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

Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-14-07 at 22:04:47 PDT   Listings
Flying out tomorrow to Boston for a stamp auction on Thursday.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 21:46:35 PDT   Listings
Lindy… Who says stoners never accomplish anything????

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Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 21:30:54 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Speaking of helicopters, my nephew made it safely out of Iraq last month, having completed a year’s tour of duty. He was promoted to captain upon his arrival in Germany, where he will be on hand for the birth of his first child, a daughter, due in December.

He won’t be redeployed anywhere for the next eighteen months, provided of course we don’t find ourselves in another war somewhere. I figure if that doesn’t happen in the next 15 months we’ll be home free.

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I won this lot tonight. I don’t have a 19¢ prexie on card or cover, and even though this isn’t a solo it is a very unusual “3rd class mail—material for planting” usage. Since there is no date it was either an 8 pound-10 ounce package of “grape cuttings” (as noted on tag) if mailed before January 1, 1949, or a 5 pound-12 ounce package if mailed between January 1 1949 and December 31, 1951.

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-14-07 at 20:40:32 PDT   Listings
not only well done Ducatti, but well done to young Australian Rider Casey Stoner who rode his Ducatti to victory in the Australian GP and who is this years WORLD CHAMPION!


Linda

Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-14-07 at 19:03:44 PDT   Listings
Billsey, sometimes it's very hard to distinguish the handstrucks from the plate printed and even though it looks like plate printed there may have been some bidders who thought it was handstruck,

David B.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-14-07 at 18:37:46 PDT   Listings
Mr. Ra--Raised a MO Synod Lutheran (as conservative as one can get), the freah air of the Unitarians makes me participate more in giving back to society and those less fortunate than myself, there are no caveats to this as found in most other varieties. Of course though, we do have our "nut cases" but all are tolerated. As the mystic said in "Poltergiests", "Come to the light, All are welcome"

Yes, the 9-11 lack of air traffic over my area was quite eerie, except for the occasional fighter jets!
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 18:09:34 PDT   Listings
Paolo… Very interesting about the Ducati engineering! I am always interested in motorcycle developments. The new 4-cylinder design is somewhat like the old Honda Sabre 1100, which was very, very fast and also fired two cylinders at a time. (See here for a thrown-together schematic drawing.)

The new 4-cylinder will sound very different from the “2-banger”, which has a very distinctive roar. I am very interested to see one of the new types on the road, in maybe a year or so.

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-14-07 at 17:49:31 PDT   Listings
Burt I remember that silent "sky day" when all the palnes stopped flying, 9-11. I live in a flight corridor from KCI to Houston and parts south. On 9-11 after the skies had stilled, in the mid day. There was a plane booking straight North (Neb). I could only think of rats leaving the proverbial sinking ship.

When you posted last night about your dinner gathering, I first read Urantians not Unitarians. I have to say I am a fan of both groups. All religions will soon get around to the Unitarian comprehensive view. I just wish they would stop wasting time...........It's all the same..........
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-14-07 at 17:05:11 PDT   Listings
Yep Paolo!! I'm also in line with the Pres's route to his mountain get away (Camp David) & I see his 'copters flying by on weekends. We also have an Army Reserve base nearby (an old Nike Missle base) and see the occasional Chinook flying by. Plus, the local County Airpark is a mile away, lots of action there! The sky's are busy over the Smith household.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:58:56 PDT   Listings
"Soesterberg" = Shoes,

Sorry for typo's!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:55:02 PDT   Listings
Hi Burton,
About 2 nm (nautical miles) in line of air from where I live, there is the military airport of Sosterberg/
Helicopters (specially the Chinook, just a modified version of old the Boeing Vertol, two large rotors in serie) can be louder than aircraft!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:31:26 PDT   Listings
Still for Motorcycles on stamps (or Motorcycles passing over stamps ;-) aficionados,
here is Filippo's web page.
It includes him at his work table (below on page) and him with his team of Doctors in engineering.

Giampaolo
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:29:22 PDT   Listings
Jaywild--Yep!! I'm looking for more from incoming mail!

Paolo--Past your bed time? All planes from here to Europe are passing over my humble abode, heading NE for the next two hours, 777's ,340's, 767's and the occasional antique 747.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:18:55 PDT   Listings
Ach! Sorry for link accident. Link works, though.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:15:46 PDT   Listings

Grande Filippo!

Before he had the unfortunate accident on the Paris-Dakar and was temporarily (I hope) constrained on a wheel chair, I was driven by him from Bologna to Terontola, through the Futa pass (Tuscan-Emilian Appenines) with his mythical Yamaha 350 RD.
Great memories!

At that time I was Giampaolo Bagagaliari.
With this name I greet you, and In Hoc Signo Vinces!

Yours, Giampaolo Bagagliari
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:03:31 PDT   Listings
Only for who collects motorcycles on stamps ;-),
My special congratulations go to the genious I mentioned some days ago right here on this board, for having won, as chief engineer of Ducati racing team, the world championship!
Paolo
Posted by figmente   ( 898 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:59:47 PDT   Listings
oops, I was looking at 2006 catalog, I think they've since corrected the discrepancy.
Posted by figmente   ( 898 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:38:03 PDT   Listings
Paul - Burundi 589-601 and a's really do go well over 1,000 $ as a key wwf item. I noticed blocks of four featured in a b&m auction catalog not very long ago, I think they were estimated at 5500, don't know the results. I think theres an inaccuracy in Scott's listing however - virtually all the value is in the top value (85fr hyena); evidently a lot of short sets were distributed.
I have no idea why many of the other sets seem to actually sell pretty high, much of it looks really about as junky as the sand dune stuff. Perhaps guilt by assosciation.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:28:05 PDT   Listings
Jan (filkom),
I missed the part when you went through the shooting star!
Congratulations on your flawless feedback!!!
If you happen to have contact with him, please introduce my greetings also to G. van Turnhout.
Greetings!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:17:24 PDT   Listings
P.S. this constant plate flaw (the upper frame cut above the NW ornament) on the common 5c. Issue I showed is never found on the rare (in unused condition) previous printings in slightly or totally different colours, paper type (macroscopic aspect and thickness to be measured with micrometer), printing quality (consistence of ink, wear of plate), embossing type, gum type (plate I, three different compositions of clichés, all from good to rare in unused condition).
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:04:26 PDT   Listings
Due2cents,
I decided not to go through the Byzantine eBay mail system, I don't even know if I can send links.
As you can see from here (thanks to tinypic.com for hoisting ;-) my images), the ones I linked yesterday are all position 17 (fourth row, the second stamp from the left).

Paolo

Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:30:38 PDT   Listings
Miss Lindy… That’s OK! A very lovely card from you did just fine.

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Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:27:44 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Today’s winning laughable scam email title—

“Thanks, a girl to be yours in here found!”

Jim
Posted by billsey   ( 851 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:22:09 PDT   Listings
Can anyone explain this realization? Is the yellow color particularly rare or is this some special variety? Note that the three original gum examples that this seller had for offer at the same time went for closer to $15 each.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:06:25 PDT   Listings
Y.W. Jim, hardest part was finding the fuchsia pen!

Unfortunately, no commercial mail from Oct.5 came my way :(

Linda
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 13:09:02 PDT   Listings
nomad55… Sorry! I didn’t see your earlier message.

I don’t know what happened. Did you send it to Jim Baughman, P O Box six-nine-one-seven-four-seven, West Hollywood CA, nine-zero-zero-six-nine?

Actually it will be a nice item with a No-such-address label…

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I hope Burt & Sheryll & Lindy got my birthday thank-yous from the board…

Jim
Posted by malolo   ( 856 ) on Oct-14-07 at 12:47:50 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
Ironman orld Championships are over for another year. An Aussie won the men's race, and a Pom won the women's. It was probably the quietest day of the year at the airport, locals who wanted out of town left Friday, and everyone else stayed at home. Next couple of days will see 1500 athletes and their bicycles leaving town through our checkpoints to the whole world. I'm off three days this week, more time for stamps. Heh, heh,

I have 11 snipes set in four differnet currencies: US$, GB£, Euros €, and Swiss francs. With the different exchange rates one must remember the currency one is using in each auction. I'm still acheapskate, but I do want to win a few of them. I might even up my snipe later this week according to perceived interest by others!

Roger
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-14-07 at 11:49:51 PDT   Listings
Pul, it's a philatelic fake, probably late 1930's. Is it watermarked,

David B.
Posted by filkomstamps   ( 12466 ) on Oct-14-07 at 11:23:00 PDT   Listings
Thanks Jim, Matt and Terence for the usefull info about that cover. I wonder how this cover landed here in Belgium, probably it will be soon back in the States.

HiJim

Jan
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-14-07 at 10:42:14 PDT   Listings
Pro

I responded.

Rainer

Don't know.
It's a fairly common English name.

Hi Jan!
Posted by summerg64   ( 249 ) on Oct-14-07 at 10:37:30 PDT   Listings
billsey,
Thanks for the info, I found it useful. Summer
Posted by nomad55   ( 930 ) on Oct-14-07 at 10:10:33 PDT   Listings
jaywild....please see my message of Oct-13-07 at 14:52:01 PDT
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 07:37:06 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Talk about unnecessary blather. All this information for a cover priced at $5.

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-14-07 at 07:33:34 PDT   Listings
NEAT FIND Here is something of interest .The high value is a fake but I don't have any information that a fake was made .In the scan is a real stamp for comparison .Now I need info if its a philatelic fake or a postal fake with a real cancel ? Forgery......paul
Posted by keleofa   ( 3551 ) on Oct-14-07 at 07:01:10 PDT   Listings
Filkom,

To add to what Jim & Terence supplied, this is the free-franker:

Robert L. Henry, Texas-Democrat
Chairman, Rule Committee, US House of Representatives, 63rd Congress, 1914

Matt in Arizona
Posted by thines   ( 1509 ) on Oct-14-07 at 06:58:54 PDT   Listings
MC stands fr Member of Congress and the person who signed the cover (the signature is probably printed) was a member of the US House of Representatives. House members, as well as US senators, had the franking privilege which ment that they could send mail postage free. But their signature, or a printed copy of it, had to be on the envelope. The cover has only minimal value.

Terence Hines

Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 06:43:11 PDT   Listings
filkom… “MC” stands for Member of Congress, all of whom had free franking privileges. The signature at the upper right is printed on the cover, whereas earlier, in the 19th Century, the actual signature would be present.

E. M. House was a formidable figure in early 20th Century American politics. See also here.

Jim
Posted by filkomstamps   ( 12466 ) on Oct-14-07 at 06:35:21 PDT   Listings
<body>

 

 



Hopefully somebody can inform me a little more about this stampless cover :



Col. E.M. House Cover


What's the meaning of the initials M.C. in the top corner, also why is there
a signature on the cover (     any idea who signed this
cover).


Also what would the proper category to list this ( is it valuable ?) . A
quick google search learned the Col. E.M. House was the


chief advisor to President Wilson during WW I


 


Greetings from Belgium


 


 




 



</body>
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-14-07 at 03:17:11 PDT   Listings
WORTHLESS STAMPS -----Wife was on my case about the stamp mess in the basement closet before I purchase more stamps .So this weekend I removed a stockbook binder of stamps ,It contains thousands of stamps all modern complete sets of Burundi ,the first thought was the binder is worth a few dollars used and the pictorical modern stuff was 2 cent filler material much like the way I purchased it part of a bulk lot many years ago .

