eBay chatboard archive: Oct-22-07 to Oct-28-07 week

Posted by smolcott   ( 230 ) on Oct-28-07 at 19:56:37 PDT   Listings
Started in the mid-fifties, did the usual approvals and trades.
First serious album was a Naribo Deluxe mail ordered from JL Hudson department store in Detroit.
Slowed down from time to time but never really quit.
Still have the Deluxe.
Steve
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-28-07 at 18:34:26 PDT   Listings
Stamps12345

Do you have the Imperf SS with that one?
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-28-07 at 18:24:35 PDT   Listings
Damn,

Am I glad I'm not in Denver tonight.

Apart from the Geological Society of America meeting starting tomorrow, the fourth game of the world Series is tonight and Denver play a monday night football game tomorrow.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-28-07 at 17:58:43 PDT   Listings
font color=red>Warning Esnipe seems to be down. It just blew a snipe I had set. If it hadn't I'm sure I would have got the lot.............DRATS!
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-28-07 at 17:26:35 PDT   Listings
WINTERPOLAND-----Is this your stamp winterpoland stamp
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-28-07 at 17:23:04 PDT   Listings
Winterpoland
Yes it is a nice stamp
worth about 10 cents.
Posted by winterpoland   ( 20 ) on Oct-28-07 at 17:02:05 PDT   Listings
I have a 1969 stamp from Brazil to commemorate the 1000 Pele goal (soccer). I wonder if anyone have seen it?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8658 ) on Oct-28-07 at 17:00:16 PDT   Listings
Paul, I know what it stated but the paper looked very bright and I thought it might have been the later printing,

David B.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 16:35:38 PDT   Listings
SA,

re: Danzig

Thanks!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 470 ) on Oct-28-07 at 16:20:41 PDT   Listings
keleofa,
on white paper (193Dx), my 2006 Michel Spezial lists it at EUR 80, on dull chrome yellow paper (193Dy) at EUR 35.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 16:07:06 PDT   Listings
My Stamp Collecting Story...

I was 10 years old in 1967 and we were moving. While packing I came across my father's stamp album from when he was a kid in the late 30's early 40's. Like so many kids he collected stamps then stopped as an adult. I started flipping pages and what caught my attention was a stamp postmarked Oslo about 1870 or so. I started thinking 100 years ago someone used this stamp to send a letter across the Atlantic. I was hooked.

One of my father's best friends (Louis Marcus) was a specialist in Mexico. We were visiting them in Pittsburgh and he spent a lot of time with me, mentoring and instructing me. He must have had 20 volumes just with Mexico. It was overload for a 10 year old, especially his exhibit writeups.

But he had some USA. I fell in love with the Air Mail Transport set of 1941-1944. I have been active without the usual break since 1967. I slowed down during college but very few days have gone by in the past 40 years that I haven't done something philatelic.

I spent my youth trying to fill a Harris Senior Statesman album and attending the big shows at Madison Square Garden.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 15:50:10 PDT   Listings
Knuden,

re: Danzig

Thanks! A bit closer. I looked at some auctions and it may be at €100

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 15:48:45 PDT   Listings
David & Paul,

re: Danzig

Thanks! Honeycomb watermark.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by knuden   ( 2386 ) on Oct-28-07 at 15:45:25 PDT   Listings
keleofa - My Michel Spec 2001 says Euro 80.00, so now we are a bit closer today. ;O)

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-28-07 at 15:40:40 PDT   Listings
193D would be the 1924-37 issue honeycomb ,not the swastikas of 1938-39
Posted by dbenson   ( 8658 ) on Oct-28-07 at 15:33:05 PDT   Listings
Matt, I haven't the latest Michel but could you let me know which waternmark it is, upright honeycomb or multiple swastikas,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-28-07 at 15:31:38 PDT   Listings
MATT ---It catalogs at $60.00 in the 2008 Scotts
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 15:24:45 PDT   Listings
Danzig...

My Michel Deutschland-Spezial is from 1987. Can someone tell me the current value of Danzig 193D(5pf Coil, Orange on White Paper, Mint Never Hinged). Value in 1987 was 110 Marks

T I A,

Matt in Arizona
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-28-07 at 14:59:28 PDT   Listings
I really got serious about stamp collecting as a youngster .

My father was the church janitor and on Saturdays my brothers and I would help and set up the chairs and dust the various Sunday School rooms in the building .During missionary week ,we had a fellow stop in with the Pastor to look around and he introduce us to the missionary.The Pastor then said I was a stamp collector ,he was impress that a youngster knew about his countries where he did his missonary work .He offered to bring some stamps Sunday .

The next day I was the first in the house to get ready for church ,he remembered and brought me a large enevople full.During Sunday School my mind was on that package with all those exotic stamps from Africa . So at the end of the class during ending prayer the teacher asked who would "SAVE THE WORLD" I raised my hand and made a committment to "save the world" .

Thats what started me to seriously become a worldwide collector ......paul

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1415 ) on Oct-28-07 at 14:16:36 PDT   Listings



In keeping with the "F" theme here’s
Greetings,

Started collecting when I was 6 or 7 with stamps my Dad brought home from the office. I’d save my allowance and buy some at the Post Office, but mostly kept the focus on used stamps. They were cheaper. In High School I sent off SASE’s and Postal Money orders for some FDC’s before the days of grace you have now.
My first love was Ireland. Partly due to family heritage and partly due to the beauty of their stamps and the extremely conservative issuing policy the formerly held.
Jim L.

member
Posted by malolo   ( 859 ) on Oct-28-07 at 14:05:21 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
No time time change here, always time to slow down though!

My brother and I started collecting after WWII when my mother's Swiss pen pal generously sent our family Christmas gifts of chocolates and cheese rounds. These were received eagerly since the products were not available in post-war Britain. The postage stamps were alwasy the bright Pro-Juventute butterflies, so who could resist collecting them. We had to alternate, each of us getting the next set, etc. There were occassional letters during the year which were franked with Pro-Patria sets, always sets, which taught us a little about Switzerland. After our move to America the correspondence continued, my mother writing in English, and Marie-Madeline writing in French. In 1964 I went to Europe for a year and was able to meet this geherous lady and her family. It is strange to meet someone who you seem to know so well but find it almost impossible to communicate with, each unable to speak the other's language. One interesting point I'll never forget is that her dog, a German shepherd, only paid attention to French. The husband was German-Swiss and since he worked all day the dog rarely heard German, so didn't respond. The dog also didn't respond to English, only French. (Should be a political lesson here somewhere.)

I restarted collecting in San Francisco in the mid-1980's and one could f have found me hanging out at a stamp shop where the owner allowed me to look at just about everything. After buying miscellaneous mini-collections of British commonwealth, etc, I purchased a conignment collection of Australian States. The deal was I could catalogue and mount the collection, and buy it at 10% of Scott catalogue as I went along! This collection was stored in glassines by Scott number so it was easy to value, but when I started mounting it by Gibbons Specialized, discovered there were very few duplicates. This made me pay attention to perfs, watermarks, etc. in a detailed manner, not catalogued by Scott. Lesson learned - if one collectes a country other than US, use the approriate catalogue for that country!

I also went to many Westpex dealers, and auction houses in SF looking at Swiss, having my Zumstein catalogue in my briefcase. I found many good buys of both Strubels and Standing Helvetia varieties, but ran into the situation of many collectors where nearly all the stmaps have been added to the album except the expensive holes. This impasse was solved when it was suggested by a fellow Swiss collector I start looking for razor cancels. He gave a basic collection to start me off so I could have some idea what I was looking for. The rest is history. The bottom line is that I should have spent more time learning to type, but I hadn't forseen the value of the internet when I was in the stmap shop. One hour per day of typing practice would have made my stamp collecting much easy. So it goes!

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 502 ) on Oct-28-07 at 13:31:16 PDT   Listings
Good Morning from Sunny Melbourne, Australia where the time is 7.20am Eastern Summer Time (well at least in this State, other States change on different weekends or not at all, just like over there!).

I'm not a member of EUSC, and I no longer collect stamps, but I see a pattern emerging of most collecters having an interest in childhood, which never really goes away.

I collected from when I was about 8, I had a great aunt in London and one in Bern, Switzerland, just enough 'foreign' stamps in the 1950s to keep me interested, I then formed pen-friends in various countries (2 of whom I still write to now, 47 years later). I worked in an International Sales Office in Germany the 60s and 70s and collected stamps off the mail for my world wide albums, but never seriously buying stamps to fill the gaps. I then moved back to Sydney, and started working in a Stamp Shop, and although I then STOPPED collecting stamps, I worked in stamp shops and philatelic auctioneers for the next 30 years.
Stamps have allowed me to travel the world, see some of the best collections, visit Exhibitions and collectors homes, and I thoroughly enjoy looking at Other Peoples Stamps, without the need to collect any myself. It has been a great experience.

Linda
who collects OTHER THINGS !
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-28-07 at 13:06:20 PDT   Listings
I can not wait for the change the the Clocks in my vehicles
will be right again (till spring)
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-28-07 at 13:00:51 PDT   Listings
Good day/evening/night all!

Paolo (suffering from legal hour lag)
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 955 ) on Oct-28-07 at 12:31:05 PDT   Listings
Hi All

Regarding this months topic, I also started out collecting as a boy when I acquired my father's world wide stamp album that was a "spoils of war" booty!

It was home-made, with mostly used stamps from mainly European countries, mounted on blank pages. Many days were spent trading with two friends who also collected world-wide, but soon this was put aside for other more important matters in life.

Later on, as discretionary income became available, I once again renewed my interest and stared a "heritage" collection of collecting stamps from Hungary as my Grandfather came over from there and only spoke Hungarian to my dad.

That is still one of my main interests to this day, concentrating on town cancels now, with a few other countries included.
Jimbo2
Posted by dbenson   ( 8658 ) on Oct-28-07 at 12:13:32 PDT   Listings
Claghorn, and most probably perfectly genuine and one of the better known examples.

p.s. 247 is Fernando PO,

David B.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 12:12:55 PDT   Listings
Jim,

Well maybe the US of A will give up Daylight Savings Time and go Metric at the same time.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Oct-28-07 at 12:11:36 PDT   Listings
JayWild My VCR thinks it is standard time.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1010 ) on Oct-28-07 at 12:08:23 PDT   Listings
Matt… That’s what I mean! Growing up in Arizona, we ridiculed the rest of the country fiddling with its clocks twice a year. It’s almost enough to make me want to move back there!

Rainer... Thank you!

Jim
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Oct-28-07 at 11:48:52 PDT   Listings
D2 Interesting stamp interesting cancel
Posted by 22028   ( 1661 ) on Oct-28-07 at 11:17:59 PDT   Listings
Jim, you may download my article here...
http://fuchs-online.com/iraq/files/Iraqi_Railroad_APS-10-2007.pdf
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-28-07 at 11:06:41 PDT   Listings
The Rock of Gibraltar, that is.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-28-07 at 11:01:18 PDT   Listings
Daylight madness:

London, England already has an hours less daylight than Texas and they're currently losing plus three minutes per day.

It gets to the point where you are going to work and coming home in the dark.

I would imagine Bjorn's day is a lot shorter.

BTW, my favorite stamp was a mint 1960 £1 showing the rock and badge. I stll have it 47 years later.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 10:29:23 PDT   Listings
Claghorn,

I think I remember reading something about that -- thanks!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-28-07 at 10:28:52 PDT   Listings
With global warming such a global problem the last thing I would expect the government to do would be to legislate more sunlight.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Oct-28-07 at 10:22:27 PDT   Listings
Matt Samoa and Arizona are exempt from the clock madness.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 10:06:39 PDT   Listings
Jim,

I don't see any link online to his article. Maybe Rainer has one. If not I will scan the article and post links.

Clock changes? What are you talking about?

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jaywild   ( 1010 ) on Oct-28-07 at 09:49:05 PDT   Listings
Colin… For your bug bites…

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1010 ) on Oct-28-07 at 09:47:15 PDT   Listings
Matt (or anyone really)… Can you post a link to Rainer’s American Philatelist article? I have yet to read it.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1010 ) on Oct-28-07 at 09:44:57 PDT   Listings
due2… Drat.

By the way, I have yet to see any concrete statistics that demonstrate any energy savings. (That was the whole purpose originally—an hour of extra light in the evening means electric lights will be turned on later.) It might have been true back in the 1940s, when most electricity was used for lighting, but not anymore, when there are a vast array of other appliances and devices that consume the lion’s share of electrical power. Lighting has been relegated to a very tiny percentage. Also, it used to be that DST was for six months, period. Now they seem to change the dates every year. It’s become as needlessly complicated as the tax code. Pretty soon there will be a 66,000 page law passed defining Daylight Saving Time.

☺

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-28-07 at 09:20:11 PDT   Listings
Next Weekend Jaywild

Started earlier and ends later

Energy savings i think was excuse
Posted by jaywild   ( 1010 ) on Oct-28-07 at 09:18:07 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Did Daylight Saving Time end in the US last night, or not? I notice eBay time is still DST. I thought it was the last weekend in October that the time changed.

At least when I lived in Arizona I didn’t have to monkey with my clocks twice a year…

Jim
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 09:12:21 PDT   Listings
Rainer,

I've been meaning to compliment you on your excellent article in The American Philatelist. Well done!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by 22028   ( 1661 ) on Oct-28-07 at 08:51:33 PDT   Listings
claghorn, good to read that someone understands me..., my wife usually not... (when it comes to stamps...)...
Posted by keleofa   ( 3581 ) on Oct-28-07 at 08:47:48 PDT   Listings
20th Century US Postal History...

In my 2 cartons of 1950s-1960s covers I came across several of these:

Custom Printed Post Cards - 1953

I hadn't seen this before, except commercially. Measures 3¼" x 5½"

She has these post cards on thin stock custom printed with her name so she can use a 2¢ stamp instead of a 3¢ stamp. A penny was worth more back then, but you lose any privacy compared to a letter. It seems like back then everyone had personalized stationary.

How common is it to use personalized post cards?

T I A,

Matt in Arizona
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Oct-28-07 at 08:15:13 PDT   Listings
Rainer Thank you for sharing. Now I understand your appreciation for the Germany SCADTA overprints I posted in the ABC. Thanks again.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by dcderoo   ( 1704 ) on Oct-28-07 at 08:10:29 PDT   Listings
My start in stamp collecting was rather quiet and uneventful.
It was 1955. I was 13.
I don't recall any interest in stamps or collecting them prior to this.
The next door neighbor gave me a plate block of the US 3 cent Nebraska Territorial Centennial (Scott 1060.)
It just quietly captured my attention. And a life-long interest.

