eBay chatboard archive: Nov-05-07 to Nov-11-07 week

Posted by caindw0627   ( 507 ) on Nov-11-07 at 23:55:38 PST   Listings
I know nothing about stamp collecting, but have access to stamps from all over the world. Here are scans of stamps from China & Japan. I know nothing about grading them but want to find out if they have any value. I scanned a couple pages from a collection book. Please help me determine if they are worth the trouble?

China: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/646/chinazc3.jpg
Japan: http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6246/japanpq4.jpg

Posted by de66   ( 1159 ) on Nov-11-07 at 22:23:13 PST   Listings
Just been told my entry for Tel Aviv next year was not accepted, but 13 other Aussie's are in.

Will have to cancel all my Israel plans now, Bugger.

D1
Posted by lookwhatbobfound   ( 278 ) on Nov-11-07 at 22:09:46 PST   Listings
TIME
Posted by afeht   ( 1160 ) on Nov-11-07 at 20:57:02 PST   Listings
What planet are catalog prices for British and Swiss classic stamps from? Nobody wants to pay even 10% of yesteryear CV for nicely cancelled ones, forget the "average" condition. Sometimes I don't understand why Scott wouldn't want to be real -- forget about Gibbons and Michel, they went cuckoo decades ago. And don't tell me about "condition," I've heard it all. Only very few rare stamps sell for catalog price, everything else is dealers' fishing in troubled waters, scam pure and simple. No wonder youngsters are turned off from philately.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1427 ) on Nov-11-07 at 20:16:03 PST   Listings
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Posted by squidwillow   ( 1044 ) on Nov-11-07 at 19:41:52 PST   Listings
Re Scott Ital Cols pages - I don't have a Scott pricelist, so don't know if that set is out of print - the stack is only about an inch thick - no mounts, no stamps, just the pages.
Of course, I'm not complaining about the realization, just puzzled!
Posted by djs127   ( 627 ) on Nov-11-07 at 19:37:38 PST   Listings
Regards from Waltham Mass. where I am on a business trip.
Lucikly I will be back home Monday night late.
No time this weekend to work on stamps as had to buy a new Laserjet printer (old one died Saturday night) HP 1108 which Staples has on sale for $38.88 after mail in rebates.
David Snyder
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 491 ) on Nov-11-07 at 19:04:01 PST   Listings
Italian colonies:
I have those Scott pages. I didn't have that much trouble finding them about 6? years ago.
If they don't include mounts, that auction would seem strange for just the pages. I don't think Scott has hingless pages.
If there were stamps with the pages, ignore what I've said.
I'm guessing there must have been stamps included in the lot!
Posted by dbenson   ( 8692 ) on Nov-11-07 at 17:31:02 PST   Listings
squid, it all depends on what the retail price of the Scott's specialty pages are. If they are much higher then it is logical that the realisation was high.

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 207 ) on Nov-11-07 at 16:40:52 PST   Listings
Re: Italian Colonies,
Formula:
Nice design, low printing.
Mostly scarce to rare on non-philatelic cover.
However, it all takes two or more bidders for the end price to escalate, in any occasion.
For some *rare* things on this field, which are mostly covers or stamps with a printing between 10 to 1000 pieces, the collectors are rarer than the objects themselves.
Let's not confuse Post Offices Abroad, Possessions and Provisional Issues with Colonies, though.
I am only speaking of these last.
Paolo
Posted by squidwillow   ( 1044 ) on Nov-11-07 at 15:30:16 PST   Listings
Thanks, Kele, re the Italian colonies. Probably the pages are a spinoff of the high recent stamp interest. Based on their previous bids from feedback, all bidders were very serious. Nice to know that REAL collectors are alive out there!
Posted by keleofa   ( 3600 ) on Nov-11-07 at 15:25:00 PST   Listings
Squid,

re: Italian Colonies

Not sure about the value of the pages, but the value of Italian Colonies stamps, especially MNH has skyrocketed over the past couple of years, at least in the Scott Catalogs.

I had a few older MNH issues (Libia, Oltre Giuba, Cirenaica) and values went from under a $1 to $10, $20, $30, within a few years. I'm assuming it not just Scott because the high bidders were in Italy. I think I'll list another batch!

Anyway, congratulations!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by squidwillow   ( 1044 ) on Nov-11-07 at 15:14:33 PST   Listings
Hi, all, longtime lurker here. Today's adventure was selling a set of Scott Specialty album pages for Italian Colonies - I expected maybe $35, they ended up at $310, with fervent bidding from 5 bidders. I'm happy, of course, but also curious - anyone know why the interest/demand for these?
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Nov-11-07 at 14:27:21 PST   Listings
Due: Interesting that they began using Pan Pacific postmarks as early as 1911. It took almost four years to construct the fairgrounds for the 1915 opening. Doesn't hurt to advertise!
Phil
Posted by nomad55   ( 939 ) on Nov-11-07 at 13:08:28 PST   Listings
Pro...very nice!!

Can you post up a scan of the entire address side?

In exchange, here's a few pics for your archives.

photo of Colorado: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/nomad55/Coloradopic-armouredcruiser.jpg

1911: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/nomad55/Colorado1911.jpg
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-11-07 at 12:41:30 PST   Listings
NOIP

Had some more Philatelic Phun today

Found lots of stuff

But had to share this one because it
fits in Two of my favorite catagories

ModelPostOffice_USSColorado

Guess I'll take turns keeping it in the EXPO book and then in the USS Book.

Found lots of neat things today
Back to the markings.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 510 ) on Nov-11-07 at 11:49:35 PST   Listings
Paul, you sure it wasn't AlGore who told you about the ice drifting past Barbados ?
L.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 950 ) on Nov-11-07 at 11:41:46 PST   Listings
IO, there is actually such a place, but the postal expedition was in operation from 1919 to 1970, long after Jupiter. I've never seen an IO cancel so it must be quite small.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8692 ) on Nov-11-07 at 11:15:17 PST   Listings
Bjorn, nice strike, who knows what would have happened if the seller had described it properly,

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-11-07 at 11:12:54 PST   Listings
Bjorn

Pity it wasn't on a cover.

It might have exhibited a transit "via Io". :-)


Thank you veterans and all contemporary serving armed force members.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 950 ) on Nov-11-07 at 10:54:45 PST   Listings
I see that extra-terrestrial cancels, like this from JUPITER command a premium. :-) Actually, it's a ship but still I guess a very satisfied (and suprised!) seller.
Posted by philaweb   ( 314 ) on Nov-11-07 at 06:46:47 PST   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!