First thing done was match up what was on album pages and fill in a few more pages ,remember this was like mounting labels and stickers nothing to check, nothing of value.Good worldwide collectors have tons of this common worthless stuff ,we just live with it and move on .

After I got finish adding a few pages thought of just forgetting the rest of the binder exist.So looked around e-bay to see how to dump the huge inventory .Surprise surprise the sets sell for a few dollars apiece and many stamps sell for huge prices {huge -meaning the price paid and the price its now selling for },remember this stuff ain't worth 2 cents apiece at a stamp auction but on e-bay it goes for over thousand dollars if listed and sold ,shocking just shocking ....who would pay a buck for a butterfly label oh i mean stamp . That stuff sells and get multiple bids, oh well .....like money in a bank ......paul

Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-14-07 at 00:07:56 PDT   Listings
forget that last post, I like Unitarians also.
Posted by 22028   ( 1658 ) on Oct-13-07 at 22:23:08 PDT   Listings
iomoon, Re: Mr. Shoemaker, coincidence, my daughter has a teacher with the same name in here school in Abu Dhabi..., relatives? http://acs.sch.ae
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-13-07 at 21:50:25 PDT   Listings
Criminey (sp)! It's 12:43 AM Sun here in MD and the Red Sox vs. Indians game is still being played (into extra innings! Last night I stayed up until nearly 3:00 am this morning (Sat) watching the Diamondbacks/Rockies game. These games start too late (even th East Coast games) to garner any attention except for the die hard fans. It's great timing though for those across the Big Pond who can watch these games with their morning tea & crumpets & bangers!

Off to wash more dishes from tonight's dinner party with my Unitarian friends!
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-13-07 at 21:06:28 PDT   Listings
IO
Did you notice the Meteorite? thread on the collectibles Board,

Ifin you get a chance see if that rock is one ?

The Piece is huge if it is.
Posted by djs127   ( 610 ) on Oct-13-07 at 20:19:41 PDT   Listings
This week Volume 6 of 2007 Scott catalog arrived in the mail Item number: 190156931947. This week I won Volume 2. So now I am just trying to win a 2007 Scott US Specialty catalog.
David Snyder
Posted by lloydstamps   ( 593 ) on Oct-13-07 at 20:14:01 PDT   Listings
The Virtual Stamp Club "front page" has been revised with an exclusive: An article by John Cropper on the Dan Walker APS Appeal postponement, and new Internet & Stamps and John Hotchner columns. Earlier this week, John also posted the first edition of our 2008 U.S. Stamp Program chart. Inside, in the message board, learn about a serious health problem for another American Philatelic Society officer. All free, all at www.virtualstampclub.com
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:55:10 PDT   Listings
Maybe we should have a competition to guess what his name used to be, a few names come to mind already.

D1
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1394 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:54:35 PDT   Listings
purpleandgold23
Thanks for posting the link. Neat cover!!!!!

Jim L.

member
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:53:44 PDT   Listings
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Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:50:01 PDT   Listings
D1

Sorry, I've been watching a program on TV on asteroids, followed by one on comets.

Featuring one of my mentors, Gene Shoemaker.
Who unfortunately died in a road crash in Australia.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:49:11 PDT   Listings
"tset" = Test
Doesn't it sound chines?
Best,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:46:03 PDT   Listings
Prometheus,
Thank you for your kind attention.
Tomorrow (in a few hours) I will send you the right answer by private eBay message.
The one I occasionally picked for the "tset", is the easiest position that can be plated in the sheet of 50 from single copies, throughout the printings from about the end 1862 to 1863 (just about one year, but lots of request of postage stamps from the printer).
All the best,
Paolo
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:44:37 PDT   Listings
Mini Thanks for the correction [where were you IO]

I am not game to ask what his name used to be, was it changed to protect the innocent?

D1
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:38:37 PDT   Listings
D1 by the way.. its STEPHENS, With a PH--- he took his name from the street in Bondi, where he lived in the 70s, when he changed his name to become a 'stamp dealer'
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:34:39 PDT   Listings
If I understand it correctly, this cannot be a comb perforation.
The top left non-stamp has the left side elliptical perf missing and the two upper rows have a different perf to the bottom two rows.

It can't be a line perf since it would have cut the lower stamps in half.

It could be a harrow perf, but would have to be a one-off unless future issues are envisaged with the same arrangement.
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:20:44 PDT   Listings
2c

I do really think if G Stevens stayed out of the threads the board would thrive, in all my posts I never used bad language maybe the odd slang word or two which he did not understand anyway. But on other threads there are bare breasted pictures of women vulgar innuendos, so very sexist etc I note the people who have posted them have not had a ban. But mention G Stevens and your out!

You mention "Childish and infantile sounding whiny I am The rules maker email."

I am inclined to agree, for interest I just went back to the last email GS sent me on 5 Sep 07 which I still have not read through, because it is the length of a short novel, I cut it into word and hit the word count, it came up as 1276 words just to tell me "you are suspended for 30 days". He must have too much time on his hands, who knows.

I even got accused that I had stopped him from making the last mail for the day and he had an order to get out.

D1
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:14:29 PDT   Listings
due2 you say really tired of him and his buddies disrupting. . . ?? buddies??? he has buddies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I doubt it !

Linda
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:09:06 PDT   Listings
1covers yes, I realize experts also rely on general characteristics when expertizing stamps. I can fully understand why an expert committee could be unable to certify the strip of three without the additional information the submitter researched. I didn't view the article as negative toward expertizing.

Paul I just wanted to add information that was in the article, so other readers could judge for themselves what might have been "the real" story.

Bill D.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:38:17 PDT   Listings
Paolo

I would try to plate those stamps
But Plating this one
SEEN-Here
Was such an effort
I am now too worn out to play.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:36:42 PDT   Listings
Time is out for the quiz.

Sorry,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:25:19 PDT   Listings
"XXI"
Obvious screw up.
arghh, me and the keyboard!

On a different matter, if nobody solves the quiz, I am never going to give the right answer.

Paolo (the snake that bites its tail)
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:19:52 PDT   Listings
Guys, this situation reminds me of a certain forum. I can't be specifical, I could risk to have my throat cut off (only if they catch me when I sleep, I am not like Turtle Head man, pharting out oriental terms, I do have a sword and I can use it), however, I am astonished at how this wealth of philatelic public help offered online for free could degenerate into meager, subtile, calculated private interest. Maybe that is the way things go, in this early XXII century?
Even though I mentioned Machiavelli in one of my posts, I keep his writings far from my philatelic behaviour.
Others seem not to....
Et de hoc satis (= nuff said).

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:07:27 PDT   Listings
DE66

Don't feel to0 bad mate

I got kicked off that board BECAUSE I posted a scan that was off center, one that was Upside down, and kept removing the Avatar HE assigned me .

Have not been back. Since his Childish and infantile sounding whiny
I am The rules maker email.
What a joke.
That and I was tired really tired of him and his buddies disrupting most Interesting threads with their sales pitches.
But I will have to admit that as a sales and marketing tool
He has is going good.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 17:37:20 PDT   Listings
Close, Oh Fufluns, but not good!
About 50 minutes to go!
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 17:35:39 PDT   Listings
Io me old cock, I have been called a Pommie here in Australia since I arrived in 1973, I can handle it no problems unfortunately some of the Aussies can't take it back.

As for me being argumentative I was just sick of GS coming into a thread and selling his bits off his pages. In the last thread I set up he completely ruined it by going off the subject time and time again and even getting the off subject matters wrong, I told him to but out of the thread and leave it to people who know what they were talking about.

Check out one of my £5,000.00 here:

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

D1
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-13-07 at 17:21:48 PDT   Listings
15?
Absum!
(= I am far from here)
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:51:59 PDT   Listings
Sorry Fuflins, Deity of the Etruscans, and symbol of flowing rivers, I owe you this correction: (in semi-integral version so to avoid misundesrtanding):

...just for precision, you are wrong, it is not that position in the sheet.
But if you are still sober, you take that number you wildly gambled, you detract P greek and the base of Neperian logarithms, you add to it the absolute value integral of a circular function between 0 and P greek, and you detract to it the square root of 10, you get very close to the Natural number which is the Correct (deterministically speaking) answer.
Bood luck, Paolo ;-)
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:44:27 PDT   Listings
D2

There is often a misunderstanding on the British behalf when called Pommy by an Australian; as 'Pommy' is widely known as 'Prisoners of Her Majesty's Service'.

The term limie is derogatory in the sense that the British would be allegedly more preoccupied with the savings of limes over lemons which were traditionally used to prevent scurvy.

In December 2006, the Advertising Standards Board of Australia unanimously ruled that the word "pom" was a part of the Australian vernacular, and was largely used in a "playful or affectionate" sense. As a consequence, the board ruled that the word did not constitute a racial slur, and could be freely used in advertising. The Board was responding to a complaint filed by a community group called British People Against Racial Discrimination.

Humpf.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:43:32 PDT   Listings
Fuflins,
You are not a friend of mine and I hate sliming or flattering (that is OUT of my dictionary).
Anyway, just for precision, you are wrong, it is not that position in the sheet.
But if you are still sober, you take that number uou wildly gambled, you detract P greek and the base of Neperian logarithms, you add the absolute value integral of a circular function between 0 and P greek, and you detract to the resultant the sum the square root of 10, you get very close to the Natural number which is the Correct (deterministically speaking) answer.
Bood look, Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:29:03 PDT   Listings
IO,

The term " limies " is very seldom used here and most peoiple wouldn't know what it means. " Brits " is more of a derogatory term whilst " Poms isn't derogatory unless preceded by the F word or followed with the B word,

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:03:57 PDT   Listings
D1

Further.

Brits don't like being called Poms.
Limies is digestible.

Anyway we are in the final, much to the chagrin of Oz and Kiwis.
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:52:23 PDT   Listings
I am very forgetful, I suffer of black outs, and I easily forgive, upon confession.
vonbug: my take is position 25!
Hope I won the prize!
Greetings to you,
Fufluns
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:48:17 PDT   Listings
D1

Glen, by virtue of owning his chatboard site, has a legitimate argument for preventing anyone who disagrees with him from posting to it.

Whether you would agree that this is a curtailment of "free speech" is a question pondered over by governments and the populace for thousands of years.

Perhaps, if you had been less argumentative in your postings, you might have regained access to the site (though Glen has been out of the country for a while).

It is very easy to forget details as to which what stamps have been issued and when. Though I must agree that a £5,000.00 stamp would probably stick in my mind.

If, as you write, you have a revenue site (which you can possibly ban Glen from accessing) perhaps you could deem to opening a page where we could obtain access to such information.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:26:14 PDT   Listings
Three (3) hours of time, from now.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:22:05 PDT   Listings
Err. "price" = prize
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:19:58 PDT   Listings
Some days ago I linked one of my full sheets of Sardinia 5c. green (in a green shade) of plate II (or IV composition).
Who amongst my friends (which strictly doesn't include people I do not know, or people I knew but I cannot call as 'friends' anymore, worse than acquaintances, yes that might include you) can tell me the precise position in the sheet of 50 (5 x 10) of these three almost identical copies:
here

The price (philatelic goods, of your own choice) will go to one of my friends, as I have already said.

