eBay chatboard archive: Jun-25-07 to Jul-01-07 week

Posted by bjornmu   ( 935 ) on Jul-01-07 at 22:53:56 PDT   Listings
Sorry about the bold, need more coffee....
Posted by bjornmu   ( 935 ) on Jul-01-07 at 22:53:35 PDT   Listings
Paul, Polish forces in WWII? That doesn't sound right, the face value is in MAREK which I presume is Marks, which was in use until 1924.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 21:31:35 PDT   Listings
Mitch

It is fun to find information on those stamps. Anyway, the first stamp from the left in the 3rd row is revenue stamp from Austria. The overprint Deutschösterreich means German-Austria.


PC
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 21:09:32 PDT   Listings
Lynn… This is the Hanmer Guide to early US machine cancels. As you can see, mine has been through the mill.

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:50:25 PDT   Listings
Paolo,

maybe this is what you need,

http://www.answers.com/topic/a-cup-of-tea-a-bex-and-a-good-lie-down

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:43:11 PDT   Listings
David B.,
Thank you for looking, for detecting the cancel and for your advice!
I should have distinguished 'BEX'...I don't know what I was thinking...and this, unfortunately, already for some weeks -- funnily, somewhere I remember to have seen at least one full strike of that CDS of that post office. Perhaps, I am just so obsessed with fake cancels that I unconsciously denied the evidence.

All the best,
Paolo
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:41:42 PDT   Listings
PC Thanks for looking. I also found Lynns last stamp there

Dave F That makes sense. I have quite a few Japanese revenues but that on is different than the rest.
Paul Thanks, I had thought it was a bogus issue.
Bjorn I see the Neder... on it now, I was thinkig it looked like the Finnish coats of arms.
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:27:29 PDT   Listings
Great topic Mitch, as all my stamps are packed up, pretty much, I can't show anything [I'm also at Georgia's this weekend, the stamps are in the sotrage unit in Tillamook, 3 hours drive away]. It also looks as if what I could ID are already done. The DBSR issue is a nice one, though often forged and also available in non-standard colors through the release of a bunch of trials. Somewhere in my Turkey collection I have a couple of pages showing them and the more common forgeries.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:23:29 PDT   Listings
jaywild A fascinating display of cancellations. What is the Hanmer's guide you refer to? Sounds like a good read. Lynn
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jul-01-07 at 20:10:46 PDT   Listings
220man, peter, sayasan, stamps12345 Thank you all for taking the time to help me out.
antonius-ra Again, I really got a lot out of this topic, was able to see some things I might never have seen otherwise.
Lynn
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jul-01-07 at 19:55:24 PDT   Listings
Paolo,

not BFX but the small village of Bex, (they look OK to me)

The 70c. look like missing colors, if it was me I would try for a certificate and hope,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jul-01-07 at 19:51:06 PDT   Listings
"Sitting Helvetia with sward", or "Helvetia of L'Eplattenier" (like I decided to call this Issue).

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jul-01-07 at 19:46:45 PDT   Listings
Good day all!

On meeting topic, or almost, I have these following questions for Roger or anybody else regarding Swiss stamps:

1. I found these two stamps at top, 1908 Helvetia with sawrd, 70 (c) brown and light chrome yellow, in a group of about 250 pieces.
The problem is that the light chrome yellow underprint is missing on the two stamps at top (at bottom there are three normal stamps).
Not being listed as a possible variety, I suspect the yellow was taken away chemically?
Here is a detail of one of the two stamps without underground print.

2. Here are two airmail stamps out of the 1923 Issue, with a
"B.F.X." cancel dated 18.IX.24 (September 18, 1924).
I couldn't find reference about this CDS: is it real or is it fake?

TIA,
Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 18:13:19 PDT   Listings
NOIP… As promised, here are some early machine cancels I received this past week.

Columbia repeater, LKU. This exact card is illustrated in Hanmer’s Guide, top of page 80.
Universal repeater, test use from Washington DC.
American “tiny 2”. This machine was in use for about a week. This exact card is illustrated in Hanmer, page 19.
Standard SXd-3, very scarce.
Standard Sxa-2 very rare, used for only one day.
Leavitt #27, rare.
Barr-Fyke X-7a, MCS rarity factor f, used only 4 days.

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 17:19:14 PDT   Listings
LYNN----The overprint is ADPO ZO ----ZO{Zone Ouest} was the western zone
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 17:13:14 PDT   Listings
DAVID ----Portomarka is postage due
Posted by deh3   ( 1685 ) on Jul-01-07 at 16:59:55 PDT   Listings
The first left, second row among the Montenegro (Czerna Gora = black mountain = monte negro; the Cyrillic reads Cz. Gora) is an AR (= avis de réception) stamp (Scott Hxxx), which Montenegro issued by the dozens. The stamp beside it reads Portomarka, which someone here should be able to translate (parcel post stamp?).

David H
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 16:56:53 PDT   Listings
MITCH ----To answer your question about the 5pts stamp from Tanger .It is the high value of six stamps which was issued in two different colours. It was for orphans of employees of the telegraph servive of Spain .....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 16:14:00 PDT   Listings
LYNN-----The first stamp of your second scan is a Turkey revenue stamp overprinted ADPO .That stands for French Occupation of Western Lebanon {administration Dette Publique Ottomane} ,the administration of the ottoman public debt,western zone
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:47:26 PDT   Listings
Mitch

I finally find something about the 2nd stamp from the left in the 3rd row.

Polish stamp


PC
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:32:05 PDT   Listings
BJORNMU----Its Polish Forces in Italy during WWII
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:31:55 PDT   Listings
bjornum

I guess you mistake my post to Lynn as to Mitch.


PC
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:17:38 PDT   Listings
Jaywild: Yeah that windows media player you have must be an older version. The ones I'm using are version 10 and 11 each on a different computer.
The trick is to change the names before you "rip" (or copy), unless the "find album info" button has identified the songs.
You might want to upgrade to a version that has those features.
I think each version is written by a different candidate for the ant hills.

I was digging through my stamps for my unknowns, so far I can't find them.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 935 ) on Jul-01-07 at 15:00:20 PDT   Listings
Argentina? No, the tall imperf grey stamp is Dutch, but I don't know kind of stamp. The one to its left is Polish, again I don't know what for.
Posted by sayasan   ( 676 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:38:06 PDT   Listings
Sorry, sniped by claghorn.
Posted by sayasan   ( 676 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:36:51 PDT   Listings
On reflection, make that Middlesex Water Board, or some other county beginning with M. Water supplies were localised in those days.
Posted by sayasan   ( 676 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:35:16 PDT   Listings
Lynn


Top row right, KGVI with "MWB" is a firm's overprint for fiscal use, i.e. on a receipt. "Midlands Water Board", I'd say.

Lower row left is Armenia, unissued without a surcharge, 1921 I think or thereabouts. The surcharges are usually forged, but even the basic unissued stamps have been forged. Not sure offhand whether yours is.

mitch - Yes, the first two on the second row are part of the Montenegro issue, but are a different series - postage due, I think??? Hence the different appearance. But they always show up together.

Third row, right end - British impressed fiscal.

Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:35:00 PDT   Listings
Mitchell Yes, the first two in the second row are from the same issue. Look HERE and HERE too

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by greenwave4u   ( 78 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:30:47 PDT   Listings
NOIP The joys of manual sniping, squeezed through by 2 seconds....and I know the 2 bidders I was up against. The seller's ID was wrong BTW.

http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=130128200052

Peter
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jul-01-07 at 13:21:11 PDT   Listings
Mitch,

I wouldn't call them rare, they sell for between $5-10 unused but used are very scarce and on cover are a king's ransom.

David B.
Posted by philatarium   ( 234 ) on Jul-01-07 at 12:42:17 PDT   Listings
Mitch: That Japanese stamp on the far right of the second row is a revenue stamp that, if I recall correctly, is for the Ministry of Education and is related to the sale of school textbooks. I believe it is one of a series.

Jim/Io You're correct that your Japanese revenue is for tobacco purposes. Again, if I recall correctly (a bigger if here), that it was the wholesale purchase of tobacco, but I could be wrong. It is one of a series.

I'm still traveling a lot right now, but hopefully when the dust settles, I can pull out my references and check relative values for you.

Sheryl: Welcome back! So good to see you and Steve here in LA. Thanks for organizing that wonderful afternoon, and thanks again to Jim for hosting!!
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 12:28:24 PDT   Listings
PC Good job! Actuallly I was aware of the Chinese and Japanese as well as the Tangiers the question I had about them is what kind of stamps they are. I think the
Spanish Tangier is similar to French type Fichy issue.

he rockin good news is that of the last Romanian railway
stamp. I had always thought it was Turkish for obvious reasons knowing that it is Romanian of Turk occupation is a great help. The thing I like most in that article is that it states they are extremely rare! No doubt, as with most simply printed rarities there are probably fakes. I have three of them that I am soaking right now. I will post them later to see if anyone is familliar with the issue and
hopefully tell whether they are good or not.
Mitchell........thee excited
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 11:41:18 PDT   Listings
Mithc

The second from the left is the 4th is this.


PC
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 11:34:51 PDT   Listings
Mitch

The first from the left in the 4th row is a Spainish Telegraph stamp (1947/1948?).


PC
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 11:09:46 PDT   Listings
Mitch

The first from the right in the 2nd row is a Japanese stamp.

The first from the right in the 4th row is a Chinese stamp and one of the overprints/cancels is a province in China.


PC
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 10:44:48 PDT   Listings
Bill C. Thanks much, now I can put them in their place. Are the first two stamps on the second row part of the set on the first row? They don't seem to fit.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jul-01-07 at 10:31:51 PDT   Listings
Lynn

The third from the left in the 3rd row looks like some kind of Argentina stamp (may be tax stamp).


PC
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jul-01-07 at 10:19:08 PDT   Listings
Mitchell THe first ans seond row are Montenegro. They are the "Too Late Jubilee Set". King Nicholas ordered the set but the day they were delivered he had to flee to Paris for his life. THey were never postally used. They are the last stamps for Montenegro.
Posted by 220man   ( 152 ) on Jul-01-07 at 09:27:25 PDT   Listings
Lynn: The second from the right in the top row looks like a S&H Green Stamp from the 1950's.
Phil
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jul-01-07 at 09:06:55 PDT   Listings
Here are some whats-its. The origin of many of them rather obvious but the usage isn't clear to me. The first line really has me baffled. I think they might be unissued stamps from Greece or Serbia or somewhere close.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jul-01-07 at 08:22:08 PDT   Listings
Knuden and Alec, Thank you for the assist.
I have enlarged the scans and added some more http://www.photodump.com/direct/mtndew/unident.jpg stamps.
TIA Lynn
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 07:26:12 PDT   Listings
NOIP… In keeping with the “unknown” theme I offer this cover I recently bought. There are a number of different cancels from Pittsburgh by the same manufacturer, all very early (1870s) but nobody knows which firm it was that made them.

I will post more of the early cancels I just received later today.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jul-01-07 at 07:09:46 PDT   Listings
Sheryll & Steve…

WELCOME BACK!!!!!

Jim
Posted by knuden   ( 2291 ) on Jul-01-07 at 06:13:39 PDT   Listings
Lynn

Row 1 (from left):
"Ticket" by which you could by a book for 2 kr. Denmark
Fom Norway but can't clearly see what it is (it's not postal)
Can't see what it is.
Looks like a french revenue of a kind.
Sc. 480 (Egypt)

Row 2:
Local stamp from Hannover, Germany.
Sc. 423 (Libya)
Italian (religious due stamp??) better scan please.
Sc. O1 (Bulgaria).
Local stamp from Hannover, Germany.

