08 PST   Listings

My "S" contributions today are two covers mailed in 1875 and 1876 by Genl. William Tecumseh Sherman from St. Louis, Missouri to a lady friend who was travelling in Europe:

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=ShermanWar1.jpg

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a151/taodave/?action=view¤t=ShermanWar2.jpg

(I'm sure that many of you will be relieved to know that they have absolutely no connection with German East Africa).

I've collected U. S. War Department stamps and postal stationery for almost 50 years For non-American collectors--- during 1873-1884, the eight departments of the U. S. government had to purchase especially-prepared stamps from the Post Office Department to use on their mail. The stamps are quite similar in appearance to the regular issues of that period, but with the name of the department included in the design.

The envelopes are 3c War Dept. postal stationery to which various combinations of 6c and 12c War Dept. adhesives have been added to make up the required postage. Early in 1875 the United States had joined the General Postal Union, which set the rate for international mail at 5c per half ounce. Since the two letters bear 21c and 27c in postage, we can assume that Genl. Sherman did not have exact postage, and overpaid correspondingly.

At the time these covers were sent, Genl. Sherman, after an illustrious Civil War career pillaging the South, was Commanding General of the United States Army. Note that their corner cards read "Headquarters, Army of the United States, Official Business." What was the Headquarters of the U. S. Army doing in St. Louis? Well, Sherman had constant run-ins with the civilian Secretaries of War who thought that they, not he, were running the Army. President Grant's Secretary of War, Mr. Belknap, was a particular thorn in his side, so Sherman decided in 1874 to move the Headquarters of the U. S. Army from Washington to his home town, St. Louis--- and, incredible though it may seem to us today, they let him! Army Headquarters did not return to Washington until a more malleable Secretary was appointed in 1876, after Belknap had been convicted for taking kick-backs from Army suppliers.

But why was Sherman sending fat letters to Mrs. Euphrasie Mackay, whoever she might be? I havent't found out yet. I've corresponded with two of his modern biographers, neither of whom recognizesd her name. Sherman was a notorious womanizer--- as one biographer told me, his main occupation after the War was sleeping around. I like to think that at one time these covers were locked in Euphrasie's desk drawer, tied with a pink ribbon.

taodave



Posted by taodave   ( 135 ) on Jan-10-07 at 09:03:41 PST   Listings
knuden---

My German, alas, is very rudimentary. I can barely make it through an auction catalogue, with the aid of a dictionary.

As for the old German script on your cover, it's always been impenetrable for me. Even some modern Germans have a problem with it. I think the writing on the back may be a request for forwarding. Can you help, infla-alec?

taodave

Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-10-07 at 08:06:57 PST   Listings
BILL----very creative ,looks like half of the 1851 issue and the other half is the 1854 issue .
Posted by knuden   ( 2181 ) on Jan-10-07 at 08:05:34 PST   Listings
taodave - In a lot I got recently, I found this cover. Can you read the writing on the front and the back?
I found this too but I can't find it in my Michel Ganzsachen Katalog.

As I found some other interesting items is here S for stationery fakes.

Heligoland is wellknown for stationery fakes and here and here is two Postal cards with imprints added - pure fake but interesting.
North German Federation used a lot of other German States Postal stationery with a stamp on top of the imprint, as a provisional issue. Many of these are rare and turn up as fakes. One of the issues which was used, was Postal envelopes from Prussia. Here is the original from Prussia and here is the provisional from North German Federation. What expose the fake is the gum on the backflap. On the original it's short but on the fake it's long. Unfortunately the one of mine is a fake, as it has a catalog value of Euro 2250 ($3000). :O(

K.E 
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-10-07 at 07:06:42 PST   Listings
IO Jim It was listed as a sound Denmark #1 on Ebay.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-10-07 at 06:53:12 PST   Listings
Bill C

Two halves of the same stamp would look a lot better!

But it has a certain charm!
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-10-07 at 06:46:49 PST   Listings
Make that S is for Siamese Twins that is fraternal twins and not identical twins. ;-) IO Jim thoughts? Stamps123456>/b> ?
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-10-07 at 06:44:14 PST   Listings
Greg I. will recognize that S is for one of my favorite Stamps

D1 do you recognize that one? It was on E-Bay.
Posted by horadam1   ( 432 ) on Jan-10-07 at 06:10:24 PST   Listings
stamphick, yes, and until this year, I would have said that the two strongest conferences were the PAC and Big 10, but no more....
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-10-07 at 05:58:10 PST   Listings
Good day all.

From a cool Scarsdale.

S is for Sakurajima.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1166 ) on Jan-10-07 at 05:28:31 PST   Listings
:8^(
1920s ear machine = 1920 era machine
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1166 ) on Jan-10-07 at 05:26:04 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


mini*lindy
Neat Sunday covers. Only thing that could have been better for me would be Irish Sunday usage covers :8^ )


dcderoo
They went through the mail, so they are better than most of what I’ve seen for that issue, but it looks like they were mailed at the New York World’s rather than in Sierra Leone. I’d keep them and mount them with a note to that effect. I’ve a couple of covers from the Knoxville Worlds Fair that are similar, not sure where they are right now. There were others buying stamps and mailing themselves and others letters for souvenirs, none of them were stamp collectors, they just thought it would be a neat souvenir. Kind of like the “Wish you were here” postcards people send while on vacation. So, it’s possible that there is no philatelic connection to your cover. It may fit more into the “Event” category.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s the most recent use of the Spencer 131 on coil stamps. I was on my way back home for a 1985 PSS meeting in Vincennes and stopped at the Spencer office asking about precancel devices. They still had the machine, but were leery of using it. It’s a 1920s ear machine with fabric on the electric wires and open connections. I’d ran some similar era equipment before and knew so long as I did not allow the wires to short across we’d be fine. The clerk in charge allowed me to buy a coil from him and use the machine to precancel it. The unevenness comes from wear on the inking pad. This is a three subject brass device. The wide gap “C” variety is seen in the middle stamp. Spencer 131 coil.

Jim L.
Posted by melissajay05   ( 56 ) on Jan-10-07 at 05:04:51 PST   Listings
OGGILBY- tysm for your info I will use them on my next envelope lol!!
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1641 ) on Jan-10-07 at 04:50:44 PST   Listings
Any reasonable merit to this cover or is it just philatelic flotsam?

Sierra Leone cover

Posted by cwhutch   ( 610 ) on Jan-10-07 at 03:16:05 PST   Listings
Good morning.

Hutch
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 23:19:29 PST   Listings
Roger, the Portuguese Card looked interesting but the XXXXXX seller has used a digital camera which made it very difficult to ID the cancel, however I figured it out, it is Angra do Herismo in the Azores,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 23:14:49 PST   Listings
Roger, Trinidad must be a very unusual destination and presumably the only one known, Scotland would be much more difficult than England and to one of the offshore islands even more so but there has to be a limit to collecting of destinations and not to every location in a particular country. To me some of those would be better suited in a collection of the receiving country and collecting inwards mail is slowly gaining popularity. I am sure that the Isle of Mull card would be greatly appreciated by collectors of that area. I don't know the population figures for Duart but it appears to be very small,

http://www.maclean.org/clan-maclean-mull.htm

David B.
Posted by malolo   ( 834 ) on Jan-09-07 at 22:34:21 PST   Listings
lluehhhb -
Here's a lot I bought today. The lower card is cancelled with a cancel provided to Portugal and its colonies by Guller starting around 1882. I'm starting to collect what I believe are Guller cancelers used in foreign countries. I liked this card!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150077083351

Roger, off to sleep after a long day.
Posted by malolo   ( 834 ) on Jan-09-07 at 22:30:34 PST   Listings
lluehhhb -
Looks like a Güller sweep, but I’m not sure about the Danish cancels. I’m hoping in a couple of months to have more research references available which would help me identify more international Güllers.