Let's see...

Paolo
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:08:11 PDT   Listings
Gee that was quick already had 2 emails asking why I do not put this on the Oz Chat site.

Well that is easy to answer as I have been kicked off for 30 days [must be 50 days now] for speaking/typing my mind. This apparently is not allowed on the site so at least I still have this good old eBay chat site to air a few of my views.

Well done to the Poms this morning in the rugby World Cup.
Being an expat from the UK i am glad i did not have to put my Union Jack at half mast!

D1
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:03:56 PDT   Listings
Religion admits mysteries...
Fufluns (-9)
Posted by nomad55   ( 930 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:57:30 PDT   Listings
jaywild.....the card I sent to you came back with a nixie label as Undeliverable.

What's up?
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:52:01 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. ---Thanks for info on the airmail stamp.

BILL D. ---Thanks for the additional info on the news article ,just added a little to make it more interesting read with the morning coffee .Guess I'll never make it as a news reporter .

Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:42:39 PDT   Listings
As you all know I am a Revenue collector of Australian States and run a web site to help other collectors in this area which is only a click away.

I find it quite amazing that supposedly professional dealers can still get away with selling Australian revenues with totally wrong and misleading information in the description.

Just had a look at the OZ chat board where there is a thread on NSW Stamp Duty not in SG Cat & Tasmania postmark

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=1628

In it well known dealer Glen Stevens mentions and shows a stamp from a set of 63 of Queensland Revenues saying “This is one I advertised on my rarity page a couple of months back” with the description: Queensland 1895 Queen Victoria Chalon design Impressed Duty - complete set of 63 from 3d to £500: In a range of different colours. The first time I've handled a set of these Chalons for 20 years. One often sees odd values, but full sets 63 are very rare.

They were sold to any interested collectors by the Government for apparently 10 shillings a set mint. Not unlike the Roo specimen packs. All mint with gum and albino impressed cancels as always. Most important - all fresh - many I've seen are badly toned. All with hinge remainders, and the usual few condition faults found on these enormous sets.

The FACE value of this set is about £1,775 as there are £100, £200, £300 and £500 face values (and 59 others!) I understand this is the highest face value of any set issued by any Australian state. $A525.

The last two paragraphs are very misleading and can FOOL the collector.

Firstly if the set of 63 has an albino impressed cancel is in NOT MINT [Stevens a dealer of 20 years should know the difference between mint and used]

Secondly. MUH full sets are known, I have them in blks of 4 MUH without the albino cancel.

Thirdly to say: I understand this is the highest face value of any set issued by any Australian state is a total fabrication my guess is the dealer purposely used the words “I understand” as he well knows Queensland issued a set to £5000.00 this is stated clearly in Barefoot Catalogue of Commonwealth revenues which he has in his library and if you read the thread it is clear other collectors do not have this reference which can leave them open to this kind if misinformation.

Hopefully this will be corrected by Stevens and if the set sold from his pages he will have the decency to contact the buyer and give him a FULL REFUND along with an apology.

D1
Posted by purpleandgold23   ( 121 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:18:33 PDT   Listings
To Jim and others,
Thanks for further comments on 1831 Irish cover referred to below. With help from PurpleandGold(Junior), links to the cover are attached below:

Back

Front
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:07:32 PDT   Listings
Hallo Celine, Celine hallo! Hier ist die Nadel, komen. ;-)
Paolo
Posted by philaweb   ( 299 ) on Oct-13-07 at 12:05:15 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 10:46:40 PDT   Listings
Dragonstamps, Mitchell and anypne interested,

Regarding those contemporary Italian golden colour 'Priority Stamps' which are impossible to soak in water.
Of the serie,
when extremely common becomes scarce, or even rare:
one in his right mind would certainly not try a liquid hydrocarbon, or anything else for that matter, to detach this one here (thanks to tinypics.com) from its paper support...
Look at the serpentine-like perforation: it has a dramatic shift, so much that the denomination value E 0,62 has been cut out of the stamp vignette.
One doesn't see these things everyday!!! ;-)

Paolo
Posted by 1covers   ( 1368 ) on Oct-13-07 at 09:17:39 PDT   Listings
PS - I believe that the cert says "lightly cleaned" or similar. If such is the case, that may well have affected the appearance to the experts looking for shared general characteritics of #613. Some things aren't as simple as one would hope.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1368 ) on Oct-13-07 at 09:11:36 PDT   Listings
Bill D - As you may know, most experts rely to a degree on certain "shared general characteristics" of rare stamps such as #613 (impression, color, paper, etc). It may be that the strip did not have the characteristics generally seen on #613 - at to those who have handled the largest number of them. Such a scenario can make expertising extremely difficult.
Posted by stampmorons   ( 1872 ) on Oct-13-07 at 08:36:44 PDT   Listings
thanks for the input on the 139, Bob
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 07:41:14 PDT   Listings
Very interesting, Bill D.!
Paolo
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Oct-13-07 at 07:36:25 PDT   Listings
For anyone who cares, here are a few details of the Scott number 613 (2 Cent Harding, rotary press gague 11) strip of 3 Paul references below. An unnamed collector found a strip of 3 of this rare stamp (fewer than 50 known copies, only one other multiple known to exist (a horizontal pair)). The collector sent it to the Philatelic Foundation to be expertized. Apparently the main sticking point with the foundation is the height of the stamps. The flat plate printing is 19.25 mm x 22.25 mm (this is the common variety of the design), while the rotary press printings are 19.25 mm x 22.5 mm. The strip of 3 are slightly less than 22.5 mm tall, so they aren't clearly the "right" height.

To assist the foundation, the collector did 2 things. First, documented rotary press stamps of this design perforated 10 (again, a common variety of this stamp) that are shorter than 22.5 mm. Second (and I think most telling), he went to the National Postal Museum where plate proofs of the rotary press version of the stamp are held. He was able to plate the strip of 3, with markings found on each of the 3 stamps that matched markings on the plate proof, showing this strip of 3 were rotary press printings.

Bill D.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 05:25:25 PDT   Listings
Good day from sunny Shoes!

Jim (IO), Thank you!
It took some time to get there! ;-)

It also took some time before I realised the Swiss postage due 100Rp. I was frantically/frenetically speaking some days ago is just a 13IIK (on granite paper) and NOT an 8IIK... it was just written in the description and you can even see the silk threads... fortunately I didn't put it those bids!
Could this be a phenomenon of 'tunnel vision'?
My apologies!

Paolo (we crashed, but no-one died! Thanks for using 'vonbag' airlines and come back often after you're healed!)
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-13-07 at 04:44:52 PDT   Listings
Paul, the Australia re-entry is s.g. 123a, which cats. at 50 Pounds unused,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-13-07 at 04:34:07 PDT   Listings
EXPERTS ---news in todays philatelic press Today got the stamp newspaper and here is a story about "experts".Will tell the story as accurate as possible .

A guy finds a rare and unique strip of stamps in a shoe box accumulation .He sents it in for expertation. They pull on each others ying-yang for 18 months and got nothing done .He takes the stamp and does his own research ,goes back and kicks a few of these experts in the head with well place Muay-Thai kicks .So they issue him a cert. that he is right .....end of story as told in a accurate manor{LINN'S 10/15/07} .....paul

Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-13-07 at 03:09:03 PDT   Listings
NEAT FIND -----Here is a nice Australian airmail plate flaw ,which I found last night going thru dealer cards .Notice the "F" in KINGSFORD and the "LD" in world.AIRMAIL

Off to work ---need stamp money for next week .There is a big stamp auction in Boston Mass. lots and lots of early Switerland and some early Austria .Got the wife to book the plane,hotel and car ---boy ol'boy im going to be broke next week .....after next week will be luck to buy 99 cent lots on e-bay......paul

Posted by retorix   ( 4 ) on Oct-13-07 at 02:33:39 PDT   Listings
Historically, if one lived in England, anywhere east of Calais was India!

Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-13-07 at 00:24:06 PDT   Listings
Paul, those values in Robson Lowe, Europe are slightly out of date, multiplying by 50 to 100 times would be more accurate,

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-12-07 at 22:54:57 PDT   Listings
19thCentury Postal… Yes, thank you! A Priority cover would be dandy. I’ve sent my snail mail address to you via eBay messages.

Jim
Posted by billsey   ( 851 ) on Oct-12-07 at 21:27:45 PDT   Listings
summerg64 it'd be a big help to know which album he has. You might find it best to continue with pages printed on your computer from Bill Steiner's web site.
Posted by summerg64   ( 249 ) on Oct-12-07 at 20:32:16 PDT   Listings
Hi my son has just gotten into stamp collecting, and inherited a collection from the 20's thru the early 1990's. I cant seem to find anyplace to buy pages or books locally. (Lowell Ma area) does anyone have any ideas???? or is everything done online these days? Thanks Summer
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 205 ) on Oct-12-07 at 20:25:06 PDT   Listings
jaywild
Does your Oct. 5 collection include 'priority mail' envelopes? If so, let me know where to send one.
Lynn
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1394 ) on Oct-12-07 at 19:18:40 PDT   Listings

I’d really like to see a scan of the Irish cover.
Jim L.


member
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-12-07 at 18:22:11 PDT   Listings
PURPLE AND GOLD ---Sounds like a very unusal cover with the two different markings .Here is something from my records that maybe could be helpful . INDIA LETTERS ....paul
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-12-07 at 17:30:29 PDT   Listings
purpleand gold,

if your library has a copy of Tabearts " Australia-NZ, UK Mails to 1880 " that also gives details of the various types of markings and routes that were used.

David B.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-12-07 at 15:09:13 PDT   Listings
Purple

Am looking thru my Stacks (library) trying to find a late 1800's book i have on Secret Societies,
The Temperance reference is mired in the massof my grey matter and I am sure I read it somewhere.
As I need to find a couple of other Olde books I just added that to my list of things to dig out.

As Matt L. warned me a couple of years ago if you are not real selective the piles tend to Grow almost beyond control.
Not heeding his great advice I am now dealing with
thousands of books, and a little over a million postcards and covers.
Arrgghh!
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-12-07 at 14:51:57 PDT   Listings
purple&gold,

It is A$80 (approx US$ 72.50) posted to Ireland,

http://www.philas.stamparena.com/publications.html

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-12-07 at 14:43:51 PDT   Listings
Paolo

Congrats on the 200.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-12-07 at 14:42:25 PDT   Listings
Hi Terry

Sorry did not reply earlier but chatboard kept timing out on me.

The postal strike was supposed to end on the 10th, with a godd possibility of it restarting on the 15th.

Many thanks for the PVI's
Posted by purpleandgold23   ( 121 ) on Oct-12-07 at 14:31:23 PDT   Listings
Thanks, DavidB. That would explain its treatment as an India letter. Will try to get copy of NSW book, as you suggest.

Thanks also to Due for suggestion of temperance group. Never thought of that. Now, where would I find an expert on temperance in Ireland??
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 14:11:05 PDT   Listings
Knud-Erik,
Unfortunately, even though according to the rules that should have been specified explicitly, I cannot deduce the precise cause of the sanction to postman from your document.
I can only imagine what it could have been, for the amount of only 50 lire.
But that would just be sterile 'arm chair' expert speculation ;-)
I am prone to leave the right answer to 'super turtle head man', previously mentioned with shameful disrespect by Fuflins (the pemanently inebriated).