Row 3:
Sc. RA14 (Lebanon)
Revenue from Switzerland?
Better scan please.
Revenue from Poland.

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Jul-01-07 at 06:05:20 PDT   Listings
antonius-ra I think the weekend topic is a good one. I've been unable to scan any pages from my "Unidentified" notebook because I've been camping with the Boy Scouts this week. Hopefully I'll be able to scan some pages between mowing the lawn, setting up, cleaning and drying tents, etc. (We've had LOTS of rain in central Texas this past week, so the tents are muddy and still wet).

Bill D.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jul-01-07 at 04:41:13 PDT   Listings
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Posted by soccers_cn1   ( 34 ) on Jul-01-07 at 04:12:04 PDT   Listings
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Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1366 ) on Jul-01-07 at 04:05:54 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


jaywild
Thanks for the remarks about WavePad. I’d been trying to copy an old CD and the computer at the office keep skipping. Mine at home didn’t skip, but the Disk copy function would not leave me a playable music CD, not matter what I tried. Now I’ve got my friend a copy of their CD without all the scratches.

Anyone
Does anyone know about those WW II era images I posted yesterday?


Jim L.

member
INDYPEX 2007

is coming. :8^)
July 9, 10 & 11 at the Convention Center 500 Ballroom
 (100 South Capitol, Indianapolis, Indiana)

You can get more information at Indiana Stamp Club's Home Page
Some of the exhibits sound like they’ll be very interesting.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jul-01-07 at 03:00:31 PDT   Listings
Reported my last post. Somehow half of it disappeared when I hit the post tab.
Should have appeared as ,
Griselgrum Welcome to the ebay board. If you need to you can post your question here in German. There are a few here who can translate what you ask into English if need be. This is very much an International board with people from all over the world who can help. For many English is not their native tongue but everyone is welcome here.
Worth saving this useful Multilingual Philatelic Dictionary
Posted by griselgrum   ( 51 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:33:56 PDT   Listings
Ah..thanks.. :)
Posted by stampmad   ( 1086 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:29:14 PDT   Listings
griselgrum Se-tenant is a joined pair of stamps of a different design.

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://i17.ebayimg.com/06/s/000/77/36/adbe_2.JPG&imgrefurl=http://reviews.ebay.com/Guide-to-Se-Tenants-and-Catalogue-Order_W0QQugidZ10000000002389893&h=125&w=200&sz=8&hl=en&start=20&tbnid=3aonS1PFYRDLNM:&tbnh=65&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dse-tenant%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Marius
Posted by griselgrum   ( 51 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:21:41 PDT   Listings
Hi All..
IŽm from Germany and collect stamps.. now I found a word I donŽt know and also canŽt find in my dictonary..

What please means "setenants"?

Thanks a lot, Gg
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 78 ) on Jul-01-07 at 02:14:11 PDT   Listings
Mitchell Excellent topic keep up the good work, maybe because it's the holiday season over your side people are out and about. Here in the UK with one of the wettest June's on record having just closed and terrorist alerts everywhere, best place to be is inside with your collection:-)
To any readers/watchers who have a query and don't know how to paste a picture to the board and struggle with html, if you send me an email I will post later to day for you, but remember my time zone is GMT +1. You can find my email under member list on www.iusc.org.

Jim/Jaywild Not sure if you are running XP but if you are, upgrade to media player 11 free download on the MSN site, it will do everything for you.
cheers
Peter
Posted by 22028   ( 1617 ) on Jul-01-07 at 01:50:05 PDT   Listings
Ripping Music from CD's, well, since many years I am using successfully this freeware program...:
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
All you need is a good CODEC which you can find for free as well.
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Jul-01-07 at 00:22:04 PDT   Listings
Hi all! I arrived back in Oregon a week ago. Had to get my skates on and start on my exhibit basically straight away, so all is in disorder here and I haven't been able to read the board regularly. I haven't even looked at the photos I took!

0410e - I (ahem) fiddled with my webhost/email settings a few days ago and last night I found that I had inadvertently deleted my and the SCADS website in the process. Moral - if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Both websites are back now. Let me know if what you want isn't on there.

One of the best parts of my trip was catching up with other chat board members. You have already seen photos of jaywild and Dave F., with whom I had the good fortune to spend lunch and an afternoon in LA. Their suggestions of what else to see there were followed up over the course of the next few days. Many thanks, Jim and Dave, for your great companionship and for posting photos of our get-together on the board.

In Oz, D2 and his wife Yung were wonderful hosts at Sydney Stamp Expo. Thanks to them, we enjoyed a memorable PISC (Pacific Islands Study Circle) dinner at a restaurant in Randwick, and were grateful for their dropping us off at the railway station on both Friday and Saturday nights in the pouring rain.

In San Francisco on the way back, we had dinner with Richard Doporto (aka "anerdman") and the following day we all visited the Santa Clara ASDA show, where I picked up a bargain New Hebrides cover to France showing scarce late but legitimate use of the Port Sandwich cancel.

S2
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:56:33 PDT   Listings
Mitch Nothing wrong with the subject meeting. Of course it would be nice for others to participate more but as has been said the weather, holiday season etc all have an effect.
For the queries I had yesterday I have myself managed to find out which category to list the emphemera items. It took me a lot longer than expected because either so little similar is being listed on the ebay categories are very obscure.
Still time enough for anyone to comment on wether the covers are fancy cancels or not.

Lynn I can only id a couple of items from your scan & guess at a couple more.
Row 1 1st stamp Norwegian railway ticket ? Same row last stamp Egypt ?
Row 2 1st and 5th are German and Hannover local post stamps.
Row 3 4th stamp Poland revenue / postage due stamp ?
Pretty difficult to id some because the scan is a little on the small side. But maybe some others can help further.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:09:25 PDT   Listings
Can someone tell the plate # of these ugly 1c Franklins?


Thanks,

PC
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:09:11 PDT   Listings
jaywild All I did was get the right Google search and it showed the rhapsody free download as first choice and the eBay listing was also at the bottom of the first page.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3708 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:01:59 PDT   Listings

IO this must be my day for double entendre (spelling?) I was at the grocery today and looking at the tabloids covers while in line, one headlined,

Laura nails cheating Bush

What happened to the conventional chastity belt?

Jeff
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 195 ) on Jun-30-07 at 23:01:10 PDT   Listings
I personally like the topic, wish I could have been here sooner. These are some of my Unidentified Lynn
Posted by bradstonian   ( 1274 ) on Jun-30-07 at 22:24:28 PDT   Listings
Hi Mitchell,

I think the topic this weekend is an excellant one! I have been waiting to see what others post in the unlikely event that I would be able to help..........

My own lifetime accumulation of unidentifieds was put in a stock book and disposed of through a local auction. I would never have got round to them, now they are gone!

Martin.
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:37:18 PDT   Listings
Last message was for Ant-Ra.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:34:04 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Perhaps third time will be the charm…

Your topics are fine. I don’t have anything to show myself that isn’t flogging a dead horse—there are a few 1ą Franklins I have that I can’t determine the plate position for, which the board has already seen.

By all means, show some of your stuff! Perhaps when you initiate a meeting topic, post an example to get the ball rolling. Also, I think a lot of people are out enjoying the weather this weekend. The traffic on the board has been very light all day, except for me relating my troubles…

?

Jim


Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:24:34 PDT   Listings
Jim, et al I'm sorry but hopefully you guys will possibly understand what a "test" it is to come up with new meeting topics?!?!?!?
I wish you would have informed me that ripping a CD should have been this months meeting topic, I never would have guessed!

I'm sorry but i seem to enept at picking a worthy topic. Please, please, please anyone with some good ideas email me........................
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 20:16:41 PDT   Listings
Bill C… Wow—I had no idea. I’ve looked on the iPod site (and others) and the pickens for very early bluegrass are pretty slim, or for any music outside the mainstream. I always use that song as an example of hard-to-find music. I found it on an obscure LP many years ago and copied it to my computer and then combed through it to get all the pops and hisses out of it. It is quite a pleasure to see that others are taking the trouble to resurrect this old music, which is as distinctive and “American” as any art form ever was.

That said, there are many, many bootleg recordings of old hill music that just can’t be found anymore. There was a wealth of this material on the old Napster, but those days are gone.

I hope you took an opportunity to listen to “Little Bessie”. It’s not to everyone’s taste, but for authentic you can’t beat it with a stick.

Jim
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:55:38 PDT   Listings
http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-BLUE-SKY-BOYS-BLUE-SKY-BOYS-RM-5-CD-BOX-SET_W0QQitemZ300125084098QQihZ020QQcategoryZ307QQcmdZViewItem
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:51:21 PDT   Listings
Jay Wild

Little Bessie by Blue Sky Boys on RhapsodyListen to the full-length version of Little Bessie by Blue Sky Boys on Rhapsody.com. Plus, thousands of albums, music videos, playlsits, radio channels, ...
play.rhapsody.com/blueskyboys/classiccountryremasteredcharlottencrockhillssc19371938cdb/littlebessie


http://play.rhapsody.com/blueskyboys/classiccountryremasteredcharlottencrockhillssc19371938cdb/littlebessie

There are several rippers which capture these listen files too.
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:42:09 PDT   Listings
Lindy… I thought I was going crazy. The buttons at the bottom of the screen (here) show the windows that are open on my computer. It’s not part of the program—I should have trimmed that part off the image. I created the “rip” folder for use with the program that I was eventually able to use, and it was open on background while I went back into Windows Media Player.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:29:52 PDT   Listings
Roger… The downside of sites like the Apple site for iPod is that esoteric music is pretty hard to find. The beauty of Napster in its original incarnation was that it was possible to find obscure jewels simply because there were others out in the world that were eager to share what they had. Now that it is all strictly controlled and profit-driven, much of the creative steam has been taken out of internet music “sharing”. If you can find the Blue Sky Boys’ November 1938 recording of Little Bessie on any pay-to-download music site I will sign up yesterday!!

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 401 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:25:34 PDT   Listings
JayJim I think Roger was referring to the little button right at the bottom of screen in the blue bar ..rip...
Posted by jaywild   ( 956 ) on Jun-30-07 at 19:13:20 PDT   Listings
Roger… I don’t see any RIP button at bottom right or anywhere on that program. I am assuming you are referring to the image I linked to.

“Rip” means (I guess) to take a track off a CD and render it available for installing on either another CD or a hard drive. I suppose the idea is to distinguish the operation from “copying”, which you can’t really do in the drag-and-drop sense with a music CD, because of the format, in this case files with cda extensions. I can drag and drop cda files, but I end up with tiny files that I can’t do anything with.

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 401 ) on Jun-30-07 at 18:35:57 PDT   Listings
ZA is the international sign of SOUTH AFRICA ZUIDAFRIKA
Posted by malolo   ( 845 ) on Jun-30-07 at 14:46:24 PDT   Listings
jaywild -
So what does the "rip" button do that is located lower right line of buttons at bottom of screen?

Does one "rip" a song when copying it, or what does "rip" mean? You guys are much too hip for me. LOL

I like drag and drop the way its' done on my wife's Apple. The only complication there seems to be the continual automatic features of Itunes that puts things where you don't necessarily want them.