Yet another day in front of the PC. Today is listing day.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-11-07 at 06:31:46 PST   Listings
And a Thanks to all the Veterans
of any service
of any country
anywhere they might be
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-11-07 at 06:19:11 PST   Listings
MASONLY 1 ----Matt is correct a lot of material as you described is canceled in that way,to pay postage due .Here is a sample of stamps used by a religious order out of Waterford Wi. to pay for postage due. They must get hundreds if not thousands of dollars a month in postage due .They recover a big part of their postage cost by selling at half or better of face to the stamp dealers around Chicago .Favorite cancels for customer....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-11-07 at 06:01:21 PST   Listings
LINDY ----thanks I agree with you but I took it to the great philatelic expert ,I.M.KOOK and he said that the white line on the horizon is not a color shift but the arctic ice shelve off of Barbados .
Posted by keleofa   ( 3600 ) on Nov-11-07 at 05:50:58 PST   Listings
Masonly1,

1. An entire sheet can be canceled with the mute/dumb oval for several reasons. If a company or individual had to pay the Post Office $2.00, let's say for postage due charges, a sheet of stamps may be used. Also, just to create used stamps to sell to collectors.

2. First Day Cover without stamps? Assuming it's not a PSE, how did it get through the mails? If there's no stamp, how do you know it is a first day use? Were stamps removed? Can you link to a scan or supply more details?

Matt in Arizona
Posted by breffington   ( 387 ) on Nov-11-07 at 04:54:53 PST   Listings
Vonbag: Been away from the board for awhile. Thank you again for your help on my Swiss airmail cover. And it is a genuine usage to the town right next to mine!
Best regards,Frank
Posted by masonly1   ( 43 ) on Nov-11-07 at 04:36:44 PST   Listings
question 2 how do i value a 1st day of issue envelope with 4 postmarks but no stamp?
Posted by masonly1   ( 43 ) on Nov-11-07 at 04:34:47 PST   Listings
why would whole unused sheets of scott1033 be cancelled with an oval mark?
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 510 ) on Nov-11-07 at 04:22:28 PST   Listings
Paul - its a color shift. The whole blue 'water' print has shifted slightly higher, so the 'white caps' don't show. If you look closely you will see the blue water does not reach the horizon on the stamp with 'white caps in water'.

Linda

11.30pm off to bed, g'nite
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-11-07 at 04:03:36 PST   Listings
NEW DISCOVERY UNLISTED VARIETY-------Neat find ,notice the water below the ships bottom on one stamp is quiet and darker blue ,while the other looks like white caps with a lighter blue ocean and rough seas . BARBADOS 1906.....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-10-07 at 20:12:50 PST   Listings
MATT

Have to disagree with you about getting ripped off.The old way was face to face dealer to customer ,one on one .Today everything is faster and multipled by a factor of 10 X. Sure the old tricks and run of the mill lies don't work but its a new generation of trickster.The game plan is on a much bigger scale.

The theory of cheating customers is throw enought garbage out there the few knowledgeable buyers will return it and walk away but there is a crowd behind them with more money and sooner or later the buyer will think he got a bargin and keep the material.

Posted by paperhistory   ( 1991 ) on Nov-10-07 at 19:47:57 PST   Listings
pro....and it's from Ohio! 1917 is late for advertised mail...
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1427 ) on Nov-10-07 at 19:26:39 PST   Listings
member
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-10-07 at 19:10:24 PST   Listings

NOIP

Got this nice card for my Personal book today

Advertized_UnClaimed_Due

There was room for some more marks but I guess they
finally found the Person
Posted by keleofa   ( 3600 ) on Nov-10-07 at 19:04:22 PST   Listings
Paul,

Yes, so much has changed. Collectors starting up today will not have experienced Ben Franklin Stamp Clubs, stamp clubs at larger companies and approvals.

But due to the internet collectors will have so much more information at their fingertips and hopefully will get ripped off less often!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-10-07 at 18:25:34 PST   Listings
MATT in AZ.-----Good subject for a weekend discussion .------"GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN......" in a philatelic sense .

Gone are the days when we when to the stamp store .

Gone are the days we enjoy looking thru a dealers two cent box .

Gone are the days when we hinged everything .

Gone are the days when you spent years looking for that stamp,now you just run a search on e-bay .

Im sure there many others .

Posted by keleofa   ( 3600 ) on Nov-10-07 at 17:46:30 PST   Listings
Jim (Jaywild),

Not entirely Scott's fault. The USPS is outsourcing stamp production and they don't care if self-stick stamps have scalloped die cut 'perfs' (they're not even perforated anymore!) or serpentine 11.73 or serpentine 10.27. But Scott sees these as varieties. They are production varieties. At least they're listing with some logic.

The USPS and Scott also probably see a profit motive in having these varieties. More stamps held by collectors, more FDCs to service (although that may be a losing proposition), more catalogs sold, more pages of supplements.

Gone are the days when a 5 year old Scott catalog would suffice.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jaywild   ( 1018 ) on Nov-10-07 at 17:12:25 PST   Listings
Ken S… Yes, the information was very helpful. I don’t collect those stamps, I was just curious. I wasn’t complaining about the information you supplied, only that with a little foresight Scott might have laid out a sequence of numbers for that series that allowed for expansion, then stuck with it. Instead they developed one system, expanded it, then suddenly ripped it out by the roots and started over.

Jim
Posted by 7720matt   ( 150 ) on Nov-10-07 at 16:26:25 PST   Listings
Thanks Keleofa. Just looked it up in imdb. That's it.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3600 ) on Nov-10-07 at 16:14:34 PST   Listings
7720matt,

You're thinking of 'Sole Survivor', 1970 movie about a B-24 bomber ghost crew in North Africa.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by 7720matt   ( 150 ) on Nov-10-07 at 16:03:30 PST   Listings
"Flight of the Phoenix" sounds like a ABC "Movie of the week" from the very early 70's. I remember the crew constructed a baseball diamond to pass the time. At the end of the movie the remains of the crew are found,most still in the aircraft,straped to their seats. It's a ghost movie.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-10-07 at 15:35:29 PST   Listings
JUDY -------Someone who knowns the material should sit down with you and him{the collector} and review what he has .Some material from specialised collections should be sold on the album pages especially if research has been done. The "BUY IT NOW " option is not the best ,sometimes a longer period of viewing will bring better results . If you use buy it now and the material is rare you will short change yourselfs .Heck if its real good someone like myself would buy it all, before others have a chance to see it.

If you can try scanning a few items and let us view if the material is truely high power we will let you know .Sometimes specialist material is nothing but cheap stamps that someone thinks is a study or page after page of irrevalent differances ......paul

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 510 ) on Nov-10-07 at 13:56:55 PST   Listings
JayJim I think those 'promotional' emails only go out to active selling accounts

JudyI didnt see your original message, however, if your man wants to start selling on eBay, best to start with registering on the SITE MAP for a Sellers Account, then, read the links under selling for instructions/ rules and regulations.
You are at least starting out with some eBay experience, any listing on eBay is only likely to sell for its best potential if the seller puts effort in to their work. Your man isn't sounding as if he's prepared for that. Good scan, Good acurate description, Good communication with buyers, and prompt, efficient packing and shipping. Don't presume this..or that.., and Don't leave your buyers presuming. Explain or state facts accurately.
Good Luck
Linda
Posted by dbenson   ( 8692 ) on Nov-10-07 at 13:37:27 PST   Listings
roger,

http://pages.ebay.com/promo/freegallery/?ssPageName=CMDV:AB

David B.
Posted by judyw601   ( 12 ) on Nov-10-07 at 13:29:04 PST   Listings
hi again! i'm judy. i just left you a message about the man in my life extreme interest, stamps of the baltic states. i was realizing that i would be illegal to do thingsthe way he wants to, i mean not kosher with ebay. i supposed since he won't go near a computer i could set up buy it now sites on ebay for him. here is a question though, because he specializes, he has trouble connecting for selling, ebay would solve that wouldn't it. if i get any answers from you, i'll do my dog gone best to talk him into at least trying it. thanks for letting me talk it thru, now i have to convince him. thank-you for your time. judy
Posted by malolo   ( 863 ) on Nov-10-07 at 13:19:40 PST   Listings
Aloha craftyps -

Re your post:
"PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE FROM EBAY REGARDING FREE GALLERY, every Ebay user received it."