David B -
I won a couple of very interesting 5 centimes PC’s uprated with Sitting Helvetia. One to San Salvador, Trinidad, 1882, and one to Duart, Isle of Mull, Scotland, 1877. I’ll wait until I get them and can provide nice scans. It will also give me a little more time to research the rarity of the destinations.

Roger
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 393 ) on Jan-09-07 at 21:14:47 PST   Listings
S is for Sachsen-Dreier

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 309 ) on Jan-09-07 at 21:01:00 PST   Listings
S is for SUNDAY in England Twopenny Post letters sent to Country offices on Saturday night were delivered there on Sunday morning, handstamped at Chief Office with To be Delivered/ by 10 o’Clock/ on Sund Morn This rectangular type was used from 1797 to 1809. The handstamp was introduced to allay public concern that letter carriers were prevented from attending Church on Sunday mornings !
This entire was posted at Twickenham, Middlesex, Saturday 28th January 1809, and delivered at Putney the following morning.


Linda
again thanks to Vic
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 20:12:57 PST   Listings
Brad.

that is also the way I interpreted it but not what the inscription states. The term " typographed by " is incorrect.

David B.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 19:35:02 PST   Listings
David,

When I look at other issues from the same period, most of them list a Designer and then either "Based on photographs by Mr. Blah" or "Based on illustrations by Mrs.Blah". The printing was done by CBNC in Lithography, based on a Typographed pieces of art by Bernard Low, based on a design by Dennis Noble.

Honestly, I may be wrong, but that is the way I interpret it.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1166 ) on Jan-09-07 at 19:32:03 PST   Listings
In keeping with the "S" theme here’s an interesting precancel error from South Whitley, Indiana, it’s the South WhitleyIud. . ;8^ )

Jim L.
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1641 ) on Jan-09-07 at 19:17:04 PST   Listings
iomoon, the movie with Sylvester Stallone and the tramway in your pic was "Nighthawks".
Of no redeeming social value, but entertaining.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 19:09:07 PST   Listings
Brad, thanks,

I still cannot comprehend the " typographed by Bernard Low " and printed by CBNC. There has to be a simple answer and I doubt if Bernard Low actually printed the sheets.

David B.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 289 ) on Jan-09-07 at 19:03:13 PST   Listings
I'm trying to figure out something for awhile. I hope someone may know the answer. I'm looking at this I want to know why the search item by bidder will not work properly for some bidders. Since the search item by bidder work for some of the bidders for the listing, it cannot be related to the listing. Then what is so special about some bidders?

PC
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 19:01:29 PST   Listings
Bob,

That guy sells a lot, but did you look at his feedback. He had 62 negatives this month alone. I never buy anthing off of the really big guys - it is like dealing with a government agency if things go wrong.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 18:58:53 PST   Listings
David B,

Thank you for your feedback on my album page. I usually take the information from our Unitrade Canada Specialised Catalogue, which is licenced to use Scott #'s, Canada Post's website, Canada Post published material and the Canadian Philatelic Archives.

That particular set would have been printed as an uncut press sheet consisting of 10 of those panes. The panes are then cut apart and sold. I know it is a question of terminology, and I do make mistakes, but in this case, in Canada, we would refer to that as a Pane of 12.

I like the idea of putting the quantity down. They printed 1.25 million of them. I will make that a standard part of my write-up.

You make an interesting point about commemoratives. Was the issue to commemorate the 127th anniversary of Confederation, or to commemorate Canada Day. The title of the issue is definitely "Canada Day". I think that Canada Day in itself is a commemoration of Confederation, so to my way of thinking, if the stamps were commemorating Canada Day, then they would be commemorating a commemoration. So I think I will stick with the commemoration of the 127th anniversary of Confederation. Not sure what the official Canada Post take on it is though.

I believe that in this case, Dennis Noble did the designs of the stamps and Bernard Low printed them using typography. From there, the CBNC printed it using the Lithographed method. It is definitely an unusual case.

Thanks again for your input.

I would still love to see album pages from other collectors.

Cheers,

Brad
Posted by rclwa   ( 946 ) on Jan-09-07 at 18:39:51 PST   Listings
uppercanadian -- Local paper's explanation: Huge differences in air pressure between the west and east sides of the Cascades, along with a strong jet stream cruising directly overhead, created a ''trapped wave'' of wind that built up on the mountain crest and crashed into the valley with tremendous force. All the air wanted to get through the pass, which it did, bringing just a ridiculous amount of wind. Mind you, Wenatchee is almost in a trench, at about 600 ft among the lowest elevation east of the Cascades in the state. It was quite local. Leavenworth, 25 miles away, had only a 21 mph gust.

If I win a lot from THIS seller, do you think he'll let me postpone payment until I go through all his other lots?

Bob in WA
Posted by figmente   ( 872 ) on Jan-09-07 at 18:35:32 PST   Listings
S:

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 17:54:05 PST   Listings
Bob on the Windy Pacific Coast

Something is going on out there, that is for sure. I know that Vancouver, British Columbia has had 3 major wind storms so far this year with an incredible amount of damage. They have never seen winds like that in Vancouver, never mind 2-3 times in one year. Glad everyone is safe.

We might be getting our first snowfall tonight in Toronto. The city is ugly without the traditional blanket of snow over everything.
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-09-07 at 17:10:31 PST   Listings
Bob in Windy WA… Glad to hear you’re OK. I was thinking about you last night. 160 mph is a hell of a wind. The highest windspeed ever recorded is 210 mph at Mt. Washington New Hampshire, the residue of the Great Long Island Hurricane of 1938, so 160 is nothing to sneeze at.

I couldn’t get the Wenatchee site to come up—probably too many people trying to load it.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by rclwa   ( 946 ) on Jan-09-07 at 17:00:37 PST   Listings
Finally got our power restored just 2 hours ago! This morning it was 8°C (46°F) INSIDE the house, with no power, no hot water. Outdoors it was -2°C (28°F). I was beginning to worry about pipes freezing indoors, if another night without power was in the offing. It's still very chilly, but the furnace has been slowly bringing it up since the power came on. It takes a while with a full-basement plus two story old house.

I'm still kicking myself for forgetting to take a floppy with me to the library yesterday. I see I missed a few hours of posts, but I should be able to read through most of the rest tonight.

Let's see, it muct be close to midnight in Europe, so I'll wish a Happy Birthday, to Maarten (10th) and also a belated one to Knud Eric, (hope I'm remembering right) with apologies for missing a timely one.