Roger, off to rip some passengers.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8362 ) on Jun-30-07 at 13:18:24 PDT   Listings
Gauteng is one of the provinces of South Africa, it is part of the old Tranvaal province,

David B.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-30-07 at 13:17:10 PDT   Listings
jaywild...Your window looks different than mine, different version I suppose. Mine shows the same path as yours but the where it actually stores the file is in a subdirectory of the directory shown. The problem with searching is that the stupid thing renames the files according to options you have set up (or not) so that it may not be possible to search on the title. I assume they are trying to force you to only use their program and their interface to play music. Microsoft is quite good at doing that.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:46:16 PDT   Listings
za could be Zambia at a guess
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:45:17 PDT   Listings
Just Googled it. David is correct it is So Africa
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:41:53 PDT   Listings
I could not figure where Gau is either. I thought possibly Zaire as the email address ends like so: onwe.co.za
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:39:38 PDT   Listings
As I stated previously, in Windows Media Player there are no buttons or anything else to click or engage in order to cause the selected files to be loaded onto my hard disk. Here is a view of the Windows Media Player screen. There is no “Rip” button anywhere, unless it is invisible. The “copy” button at middle top to the right merely copies the file to the Media Library, quite a useless function since it is already in the Media Library. The insoluble problem is getting it out of the mysterious Media Library.

Whoever wrote Windows Media Player banged it together without bothering to see if it would be of any use. In vivid contrast is the ease of use I found with WavePad. No copying to a “Library”, no creating a “Session”, no opaque menus, no detours into anything extraneous to what I wanted to do.

Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:38:46 PDT   Listings
infla-alec...I think South Africa.

jaywild...You are correct, that "one" sure makes a difference.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:28:28 PDT   Listings
Stamphick… Um—definition 1 here might clear things up for you. While the Principal is the head of a high school, the word has other meanings, such as the use I put it to.

Jim
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:19:37 PDT   Listings
IO I'd guess Gau is in Netherlands as witpoortjie sounds Dutch.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:07:52 PDT   Listings
jaywild...The rip function is a button at the very top of the Windows Media Player window. After you rip, if you have set your options to save in My Music WMP will create a new subdirectory there named for the artist and another subdirectory under that for the name of the album and then the music file in that directory. You may not always have artist and album name known.

WMP also renames your music according to the options you have set in the rip music tab

Remember, the principal is your friend.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-30-07 at 12:03:35 PDT   Listings
Where is Gau?
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 11:54:36 PDT   Listings
It's my pleasure to 5 new members to the EUSC.

Helmar Herman
UserID=Helmar
Kittery, Me
Interests=Pre-1940 world, non-US

mervyn baily
UserID=pre-1900
witpoortjie, Gau
Interests=world before 1900 including local posts ,revenues,bogus stamps

Gary STEELE
UserID=sportster
LOWER SACKVILLE, NS
Interests=Canada covers 1952 down,

Svend Waever
UserID=bicowrap
Aglantzia, Nicosia
Interests=Newspaperwrapper from before 1900
Danish Bicolored 1870 - 1905, Schleswig - Holstein

Lloyd de Vries
UserID=LloydStamps
Paramus, NJ
Interests=Modern and unusual first day covers, mostly U.S.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 11:53:02 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Found the solution—Express Rip’s WavePad program. Piece of cake.

? ? ? ? ?

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 11:31:26 PDT   Listings
dragonstamps… I don’t think there is a “rip” function that I can find. Here are the steps I follow.

I insert the music CD in the drive. (When I open up “My Computer” and look at the drive all the files have cda extensions. They can’t be transferred from the disk using drag and drop.) Windows Media opens up and asks if I want to copy music from a CD, I click yes and a new screen opens showing the files on the CD, and the program begins “copying” them, presumably to put them into the “Media Library”.

When this finishes, all files have the notation “Copied to Library” beside them. At left of each file is a check box. I then select the files I want to copy to my hard drive, and at the bottom of the screen there is a message “7 files checked to copy to […../My Music folder]”. However there is no button to click, no menu to open, no option for choosing to copy those files anywhere! If I open the File menu there is a “Copy” option, but that just takes me back to the beginning. At the left there is a “Copy to CD or device” button which only allows copying to another CD, which I don’t want. I already have the music on a CD, I want it on my computer.

The program is telling me that the files have been copied to my Media Library, which is supposed to be located following the path named above. There is no such folder, there are no such files anywhere on the computer, and believe me I looked all morning.

Different interfaces and ways of doing things is only one aggravation. The principal one I am dealing with is that this program was designed by someone who never bothered to run through the steps and see if it actually works. Thus my thoughts about the anthills…



Jim
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:40:44 PDT   Listings
Music software can be very frustrating. All the software writers just have to be different, so the learning curve can be steep. Even windows media player has 2-3 different versions of how to rip, burn, find items, etc.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:31:50 PDT   Listings
Actually if you wrote them, there won't be any info, so click on the rip tab. Insert the CD. Then go to the track info and right click on the section of track (especially album), but artist also, and edit the names you want in before you start the rip. When you've typed in all the info you can stand:), rip it.
I hope it works for you.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:26:23 PDT   Listings
Eusc Topical Post Ok unusual for me but I have a few questions.
1. Is this a US fancy cancel ?
2. Another Fancy cancel ?
3. This is obviously some sort of US shipping freight receipt , dated 1852 but which category can I list it in on ebay ?
4. This being a Railway menu card , but again where can it be listed ? Inside is a menu with prices. That I haven't scanned yet but can do so if ones wish to see it. I also don't know which era the card is from.
5. Another railway item I have is a 1885 Kansas & Gulfline Pass Again which listing category & is it an anuual pass ?
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 468 ) on Jun-30-07 at 10:07:00 PDT   Listings
Jim if you use windows media player, and are looking for music you already ripped... Click on the library tab, then clicking on things like artist, or album, on the left will find items that don't normally show up.
I would make sure that when I rip a CD that I'm connected to the internet and that the album info shows up first before I start the rip.
I just recently ripped some great interviews with WWII veterans, and there was no album info, so that was a pain finding those files. If there is no album info, then it shows up in the unknown album file (after clicking library, then album).
Good luck.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 09:33:55 PDT   Listings
Io’s house is over yonder.

?

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 09:32:35 PDT   Listings
briguy1… Yes, it should be copied somewhere, but where??? I have searched all morning in vain for the files that have been created. The program stipulates the folder the files supposedly are in, but they’re not there. A search of the entire drive turns up nothing either.

The irritating workaround is playing the file then recording it using Audacity, with corresponding loss of information. Actually, this morning I am in a perfect mood to tie all software writers to anthills, every damned last one of them. There are at least one anthill per each in Arizona, nasty big purple ants with hair-trigger tempers and very poor reasoning skills. Why on earth would anyone create a program that contains “help” information that contains information that is blatantly false? Ah well. I suppose I should be happy I don’t live in Tajikistan.

Alas, there is no teenager in the house. I did manage to load my Scott catalog on my computer, and it is a wonder to use. No waiting for the drive to start up again and again.

I’ll go to the Civil War re-enactment only if I can be William Tecumseh Sherman.

?

Jim
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Jun-30-07 at 09:09:13 PDT   Listings
Which direction is IO's house again?
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Jun-30-07 at 09:08:24 PDT   Listings
PS -- old bluegrass?.....CSA covers?

See you at the civil war re-enactment! We'll get drunk and load my 12 lb Napoleon. It'll be fun.
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Jun-30-07 at 09:05:52 PDT   Listings
Jaywild Seems to me if you can get windows media player to play the songs, they should be then be captured as a temp file. Not only do you get to listen to them again, but you should be able to click and drag from there.
Posted by soggy333   ( 55 ) on Jun-30-07 at 08:48:29 PDT   Listings
Jay
When you figure it out (don't you have a teenager in the house?) try it out on the Scott catalog CD and give us a site where we can all download same.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-30-07 at 08:46:08 PDT   Listings
no1bargaingirl Welcome to the stamp board. Your stamps catalog for around $5 U.S.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-30-07 at 08:40:02 PDT   Listings
NOIP… I’m having trouble “ripping” a music CD. I know I have done it before, but the programs I have opened to try it lead me into a maze of incomprehensive gobbledygook. I have a CD with music files on it that I have recorded, mostly old bluegrass, and I want to copy these files to my computer, so I can listen to them while I am on the internet. In going through NERO CD burner, Windows Media Player, and Audacity they all promise to do this, but the instructions lead nowhere. I can copy the files to a “Media Library” using Windows Media Player, but then there is no way to access the “Media Library” to either play the files or put them where I want on the computer.

I did this within the past few months, copying Cream’s Greatest Hits onto my computer, but can’t remember for the life of me how I did this. As I’ve said, all the options in the mentioned programs lead nowhere.

Anybody have any ideas?

Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-30-07 at 08:23:28 PDT   Listings
Jeff

I do hope her first name wasn't Laura. :-)
Posted by no1bargaingirl   ( 67 ) on Jun-30-07 at 07:18:51 PDT   Listings
hello iomoon you may know me better from stampboard as wannabgeek :-) and hang around I shall as I am doing my tax, could be here awhile lol.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-30-07 at 07:16:58 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

Welcome no1bargaingirl, a reply might take a while, but hang around or keep coming back.

This has an image of Fuji and what appear to be tobacco plants.
I assume it is a Japanese tobacco revenue?
Posted by no1bargaingirl   ( 67 ) on Jun-30-07 at 07:05:32 PDT   Listings
I am just wondering if anyone here can help me put a value to these as no-one seems to know much on the other forum and I may list them soon.
[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z4/wannabgeek/Columbia006.jpg[/IMG]
Posted by no1bargaingirl   ( 67 ) on Jun-30-07 at 06:52:37 PDT   Listings
Hello fellow philatelists! Just thought I would drop in and check it out as I learnt about this club from a forum I am a member of. Stampboards which was created by Glen Stephens.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3705 ) on Jun-30-07 at 06:44:33 PDT   Listings

Reminiscent of Jay Leno's HEADLINES feature the following appears on the Virtual Stamp Club list of topics:

Royal Mail Tells Woman To Trim Her Bush
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1364 ) on Jun-30-07 at 06:03:33 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Here’s a not really unknown item. It’s some of the “Futsches Reich” propaganda/fake stamps that were a part of England’s fight against Germany in World War Two. Can anyone here tell me if it’s one of the legitimate one’s, if so which printing or is it a later fake of the counterfeit stamps. If it’s a counterfeit of the fake propaganda stamps does anyone know which fake? I understand that there are several printings and fakes/counterfeits.

Here’s the cover.

Here’s the
block.

and here’s a close up of the
upper right stamp.

Jim L.

member

INDYPEX 2007

is coming. :8^)
July 9, 10 & 11 at the Convention Center 500 Ballroom
 (100 South Capitol, Indianapolis, Indiana)

You can get more information at Indiana Stamp Club's Home Page
Some of the exhibits sound like they’ll be very interesting.

I'll be there Friday and Saturday and Sunday this year. Would any of you want to get together for lunch? I know some good (and very reasonable to cheap) places within walking distance. Of course, there are some nicer and more expensive restaurants also within walking distance, but when I got to Indypex it’s more about the stamps than the food. :8^)
Posted by soccers_cn1   ( 34 ) on Jun-30-07 at 05:36:33 PDT   Listings
http://bp3.blogger.com/_8AMmfBQS1QA/RoZEvuupcRI/AAAAAAAABzg/PkxkQE9YOVI/s320/2007-06-23+Lithuania+History.JPG
1 Lithuania History FDC I got today.
You can find more real posted FDC in my blog.
http://myfdc.blogspot.com/
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-30-07 at 01:36:51 PDT   Listings
Kicking off the weekend topic looking for help/information on these from Austria I think and assume they are telegraph stamps.


Peter
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-29-07 at 23:57:57 PDT   Listings
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E U S C
Ebay Users Stamp Club Meeting

For June 2007, is now in session.