I no longer have that plate block.
It was disposed of along with my plate block collection in the '80s when it became obvious that moneywise they weren't going to appreciate much.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3788 ) on Oct-28-07 at 07:41:04 PDT   Listings

jeez... have requested post removal, time to crawl back under my rock...
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3788 ) on Oct-28-07 at 07:35:37 PDT   Listings

img src="http://www.postalhysteria.net/june14/texasC.gif
Posted by 22028   ( 1661 ) on Oct-28-07 at 02:47:04 PDT   Listings
I became a stamp collector about 40 years ago when my father gave me the first German stamps. I used to collect German stamp up to a certain extend until the age of 14 or so when my priorities have changed.
At the age of 19, I retriggered my interest and started again with German MNH stamps, later on started West European Miniature sheets. Some years later I switched from stamp collector to philatelist, started Nepal and Tibet and a little bit of Indian native states.
My 8 month duty in Colombia made me interested in SCADTA, especially since during my stay there I lost my heart and my then fiance recommended, if stamps then something which links Colombia and Germany. Over the years I had accumulated a very large SCADTA collection but the unexpected grow of my family by a twin girl made it necessary to build a larger house so in order to (partly) finance it I sold my SCADTA collection and was concentrating mostly on Tibet, putting my other collections mostly on ice.
When the finances for my new house were in order, I retriggered my other collections again, added classic Iran to it, rediscovered Iraq Railway stamps and Overland Mail Baghdad-Haifa and added a small area of SCADTA, the provisional Registration stamps from the SCADTA Issue 1921 and the semi official stamps of Colombia to my areas of interest.
These are the areas I currently collect, I am interested in so many more but these collections are already taking a considerable amount of money from my pocket so I guess I will not add another one collection, however, who knows.
Posted by xzephyr   ( 992 ) on Oct-28-07 at 02:05:06 PDT   Listings
Club topic

As our esteemed leader has said, many of us have similar stories of how we came to stamp collecting, how we dropped off when family expenses left little room for these little pieces of paper, and how with increased prosperity we took up collecting again. Thats me!

But when I discovered eBay I realised that I could turn my GB and Commonwealth stamps into cash so that when I pop my clogs my kids will not just chuck them away or sell them at ridiculously low prices. So I decided to STOP collecting.

Unfortunately for me, I had a whole page of Japanese stamps and I was delighted with the designs. So I have disposed of a large part of my original GB collection (Machins ugh!) and the bug caught me again and I have spent about half my sales money on buying Japanese. But at 2000 Japan started issuing so many stamps that I have not collected many since then, except for New Year issues. This explains the way my eBay feedback shot up to the mid 900s and is now creeping slowly up to the next star. I keep telling myself I will sell them too, but eBay is now charging sellers so much, along with Paypal fees, that I anticipate Ill go to an auction house when I decide to get rid of them this year, next year, something or never.

Once bitten by the bug I dont seem able to stop.

Actually, as I cannot bear to dispose of stamps and put all the world into a couple of albums I sometimes come across some nice stamps like the Austria 1973 buildings issue, so if I got rid of my present collections I might well take up Austria or Liechtenstein. A pity so few children today actually see stamps on envelopes, and even when they do, the bug never bites them.

Colin, covered with bug bites!

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Posted by jherek99   ( 397 ) on Oct-27-07 at 23:19:51 PDT   Listings
Hi all

I got into stamp collecting in the early 70's - coloured bit's of paper, mainly Austrialan decimal and predecimal stamps, when and elderly relative gave me some duplicates from his collection - mainly Sarawak - Brooke Raja issues and a couple of Australian used in Sarawak from the immediate post-war period, nothing terribly expensive but exotic. It sparked in me an interest in obscure and odd places.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1237 ) on Oct-27-07 at 22:48:13 PDT   Listings
"Quid me anxius sum?"
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 20:01:13 PDT   Listings
P.P.P.S. agnosco veteris vestigia flammae
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 19:29:38 PDT   Listings
P.P.S. I do not collect Yugoslavia (as it was and as it developed - that should be a VERY interesting field!), this notwithstanding, I want to write about this funny thing that was told me by one of my friends of that time (1984), member of a Folk Dance Group (I had snatched her at night at my place, carried in the wind with my motorcycle, not a mot, a very colorful and cheerful butterfly):
"I will sleep when I am old"
That is what she told me. Seemed to make no sense at that time, as I was a teenager, but know I start to understand the meaning hidden in those words.
;-)Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 19:16:00 PDT   Listings
P.S. one of the secondary meanings for which I am still up, besides systematically deleting spam e-mails, is that I am having a conversation with someone. The night brings advice, not only the sleeping part of it!
Paolo (I am not an insomniac, I just resist, to fight another day ;-)
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 19:02:21 PDT   Listings
Burton,
I know, but I am afraid! This time I could dream of Catherine Hepburn!
LOL Paolo
Posted by oggilby   ( 1237 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:59:34 PDT   Listings
Paolo! Isn't it about time for you to visit Mr. Morpheus? Or are you watching US College Football?
Posted by oggilby   ( 1237 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:57:42 PDT   Listings
Stamps? We don't have any stamps! We don't have to show you any stinkin' stamps!

Greetings from a soaky Central MD, where I needed to clean out house gutters in the poring rain, then lost in the montly poker game.

H.E. Harris, Jamestown, and Mystic started me out as a wee youngin'. Then off to the local Minkus outlet in a department store chain & Monkey Ward's penny boxes. The Traveler album started me out, parents indulged my habit with Minkus albums. Lost interest in High School, but came back to collecting after college. Employment allowed me to spend more and off I went (thanks to Clark Stamp CO & Dick Peppin). Then ebay came along and ruined any hope I had to be a reformed being.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:43:46 PDT   Listings
And all of that premise to just confirm:
'Dream is the infinite shadow of truth'
(Giovanni Pascoli, "Alexandros" :
[...]Il sogno l'infinita ombra del vero.[...]
OK, I admi I took it out of context)
That can be easily applied to philately.
And it can work.

Paolo
Posted by keleofa   ( 3575 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:31:04 PDT   Listings
Jeff,

OK, thanks. Not too many with commercial corner cards but I'll gather what I have and let you know.

Due,

What are the contents???? Sounds good. I've offered some small boxes with Prexies and they've sold OK. Solo Prexie use is in demand, the only detractor is the cancel.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by djs127   ( 615 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:26:50 PDT   Listings
My father collected stamps from a young age and he gave me a Harris Senior Statesman album when I was 10 and some of his doubles. When I was older I would go with him to a stamp store in Brooklyn and later on to stamp shows in Manhattan. My father started a stamp exchange when he retired. So I started one to to trade my doubles. After I got married I bought a Harris Masterworks set of albums. When my father passed away 15 years ago - I took over his stamp exchange and merged it with mine.
I also took a table as a dealer at a stamp show in Loch Sheldrake, New York. I sold $440 of his excess stamp exchange sheets and purchased a number of years of Scott International pages and binders. Through the years I purchased international pages till 1995 and have remounted a lot of his used stamps in them. I still have 33 of his looseleafs filled with stamps to go through.
I started purchasing on Ebay scott specialty pages and have a few which I am using for mint stamps.
I have been a dealer at some New Jersey shows but lately have not found them to have less traffic than years ago.
Ebay seems the best place to buy and sell stamps.
As far a my collecting interests - Besides used worldwide I collect mint Israeli, Palestine, Greenland, Iceland, Baltic States, Canada, New Zeland, and of course US. I also collect US back of the book (revenues, post cards and cut squares).
Lately I have been working on German states as my mother was born in Germany.
David Snyder
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:25:08 PDT   Listings
Things are definitely not going well here.
During my afternoon nap I had a complicated dream with Sharon Stone!
Some days ago I had a very complicated one with Milla Jovovich, and that should have already alarmed me as a potentially dangerous Constantine's dream: here

;-), Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:09:41 PDT   Listings
Pro
Must have been of of those African migratory ones!

What is... the capital of Assyria?
Ninive.

Jeff,
Absolutley no hurry on my end!

Paolo - trick-track

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-27-07 at 18:04:40 PDT   Listings
My version of How To Collect Stamps

Buy some stamps
Buy some more stamps.
Then Buy some more stamps.
Then Buy even More of them.
find more to buy.
Then do so.
buy some
then some additional ones.
When your collection has become sufficently beloved,

Lock it away in a safe place
so it will not be damaged by Light exposure
or by exposure to you.

Buy more.
Eventually your Collection will become very valuable.
Do NOT sell it.

When you die,
someone throws it away.
After all they are just Stamps.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:54:47 PDT   Listings
Paolo

What Kinda of Swallow?


A king must know things..
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:42:22 PDT   Listings

Howdy Paolo - haven't forgotten you, was tied up a day at VA hospital, now trying to get caught up with real world.

Jeff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:40:52 PDT   Listings

last post for Matt
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:39:48 PDT   Listings

I have an extensive collection of US XX Century commems on cover, - looking at my bookcase, 34 mounted binders full. If you were to put together a lot of all-diff commems on small biz covers (and offer them on eBay of course) I would be a willing bidder/buyer.

comm-raff
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:39:00 PDT   Listings
Good day/evening/night all from dark Shoes!

Re-meeting topic:
"I began to collect stamps in 1976 when I saw my uncle's collections, he's a specialist of Italian Republic, and since then I always loved these little pieces of printed paper.
Over the succeeding years my relationship with stamps has evolved, naturally getting some ups and downs, and now I don't regard them anymore as
just beautiful collectibles but also as little bricks to build up a parallel vision of the history of a nation and
a very stimulating field to begin any kind of study."

Just a copy and paste from my me page [which was edited with the kind help of Jim (Iomoon)].
That being about what I still feel, it's still valid as my contribution.

He who crosses the bridge of death must answer me these questions three:
Favorite stamp:



;-), Paolo

(favorite colour: black... ehm, NO! red...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrgh)




Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:35:36 PDT   Listings
Matt In Arizona

Intact/w contents.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3575 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:23:33 PDT   Listings
Jeff,

Mostly small envelope personal use, some greeting card envelopes, some business uses such as dentists and stores. The recipient was hospitalized in Upstate NY early 1960s, got a lot of mail. I am setting aside interesting uses and cancels. Not too many DPOs. Some slogan cancels. Hundreds of pieces of everyday mail from Elmira.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-27-07 at 17:17:38 PDT   Listings

Matt, the commem covers, are they long business, short business or personal correspondence?

J-R
Posted by keleofa   ( 3575 ) on Oct-27-07 at 16:53:58 PDT   Listings
Due,

Looks like a small box from a florist. If intact, very nice. As a piece with a blob cancel, not so nice.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-27-07 at 16:29:25 PDT   Listings
Prexie ?

Is this anything
or not

*cent_including_ins
Posted by keleofa   ( 3575 ) on Oct-27-07 at 16:07:51 PDT   Listings
Jeff,

re: 1 Liberty

Thanks! I still have the 4. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. I guess if I want to exhibit I'm off to a good start. The boxes I bought have some interesting material. Probably what was very common in the late 50s and early 60s. I've been checking for tagging on late use 4 Lincoln's, nothing so far. I have a lot of commemoratives, see if I can complete a year of commemoratives on cover. Still have hundreds of covers to go.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by rclwa   ( 976 ) on Oct-27-07 at 14:56:17 PDT   Listings
My father was an avid collector all his life, starting in the 1920s when his grandmother gave him an album with two Penny Blacks in it. He kept one and used the other for trade. He told me that as each new 2c stamp was issued, he would go to the post office (he lived in NYC) and buy two copies, and use one of them to trade for other items, from school chums I presume. He remembered not being able to come up with 50c for the White Plains sheet (a huge sum for an 11-year-old kid in 1926) and by the time he finally got one in later years, it set him back $12!

When I was about 12 or 13 he tried to get me started, gave me an album and some stamps, the best being a mint C3. (24c 1918 airmail--right side up Jenny!) I recall the first stamps I was aware of as new issues were the Sagamore Hill and the Ohio statehood, both 1953 issues. I plugged along for a year or two, but lost interest as I entered high school with all its distractions, so I gave the stamps back to dad. He died in 1972, and although she had many offers, Mom just tucked his stamps away for the time being.

About 1979 I was living and teaching in Seattle, and duri8ng a dentist appointment I noticed 2 or 3 different stamp periodicals in the waiting room. My dentist was an avid collector and a member of many local clubs. I rememberred one of my Dad's collections had been an attempt to put together the first 100 plate numbers, from the 1894 and '95 first Bureau issues. he had about 40 different ones. On a visit to Wenatchee I acquired this collection from Mom and set out to fill in some more. I guess it was the appeal of numbers to this young math teacher. within a year I was a member of four clubs and thoroughly hooked, never missing a meeting or a stamp show. I got to know many dealers and fellow collectors, subscribed to periodicals, got on auction house mailing lists, and really got into collecting. My father had also started the bridge collection, for what reason I never got to ask, and that became my prime interest. I later started the nudes on my own.

I eventually acquired my father's other collections, which were US, most of the British commonwealth, and an especially nice mint Iceland collection, close to complete! Much other stuff also, but almost all was stamps, no covers. There was a fair amount of proof material though, and I have since added much in the proof and essay area, and was a society member until its demise in 2000. (I later acquired a COMPLETE run of the Journal, have the whole 1944-2000 set for reference!)

Besides my topicals, I try to keep up the Iceland as a country collection, and have haphazardly accumulated a portion of U S new issues over the years. I still lean toward exhibiting some day, at least on the internet to start, and dream of getting my information organized on a computer so I can be one of those guys at a stamp show with a neqat want list in hand! When I was working in the '80s and early '90s I did some heavy auction action, and acquired some nice things. In recent years I have had to temper the spending, and my focus shifted heavily to postal history, but I still have a lot of eBay lots to process!

Better post this before the library system crashes!

Bob in WA
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-27-07 at 13:58:41 PDT   Listings

Matt - re 1-1/4c you asked about, quite common actually, on a long cover you might get $3. Jeff-raff

What did you do with the 4-1/2c coil??
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-27-07 at 13:39:26 PDT   Listings
Started collecting in 1957 by senting 10 cents to H.E. HARRIS Co. in Boston Mass. for 100 stamps .This month I flew to Boston and rented a car for 4 days and stayed in a hotel 3 nights cost of trip was $1,000 to buy stamps.Was happier when I got the enevolpe of 100 stamps fifty years ago .....paul
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 81 ) on Oct-27-07 at 12:54:20 PDT   Listings
Back from a week in Cornwall, the nights are drawing in, the clocks go back 1 hour tonight, means more time for stamps in the dark evenings! Been catching up on the board, have a lot of reading to do. Paolo I am a heavy smoker like you but smoking in my stamp room (study) is a no no. My wife smokes as well and we confine our smoking to the breakfast room or outside, which in the UK is getting hard as I am always looking round in case some official pounces when I throw a butt on the ground and slaps a fine on me!