I sure didn't, so there must be a bunch of peole on San Jose making assumptions!

I assume you mean the home page when mentioning Ebay.com page? The only htings I see on that page are a whole bunch of purses, and the category listings. Please expand your information. Thanks.


Roger
Posted by craftyps   ( 1006 ) on Nov-10-07 at 12:33:52 PST   Listings
Hello Antonius, you seem to have GALLERY checked, if so, no problem. Turbolister shows the extra charge but will only charge you the correct amount. PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE FROM EBAY REGARDING FREE GALLERY, every Ebay user received it. If you missed it, it is also mentioned on the Ebay.com page.
Take care, Ernie
Posted by keleofa   ( 3600 ) on Nov-10-07 at 11:45:58 PST   Listings
South Africa...

Stanley Gibbons 99a

1942 South Africa 1½d Rouletted 13 between with Advertising Labels, on cover

Anyone have any information on the value of these stamps with the labels attached. They are on a Censored cover to the USA in 1942.

T I A,

Matt in Arizona
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-10-07 at 11:12:55 PST   Listings
Sheesh, that went quickly.

For Judy.

If your dealer/collector friend won't touch computers, he is dead-in-the-water.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1018 ) on Nov-10-07 at 11:10:36 PST   Listings
NOIP… Here’s a cover I came across this morning and got. It’s from Jeannette Rankin, who is notable for more than one reason. One, she was the first woman ever elected to the US Congress (either house), from Montana in 1916, before women were even allowed to vote nationally. Second, she was the only member of Congress to vote against going to war in 1941, and lastly, she also voted against declaring war in 1917, one of only 50 congresspersons to do so.

Jim
Posted by malolo   ( 863 ) on Nov-10-07 at 10:44:49 PST   Listings
Paolo -
Thank you for explaining correctly the rate for the airmail cover. It would have been so much easier to see a scan from the outset! I went to work and don't get home until after midnight Hawaii time.

To Anyone looking for information - please post a link to a scan. It will make it so much easier and quicker to give correct answers to your questions

Esnipe was awake and won this for me. I like it not only for true use of 100 centimes postage dues, but it was "refuse" a growing side line of mine. I now have signed "refuse" items dating between 1882 & 1928. I'll get the story all put together sometime.

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 303 ) on Nov-10-07 at 10:39:58 PST   Listings
Thanks to Paul, Jim and due2cents
for the help about ironing my cover. The result was quite good considering the initial state of the cover.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 10:08:57 PST   Listings
Thanks Matt!



Paolo
Posted by keleofa   ( 3598 ) on Nov-10-07 at 09:39:10 PST   Listings
Flight of the Phoenix...

Original with Jimmy Stewart, 1965

Remake with Dennis Quaid in 2004.

Both unbelievable but I really enjoyed them. Lots of drama and twists and turns.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 09:27:54 PST   Listings
Mitch,
We're speaking about two different cinema flicks.
The one I saw and referenced to is of the '50s, don't know the title because I saw it in Italy some years ago, a synchronised version in Italian. I thought the title was that, of the old film, but probably I 'm wrong.
Paolo
Posted by philaweb   ( 313 ) on Nov-10-07 at 09:05:44 PST   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!

What I am working on today.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 648 ) on Nov-10-07 at 08:57:53 PST   Listings
Billsey Those Eastern Rumelias I sent you were from a dealers stock. I have had them looked at since I bought them by an expert and they were said to be good. Although i think a couple may have fake cancels.

Turbo lister seems to have a fault in it (don't think there is an upgrade). I looked at my billing on a couple lots and they were correct, not what Lister said they would be.

I thought Flight of the Phoenix was one of the stupedest movies in recent memory. A poorly done "fantasy" which I am suprised Dennis Quaid had anything to do with.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 07:54:57 PST   Listings
"BE-24" = B-24, durnit.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 07:53:45 PST   Listings
In fact, with the Italian fighter planes of the time, which could have been scrambled, a C47 might have been a relatively easy target... but one didn't want to get too close to a BE-24 with an MC 202, for instance.
I recall that both movie actors James Stewart and Clack Gable were bomber pilots. Can't recall which of the two was Captain on a BE-24.
I saw the movie "The Flight of the Phoenix", it was - originally - a twin engine and tailed transport aircraft, of the type 'Flying Wagon'.
When crash landed on the desert due to underestimated bad weather, it was modified into a single engine aircraft, that they baptized 'Phoenix' thanks to the ingeniousness of some of the crew/passengers. I recall that one aboard was a RC model aircraft designer. Very nice black&white movie!

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 07:36:15 PST   Listings
Paul, sorry, didn't notice your message referring to the B-24.
Thanks to you as well!
Paolo
Posted by knuden   ( 2387 ) on Nov-10-07 at 05:49:53 PST   Listings
Antonius-ra - Hi Mitchel. It has happened for me, by using turbo-lister, that it charge me for the full sum but when I look at my eBay account under monthly invoice, they have deleted the difference between the full fee and the discount.

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1423 ) on Nov-10-07 at 04:33:43 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Jim L.

member
Posted by sayasan   ( 733 ) on Nov-10-07 at 04:19:48 PST   Listings
ant-ra - do you need to update your Turbolister first?
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 04:00:34 PST   Listings
P.S.: and 'Post tenebras lux' ;-)
(the light after the darkness)
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 03:52:41 PST   Listings
Frank,
At the light of the day I consulted the Zumstein Rate Tables again: you Swiss Airmail / Express cover is in perfect rate!
Recapitulating:
A. total franking with adhesives on your cover 100 + 60 Rp

1. flat letter rate to abroad 30 Rp. for the first 20 grammes (20 Rp. for additional weight in multiples thereof).
2. special delivery right to abroad was 60 Rp.
3. airmail right to the US of A. was 70 Rp. every 5 grammes (from February 1941)

B. total due : 30 + 60 + 70 = 160 Rp.

A = B, quod erat demonstrandum.