;-), Paolo
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-12-07 at 13:55:29 PDT   Listings
As promised, I am warming up!
Ali (aka Fufluns) is online!
Where is turtle head man?
The chief of digression, imitator of diversion, and PHD on misleading?
Let it come out, I want to squeeze and hear its exoskeleton loudly crack on the ground like one of those big cockroaches.

Charles Bronson (in 'death wish') ehehehehehe
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-12-07 at 13:47:46 PDT   Listings
purple&gold,

sounds like a nice early cover to Ireland.

India Letter marks instead of Ship Letter marks often turn up during the 1830's if the mail had arrived on a private ship as NSW was included in the rating for India letters.

For full details on the markings and usage you should try to acquire a copy of the excellent reference book " The Postal History of NSW " edited by John White. It may be available at your philatelic library. if you want to purchase a copy it is still available from The Philatelic Association of NSW for about US$50 plus postage,

David B.
Posted by malolo   ( 856 ) on Oct-12-07 at 13:36:06 PDT   Listings
Knud-Erik
Thanks for the appelation. I consider it a compliment coming from a "Silly Little Man". LOL

Please be easy on a poor postal history collector. The auction sat at €1 all week and my snipe was set at 42X the listed bid, and I lost! I also missed these recently:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170141344599
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=120160749019

now here I was a cheapskate:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=290150169342

And to finish up this post, here's my favorite recent purchase:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270158252574

Roger, contemplating an adjective
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by nomad55   ( 930 ) on Oct-12-07 at 13:22:46 PDT   Listings
t hines.....as far as I know, Yes.
A dealer with whom I do business in England emailed me and said he can't mail me my latest order (this was about a week ago).
But he's coming to NY the end of the month and will send it then.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:45:22 PDT   Listings
Purple

Early TEMPERANCE Group maybe.
Posted by thines   ( 1509 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:34:47 PDT   Listings
WHAT THE???

I wanted to ask whether anyone here know the status of the mail delivery strike in the United Kingdom. Is it still on or what?

Terence Hines

Posted by thines   ( 1509 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:33:10 PDT   Listings
Hi,Terence Hines
Posted by purpleandgold23   ( 121 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:27:13 PDT   Listings
Thanks, Due.

Relevant text of letter is: "am directed by our Knot to state that prompt attention shall be paid to the resolution of the Grand Knot requesting a correct list of members" and, later, " the Principal Cork Knot will feel much obliged for a copy of any resolution which may be agreed to at the Knot of Emergency..."

Seems to be definitely a group of some sort.
Posted by knuden   ( 2372 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:26:34 PDT   Listings
Hmmm. Even if Roger is a cheapskate, it wasn't by purpose I made the message come twice - sorry for this.

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!


Posted by knuden   ( 2372 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:24:09 PDT   Listings
Paolo - Thank you for your informations! I wonder what the postman had done to get this penalty. :O)

Malolo - Roger, you're a cheapskate! *grin*

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!


Posted by knuden   ( 2372 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:22:05 PDT   Listings
Malolo - Roger, you're a cheapskate! *grin*

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!


Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:17:32 PDT   Listings
Purple

Cork Knot
depends I would think on the context of the letter.
Or the phrase in which it was used.

A bad place in a tree used for lumber
A Shoal in the Thames Navigation guides from the 1830's
A (still used) way to seal Liquer bottles.
and so forth.
Posted by purpleandgold23   ( 121 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:09:28 PDT   Listings
Just back from Irish national exhibition (Stampa) where attendance seemed to be very good for a working day (Friday). Postal history was, as usual, much in demand, whereas traditional stamp dealers seemed to be quieter. But new Irish P.H. material is very scarce and some prices were stratospheric for what seemed to be very ordinary covers.

Got a 1838 letter from Sydney, NSW, to Cork but treated as an India letter on arrival in England and "India Letter/Plymouth" applied there. Is this unusual? "Post Paid Ship Letter/Sydney" also in red on front.

Also purchased further 1839 letter from Cork to Dublin addressed to "Friendly Brother House, Sackville Street, Dublin" which refers to the "Cork Knot". Is this a Masonic or Quaker term? Any advice welcome.

Regards

Dermot
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-12-07 at 12:06:48 PDT   Listings
As I often tell my little one

" Sorry about your luck"

Roger if you won every auction you wanted too

How would you ever feel " VICTORIOUS"

Got to lose a few to feel the rush of "Windorphins"
Posted by malolo   ( 856 ) on Oct-12-07 at 11:09:29 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
When I went to sleep last night this auction was sitting at €1, and I had my snipe set. Even snipes won't win for one everytime. Quadruple Dangit!!!!!

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels


Posted by jawjajunk   ( 275 ) on Oct-12-07 at 10:36:40 PDT   Listings
Stampmorons: If I may offer my 2¢ on your stamp and its fate. It may not be a question of the stamp being a fake as much as it is a safety issue. If that stamp was offered as a mint #139, let's say...with a relatively inexpensive copy of say #209 easily available, it is rather easy to apply a grill and presto you have gone from a $200 stamp to a $5000 stamp. While I am not very good at reading minds, I think what they are telling you is to get a certificate. Your cost in getting a certificate would be more than made up in a higher selling price.
If you will allow me to digress a moment but I had a similar thing happen to me. Some time back I listed a Wayne Gretzky Rookie Card. It was pulled...not once but three times. When I finally got a human being to respond, they said that they flag all ungraded Gretzky cards because of the presence of counterfits. Well, lo and behold, after doing some research, I found that that is one of the most heavily counterfited modern cards. So off it went to a grading service. Came back OK and I sold it locally for far more than I could have gotten on eBay.
Moral of the story - for something expensive but questionable - get it expertized.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-12-07 at 10:28:15 PDT   Listings
stamp morons… From my experiences with grills, yours presents a few immediate problems. First is that the grill is not square to the stamp. While this is remotely possible on a genuine grill, it is quite an uncommon thing to find. The entire printed sheets were fed through the grilling mechanism, and so had to conform to square otherwise they would jam going through.

Second is that the grill grid seems slightly too small.

Lastly, the rows and columns within the grill are very irregular, not something seen with genuine grills because the rollers were machined and thus present a very regular appearance.

Rainer... Congratulations to your Tochter

?

Jim
Posted by 22028   ( 1658 ) on Oct-12-07 at 09:03:54 PDT   Listings
We (my daughter and me) are just back from the interview at the fashion school http://www.modefachschule.de
Good news, she has been accepted..., starting date October 1st. 2008. Now she can concentrate on here graduation next year...
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 08:51:59 PDT   Listings
Re. fonts: False alarm, it was my browser.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 08:50:21 PDT   Listings
Is it me or the fonts of the board just changed?

I know almost nothing of Grills & sort of like,
however here is a detail, negative with increased contrast, of the image below.
Do I count 12 by 12?
Paolo
Posted by stampmorons   ( 1872 ) on Oct-12-07 at 07:39:51 PDT   Listings
Here is the link to the stamp in question. I have included only the back, the front is not a problem. Thanks for your input. Bob
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/parsec13/139XFBrown10CentJeffersonPartialRed.jpg
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-12-07 at 07:06:21 PDT   Listings
Thanks Paolo

But I have a hundred or so like that one.

In my few years of searching boxes of postcards,
IMHO, Due postcards from Suisse to US are more than plentiful.


Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:55:48 PDT   Listings
Prometheus,
I think that the sixth postcard from the top on here could be of your interest!
Paolo
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:35:21 PDT   Listings
Texas has big ones too.

Guadalupe Peak

stampmorons

You can put your images wherever you have a host.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1394 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:31:42 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


stampmorons
Welcome to the Stamp chat board. The “Yellow Box” on this page has instructions for posting a link to an image in one of your posts here. Parking the image on Photobucket would be fine. I look forward to seeing the stamps in question and the discussion that I anticipate following it’s posting.

Jim L.

member
Posted by stampmorons   ( 1872 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:29:33 PDT   Listings
For those who have comments or curiosities about the name Stampmorons it is derived from the beginning of our relationship, Bob and Nanci. We shared a lot of thoughts about how moronic we both were in our personal lives and when we decided to do stamps together...Stampmorons. We know we make mistakes and sometimes are moronic about things. We make no pretense about being experts in anything and get a kick out of laughing at ourselves. Nothing is so serious that you can't find the humor.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:28:04 PDT   Listings
An expert must necessarily, but not sufficiently, base his experience on the experience of the experts that followed him/her.
IMO, any approach à la Wittgenstein, who purposely ignored most that was written before him, and concluded something that had been already concluded by a Greek philosopher 2000 years before, can either yield right or wrong or useless results; in philately, more likely wrong, since the experts of the past had potentially more hard and stable reference material, which at their time could be obtained at lower prices (or even at face value of the stamps)
That implies having not only read, but studied and then reviewed/refreshed again and again all (or most of) the published literature on a certain subject... one of the requisites of this, necessary but yet not sufficient, is to be able to speak more languages so to investigate the conclusions of other philatelists in other countries on a certain or similar topic, and have a solid culture on printing methods etc. besides having the right tools for the examination.

Paolo (on the shoulders of the giants)
Posted by stampmorons   ( 1872 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:23:19 PDT   Listings
dragonstamps,

If you should have a chance to drive toward Flagstaff on Route 66 you get a spectacular view of San Francisco Mountain in the Rockies. It is nearly 13,000 feet. It looks like it rises up out of the desert. Cool.
Posted by stampmorons   ( 1872 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:10:27 PDT   Listings
Where can I post an html link of the pictures? Can I put them on Photobucket or something like that? Remember, my question is how do you know this item is fake. It is a grill that is in question. An I grill which may or may not be sufficiently impressed according to Scott. I am only interested in how anyone could know looking only at these scans. I was also told the odd angle caused doubt and was told to check a couple of links on grills. Oddly enough an image of a grill not perpendicular to the stamp edge was shown and appeared to be skewed at about the same angle as mine. I have seen other skewed grills. I know an expert has seen many thousands of "something" and bases an evaluation on that experience, however, has anyone seen every possibility of anything? Doing a little moronizing.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 06:01:58 PDT   Listings
P.S. for others who may not be familiar with these 'frame types' or don't have the specialised references mentioned below,
here is a nice page with schemes
(from this very good website: http://www.timbressuisses.ch )
where:
"Cadre" = Frame (Rahmen)
"renversé" = inverted (kopfstehend)

Paolo

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 05:48:09 PDT   Listings
Roger,
Actually, I just checked and of the CH Dues First Issue 100Rp. with frame type II,
I only have this one here, which appears to be 'unmounted mint'.
It obviously bears frame upright (Rahmen normalstehend), Mi. Nr.8IIN, Zu. Nr. 8IIN....
the one I miss (shown in the previous link to that auction) is the 8IIK (Rahmen kopfstehend), quoted with a stripe in unused condition in both Michel and Zumstein Spezial and respectively Euro 2200,- and CHF 3500,- in used conditon as single...