On the topic - My collecting started from my Grandfathers album, which my mother inherited. In the early sixties I spent a lot of time with his collection which was mounted in an old Senf, learning all the names of strange countries around the world, becoming more and more fascinated with the history and cataloging the stamps My mum encouraged me with a copy of SG catalogue for 1965 which I still have. Because my Grandfather was a bridge civil engineer he travelled the world working in far off places such as Nyasaland, British Honduras and India and his collection reflected his travels. This pair from his album were without doubt the stamps that started me off (actually they have a fiscal cancel but it was years later that I found out they were not worth that much) and even today BCA and Nyasaland are my main collecting interests, although I try hard to escape from time to time with GB or other Commonwealth countries, I keep coming back to them with an evergrowing collection. My specialist area is the cheque stamps of BCA latest addition a rare multiple here.
cheers


Peter
Posted by kathmoon   ( 332 ) on Oct-27-07 at 12:10:14 PDT   Listings
I started collecting in 5th grade. The teacher taught U.S. history, frequently using stamps as part of the process (no PowerPoint back then). I still remember seeing a complete set of Columbians up on the corkboard - did not realize exactly what they were until a few years later. A lot of stamps came from regular mail. My father would get mail from Italy so I had some interesting non-US stamps also. Relatives would save stamps from their mail also - seemed to have way too many 3 cent purple Prexies. I would also occas. buy packets from Woolworth's 5 & 10 cent store, when a dime or two was available. Then progressed to ads in the back of comic books and would get 100 free foreign followed by monthly mailings to purchase. After a few more years, progressed to the local "stamp shop" - yes, there was one in Trenton, N.J. Then stopped after high school. Restarted, more seriously, in 1974. My first purchase as a renewed collector was U.S. Scott #115 - the 6 cent 1869 pictorial in XF - lightly cancelled condition. A stamp I could have only imagined ever owning as a child. That started the collection. Stopped in the mid-1980s when prices were out-of-hand. Restarted again about 7 years ago when Ebay was discovered. Lucky to have one nearby World-Class Stamp Show every year in Sarasota, Florida. Very lucky to have an active and most enjoyable local Stamp Club in Cape Coral, Florida.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-27-07 at 10:32:35 PDT   Listings
I started collecting GB back in 1957 when I was a cub scout and GB issued the Jamboree stamps. Over the next 10 years I would buy the new issues from the local post office from the money gained from my paper rounds.

In the meanwhile I became interested in the BWI and would visit the stamp dealers in Portobello Road every saturday morning after I had received my paper round earnings.

At university I took up rock climbing and was forced to sell my BWI collection via auction to pay for my equipment and travel.

At this time my next door neighbour was a great grandson of a family whose male line had all been officers in the British army and stamp collectors. He had inherited their continuing stamp collection which stretched back to the days of the British Empire in Africa, all in mint hinged condition. I spent many an hour drooling over it. Furthermore, his girlfriend was from Mauritius and would give me the envelopes from all her friends and family back home.

Being a student I could no longer afford to actively collect anything other than what I received in the mail. Together with working on theses, I had little time to devote to stamps.

I took up actively buying stamps again in 1990 with a standing order with the Royal Mail. This led to filling-in all the gaps in my GB album. It was pretty to look at, but intellectually unsatisfying.

With my interest in volcanology, I set about building a thematic collection of volcanoes. At the same time I discovered several other volcanologists were closet stamp collectors so set about devising a catalog of volcano stamps. This is still going strong.

Likewise a meeting with Richard Frajola led to a greater interest in Victorian imperforate issues which I also still collect, particularly those with the corner letters OI - the reverse of my ebay ID, since my real initials are outside the range of AA to TL.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-27-07 at 10:31:50 PDT   Listings
I should have realized when I started this discussion that many would have very similar stories.
My father first go me interested in stamps in 1958 when I was seven. He had been collecting off and on since he was a kid. My first album was a big honkin world wide Regent (8th birthday). I soon got a Scott U.S. Statesman. My dad had plenty of dupes to go through and keep me busy for quite awhile. I use to send in for approvals but it was hard to get much on an allowance of 25 cents a week.
My first favorite stamps were the U.S. large Banknotes (1870-84). I was also quite enamored with old British area Queen Victorias. I still have the Regent but the Statesman was stolen in 1975. I didn't do anything with the collection for another dozen years and then kind of stepped off the deep end with it.
Today my interests havn't really changed that much, I still really like the early U.S. and most of the world
(especially Europe). The size of the collection has greatly increased to over 110 albums. Most albums are Scott Specialty a half dozen Shaubecks, a few White Aces 3 hingless Davos for GB and around ten stockbooks for numerous thematic/topical collections.
The World of Stamps
Posted by lgvjim06   ( 1177 ) on Oct-27-07 at 10:14:27 PDT   Listings
Here is a link to a news item about content blocking by some ISP's
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/senators-want-probe-on-content-blocking/n20071026162309990029
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Oct-27-07 at 10:07:36 PDT   Listings
Any one else using Comcast for an ISP and who FTP's to Comcast, having any problem with viewing their own pictures and/or potential bidders able to view them?
Posted by sayasan   ( 732 ) on Oct-27-07 at 09:27:10 PDT   Listings
Paolo - Garibaldians supported the North in the ACW, almost to a man. The US charge d'affaires in Turin received numerous applications for enrolment from ex-Garibaldians, including Anfossi, Cluseret etc. The US consul at Antwerp contacted Garibaldi himself, who was interested to know whether the war would lead to emancipation. Several times Garibaldi considered serving in the Union army and bringing volunteers with him, but in the end this never happened. But Cluseret became a Union general, the 39th New York Infantry ("Garibaldi Guard") wore bersaglieri-type uniforms, etc etc. So come down from that fence!

Richard W.

Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-27-07 at 09:10:48 PDT   Listings
How I got started Stamp collecting When I was 7 or 8 I got one of these, but only put in those stamps I happened to come across. I never bought any stamps, so the collection languished, and eventually disappeared from my life.

About ten years ago I was given a comprehensive Scott US stamp album, from the estate of a woman whose son had collected stamps in his youth. All of the stamps had been removed except one of these. I was mildly intrigued at what it might be worth, found that the CV was $110, then wondered if stamps could serve as an investment. But the problem was buying at dealer pricesthere was no way to also sell at dealer prices, and theres no profit in that process. Then I discovered eBay. At last! A way to buy stamps for pretty much what I could sell them for later.

I bought crap at first, not knowing any better, then with the help of some kindly philatelists on this board (and others) I bought a lot of literature, educated myself, then began to look for misdescribed stamps and covers that held special significance not recognized by the sellers. Along the way I began to enjoy not only the thrill of the hunt, but the deep satisfaction that comes from educating myself and passing my knowledge on to others.

Is there a Nobel Prize for stamp collecting???

Alas, I have had no luck getting my cat interested in stamps, although he did sign up for his own eBay account.

Jim
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Oct-27-07 at 08:52:45 PDT   Listings
Greetings to you all
Posted by keleofa   ( 3575 ) on Oct-27-07 at 08:20:28 PDT   Listings
Clcol,

re: 3 Liberty postals

Are they printed commercially with information and return addresses or are they blank?

Matt in Arizona
Posted by rmhubbs6326   ( 389 ) on Oct-27-07 at 08:19:47 PDT   Listings
What got me started It was about 1959, when I was about 7 or 8 (about the same time the picture on my ME page was taken), I sent in a wrapper from a Nestles Crunch candy bar and a quarter to get a mail order stamp album and a packet of stamps. I remember the album well, but it was replaced when I got my first real hardcover stamp album a couple years later. The album probably got thrown away == I don't remember.

Several years ago, I bought a box full of mixed remainders and old pages and such on eBay. When I got it home and opened the box, right on top was a copy of that original Nestles candy stamp album that got me started. The sight of it hit me like a lightning bolt! Needless to say, I was going doing memory lane, after 45 years, looking though it, and it now holds a special place in my collection.
Posted by clcol   ( 6839 ) on Oct-27-07 at 08:05:24 PDT   Listings
I have a lot of unused 3 cent US Liberty postcards - there are 2 attached to each other - uncut with a perforation splitting the 2 cards - can anyone tell me if there is interest in this type of item and approx. value for a group of 20. Thanks
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Oct-27-07 at 07:54:33 PDT   Listings
What brought me to collecting When I was 7 years old I noticed slogan cancellations on the Prexie main coming into my house. I got a 3 ring binder and filler paper and started a collection of slogan cancellations. It branched out to the other stamps coming in on the household mail.

When my parents saw that I was serious, they bought me a Regent album and a set of Scott Catalogs along with several packets of stamps. We also got an H.E. Harris catalog. WHen I did chores I saved my nickels and dimes and ordered US stamps from the Harris catalog. Another great tool was the Stamp Finder which was a cross reference between strange language country names. THat way could figure out which country a foreign stamp was from.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by keleofa   ( 3575 ) on Oct-27-07 at 07:49:58 PDT   Listings
Jeff (and anyone else)...

(USA) Liberty Series of 1954

1¼¢ Palace of the Governors, Precancel Sheet Stamp (Scott 1031A)

Close up

How uncommon is this used properly on cover? I've searched eBay, StampWants and Zillions -- there are no cover for sale or sold. I may list it next week on eBay.

T I A,

Matt in Arizona
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 133 ) on Oct-27-07 at 07:03:38 PDT   Listings
I am looking for a line drawing for a 1907 Circular Date Stamp for Carcavelos, Portugal, is there anyone who can help?
Posted by deh3   ( 1880 ) on Oct-27-07 at 05:56:33 PDT   Listings
Re: grading of Canadian stamps,

It is actually not Eastern Auctions who are grading them, but Sergio Sismondo, a dealer in the US, who claims to be an "expert" in British Commonwealth, although provides regular certificates for stamps of every country.

However, there are some humorous inconsistencies amongst the graded stamps in the catalogue. For example, there is a 12.5c New Brunswick with the typical, long-winded dealer-style over-description. But it only received a 75 grade!

Danny
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-27-07 at 04:28:14 PDT   Listings
Alas I do not collect stamps.

But have a nice day
all who read here.

:-}

Stamps1-5
The stamps you showed in the Ad seems like they need to
work on their grading a little , To me it seems unbalanced so could not be a 100 anything.

Going Fishin' back later To read and see many scans of wonderous philatelic pride
I hope.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-27-07 at 00:00:02 PDT   Listings
E U S C
Ebay Users Stamp Club Meeting

For October 2007, is now in session and will conclude 12:00 Midnight (ebay time) October 28th.


The meetings topic will focus on what first brought club members into collecting stamps.
What was your first philatelic love and how has your collecting preferences changed/evolved?
What was your first favorite country, stamp, set of stamps and what are they now etc etc.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-26-07 at 22:20:04 PDT   Listings
paul...I like the title of your image but I'm not sure it's accurate. These nutty things have a habit of sticking around.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-26-07 at 21:23:22 PDT   Listings
For new readers looking for philatelic postings ---------Here is something that i've seen for the first time -----Graded stamps outside of the U.S. ,guess this fad is spreading to other countries. A ADD FOR A GRADED STAMP .....paul
Posted by dbenson   ( 8654 ) on Oct-26-07 at 20:42:09 PDT   Listings
Billsey,

I just had a note from a friend why this item realised so much. He said that the seller was lucky two bidders noticed it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150173848497

David B.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-26-07 at 18:51:20 PDT   Listings
Mini L

I have one of those on a German Postal
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-26-07 at 17:51:41 PDT   Listings
David

The European reaction to the American Civil War was largely divided on the basis of class.

The British middle class supported the South because of the supply of cotton and the reciprocal demand for guns was a great boost to the economy.

The working class supported the North for the potential removal of slavery.

The upper class supported neither since they wanted the USA back as a British colony.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 16:39:25 PDT   Listings
Within abundant brackets, just a thought that passed by my head as a meteor:
Geo-political unification always came at a high cost of lives.
Cultural unification came at the cost of admitting and inglobating what was considered as ignorance, or destroying it (in the short or long term, the long term includes oblivion, the systematical omission of real occurrences of history for unification purposes).
The European middle-ages showed the natural reaction to an unstable geo-political and cultural unification: it yielded the extreme fragmentation (feudalism).
Destruction of culture always had repercussions, if we just neglect the Chinese situation (from 3000 years ago to now) which is a case of its own, IMO; it ought be studied more deeply to understand the logic Unification of large masses of people of different kinds, excluding 'a priori' that some phenotypes are more prone to be unified than others.
I see I went way off the track of philately and stamps.
(-- not really my opinion, just cogitating out loud! --)

Good continuation (back to philately),
Paolo
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-26-07 at 16:39:13 PDT   Listings
vonbag...I find it rather odd that a European would express the view about both sides being right when considering different time frames. I agree with that but it's not something you would be likely to hear in the US whether schooled in the north or the south.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-26-07 at 16:34:17 PDT   Listings
Paolo Thats interestingI would have thought Garibaldi achieved more than that, but I am a true outsider. Nice to have some inside information.

I confess to being a Yankee sympathizer, but hold no grudges against any other party. I will readily grant that the three best military men of the US Civil War were SouthernersR. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson & Bedford Forrest. If it were not for them the conflict would have ended years earlier.

However the greatest man who had a significant part in the war was Lincoln, IMO.

Jim
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 16:11:17 PDT   Listings
;-), tongue in cheek, natrlich.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 16:08:37 PDT   Listings
Jay,
I always had mixed feelings with your North and South.
IMO Both were right, the one in the short term, the other in the long term, and this can be generically transposed in any multi ethnic situation, not considering the time coordinate. I must confess that I strongly sympathized with the Southerners. It is in my nature (and maybe my purpose) to party with the loser.
For something different, we have big problems in small Italy world with it. Garibaldi didn't achieve much, albeit most would never in their life admit it!
The cultural unification, in general, is still VERY far from coming!
El Diablo
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-26-07 at 15:49:53 PDT   Listings
Paolo Is that supposed to be a Yankee accent??? Sounds more like a Southerner to me, of the hillbilly variety

?

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-26-07 at 15:47:51 PDT   Listings
Roger Yes, I didnt mean it to sound as if I were rebuking the buyer of that car (or others sucked into the same scam) its just that I personally would never buy anything as expensive as a car without first seeing that all the ins and outs of the deal were legit. First and foremost would be examining the item in person.