Paolo
Posted by srailkb   ( 3118 ) on Nov-10-07 at 03:40:18 PST   Listings
jaywild, that Navajo Jewelry page is dated. You might have noticed it doesn't list the 2007 issue, and reflects Scott numbers which have since changed (old 3749 = new 3750, 3749A = 3751, 3749B = 3752). I posted it because it nicely illustrates the microprinting locations, and also lists several other differences (not noted in Scott) which help identify the varieties. I hope you find the information helpful.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 03:33:53 PST   Listings
Ah Frank I see,
The red brown 60 Rp W. Tell stamp of the Issue of 1941, of course.
Sorry, I was thinking about those small size definitives, which anyway wouldn't have had postal validity in this period (1945).
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-10-07 at 03:28:32 PST   Listings
Good day all!

Due2cents,
Many thanks for your reply!
With your permission I will translate your reply on that other forum.

Frank,
There is not a single 60 Rp Tell stamp; the hoghest denom. of the Tell definitives id the 30 Rp. I believe it is a 30Rp blue? What you read at the top is probably the weight of the cover, 5 grammes.

Paolo
Posted by knuden   ( 2387 ) on Nov-10-07 at 02:27:34 PST   Listings
Here is my latest acquisition:

In 1873, during a printing of a Postal card from Austria for use in the Czech part of Austria-Hungary, an error was made. By a mistake, the 5 kr. cliche normaly used for Postal covers, was used on a small print of Postal cards. As soon the Postal Autorities of Austria noticed it, a 2 kr. stamp (which was the correct rate) was added on top of the wrong imprinted stamp.

This card will fit fine in my Prague collection. :O)

In the same lot was this:
It's a Postal card from Belgium, which on the other side are showing mail-carrying boats of Belgium. These cards are scarce.

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!
Posted by billsey   ( 855 ) on Nov-09-07 at 22:30:53 PST   Listings
And it sounds like your Turbo Lister is giving you a gallery image, or something like that, that accounts for the extra $0.35.
Posted by billsey   ( 855 ) on Nov-09-07 at 22:27:19 PST   Listings
Mitch, I'm not comfortable enough with those Eastern Rumelia overprints yet. There are so many forgeries, and the genuine ones are so poorly done... I've got a dozen or so, and just figure they're bad.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-09-07 at 21:58:39 PST   Listings
Mitch… Sorry! I don’t use TurboLister, in fact haven’t listed anything for several years.

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 648 ) on Nov-09-07 at 20:48:23 PST   Listings
Help I havn't been listing for quite sometime but started last week. It was cheap listing for a few daus (10 cents for basic 7 day auctions starting between .01 and .99 cents). I've started listing again tonight with turbo lister and I'm getting the shaft. I looked up the listing fees and they should be 20 cents for a 7 day listing starting from 1-99 cents with no frills. When I go to upload it states the listing fee is 55 cents!
Could someone please tell me what's up with this?
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-09-07 at 20:19:16 PST   Listings
chaswilly… The Flight of the Phoenix was about a plane downed in the Sahara, but I don’t think it was a specific type of aircraft. At any rate, it was fiction, based on a pot-boilerish novel.

There was a real-life drama involving one of those B24s, named the Lady Be Good, which vanished after taking off from a Libyan air base for a bombing run over Italy. They disappeared, and no one knew where until 1959, when the bomber was discovered deep in the Libyan desert. All the crew had parachuted out and were saved, only to die trying to struggle back to civilization.

According to a diary one of the airmen kept, after the bombing run they somehow missed seeing the coast of Libya on their return. (It was night, and unless someone happened to see the line the surf made against the shore, it was easy to miss, because at night the sands of the Sahara look exactly like the waters of the Mediterranean.) They truly believed they were still over water, until the plane ran out of gas, and by then they were hopelessly far out into the desert. The men had no hope of getting back alive, but they gamely kept at it for several days before succumbing to lack of water. When the bomber was discovered, by accident more than fifteen years later, the story electrified the country and was the cover story in LIFE magazine. I was eight years old at the time.

Google “The Lady Be Good” for more information.

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-09-07 at 20:13:18 PST   Listings
Chas

Maybe

But I mean the shear numbers.
I have heard a thousand mentions of the B17
and lately (Tibbets death) the B29
But the 24 25 26
seem to be kinda left out.
Guess I shoulda added the olde MHO

Most remember DooLittle for his Japan Raid, not his North Africa Work.
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Posted by breffington   ( 386 ) on Nov-09-07 at 19:45:00 PST   Listings
Vonbag: I am continually impressed by the level of knowledge on our board. And don't underestimate Paul. That's a beautiful Pax set you pulled out of your hat there Paul. Getting back to the Swiss airmail cover up at the top is written 5gr and the two stamps are the one franc Pax and a 60 rappen William Tell. The red label reads Eilsendung Expres-Espresso as you mentioned.Quite a price difference for stamp on cover. The envelope is blue, has a border of stylized planes and is tissue thin. Maybe the contents were heavy? Does this help in figuring if the cover has the correct postage? Frank
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1423 ) on Nov-09-07 at 19:35:54 PST   Listings
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Posted by chaswilly   ( 1668 ) on Nov-09-07 at 19:10:26 PST   Listings
due, Respectfully beg to differ, but wasn't the movie Phoenix, or something similar (don't recall the exact film) a Liberator downed in the North African desert?
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-09-07 at 17:25:56 PST   Listings
The B24 Never had the fame of the 17 or 29 But flew more missions
Then again they were never on a TV show
or Major movie

And when you consider that less than 7% of the folks on the planet today were alive then
History is easy to forget.

I had a GrandFather in the 9th AF
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-09-07 at 15:50:36 PST   Listings
DUE----Think your right ,they would of been B-24 Liberators if they flew over hostile territory.That was the main bomber in that theather of operations
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-09-07 at 15:31:32 PST   Listings
Paolo

I would imagine that the Planes that dropped that leaflet came from the Allied bases at

Sousse Tunisia

That is where the Gliders and Paras
Came from.
I Do NOT know if C47 dropped them,
As many areas were being bombed prior to the invasion
I would think that the Bombers could have dropped them on the way or while over the areas.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 648 ) on Nov-09-07 at 15:14:58 PST   Listings
Jeff Thanks much for the heads up. I thought I had double checked that spelling, guess not. I ended it and will rerun.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-09-07 at 15:10:00 PST   Listings
NEW READERS and Speciality Collectors Just so you know what is being discussed this is a PAX set from my collection. SWISS PAX SET COMPLETE .....paul
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-09-07 at 15:10:00 PST   Listings
P.S. I neglected the "airmial" right -- sorry I really didn't notice it :-( --, 20 rappen (20 cents)??? --
The count doesn't return, jetz. I tried to consult Zumstein.

Paolo (let's here from Roger - nano-nano)
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3802 ) on Nov-09-07 at 14:22:10 PST   Listings

Ant-raff : nice auction layouts and description. Just noted anyone looking for Ryukyu by search will likely miss your Ruyky item. Now, that's how we pronounce it down here, but that's another thing...