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-12-07 at 05:01:04 PDT   Listings
Jim (Jaywild),
Thank you anyway!
"Ali"'s warming up for the evening/night ;-)

Smudged_l'ink,
I hereby withdraw anything and all that wouldn't appease you! ;-) Yours sincerely, vonbug

Hi Knud-Erik,
It is the so-called 'Module 162' used to inflict sanctions (- pecuniary or penal -) to the personnel of the Post Office for their mistakes, irregularities (not following the rules) or felonies during their work.
These modules, or forms, were introduced in the beginning of the XXI century, with the same specifications and number '162' though with different paper colours and formats. Too, in the early years the amount of the fine to pay by the postal clerk was shown on this modules with postage due stamps, later (- like in your case -) also with postage stamps.
Like the header reads, your 'Module 162' is the edition of 1946 on pinkish paper.
In your case, the Post Office of Turin (Torino) inflicted a pecuniary sanction of L. 50 to the Postal Officer 'Granate Giuseppe for 'irregularities' (in his service / work).
The amount of the sanction is shown on the module with two 'Italia al Lavoro' 25 L. postage stamps (watermark winged wheel type I, winged wheel type III was introduced later) cancelled on 5 November 1951.
One of my postal history catalogues (Unificato, Storia Postale 2002/03) quotes this usage and assigns a plus value of Euro 10,-- to it.

Paolo
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-12-07 at 03:52:22 PDT   Listings
Good whatever to almost everyone.

Fall has finally arrived in FLA

high today only in the 80's (f)

this morning it's 70 (f) in my yard.

What a nice start to a day .
Posted by knuden   ( 2372 ) on Oct-12-07 at 01:11:08 PDT   Listings
Paolo - Hi. :O)

I have just reeived this "Lavore" item (Back) but I'm not quite sure what it is. Can you enlighten me? :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!


Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-11-07 at 22:15:03 PDT   Listings
Enlisch=Englisch
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-11-07 at 22:10:14 PDT   Listings
Smudger I'm sure you must be aware that most United Statesians find the "Enlisch" sense of humour to be rather vague. You should be careful or you might aquire a new best friend.

Dragon GO WEST!!! You ain't seen nothin yet.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 487 ) on Oct-11-07 at 19:44:05 PDT   Listings
Oggilby: I took a trip when I was 9 across Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh(are we there yet?), but even at 9 years young that was a spectacular view for a long road trip.
Many mountains, and many tunnels. We have a small hill in eastern Massachusetts called big blue. Coming home, I can remember how small that mound looked after seeing the mountains in PA. It kind of makes me want to see the rockies from the ground.
Posted by smudger_the_ink   ( 1 ) on Oct-11-07 at 19:31:13 PDT   Listings
vonbug
Polo, you said at Oct-11-07 at 14:33:05 PDT to stamps12345 "I, for one, find you not welcome here, anymore."

Please withdraw this statement as we in the YUK find him a great source of entertainment.

Thank you

Larry
Posted by smudger_the_ink   ( 1 ) on Oct-11-07 at 19:25:18 PDT   Listings
bokmark
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-11-07 at 18:57:33 PDT   Listings
shucks,

catalogqueen
catalog_queen
cataloqueen
catelogqueen
catalogqueen80
cataloguequeen

David B.
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Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-11-07 at 18:23:16 PDT   Listings
Paolo… I only have information on USA to Italy starting October 1, 1871, when the 10¢ per ½ ounce rate was established. That cover is dated July 2, 1870. Richard Frajola would know for sure.

Say hi to Ali Baba too.........

Jim
Posted by peetah   ( 506 ) on Oct-11-07 at 18:17:22 PDT   Listings
Thanks, vonbag Writing the condition of those Transvaal stamps was very painful. They are nevertheless nice appearing for people who collect the fronts of stamps. These will certainly suffice until the new owner can get better ones.
It's good to have my efforts recognized. Thanks again!
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-11-07 at 17:49:03 PDT   Listings
Greetings back to you!

Ali Baba ;-)
Posted by oggilby   ( 1235 ) on Oct-11-07 at 17:40:02 PDT   Listings
Greetings to ALl!

Home again, home again, jiggity, jig, jig! Started out today in Youngstown, OH (48 F & drizzle), went through the mountains of PA (42F and a COLD drizzle (very close to flurries), and home to MD where it was a balmy 62 F! To anybody driving east or west through PA, travel US 30 through the mountains, a twisty, narrow but beautiful drive nonetheless!

Do "catalog queens" dress themselves in Scott's , Michel & Yvett pages? BTW, are there "catalog kings"?
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-11-07 at 17:38:13 PDT   Listings
Both "Io_in_incognito" and "Io_undercover" are still available, albeit easily recognisable.

Fufluns (-9)
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-11-07 at 17:29:35 PDT   Listings
I was wrong,

just checked similar names,

iancognito
ian-cognito
iincognito
imncognito
dancognito
iamcognito
iancognito1
incognito

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 17:29:05 PDT   Listings
Jim (Jaywild),
Is the rate (15c.) correct on the cover from USA to Sicily previously linked by Victor?

TIA,
Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-11-07 at 17:26:51 PDT   Listings
IO,

Ian Cognito is also still available,

David B.
Posted by timberwolf-the-cat   ( 0 )   on Oct-11-07 at 17:10:30 PDT   Listings
Lindy/Putney & iomoon/ioloonie… I always say, use your real name when signing up for eBay…

Timberwolf the Cat
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 16:37:53 PDT   Listings
David B.,
Sorry, but for how strange as it may seem, it appears that sometimes I like to feed myself with sorrow.
Miss Adrenaline is a friend of mine (nice legs!);-)
I will look into those sniping programs, though!

Roger,
The last e-mail I received is a reminder from my friend Paolo Gazzera.

Good continuation,
Paolo

Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 16:24:57 PDT   Listings
Now, my internet provider said it would be dark this evening. It is dark, but I still see stamps on eBay.

Peetah,
I, unfortunately, do not know of Transvaal.
However, the visual description of yours, bu means of images, is amongst the best I have ever seen for a group of stamps!
Wishing all the best!

Paolo

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-11-07 at 15:45:16 PDT   Listings
Hysteria
Never mind I see the division has already happened

I think part of my serach problems have been that I was not aware that the two had been divided

Now I need to search the extra cat when looking.

Thanks for the reply anywhoo
Posted by ioloonie   ( 5 ) on Oct-11-07 at 15:39:23 PDT   Listings
The name stampgenius is still available, should anyone like to avail themselves of it.
Posted by putney32   ( 1731 ) on Oct-11-07 at 15:30:20 PDT   Listings
That's true enough, Loonie, while others just didn't have a clue what to call themselves when they signed up to eBay!!
:o)
Posted by ioloonie   ( 5 ) on Oct-11-07 at 15:27:13 PDT   Listings
Some users adopt strange ID's to prevent other users from obtaining them.

I can't understand why!
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-11-07 at 15:05:57 PDT   Listings
stampmorons really, without a scan of the stamp in question it is impossible for any of us to say who is right or wrong, however, this is eBay's site and under your user agreement they do have the final say.
So, for some comments from these board chatters, many of whom are professional philatelists, experts in their own fields, and avid collectors, please, let us see a scan and your description.

I have to agree with Jim, you user ID certainly would not help.

Why some eBayers think its 'funny' or 'cute' to use unprofessional names and complain when they are not treated in a professional manner is something I often wonder about. The IDs of some of my buyers have amazed me in the past.

Linda
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 300 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:57:18 PDT   Listings
The day I decided to use esnipe was when I manually sniped one of my best items 2 seconds before finish. Not good for my heart!

Just another catalog queen,
Milenko
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:51:49 PDT   Listings
Paolo, please use a sniping program, it may be better for your health,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:48:23 PDT   Listings
stampmorons,

I am sticking up for the APS & Ebay with the system they use trying to make Ebay a safer place and I am sure that they were right in cancelling your listing. As they are working with a very small work force they most probably did not have the time to answer your queries although it would have been better if they did. The various experts they use are very knowledgeable in their fields and the decision to delete is usually when the experts and the coordinator are certain that there is a problem with the item.

If you could show the items that were deleted then an explanation of why they were deleted may be better understood,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:47:29 PDT   Listings
Roger,
My fingers are way from being innocent! LOL

I made a burn, by means of high potential electricity, on my cat's body as punishment (guilty as charged: interfering during crucial bidding moments -- Just Kidding!)

Paolo (aka Dr. Hannibal Lectur ;-))
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:33:54 PDT   Listings
Paolo -
Review my email and cease your current anxiousness, not to say, save your poor innocent fingers. They are not to blame, so they should not be punished. If you wish, punish the correct part of your body and have Michelle slap you on the back of your head until "she" decides to quit, not you.

"tiro fatto da una posizione nascosta"

)'>)

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:33:05 PDT   Listings
Stamps12345,
You have been complaining of personal attacks on your person on a number of occasions; well, here, with your own words, you are attacking directly the 'personnel' of this board:
"STAMPMORONSYour crying to the wrong group of people here.These people are mostly "catalog queens" if the catalog has a picture of the stamp then they can give a expert opinion ."
YOUR OWN WORDS.

Not being satisfied of the first attack, you go on offending, generalising, ending with this:
"A real good lawyer can show that 90% of the experts are not the leading authority in the subject and the word "expert" is self-made much like some of our experts here ."
YOUR OWN WORDS AGAIN.

I, for one, find you not welcome here, anymore.
Paolo


Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:26:22 PDT   Listings
Paolo, don't fret, another one will turn up described as one of commoner types and it will be yours,

David B.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3780 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:25:17 PDT   Listings

due2 - I am afraid I don't understand your question

Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:11:58 PDT   Listings
IT IS with INVERTED FRAME TYPE II! Just in case the you-know-who (wink, wink, say no more) improvised ramping business man, looking pictures in his Scutt catalogue has a common one with frames Type I or Type II upright (maybe even half of it), of which I have tens of copies, with varieties, as well. ;-)
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:05:18 PDT   Listings
P.S. Of course, I do not have that due stamp in my collection, not even a defective copy for this rare one.
Again, putting ash on top of my head.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-11-07 at 14:02:35 PDT   Listings
Sorry, but I have no words!

In the meanwhile, regarding something different, I am still biting hard my fingers for having lost this one.
If I were the seller, I would be angry for having given away a rare stamp like this.
I made a comma mistake in my manual snipe, I have bid 200.06 instad of 200,06... very stupid of mine, I know. My wife was at the computer, I did have few time to react, so she may witness directly about this little local "Swiss Postage Due" disaster!

Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-11-07 at 13:35:54 PDT   Listings
stampmorons… Please furnish us with the auctions and/or images that caused the problems.

Also—if you call yourselves morons people are apt to take you at your word. You might consider a change of ID.

Jim
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-11-07 at 13:25:11 PDT   Listings
Aloha Paul -
Until we see the stamps in question I find it difficult to take sides.

I'll add that I met a couple of "experts" in Portland AND THEY ARE EXPERTS IN THEIR AREA. They also used to post here, until they were ridiculed for disagreeing with the loudest, most outspoken writers. We lost! They are going about their business of collecting and expertizing.

I'm waiting to see the scans of the rejected auctions. And I'm of the opinion it doesn't always take an expert to identify a "bad" stamp, sometimes just a knowledgable collector.