Can you imagine what a benefit to the economy it would be if all the scamsters turned their energies to legitimate work instead of ripping people off? They could all write silly, useless code for eBay instead.



Jim
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 15:42:40 PDT   Listings
Howdy YANKEELADEE,
Before liztin' yur stamps, I'd recummend ya peruse the big yelluv box posted below on Oct-25-07 at 22:20:55 PDT.
Most newbies find good stuff there!
G'day, Paolo


Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 15:33:00 PDT   Listings
Energize, Scotty, energize! Beam up the team!

Spock
Posted by malolo   ( 859 ) on Oct-26-07 at 14:39:15 PDT   Listings
Jaywild -
Looks like it's difficult to solve as there's another been posted with the same results. The money is going to a bank account then transfererred to Greece. And as the techies on that thread point out, it's pretty sophisticated progremming. I've mentioned before that many eBay pages take a long time to download and I often wonder why it takes so long. Simple HTML does not take any time, but all the Java script, and other unnecessary coding files do things I wish I knew about. There is much too much interlinking between eBay servers and pages, whihc is sucks in those who get caught in traps.

How many of us have asked for additional scans of auctions. I dont think the originator of that thread did anything unwise. I know I get Powerpoint attachments in my emails, but can't see them aas I don't have Powerpoint, but it seesm that is another way of receiving viruses, trojan horse, etc. Still glad I've got a Mac and haven't had to deal with these problems for the past 21 years. No need to respond as i'm making general statements, but when "anyone who knows" recommends computer users don't use the manufacturers original software, there is a terrible problem. Sort of like a car maker recommending you don't drive since one never knows when the brakes will fail!

Roger
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-26-07 at 14:22:27 PDT   Listings
due2cents Well, thats a terrible sad story, but who in their right mind would buy a car on eBay without going to look at it first? Reading the thread it sounds like the auction was genuine, then pulled by eBay because of concerns about fraud, but not before a bidder had bought it using Buy-It-Now. (Looks like she bought something other than a car!!)

Rule #1 is, and always has been: Dont buy a pig in a poke.

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 502 ) on Oct-26-07 at 14:17:52 PDT   Listings
due2cents .. one for you?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Werbemarke-Kochherd-Prometheus-Futurum-Cossebaude_W0QQitemZ120170581302QQihZ002QQcategoryZ8965QQcmdZViewItem
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 502 ) on Oct-26-07 at 14:14:37 PDT   Listings
Yankee Ladee, you will need to sort your stamps, and identify them, and scan them to list on eBay.

If you scroll back to a message posted on this board, on Oct-25-07 at 22:20:55 PDT you will find a large Yellow Box with lots of links and information for collectors and non -collectors. That may help you get started. good luck

Linda
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-26-07 at 13:48:33 PDT   Listings
Yankee Ladee

TRY HERE
GoodPlace
Posted by yankeeladee1   ( 143 ) on Oct-26-07 at 13:26:16 PDT   Listings
WHERE DO I GO TO SELL MY STAMPS. I HAVE A FEW FROM 1908-1911 AND SOME 0.05 CCENT STAMPS TO SELL. I'M NOT SURE HOW TO GO ABOUT IT. I HOPE THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO ASK...IF NOT I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INTRUSION.
SINCERELY, YANKEELADEE1
Posted by djs127   ( 615 ) on Oct-26-07 at 09:49:56 PDT   Listings
I just was told that a fellow congregant passed away today and the funeral will be Sunday- so it looks like I won't be going to the Mega event. Man plans and G-d laughs, or in this case cries.
David Snyder
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-26-07 at 09:44:03 PDT   Listings
E U S C
Ebay Users Stamp Club Meeting

The next Ebay Users Stamp Club meeting For October 2007 will commence tonight at 12:00 Midnight (ebay time) and end midnight October 28th.
The meetings topic will focus on what first brought club members into collecting stamps.
What was your first philatelic love and how has your collecting preferences changed/evolved?
What was your first favorite country, stamp, set of stamps and what are they now etc etc.



Happy Stampin,
Mitchell aka Antonius Ra
President EUSC
Posted by philaweb   ( 313 ) on Oct-26-07 at 09:41:02 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 09:33:44 PDT   Listings
P.S. Scotty has to fix for me that download of the teletransport. Had it been already done, there wouldn't have been any problem.
BBL, James Kurk USS Wine Enterprise
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-26-07 at 09:11:35 PDT   Listings
http://tinyurl.com/2b7r9h


here is a scary discussion

Hackers are at it again
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 09:00:16 PDT   Listings
Prometheus,
My only problem with your solution, which sounds good indeed if we add '...and bids' to it ;-), is that I do not have a forwarding mail box at home!
Maybe T.N.T. Post (sounds scary, but it's just the new name of the Dutch Post) could provide me (and others) of a personalised one? ;-)
Paolo
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-26-07 at 08:50:54 PDT   Listings
Jaywild

Or as some oldie song used to say

" I ride my bike, i rollerskate
Don't drive a car"

I have a solution
everyone stays at home and
sells
on ebay.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-26-07 at 08:40:19 PDT   Listings
NOIP Well, it looks as if oil is in a headlong rush toward $100 a barrel. Today its up over $91 already. Can we organize a betting pool for the day it closes above $100?



It is very bad news for all those folks who have long commutes every day (30 miles each way is not uncommon here in L.A.) and those small businesses that require numerous pickups and deliveries will really take it on the chin. The cheapest per-gallon price for gas in my locale is over $3, and it goes up all the way to just short of $4 at brand-name stations near the freeways.

Yikes! Get a horse!!

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-26-07 at 07:09:00 PDT   Listings
Paul Here is the curious tag I linked to. The notation at the top is 34,250 , the indicating that the figure represents a dollar amount with no cents. I think only money would be written that way. Also, if it were a sample tag attached to a bag of grain, it would need to have an address on it too, which it doesnt. I also think it unlikely a sample would be sent registered mail, and in any case $1 might be an excessive amount to spend mailing a sample of anything. Im leaning towards it being a supplementary tag that carried postage that didnt fit on another tag.

Roger... Ha!! Youre not supposed to notice inconsistencies like that in eBay pronunciamentos. In other words, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain



Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-26-07 at 06:36:29 PDT   Listings
Here is the Cover
Question was asked on threaded board

1849GB

I figured Cambridge to London fairly common item.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1412 ) on Oct-26-07 at 06:21:35 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


due2cents
If there are readable cancels on the cover Id list it. To bad that its so heavily cut into. :8^(

Jim L.

member
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 502 ) on Oct-26-07 at 05:49:33 PDT   Listings
due2 in my opinion, as a stamp NO, HOWEVER, you didn't show the cover..from? to? any interesting markings?

Linda
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-26-07 at 05:44:37 PDT   Listings
A very good day/night to all from fully overcast Shoes!

Re: cross border transactions.
As a bordel, or border line observation, I check separately, eBay.com, eBay.it, eBay.de and, as of recent months, eBay.ch.
I have to remark that mail from Swizterland to Holland is taking 2-3 days in average. That is wonderful.
The same is not true for mail from here to that destination, though.
IBAN and BIC codes, necessary coordinates to pay through International Bank transfer, are different within the Nations of the European Union: I fail to see the reason why these are not yet uniformed!
Yesterday a guy at my local bank was stunned and confused (even more than me) about an Italian IBAN code (up to 27 alfa-numeric digits).

Paolo
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1704 ) on Oct-26-07 at 05:04:15 PDT   Listings
19thcentpostal & vonbag, thanks for your responses.
I think(?) I can come close to maintaining the recommended environmental conditions.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-26-07 at 03:57:20 PDT   Listings
NOIP

Qustion being asked

Is this Penny_RED
Here worth Listing, 1849 Usage on Cover.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-26-07 at 03:42:52 PDT   Listings
It's another day
la la la la la
Just another day...
Posted by 22028   ( 1661 ) on Oct-26-07 at 03:11:05 PDT   Listings
malola, RE: Cross Border Trade, I am always doing an international search... and since it related to US and Uk sites only it is not relevant for me.
In regard to your teaching comment..., absolutely...,, mostly the parents are the problems and not the kids. These days, schools are many times considered as a day care center. Pupils are brought to/from school... and at the end of the year good grades are expected. If the kids fail.., the school is to blame...
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Posted by malolo   ( 859 ) on Oct-25-07 at 22:15:59 PDT   Listings
NOIP -
I just read a page of announcements including this. Don't I remember the UK sellers being cut out of the US market, well read this and think "a return to the way it was". Until you get to the last line. So much for Cross-Border, seems to be one way!:

"Hi everyone, I'm Frederick Crosby, and I lead our Cross-Border Trade team here at eBay. Our job is to help eBay sellers expand their reach to our marketplaces around the world.
Starting in the next few days, we'll be running a test in many of our collectible-oriented categories. When your items meet our eligibility criteria, they will appear on our UK site by default (assuming you've indicated you're willing to ship to the UK). Similarly, items listed in the UK will be shown here on eBay.com, as well.

Sellers have been asking us how they can better reach potential buyers who rarely leave their local sites. We believe this test will be good for our sellers, whose items will be available to a bigger pool of buyers and for our buyers, who will have access to a wider array of unique items they're interested in.

To be eligible, sellers must have 100 feedback with at least 98% positive. To be included in this test, your items must meet the following criteria:

Be listed in the Collectibles, Antiques, Stamps, Coins, Art, or Pottery & Glass categories
Offer PayPal to ensure easy Cross-Border payments
Specify global or UK shipping options and pricing to help our buyers see the full cost of your item
Be located in the US"

Can both those bold phrases work simultaneously?

Roger, Glad I'm not teaching anymore. It seem the parents were the problem, not the kids!
Posted by 22028   ( 1661 ) on Oct-25-07 at 21:51:10 PDT   Listings
I have again updated my ME Page, this time a 1925 cover from France to Iraq, carried by the Overland Mail Baghdad-Haifa, is shown.
Posted by thines   ( 1513 ) on Oct-25-07 at 18:36:10 PDT   Listings
Dave Snyder,

I live in Carmel in Putnam County. Just south of the Arctic Circle according to NYC types. I work in Pleasantville.

Terry Hines

Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-25-07 at 18:04:30 PDT   Listings
P.S.
Conversely, several Italian dealers (this is a different thing from Expert, let me please sharply underline) behaved differently.
It is common knowledge, in fact, the chance is high to find on some amongst the world important items very tiny markings impressed with indelible black ink which read "Asinelli Torino", "G. Bolaffi" etc.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-25-07 at 17:28:48 PDT   Listings
Jim (IO),
I fully agree with your post of Oct-22-07 at 16:47:17 PDT.
However, for what concerns other fields of philately that are different than ours, like the INFLA period Postal History material for instance, the presence of such 'markings' can be a desirable thing!
There were at least two major (very long winded, it lasted weeks) discussions on this topic on two different Italian Forums (on of eBay, the discussion should still be there).
It has to be briefly reminded that there are also several fake 'expert markings' made ex-novo (thus forged 'expert markings') or improperly used (by different people who acquired, inherited or stole the stamp from the expert him/herself or by the expert when he/she was not in a clear state of mind).
Dr. Emilio Diena, which I mentioned, did never in his life (that I know) use an indelible stamp to mark stamps... genuine or forgery, perfect or defective, with or without gum etc.
He just signed the stamps, or postal objects, with a soft pencil. The longer his signtaure, the higher the importance of the item (a fully written 'Emilio Diena' is an extremely rare recurrence, maybe, as of today, in light of recent discoveries, rarer than the item itself on which it figures when he signed it 70 to 100 years ago).
He didn't use his pencil at all for non collectible or common (at his time) items.
Such tradition, of using a soft pencil, has been taken over by all the Italian Experts in Philately that I know of.

Paolo
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-25-07 at 17:26:55 PDT   Listings
MMMMMM...
Smoked Covers ...

Cold Beer

What a life
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-25-07 at 17:26:19 PDT   Listings
34,250 sounds like a truck load of grain after its dumped at the elevator and the empty weight is deducted.It also could be the bushels in a silo .The lab's name would be pre-printed on the small cloth sack and the tag was tied to the sample bag ......any farmers out there who could confirm this ....paul
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-25-07 at 17:08:24 PDT   Listings
P.S. I am a heavy smoker (like the smokers in 'waterworld', and maybe worse) so the best I can do for stamps and books is to keep them sealed away from were I and my wife smoke. This is not always possible, though (cough, cough) -- you can easily get some smoked covers or books from me LOL!

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-25-07 at 16:57:58 PDT   Listings
Good day/evevning/night from nightly Shoes!

Howdy Jeff,
Got your second kind message, please CYE (still through eBay) for the reply.

DCderoo,
Besides the observations and indications of 19thcenturypostal,
I have references from experimental study of preservation of stamps and covers, that can be simplistically restricted to the use of a thermometer and of an hygrometer (if not of an air conditioning system, which would be the best):
Optimum ranges:
a) temperature range: 16 - 20 °C
b) relative humidity 45 - 65%
c) water content in the air not superior to 8 - 10%

From:
F.M. Amato, "Manutenzione e Conservazione dei Francobolli e del materiale Storico-Postale", NIS, 1st edition, September 1989.

Paolo
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-25-07 at 16:56:07 PDT   Listings
JAY--------That bulk tag coming from Alton Ill. ,my guess its a grain or soybean sample coming from one of the major terminals located in the city and going to a regional lab or to a buyer as a sample . We had hundreds of those at the Chicago Board of Trade in the early days when cash grains were a big market there{pre-1970's}
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-25-07 at 15:37:20 PDT   Listings
mini*lindy Thats what drew me to the lot in the first place. I dont have a non-philatelic cover for either 1972 or 1986. I did win a nice Oct 5 1972 cover from India about two years ago but it never arrived, having been pilfered somewhere along the route.

Oh wellI suppose there are more important things in life

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 502 ) on Oct-25-07 at 14:27:59 PDT   Listings
JayJim Sure its philatelic, but it is Oct 5 ! . The adressograph printed address gives it away for starters.

L.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-25-07 at 13:04:13 PDT   Listings
NOIP I would be correct in assuming this is philatelic, right?