Jeff-raff



Hi mini-raff!!
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-09-07 at 14:16:55 PST   Listings
Howdy Frank,
I know that nice looking blue stamp, in my Michel Spezial of 2007 the 1 frank PAX on cover catalogs 150,00 Euro (about 220 US $).
The flat letter rate to abroad in that period was 30 Rp. for the first 20 grammes, 20 Rp. for additional weight in multiples thereof.
In the same period, the special delivery (Espresso - Eilsendung) right to abroad was 60 Rp.
So, it would look like your cover is overfranked of 10 Rp (or underfranked of the same amount).
Yet, it sounds like an interesting genuine usage.
Please, wait for Roger!

Paolo (the 50 bucks man ;-))
Posted by breffington   ( 386 ) on Nov-09-07 at 13:38:43 PST   Listings
Staying in the same WW 11 arena I have an airmial cover cancelled with a Bern Felsenau cancel dated 6/7/45. It has a red express label and has been redirected several times and has a piece of paper with the final address pasted over the original one. The stamp is the one franc Pax issue with a bird on it and the envelope has censor tape on it. The Pax stamp in Scott is cataloged at $95. However the receiving office in the US applied a wavy lines cancel that has heavily cancelled the stamp. So no backstamp. I'm wondering what the cover goes for in Michel or Zumstein? If I choose to list on ebay what it would probably bring? Regards,Frank
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-09-07 at 13:23:36 PST   Listings
To NOIP:

On behalf of a friend of mine, we would need to know if anyone has any information about the Allied (Anglo-American) Propaganda Operation in the Sicilian theatre of military operations just before the invasion, during WWII.
I ask, with an example here
(http://forums.ebay.it/thread.jspa?threadID=600069075&tstart=0&mod=1194629239813) of the propaganda manifesto's that were aero-transported and thrown on enemy soil before July 9, and 10, 1943.
The aircraft that launched such sheets was probably a C47 Skytrain.
Does anybody know where were they based in that period, and some details on this propaganda operation on enemy's soil?
Thank you in advance!
Paolo
Posted by nebelfeger   ( 2215 ) on Nov-09-07 at 13:20:30 PST   Listings
Lou, they either cuts of parcel post or transmittal receipts for money, quite common in Europe thru the postal services. You find the stamps under Czechoslovakia, Boehmen and Maehren was the name of Nazi occupied Czech.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-09-07 at 12:58:55 PST   Listings
Linda,
Now, here in the low lands it's not snowing yet. ;-)
It was a bit stormy yesterday.
Had an e-mail before from a Swiss business partner from near Solothurn, that there it has been snowing, and it's colder than usual.
If we correct the inclination of the ax of rotation of the earth, to 0 degrees, we will have seasons at the same time, and we will also overcome the precession of the equinox (every ~ 22000 years, if I recall correctly).
;-)
Paolo
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 508 ) on Nov-09-07 at 12:40:26 PST   Listings
bookmark. Gorgeous sunny Saturday morning here! - sorry if its snowing where YOU are ! :o)
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-09-07 at 12:07:16 PST   Listings
Ken S… Thanks for that Navajo jewelry 2¢ link, which illustrates clearly three different types of the stamp. I fear however that it is at odds with the info Matt in AZ posted below from Scott, which identifies 5 different versions of the stamp, with 4 distinct numbers (i.e. 3750, -51, -52 & -53) and one variety not numbered (the reprinted 3750 of the “brighter turquoise” border). Also, the numbers have been shifted upward—as of now #3749 apparently has been reassigned to the 1¢ stamp of the series, if Matt is correct. Further, your link shows only one microprinted variety, with Scott listing two: one on the right and one on the left.

It’s a mess, of course, not untypical of the way Scott does things…

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 648 ) on Nov-09-07 at 10:14:18 PST   Listings
Bill S. These are really hot right now. 160% of cat ain't bad. I'm thinking about selling off my collection of them. I also have around 20 sub types that aren't on that page. Bet it would pay my bills for a month or so.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-09-07 at 10:08:50 PST   Listings
RF
Another great resource from you
again my thanks

Posted by thines   ( 1517 ) on Nov-09-07 at 09:55:39 PST   Listings
NOIP:

I just found this wonderful site:

www.paypalsucks.com

Terry Hines

Posted by jawjajunk   ( 278 ) on Nov-09-07 at 08:52:54 PST   Listings
1covers: Thank you. Just what I needed.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1369 ) on Nov-09-07 at 08:47:34 PST   Listings
jawajunk - see page here for names.
Posted by jawjajunk   ( 278 ) on Nov-09-07 at 08:44:07 PST   Listings
Question: Which US stamps are often referred to as "small banknotes?" Thanks.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-09-07 at 08:19:53 PST   Listings
Sprite336
Here on the bay (depending on centeringetc)
they seem to be worth about 10 bucks or so.

the books shows more of course
put #700 in the search box above and lookat stamps.

Mikedak CYE
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Nov-09-07 at 07:50:09 PST   Listings
Greetings to you all

Michel
Posted by sprite.336   ( 22 ) on Nov-09-07 at 06:44:26 PST   Listings
can someone tell me what a us #700 mnh perf is worth
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3802 ) on Nov-09-07 at 06:42:11 PST   Listings

rainer - what a nice addition to your collection!
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3802 ) on Nov-09-07 at 06:40:27 PST   Listings

Hi Lou - they are German issues for Bohemia & Moravia, not sure where they are in a catalog. These are typical of parcel card clippings, stamps were affixed to a separate card instead of the actual parcel mailed. My expertise in the German language is limited to table-Deutsch. As loose stamps they are minimum value but I would think these would be worth a couple $ each. Perhaps someone with more German expertise will show up.

deutch-raff
Posted by srailkb   ( 3118 ) on Nov-09-07 at 06:27:18 PST   Listings
jaywild, you will probably find this page to be very helpful.
Posted by lou4cards   ( 463 ) on Nov-09-07 at 05:26:59 PST   Listings
found small stack of these in an envelope .. envelope said stamps not valubale but interesting cancels. Can someone tell me what kind of card are they are on. this is a

front side
view and this is a


back side

view.
Thanks for any help
Lo
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-09-07 at 04:01:35 PST   Listings
LIFE GOES ON Spent the whole eveing yesterday just sorting and measureing perfs. and then making pages for "THE SEAL OF THE COLONY" but got four nice pages of Barbados.

At this rate ,20 more years of buying stamps and mounting them I should have a nice worldwide collection .....paul

Posted by malolo   ( 862 ) on Nov-09-07 at 02:43:38 PST   Listings
jaywild -
No point in Scot expending any more effort for a group of worthless stamps! If they are all rated 20¢ and that is consdered the stocking/finding fee, why bother? )'>) Someone wanted to have collectors add another 60¢ wprth f stamps to their albums.

"How can an appendage be both the “top” and “next to” and “below” at the same time?"