This meetings topic will focus on those unknown stamps every collector has.

Everyone is invited to get out that envelope or small box with the big question mark on it, and share the unidentified stamps within.

Hopefully most can be identified by other members.

Meeting will officially end Sunday July 1, 12:00 Midnight ebay time.


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Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-29-07 at 23:31:56 PDT   Listings
Paul, I just managed to open up your scan.

They are bogus stamps with bogus overprints,

David B.
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Jun-29-07 at 22:33:12 PDT   Listings
Jaywild That CSA cover brings fears into my heart. It sure looks to be a genuine wallpaper cover, it appears to be a correct period address, the stamps are real too.

BUT

15c is a totally nonsensical rate that equates to nothing. Lots of things could be going on there (stamps added to a genuine stampless paid or hand carried cover, 20c double rate w/missing stamp, etc), none of which are dispelled by the truely CRAPPY auction photos provided. I'd love to see that one in person or at least a large dpi scan before I'd feel at ease.

Sadly, CSA postal history is fetile ground for the nefarious. So much so we get to ask unusual questions like if a stamp has TWO ink colors of fake cancels,...is it thus worth twice nothing?? Doubly worthless? Does one cut it in half and make two spacefillers? So many options.......
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-29-07 at 19:23:54 PDT   Listings
Yes, there are a couple of issues for 1948 & 1949.

What is the colorful stamps you scan depicts.

There are a few pictorials from the revolutionary period but I wouldn't call them colorful, pretty drab looking.

Still waiting to hear about the dumping on the US market,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-29-07 at 19:19:01 PDT   Listings
THREE SHOTS IN THE HEAD ----do you feel the third shot?

David B. ---I can only read the Scott advertising and it says 1945-1949 issues of the Indonesia Revolutionary issues. Not the 1947 date as you just stated .

No the scan is not of the wallpaper issues from Melaku Selatan.

Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-29-07 at 19:09:33 PDT   Listings
0410e It is all there.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060424080748/http://www.sheryll.net/
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-29-07 at 18:58:27 PDT   Listings
Paul, I can't see your scan but prssume they are the Melaku Selatan issue.

Your statement is correct, there are no colorful pictorial stamps from Indonesia in 1949. The colorful ones are bogus and they are not from the period that was discussed that Scott's are adding which is the revolutionary period from 1945 to 1947,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-29-07 at 18:29:48 PDT   Listings
OK OK ---Please shoot me, there are no 1949 colorful or pictorical stamps from Indonesia ,these are just copies Paul made on his computer much like our friend in Florida .....gee maybe two shots in the head would feel good right now .,,,, These are not colorful indonesian stamps .....paul
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1364 ) on Jun-29-07 at 18:09:15 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-29-07 at 18:02:24 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Received this today, the third known copy of a Territorial Registered cancel from Jerome Arizona, used for a brief period in 1897. The two others are June and Dec, so mine is neither EDU nor LDU.

Jim
Posted by 0410e   ( 122 ) on Jun-29-07 at 17:49:43 PDT   Listings
claghorn1p

Didn't realize the web archive was the wayback machine. Already been there. Alas the bits I want are missing (the exhibit frames & notes).
Thanks anyway.
Jeff B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-29-07 at 17:45:00 PDT   Listings
Paul, there are no COLORFUL pictorials during the revolutionary period, they are the bogus issues of the so called breakaway republic of Melaku Selatan which has nothing to do with the revolutionary period. Yes they were dumped the US market but I repeat they are not from that period and I doubt if Scott's will be cataloguing them anyway,

David B.
Posted by 0410e   ( 122 ) on Jun-29-07 at 17:38:36 PDT   Listings
claghorn1p

Thanks for the tip. A real bewdy.

Jeff B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-29-07 at 17:37:27 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. ----Lets wait a few days until the new copy of the catalog arrives and then we can go over the Indonesian issues for that period .I don't believe they will say much about the local small office overprints which you seem to be fixated on .They will most likely have all the colorful pictoricals and the overprint issues and as I said earlier these are what was dumped on the philatelic market and which I stated will be good to pick some up as soon as possible.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-29-07 at 16:34:51 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

Anyone contemplating going to the MetroExpo in NYC on the weekend of the 13th of July?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-29-07 at 16:26:59 PDT   Listings
ps. Paul, they were not the ones I was looking for, I was looking for the better overprints and the better local produced primitives issued by the small post offices,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-29-07 at 16:25:50 PDT   Listings
Paul,

about half of those are not from the revolutionary period, they are Japanese Occupation issues. The one you show are all the common ones.

I was objecting to your term " dumped ". Could you tell me who dumped them as they were issued by local post offices and there was no wholesale stock to dump. If they were dumped as you say, where are they, a few here and there doesn't show any signs of dumping.

I was also surprised they were never listed in Scott's they are been listed in every catalogue I use,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-29-07 at 15:50:55 PDT   Listings
ALWAYS HELPFUL For those not familiar with what David and I are talking about.Here is a sample of the stamps that David said "Looked in hundreds of US dealers stocks.....hardly found one or two " .FROM THE STOCK OF LICKEM AND STICKEM STAMPS......paul
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jun-29-07 at 15:22:51 PDT   Listings
reperf

Thanks for the link. I guess you're referring to the extra dot and lines. Is the "F" of the "OF" having double transfer too?


PC
Posted by reperf   ( 35 ) on Jun-29-07 at 15:16:00 PDT   Listings
peterc8888,

To the left and slightly below the top left corner the remains of a misplaced entry can be seen. While terminology varies, the following web site may be useful: www.re-entries.com.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jun-29-07 at 14:30:09 PDT   Listings
Can someone point out the double transfer in this listing?


Thanks,

PC
Posted by reperf   ( 35 ) on Jun-29-07 at 14:21:12 PDT   Listings
jaywild,

US postage stamp tagging can only be picked up by short wave UV light. Long wave light is useful for separating US #64 and #64b (glows orange) from #65, US red brown large postage dues from claret (glows orange), hard paper (bright) from soft paper (dead) and reportedly for the PSE version of Fourth Bureau carmine lake. The latter may be a listing hijack because the original 634b does not seem to respond in the same way. There are many other uses for long and short wave UV lights including detecting (but only sometimes) removed cancels, certain repairs or other faults.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jun-29-07 at 13:20:30 PDT   Listings
Mitch

Thanks. Just send you an email.


PC
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 637 ) on Jun-29-07 at 12:36:34 PDT   Listings
PC OK, I'll add it to the list.
I've been tied up with out of town guests the last couple of days. I owe a few emails to people here that I will try and respond to soon.
Posted by peterc8888   ( 327 ) on Jun-29-07 at 11:36:25 PDT   Listings
Mitch

I did not receive email from EUSC. I guess my email disappears from your list again.:-(


PC
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-29-07 at 10:51:16 PDT   Listings
jaywild -
That canceler is “Stone Age” technology. LOL
If it had rotating date wheels and flexible head, I’d be interested. That type of canceler is exactly what deCoppet’s invention replaced. Clerks couldn't lose number slugs, or invert them leading to future collecting areas!
Much more mischief could be created with multiple dates, etc. with deCoppet's devices as seen recently on those Sitting Helvetia and here. Someone here should know why this Baden card is "wrong".

BTW - I don't have any stamps I can't identify, but I've sure had some addresses that are problems written in old German script.

Roger
Posted by 220man   ( 152 ) on Jun-29-07 at 10:30:15 PDT   Listings
Do not remove pin with teeth...
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-29-07 at 10:02:11 PDT   Listings
Sign o’ the Times… I got a wonderful surprise gift today, frozen steaks from Kansas City Steak Company, from a neighbor I have done some favors for. On the outside of the bacon-wrapped filet mignons was this amusing warning.

Can’t be too careful with these dumb ’Merkins!

?

Jim
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-29-07 at 07:28:50 PDT   Listings
Jeff B If you are looking for missing web sites you can always go to the WWW backup.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060427124102/http://www.sheryll.net/Forgeries/Forgeries_article.htm
Posted by 0410e   ( 122 ) on Jun-29-07 at 07:02:47 PDT   Listings
mini*lindy.

Thanks. She must have taken her web site with her...it's empty? Never know what you might need when you're on Hols I suppose.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 400 ) on Jun-29-07 at 06:05:26 PDT   Listings
Jeff B. I believe sheryll was travelling in Australia 2 weeks ago - she was headed to Sydney for the Stamp Exhibition.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-29-07 at 05:34:49 PDT   Listings
NOIP… One shudders at the mischief that could be done with this

?

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-29-07 at 05:27:42 PDT   Listings
deh,

I have no idea of what Scotts' prices will be for them but about 4 years ago I sold about 40 of them and they realised about 3 to 4 times Gibbons catalogue value which hasn't changed since then,

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-29-07 at 05:22:38 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Signs of desperate times in the old South. The Union blockade of the Confederacy, while not entirely effective, did succeed in depriving them of certain items we take for granted.

During Grant’s siege of Vicksburg the local newspaper was printed for a time on wallpaper much like that featured in this auction. I would dearly love to own a copy of one of those issues.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-29-07 at 05:16:07 PDT   Listings
NOIP… I wonder what soccers_cn1 is selling? He has been trying to push it every day for some time now. A click on the link invites you down the primrose path of Identity Theft, but eBay does not seem concerned.

Jim
Posted by 0410e   ( 122 ) on Jun-29-07 at 05:04:08 PDT   Listings
Anyone know what happened to sheryll.net?

Jeff B
Posted by deh3   ( 1680 ) on Jun-29-07 at 04:57:25 PDT   Listings
Re: Indonesian Revolutionary issues

I know of a dealer who has a number of sheets and large part sheets, where before the 2008 Scott catalogue, had it priced at $1000, and received offers of as low as $250 (less than what he paid). Now, assuming they are genuine, catalogue $17,000 (+ a few Scott-unlisted local overprinted multiples)!

Danny
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Jun-29-07 at 04:48:12 PDT   Listings
Roger Wow! That lot had to send shivers up your spine when you saw it. Sort of akin to a bird watcher wandering into a garage sale, and finding himself staring at a family of stuffed Dodo birds (or in this case just their heads). On the other hand, someone put some serious pondering into those pages. The birth of postal history collecting if you will....

Paolo Please, no more talk about the existance of the castrati. Its early over here in the states, and that starts my day with a uneasy sort of feeling.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1364 ) on Jun-29-07 at 04:24:45 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all



Jim L.

member


INDYPEX 2007

is coming. :8^)
July 6, 7 & 8 at the Convention Center 500 Ballroom
 (100 South Capitol, Indianapolis, Indiana)

You can get more information at Indiana Stamp Club's Home Page
Some of the exhibits sound like they’ll be very interesting.

I'll be there Friday and Saturday and Sunday this year. Would any of you want to get together for lunch? I know some good (and very reasonable to cheap) places within walking distance. Of course, there are some nicer and more expensive restaurants also within walking distance, but when I got to Indypex it’s more about the stamps than the food. :8^)
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-29-07 at 02:11:49 PDT   Listings
Roger,
Congratulations on your purchase!
However, it makes me think how many postal documents have been 'castrated' in order to put a deal of that very interesting group together.

Bill B. CYE please.

Best,
Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-28-07 at 23:04:47 PDT   Listings
Paul, I was only commenting on your remark that the revolutionary period stamps were dumped on the US market. In no way is that statement correct. The other issues you mention are not from the revolutionary period, they are later and plenty of those were dumped in every market in the world where they could be sold.

I have been through hundreds of US dealers stocks in the 1970's & 1980's looking for them and hardly found one or two.