Jim
Posted by fred_baumann   ( 549 ) on Oct-25-07 at 13:02:27 PDT   Listings
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The groups monthly newsletter, U.S.A to Z, available to members in an online Files area, is full of articles on U.S. philately contributed by group members. Currently, all 2007 issues are available online as pdf files, along with a complete index to U.S.A to Z from its inception in December 2004 to May 2007. Access is free to members, as are all other services; there are no dues. The site also has photos posted by members, links to members and other U.S.-related philatelic websites, a mentor list database and a list of members. Visit the U.S. Specialized Yahoo Group online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/us_specialized

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Posted by bidder90046   ( 3 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:56:30 PDT   Listings
Hi pattybeadsdeads,

I am sorry to hear about this unfortunate turn of events. I hope everything turns out okay for you and your family.
Posted by pattybeadsbeads   ( 2 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:53:45 PDT   Listings
Hello everyone My cousin Edwin Cherry was a stamp collector for 60 years. On Aug 10, 2007 he died. So My sister and I went to Yuma AZ to gather all of his belongings which included his Million dollar stamp collection. We put everything in a U-haul to bring back to our homes. Some one broke into the U-haul and stole all of the stamps and nothing esle. If you type in Million dollar stamp heist Yuma Sun you can read about it. There is a $10,000 reward to any one who knows where the stamps are. Thank you Edwin Cherrys Family
Posted by bidder90046   ( 3 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:39:19 PDT   Listings
due2cents:

Fake 2002 USA Flag stamps. Several eBay sellers based in USA but poor in English were selling those a few years back. Wonder where they came from. The stamps I mean.

Hmmm....Deja vu all over again!
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:34:19 PDT   Listings
Oh forgot the

Steal a credit card, go to PO
Buy Stamps from auto machine
sell stamps
Anyone still have the Link to those guys Driving up and down the west coast doing that.
I think it was this spring.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:32:14 PDT   Listings
Bidder900

Well there are a few reasons I can relate.

Oops these stamps ended up at my home by accident
darn I guess I'll sell them.

My Bank account is empty But I can Charge stamps and resell them.

The Boss owes me this much.

Maybe some fakes like those that made it into market here last year or maybe the year before.

Hey some moron paid me with Stamps.

That's a start.
Posted by bidder90046   ( 3 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:25:01 PDT   Listings
Why are people selling large quantities of 2007 US Liberty Bell Forever stamps (41 cents) at a slight discount ? What gives ?
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:03:54 PDT   Listings
due2cents Great minds think alike

?

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:02:53 PDT   Listings
Milenko The tag looks like the kind that was typically used by banks to send cash to the US Federal Reserve and vice versa. I imagine they were shipped parcel post (cheapest way) and insured. Thats the only rationale for the 34,250 notation I can figurethat amount of money in cash was being shipped.

It may be a supplementary tag, meaning that the original tag with the addresses on it had no room to affix any more postage, so they tied on another tag and stuck the overflow postage on it. But thats only a guess.

Anyone else run into such a use?

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-25-07 at 12:00:18 PDT   Listings
Jaywild
Is it possible that the total # stamps all fit on one tag, except this one so it was added to an additional tag,
for shipping.

Somewhere in my boxes I have a Suitcase Shipping Tag ,
that has an additional , Stub pice with 2 more stamps
on it that makes the rate noted on the 1st one.Not registered but .....
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 301 ) on Oct-25-07 at 11:33:16 PDT   Listings
Jim, what about weight instead of value?
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-25-07 at 09:47:06 PDT   Listings
NOIP What the heck is this? There is no address on it, so its hard to see how it is a mailing tag. Theres also 34,250. written on the side with the REGISTERED number, but the fee would be considerably more than $1 to send that amount of cash registered.

Anybody have any ideas?

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-25-07 at 09:25:35 PDT   Listings
Matt L.
Never Mind remembered your ME page
Thanks
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-25-07 at 09:15:58 PDT   Listings
MATT L

Do you still have your Primer on Postmarks
still online?
If so could you share the link?
Posted by djs127   ( 615 ) on Oct-25-07 at 08:41:30 PDT   Listings
Terence Hines - sorry I will miss you at the Mega event.
Where do you live? I live in Staten Island but work in Manhattan.
David Snyder
Posted by poppadawg   ( 752 ) on Oct-25-07 at 08:11:31 PDT   Listings
Question for Russia and area: What is this stamp? Best as I can figure out it is type Scott's SP5. But I cannot find this overprinted version. Any help would be appreciated. Stamp is here http://www.currenttechgroup.com/~dbosquet/new/picture%20555.JPG
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-25-07 at 05:43:55 PDT   Listings
Bagboy
Sometimes a stint in the freezer helps.
Then gently trying to un join.
To the MNH purists they are already damaged
Nothing worse than gum that is not pristine
to some collectors.


What stamps are they. Values 3 cent, 4 cent, five cent.
They might not be worth much effort.
I have been soaking some Stuck downs , then using a glue stick as i need postage.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 206 ) on Oct-25-07 at 05:40:33 PDT   Listings
dcderoo I cannot say for certain as to the effectiveness of silicia gel, or dessicant, due to its decline in effectiveness over time as it absorbs moisture, but, you can find some general answers to conservation questions here http://www.gaylord.com/ click on 'resources'.
Posted by bagboy57   ( 744 ) on Oct-25-07 at 05:04:48 PDT   Listings
I have several sheets of old stamps that are stuck together whats the best way to seperate them and not damage them?
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1704 ) on Oct-25-07 at 04:57:36 PDT   Listings
Questions.
My stamps are stored in sealed containers with a desiccant (silica gel.)
I can't find any info on how good silica gel is.
I would think there is such a thing as "too dry" for stamps.

Anyone have info on:
-- the ideal humidity range for stamp storage?
-- the humidity range that can be reasonably achieved using silica gel?

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1412 ) on Oct-25-07 at 03:39:19 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


breffington
Welcome to the Stamp chat board.
While I have no idea on the demand for Latvian material, I would trust the market to bring a fair realization. Usually what sells for peanuts compared to catalogue value has an inflated catalogue value and most often sells at or near market value. When selling I generally start my lots at the 99 cents level and let the market determine the price. Ive generally obtained what Id expected, or better, from the group, but have been surprised at how it broke down on individual lots.

Jim L.

member
Posted by malolo   ( 859 ) on Oct-25-07 at 00:40:59 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
I'm finding all sorts of very interesting items I'll share sometime in the future.

Here's one out of my area. I would call it a precursor, foreshadowing increased postal rates necessary after the recent postal strike in Great Britain.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Grossbritannien-schoener-Brief-in-die-Schweiz-P270F_W0QQitemZ290171694012

I am literaly seeing items I've never seen before and thought couldn't exist. )'>)

Roger
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-24-07 at 21:11:52 PDT   Listings
NOIP Dont the cancels on this look like the cancels on that fake Special Delivery cover postalhysteria pointed out the other day? Anybody remember who that seller was?

I think this cover looks weird, not kosher somehow.

Jim
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 20:39:44 PDT   Listings
Thank you one and all for your opinions of the triangles. I am grateful they are genuine, Frodo or not. ;>)
4479 try sifting thru this site for yours. http://www.cinderellas.info/
Posted by 4479darrellp   ( 2 ) on Oct-24-07 at 20:08:29 PDT   Listings
re: my cinderella has a post mark on the upper right hand corner. Possibly came from the panama canal zone. Did they do anything like commemoratives back then?
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-24-07 at 17:52:55 PDT   Listings
19thcentpostal Those Cape triangles look good to me as well. Fakes are much coarser.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-24-07 at 17:50:59 PDT   Listings
4479

What you have is not a stamp but a cinderella.

The only country without a name on the stamp is GB and from your description, it is not a stamp I recognize.

(apart from the fact that the writing is in french).
Posted by 4479darrellp   ( 2 ) on Oct-24-07 at 17:35:18 PDT   Listings
I'm trying to find specifics on a stamp I came across by accident. The motto reads "Jusqu'ua bout" (to the bitter end)...it has a figure with a sword and shield on the far right and the rest of the stamp is pretty much open field. Any suggestion on how to identify it will be appreciated.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8654 ) on Oct-24-07 at 15:15:36 PDT   Listings
Breffington,

re. the Latvia Airs, make sure they are genuine, there are many fakes around especially in old collections,

David B.
Posted by breffington   ( 384 ) on Oct-24-07 at 14:56:57 PDT   Listings
Re Latvia question: apologies for the spelling mistakes like Lavian for Latvia and imperferred for imperfed. I'm thinking of selling the items by sets rather than the stockbook as a whole.F
Posted by breffington   ( 384 ) on Oct-24-07 at 14:53:21 PDT   Listings
Hi, Just accepted a stockbook loaded with Lavian stamps both mint,used,perfed, imperferred including some of the scarcer airmails like C9-13 cataloging $525 and CB9-13 at $105. I've agreed to sell it on ebay to help out a friend. Any ideas on how much to start the lots for vis-a-vis catalog value? Or should we gamble on enough demand to drive a start price of 1.00 up to catalog or market? He needs the money so I want to sell them at a fair price. Not have them go for peanuts. Regards, Frank
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-24-07 at 14:21:29 PDT   Listings

Paolo, I got your eBay version, CYE, Jeff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-24-07 at 14:20:02 PDT   Listings

Any Costa Ruca collectors here today???

I tried looking it up in my catalog but couldn't find it :^)
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 14:02:13 PDT   Listings
P.S. just sent it (copied and pasted previous e-mail into the uncorrupted eBay form).
Just as a between (...),
in my sent items I have two e-mails now. The previous, sent directly to your address, might have not been received because I had made a couple of modifications to the canned text of the e-mail (I had just deleted a bit of those draconian eBay notes that get carried around consuming tonns of web-space).
Paolo

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 12:52:49 PDT   Listings
Howdy Jeff,
I had received your kind note (thanks) and I replied today (not through eBay, just replied to the e-mail with my e-mail).
However, the e-mail ways are strange, and I will send my reply to you again!

Best,
Paolo
Posted by thines   ( 1513 ) on Oct-24-07 at 12:51:44 PDT   Listings
Dave Snyder,

I'm planning to go to the Mega Event in NYC Saturday afternoon. Anyone else? It would be nice to meet others who post here.

Terence Hines

Posted by dbenson   ( 8654 ) on Oct-24-07 at 12:37:23 PDT   Listings
19th.C, re. the Capes, they are OK, both Dlr. printings but the lack of margins doesn't rate them very highly on the economic front,

David B.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-24-07 at 12:24:05 PDT   Listings

4c Liberty coil on resort ad card mailed at the 4c first class rate as the card was oversize and disqualified for the post card rate.

Alas it was not mailed at the 2-cent third class rate.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-24-07 at 12:19:37 PDT   Listings

and one last abuse to an equine who has seen better days

the high winds FANNED the fire, the dry timber FUELED the fire.

youdon'tneedtobeaweathermantoknowwhichwaythewindblows-raff

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-24-07 at 12:09:46 PDT   Listings
19thcp

My little one , who only collects triangles
said " Those are Frodoes"

Which in her speak means Fro does away :-}

when we weed it is without remorse.
Posted by billsey   ( 852 ) on Oct-24-07 at 12:01:33 PDT   Listings
Lynn my first impression is also that they're forgeries. Just not finely enough detailed to match the real ones. Wait for more expert opinions though...
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 11:54:56 PDT   Listings
NOIP Finally, have a chance to sort out some past acquisitions and found what may be a couple of 'weeds' after perusing Mr. Claghorns wonderful website. Naturally, I am in denial and would appreciate others opinions before labeling them as COGH forgerys.
Lynn
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-24-07 at 11:49:24 PDT   Listings

Top-fuel funny cars don't run on air.

If they did they would be called top-air funny cars.

And THAT would be funny.

laff-raff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3787 ) on Oct-24-07 at 11:47:33 PDT   Listings

paolo - did you receive the e-mail I sent thru the eBay system?
Posted by dr.searchphd   ( 0 ) on Oct-24-07 at 11:38:00 PDT   Listings
RE;

Fuel:
Well, i dont know about the tech side of the statement that the 'air' is 'supporting' the combustion of a 'fuel' as we have always treated 'air' as a 'fuel' in the world of hauling-the-mail as fast as possible :)
(how about this tie-in, jaywild?:)

Dragracer/Collector
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-24-07 at 11:14:51 PDT   Listings
Jaywild
I agree that many were tossed, still are.

Will see this weekend what's out there ,
I see lots and lots of old mail.
Many house clean out guys in this part
of florida just sell boxes of mail,
No break down or sort. Just lots of mail.
I see all kinds of modern stuff,1930> but usually pass by or just pick out , interesting (to me) things.Guess another book i need on the shelf .
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 133 ) on Oct-24-07 at 11:06:41 PDT   Listings
Hello Fellow Stamp Collectors:

I wonder if I could any of the stamp collectors out there for help on a matter that I need cleared up.

What I am looking for is a line drawing of a Circular Date Stamp for 1907 for Carcavelos, Portugal.

Also I am having a dilema and that is that I am reading through the Webb Book that lists Hong Kong Circular Date Stamps and my dilema is that for the Victoria, Hong Kong short side Bars Webb only lists line drawings for type Ji and Type Jii but says there are a number of other types which he does not give a line drawing for these Circular date stamps, is there someone out there who can help!
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-24-07 at 10:27:47 PDT   Listings
due2cents The vast majority of Liberty usage covers were simply tossed away, especially those used for circulars or other advertising. Remember how sickeningly common it was to see those violet 4 Lincoln stamps on cover? In my couple years of searching on eBay they turn up as single lots very rarely. Those stamps were as ubiquitous as fleas, and people treated them accordingly.

I think its safe to say that no one thought any of the series used on cover would ever be scarce, but at one time it was also thought the supply of passenger pigeons was inexhaustible. So despite the windfalls that occasionally turn up (like Matts) I dont think the number of Liberty solos on the market will ever increase dramatically.

The fever for collecting solo usages dates only from the 1980s, and it began with the prexies then later spread to other series. Imagine how many 11, 14 & 17 solo prexie usages were trashed by irate wifeys between 1938 and 1985!

Jim
Posted by djs127   ( 615 ) on Oct-24-07 at 10:27:32 PDT   Listings
Is anyone going to the NYC Mega Event this Sunday?
I am thinking of going and wondered if anyone else from this chat was going to be there?
David Snyder
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 10:12:41 PDT   Listings
Thank you, Milenko (make a good 'tabula rasa')!

A couple of days ago I acquired this airmail stamp here.
Goes to add to the other one, with the broken 'einfassung' of the left glass of the aviator.
The vertical red arrow is not part of the stamp ;-)

Paolo
Posted by oggilby   ( 1237 ) on Oct-24-07 at 09:57:53 PDT   Listings
due2cents--Once I told my fellow workers that I would be interested in their stamped "junk" mail, I get bags of the stuff to sort through.. I mainly pull out the plate coils and then a few (5-10) of each variety of usage to keep.

Gotta go and discuss the improvement (destruction) of by data loading programs, Bee Back later!
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-24-07 at 09:43:38 PDT   Listings
Oggilby

My Friends hate me cause I sort their mail ,
and take any with a Stamp ...