I could show you an appendage that has those features, LOL

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by philaweb   ( 313 ) on Nov-09-07 at 02:31:45 PST   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-08-07 at 21:34:45 PST   Listings
Matt… Thanks for the explanation. Typical Scott mumbo-jumbo—I can’t quite make heads or tails of it. How can an appendage be both the “top” and “next to” and “below” at the same time?
“'USPS' is microprinted on the top silver appendage next to and below the middle turquoise stone on the right side of the necklace.”
The problem would be solved with a simple photo, but Scott is consistently allergic to illustrating anything beyond the absolute bare minimum.

Jim
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1423 ) on Nov-08-07 at 18:57:05 PST   Listings
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Posted by djs127   ( 624 ) on Nov-08-07 at 18:53:16 PST   Listings
My daugther's dell laptop's hard disk was starting to crash (machine constantly rebooted and had problems to copy) so I advised her and she bought a slim Compaq computer with Vista but with 2 Meg of memory. She has been happy with it.
Not sure about laptops.
David Snyder
Posted by keleofa   ( 3598 ) on Nov-08-07 at 17:59:07 PST   Listings
Jim,

re: 2¢ Navajo Necklace

Yes, I was very unhappy with the results of my scan. Anyway, the 1¢ Lamp is now 3479. The note after 3750 reads "A reprinting of no. 3750 shows the borders in a much brighter deep turqoise blue shade."

The note after 3754 3¢ reads (paraphrased):

For # 3752: 'USPS' is microprinted on the top silver appendage next to and below the middle turquoise stone on the right side of the necklace.

For # 3753, same only on left side

3751 & 3752 are dated 2006, 3753 is dated 2007

If you have a sample of all of them it is easy to tell them apart. Good luck!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-08-07 at 17:45:18 PST   Listings
Matt/AZ… Thanks. I can’t quite read the two explanatory paragraphs that seem to pertain to the stamps I have. I see where it says they are imprinted “2006” but can’t make out where they say the microprinting is located.

Also, you say the 1¢ stamp is 3749, because in the 2006 catalog that number is the 2¢ stamp?

I’m confused…

Jim
Posted by keleofa   ( 3598 ) on Nov-08-07 at 17:31:45 PST   Listings
Jim,

re: 2¢ Navajo Necklace

2008 Scott Specialized, Page 269

The left edge is blurred. The entries are sequentially numbered beginning with 3749 (the 1¢ Lamp)

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3598 ) on Nov-08-07 at 17:23:31 PST   Listings
Jim,

re: 2¢ Navajo Necklace

2008 Scott Specialized has 4 listings and a note. Give me a few minutes and I'll scan and upload the offending page.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-08-07 at 17:20:17 PST   Listings
NOIP… I noticed a difference between some US 2¢ stick-on stamps that I got today at the PO. Here’s a link—the stamps at left I already had, and the ones I got today are at right. The red has definitely been enhanced in the drawing, and the dates at lower left are different. The redder one is 2006, the other is 2004. Yet when I look in Scott there’s only one listed, although since my catalog is from 2006 it might have been too early to show.

Anyone out there with a 2007, 2008 or 2009 US Specialized that shows this variation? The Scott number of the original (2004) is 3749.

Thanks in advance…

Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-08-07 at 17:00:31 PST   Listings
Thank you very much

Matt in Arizona
Posted by keleofa   ( 3598 ) on Nov-08-07 at 16:56:34 PST   Listings
Io,

Scott lists them as 492-495 Set of 4 $8.50/$4.25
and a Souvenir Sheet 495a $5.25/$5.25

Issue date in Scott 22 Jul 2006

Matt in Arizona
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-08-07 at 16:22:32 PST   Listings
Does anyone with a 2008 Scott,

have catalogue numbers on these and, I think, an associated souvenir sheet?

Issued July 22nd 2006.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1369 ) on Nov-08-07 at 12:51:31 PST   Listings
Via Siberia - about 10% of the mail from Macau was routed Via Siberia during the 1905 - 1915 period. The only reason Europe shows up as a destination more often is because of the large amount of philatelic mail generated from China area at the time.

A registered cover from Macau to England shown here and reverse went from Macau to Hong Kong, then Via Siberia route.
Posted by poppadawg   ( 767 ) on Nov-08-07 at 10:54:39 PST   Listings
NOIP this is funny but also ominous. BTW, I have just filed for mine.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-08-07 at 10:31:14 PST   Listings
stamps4ever, it would have been no use sending it via Macau as mail from Macau was routed via Hong Kong and Suez then across to Italy and by rail to various parts of Europe which would have taken much longer, much easier to send it by train.

David B.
Posted by poppadawg   ( 767 ) on Nov-08-07 at 10:29:17 PST   Listings
stamphick: Not to worry. Dell still has XP available on laptops. You may have to go to their web site to find one but you do not have to accept Vista on a new laptop.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-08-07 at 10:28:12 PST   Listings
stamps4ever, yes, it would have placed in a PO bag to Germany and sorted in Berlin for distribution.

David B.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Nov-08-07 at 10:04:25 PST   Listings
iomoon...I wish you hadn't posted that. I have to buy a new laptop for my daughter for college and it seems that it's Vista of nothing. I've been reading a lot about it and the reviews are 99% horror stories and !% raves suspiciously written in the style of Microsoft manuals.
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-08-07 at 10:03:50 PST   Listings
Hello dbenson, would the information provided be the same for the Shanghai cover to Germany as well as to Portugal.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-08-07 at 09:41:42 PST   Listings
stamps4ever, mail to anywhere in Europe from Shanghai would have gone via Harbin then across to Moscow then down to Germany for distribution. They were sent by closed bags from Shanghai and usually don't have any transit marks.

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-08-07 at 09:22:25 PST   Listings
If you have speakers and a video viewer,

this is hilarious.
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Nov-08-07 at 09:14:50 PST   Listings
Rainer: Congratulations!

Phil
Posted by 22028   ( 1663 ) on Nov-08-07 at 08:34:41 PST   Listings
Work does pay off.
O my Iraq railway article in the American Philatelist an small UK Auction house has contacted me and informed that they have a Iraq railway cover in their auction. That auction closed yesterday and today I got the confirmation that I won that cover.
http://fuchs-online.com/iraq/images/RP-1-cover-1928-Khanakin_Abadan.jpg
I am no aware of an other cover with a Iraq railway stamp addressed to Iran...
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Nov-08-07 at 06:00:18 PST   Listings
WOW.

The EBay dispute resolution process is clearly in need of an overhaul. Not to mention it doesn't allow us the proper level of rapt attention, like the Jerry Springer show does (for you international types -- a US TV show where low class rednecks slap, spit, and curse at each other over the same cousin they've both been sleeping with).

I say we should settle EBay spats over $8 stamps out in the street for all to watch.....with Taser gun duels.

Its an E6....No, its not....Its thinned!....No, it isn't. BuuuuuZZZAAAAPP!!.....thump.