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-28-07 at 22:07:26 PDT   Listings
NOIP------Gee was just pointing out a interesting and colorful period of stamps which were issued and the popularity should grow .They can be purchased from David,s link at 99 stamps for $20.00 and higher .Wasn't really thinking people would want to buy rare one of a kind stamp with a Dutch cert. ...off to bed
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-28-07 at 21:41:07 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. -----Your confusing people with your remarke .

Yes, there are a few rare Japanese and Ned-Inde early overprints which are auction house quality items ......BUT....BUT .......Scott will be listing over 410 major and 45 minor catalog items which all can be found in the link your posted and many if not most Sumatra and Java stamps are reasonable with those Vienna and RIAU issues all are in the range of most stamp buyers .Also will stand by my statement that most stamps issued in that time frame was dumped on the U.S. MARKET excluding a few rare issues or locals ,I,ve found them for years in dealer box lots and in red boxes .....paul

Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-28-07 at 19:41:54 PDT   Listings
Just for info for the history buffs,

The revolutionary period was the period after the Japanese were defeated in 1945 and the Dutch tried to regain control of Netherlands East Indies. They managed to regain some areas again as a colony but Eastern Java and Sumatra revolted against the Dutch & parts of the country were declared independent and local stamps issued, some by overprints on Netherlands East Indies & Japanese Occupation issues as well as locally produced stamps were issued in various cities and small towns. There are plenty of forgeries of the overprints and all the better ones should be bought with Dutch certificates only.

David B.

Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-28-07 at 19:14:38 PDT   Listings
Have a look at this site, its lists the commoner ones but the better ones are unpriced,

http://www.vanstamp.com/index.php?page=catalogs&PHPSESSID=e5ed11cbf1ffe4943f70b644c140a03c

This comment makes a lot of sense,

" Values given are my best estimates of current values at this writing. True value is whatever a willing buyer is willing to pay. Beside the historic interest in these issues from Dutch collectors, there is keen competition for all available issues from collectors in Japan and Indonesia ".

David B.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-28-07 at 19:08:49 PDT   Listings
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Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-28-07 at 19:04:53 PDT   Listings
Paul, just for your info, Gibbons lists about 250 variants, the Indonesian catalogue lists more as it includes variants of overprint colours that Gibbons doesn't list.

I remember having a discussion a few years ago at an Exhibition in Jakarta with one of the old timers who mentioned that there are about 20 stamps with less than 10 known & a couple that only 2 or 3 are known,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8356 ) on Jun-28-07 at 18:58:26 PDT   Listings
Paul, the genuine revolutionary period issues are extremely difficult to find and they were all issued in minute numbers. They weren't dumped anywhere. What was dumped was the so called Vienna prints of Melaku as they were wholesaled through the US. The genuine revolutionary period issues have been in hot demand in Holland, Indonesia and Australia for over 30 years and very few are in dealers hands, they are in the collections of the specialists and a couple of specialist dealers in Holland & Indonesia.

They have been fully listed in Gibbons, Dutch & Indonesain catalogues for decades and most sell in multiples of catalogue value.

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-28-07 at 18:53:05 PDT   Listings
HOT STAMP INVESTMENT TIP Here is something that some can get in before the market jumps up . This is a better than a 75% chance of success .

Start purchasing the Indonesia Revolutionary issues of 1945-1949.These are not listed before in the Scott catalog but will in the 2008 issue . Also much of that stuff was dumped on the U.S. MARKET so it wouldn't be hard for many of you to find covers and stamps sitting in the back of some dealers inventory .

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 400 ) on Jun-28-07 at 16:46:28 PDT   Listings
oh Roger great buy! well done. Guess that it is kind of sad, all those cut outs, but at least they were kept and not all discarded as 'not stamps so they have no value' as often happens.

Linda
Posted by rolyrj   ( 4 ) on Jun-28-07 at 16:45:04 PDT   Listings
Bingo

Yep, for sure Bill. There are a couple of other overprints as well which are a little suspect, low dollar items so why bother? I guess a little bit but often soon mounts up.

But yes, I would not go near that 2d Stars without a certificate, even then I would forever be in doubt. Interestingly enough, we had a panel of 5 experts once look at two forgeries and one genuine example of this stamp and they could not come to a consensus !!! There are some real tricky ones out there of this stamp for sure.

I had a plate block of 6 up for sale on TradeMe a while ago with the stars but without the overprint. Normally I would have expected that block to go for something like $20 max allowing for the fact that it was a rarer plate block, but the bidding went way through the roof to well over $200. It was then that I realised where that block was going to end up and what the fate of those stamps would be. I gaurantee that would emerge a few weeks later as jointed pairs of Stars errors at something like $500 a shot. I withdrew the auction incidentally and still have the (un-forgerd) block :)

Cheers

Roly
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jun-28-07 at 16:20:48 PDT   Listings
Roly let me guess, the for sure forgery is the 2d overprint and the likely forgeries are the two Victoria Land? I must admit, I didn't look at the closeups, just at the thumbnails beside his list of auctions...
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-28-07 at 16:08:38 PDT   Listings
Corrected post -

I won this auction this morning from GB. I haven't bought anything like this for years, but I couldn't resist, as it seems someone was really into cancels in the late 50's - early 60's. When you look at this lot, think of all the covers and cards that were "sacrificed" for the cause.

I'm particularly interested in the scan about half way down that shows a Ste. Croix cutout from a postal card. I've reported in my exhibit that the 1893 Ste Croix cancel by deCoppet was used only one day in 1893, then is only reported once from 1897, prior to limited use in 1899, before even more common use after 1900. Well there's another 1897 example cut out! It seems the scans show everything in the collection.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=018&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=280127426955
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-28-07 at 15:54:23 PDT   Listings
Bjorn -

Touché.
But zour cover has authentic overprinting. The stamp I showed had a fake overprint.

“Touché” required I use Anneàs European kez board. That is the reason most European actors have a dialect, thez read scripts tzped on European tzpewriters. I doubt many can remember the layout of Slovakian or or Polish keyboards. );>)

Iomoon - That seller appears to be on the sharp side. He/she/it was one of those who offered an incorrectly identified stamp and wasn’t wasn’t interested in correcting the mistake.

Maybe the Italian seller won’t sell outside of Italy because he doesn’t trust the postal services of other countries. LOL. Either that or he’s selling to people who can’t read and find their own material. he certainly has a captive audience.

Roger
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-28-07 at 15:33:06 PDT   Listings
Roly

I never waited long enough for the auction page to load to see that he's still looking for describers.
I'll amen you on that one though.
I think I have about 4 or 5 of those sheets squirreled away somewhere in various guises. Mint, used, on cover etc.

Glad to see all your hard work on the 1d stamps is netting you notoriety (maybe, justified attention). Well deserved!
Posted by rolyrj   ( 4 ) on Jun-28-07 at 15:16:57 PDT   Listings
IO

Your Power Seller with the New Zealand material sure is a dreamer. How many of those M/S's would you like mate. I am sure I can spring a "scarce" one for you.

Incidentally, with one definate forgery (not noted as such), three other suspects, another which I would not touch without a certificate and hugely inflated asking prices it is hard to see how he would shift any of his NZ material.

Cheers

Roly

I note he is also advertising for describers, he needs them urgently !!!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-28-07 at 14:42:36 PDT   Listings
Like the proverbial bunny, still going.

Uhm, there seem to be a few stampless hinges on these yellowing pages.

Will you be buying antique stamps (I've never seen antique used in the context of stamps before) or the more valuable, stamp-missing, pencilled over, bent and scraggly antique pages?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-28-07 at 14:32:18 PDT   Listings
Still rolling.

$8 postage for one stamp is a bit much.
So, it's a tryptic.
1/3 of $8 is still too much!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 936 ) on Jun-28-07 at 14:10:24 PDT   Listings
Rainer, Scandinavian and French keyboards also have Y in the same spot, but the French are AZERTY if I remember correctly. I have also used a Slovakian and a Polish keyboard but don't remember how they were.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-28-07 at 13:53:42 PDT   Listings
Another seller who is really P*&%$#@! me off.
I don't want to wait for the film loop to load before I see what is being sold.

Neither do I consider that if five of them are for sale at half catalog price that they are "rarely seen". Why would anyone want five of them? Are they still valid for cheap postage or something?

While I'm on a roll, does anyone collect Portugese Manchuria?
Apart from the bidder on the Nyassa stamps who, like the seller, appears to be from Italy and is a devoted admirer of the seller's stamps.
What an amazing coincidence!!
Posted by 22028   ( 1617 ) on Jun-28-07 at 13:53:05 PDT   Listings
small correction..., UK keyboards also use the layout as the US keyboards...
Posted by 22028   ( 1617 ) on Jun-28-07 at 13:47:56 PDT   Listings
Anne, all European typewriters/keyboards have the z and y swapped compared to the USA keyboards.
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Jun-28-07 at 13:39:50 PDT   Listings
Mitch: Just saw your Hatshepsut post. See what zou miss traveččing? If Zawi Hawass says it s Hatshepsut, then it probably is. Major find is an undserstatement. Back again in a day or so, Good night to all and to all sweet dreams of Dubrovnki sunsets, Hatshepsut s mummy, and much more stamping. Anne (whose time on the interentt is running out)
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Jun-28-07 at 13:35:08 PDT   Listings
Evening-morning-afternoon from a balmy Dubrovnik. We re taking a tour of Croatia with Bosnia and Mentenegro thrown in briefly on excursions. Still getting used to a Croation typerwiter, which has the z where the y would be in a standard American-European typewriter. Hope all are well, with everzthing under control fakewise. Anyone know the Croation word for postage stampY Kvalla, Anne
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-28-07 at 13:28:33 PDT   Listings
Jimbo

If you are still at naples.net, CYE.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 936 ) on Jun-28-07 at 13:24:22 PDT   Listings
Who says you can't have a 1910 cancel on a stamp issued in 1919? Here's an example from ESCH, Luxembourg, the unoverprinted stamps are from 1919. :-) The overprinted ones are 1916 or 1918.
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-28-07 at 10:27:47 PDT   Listings
Aloha -

My question concerning the Swiss airmail was answered correctly by Phil.

One can’t have a 1910 cancel on an overprinted stamp issued for use in 1919! For many collectors this type of anachronism would resolve many questions concerning the purchase of fakes. Look at the cancel date, does it fit within the usage period? It must !!! Don’t rationalize that it is an early use, or late use by a collector. Catalogue values are based on stamps used during correct usage periods and this alone trips up many forgers.

Of course, catalogue values for the correct stamp should never be used to validate the asking price of the fake.

Roger
Posted by 22028   ( 1617 ) on Jun-28-07 at 08:21:35 PDT   Listings
It took some time but finally i have again updated my me page. This time a nice and rare tete-beche pair from Iran, Issue July 1876, is shown.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-28-07 at 07:11:25 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

Some extra advertizing.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-28-07 at 06:22:30 PDT   Listings
claghorn1p...Once the move is completed everything on my site is going bye-bye. That's the point of the move.
Posted by soccers_cn1   ( 34 ) on Jun-28-07 at 05:53:28 PDT   Listings
http://bp1.blogger.com/_8AMmfBQS1QA/RoOoc-upcPI/AAAAAAAABzQ/AtPMGBvxFmc/s320/2007-06-22+Japan+Cartoon.JPG
1 Japan Cartoon FDC I got today.
You can find more real posted FDC in my blog.
http://myfdc.blogspot.com/
Posted by sperotech   ( 104 ) on Jun-28-07 at 05:48:46 PDT   Listings
I've been away from the stamp chat for over 4 years and just dropped by to see how things are going. Nice to see the same group of helpful people still here. After so much time I figured I would not recognize anyone, but 90% of the usernames look familiar.