Roger
Posted by 22028   ( 1658 ) on Oct-11-07 at 12:41:41 PDT   Listings
Good evening from good old Germany. Have arrived yesterday morning with my oder daughter. Tomorrow I will take here to a city 300 km away from our home for interview at a fashin design school. She likes to study fashion design after graduating next year...

horadam1, thanks for the praise on my Iraq Railway article in the APS magazine...
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-11-07 at 10:33:05 PDT   Listings
stampmorons -
Hi. Educate us. Post a link to scans of the "fake" stamps so we can all see the items. Someone here may be an expert on the country and either confirm Aps decision, disagree, or be non-comittal. Without seeing the stamps it is impossible to give sympathy, or agree with you. I'm ready with an open mind.

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-11-07 at 09:43:49 PDT   Listings
Hysteria or Views

As sellers do you know the time table on the seperation of Paper and Postcards into seperate cats??

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-11-07 at 09:35:49 PDT   Listings
Stampmorons

Love your ID BTW

They do not have to reply
They are ALWAYS right

Ain't the bay fun.

Got any scans to share so that some here who are very
philatelically knowledgable can opine.?
Posted by stampmorons   ( 1872 ) on Oct-11-07 at 08:27:52 PDT   Listings
I have had some notifications from APS Reviewers on items I had up for auction. I think there have been 3, maybe 4, not sure. My issue is as follows: I had a sale voided because they said the item I had up for auction was a fake. I had to respond and I did. I asked how they determined this item was a fake based on the scans they could see. In my opinion this was not possible. I provided them with a detailed summary of my opinion and they did not respond. All that happened was my item was identified as a "fake" and there was nothing I could do. The sale was voided. They told the potential buyer they were not sure about the item but still recommended it not be purchased. I had discussed certification with the buyer on two occaisions prior to his/her bidding and we had agreed on how the item would be certified and paid for. After they messaged the buyer the buyer decided not to buy. Two things about all this. The impression APS gave of the stamp and the fact they did not respond to my inquiries. Has anyone else had this kind of experience and how do you feel about it? All I wanted was a validation of there expertise based merely on a scan.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 81 ) on Oct-11-07 at 02:46:02 PDT   Listings
Hi to all just dropping in from Beijing which is very polluted today!!! Jim your website still blocked you must have been a bad boy in the past:-)
Peter
Posted by affordableart-2007   ( 0 )   on Oct-10-07 at 23:59:01 PDT   Listings
HELLO EVERYBODY!
Posted by horadam1   ( 443 ) on Oct-10-07 at 21:20:07 PDT   Listings
Thanks to Ranier for the excellent article in the latest APS magazine regarding Iraq's Railway stamps. Very informative.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1393 ) on Oct-10-07 at 20:34:45 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by horadam1   ( 443 ) on Oct-10-07 at 20:16:38 PDT   Listings
Io-Jim, Jaywild-Jim, and Paolo: Thanks for the greetings and the help. I see now that it does fit with the second scenario with those sections being unsupported when the cover was stamped. I had not thought about that. I was not planning on bidding on it, just curious. Interesting that you are familiar with the provenance of that signature, Paolo, I am always humbled and continue to be amazed at the knowledge on this board. Thanks again, it is nice to be back on with the old crowd again. I am just starting to go through boxes and boxes of "philatelic stuff", and will probably be posting more frequently now.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-10-07 at 18:17:49 PDT   Listings
Burton Smith, Sheryll & Miss Minilindy… Thanks for the birthday cards (and Oct 5 cancels)!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim
Posted by peetah   ( 506 ) on Oct-10-07 at 18:12:43 PDT   Listings
vonbag Thanks for the help with the Transvaal. Hopefully I have described condition adequately.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-10-07 at 15:47:38 PDT   Listings
Paolo, the 1st. thing that should make anyone suspicious is the lack of the name of the country in the address. However the perpetrator of the cover should be given a compliment in trying to match a stamp with the cover. He could have easily found an Indian 1/2a. or 1a. which could have filled the space and most probably got away with it,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 15:44:25 PDT   Listings
P.S. I should look the new posts before posting:
nice explanation, Jim (Jaywild)!
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 15:38:37 PDT   Listings
Roger,
Not at all, all my plesure!

Knud-Erik,
I am keeping an eye out for one, as at the moment I don't even have one pneumatic cover of that period!

David B.,
Like I already wrote, I should be more careful. I cannot but agree with your analyses of the cover. Sorry for being an ignorant on that field of Indian cancels, rates etc.
I can see that now, like you wrote; there is a trace of a diamond (or lozenge of dots) cancel beneath the bottom left and on the left of the adhesive and there is no continuity of that with the cancel on the adhesive itself (a 'pointillé' type)... argh! Thank you for your observation; any chance is good to learn something new!

Vic,
I, too, have no clue, apart from what Jim (IO) wrote.
I am curios to hear what Jim (Jay) will conclude!
Between brackets, the cover is signed by Paolo Vaccari on the left of the adhesive. Likely, it was one of the lots in one of his oublic auctions or direct net price sales, which number could match with "VACC 176" pencil written on reverse.

Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-10-07 at 15:21:13 PDT   Listings
Victor H… Nice to see you back on the board. I think that cancel is incomplete because the cover was on a stack of others at the time. If you look here you can see traces of the cancel in the missing areas, suggesting there was no support under the missing part of the cancel.

Here is an illustration.

Jim
Posted by philaweb   ( 296 ) on Oct-10-07 at 14:41:30 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-10-07 at 14:36:43 PDT   Listings
Not a clue Vic.
Maybe the wax seal caused the canceller to slip?

Hope you are well.
Posted by horadam1   ( 443 ) on Oct-10-07 at 13:56:38 PDT   Listings
Does anyone have a clue what the clear zone band is on this letter?

here

Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-10-07 at 13:21:35 PDT   Listings
Paolo, re. the France 80c. on the Indian cover. I doubt very much if the stamp originated on the cover and has been replaced as it had a similar cancel to an Indian stamp. The rate does not make sense as there is no note on the cover that the address is India and if it had been posted at one the French Indian Settlement offices (Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahe or Pondicherry) it would have received a cds. of one those offices and the rate would have only been 20c. The higher values of France often received pinpoint cancels but there were in a rectangle whilst the Indian cancels were in a diamond. They also appear to be different shape of the points on the stamp and on the cancel on the cover.

David B.
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-10-07 at 11:11:30 PDT   Listings
Paolo -

Thank you very much.
My first exhibit is really a catalogue of the different razor cancels and when I tried to cut the 128 page down to 60 pages (for possible showing in Switzerland), I realized I had to create a story line, as the shortened catalogue didn't work. I showed 64 pages of "time-line" at Westpex knowing at the time the best showing would be a 128 page time-line. I've done that and now will add individual items that contribute to the story. Such as this 11 October 1898, Bern canceled card. The second day of use for razor cancels.

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by knuden   ( 2366 ) on Oct-10-07 at 10:38:47 PDT   Listings
Paolo - Regarding the card with the Swizz due stamps - I could use a pnematic cover with both a Lavore stamp and a pneumatic stamp with the correct cancel. ;O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!


Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 09:39:33 PDT   Listings
P.S.
I will soon e-mail to the administrator of the Forum Filatelia e Francobolli, namely not directly to him, even though he's my friend, but to the manager of the Special Sections (Speciali), so to have the link corrected (I will give the new and the old on exponet).
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 09:26:10 PDT   Listings
Roger,
I have looked seriously and tranquilly at the new version of your Razor Cancels Exhibit. I read several pages and visted them all. I find the chronological show of the various cancels extremely instructive, especially as it is related to other cancel types which were introduced in that time frame, which you show as well.
I must say it says something more than the older version, which I still like and I can consult on exponet (so satisfying my fixation for detail).
In ultimate analysis: I must congratulate you on a very well done, pleasant, and instructive exhibit!

Paolo
Posted by djs127   ( 610 ) on Oct-10-07 at 06:42:28 PDT   Listings
After being a dealer at the Clifton Stamp show Sunday Sept 30th my stamps stock is almost back to normal. Hopefully on Sunday I can start listing some items on Ebay.
Since the weather was unusually warm and sunny the turnout was low and I did not even make my table fee of $75.
But it was enjoybale to speak to a few collectors in person and I did unload an Australian used collection in 2 binders.
David Snyder
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 06:26:10 PDT   Listings
Knud-Erik,
Congratulations to you on your very nice newly acquired Zwitserse (like the Dutch write it 'Swiss' or Swizz ;-) wrappers and... to your friend on a seemingly decent realisation of that cover (linked below).
I went in with a bid a bit early, but I was a about 2,5 times too much of a cheapskate ;-)
Paolo
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1393 ) on Oct-10-07 at 05:55:46 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Jim L.


member
Posted by knuden   ( 2366 ) on Oct-10-07 at 04:17:38 PDT   Listings
Paolo - It's from one of my friends in the Danish Postal History Society. He told me about in yesterday's meeting in the society. :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!


Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 03:35:34 PDT   Listings
Now, this is heckuva interesting cover!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 02:10:06 PDT   Listings
Funny and intriguing I had to say that re. clogging the board!
Agent_doberman,
It is recommended to never use quotes in the links.
You forgot to close the quotes in the link that doesn't show on the board, and all of it has been inglobated in your post.
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 01:51:06 PDT   Listings
At the risk of clogging the board with these many consecutive posts - my apologies for these -
there is this thing I had to say right now:

Peetah & All those who might be interested,
RE. fast shipment / (eventual)slow delivery.
I just gave a positive five stars feedback to a Seller; extremely fast shipment, etcetera.... however, the following image of cover reverse of the sending, a registered, "First Class International" cover, is a tell tale on delivery time by the US Post Office:
here
The cover took eleven (11!) days to transit from "MPO Columbia MO..." to the registered record section of the JFK airport in Nova York!
From there to here, across the Atlantic and then to the Schipol airport etc., only four (4) days.

Paolo
Posted by knuden   ( 2366 ) on Oct-10-07 at 01:47:44 PDT   Listings
Today i recieved some very interesting Swizz wrappers:

1. The first Swizz wrapper from 1871. It was an experimental issue and the 2 Cts wrapper was printed in sheets of 11 wrappers and had a total issue of 19.917 pc. (I have won this lot too but not recieved it yet - I will talk about it when I receceive it.) :O)
2. As a bonus, this and this wrapper was in the lot too. It's private wrappers from 1908 for Cash on Delivery sendings and the 12 Cts. wrapper was only issued in 596 pc. and the 15 Cts wrapper in 495 pc.

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!


Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 01:10:48 PDT   Listings
Mitchell,
I just received one of the automated responses from eBay after having reported the item.
I totally agree with all what you wrote!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 00:48:55 PDT   Listings
I had noticed that BIN auction from Afro1992. I am just a little bit more interested about the developments of this one.
I only have left one forgery of it (... I just had another forgery but - fortunately - I swapped it for something else ;-)).
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-10-07 at 00:12:30 PDT   Listings
Mitchell,
As an add on, in my point of view the collecting mania of hyper well centered and never hinged stamps which have been previously slabbed is similar to the 'only covers' mania. There, too, the stamps are kind of slabbed, on one side ;-)

David B.,
Lot number 110 attracted my interest (not for the start price). The rate 60c. is "Greek"; the letter was likely given brevi manu to the Captain of the Postal Steamer; at the harbour of Brindisi the adhesives were cancelled with dotted numeral '44' and the double circle date stamp, as usual for letters with this iter/provenance. Not sure about its rarity, it shouldn't be, as most if not all of the mail from Greece to peninsular Italy sent sea route passed from there, but should be verified if it still contains the epistular content (it might, as it looks like a folded cover).