I'll make the popcorn. :o)
Posted by mikedak   ( 1294 ) on Nov-08-07 at 05:23:13 PST   Listings
Pro, (due2cents)
I would have posted some on-cover examples, but am away from my material at present. Drop me a note sometime, we need to catch up on a few things.
Thx,
Mike
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-08-07 at 05:03:30 PST   Listings
Thanks Mikedak, Jaywild (i had your name along with RF
as discussin the last two times here)
and of Course CLAGHORN for showing great examples.
As I collect ON Cover they do seem to be elusive.

But very neat to me.
The Govt attempts at combating mail fraud
has been a long and never ending battle.

NOIP-
What ever happened to Global Warming it was 47 degrees this morning, heck I think I might move South.


lluehhb-
I have successfully used a very small seamstress type iron that has a small triangular head , ( out of mom's sewing kit) works pretty good on that type of envelope. Not so well on regular ones. I think the Airmail types are of a lighter paper .
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1423 ) on Nov-08-07 at 04:57:05 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


ferrets
Welcome, You might check the “Yellow Box” posted regularly on this chat board for instructions on how to post a link to a scan of your postal card.

lluehhhb
Make sure the cover is clean before you iron it. The iron can set any dirt on the cover and make it unremovable.

Jim L.

member
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-08-07 at 04:49:26 PST   Listings
LLUEHHHB -----usual when I iron my shirts once every two weeks .I have a few covers or stamps on the list .

Sray the cover with a mist of water then cover the stamp and spray a lite coating of spray strach over it and press with the steam cycle on the ironing plate ....and bingo a flat cover ,works everytime .Then let it dry p.s. don't forget the shirts too .

Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-08-07 at 04:42:48 PST   Listings
STAMPS-4-EVER ------Interesting cover ,the one to Portugal.Most if not all covers i've seen transit thru Siberia are to the northern countries of Europe.Surprised the Portugal cover wasn't sent thru Macao.

Just as a side note a lot of the mail handled by the Trans-siberian railroad and operations from Hong Kong up thru Shanghai up to Vladivostok region into the east of the Urals was done by Slavic people .Those who didn't make the Czar happy usual got their transfer letters to get free ride on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

Posted by lluehhhb   ( 303 ) on Nov-08-07 at 04:34:45 PST   Listings
hi all

I have 2 questions about this USA prexie cover:

1) does the "official mail" mark have any influence in the rate?

2)the cover needs a good ironing before sale. Any suggestions about how to do it?
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-08-07 at 04:17:36 PST   Listings
Hello dbenson and thanks for your reply to my query. The post card that says via Shanghai Siberia is dated March 2, 1909 and sent to Paderborn, Germany. The other postcard has just the notation that says via Siberia, is dated 24/8/1907 was sent to Carcavelos, Portugal, hope this helps.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-08-07 at 03:23:47 PST   Listings
Here is an example of a realization for a visibly very defective but scarce stamp (the printing of the 50 Baj. with oxydized cliché consisted of 10000 pieces, single plate in 1864). It fetched about 3% of the value (not catalogue value) of a genuine perfect copy in SPL condition (certified as such).
Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-08-07 at 02:53:44 PST   Listings
stamps4ever,

where are the postcards addressed to,

David B.
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-08-07 at 01:53:57 PST   Listings
Hello iomoon, the reason I asked about the Trans-Siberian is that I have 2 post cards that have a manuscript notation on one postcard it has via Shanghai-Siberia and the other postcard has via Siberia, does this automatically mean that they went by the Trans-Siberian route.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Nov-07-07 at 22:40:02 PST   Listings
Here are examples of patents on the Banknote series . You can not see it from the scan but the multiple points in the center of the cancel cut through the paper.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Nov-07-07 at 22:35:20 PST   Listings
The lines or points or circle cut all the way through the stamp and the ink saturates the paper at that point. It is impossible to wash such cancels. Such cancels are not rare, but they are sought after.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Nov-07-07 at 22:27:49 PST   Listings
Due2Cents Here are examples of Patent Cancels, and here is a closeup of a common one .

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-07-07 at 21:37:44 PST   Listings
natures_best… Can you provide a larger scan? About 3x the resolution of the previous one would do—the details are small that have to be looked at in order to determine which type it is. Also, what is the date (day-month-year) of the cancel? That might help too.

Jim
Posted by natures_best   ( 565 ) on Nov-07-07 at 21:09:31 PST   Listings
I didnt see the blatant repair on the zululand reverse.
Posted by natures_best   ( 565 ) on Nov-07-07 at 21:03:28 PST   Listings
I got another stamp I need help with. I am more of an accumulator than a tightly focused collector - of anything but I am learning stamps. It's a 3c Washington 1912-1920. I am trying to identify the type but the lines on the toga button look different than in the price guide.

Here is the stamp.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-07-07 at 20:33:09 PST   Listings
due2cents… Sorry, I have no patent cancels to show. I haven’t made them an object of my collecting.

Mike E (post at 18:34:44 below) is the resident expert on all things relating to cancellations. Scott US Specialized catalogs also have a little bit of information and a couple illustrations if I remember correctly.

Jim
Posted by ferrets   ( 998 ) on Nov-07-07 at 20:13:15 PST   Listings
Please help me identify this item...

I am new to chat rooms, so please be gentle! I have a one cent Jefferson post card with a ten cent 'special delivery' and an eight cent 'airmail' stamp. The card appears to have been used as a hang-tag and has five different postmarks or markings. I have no idea what I have here, and would be happy to send scans of the card to anyone wishing to help. Thanks!
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1423 ) on Nov-07-07 at 20:12:13 PST   Listings
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Posted by djs127   ( 624 ) on Nov-07-07 at 19:50:44 PST   Listings
After a drought of nothing but bills in the mail 2 Ebay lots came today:
Worldwide & US Group in glassines $1,000 cat only $9.99 Item number: 290174217067 the pictures have already been removed but should be fun to go through.
U.S. SOUVENIR PAGE SP1224 HANUKKAH (3118) Item number: 220167403452 still has the picture and will be a nice addition to a collection of Hanukkah stamps which one day when I retire I hope to exhibit. Probably first at NOJEX in New Jersey.

Iomoon The VSC allows advertising in the Buy/Sell/Trade folder as per its moderator Lloyd Devries.
David Snyder
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-07-07 at 19:28:40 PST   Listings
This map may be of help,

http://www.sandafayre.com/atlas/chinia.htm

It shows the railway line from Dairen to Harbin where it joined onto the Trans Siberian.

David B.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-07-07 at 19:08:27 PST   Listings
Peetah
Look thru seigels Great site , for some realizations
on values, or whoever else sells lots Rumsey maybe
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-07-07 at 19:01:05 PST   Listings
due2cents By the way, I and hundreds of others are still having problems with Comcast, as far as viewing scanned images. I just included a workaround in my description as a temporary solution. But, I am guessing I will have to find another place to upload to.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-07-07 at 18:59:28 PST   Listings
IO,

it's here,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_China

David B.
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-07-07 at 18:46:41 PST   Listings
postalhysteria Now you know why I am in search of information. The auction is (at an undisclosed location, lol) this Saturday.
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-07-07 at 18:44:37 PST   Listings
due2cents 100 tubs? Ok, I'll go pour myself a coffee while I wait. LOL (Thanks)
Maybe jaywild will see my posts and have one handy.
mikedak thanks for the input.
Anybody Safe to assume cut cancels have a premium?
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3802 ) on Nov-07-07 at 18:37:18 PST   Listings

cut cancels: perhaps referring to cut corks, segmented corks, etc. A lot that size of patent cancels on only blackjacks would be quite a lot IMO

cork-raff
Posted by mikedak   ( 1294 ) on Nov-07-07 at 18:34:44 PST   Listings
re: Patent cancels
Literally hundred of patents were filed from the 1850s through the end of the 19th century dealing with devices which could have produced what have come to be known as 'patent cancels'.