Jay
Posted by billystamps   ( 197 ) on Jun-28-07 at 05:42:00 PDT   Listings
THE NEW WIDE BROWSER LAYOUT IS A REAL PAIN -EBAY SHOULD GO BACK TO WHAT YOU HAD OR PUT OUR SELECTED ITEMS SO THEY FIT ON SCREEN WITHOUT SCROLLING THE SCREEN--BILL
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-28-07 at 04:23:08 PDT   Listings
Billsey In order to prevent versionitis, we use a date code or version number in the Yellow Boxes cut n paste code. It is the date at the bottom of the screen. If you make any change, such as the ISP, you also need to put the current date in the code. That way, if someone posts an old link for cut n paste, we all know it.

David once the move is official, you also should update the cut n paste on your site. THat way, anyone going there will get the new code. Then it will also have the new date code, of course.
Posted by flip138   ( 384 ) on Jun-28-07 at 02:24:52 PDT   Listings
Roger, the 1910 postmark?

Phil
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-28-07 at 00:41:57 PDT   Listings
From the same "artist":
http://cgi.ebay.com/Switzerland-1-920-air-post-30c-used_W0QQitemZ320131866336QQihZ011QQcategoryZ4749QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-28-07 at 00:40:45 PDT   Listings
Paolo -
Another fake airmail, but the seller tells the truth:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Switzerland-1-919-air-post-50c-used_W0QQitemZ320131866594QQihZ011QQcategoryZ4749QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

To everyone else, what is the give away that the overprint is fake?

Roger
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-28-07 at 00:37:46 PDT   Listings
Well, well. The sofware gremlins at working late tonight and in the middle of the week.

When I look at my search return pages they load fine until the very final "blink" of the screen and at that point the page expands to 16 browser windows wide. Luckily I see see the small images and title together, but then way off screen right at the item number, then more right the price and finally the closing date. I guess that is eBay's method of suggesting I use very few of the features they can include on a search page.

I don't use any of the innane features such as within 200 miles of my home (duh!), nor comparisons of similar items, nor do I need the Paypal logo. I don't need any of these features, but man do I have space for them now. )'>)

Roger
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-28-07 at 00:05:22 PDT   Listings
Paolo -
I have three silk thread items with 1882 cancels from Geneve. Each cancel is different, though one is similar to that on the 40 centimes. One needs to see the text on each side of the large Swiss Cross at the bottom of the cancel. I’m certain Geneve had more than one canceler within the post office!

I’m ready for this weekend. ): >)

Roger
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jun-27-07 at 23:45:55 PDT   Listings
Looks like we also need some content for the eBay FAQ page... Anyone ready to pull that all together?
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jun-27-07 at 23:41:33 PDT   Listings
I've done most of the needed editing now. I'd like it if people could check out the links to see if there's more that needs to be done.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-27-07 at 21:39:14 PDT   Listings
claghorn1p...he doesn't need to do anything but I need to have them moved.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-27-07 at 21:09:56 PDT   Listings
Billsey What do you need to do with the Yellow Boxes?
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1363 ) on Jun-27-07 at 20:20:59 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-27-07 at 20:12:23 PDT   Listings
billsey...BTW, the cut and paste code must be modified also since it points to my site.

I hope I'm not bullying you into takeing this on. I know you have already assumed a lot of work. If you'd rather not we could look for volunteers.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-27-07 at 20:03:45 PDT   Listings
billsey...Yes, in a text editor you can do a search and replace and take care of it pretty quickly.
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jun-27-07 at 19:43:51 PDT   Listings
David Moser, I have the Yellow Boxes on the web site, but haven't gone any farther. So people have access to the cut'n'paste code, but I believe there's still some hard coded URLs that will need to be addressed.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-27-07 at 17:33:54 PDT   Listings
FINALLY ----Won the Vatican City 1952 stagecoach s/s today on e-bay .Got the San Marino issue but the Vatican issue is always hard to get for me .....paul

Darn better worldwide material that catalogs over $100.00 always has to be fought over .If its a complete set or a special issue there is always a few bidders looking at it .

Posted by srailkb   ( 3103 ) on Jun-27-07 at 16:53:20 PDT   Listings
jaywild, sorry for the late response. This is the UV lamp I use (Raytech LS-88). It's an excellent dual-wavelength lamp but probably a bit pricey for the average collector...
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-27-07 at 16:26:47 PDT   Listings
Thanks Paul,

I thought he was trying to pull a fast one!
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-27-07 at 15:54:24 PDT   Listings
JIM----Under U.S. law only the fire department has the right to park anywhere .Police only have it in a persuit sitution .The Postal people have no authority ,we can block a road and tell them to come back thru tomorrow but we have to notify the fire department if we close a road and get a confirmation for doing that .....paul
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-27-07 at 15:45:06 PDT   Listings
Meant in jest, of course, regarding my generic "a mummy"... it's just like identifying and grading old stamps! LOL
I wouldn't like to incurr in Her malediction; glad I don't have anything to do with it. {:-) (smile with barbecue Hatchepsut on my head.

Old Italian folks,
the warrior of Capestrano
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-27-07 at 15:37:03 PDT   Listings
Mitchell,
Great meeting topic!
I received your e-mail, too.
I have found more than one item not listed in Zumstein Special: you gave me the chance to incomodate Roger with questions! ;-)
Paolo (Just not so thrilled about the identity of a mummy, sorry.)
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-27-07 at 15:21:15 PDT   Listings
Roger,
Unfortunately, it appears I do not have a bridge CDS of Geneve of 29 June 1882!
Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-27-07 at 15:07:22 PDT   Listings
iomoon
 I don’t know if the Postal Service’s parking rights are above those of the police and fire departments, but they certainly exercise them with equivalent impunity. It probably made the mail carrier feel better to say that.

Thanks all for the testimonials on the Raytech light.

Jim
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-27-07 at 13:38:05 PDT   Listings
Nomad Many thanks for the abbreviation answers. Very much appreciated.

Linda No floods in my area thankfully. Though if I were to be flooded it would mean that the sea had advanced inland some 15 miles.
Worcestershire area is one of those hit I believe and more heavy floods forecast over the weekend.

Bob in WA Postcards depicting US bridges of any interest to you ?
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-27-07 at 13:31:49 PDT   Listings
I think this week we are showing E for people and places, my offering is Edward Vll from the Somerset printing SG319. Have to go and hunt for an E for places...


Peter
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-27-07 at 12:44:14 PDT   Listings
This is a new one on me.

Today we had a new (but veteran) mailman delivering to our apartments for the first time.
He stopped to ask me where the mailboxes were.
In the meanwhile, he had parked his unmarked (except for licence plate) van in a fire lane outside our building.

The manager (from a distance) seeing the parked van, called out to driver to move it.
The driver responded that he had parking rights above those of the police and fire service.

Is this true or was he making it up?
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-27-07 at 12:32:08 PDT   Listings
Mitchell CYE
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-27-07 at 11:42:46 PDT   Listings
billsey...Have you had a chance to do anything with the Yellow Boxes?
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 77 ) on Jun-27-07 at 11:40:18 PDT   Listings
Definition of an optimist:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-OF-GOOD-HOPE-TRIANGULAR-4D-BLUE_W0QQitemZ230147119297QQihZ013QQcategoryZ65175QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Peter
Posted by talblndeblu   ( 0 ) on Jun-27-07 at 11:18:51 PDT   Listings
thanks cobbie10 and jim for your helpfulness. i'll get myself into that yellow box and find out what i can. i've not really taken the time to determine the investment that my father may have made into this collenction, i can't imagine it being too much during that era, but it will be fun investigating. thanks again!
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jun-27-07 at 11:13:53 PDT   Listings
I have updated the eUSC archive pages with the new info that Milenko sent me. I've also updated Michel's email address.

Annette, scroll down to the Yellow Boxes [most recently posted on Jun-27-07 at 05:33:53 PDT] to get you started. In general unless the collector spent a fair amount of money building the collection, it won't be worth much. You might just find that some of it interests you enough to get bitten by the bug. :-)
Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-27-07 at 10:48:03 PDT   Listings
Jim

Yep, that's the one I use.
I can beat out Jeff since mine is labelled Sul Ross State College.
It became a University in 1969.
Also original bulbs.
Posted by annettemop   ( 259 ) on Jun-27-07 at 10:13:57 PDT   Listings
Hello to all. I have several old binders filled with stamps from every country you can think of. they are from the 60"s.I am not an expert on them, but have looked up a few. can someone give me some advise on them and what they are worth please? Have a great day. Annete.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 635 ) on Jun-27-07 at 10:00:05 PDT   Listings
EUSC members As Io noted, I sent out meeting announcements last night. If you are a member and did not recieve one please let me know. So I can make sure your name is on the list. It could just be that I lost track in the list when sending. I have to send around 25 emails because if I send more tI get an error message. If any one
knows how I can send them all at once I sure would appreciate it as it takes me a good hour to send that same email.

Michel CYE
Thanks for posting your email addy. We did not have it on our list. (hint: Bill, Matt & Peter)
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jun-27-07 at 09:46:06 PDT   Listings
Michel, I like the new look. Remember that LiveWire treats carriage returns in the HTML code as if they were <br> entries, so you can easily get too many empty lines. I think if you remove the <p> breaks the carriage returns will look very close to right.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3702 ) on Jun-27-07 at 09:26:08 PDT   Listings

I have a Raytech LS-4, about half that size, since 1971, original bulbs.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-27-07 at 08:38:06 PDT   Listings
Ken S & iomoon
 Is this the Raytech lamp you have? Thanks for the advice and the web info.

Jim
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Jun-27-07 at 06:42:25 PDT   Listings

Greetings to you all



Michel

Me
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Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Jun-27-07 at 06:24:45 PDT   Listings

Greetings to you all



Michel

Me
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Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Jun-27-07 at 06:19:15 PDT   Listings

Greetings to you all



Michel

Me
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Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Jun-27-07 at 06:13:12 PDT   Listings
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Greetings to you all



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Posted by iomoon   ( 1052 ) on Jun-27-07 at 06:06:39 PDT   Listings
Good day all.

I also use a Raytech twin bulb.

Mitchell

Thanks for the club meeting reminder email.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-27-07 at 05:47:36 PDT   Listings
Michel only limited HTML works here. Best to keep it simple.
Posted by srailkb   ( 3103 ) on Jun-27-07 at 05:34:39 PDT   Listings
jaywild, you might also find this helpful.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-27-07 at 05:33:53 PDT   Listings
Welcome to the eBay Stamps Chat Board!

It would be greatly appreciated if chat board participants
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Posted by srailkb   ( 3103 ) on Jun-27-07 at 05:27:43 PDT   Listings
jaywild, did you ever think to check eBay for the answer? (LOL!)

My Raytech LS-88 has short wave (254 nm) and long wave (350 nm) bulbs.

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 396 ) on Jun-27-07 at 05:18:15 PDT   Listings
JayJim I'm not sure which frequency they were, but when I was working in the office I know the describers had 2 different UV lamps to use depending on the country they were looking at. One, the most common, hand held 'blacklight' had the whole fluoro tube exposed, the other, also hand held had the tube covered in black with just approx. 1 inch slot of light, this was the one I was always told not to look into.
So the short answer is -- yes, there are different types of black lights for stamps.

The first is the one I still use now to detect repairs to china vases etc!
oh, and to show the brightness of uranium in some forms of green glass / depresion glass.