Our storm is now a $1 million+ official disaster. There appear to be hundreds of large trees down all over town. Today I saw a line two blocks long of pickups and small trucks hauling tree branches, limbs, and sectioned trunks to a park set up as a temporary refuse center. Many buildings also lost shingles and in some cases whole roofs to the wind, and the scramble is on to at least get tarps or waterproofing on before rain or snow comes, which could be any time, though luck has held so far.

It's amazing nobody was injured. I went for a ride today and saw huge trees down, some into buildings, many taking power lines with them, many blocking streets. It's slow loading, but you can access many pictures here, with patience:
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/galleries/010707_wind/gallery.php

Especially devastated were some of our parks. Washington Park, two blocks from me, lost many large trees, and today I saw some huge ones uprooted in Memorial Park downtown. I mean trunks 2 or 3 feet in diameter, trees over 100 years old!

Wenatchee is not in Tornado Alley or Hurricane country, and while we occasionally get a breezy day, probably 30-40 mph has been tops for windspeed over the decades. They measured 73 mph IN TOWN and an official gust of 137 mph in the hills above town! The power company reported 19,000 customers without power shortly following the storm, and some may not get it back for a few days to come, tough if you just loaded the freezer, or conversely the weather could get cold enough to freeze pipes INDOORS in an unheated house (in which case I guess the meat would stay frozen!) Makes one really appreciate a continuous supply of power that we usually take for granted.

Enough rambling. Time to catch up all my emails and board posts. Getting more comfy, the house is already up to 56° :-)

Bob in WA
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-09-07 at 16:45:44 PST   Listings
Sylvester Stallone was correct, but movie was Nighthawks.

It also appeared in Billy Crystal's "City Slickers", amongst others.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 15:26:05 PST   Listings
upper, thanks but no thanks, already retired twice, don't want to retire for the 3rd. time,

Most probably they were given the philatelic advice by the Manager of Ebay Stamps,

David B.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 15:25:02 PST   Listings
It gets worse. As the scene goes on, I have spotted stamps from Cameroun, Belgian Congo, Nyasaland, Middle Congo, Zanzibar, ... I am thinking of doing a full detailed study!!
Posted by stamphick!   ( 334 ) on Jan-09-07 at 15:24:09 PST   Listings
You guys do know that they play a little football on the west coast too don't you?
Posted by bwiphilately   ( 336 ) on Jan-09-07 at 15:21:58 PST   Listings
S is for the Street Letter Boxes of Jamaica. Kingston installed its first letter boxes in 1889. For the first three years, items deposited in the boxes received a diamond-shaped Street Letter Box handstamp. Shown here is a cover to Colombia which bears this handstamp.

Beginning in 1892, street letter box circular datestamps were used to cancel postage affixed to mail left in the boxes. Shown here is an example on a postcard to India dated 1904.

Port Antonio installed its first letter boxes in 1911. For the first year, items deposited in the boxes received a rectangular rubber handstamp as shown here.

As with Kingston, circular street letter box datestamps were used to cancel postage beginning in 1912. Shown here is an example on an advertising cover.

Port Antonio street letter box datestamps were used until March 27, 1966. Shown here is a scan of the steel head of the last letter box cancelling device with the date plugs of its last day of use still in place. The head had to be unscrewed from its handle in order to obtain a proper scan.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 15:05:35 PST   Listings
Hollywood never gets it right


I am busy packaging up some 40 items that I sold last week, and at the same time I am watching the The Color Purple. The Steven Spielberg flick with Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. Suddenly, near the end of the film, something catches my eye. I turn to look directly at the TV. I have missed the scene, but I watch as they tear into an envelope. I rewind....They are looking at a cover from Africa. I had to stop the film and rewind again and again. Sure enough, it is a letter postmarked with a Double CDS SALISBURY / JAN 9 29 / RHODESIA. There are two stamps on the cover. One is the Belgian Congo 1.25Fr from the 1931-1937 issue, the other is the 20Fr from the 1946 Issue from French Equatorial Africa. Now intrigued, I remembered another letter scene about 10 minutes before, so I rewind to it. Again, it appears to have the Salisbury, Rhodesia postmarks and it looks as though the date stamp is the same, being from 1929, but this time the stamps are from Southern Rhodesia. It would appear that there are 3 stamps from the 1931-37 George V Issue and one of the 1937 Coronation stamps showing the train going by Victoria Falls.
Of course, all of the stamps were issued years after the date stamp.


Well, it is a good thing that the movie was filmed years ago, because I am outraged!!!! How can these inaccuracies be allowed to persist. I believe as a group we should petition the Hollywood studios to have a Philatelic Consultant on each and every movie, ensuring acccuracy and that no stamps or covers are damaged during the filming of the movie.

I would be in full support of David Benson being our man in Hollywood. How about it David, feel like a move??

Posted by horadam1   ( 432 ) on Jan-09-07 at 14:57:36 PST   Listings
Hutch, clearly I agree. And the bad thing is that my son will be going to Vanderbilt next year (unless he really screws up in the next 6 months), and I will have to become a SEC fan. {:0(

Thanks for the comment on my posts. Nothing more of a reason than just that I have been working 10-12 hour days lately and little time for enjoyment and relaxation. Oh well, such is life.

Posted by greenwave4u   ( 71 ) on Jan-09-07 at 14:19:51 PST   Listings
S is for Spanish Civil War. I acquired these about 3 years ago when I purchased an old Yvert album from SG. The album had belonged to the wife of the Belgian ambassador these were addressed to.


Placed my order for some sweet and sour stamps for Chinese New Year, now have to think what to eat with them:-)

Cheers

Peter
Posted by cwhutch   ( 609 ) on Jan-09-07 at 14:12:04 PST   Listings
Vic - I think youre right . With Nick Saban going to Alabama and Jimbo Fisher to Florida State its even going to get tougher for a few years then it will cycle back to another region. BTW I miss your posts .

Hutch
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-09-07 at 14:04:44 PST   Listings
dcderoo… The Stallone movie was “Rocky MMDCCLXVIII, The Terror of the Old Folks Home”.

J

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by oggilby   ( 1168 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:37:27 PST   Listings
melissajay05--The stamp in question was issued in a series from 1975 to 1981 (Scotts# 1581-1612) as a new definitive issue. Every four numerical values formed a larger square, where the inscrition goes around the boarder of the square. The stamp is worth 2 cents in postage.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:36:18 PST   Listings
dcderoo,

this one may be better for you,

http://www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk/air/regular/apr16.html

ps. check the 3d. stamp for the rare perf. 14 x 15,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:31:01 PST   Listings
dcderoo,

I just found this site which gives you more info than you will ever need on NZ 1st. Flights,

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/wclark/

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:28:00 PST   Listings
dcderoo,

I should have said that the flight was from Gisborne to Napier and then fowarded to the sender in Christchurch, I have no idea why I mentioned Dunedin. Collecting First Flight covers was very popular in the early 1930's and the arrangement was to send a self addressed envelope to be carried on the flight and then returned from the arrival point,

David B.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1168 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:19:48 PST   Listings
to boldly go where many have gone before!
Posted by oggilby   ( 1168 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:18:59 PST   Listings
briguy1--Thanks!

uppercanadian brad-- I agree with you! At the local cinema , if it's not a slide show for local businesses it's TV style commercials. At $6.00 US or more for a matinee, who needs further commercials! BTW, do you have your winter tuque on (shades of the McKenzie Bros.)?
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1641 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:10:32 PST   Listings
iomoon, I believe that tramway was used as an important setting in a Sylvester Stalone movie (the name of which escapes me at the moment.)
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1641 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:06:57 PST   Listings
dbenson, thanks once again.
It was a surprise that Dunedin was involved.
The only markings on the cover that I saw involved Gisborne, Napier and Christchurch.