It's easy once you point out
all important stuff comes from
Meter users.
I'll take the Junk.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1237 ) on Oct-24-07 at 09:37:24 PDT   Listings
Greetings to all from a rainy Central Maryland, with ground level clouds hanging around the rivers & streams, as I look west out of my office window, neat!

due2cents--I have a few Transportation issues on cover & most of the bulk mail rate stamps that followed after that. Wifey wonders why I have boxes of "useless (her word)" covers. "I'm Burt (Hello Burt) and I'm a cover collector!"
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 301 ) on Oct-24-07 at 09:33:12 PDT   Listings
Paolo

OK, will do it :)

NOIP
This is the best price I've seen for a single Chilean stamp in eBay. And it's not even one of the most important transfer faults!
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-24-07 at 07:29:51 PDT   Listings
LIBERTY SERIES

The semi on going discussion of the usages
makes me wonder , Do You feel (those collecting)
that as interest increases or at least awareness,
That many items considered rare/scarce today will
appear in droves.

OGGiby
I have a few thousand Bulk rate covers I have set aside. And still do.

Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 07:23:25 PDT   Listings
Milenko,
When you upload the recent board, would you please delete some (or all) of my posts of Saturday night?
Thank you!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 07:20:27 PDT   Listings
Knud-Erik,
Just had a quick look at your letter for now.
Written in Brugge (Bruges), Belgium (... den 7 July 1668).
Looks like it's written in (old) Flemish (which is a Neerlandic language like Dutch).
Should be easy for a board member from Belgium, who used to post somne years ago, to get at least a gist of what is it about. For now, I cannot distinguish a quid for a quo!

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Oct-24-07 at 07:08:00 PDT   Listings
Good day from grey Shoes!

Off to catch up on the board.

Paolo
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Posted by philaweb   ( 313 ) on Oct-24-07 at 06:59:13 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 301 ) on Oct-24-07 at 06:34:44 PDT   Listings
Ian

the chatboard is being saved here.

I haven't uptated the last week; I'll do it tonight.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1412 ) on Oct-24-07 at 06:20:12 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.

member
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 502 ) on Oct-24-07 at 06:10:27 PDT   Listings
Maybe someone can post the link here for Norvic Ian, so he can go back and read the archived chat board and see the replies to his question last week.?

Linda
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-24-07 at 05:37:18 PDT   Listings
As seen here

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=test+auction&_nd1=See-All-Categories#item250178821146


Build a TEST auction
let your club memebers bid
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Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-24-07 at 05:31:58 PDT   Listings
Norvic
You can run TEST Auctions...
Posted by norvic   ( 942 ) on Oct-24-07 at 04:18:36 PDT   Listings
Forget my question abou the 'play area'.
The general Q&A board has confirmed that there ain't no such animal, more's the pity.

Oh well, back to a slideshow rather than reality, then.
Posted by knuden   ( 2384 ) on Oct-24-07 at 01:48:30 PDT   Listings
I wonder if anyone (Paolo?) can give me a hint of what is written in the folded letter from 1668 (page 1) (page 2).

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!
Posted by norvic   ( 942 ) on Oct-24-07 at 01:35:18 PDT   Listings
I've not been able to get to the board for a couple of days and now all discussion on the 'eBay play area' has slipped out of sight. (Oh this system IS annoying sometimes!)

So if anybody did post anything useful / relevant whether positive or not, please repost or send to ian@norphil.co.uk

Many thanks
Posted by malolo   ( 859 ) on Oct-24-07 at 01:10:41 PDT   Listings
Lynn -
Thanks for the heads-up. I replied to your email.

Roger
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 206 ) on Oct-23-07 at 23:35:14 PDT   Listings
jaywild No, I didn't,but, you are certainly welcome. Now that I'm laid off maybe I can catch up with the board and have a little me (read stamping) time. Lynn
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 23:09:29 PDT   Listings
Matthew Or raise a toast to burning stamps?

I wondered when you were going to weigh in on the subject.

?

Lynn Don't know whether you saw my post the other day--thanks for the Oct 5th Priority Mail cover!

Jim
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 206 ) on Oct-23-07 at 23:03:34 PDT   Listings
Roger Please CYE. Lynn
Posted by dkru   ( 357 ) on Oct-23-07 at 21:39:04 PDT   Listings
re fueling v.t. ...While all of this comes down to a matter of definitions, the sentence in question is incorrect usage as a normal technical description of combustion. Expensive Malibu homes and dry brush are fueling the fires. Hot air and high winds are supporting the fire.

The second definition of fueling, which is normally a metaphorical usage, involves the stimulation of something by analogy to a fire. Since using a fire metaphor to describe a fire seems silly, I am inclined to agree with Roger that it is a poor usage.

Dana, chemist/collector

Posted by matthew1999   ( 173 ) on Oct-23-07 at 21:34:40 PDT   Listings
To pour something on the flames,

"Toast" is both a noun and a verb.

So is "stamp" (just to keep things philatelic).

Both burn well, and anyone who has been camping has likely resorted to stamping out burning toast at some point.

I have no degrees in anything (aside from the basic 98.6), although I do fancy myself able to string together a decent English sentence when required.

:-)

Mh
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 21:33:06 PDT   Listings
Have you guys ever been to any of the other eBay Chat Rooms? For the people monitoring the Boards, we must seem so different, like from another planet different. Try 5 minutes on the Elvis Board. Well, maybe compared to the Sci-Fi Board we're not so weird.

:-)

Matt in Arizona
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-23-07 at 21:14:08 PDT   Listings
Sorry guys.

Though I am English, I don't have a degree in English (yet).
I have aced a few classes in the subject (which isn't hard when the other students are 20 year-old Americans).

Please read Lavoisier's experiments and then argue that oxygen is not a fuel.
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1664 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:59:25 PDT   Listings
jaywild, I understand your point, but I disagree, respectfully. Fuel can be considered a noun. But, in your context, YOU consider it a verb. So there ya go{ I consider it a noun, in my and Roger's context (am I'am not not Rogers keeper, but I consider the nomenclature a noun. Sorry for the confusioon, but it really can be both Not my post, by the way.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:57:42 PDT   Listings
malolo...Last one for me too. I guess I should just say see jaywild's latest post. While another word might better have been chosen, the sentence is not grammatically incorrect and shouldn't be confusing to anyone that knows that oxygen isn't a fuel, which should be just about everyone.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:56:58 PDT   Listings
Yea verily did peace then reign throughout the land…

Jim
Posted by malolo   ( 857 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:48:08 PDT   Listings
PS:
jaywild -
Me too. )'>)
Roger
Posted by figmente   ( 902 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:46:16 PDT   Listings
Oxygen most certainly is a fuel for fire. Those hydrocarbons won't burn without it, any more than it will burn by itself. It doesn't take degrees in anything to know that, it is a basic bit of chemical knowledge which everyone should have learned in grammar school.
Posted by malolo   ( 857 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:44:18 PDT   Listings
David -
""Powerful Santa Ana winds have fueled more than 10 large wildfires..."

One fuels airplanes with avgas, one fuels race cars with methanol, one fuels arguments with differences of opinion. There are many more examples where "fuel" can be used as a verb. Considering the sentence above, "winds...fueled...wildfires..." , the question must be asked, what is the fuel? In my examples it is understood that an airplane and race cars are fueled with some sort of petroleum product, and arguments are fueled with written or verbal statements. That is why those metaphors work. For the news article to work, one would need to write something like,
"Powerful Santa Ana winds have fueled more than 10 large wildfires with hot oxygen...".
Hot oxygen is not there because it's wrong, and the Santa Ana winds don't fuel anything. Over grown brush, trees, and homes fuel the fires. The winds spread the fires faster than fire fighters can stop them, that is the cause of the disaster.

Roger
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:40:03 PDT   Listings
chaswilly & Roger… This will be my last post on this topic, because it will be impossible to go further without running the risk of explosion. Please take the information below strictly as FYI.

1. In the sentence in question, “have fueled” is the verb. It is in the present perfect tense, “have” being the auxiliary, “fueled” being the past participle of the verb whose present tense is “to fuel”.
2. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines the verb “to fuel”, in part, as I noted below—“to support, to stimulate”.
3. Fire consists of a combustible substance + oxygen + heat sufficient to cause ignition. Once a fire is going, there can be very many effects acting upon it to stimulate it, or make it worse. Ambient heat (100° temperatures), low humidity and/or high winds are three variables that can serve to stimulate a fire.

I will readily admit that the sentence Roger referred to is overwrought and confusing, and thus typical of the breathy, silly way news is frequently covered on TV. My view however is that the sentence can’t be picked apart grammatically.

The end.

☺

Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:39:21 PDT   Listings
From the LA Times

Unstoppable IU pianist fueled by strong passion for music

I don't know if passion is a solid, gas, or liquid but I think that sometimes it can be a vector.
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1664 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:30:27 PDT   Listings
NOIP Does anyone here have a degree in English? Besides iomoon, which is really sad.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:30:21 PDT   Listings
Roger is going to love this headline in the New York Times

Red Mosque Fueled Islamic Fire in Young Women
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1664 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:23:52 PDT   Listings
jaywild fuel can be a noun. As is my post. Can also be a verb, as in your post, but take in context, please.
Posted by malolo   ( 857 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:20:22 PDT   Listings
jaywild -
But the point is that original "fuel" as a verb is used incorrectly, due to a lack of scientific knowledge.

David's example is correct, "Money is the fuel of a volunteer organization." It is solid and tangible and is the fuel, as in carbon based compounds, not vaporous as is air or oxygen.

I will bet another $100 the first reporter thinks fires start spontaneously when the winds get above 60mph, the temperature gets above 90°,and the humidity gets down to 5%. Nearly every fire in the past has been started by power lines blown down and sparking fires in brush, or they are man-made by arsonists and idiots. The fuel is the brush and trees, the wind is a vector.

Remember oxygen is NON-flammable.

Roger
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1664 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:16:34 PDT   Listings
jaywild fuel and fueled is the present and past tense. I never used the verb fueled>/b>. Do you think I don't have a grasp of the English language. Or do you think I am a face-kicker of midjets?
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:15:45 PDT   Listings
malolo...It doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the guy knew what a fuel or an oxidizer was because he wasn't claiming that the winds were a component of the fire. T

Why don't you just look up fueled in the dictionary. This usage is very common and it's hard to believe you haven't run across it.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:14:43 PDT   Listings
E U S C
Ebay Users Stamp Club Meeting

The next Ebay Users Stamp Club meeting For October 2007 will commence at 12:00 Midnight (ebay time) October 26th and end midnight October 28th.
The meetings topic will focus on what first brought club members into collecting stamps.
What was your first philatelic love and how has your collecting preferences changed/evolved?
What was your first favorite country, stamp, set of stamps and what are they now etc etc.



Happy Stampin,

Mitchell aka Antonius Ra

President EUSC
Posted by malolo   ( 857 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:06:35 PDT   Listings
Sorry guys, I don't buy your explanations.

I understand what you are saying, but I would bet $100 the person who first wrote that phrase for the AP, or whatever, and has been quoted ad nauseum, doesn't have a clue of the difference between a fuel and an oxidizer.

To keep fanning the fires of this argument, I'll also bet we are only a few years from reading, "the Santa Ana are winds growing the fires to monstrous proportion, unseen since Biblical times! You know, the next news will be discussions of whether this fire is the all time loss leader. I think Dresden probably holds the record in actual value dollars!


I'm not being unsympathetic to those who have lost, and are in the process of losing, their homes. I witnessed the Bel-Aire Fire first hand while watering down the roof of a house, and I saw flames skip over our heads from a ridge onb the east to the ridge to the west. Most homes in the valley were untouched. The noise is incredible, pops, muffled explosions of houses blowing up, and the crackling of small bushes instantly in full flame. I don't envy anyone in the area, I just wish the reporting was accurate, instead of glorified and scientifically wrong.

Roger
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:04:37 PDT   Listings
chaswilly… This was the sentence that started this all—
"Powerful Santa Ana winds have fueled more than 10 large wildfires throughout Southern California, stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego."
”Fueled” in this instance is indeed a verb.

☺

Jim
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1664 ) on Oct-23-07 at 20:02:12 PDT   Listings
there is no "stretch", unless you manfucacture one. But, then, I am only one guy talking.
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1664 ) on Oct-23-07 at 19:54:47 PDT   Listings
jaywild... That's not a verb, it's a noun. Good continuation.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-23-07 at 19:15:54 PDT   Listings
"I am the God of Hellfire & I bring you...., FIRE continue to Burn!" -- The Crazy Work of Authur Brown (another one hit wonder).

Matt et. al--Collecting the Liberty series on covers is an amazing feat. Right now, I'm collecting examples of Bulk rate covers used over the last ten years or so. I figure with so many Sea Coast covers being thrown out as trash mail, I should have something valuable in a few years (hee-hee)!
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 19:06:26 PDT   Listings
Jeff,

Correct! It seems 3rd Class holiday mailing began losing popularity around the time the US Post Office began issuing Christmas Stamps at regular 1st Class postage rates (1962 4¢). Buying 4¢ stamps when the rate was 5¢ was an inconvenience, but 1½¢ stamps to pay the 3¢ rate in the 1930s was a big savings.

I have many 1½¢ rate covers for this special 3rd class holiday rate, but have seen far fewer after 1950 or so. This is another rate that ended Jan 7 1968.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:59:14 PDT   Listings

third class mailing
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:52:43 PDT   Listings
Jim,

re: 4¢ used in 1966

That's one of two possibilities I am dealing with. It is postmarked Elmira but addressed to Elmira Heights 14903. I don't have a PO guide to see if Carrier Service was applicable in this case. Back flap was left unsealed.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:40:29 PDT   Listings
malolo...The use of fuel in that sentence has nothing to do with a material that is part of combustion. The definition is "something that maintains or stimulates an activity or emotion: Money is the fuel of a volunteer organization.

Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:39:39 PDT   Listings
Roger… The use of “fuel” as a verb, as in the case in question, stretches the original meaning of the word into the metaphorical. Thus it is no longer strictly associated with “fuel” as in “combustible material”.

As an analogy, think of the noun “shoulder”. This noun can also be employed as a verb, but the meaning is not restricted to employment of the flesh-and-blood body part. You can shoulder a responsibility without stirring a muscle.

☺

Jim
Posted by malolo   ( 857 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:28:37 PDT   Listings
chaswilly -
Place those stones around the edge of the evening campfire, then wrap them in newspaper for insulation, and place them at the bottom of your sleeping bag to keep toes warm. About 2am chuck the cold stones out of the tent as far as possible, so as not trip on them when getting up at 5am for a natural excursion to the nearest tree. How many of you guys have done that? Just passing on old knowledge before it gets lost and no longer available to future generations.