Linda
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1363 ) on Jun-27-07 at 03:55:49 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


jaywild
I now that the stamp black lights usually have a low and a high frequency, but I don’t know what they are.
While I don’t currently have one myself I’ve been looking for a spectroline 100 watt blacklight which is recommended to me by friends you’ve had several.

talblndeblu
Welcome to the board. The “Yellow Box” posted at 10:21:12 on this page has a number of links that will help you. Several of the pages are for people in just your situation, non-collectors who’ve inherited a stamp collection. One quick way to get an idea of the current market value of your Dad’s stamps is to do a search for similar completed items on eBay. Usually the value of a collection reflects the amount of funds put into creating it. There are exceptions but unless your Dad put serious money into the collection it’s probably not worth serious money. Check out the stamps in the collection and note their beauty and the history connected with them and your family’s Netherlands roots. You may find yourself becoming interested in a wonderful hobby.
(Partly sniped by cobbie10)

Jim L.

member



If you have questions, please feel free to email me or to post them on the eBay Stamps Chat Board. click here for the eBay Stamps Chat Board.">
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6254 ) on Jun-27-07 at 03:38:02 PDT   Listings
taldindeblu

Did your Father spend a lot of money putting the collection together ? If not, then you would be best taking a lot of pictures of the album and listing it as one collection, give it a fair starting price - depending on the number of stamps in the collection.

If he did spend a lot of money, then you may well have some individual items / sets that could be worth listing on their own.

You should find any further information regarding valuing the collection by scrolling down to the large "yellow box" post, which has many helpful links.
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6254 ) on Jun-27-07 at 03:35:35 PDT   Listings
Postallyhysteria

Regarding cross promotion. From what I gather Ebay has taken away this tool, not sure why, but that is the idea I get from reading the other boards.
Posted by talblndeblu   ( 0 ) on Jun-27-07 at 03:07:06 PDT   Listings
hi, new here and basically lost..... here goes. i've been given a stamp collection that once was my fathers. most (if not all) are from the netherlands as that is where we are orginally from, although these he cdollected as a youth so they date back to pre WWII era. what steps would you suggest i take in order to obtain a fair price if i were to sell them on ebay. do i have alot of homework ahead of me to determine their value, etc. and if so, how would i go about that? there's no simple way through this, i'm assuming? some feedback would be appreciated. thanks alot
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-27-07 at 02:56:28 PDT   Listings
NOIP
 I have a question about tagging on American stamps, particularly starting with the Prominent Americans. I have a very good UV light, which picks up the phosphorescence of foreign stamps admirably (especially those from Canada) but the response from American stamps that I know should be tagged is nil. (I have observed however that about half the covers I look at fluoresce wildly in UV light, so I’m wondering how tagging is supposed to work, if so much of the paper surrounding the stamp is giving off a glow as well.

Do I need to buy a lamp with a specific range/frequency/type of UV light? If so, what range/frequency/type would that be?

I figure there are a lot of specialist cover collectors that frequent this board, so I’m hoping someone will have an answer.

TIA,

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-27-07 at 00:55:28 PDT   Listings
NOIP
 The mummy of Ramses III was found in a freak-show cabinet at Niagara Falls a few years back. At one point in the distant past many of the important pharaonic mummies were removed from their original tombs and collected at one hidden place, to protect them from tomb robbers. This deep defile was discovered accidentally about 100+ years ago (I think) and the poor shepherds who found it sold the mummies to anyone who was interested. Historians got wind of the trade and while many had already been sold a stop was put to any further trafficking. It was from this cache that Ramses III was bought as a freak show item. He has since been “repatriated” to the Cairo Museum.

Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Jun-26-07 at 20:54:28 PDT   Listings
antonius-ra...It seems they actually found it in the Cairo Museum. I wonder how many more things that have been found long ago are only able to be identified now because of advances in DNA and other scientific analysis techniques.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 635 ) on Jun-26-07 at 19:57:23 PDT   Listings
Anne, et al Just heard they found the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut yesterday. That's a huge find!
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 396 ) on Jun-26-07 at 19:32:51 PDT   Listings
thanks Jim!!
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1363 ) on Jun-26-07 at 19:30:44 PDT   Listings
The US Space themed example you’re remembering was probably Holographic, not lenticular

Jim L.

member
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-26-07 at 17:00:39 PDT   Listings
BOB in WA ----Should of added both use a plastic coating or lens to get the effect .
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-26-07 at 16:53:45 PDT   Listings
Bob in Wa. ----The BHUTAN stamps were simulated 3-dimensional using a plastic overlay .That was a different method not a printing method as these present stamps .
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 396 ) on Jun-26-07 at 16:43:49 PDT   Listings
didnt USA have a Lenticular printing stamp with a space theme a few years ago?

I used to have a heap of those Bhutan ones Bob, unused, and a couple of the records, but swapped them all away in the 1970s ..... dang!! bet they sell well on eBay! LOL

alec, colin and all our other UK friends, hope you and your stamps are high and dry. Have not been able to get through today to my friends in Worcestershire. Will try again later. They may be away on summer holidays.
Lindy
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 635 ) on Jun-26-07 at 16:43:10 PDT   Listings
Bob I believe I have most of the Bhutan 3D's but not any used. I always wondered how those were cancelled?
Seems like you would almost have to melt them. I'd like to see one of those thick stamps make it through high speed sorting machines.
Posted by rclwa   ( 967 ) on Jun-26-07 at 16:32:41 PDT   Listings
Paul -- I recall lenticular printing done some years back (30+?) by Bhutan, to make 3-D images on stamp-size bits of plastic. Althoug mostly a gimmick, like their phonograph records, I have one commercially used on cover, so they were valid for postage!

Bob in WA
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Jun-26-07 at 16:08:59 PDT   Listings
Danny and Paperhistory Thanks for the information about the Swiss Franc and the "gold centime" on postage due mail , put that info in my notes .

I remember how crazy a few people were when I explained syncopated perfs and a few thought I was making up a word . Well we now have another word that we all will be seeing in the future and that is Lenticular printing

Stamps have been issued by Switzerland,Australia ,Ireland,Netherlands and New Zealand this is the printing method were as you move the stamp the picture seems to change .The technology makes it possible to print several pictures on one stamp.The viewer gets to see different pictures depending on the angle of viewing.This printing method original was called "parallax sterograph"......paul

Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-26-07 at 14:22:02 PDT   Listings
nomad -
Congratulations on the 900 FB! They get slower if buying, I guess pace doesn't change much if selling.

Roger
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-26-07 at 14:20:52 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
I found another page with very interesting (entertaining) videos of lava episodes. Time lapse photography makes them animated:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/gallery/kilauea/volcanomovies/

The Collapse shows how easy it is for people who venture too close to go into the ocean which happens occassionally.

Roger
Posted by nomad55   ( 900 ) on Jun-26-07 at 14:01:14 PDT   Listings
alec

NY = New York
Chi = Chicago
ED = depending on who you ask, Eastern Division or Eastbound Direction
RPO = railway post office
RMS = railway mail service
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-26-07 at 14:00:07 PDT   Listings
Aloha -

There are changes in the weather on the Island of Hawaii due to the cessation of lava outflows from Kilauea's Pu'u O'o vent. Sulfur dioxide has stopped coming into the air and it's predicted that within a week we will see really clear air. Here's a link - http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/hvostatus.php - to the report of the Father's Day event which was primarily many earthquakes and tremors leading to underground collapses of lava channels feeding Pu'u O'o vent. There are currently no lava flows visible.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cam3/

Roger )'>)
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-26-07 at 13:54:19 PDT   Listings
Jaywild/Jim My thanks also. Must remember to do a reload before posting messages in the future.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-26-07 at 13:51:35 PDT   Listings
Bjorn, Jeff and Nomad thanks for the info.It's very much appreciated. Though not sure yet what the cancel NY etc all means. NY is I assume New York but the other letters/ abbreviations ?
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-26-07 at 13:31:33 PDT   Listings
NOIP
 Today was a very good demonstration about the usefulness of this board. A question was asked about a DUE marking, and in a matter of minutes the entire story was fleshed out, everyone adding an extra detail or correcting one already mentioned.

infla-alec... The important point seems to have been that the first trip of the RPO you showed took place on that day, a Sunday, so while most postal workers had the day off the ones on the train were at work.

Although you would never find an item these days with a Sunday USPS postmark, they were not uncommon in the past. Many smaller offices were located in the same building where the postmaster lived, and he/she would do the mail chores whenever it suited them. In these offices even Christmas Day was just like any other day, and 25 December cancels abound. As recently as the late 1990s my father would get Special Delivery or Parcel Post items delivered on Sunday. He lived in Wickenburg, a small town in Arizona, and the postmaster would explain to my father that since he had other errands in town he might as well drop off the mail that had accumulated too, and save himself another trip.

ant-ra... Nice doggy!

Colin & Jeff... Hope you stay dry. It has been a record dry year here, so in a way I envy you.

Jim
Posted by xzephyr   ( 981 ) on Jun-26-07 at 13:14:10 PDT   Listings
Postalhysteria

Snap! I thought Texas rarely got rain? A Dam at Rotherham has developed a crack. M1 Motorway and railways in Yorkshire were all closed down.

We seem to be getting more extreme weather these days.

I have just been putting GB stamps from my collection onto 240 envelopes for a magazine for retired clergy. At 40p a shot I am recouping some of the money I have spent over the years.

It is our “Open Gardens” this coming weekend and the forecast is awful!

Colin the apologetic

Posted by nomad55   ( 900 ) on Jun-26-07 at 13:07:05 PDT   Listings
alec.....as a special event, railway post office clerks manned that train on 7 December.
Examples of that cover show up every so often on ebay, with prices ranging from the really cheap to the unbelievably astronomical depending on whose bidding. Hope you got yours at the really cheap rate.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3702 ) on Jun-26-07 at 12:50:24 PDT   Listings

colin 35 miles east of me
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3702 ) on Jun-26-07 at 12:46:46 PDT   Listings

alec TR 51 means Train number 51
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 635 ) on Jun-26-07 at 12:40:44 PDT   Listings
Our new puppy is only 7 1/2 months old but I think he's way beyond the lapdog stage.
Posted by djs127   ( 592 ) on Jun-26-07 at 12:07:53 PDT   Listings
I spent part of Sunday afternoon putting post cards into my scott national album. I used clear corner mounts which I had bought on Ebay years ago. Now I just have to find the pages I am missing on Ebay so I can mount the rest of the postcards I have purchased.
David Snyder
Posted by bjornmu   ( 936 ) on Jun-26-07 at 12:06:11 PDT   Listings
Alec, yes, it was a Sunday.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 545 ) on Jun-26-07 at 11:56:24 PDT   Listings
Dec 7 1941 The date I know will forever be associated with Pearl Harbour. Correct me if I'm wrong but was that day not a Sunday ? As such did US post offices open on Sunday's ? I ask because of this Empress State Express railway cover. It has an insert inside. The cancel abbreviations I also don't understand so any help on that would also be appreciated.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 192 ) on Jun-26-07 at 11:25:23 PDT   Listings
Is anyone else having problems with photodump? I cannot sign in and get email returned as undeliverable. Guess it took a dump !?! Cancelled my subscription anyway. Lynn
Posted by paperhistory   ( 1986 ) on Jun-26-07 at 10:12:38 PDT   Listings
One additional minor correction: The UPU used its own made-up currency, the "gold centime", with established rates of conversion to other currencies. Due markings are based on gold centimes, not any particular world currency.
Posted by deh3   ( 1678 ) on Jun-26-07 at 09:57:25 PDT   Listings
Re: postage due cover

One (minor) correction: because the UPU was headquartered in Switzerland, non-domestic mail was supposed to have the amount due in Swiss francs, not French francs.