Paolo

Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-09-07 at 23:58:59 PDT   Listings
Paolo Your intention was understood. The sad thing is that Ebay has no one at home to delete such crap. I cannot understand (apart from the, "we really don't give a crap as long as we get our cut", mentality), why ebay dosen't have a way to report such shams. All they would have to do is put an option "item is not what it states" in the "report item" at bottom of every auction page.

Unquestionably, this is quite pathetic. If I worked for ebay I would have to rethink my moral tendencies, or not think at all. $$$$$$
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-09-07 at 23:38:27 PDT   Listings
Roger & Paolo, I did say some Euros to spare, they are not cheap but they usually have nice material,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-09-07 at 23:32:26 PDT   Listings
Judging from the start price of lot Nr.106 .... is overpriced. Quality might have been exceptional if it didn't have an archive fold. Stamps are the common shades and the rate (double rate to France) and destination are both common. Et de hoc satis.

Mitchell,
I am not into US stamps, however I could see his examples were wrong; besides, he misses to state the condition of the stamp: used... and damaged.
A friend of mine had some more auctions with my descriptions pulled just for the presence of the word 'forgery'.
Ergo, I thought that a little detail, like the exaggerated shipping cost, might have helped to have that auction removed by eBay...

Paolo
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-09-07 at 23:14:36 PDT   Listings
David -
It surprises me that the consignor doesn't place that cover in a Swiss auction. A postal bid auction in France seems a little off the main road for collectors of that material. Of course if the start bid was $100, I'd fling a bid at it. LOL

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
This is part of an experiment! Ignore the link at your peril.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-09-07 at 22:49:31 PDT   Listings
Roger, lot # 122 will look good in your " destination " collection,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-09-07 at 22:46:27 PDT   Listings
Roger and all others with plenty of spare Euros to spend,

http://www.lugdunum-philatelie.com/uk/index.php4

some nice Swiss covers,

David B.
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-09-07 at 21:42:02 PDT   Listings
I just went searching for misplaced "rasier" items on eBay Germany and one of the categories is titled "Beauty & Gesundheit".

http://beauty.search-desc.ebay.de/rasier_Beauty-Gesundheit_W0QQcatrefZC2QQfcdZ1QQfclZ3QQfromZR10QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2QQftidZ1QQftsZ2QQsaatsZ77QQsacatZ12155QQsatitleZrasierQ2a

Well, here's what's really strange. I clicked on the link to the first page, and guess what? That's right I sneezed big time. Must have been the perfume on the page. A new eBay enhancement or something!

Roger
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-09-07 at 21:39:27 PDT   Listings
Jeff That's funny. My response from him was certainly less harmful to my most innocent (and precious) mother. It read as folows: "Why are you so negative? If a mistake is made I will correct it, No reason to show what an ass you can be by having that tone, Try to be a little more positive. Or maybe you think have to be that way cause it makes you feel good about yourself?"
Hmmm, ok, how do I find the positive, do you prefer that I lie??? Yes it really makes me feel good to have to educate people who prefer the state of numbness (especially if they can find a sucker), why would I have anything better to do???
He seems to think he knows coins. His discription of the stamp is far worse than than offering a 1909P Lincoln penny in fair condition and comparing it to a 1909S vdb in BU!
Hello?!?, there is a tad of a difference, anyone dealing in coins should understand this. There are 25 different primary variations of this design and denomination. Jeez, coinz is ezay I sez!

Paolo The shipping is insane but that is the least of the problems with this incident. It was first offered as a #544 then a #544? and comparing it to totally ridiculous auctions of that stamp. The 544 is a perf 11 rotary engraved stamp. The stamp he shows looks to be a perf 10 coil (443?, value in that condition=zip) with right side cutoff. However the the picture is so crappy it looks like it might be an offset litho which would make his case even worse except there are no perf 10 lithos.
This current "slab grading phenom" has got me to thinking.
I bought a personal collection about 20 years ago from a sweet 90 year old woman. She worked at the main Kansas City P.O. since the 1930's. She collected stamps and always picked out the most perfectly centered stamps out of the sheets she saw for her collection. Well I got her collection and when I see stuff like this, I think, I should perhaps send in the stamps from here collection to get graded and get rich? Do people really pay those crazy prices??????

Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-09-07 at 21:34:14 PDT   Listings
Thanks Paul.

I guess I won't buy this lot after all )'>):
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250171744461

If this dealer sells this lot at the BIN price, I think I'll hand in my resignation to Uncle Sam and start selling my collection. At some point I counted my exhibit had close to 300 cards and covers, I've got a whole bunch of others in binders already written up, and a bunch more waiting in the wings. Am I dreaming of $50,000, or is the seller a little over priced? I find it interesting that the cards have a Ste Croix, which isn't technically a razor cancel, and Aarau, which is one of the most common. The pages do look nice though! I'llbe watching closely!

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancel Exhibit 2007
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-09-07 at 21:15:10 PDT   Listings
ROGER------ A dollar for the top row and $13.90 for the complete set of the bottom row in the 2008 catalog .
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-09-07 at 21:03:16 PDT   Listings
BTW -
I think II may get an offer from a certain vanity collector for the top row! LOL Nothing like having your own country!
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-09-07 at 21:00:56 PDT   Listings
"OK, everyone wake up."
It' been a slow afternoon, so I've been organizing some recent lots that had stuff I don't collect. Here's my first question, what is the catalogue value of these French stamps, mint not hinged. The 4F is definately a later issue, the low values are from 1946, I don't have a catalogue that goes beyond 1940!

I don't need any "stretch your wisdom" messages, just plain answers, nothing hysterical. )'>) Thanks in advance.

Roger

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1393 ) on Oct-09-07 at 20:50:29 PDT   Listings
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Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3780 ) on Oct-09-07 at 19:32:48 PDT   Listings

I simply questioned his philatelic wisdom.

Posted by timberwolf-the-cat   ( 0 )   on Oct-09-07 at 19:10:28 PDT   Listings
Sheryll… Hey, thanks for the birthday card!!! Yep, I had a blast on my birthday. Some guy named Jim bought me many toys and fixed sautéed salmon. Mmmmm…

I will give your message to Jim. Right now I’m getting sleepyyyyyyzzzzzzzzzzz…

TW
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-09-07 at 18:06:54 PDT   Listings
My, my, Jeff!

What did you write to initiate such words of philatelic wisdom?
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-09-07 at 17:54:50 PDT   Listings
Then, it should also be reported for wrong description:
"[...]If you have any helpful information about this item to share, please feel free to email me, Thank You"

At my place in this case it could be said:
"ha la faccia come il c*lo"
(his face is like his middle backside) ;-)
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3780 ) on Oct-09-07 at 17:44:08 PDT   Listings

I contacted the seller of the item previously mentioned by Mitch and received the following reply:

YOUR MOTHER IS AN ==IDIOT AND YOU ARE A PIECE OF CRAP

Certainly one of you can get a better reply than mine??

antagonist-raff

Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-09-07 at 17:14:36 PDT   Listings
Bjorn,
as promised, here is that date error I mentioned below. On Numerla Issue of 1882, printings of after 1894 (with control sign of the II type), with an impossible '79' (for 1879). It was probably an error of inversion of the 7 with the 9, and the real year of the double circle date stamp from 'MAIENFELD' is 1897.
Still on numeral Issue of Switzerland, but on the 10c. denomination, water fugitive ink (aniline based) printings, here is an Italian squared circle cancel, probably of "FO(RLI) / FER(ROVIA)" (Forlì, railway), This type of cancel, which is the type F according to my 'Nuovo Gaggero' book on squared circle cancellation of Italy, is not a Josz Type and it is not catalogued under the province of Forlì...

Paolo (the squared circles catalogue queen)
Posted by oggilby   ( 1235 ) on Oct-09-07 at 16:17:17 PDT   Listings
Greetings from soon to be chilly (65 F) SW MI, where it has been in the mid eighties since I got here Sat afternoon!

Belated Brithday greetings to Bob from Wa!
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-09-07 at 14:58:29 PDT   Listings
I just reported that auction for excessive S&H cost.
Through alternative ways they caught Al Capone! ;-)
Paolo
Posted by rclwa   ( 976 ) on Oct-09-07 at 14:31:11 PDT   Listings
Thank you all for the birthday greetings! I was busy Sunday with family and didn't get online, and the library was closed yesterday for Columbus Day, so it's catch up now.

Jaywild -- LOL the 2-9-2 locomotive!

Feedback -- I agree the new business isn't that useful, and probably a nuisance for those with dozens to fill out each week. I'd much rather they had put their efforts into a simple ''view negative comments only'' option!

Bob in WA

Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-09-07 at 14:14:02 PDT   Listings
Paolo… Very nice locomotives, beautiful in fact. Rodiggio it is!

The one I linked to was used in Australia, thus the “cowcatcher” arrangement on the front end.

Ant-Ra... That guy will just have to learn the hard way that his stamp is worthless. He has a severe case of Scottnumberitis—he either assumes his stamp is really a valuable type or else that he can fool someone else into thinking so. This is the kind of guy who buys stocks that are trading for a nickel a share then checks the stock quotations feverishly every day for five weeks until the company is liquidated. Then he looks around for somewhere else to invest another $5. When he dies he is found clutching a scratch-off lotto ticket worth $10, the shock of actually winning something having killed him.

?

Jim
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-09-07 at 14:00:49 PDT   Listings
Interesting, US $15.00 S&H cost plus Shipping insurance US $3.50... and this just for the US!
But they would ship worldwide!
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-09-07 at 13:02:24 PDT   Listings
Would somebodies please please attempt to give this guy a clue? He has changed the description several times since Matt brought that, formerly, 544 "rear" stamp to our attention. He's asking for help identifying it. I'm sure he's already got some from more than myself but he seems to be stubborn. When I see something like this I can only think there are two options, the seller is either dense beyond belief or is a crook. How many things can you see wrong with that listing and stamp. When I go to the "Report suspected Stamps listing violations" on the stamp main page there is nobody home???
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Oct-09-07 at 12:50:39 PDT   Listings
There's an echo in here.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-09-07 at 04:26:28 PDT   Listings
P.S. Found the Italian mikado, first on this page; not a nice picture, though. On same page, close to the end, there's a picture from a side of the Gr.746, also this is a 'tinypic', though.
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Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-09-07 at 04:17:08 PDT   Listings
Good day all from sleepy Shoes!

Jim (IO),
Thanks for your very kind words of encouragement!