Roger
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:26:29 PDT   Listings
stamphick… Thanks.

Jim
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1664 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:18:09 PDT   Listings
malolo I love the carbon reference. We're supposed to be thinking green, but I'm thinking black (for the time being anyways). Thinking stamps123456789ad nauseum may be the wisest S.O.B. in the stamp world (but probably not), so what do I do with all these Swiss stone thingys? Really, already divested. Go figure! Good continuation!
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:17:54 PDT   Listings
Weapons Technician 2c, see http://www.betadesigns.com/Vgrfx/pages/Military_Artwork/US_Navy_Artwork/Rank_Insignias/Enlisted/Patches/Second_Class_Petty_Officer/WT2.asp

Phil
Posted by stjohnstamps   ( 866 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:11:26 PDT   Listings
Thanks for posting the Times article on the 613 strip. I know Larry Cohen from collecting precancels. He is a genuinely nice guy and totally devoted to the Black Harding stamps. I'm real happy for him. He buys here on ebay too, altho it sounds like the Harding Hoard predates this place.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 18:03:59 PDT   Listings
Matt in AZ… If the recipient was located in Elmira NY then the local rate (4¢ per oz) would apply. Rate period: 7 Jan 1963 through 6 Jan 1968.

Jeff S... Gee I don’t want to violate any red writing so check your eBay messages for a note from me…

Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:59:42 PDT   Listings
jaywild...Weapons technician second class.
Posted by malolo   ( 857 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:59:15 PDT   Listings
Apparently we need a review class.

I suggest the topic this weekend be "Fuel and Fire". Just to heat it up a little I offer the following links:

Scroll down to "Combustion analysis"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion

then to the link at the bottom of page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire

There is no mention of oxygen being a FUEL. It is required for fire, but is not a fuel. Hydrocarbons are the primary fuels in the Southern California fires.
"Flaming fires involve the rapid oxidation of a fuel...."

Fuels are Carbon, Hydrogen, Sulfur, Coal, Oil, and Fuel Gas.

"The simple word equation for the combustion of a hydrocarbon in oxygen is:
Fuel + Oxygen > Heat + Water + Carbon Dioxide"

Roger, the last genetic holdout, who remembers his ancestors discovered and were able to use fire.

PS: Mitchell - As a kid under 10 years old in England I pumped a forge bellows in the workshed of the village smithy, watching him hand-make horseshoes for the draft animals belonging to local farmers. I've walked beside a farmer using a horse drawn plough (until I got tired and sat at the hedgerow watching for hedgehogs or looking for small bird's nests). I know how the surname Smith originated. There were Smith's everywhere prior to the invention of the automobile.

There is old, and the is OLD. Be respectful, you hear! )'>)
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:51:23 PDT   Listings
Jeff,

re: 4½¢ Solo

Thanks! Great news. Too bad it's perfed with Large Holes.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:48:01 PDT   Listings
Prominent Americans Series of 1965...

Pop Quiz.

4¢ Lincoln, 17 Dec 1966, #10 envelope, non-commercial

Another interesting usage... why?

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:45:56 PDT   Listings
Jim,

re: Solo cover

Thanks! I have found many nice items. 2 big boxes, mostly very ordinary items but every now and then something special. What do you think that will realize on eBay?

Anyone need 500 covers postmarked Elmira, NY?

Thankfully some people keep everything!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:43:12 PDT   Listings
matt - unbefreakingleavable. Unless I fell off the turnip truck and really hurt my head you are looking at easily a $200 item there. Congratulations on a score of the year, and you have 2 months to go. You might get with Roland Austin at the Liberty Issue Studdy Group online and let him see it.

The COIL must exist much more than known, but I think the census of these covers is at 4, now yours makes 5. i have a couple perforated 4-1/2 centers in my third class mail collection but alas none are coils.

Jay-jim: I have a solo 50c Liberty, a double weight certified, return receipt right here. A small cover too. Too bad eBay rules prevent my offering it to you in trade or sale ;^
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:36:03 PDT   Listings
Er—last message was supposed to be for NOIP...

But Matt in AZ Wow!!! That’s some nice cover. I have the coil on cover but not as a solo use. Very nice.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:32:45 PDT   Listings
Matt in AZ… I got this item today, posted from the USS Zane, a minesweeper that saw duty in the Pacific during World War II. Its claim to fame is that Herman Wouk served as an officer aboard the Zane and later wrote The Caine Mutiny based in part on his experiences on that vessel. While no mutiny took place on the Zane it was run aground during one amphibious operation and the furious blame game that followed supposedly inspired Wouk’s plot.

The Zane was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 but was not damaged by enemy fire. At the time this airletter was mailed she was performing minesweeping and buoy laying as part of Operation Forager, the invasion of the Marianas Islands. Four days after this postmark date the Marines landed on Guam.

A question about the sender—anybody know what rank he is? It looks like WT 2/c, which I assume is “something” 2nd class. Wireless Telegrapher maybe?

Jim
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 17:23:57 PDT   Listings
Jeff & Jim,

Did you mean one of these?

Closer View

Haven't seen any 1¢ Non-Profits (yet)

Matt in Arizona
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 16:46:49 PDT   Listings
Heck, I don't think I've heard a newscaster or a public school teacher say something was affected in maybe 10 years. Everything is impacted these days, not just wisdom teeth.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-23-07 at 16:46:47 PDT   Listings
Lindy Congrats on the 500 and your new star!

Since you were the only one to respond to my request, we shall go with that topic for the meeting. I will make a formal announcement after I am done working for the day.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 16:42:56 PDT   Listings
Matt in AZ… Yep, that’s a hand-driven International.

If you have any extra or spare solos of the 4½¢ covers perhaps you can email me at—

uswa “dot” 2018 “at” yahoo “dot” com.

I’m also in need of a 50¢ solo and a $1 solo. I don’t think I will even pursue the $5 solo. As I recall there are only two non-philatelic correct-rate usages that have ever turned up.

fuel vt 2: SUPPORT, STIMULATE —Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

But Roger in Paradise has every reason to be annoyed at the news people on TV who are reporting these fires. I think I’ve heard every cliché ever uttered by the mouth of man in the course of the reporting at least a hundred times, and every little flare-up is treated like an atomic bomb blast. When I heard a reporter use “impacted” for the fifteenth time (when what she meant was affected) and then spoke of someone as having “gifted” their house (i.e. gave it) to the City of Pasadena I almost threw my shoe through the TV set. Fortunately I recovered my wits and “remote controlled” her into oblivion.

☺

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-23-07 at 16:39:01 PDT   Listings
Matthew Very nice writting of a great philatelic story!
You make us proud!!
I wouldn't doubt that you have lit a fire within many people to take up an interest in stamps. Perhaps more than
anything the EUSC or this board has done in its history.
Could be that the interest would be just for the sake of the "treasure hunt", but an interest none the less. I think we're all treasure hunters in this hobby afterall.
I salute you on a job well done................
the New York Times, oh my.

Roger You aren't old enough to not remember what bellows were for. Combustion cannot occur without oxygen.
Even with it
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-23-07 at 16:15:11 PDT   Listings
Roger

I'll agree with David on this one.
The wind is supplying oxygen which is fueling the fire.
If the wind was bringing in carbon dioxide, the fire would be dead (along with all the people who weren't burnt to death).
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Oct-23-07 at 15:45:08 PDT   Listings
Roger...Doesn't bother me. I don't see the scientific inaccuracy. I suppose you are referring to the winds fueling.

fueling -something that sustains or encourages

The definition should be clear in context.
Posted by malolo   ( 857 ) on Oct-23-07 at 15:37:06 PDT   Listings
Aloha -

Am I the only person bothered by this sentence. It seems to me it is scientifically inaccurate, but being repeated over and over on the radio , TV, and internet?

"Powerful Santa Ana winds have fueled more than 10 large wildfires throughout Southern California, stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego."

Responses are welcome.

Roger
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 15:15:24 PDT   Listings

Matt- look for a 4-1/2c coil proper use, there are about 4 recorded. Any 1c non-profits? I am trying to round out a 1-framer on that rate.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 15:07:23 PDT   Listings
Jeff,

That is what I am trying to confirm. It looks like an International HD-2 (hand driven) cancel but I am not 100% sure. I bought a box of covers at my stamp club (Phoenix Philatelic Assn) that has hundreds of Liberty Series covers from upstate New York, mid 1950's to mid 1960's.

Just came across proper use of the 1¼¢ and 4½¢ Liberty Series on Non-Profit covers. I have the new reference 'The Liberty Series' and it is coming in very handy.

Jim (Jaywild) may be off fighting fires.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 14:58:18 PDT   Listings

Matt - is that one of those hand-cranked internationals that jay-jim showed a couple of days ago?
Posted by keleofa   ( 3568 ) on Oct-23-07 at 14:25:51 PDT   Listings
USA Machine Cancels...

Odessa, New York 1960

Is this an International Machine? Note the comma after the town name and the late date.

T I A,

Matt in Arizona
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-23-07 at 12:35:44 PDT   Listings
Jeff

Back before the days of the internet, those short-lived phenomena cards were the main way of obtaining information apart from paying for expensive long-distance telephone calls.

Volcanic eruptions were also announced by the exact same cards, along with whale beachings and meteorite impacts, etc.

Basically it was a subscription service which, for the most part, was worthless. Since by the time you got the card, the incident was a thing of the distant past.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 11:27:45 PDT   Listings
Stars and Stripes reports that the deadlines for military postal mail reaching all destinations by Christmas are:

1) Nov. 13 for surface mail (mail going by truck or ship),
2) Nov. 27 for space-available mail,
3) Dec. 4 for parcel airlift mail,
4) Dec. 11 for priority mail and first-class letter and cards, and
5) Dec. 18 for express mail.

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 11:25:38 PDT   Listings
Who uses a glass. ?

Hysteria
I have the Book and the links.
I always pass by the NE Doanes.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 11:16:13 PDT   Listings

I too enjoyed not only the 2c Black Harding article but the lore of the find as well. Of course there will always be the odd malcontent philatelic sociopath who will take joy in faulting the expertization group(s) for dragging their heels.

Is the glass half full or half empty? Or hey, that s.o.b. just took off with the glass.

Philo-raff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 11:12:29 PDT   Listings

due2 - Doanes? They are popular items for the most part with a likely exception (generalization I know) of the northeast. There is a recent book published on them, and an online listing of some here.

I think they are highly overrated for the most part, even though I believe they are mostly 4th class office postmarks. Some saw use for over 20 years. I have done well with a batch of KY Doanes I found in several boxes of KY covers I once bought.

beenthere,doanethat-raff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 11:05:19 PDT   Listings

Was tickled hot pink with this item . What if it had been a volcano report?

And it ain't in no catalog.

Catalog? Catalog? We don't have no catalog. We don't have to show hou no stinkin' catalog.

Sierramadre-raff
Posted by djs127   ( 613 ) on Oct-23-07 at 11:02:49 PDT   Listings
poppadawq thanks for the message about Vendio- I checked 3 of my lots and they seem ok now.

Jim- There was the following on Vendio's web site "We are currently experiencing a issue with the Image Hosting service, which is causing image hosting to be temporarily unavailable on the Vendio site. We do not expect any image data loss, and we will update this announcement as soon as we have more information and/or an ETA. We appreciate your patience while we work to fix this issue, and we apologize for the inconvenience.
Please note: All images should be visible on your eBay and Store listings, as this is only affecting access to image hosting on the Vendio site."
David Snyder
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 10:45:32 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Vendio has been pretty much dead all morning. Most of the lots of sellers using Vendio showed no images at all, while about a quarter showed an “Image not available at this time” message. (Even the small images.)

Since I have a large amount of searches to go through, I’m not going to go back and keep checking those lots to see when and if the images appear. They are off my radar for good.

If I were a seller using Vendio, I’d be p*ssed.

due2cents... If a seller knows something about an item he is selling that might mislead buyers, yet fails to disclose that when he is advertising the item, he is in the wrong. In fact, he has committed a civil crime, and can be sued if the damage is substantial enough. Sorry, but that guy selling the fake bisect is hoping someone will notice it and jump to the conclusion that it is valuable. He was notified on this board that his cover is fake, and even if he does not agree with that assessment he has a duty to mention that there is substantial reason to think the cover is not what it appears to be.

Jim
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-23-07 at 10:42:56 PDT   Listings
Thanks for the 631 aricle , Matt! Diligence pays off, now where's my box of 1cent Franklin's & two cent Washington's?

Greetings from a cloudy, still warm (74 F) and fire free Central Maryland. Lack of rain, wind & sparks are not a good combination!
Posted by poppadawg   ( 750 ) on Oct-23-07 at 10:25:03 PDT   Listings
djs127: You might want to check your images on Vendio...supersized ones are not available on some of your lots.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-23-07 at 10:10:23 PDT   Listings
Matthew

Nice article.

I was, however, under the impression that Brooklyn was on Long Island. :-)
Posted by matthew1999   ( 173 ) on Oct-23-07 at 09:50:40 PDT   Listings
Thanks all for the nice words...

DJS, Unfortunately I'm no longer living in Bklyn but on Long Island. Not much time for stamps lately but I try... perhaps I'll get a couple of hours to visit the stamp show at the Garden this week.

Jaywild, there will be more details in Linn's in a week or two.

Mh
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 09:42:09 PDT   Listings
Shuttle looked great going out
"taking Harmony to the Heavens"
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 09:37:19 PDT   Listings
Jaywild

In no part of his description does he claim
tied
he is Selling the Pioneer letter and content.. MHO


Matthew
Thanks for the Illustrations in your Fine article....
Posted by djs127   ( 613 ) on Oct-23-07 at 09:34:34 PDT   Listings
Matthew nice article. If you haven't mentioned it on the virtual stamp club yet you should. Have you had any time lately to work on your stamps? How is living in Brooklyn? (where I grew up and lived till I was 24).
David Snyder
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 09:23:36 PDT   Listings
Matthew… Thanks for that story on the 613 multiple. It’s nice to have all the details of that story—it got pretty weird here with scraps of the story coming from many different quarters.

Jim
Posted by matthew1999   ( 173 ) on Oct-23-07 at 09:00:11 PDT   Listings
Howdy all,
Hi DJS, I like your feedback number! - I just wrote about 613's for today's Times. Gratifying that they saw fit to produce a nice graphic explanation to accompany the story.