Danny
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3702 ) on Jun-26-07 at 09:06:17 PDT   Listings

OH THE WONDER AND GLORY OF IT ALL, I FOUND THE ANSWER TO MY CROSS-PROMOTION QUESTION.

We'll be removing the item-level Cross-Promotion options in the next few weeks. These rules have had low adoption by our sellers, and have not had a positive track record in increasing bids/purchases among buyers. Please note that sellers will still be able to create Keyword to Keyword, Category to Category, and Store Category to Store Category rules.

Both sellers and buyers should experience better results by letting eBay's logic do the work.

I added the bold.

I was an avid user of this feature, if I were listing a US Liberty Issue item, I could get other Liberty Issue items to pop up instead of some random selection from my store.

I am usually pretty good with words but a response from me regarding

eBay's logic do the work.

just puts my throat in constrictions and convulsions.

Drat.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3702 ) on Jun-26-07 at 08:36:12 PDT   Listings

Help

Anyone else notice on their seller page that the MANAGE YOU CROSS-PROMOTED ITEMS link has disappeared or is it just me?

Could someone else check to see if eBay LIVE HELP chat is working, I can't make a connection with them.

Dratty day here

Drats!

Jeff
Posted by morrisseb   ( 0 )   on Jun-26-07 at 08:31:21 PDT   Listings
hi friends like to buy stamps
Posted by nomad55   ( 900 ) on Jun-26-07 at 07:06:23 PDT   Listings
dcd/jay/et al.

Your descriptions are correct for the short paid cover...however the 2 means double weight. Its an integral portion of the opera glass marking.
Previously, the clerks had to write 2 in pencil or pen on the cover, so this saved a (tiny bit) of time.
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-26-07 at 06:36:10 PDT   Listings
Rev. xzephyr
 “Pride goeth before a fall, and a haughty spirit before destruction.”

â˜ș

Jim
Posted by xzephyr   ( 981 ) on Jun-26-07 at 06:18:40 PDT   Listings
NOIP

A bit wet over here!

Fortunately I live on a hill.

Colin the smug

Posted by knuden   ( 2290 ) on Jun-26-07 at 06:00:34 PDT   Listings
dcderoo - I belive the "2" stands for cancel no. 2 of this type. (I'm not sure of this). :O)
The reason the due amount is in centimes, is these centimes are the French centimes, which was used as a common way in the UPU countries, to make an exchange between currencies, which all could understand. In other words, by exchanging the US cents to french centimes, the German knew what to collect in pfennige of the reciever.
Then - why French centimes as a common valuta? As French are the common UPU language it use the French centimes as a common valuta.
I think I need another cup of coffee - english are difficult at this time but I hope it's understandable.

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-26-07 at 05:56:27 PDT   Listings
dcderoo
 Herewith my moderately educated guesses as to your questions—

The official monetary unit of the UPU was the French franc, 5 centimes per US cent if I am not mistaken. It looks as if your cover was double weight but only the first ounce was paid for, thus the “T”, postage due of 25 centimes, which comes to 5±. The “2” I can only guess at—perhaps a weight notation, or clerk number?

Jim
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1667 ) on Jun-26-07 at 05:40:42 PDT   Listings
I need assistance understanding the markings on this postal envelope.
It's been uprated for the US to Germany trip, but apparently not enough.
The year is 1906 if you can't read it.

I believe the circled "T" is a postage due marking.
What does the "2" indicate?
And of more interest to me, why is the charge in "CENTIMES" since only Germany and the US involved?

Uprated Postal Envelope

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1363 ) on Jun-26-07 at 04:40:49 PDT   Listings
Greetings

and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all



Jim L.

member
Posted by soccers_cn1   ( 34 ) on Jun-25-07 at 23:38:57 PDT   Listings
Hey everybody, Welcome to my philately Blog
http://myfdc.blogspot.com
Posted by oggilby   ( 1215 ) on Jun-25-07 at 17:55:33 PDT   Listings
Jaywild--Take a few shots of Jack D. and call me in the morning. I sympathize, I've been there done that!

for knuden, way past his bed time, THANKS Buddy! (and remember "i before e , except after c", hee hee). If I remember correctly, there was also something about the variation of the "clubs" at the corners, too.

Hi Paolo! Met another Paolo on the Disney cruise last week (sat at our dinner table), but he didn't have a grill on his head!
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-25-07 at 16:25:35 PDT   Listings
mini*lindy
 Aw, what a sweet card. I feel better already. Thanks!

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 955 ) on Jun-25-07 at 16:04:11 PDT   Listings
mini*lindy
 I am afraid I will have to pass on extreme ironing. There’s a nice 12-year layer of dust on the steam iron that I am loathe to disturb.

â˜ș

Had to get a tooth pulled today, a molar on which a root canal had been done 25-30 years ago. An infection had set in between the roots and it couldn’t be saved. I went through some agony this weekend—there’s nothing quite like abscess pain. Sometimes nothing would work against it. Now there’s just a dull throb where the tooth used to be. Not bad, considering.

Jim
Posted by rclwa   ( 967 ) on Jun-25-07 at 15:25:20 PDT   Listings
Sheryll -- Items received from Oz and much appreciated! Thank you!

Bob in WA
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-25-07 at 15:11:11 PDT   Listings
P.S. (- Not for you, Roger -) the 40 Rp. on granite paper (paper embedded with a mixture of various dimensions Dark BLUE and RED silk threads) is very scarce in used condition, I meant.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-25-07 at 14:55:59 PDT   Listings
Roger,
Thank you for your reply.
As for your first question, the sitting Helvetia 40 rp. used (a very scarce item in this condition) I am about to try to give you a documented answer, looking in my group for a bridge cancel of that day '29 June' 1882, in Geneve (as stated in the certificate, I absolutely can't make out much of what I see in the image.

On the other hand, for something different (;-)), this is most probably a FAKE cancel.

Knud-Erik,
I am very sorry, but there must be some kind of a temporary incompatibility between our e-mail systems: I stiill did not receive your emails :-(
(One of) My e-mail address(es) is: bagaglia@wanadoo.nl


BRB & Greetings, Paolo
Posted by knuden   ( 2290 ) on Jun-25-07 at 14:34:48 PDT   Listings
Paolo - Have you recieved my mail this time?

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by knuden   ( 2290 ) on Jun-25-07 at 14:30:30 PDT   Listings
oggilby - Here is the difference between the normal and reversed corner designs of the bicolered stamps. At the normal stamp it looks like a "5" and at the inverted stamp it looks like a "f".
On this stamp you can see the normal frame at the top left and if you look at the bottom right, it shows the inverted type, which are at top in the stamps with inverted frames. It's a good indication, of which type a stamp is, to look both places (both top left and bottom right).

K.E   I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by nomad55   ( 900 ) on Jun-25-07 at 14:23:18 PDT   Listings
A triangle alert here...
http://cgi.ebay.com/USA-2-Rocket-Flight-stamps-New-York-1936-flight-COVER_W0QQitemZ130128131147QQihZ003QQcategoryZ689QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This seller has listed 5 or 6 similar type covers with cinderella rocket labels over the past few weeks, and they seem to be selling quite briskly.

Booth 77 at this exhibition was occupied by a German dealer from Hamburg named Hennig. Does that have any influence on the valuations acheived?
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-25-07 at 14:19:33 PDT   Listings
Paolo -
Send the stamps off and get a certificate ust to cover yourself. This company is the one that had the 1903 cancels on the 1881 stamps. Other than that I have 4 of the 5 stamps, noit the 40 centimes! )'>)

What do you think of these two stamps:
40 centimes Sitting Helvetia.
http://cgi.ebay.de/Schweiz-Nr-42-sauber-gestempelt-gepr-Befund-P938X_W0QQitemZ290128484513

and

http://cgi.ebay.de/1881-Sitzende-Helvetia-Nr-50-Faserpapier-gestempelt_W0QQitemZ300121868220

I'm not commenting on either auction, but you know what the seller believes, so why do people bid thinking they are getting a deal? We can't help them all!

Roger
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-25-07 at 13:23:12 PDT   Listings
P.S. I had a nice chat with this seller in Verona.
She can speak Italian and, of course, German ;-)
I was impressed. I bought some items from her.
Did you know this 'firma'?

On their website, they have a few good resolution pictures of some Swiss goodies (most off cover).


Best, Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-25-07 at 13:11:42 PDT   Listings
Roger,
What do you think of this 40 Rp. grey 'Stehende Helvetia" - apart from it being off center?
Couldn't find documented that whiter spot on the 50 Rp. value, I hope it's not a scuff!

Sayonara, Paolo ;-)
Posted by billsey   ( 848 ) on Jun-25-07 at 12:45:55 PDT   Listings
Milenko, CYE.
Posted by malolo   ( 844 ) on Jun-25-07 at 10:56:33 PDT   Listings
Jeff -

You guys on th emainland can fight it out over the Columbian cutout. I'll watch with baited breath - "We will ship to the contiguous United States ONLY."

Roger
Posted by oggilby   ( 1215 ) on Jun-25-07 at 10:44:35 PDT   Listings
knuden-- A while back (and a mean wayyyyy back) you posted a link to a site that showed the difference between the normal and reversed corner designs ( and variations ) of the Danish stamps isssued in the late 1800's. COuld you please post that link again? Thanks!

Greetings all! Just got back from a seven day Disney cruise adventure. A good time was had by the family, but by Saturday night we were getting tired of seeing each other for 24 hours a day. Now everything is back to the normal "don't know where they are".

Mitch-- Great idea for the meeting next weekend, I have a few questionables.
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 278 ) on Jun-25-07 at 07:47:19 PDT   Listings
Hi all,

excuse me for the delay in the board archives, but I'm moving home so I won't have internet connection for 2 weeks or so.

Besides, FTP is blocked in my workplace, so I asked for a authorisation for the eusc site that will take some time to fix.

Sorry for any inconvenience!
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-25-07 at 05:38:55 PDT   Listings
Linda LOL

this was a fierce "fight".
I hope the 40c. is not repaired!
Fingers crossed.

Good continuation, Poalo
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3702 ) on Jun-25-07 at 05:26:20 PDT   Listings

My nominaiton for

CLUELESS POWER SELLER OF THE DAY
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 396 ) on Jun-25-07 at 04:19:19 PDT   Listings
Oh dear, Paolo puts a whole new meaning to the phrase,

Throw another shrimp on the barbie!
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Jun-25-07 at 03:50:31 PDT   Listings
Peter Brian is correct. It is a Red carrier cancel. Look up the enhanced value in Scott Specialized. The problem is that the stamp itself is defective, with the bottom perfs cut off with scissors. The enhancement for the cancel is not good because the Carrier cancel itself is not very clear. The cancel reads:

PAID
U.S.MAIL
2

I can not read the month clearly. The cancel is not useful for an exhibit or even a study without a clear date and clear cancel. In all, it enhances the stamp very litte except for a specialist. Even then it appears to add little.
Posted by vonbag   ( 174 ) on Jun-25-07 at 03:45:47 PDT   Listings
Bood day all,
From very rainy Shoes!



;-), Paolo (brain damage by frontal collision with postal steamer)
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 396 ) on Jun-25-07 at 03:17:08 PDT   Listings
a new sport just for JayJim but be warned, do not try this until you have first practiced at home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 192 ) on Jun-25-07 at 00:44:14 PDT   Listings
Feast or famine... where did I leave that cigar?