Your knowledge is obviously vast.
Your resources must be much more vast. I can't believe that your would have THAT sort of info in your head.

Posted by melissajay05   ( 56 ) on Jan-09-07 at 13:06:33 PST   Listings
found some 2 cent usa stamps in a box i got from auction they are white backgound with red pic and lettering and say on the "freedom to speak out a root of democracy" can anyone date these or tell me what this stamp issue was called??
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 226 ) on Jan-09-07 at 12:28:20 PST   Listings
Roger,

here is an example of the Güller Valparaiso Whinged wheel used for poste restante. I don't see this one frequently.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-09-07 at 10:43:27 PST   Listings
Alec

Officially, it's the Roosevelt Island Tramway.
Built in 1976 as a temporary substitute for the subway station.
It proved to be so popular, it now remains the only commuter cablecar in North America.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 10:27:32 PST   Listings
Upper,

a few questions regarding you page on Canada Day,

Why do you use the term " Pane of Stamps ", it looks like an issued sheet to me.

Do you know the number of stamps or panes/sheets printed and/or issued, if so that should be mentioned on the page.

Were they specifically issued to commemorate " Canada Day " or " 127th. Anniversary of Confederation ".

I presume the term " typographed by Bernard Low " has to do with the artwork and not the actual printing which was done by the CBNC,

David B.

Posted by dbenson   ( 7704 ) on Jan-09-07 at 10:22:03 PST   Listings
dcderoo,

The cover travelled on a special flight from Gisborne to Dunedin & then was forwarded to the original sender of the envelope to his home address, that would most probably been by train,

David B.
Posted by ed845   ( 4280 ) on Jan-09-07 at 09:59:56 PST   Listings
stamps12345

Three countries does not make 'international usage'. It is certainly not a standard.

Have you been copying and pasting again?





Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Jan-09-07 at 09:43:32 PST   Listings
oggilby Strange looking but completely genuine. I have no clue why 1/2 of an additional stamp remains attached like some wierd sort of off cover bisect. Poor scissors training? At least the remaining one has really nice margins.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 09:41:18 PST   Listings
Thanks to everyone for their feedback on my page design for my Canadian collection. It is a lot of work, but I am hoping that as I do more pages, the turnaround time will improve. I will always be envious of those who can just slip a new stamp into a hingeless album, but I think that as the years go by, I will really enjoy the end result - assuming that there will be an end before I lose my sight and sanity.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 829 ) on Jan-09-07 at 09:36:33 PST   Listings
If the old adage, "there is no such thing as bad publicity" is true, then by emailing the company, people are playing right into their hands. Whether people like the ad or dislike is immaterial. The fact that it was noticed would be seen as a victory by the marketing staff.



What bothers me more, is that despite the rather high fees here on Ebay and Paypal, we still have to be subjected to advertisements. I feel the same way when I am subjected to car ads at the movie theatre. I paid to get in, I want a commercial free movie. Of course, considering product placements in most movies today, I guess it is a pipe dream of sorts.

Brad

Posted by infla-alec   ( 495 ) on Jan-09-07 at 09:33:49 PST   Listings
Cheap listing day Ebay.co.uk has a £0.10 listing day starting Thursday 11 January.
DJS Good luck with the job search.
IO/Jim I'd guessed the picture was NY as I thought I recognised the bridge but the cable car threw me. Has that always been there or is it something new ? I don't remember seeing it when in NY last May.
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-09-07 at 08:34:06 PST   Listings
oggilby… I am so glad you mentioned those G** d****d dancing figures. They are as annoying as a Chinese water torture, and I thought I was the only one. I always scroll down the page as fast as I can to avoid looking at them. Runner-up has to be the animated dog and cat, both advertising the same thing—interest rates.

One would think that a home owner (or prospective buyer) would have a level of sophistication that would find those ads juvenile.

Allan (mage)… CYE—I got your tiny Oct 5 cover, and it is a beaut.

Lyndel… CYE too!!

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by dcderoo   ( 1641 ) on Jan-09-07 at 08:19:55 PST   Listings
Am I interpreting this correctly?

Although addressed to Christchurch, the flight was only from Gisborne to Napier.
From Napier to Christchurch it would have been a land route?New Zealand air cover

Posted by lluehhhb   ( 226 ) on Jan-09-07 at 08:02:30 PST   Listings
jaywild
The auction is gone.

Better yet, I've checked the latest auctions from the seller and he removed the countries list from the descriptions.

great team work!!
Posted by mage   ( 634 ) on Jan-09-07 at 07:49:34 PST   Listings
I get very annoyed by the dancing figures, annoyed enough to send an email to the advertiser promising never to use their service because of the ads. I also said I would tell all my friends to avoid them also. Allan
Posted by oggilby   ( 1168 ) on Jan-09-07 at 06:40:01 PST   Listings
Greetings to all from a getting colder (36 F) Central MD, where there is a rumor of SNOW this afternoon!

Paul in Chi--please send me your email address (ebay is not co-operating at the moment). Thanks!

smitimns at verizon dot net

Is anybody but me annoyed with those dancing people ads that appear on the tops and sides of every search?

briguy1--are you out there? Please look at 130065194466 and tell me your opinion, Thanks!
Posted by wrd3   ( 99 ) on Jan-09-07 at 06:15:28 PST   Listings
uppercanadian I liked the page you showed .... but I can see this would take a long time to generate! A custom-made United States album can be seen here. Some information on each stamp, but not the write-up that yours has. Jim re-creates his pages as he gets new pieces that don't fit into the space he has allocated (ie - marginal pieces, etc that don't fit). I'm sure that album (even without the write-up) took a long time to create.

The History on Stamps web page has links to several albums - from the main page click on either Bulgaria or Romania, then from those pages click on album. The album pages are closer to your page. I think they are very interesting (but also must have taken a lot of time to create. There are links to allow you to download the albums if you wish.

As for me ..... I use a set of Minkus albums for my world-wide post-1960 stamps and a have printed pages from the Stamp Albums Web for much of my pre-1960 stamps (haven't gotten around to all the countries yet), plus an HE Harris Liberty Album for my US. For my precancels and perfins collections I've created albums - mostly spaces for the stamps, without descriptive text.

For my "Number 1's of the World" collection I would love to have the time and energy to create an album as was shown in an issue of the newsletter. A collector had created an album similar to the ones on the History on Stamps site .... showing the progression of a geographic location over time, and showing the Number 1 of that region for each significant political change through time. There was a lot of descriptive text, and the result was very interesting.