Jim (Jaywild),
I don't know how many wheels I saw yesterday night on your photo! ;-) Yet, a very nice picture of a mikado wheel arrangement; it was also used in Italy for fast passenger trains, with the eight pulling wheels of larger diameter (about 1.5 times more) than those in yours.
That locomotive was nicknamed sometihing like 'railway eater': accelerating it damaged the junctions of the rails and the rails itself (so it was soon to be radiated and likely put in a museum).
We had a different wheel arrangement system called 'Rodiggio', as you can see next to that voice on this page.
Maybe, philatelically speaking, 2-9-2 could be a locomotive portrayed on one of those 'error on stamp' Issues... or a very long one, with 18 traction wheels according to the 'Rodiggio' system ;-)

Paolo

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1393 ) on Oct-08-07 at 20:12:57 PDT   Listings
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Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-08-07 at 20:05:34 PDT   Listings
Paolo… I was pulling your leg. A locomotive can’t have an odd number in its configuration—there can be a 2-8-2 but not a 2-9-2. The numbers stand for the number of wheels on the locomotive, which can be figured out by doubling what can be seen on a side. This is a 2-8-2 locomotive. There is one guide wheel that can be seen, four drive wheels, and one trailing wheel. Doubling these numbers (to account for both sides) gives us a 2-8-2 configuration.

The foregoing image is the one I manipulated to add another “½ wheel”.

I know, I have too much time on my hands…

Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-08-07 at 18:45:11 PDT   Listings
Paolo

You do your ego a profound disservice.

I graduated with a 2.2 degree (as opposed to a better 2.1 or 1.0).
With a little bit of effort, initiated by a feeling of rejection in the academic world at the age of 22, I have since taught a few students who are now professors.
They may have ridiculed everything I taught them, but at least I think I made them think.
Keep up the good work.
I really appreciate your stamp commentaries.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 18:24:05 PDT   Listings
David B.,
Not wanting to comment on the method or adding anything, but what follows is just as a simple reflection, titled:
"Meditating on the stars"
When I was a student of the University of Bologna, mechanical engineering, fluid machines, I couldn't figure out why one collegue of mine mostly always had 30 cum laude (I don't know whta is the equivalent for other foreign Universities, anyway it is the maximum vote you can have) on his tests whilst I could only get to the average of about 27.8, even if I studied twice as much as him...
Somewhere must be found the difference.

He probably is a genious, I still keep in contact by e-mail every now and then (after his motorcycle accident especially). We are born different.
We can do our best but we still will be different.
This is an atomic bomb for any populistic ideology.
Sorry if this sounds as though as frustrated. I am, but I admit I am more of an idiot than somebody else.
I am conscious of my inferiority... I know it can become a complex, but I am still hardly working on it to make it normality.

All the best,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 18:01:01 PDT   Listings
Beautiful picture of that locomotive, Jim!
Thanks for sharing,
Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-08-07 at 17:07:29 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Sadly, Google Images has become nothing but a minefield of viruses and spyware. For every image one tries to access, usually only a tiny thumbnail shows, then your computer is yanked away from your control to a site that has nothing to do with the image. Also, many different downloads start up in the background that foil even a good firewall and pop-up blocker.

I doubt if I will ever access Google Images again. Way too risky.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-08-07 at 16:09:42 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Speaking of 2-9-2, as Paolo did regarding philaweb’s feedback, here is a photo of a very, very rare 2-9-2 locomotive…

?

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-08-07 at 16:08:49 PDT   Listings
Paolo, contemplate if that the stars were the only method used instead of written feedback then most probably more can be read than what is written,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 16:05:45 PDT   Listings
David B., I actually kind of agree with you, in principle.
But ignorance and lack of respect for your similar, is so widespread that I do not know if that feature is to to be used appropriately.
Furthermore, the eBay feature is not working alright for me: there are 'pop up' windows that cannot be sent away etc. It can be made better (by eBay).
For something different, what if one dear fellow avidly collects stamps, buys lots of it on eBay, but knows nothing of cancels and can't interpret foreign (to him/her) date cancels.
We had an "illustrious" example of it a few hours ago on this board. I beleive any futher comment would be useless.
*Education* into the *modification* is the key.

Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-08-07 at 15:50:30 PDT   Listings
NOIP… My 2¢ on the “stars” feedback rating system—

While it provides a little flexibility in leaving feedback that was hitherto unavailable, nobody I know checks it as a reliable measure. I always scroll down through the feedback comments looking for “slow delivery”, which will often appear even if the feedback is positive. That’s the only variable I care about, and when I buy an item and it takes a while to get to me, if there is mention of a pattern of sloth in the shipping aspect I don’t get so worried.

?

But I still think overall the new star system is a waste of programming, which might have been better spent undoing the mess they recently made of the search function.

Jim
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 15:49:50 PDT   Listings
Kind words.
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Oct-08-07 at 15:39:05 PDT   Listings
I'm back!

About 30 minutes after I last posted here, my broadband cable provider crashed. Three days,...no internet. The human need to express myself was intense. I damn near crawled into a cave and started painting pictures of animals.

So what did I miss?.....
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-08-07 at 14:51:41 PDT   Listings
Paolo, actually I think the stars system has some merit over the feedback system with praises virtually every feedback as many positives are given in fear of relatialitory neutrals or negatives,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 14:47:13 PDT   Listings
Heja Paul,
Congrats on that nice looking 2-9-2!
After a few manual "snipes" with some adrenaline and blasphemes, I am just ready to catch up on the board!
Ehehehe - All the best!

Bjorn,
I am looking for an awkward Swiss cancel I found some months ago; now, when I find it back I will scan and link it... it has an interesting date/year error.

Peetah,
The newly introduced 'stars not-personalised feedback' is a waste of web-space,
in my modest opinion.
Anyhow, since it is there, I try to play the game... ah! ;-) It can be fun! (not a bidder from Hell, though!)
I am glad you had good knews from David B.!

Paolo
Posted by philaweb   ( 296 ) on Oct-08-07 at 14:00:29 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 945 ) on Oct-08-07 at 13:44:16 PDT   Listings
D2, yes of course I know it's not the invert that explains this price, and it's no big deal that I didn't get it.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-08-07 at 12:35:12 PDT   Listings
Peetah, the Transvaal looks OK, it appears to be s.g. 121 6d. Blue on Blue which cats at 27 Pounds used.

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-08-07 at 12:29:53 PDT   Listings
bjorn, there would have been no premium because of the inverted date. The cancel is one of the scarcest of all the Tasmania cds. cancels.

David B.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 945 ) on Oct-08-07 at 11:43:46 PDT   Listings
Ouch! Sometimes inverted date (or other error) cancels are simply out of reach for my collection!
Posted by malolo   ( 855 ) on Oct-08-07 at 11:05:38 PDT   Listings
Peetah -
I agree the Stars are useless and I pay no attention. I have never left any feedback using the Star system. When I first had the opportunity to use the Stars, I realized to give a valid evaluation was not possible. There are to many variables to consider and no eBay standard baseline to make comparisons. I'm not going to look at every single cover and see how long it took, then make a 5 point judgement on whether "I think" it should have got to me quicker or was average.

In a inexplicable quirk of delivery, the quickest I've received anything from anywhere in the world was a recent Registered cover from Thailand, which also had a customs clearance label. Three days from day of posting!!! If I rate that as 5-Stars everyone else will get a single star from this day forward. Since I'm realistic, I choose not to evaluate something out of the control of the seller.

A single feedback rating of Yes, Questionable, or No is more than satisfactory. Have you read any feedbacks in other categories? Some are blistering and would make a single star look real good. LOL

Roger
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 300 ) on Oct-08-07 at 09:50:10 PDT   Listings
Paolo
Good to hear your items arrived OK. Mail can be unpredictable in this part of the world!
When I receive mail, the faster ones are always from UK. Some asian mail is fast too. USA is variable.

Peetah
I think you shouldn't worry at all about those stars, they're useless. The plain old positive/negative feedback system is good enough for the philatelic trading!
Posted by peetah   ( 506 ) on Oct-08-07 at 08:43:08 PDT   Listings
vonbag "The delivery time, which was 24 days, is not seller's responsibility."
I agree. I usually ship the same day as payment is received. Or the next day the latest, yet can only manage 4.7 of 5 stars for shipping time.
When will eBay come up with a star system for bidders from hell?
The same goes for shipping charges.

Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Oct-08-07 at 07:48:58 PDT   Listings
stamps12345 I'm not sure why you state nobody identified the city for Rainer. lluehhb identified this cancel as from Montevideo, and posted a link to a cover with a similar cancel on the same stamp issue. Rainer asked if anyone could identify the city in the cancellation, which didn't happen to be the center word (sucursal).

Bill D.
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 06:17:04 PDT   Listings
Milenko,
Sorry for this uninteresting personal note, but as you had kindly taken the time to write me a note about that seller, I must inform that today I received the items from Brazil.
Seller shipped on 14 September (as from CDS on cover), so the shipment was quick in my case, I had paid on 11 September. The delivery time, which was 24 days, is not seller's responsibility.

Paolo
Posted by peetah   ( 506 ) on Oct-08-07 at 06:14:13 PDT   Listings
vonbag and others here is the front of the
Transvaal stamp.

And for easier reference the back (rather than having to scroll back) right side up.

And here upside down.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1393 ) on Oct-08-07 at 04:58:25 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.

member
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 04:53:01 PDT   Listings
"I think" = "I would dare to think"
Posted by vonbag   ( 199 ) on Oct-08-07 at 04:50:17 PDT   Listings
Good day all!

Peetah,
I beleive 1Covers has positively identified the handstamp in the middle on your image.
What I referred to regarding Italian States stamps was to mean that the expert made a mistake.
When you put your expertise handstamp on the back of a stamp or on one postal object, that is always genuine (in your opinion). There are handstamps with 'FALSCH' (forgery) etcetera, but that is out of the actual theme.
As Lindy and Rainer wrote, the position of the expert handstamp can be of significance; that I know, S. Sorani, M.R. Raybaudi-Massilia and P. Vaccari sign the stamps in particular positions depending on characteristics of the stamp and its condition (Stato di conservazione, Qualità / Erhaltung).
For example, here is the Vaccari page with his scheme:
http://www.vaccari.it/filatelia/index.php?_u=_firme
(In Italian -- allow for several pop-ups of Spybot, very annoying).

Here is a guide to the positioning of the signatures of the BPP experts
(http://www.bpp.de/pages/pordnung.html#6.%20Signierung%20echter%20Prüfgegenstände) - In German.

Between brackets, I obviously cannot say anything from a little portion of the back of your Transvaal postage stamp; I think it is genuine because 'Thier' is normally a good sign! Others here, like David B. for instance, may be able to judge your stamp from an image of recto/verso.
However, was it a Gran Duchy of Tuscany postage stamp and you showed me that particular part of the stamp (the bottom reverse), I might have had a chance to infer on genuinity of the postage stamp itself just from that portion of image of reverse.

Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-08-07 at 02:22:35 PDT   Listings
Pail,

I have it now,

what do the numbers before the town names signify,

David B.
Posted by de66   ( 1143 ) on Oct-08-07 at 01:48:26 PDT   Listings
Paul

I cannot open your link either:

http://members.aol.com/stamp12345/deptofminas.jpg

D1
Posted by 22028   ( 1658 ) on Oct-08-07 at 00:35:44 PDT   Listings
David, I could open the link...
Posted by dbenson   ( 8623 ) on Oct-08-07 at 00:22:19 PDT   Listings
Paul, I cannot open the link,

David B.