Mh
Posted by djs127   ( 613 ) on Oct-23-07 at 08:41:47 PDT   Listings
Paul - Thanks for your kind note but at present I want to sell the extras I already have in my stamp den so my wife will be happier with a neater office. When I retire I would want to know more about the live auctions you attend.
David Snyder
Posted by jaywild   ( 1009 ) on Oct-23-07 at 08:37:54 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Didn’t Richard F identify this as a fake the other day?

And Miss Lindy how could I have missed your milestone? My deepest apologies, and congratulations on the 500—you don’t look a day over 499!

due2cents… The fires are all elsewhere from where I live, although the sky is almost clouded over with smoke. Makes for some eerie sunshine, very yellow or orange.

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 08:29:27 PDT   Listings
"And the rest of the day to you"
MICHEL How are You Today?
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 08:28:10 PDT   Listings
Brock

Do you mean a Check list
or ???

Please describe or
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Oct-23-07 at 08:19:12 PDT   Listings
Greetings to you all
Posted by brock7120   ( 60 ) on Oct-23-07 at 08:05:03 PDT   Listings
We have some new members who are looking for some version of the Scott STamp Want list. Does anyoone know if they are still available and where we could buy some.

Thanks. Deb
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 07:57:26 PDT   Listings
hsteria
Time is subjective.

On time related subjectivity.

I notice that you frequently post doanes.
are they steady , have been thinking about state groups
lots, eku lku and NEW finds as singles.?
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-23-07 at 07:52:07 PDT   Listings
Hope those we know out west in kaliufor-i-a have fire proof boxes for the Stamps and Covers.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 06:18:00 PDT   Listings

Never been known for being on time...
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 500 ) on Oct-23-07 at 05:50:30 PDT   Listings
thanks Jeff, that was last week, guess you missed the cake! hee heee
Not that anyone here would eat anything I baked that attempted to look like a cake!!
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-23-07 at 05:39:53 PDT   Listings

Happy 500 Linda! Now you must serve cake to all!!

jeff-raff

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 500 ) on Oct-23-07 at 05:16:54 PDT   Listings
Mitch I like the idea of what stamp / country / event first sparked an interest in Stamp Collecting... should be lots of different stories to tell there!

Linda
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-23-07 at 04:32:38 PDT   Listings
Waiting for my invoice from Boston ,it will come today ,it will be a shocker.......
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-23-07 at 04:24:57 PDT   Listings
DAVID S. -----Congrads on your increase sales .Now all you need to do is visit some of those larger auction houses on the East Coast and buy better grade and more desirable material for your sales.Last auction had a few of your dealer friends from the NYC area ......paul
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1402 ) on Oct-23-07 at 03:42:48 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Greetings,

I received a “Mustangs” Postal Stationary envelope in the mail the other day. I noticed that the Blue and red ink does not run parallel to the bottom of the envelope, it declines about 3mm from right to left. Is that normal? Our local P.O. lacks this issue for me to check.
Jim L.

member
Posted by philaweb   ( 310 ) on Oct-22-07 at 23:46:03 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-22-07 at 22:35:07 PDT   Listings
Dana Howdy and thanks!

A&S Any input on the EUSC meeting topics noted is appreciated.
Posted by dkru   ( 357 ) on Oct-22-07 at 20:57:26 PDT   Listings
antonius-ra...16:05:16

Dana

Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-22-07 at 20:11:31 PDT   Listings
Paul WOW, those are very nice looking 1 Scudos you showed from the Roman States! You can feel free to send me one as I don't a have one.
I thought I had kept up on the board but I can't seem to find a discussion on that stamp. Could you please point me to the time that discussion started.

BBL.......gotta go kill some Orcs.........warcraft III
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1402 ) on Oct-22-07 at 19:58:23 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-22-07 at 19:57:50 PDT   Listings
The other thing I was thinking about for the meeting topic was: What first brought club members into collecting stamps.
What was your first philatelic love and how has your collecting preferences changed/evolved.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 643 ) on Oct-22-07 at 19:53:00 PDT   Listings
Io Agreed, but what about all those philatelic experts/dealers who use to pin stamps to a board in offering them for sale?
That used to be fine and acceptable. In the past 30 years the experts/dealers have decided that pristine gum (MNH) is the most valuable part to a stamp. Sorry, I have my own
ideas of what criterion reflects the value of a stamp. Nice centering, crisp bright colour, SON's (as Jeff showed). Small shallow thins and slight sealed tears don't bother me that much. Killer cancels, faded colours, bad centering, trimmed edges, multiple big wonger hinging, bad staining
etc turn me off the most.
I'm still looking for a topic of next weekends EUSC meeting, perhaps this might be a good one?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8647 ) on Oct-22-07 at 18:53:41 PDT   Listings
Jim, lovely margins, nice cancel,

Is there a chemist in the house,

David B.
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 948 ) on Oct-22-07 at 18:45:39 PDT   Listings
io Jim, D2 and Paolo

HERE is a scan of the front of the stamp. I believe that the thinness of the paper was the reason it bleed through!

Jimbo2
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Oct-22-07 at 17:09:12 PDT   Listings
FOR NEW COLLECTORS AND NEW READERS Here is both a real used{ signed and authinticated} and the more common FOURNIER forgery of the Roman States 1 Scudo ,so you know what stamp is being discussed . The 1 Scudo.....from my collection ....paul
Posted by dbenson   ( 8647 ) on Oct-22-07 at 16:58:17 PDT   Listings
Hungary Jim, presumably you want the stamp for the cancel (probably Pesth) and as long as the cancel is neat and the ink mark is not obstrusive I wouldn't worry about it too much especially if the price was discounted because of the owners mark.

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-22-07 at 16:47:17 PDT   Listings
Jimbo2, D2 & Paolo

Not only were the marks not made by a philatelic expert, but rather a philatelic idiot.

Someone who has permanently degraded the value of the stamp by
a) denoting it as their personal property
b) making such a designation in water soluble ink.

In the majority of cases, the stamps are going to outlive their owners (anybody posting born in 1840?) and the next owner will probably not give a damn as to whom was the previous owner (I avoided the hanging participle). Though such information is often likely to be given in auction catalogs to add spice to the bidding.

What a travesty!!!

I don't care if the initials are those of a philatelic expert. A certificate with the certifying expert's signature is just fine. Not an egotistical embellishment of his/her name all over the reverse of the stamp!!
Posted by vonbag   ( 204 ) on Oct-22-07 at 16:44:16 PDT   Listings
Argh, and there, against yellow / lemon yellow / orange yellow, the transmigration might be noticeable.
Was it a 9 Kreuzer Type I (plate I) with maximum distance between the 9 and the value denomination, it would have shown a bit less against the blue colour of the postage stamp.

Jimbo2: IMO that is indeed a hand-made paper, likely later printings of this denomination... Please, show also the front of the stamp in question.
Paolo (this last blue one I mentioned is one of the stamps I am after; of course I don't have one; I try to collect first Issue of Austria - Lombardo-Veneto, in parallel)
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-22-07 at 16:35:49 PDT   Listings

Paolo - thank you for the detailed information on the ASSAB postmark. no, I couldn't decipher the town at the top - ASSAB - but i didn't really try hard.

lluehhhb - thank you to for your input on the Chilean stamp.

I have always appreciated nicely struck postmarks on loose stamps, including the occasional volcano ones.

s.o.n.-raff
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 948 ) on Oct-22-07 at 16:24:35 PDT   Listings
Paolo and David B.

THANKS, I will make a note of it. By the way, I did forget to mention that this stamp is the No.1 stamp of Austria!

Jimbo2
Posted by vonbag   ( 204 ) on Oct-22-07 at 16:15:08 PDT   Listings
... I was preceded by David B..
Paolo (totally agree, of course)
Posted by vonbag   ( 204 ) on Oct-22-07 at 16:05:16 PDT   Listings
P.S. Jimbo2:
I have a 1 Scudo of Roman States 1852, marked in red on reverse "KOSACK / FALSCH". The postage stamp is perfectly genuine, however the presence of this 'mark' certainly detracts, not only because of the expert's screw up!
(somebody had erased the word "FALSCH" from the stamp, and this was signed by Emilio Diena (if one is a believer, he can tranquilly consider this name as a deity in the philatelic field). I bought it for a miserable amount as "thin / repaired" (right in that area).
The red, pink, violet and blue (shades) expert/ dealer/ owner's marks do detract in the value of the postage stamp, if the ink transmigrates and comes to show through the front of the stamp, causing an unaesthetic 'spot'.
Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8647 ) on Oct-22-07 at 15:56:49 PDT   Listings
hungaryjim,

if the stain shows through to the front I would consider it a fault,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 204 ) on Oct-22-07 at 15:38:35 PDT   Listings
Jimbo 2,
Sorry, I didn't recognize any of the two marks as belonging to known philatelic expert.
This does not detract, as in the past, both stamp dealers ans stamp owners (collectors) used to apply their indelible mark on stamps... even though they weren't necessarily really considered amongst the living experts on a certain field. A bit like Zumstein did -- for direct experience with their stamps (sometimes doubtful) on Italian area material.
Both are impressed with dark blue, slightly unstable, as it appears, water soluble, ink.
Pfenninger used to mark the stamps with such quality of black ink that you cannot take it away even through boiling the stamp (in water or alcohol).

Paolo
Posted by hungaryjim   ( 948 ) on Oct-22-07 at 15:19:37 PDT   Listings
Hi All I have a question for the board regarding a stamp I have. Can anyone tell me who signed this stamp please. It is marked in two different spots, lower left and lower right. Also, was it common to use a ink color that has bleed through the front of the stamp and would this be considered a fault?

Jimbo2
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-22-07 at 15:13:50 PDT   Listings
Jeff

I prefer volcano cancels to town cancels.
Posted by vonbag   ( 204 ) on Oct-22-07 at 14:48:25 PDT   Listings
Jeff, the date of your cancel is
"17 AGO 03" (Ago, ... like Agostini ;-) = August 17, 1903
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 301 ) on Oct-22-07 at 14:44:39 PDT   Listings
postalhysteria

the cancel in the Chilean stamp is "San Antonio, Puerto Nuevo" and in the cancel it's spelled "Sn ANTONIO Pto N."

scarce mark but not rare.
Posted by vonbag   ( 204 ) on Oct-22-07 at 14:42:23 PDT   Listings
"circlesouet" = circles
Posted by vonbag   ( 204 ) on Oct-22-07 at 14:41:18 PDT   Listings
Jeff,
Nice cancel on that Eritrea Humbert I 45 c.mi olive green , overprinted in half circle for the Colony.
That is one of the cancels of ASSAB (as you know) when it was an Italian Colony; it appears to be Type 6, as per Paolo Bianchi's guide (also have another reference, hidden somewhere in my house): a Güller type that read "ASSAB - ERITREA" within the ring and bore little differences from the preceding Type 5 (similar, but without the horizontal lines under the two upper and lower circular segments and about 0.5 mm bigger distance between the two outer circlesouet: a very scarce impression!
As a matter of fact, Bianchi (in 1976) does not quote this used as canceller...

Paolo
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-22-07 at 14:03:40 PDT   Listings

Second try, smaller image.
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Oct-22-07 at 13:47:04 PDT   Listings
Just had a laptop bite the big one...
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-22-07 at 13:06:51 PDT   Listings
Hysteria

I only get the top of the Stamp Scan
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-22-07 at 12:54:44 PDT   Listings

Oh my, that first one is a big scan, not used to scanning stamps but covers.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-22-07 at 12:49:07 PDT   Listings

For the pleasure of those who like town cancels and one beautiful lady for Paolo s.o.n-jeff

hope I did it correctly
Posted by dbenson   ( 8647 ) on Oct-22-07 at 11:25:25 PDT   Listings
Billsey, it is normal for amounts like that to be paid by bank transfer,

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-22-07 at 10:56:13 PDT   Listings
Bill D

No precipitation here.
But we do have 35mph winds, peaking to 60mph above 6,000 feet.
Posted by billsey   ( 852 ) on Oct-22-07 at 10:49:13 PDT   Listings
David, I not only missed it, I would have passed it up if I hadn't missed it. Too spendy for my blood, and the seller only accept cashiers check or money orders. For an international transaction that's too much trouble for me... I did pick up a couple of those 1864 issues that were offered over the last couple of weeks though, such as this one.
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Oct-22-07 at 10:46:01 PDT   Listings
iomoon the timing of the front was perfect as far as I'm concerned ...... was camping with the Boy Scouts this weekend (wilderness survival, with no tents). Beautiful weather all weekend. Then the cold front hit with cold, wet weather. Really glad this wasn't on Saturdey!

Bill D.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-22-07 at 10:25:19 PDT   Listings
Dang.

The temperature dropped from 85F yesterday afternoon to 35F this morning.
Posted by djs127   ( 613 ) on Oct-22-07 at 07:23:48 PDT   Listings
curious-raff I would have liked $8 for the Bermuda but I will take the $6.49 You never know what the final price of a lot on Ebay will end up being.
David Snyder
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-22-07 at 06:56:40 PDT   Listings
djs - do you consider a Bermuda mint collection with CV of $80 selling for $6.49 a good sale?

curious-raff
Posted by djs127   ( 613 ) on Oct-22-07 at 06:00:39 PDT   Listings
I did well on my auctions which closed last night. 8 out of 10 stamp auctions sold the first time I listed them.
I was suprised that 1 Scott Small Dust Case for Green Specialty Album (130163664291) went for $14.50
Too bad I don't have much extra supplies that I can put up.
Stamps which I started at 99 cents went for that price up to $6.49 for Bermuda mint collection $80 Catalog Value (130163664062).
I see I already have been paid for a few lots so I will be busy tonight packing them up.
David Snyder
Posted by philaweb   ( 310 ) on Oct-22-07 at 05:50:57 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by 22028   ( 1661 ) on Oct-22-07 at 05:28:22 PDT   Listings
jeff, thanks for the praise on my APS Journal article. I hope more offers from dealers, auction houses or collectors will follow, in fact, i admit, this was the primary goal of my article..., maybe you can go thru you boxes, eventually you find something interesting for me.
http://www.postalhysteria.net/mepage/FallFling06_38.jpg
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1402 ) on Oct-22-07 at 05:18:58 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.

member
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3785 ) on Oct-22-07 at 04:53:12 PDT   Listings

Hi Rainer - I wanted to compliment you on your APS Journal article and thank you for writing it. It was well organized, easy to follow, incorporated the history of the region into it, and above all was interesting.

jeff-raff
Posted by 22028   ( 1661 ) on Oct-22-07 at 02:55:40 PDT   Listings
Today I have received my first feedback on my Iraq railway article, published in the American Philatelist. A small auction house informed me that they have such a cover in their next auction.