Bill D.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-09-07 at 05:50:25 PST   Listings
BRAD / UPPERCANADIAN-----The design of the album and album pages should be determined by what your trying to do with your collection .If i was just collecting a speciality subject like Cape of Good Hope ,I would use a red moroccian leather binder with heavey linen paper pages.Then have each page custom made with art work .But a country collection would be in a printed album.

My own collection is design to handle new 1,000 to 2,000 pages a year.So over the next twenty years the need for binders and album pages is great and a area that i don't want to spent a vast amount of money .So i use three ring binders with copy paper for pages .Just to give you a idea of the scope ,recently added 200 pages of just worldwide souv. sheets and plan to added another 100 before i start work again all mounted in protective mounts {used -cover plastic guards ,purchased from Richard Drews stamp store }.So to sum it up design for quick mounting and easy access for checking ......paul

Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-09-07 at 05:49:06 PST   Listings
Linda

It's the cablecar from Queens to Manhattan.
For the urban skiers during the lunch break!!

S is for Snaefellsjokull.
Posted by horadam1   ( 432 ) on Jan-09-07 at 05:46:44 PST   Listings
djs: Great with the lots you sold. I hope all goes well with the job interview - good luck!

Hutch, unfortunately for my school's conference (Big 12), I forsee that the SEC will totally dominate the NCAA football scene for at least the next 2-3 years. Back to the old days of Alabama, Georgia, LSU.....

David B.: That must have been a sight! I think I have seen at most 4 covers offered for sale in the last few years that I have collected them - all too pricey for me, even the 'white' on cover. I would have loved to see that stockbook.

Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-09-07 at 05:35:34 PST   Listings
Good day all.

From a sharp Scarsdale.

Jim

It worked, after all!!
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-09-07 at 05:29:14 PST   Listings
SYNCOPATED PERFS Thanks GREENWAVE 4U for showing those Chinese stamps with the star perforations .It just confirms my posting of 1-7-07 5:55:17 that one word should be used to decribe these perforation varieties .Sure elliptical perfs or star perfs are fine to discribe the type but a standard needs to be used .On e-bay we are seeing this term used by sellers from Denmark,Isreal,and Mexico so its becoming international .
Posted by keleofa   ( 3330 ) on Jan-09-07 at 05:28:59 PST   Listings
Pennsylvania Postmarks...

Indiantown Gap, PA  1945

Anyone have info on this Post Office? I can't find info in my references or at Jim Forte's Post Office website.

TIA,

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1164 ) on Jan-09-07 at 05:28:53 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


uppercanadian
I have four printed albums, Two different Ireland one for mint and the other for used, a Scotts National for my US used collection and the Scotts US Postcard albumns. Three of the four have pages that I’ve made up added to them for specific pieces in the collection that the pre-printed pages don’t cover. Otherwise I make my own pages. Sometimes they are very minimalist, other times they are more like yours. I prefer the ones that are more like yours. Yes, they take more time, but you’ve gotten to know your stamps much better through the process of making the pages.

David Snyder
Best of success with your job interview.


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a block of four from the South Bend, Indiana 207 electroplate. It shows two varieties, the “pyramid with a tai”: and one of the gouges made at one time by a printing company whose press did not have enough room for the plate. This gouge removes the state and the clamp that held the plate to the press seems to have held onto some debris that prints as a blob on either side of the gouge. click here .

Jim L.

Posted by cwhutch   ( 607 ) on Jan-09-07 at 04:47:24 PST   Listings
Good morning.

Congradulations to the Florida Gators for a job well done - Ohio who. LOL. Yea SEC . HeHe.

Sorry. Hutch
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 71 ) on Jan-09-07 at 03:46:51 PST   Listings
Linda How about "pork scratchings" for the perfs:-)

Peter
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 307 ) on Jan-09-07 at 03:37:29 PST   Listings
Oh my!, the length some stamp issueing entities will go to!
.. and what are we calling the perforations on that stamp? Soy Stars?..interrupted or syncopated perforations? or just plain whacky ?

nice family photos ioJim. where is the bridge and the overhead cable car?
Linda*
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 71 ) on Jan-09-07 at 03:29:55 PST   Listings
Sweet & Sour stamnps for the year of the pig:


http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2150217.html?menu=news.quirkies
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 408 ) on Jan-09-07 at 03:21:19 PST   Listings
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Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-09-07 at 02:26:02 PST   Listings
While I'm still here.....

S is for Swine Duty.
D1 has already shown the Queensland pre-decimal Swine Duty stamps in his superlative exhibit of Queensland revenues, so here is a receipt showing some of the decimal Swine Duty stamps.

This Swine Sales Stamp Duty handstamp was applied to some receipts in lieu of stamps (I have scans from 1963 and 1964). It had not been seen by Queensland revenue collectors before, and nearly wasn't at all, as I had belatedly grabbed those receipts out of the pile Dad and I had made of old discarded farm correspondence only in a moment of philatelic punctiliousness.

Finally, just to show that Swine are not always on Duty, here's a swine off duty.....

S2
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-09-07 at 00:42:55 PST   Listings
S is also for my daughter Sarah, who won this prize of a sheet of personalised stamps at Canberra Stampshow 2000.

S2
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 90 ) on Jan-09-07 at 00:13:11 PST   Listings
Bob - We had a little wind here, but nothing like that! Hope order is restored soon.

Seeing it's quiet.....

S is for SFNH. In 1902, the French shipping company Syndicat Français des Nouvelles-Hébrides decided to issue a set of four local stamps to cover the cost of transporting inter-island mail as a revenue-raising measure. They were printed in France and were purportedly issued on 1 September 1903.

After a few weeks, New Caledonian authorities intervened to scotch the whole operation. Nevertheless, the stamps could still be found in Vila and Noumea, and collectors prepared covers for cancellation aboard ships using the NCA cancellers.

Two types of forged PORT VILA cancels are known used on these stamps. And NHWCs have seen at least one unaddressed cover that became miraculously addressed some years afterwards.

A known forger A. Bonnet copied the design on one of the stamps (5c or 25c) to demonstrate his engraving skills after being released from prison, using the denomination of 15c. Forged copies of these imitations exist.
[Nearly all the exciting material on these pages is from the Sarakata collection]

This set of stamps is one of the prettiest of the New Hebrides, in my opinion. Artist sketches of them existed (in the Fletcher collection), but I am unsure where they reside today.

S2
Posted by billsey   ( 839 ) on Jan-08-07 at 23:38:07 PST   Listings
Bob I can certainly commiserate with you on the wind storm results... Sounds a lot like the Oregon coast just a few weeks ago.
Posted by djs127   ( 538 ) on Jan-08-07 at 20:55:32 PST   Listings
My experiment with starting my auctions at 99 cents ended for the first lot.
10 items went for $186.41
Ireland specialty album with stamps went for $87.60 or 17% of catalog value.
Liberia Registration Stamps Mint Hinged $45CV went for 34% of CV. Korean collection went for $38
Lowest sale price was Lagos 1874 4p Sc #4, 1875 1Sh Sc#6 Used $115CV for $3.77 but there condition was poor.
So I am very happy with the results and everyone who told me to start at 99 cents was 100% correct.
Wish I had a lot more stamps to sell and more time to scan and list. But I started a project management course 2 nights a week and have a job interview tomorrow at 5PM.
Wish me luck!
David Snyder
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-08-07 at 19:05:41 PST   Listings
Io, Ed, lluehhhb… Looks like the keyword spamming auction is still up, despite all of us reporting it to eBay.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by rclwa   ( 945 ) on Jan-08-07 at 18:53:21 PST   Listings
Quick post from the public library. We have had a record windstorm and many home without power. My house, computer, TV, and phone are all out, and looks like they will be another night. At least tonight it will be flashlights, last night it was candles! I'll try to get back ASAP, hope I don't miss any posts.

Up on the hills above town (central WA state) they recorded gusts up to 160 mph! MANY trees down all over town as we had had snow sitting on lawns for a few weeks softening it up. Today I saw a car on which a large tree had landed. It was about 20''+ diameter and crushed the roof to the floor of the back seat. The girl driving it had exited the car about 10 seconds earlier! Saw dozens of roofs missing shingles, and rain and snow predicted soon! Field day for tree toppers, linemen, cleanup crews. Big overtime checks this week!

I'll be back when I can. Darn, wish I had remembered to bring a floppy to save this board.

Bob in WA
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-08-07 at 17:11:57 PST   Listings
tozaan… Do searches of eBay stamps and baseball cards categories for examples of what items like yours have fetched in recent sales. There is no online valuing site for postage stamps—catalog companies make their money selling catalogs which spell out stamp values. You could go to your local library and investigate stamp catalogs in their reference department. In short, there is no “quick fix” to give you what you seek.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by tozaan   ( 14 ) on Jan-08-07 at 16:49:57 PST   Listings
I have a TON of baseball cards that I want to sell and dont know where to go online to find values for any of them. Can anyone help direct me to a good honest site?
Posted by tozaan   ( 14 ) on Jan-08-07 at 16:49:34 PST   Listings
I have a TON of baseball cards that I want to sell and dont know where to go online to find values for any of them. Can anyone help direct me to a good honest site?
Posted by tozaan   ( 14 ) on Jan-08-07 at 16:48:28 PST   Listings
I have a bunch of stamps that I want to sell and dont know where to go online to find values for any of them. Can anyone help direct me to a good honest site?
Posted by tozaan   ( 14 ) on Jan-08-07 at 16:47:25 PST   Listings
I have a bunch of stamps that I want to sell and dont know where to go online to find values for any of them. Can anyone help direct me to a good honest site?
Posted by dbenson   ( 7697 ) on Jan-08-07 at 16:36:50 PST   Listings
Victor,

re Scinde Dawks,

when I was in Israel in 1982 for the exhibition I admired the frame of Scinde Dawks from a well known German collector. He had a page of 3 small covers arranged as per the British colours, Red, White & Blue and by coincidence the owner came over and explained the signifance of the rarities in his collection. I mentioned I liked the layout of the 3 Scinde Dawk covers and he casually pulled out a stockbook from his briefcase with 6 pages showing covers with the same layout, Red, White & Blue,

David B.
Posted by horadam1   ( 432 ) on Jan-08-07 at 15:43:59 PST   Listings
Saketb: Not being too picky or malicious, but you wrote, "S is for Scinde Dawk. The first postage stamp of India issued in 1852. Face Value being one-half anna. A limited number of about 100 are in existance."

There are actually 3 colors of the 1/2 anna stamp, white, blue, and red. The white is fairly common as 'rare' stamps go, I have several, and had seen a collection offered by Greg Manning some years ago with around 50-60 copies, so there are many around. The blue is rarer, but still probably several hundreds around. The red or crimson copy is rarer, and may be numbered in the low hundreds available, especially if the severely cracked, damaged, or fake examples are excluded. I also collect India, and really enjoy the variety of stamps available. Do you collect the Native States too, that is a very complicated field. One could spend a lifetime just trying to clear a collection of the reprints and forgeries.

Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-08-07 at 15:09:16 PST   Listings
Umm sorry, expert in my last paragraph shouldn't be in quotes, this guy really knows his stuff.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-08-07 at 15:06:40 PST   Listings
Upper, congrats on a good start! This reminds me that I have somewhere an item which would likely be of interest to collectors of another small area: Carpatho-Ukraine. You know, the country whose one issued stamp was for sale at one post office for one day.

Mine is a Soviet 1960's airmail cover to Greenland(!), redirected to Denmark. Apart from the destination it doesn't look all that interesting, but it happens to be mailed from CHUST (looks like "XYCT") which was the capital of that short-lived nation.

I was listening to a travel program on radio on Saturday, there were discussing travelling along the Dabube (Donau) and on the Black Sea, but the "expert" kept talking about this region of Trans-Dnjestr (as we spell it here), even though this is neither by the Danube nor the Black Sea. Apparently one of his "pet projects". :-)
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 842 ) on Jan-08-07 at 15:02:09 PST   Listings
infla-alec THANKS!

Jimbo2
Posted by bjornmu   ( 856 ) on Jan-08-07 at 14:55:16 PST   Listings
domo, I assume those numbers are the face values? There is no way we can help without knowing which stamps you have. We might be able to figure out from a description, but a link to a scan of the stamps would be much better.
Posted by domo7modo   ( 0 ) on Jan-08-07 at 14:34:59 PST   Listings
I've no Scott catalog to determine the value of stamps
Could you help me?
How much CV in the catalog:

Deutsches Reich 3
Deutsches Reich 5
Deutsches Reich 10
Deutsches Reich 80
Deutsches Reich 30
Deutsches Reich 20
Deutsches Reich 40

and besides:
old stamp Thomas Jeff. 1cent
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-08-07 at 14:27:52 PST   Listings
I love this babelfish!!

mañma dia 8 te sale el sello, perdona por el pequeño retraso, pero he estado
muy liado


mañma day 8 leaves the seal to you, pardons by the small delay, but been very I have rolled
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-08-07 at 14:10:25 PST   Listings
Some christmassy pictures:

B-I-L, nephew and dog

Grandnephew's first chistmas.

Gepgraphy quiz!!

Calico cat-in-a-box.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:51:26 PST   Listings
David B,

I have been looking through a bunch of covers under the Romania sub-heading in Ebay. Some of them look good, but there is no description and the scan is so small you can't read the details on the cover. Just stupid!!!

So I email the guy telling him there is no description and I can't read the scans as they are too small, and he comes back and ask specifically what information I want and on which item.

Some sellers just don't get it!!!
Posted by infla-alec   ( 495 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:45:03 PST   Listings
Jim
1. I would like to did on this item
2. Ditto
3&4 He wants to delay payment on these as they are still running.

I assume that not other text was included Jim ? Strange way of asking something but you can reply with,
"Alles in Ordnung ich werde auf Ihre weiteren Gebote warten,und dann eine Gesamtrechnung erstellen "

Translates as,
Everything is in order and I shall wait on your bids and the auctions closing, and will make one invoice for everything.
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 226 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:43:13 PST   Listings
I've just reported it too.

I thought it would be useless, but let's test if we can join our forces to make justice.
Posted by ed845   ( 4278 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:34:22 PST   Listings
So did I
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 842 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:33:55 PST   Listings
Alec & Jim Okay, I'll give it a a try!

Question #1: Ich möchte diesen Brief ersteigern .

Question #2: Ich möchte diese Marke ersteigern .

Question #3: Ich möchte diese Auktion noch abwarten .

Question #4: ich möchte vor der Bezahlung der ersteigerten Marken diese Auktion noch abwarden.

I think they're all asking whether or not I'll wait till these end before paying, but don't want to assume so and be wrong!

Jimbo2
Posted by dbenson   ( 7697 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:27:09 PST   Listings
upper, no, " a single item doth not a collection make ", but it's a start. You were lucky there as the seller mentioned Bessarabia in the description but many sellers say " see scan " or ther things just as useless. Having good searches will always help but you should also check all lots listed under Russia. It will be time coinsuming but should be rewarding.

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:25:50 PST   Listings
uppercanadian… The other item D2 linked to is indeed the same Benderi, once part of Ukraine SSR, although it is postally unused which is likely athwart your collecting interest.

J

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:23:55 PST   Listings
So did I.
Posted by jaywild   ( 906 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:21:45 PST   Listings
lluehhhb… I reported that keyword spamming auction, so let’s see what happens.

Jim

? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
? US Stamp Identifiers:
| 10c Issue of 1855-57 | First 3¢ Stamped Envelopes | Grilled Stamps | Large “Banknotes” | First Bureau Issues | Abe Lincoln’s “tiny eye”
                                    | Washington-Franklin stamps of 1908-22 | 2nd & 3rd Issue Revenue Designs | Colors, Scott 70/78, 24¢ Washington

Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:14:14 PST   Listings
David B,

Thanks for the link. I posted in my excitement before I read the most recent messages. Yup - that is the one I won!!
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:11:53 PST   Listings
And here is the scan Bender. Can I call it a collection yet with only one piece??
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:10:57 PST   Listings
I just secured my first piece of Bessarabian Postal History. This Russian postal stationary is postmarked 1885 from Benderi, a city on the south bank of the Dneister River.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-08-07 at 13:01:29 PST   Listings
Jimbo2

Post the questions here.
I'd like to learn some ebay selling, German.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 495 ) on Jan-08-07 at 12:56:07 PST   Listings
Jim Forward me the questions and I'll translate for you. Or post the questions here
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 842 ) on Jan-08-07 at 12:51:00 PST   Listings
Hi All Question for the board. How does one answer a "Ask the Seller" question if it's written in a different language? I've just received four different questions on four different items from the same bidder, but don't know how to reply as all are written what looks to me to be German!

Jimbo2
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 306 ) on Jan-08-07 at 12:41:10 PST   Listings
fbetser ebay can take hours to get the items into their search engines, but they do send you and email with the item number as soon as it is listed.

A few comments you may find helpful - yes, I agree with alec your shipping does seem v. expensive and you should perhaps read the sellers tutorial on the site map (top this page), for tips on listing, for example $49.99 costs a lot less than $50 in listing fees !

Linda
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 226 ) on Jan-08-07 at 12:40:48 PST   Listings
I think it's really ironic that this keyword spammer seller (he has all countries in white small text in his descriptions) has a review article named "Avoiding Tricky Sellers" JAJAJA
Posted by dbenson   ( 7697 ) on Jan-08-07 at 12:15:56 PST   Listings
Upper,

I don't know whether this the same Benderi or not,

http://cgi.ebay.com/UKRAINE-Benderi-Andreevskaya-street-Vintage_W0QQitemZ220062989997QQihZ012QQcategoryZ20261QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

The seller has it listed as Benderi, Ukraine.

David B.
Posted by wrd3   ( 99 ) on Jan-08-07 at 12:01:45 PST   Listings
uppercanadian here is antonius-ra's link. He had some extraneous stuff at the beginning of his link - if you click his link then delete everything from http:// through the = sign you get his page.

Bill D.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7697 ) on Jan-08-07 at 11:58:33 PST   Listings
brad, just noticed that you are the top bidder,

Ebay is a fantastic place for those collectors who are looking for unusual items that wuld be impossible to locate by normal means, this has been one of them,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 7697 ) on Jan-08-07 at 11:56:21 PST   Listings
Brad, you had better be quick, only 45 minutes to go, a cover from Benderi, Bessarabia,

http://cgi.ebay.com/RUSSIA-1885-POSTAL-STATIONERY-12530_W0QQitemZ130064715495QQihZ003QQcategoryZ3495QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

David B.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 11:52:40 PST   Listings
There is one more little wrinkle in the Bujak time-line. There is an autonomous region of Moldova call GAGAUZIA. The Gagauz (in Turkish Gok-oguz, are descendants of a Turkic tribe called Oghuz. The Gagauz language is very similar to Crimean Tatar and Turkish languages. They descended from the Seljuk Turks, that came and settled in Dobrugea (the lands on the Black Sea coast just south of the Danube delta), together with the Pechenegs, Uz and Cumans. They were later resettled in Bessarabia during the Russian rule in the 19th century.

The Gagauz started pushing for independence at about the same time that Transnistria split from Moldova in 1991. In order that the country not be torn apart in the south as well, the Moldovan gov't granted the Gagauz Autonomous Status. It seems that from 1991 to perhaps 1993, Russian stamps overprinted with Gagauzia were issued. I am still investigating as to whether these are legitimate issues or not. Certainly they were tolerated in the Russian mails, as was Transnistrian stamps.

I hope to go to Moldova next year, and if the situation has remained unchanged, I am certainly going to try and mail some covers to myself using Transnistrian and Gagauzian stamps.
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 11:37:54 PST   Listings
Antonius Ra I always feel like I am writing to an ancient Egyptian God when I type in your handle! Thanks for showing me those Moldavians. They are lovely. I don't think your Salvador collection is connecting - I am getting an error 401.

Bessarabia

I think I can put a pretty good postal history collection together for the area without having to deal with the expensive Bull issues. Those Bull issues would only have been used in the very southern portion of the Bujak region. I don't know if there were even post offices in that region between 1856 and 1878, when Moldavia / Danubian Principalities / Romania controlled it. Probably in Ismail, but I don't think anywhere else. Fortunately, the bulk of the Bessarabia region since 1840, was controlled by Russia.

Bessarabia


  • Russia 1812-1918


  • Moldavian Democratic Republic 1918


  • Romania 1918-1940


  • Russia 1940-1991


  • Republic of Moldova 1991-Present


Bujak


  • Ottoman Empire 1812-1829

  • Moldavian Principality 1856-1859

  • Danubian Principalities 1859-1862

  • Romania (still under Ottoman suzerainty) 1862-1878

  • Russia 1878-1918

  • Romania 1918-1940

  • Russia 1940-1991

  • Ukraine 1991-Present



The Bujak may be difficult to collect due to the expensive stamps like the Moldavian Bulls. But certainly Bessarabia proper, should be affordable - I hope anyway. I am still doing a lot of investigating.

I hope this chart is of some interest to people. I don't want to use up band-width with my own silly musings.

All the best,

Brad

Posted by infla-alec   ( 495 ) on Jan-08-07 at 10:48:36 PST   Listings
Fbetser By clicking on the Listings to the right of someones's post and then click the TEXT ONLY button I can get to see your item. I don't know why it doesn't appear in the main listings almost instantly.
However I seriously doubt anyone will bid on pair of stamps with $7.50 shipping costs !!.
Hopefully you will not take this the wrong way as I'm not trying to put you down or anything but believe me collectors will not pay that amount for postage. Far better to give the buyer the option of having insured shipping and if that is what it costs for such mail in the USA then let the bidders decide if that is acceptable to them. Value wise of your item I have no idea but to me it seems a very high start price for the pair in such poor condition.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-08-07 at 09:47:53 PST   Listings
fbetser

Unless something is seriously wrong with eBay, your listing should appear almost immediately when you click the "Listings" link at the right-hand side of these posts.
The fact that yours doesn't means either you didn't list correctly or something is wrong with eBay.
Via search, finding your listing can take anywhere from 10 minutes to 12 hours after you list it.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 615 ) on Jan-08-07 at 09:11:45 PST   Listings
Try here
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 615 ) on Jan-08-07 at 09:09:44 PST   Listings
South America
Salvador
Suriname

Uppercandaian You can see a few of the cheaper Moldavians on the first page here A very tough area to be sure.

The World of Stamps
Posted by fbetser   ( 36 ) on Jan-08-07 at 09:03:45 PST   Listings
Hello everyone, I just listed my first item for sale but am confused as to why it does not show when I do a search. I used what I felt was a very accurate desc. (Scott 237 unused etc....) but when I do a search I see everyone else and not mine. How long does it take for a listing to appear I was under the impression it was immediate.

Thanks
Posted by djs127   ( 536 ) on Jan-08-07 at 08:49:56 PST   Listings
I got an email from Stampwants that they can import to their site from an export of Ebay's turbo lister. Anyone try this yet? I just downloaded turbo lister and I updated it with my unsold lots. Have to go to class in the city this afternoon so probably won't get to test uploading to Stampwants till Tuesday.
David Snyder
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 08:38:08 PST   Listings
My main area of collecting is Canada. I have had two rather good collections over the years, and have sold them all during rather more desperate moments in my life. Now, with my first and only child about to hit the ripe old age of one year, I would like to build a strong general Canadian album for her to inherit one day (I am convinced that philately is a dominant gene and inherited from the father's side!!).

In the past, I have always written up my own pages. I have designed a new page for a new collection, and would like your opinions of it. Please see Album Page HERE

I have got a new printer now, so it should print more cleanly in the future. The pane is not actually mounted on the page yet, so imagine black showing through the perforations. What about the information? Is there too much and is the info on the bottom too mundane?

It take a lot of work just to do one page. So far, one page is all I have. I figured I should try and buy a hingeless pre-made album so I started looking around. There is a lot of variety in albums for Canada but it all seems to be centred around the bindings and the type of system for affixing the stamps. All but one have not a word of stamp description written on them. I suppose that this is a personal choice, but I imagine going to an art gallery where there is no information about the art. Just rooms full of pictures, but unless you are a saavy art collector, you would not have any idea who painted it, their inspiration, methods, etc.

I know that Scott has some detail in their albums, but they are not hingeless. So it looks like I will have to do up my own album pages. I am interested in how others here have mounted their collections.
Posted by peetah   ( 453 ) on Jan-08-07 at 08:22:09 PST   Listings
Any New Zealand Collector? Just bumping up this unanswered question I posted 2 days ago:
I have a New Zealand booklet Stanley Gibbons SB40 which has 10 SG 1370 Type 416 stamps of the Queen. My question is, is it typical that the stamps are all upside down relative to the booklet cover? Does anyone have a current SG catalog value?
Posted by uppercanadian   ( 828 ) on Jan-08-07 at 08:16:54 PST   Listings
David B - thanks for your help. I have emailed you through your Ebay ME PAGE as opposed to contacting through a specific item listing. Although this works, I think there can be delays. I certainly appreciate your help. Is Andy retired??? I am off work for another week, so it would be great if I could call him during the day.

BillseyThanks so much for the link to the Charles Feldman Auction. Did you see the prices some of those Moldovan Bulls got!!! They had some awesome material from Sarawak too. Three items that together sold for around Euro 600,000!!! Perhaps I should stick with Winnie the Pooh on stamps as I will never have the money to put into items of that kind. Maybe I will have to rethink this!!

Paul - Yes, those are very nice - and affordable!! Seeing those all lined up like that really gets your heart pounding due to the simplicity yet beauty of those designs. Something only a philatelist can understand I guess.

Brad
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-08-07 at 07:19:09 PST   Listings
OK on a slow wet day, a veritable souffle of Soufriere.

Soufriere, Montserrat.

Soufriere, Guadeloupe.

Soufriere, St. Vincent.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-08-07 at 06:51:29 PST   Listings
PAUL'S RANT It drives me nuts to search around E-BAY for offers of speciality collections and advance collections/studies and when you link the offer its just a bunch of stamps mounted on a page ,to me its just a bunch of duplicates .Im looking for watermark varities or perforation varities. If they are color studies they are not written up or described ,its just a child filling a page with dups. Now one or two sellers are calling these pages of random mounted stamps advance studies ....please
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Posted by stamps12345   ( 222 ) on Jan-08-07 at 06:34:06 PST   Listings
BRAD----Here is a must have set for your Moldavia collection .This is the 1932 Romania set for the 75th anniv.of the first Moldavian stamps . 1932 ROMANIA set ....paul
Posted by iomoon   ( 1037 ) on Jan-08-07 at 06:09:06 PST   Listings
Dood day all.

From a wet Scarsdale.

S is for Saunders Island,part of the South Sandwich Islands.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1164 ) on Jan-08-07 at 04:00:03 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


In keeping with the "S" theme here’s a properly completed Post Office form 3547. It’s used when a mailer requests change of address when mailing a letter. George had moved out of Rush county to Indianapolis so this card was used. While the Arlington, Indiana handstamp is weak this card was sent from Arlington to Shirley, Indiana on September 14, 1960. The charge of 5 cents was paid with the Postage Due stamp that is tied by the Shirley box cancel. click here .

Jim L.
Posted by saketb   ( 3 ) on Jan-08-07 at 01:31:53 PST   Listings
S is for Scinde Dawk. The first postage stamp of India issued in 1852. Face Value being one-half anna. A limited number of about 100 are in existance.
Posted by de66   ( 1027 ) on Jan-08-07 at 01:12:50 PST   Listings
S is for SWINE STAMP Duty

If you scan down to fig 8 you will see all it's not very exciting but it does belong to tell the story


http://users.bigpond.net.au/dave1/sa_revs/sa_revs.htm

D1

Posted by de66   ( 1027 ) on Jan-08-07 at 01:06:34 PST   Listings
S is for STAMP

I will leave you to go pick your favorite one

D1
Posted by dbenson   ( 7693 ) on Jan-08-07 at 00:00:48 PST   Listings
upper, I have been given the email addresses of 2 Romanian Postal Historians who have knowledge on the subject. Send me your email address and I will send details,

David B.