Marcus Norton was probably maker of the most well known of these, since he was involved in litigation with the US government for many years involving patent infringement, etc. His and other devices were meant to deface stamps by a variety of methods, including punching, poking, scoring, or otherwise physically damaging the stamps to prevent reuse. Troy, Buffalo, and Albany, New York all used patented devices, as well as many other cities. They are a collecting area in themself.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-07-07 at 18:16:58 PST   Listings
Peetah
If I knew which one of these 100 storage tubs they were in ,
I would have already scanned for you.

This topic has been discussed 11 times , according to my notes about this board, and many fine examples have been aired.

The patent cancel was intended to penetrate the stamp in a fashion to preclude fraudulent use.
Jaywild and RF have both gone into this subject here in a depth .
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-07-07 at 18:02:52 PST   Listings
due2cents Any chance of seeing one?
Posted by nomad55   ( 939 ) on Nov-07-07 at 17:52:50 PST   Listings
Patent cancels are not grills. The cancelling device actually had blades or pins that pierced the stamp.
Grills were part of stamp production process.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-07-07 at 17:50:50 PST   Listings
Peetah
Not frickin grills
an auctual cut into the stamp.

I have one or two somewhere here in my boxes o stuff.

I know what Blackjacks are
as I have a few hundred on cover.

Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-07-07 at 17:48:18 PST   Listings
nomad55 What you are referring to are "grills".
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-07-07 at 17:47:19 PST   Listings
due2cents Used on postage stamps???? US #73 and 93 are "Black Jacks".
Posted by nomad55   ( 939 ) on Nov-07-07 at 17:45:22 PST   Listings
Without seeing a picture, I will assume they are what's termed "patent cancels". These actually did cut into the stamp as a means of preventing reuse after washing off the canceling ink. Used in several east coast cities, off hand I can think of Boston and Buffalo.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-07-07 at 17:31:56 PST   Listings
PEETAH

I think there were in fact Cancelling devices that CUT the stamp.
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-07-07 at 17:25:46 PST   Listings
AnyUS Collector ever heard of cut cancels on Scott 73 and/or 93? I thought cut cancels were on Reveues.
Here is a paste of an upcoming auction:
Lot: (40) different cut cancels on #73 2 cent Jackson
#73 on cover
(4) #73 mint, one with gutter
(128) different cut cancels on #93 2 cent Jackson
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-07-07 at 15:31:57 PST   Listings
richintalent

Google is your friend, use it.
Posted by richintalent   ( 145 ) on Nov-07-07 at 15:26:28 PST   Listings
Information please on a place called 'Kiauchou' or 'Kiautschou'- appears to be in China and was a German outpost of some sort.
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Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-07-07 at 15:01:20 PST   Listings
Paul

Probably more likely.
From Shanghai to Nagasaki to Vladivostok.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-07-07 at 15:00:46 PST   Listings
P.S. Roger,
don't worry: you are a Mozart!
At least for me!!!
I owe you to have initiated me to Swiss philately!

Onegai shimas,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-07-07 at 14:51:57 PST   Listings
The New Auction of Dr. Jean François Brun (A.I.E.P. expert) is on,
here

Best,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-07-07 at 14:46:02 PST   Listings
Aloha Roger,
Many thanks for your visit in the other eBay Forum!
What a surprise!

Recently I bought two high end Swiss items at an Italian Auction House (both with a certificate of an Italian expert).
Alas, I still have to receive it (I have the habit of buying and having it immediately, this also at all public auction houses I attended). However, this time was different.

If they are in anyway doubtful to me, I will link it here for an eventual subsequent scrutiny of yours.

Paolo
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-07-07 at 14:27:48 PST   Listings
when=went
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-07-07 at 14:27:11 PST   Listings
IOMOON-----I thought mail when up the coast from Shanghai to Vladivostok by vessel and there caught the rails to go west
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-07-07 at 14:23:21 PST   Listings
STASH------The stamp hobby will do fine.If you knew the history and cons of the past you would be amazed how tame things are now .Everyone of us have had bad experiences and some of us its a regular thing ,don't get so worked up over it .

GREENWAVE4U The resturant district manager was there and happy the store sales didn't slow {that was important to them}

Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-07-07 at 14:04:28 PST   Listings
stamps-4-ever

I'm not sure a rail link existed between Shanghai and the tran-siberian railroad.
First off, it would have to get from Shanghai to Beijing, probably via Nanjing where it would have had to cross the Yangtse via ferry since the rail bridge wasn't opened till 1968. From hence to Tianjin and then to Beijing where it could join the trans-Manchurian part of the trans-siberian railroad (if it existed).
It would probably have been easier to go by sea to Tianjin from Shanghai.
Posted by stashnstella   ( 638 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:59:46 PST   Listings
jaywild, Not that I ever sold much, I usually bought more. It's not worth it to sell here. A month after that experience, I sold one of my collections to Mystic and had a pleasurable experience with them. The stamp hobby is and will continue to decline because of many incidents like this. Take some time and check out the scads site www.scads.org Between the "huckster" buyers like mre and the dealers listed on scads.....I would never buy or sell a stamp again here on ebay.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 82 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:57:40 PST   Listings
Paul Reading your earlier post you were lucky with $100 fine. If that had been here in UK it would have been a hell of a lot more! Blocking the pavement or highway like that is considered a serious offence! Good business decision though:-)
Peter
Posted by deckelmouk   ( 1294 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:52:16 PST   Listings
David Re. Luxembourg lot: Three stamps might be genuine, although two of them are in bad shape. Three Hamburg forgeries and stamps with perforations cut off. Single ring cancels never show on the first "Armoiries" (with the lone exception of Larochette on the 30 Centimes issue).
Posted by stashnstella   ( 638 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:51:59 PST   Listings
Sorry, i don't like people lying about me and posting it for the whole ebay world to see and it's an OUTRIGHT lie. And then, the person threatens ME and tries to turn the tables. I am not a LIAR and I am HONEST. I gave him everything he wanted, and more, and he still had to be sneaky. He told me in an earlier post not to "defame" him......but what does he think he did with the feedback he left and e-mails he sent?? Thats my point. I am so sorry I let an individual of his LOW character bring the worst out in me, but demanding refunds (after he got it), annoying e-mails, threatening e-mails, having to report him, blocking e-mails, and getting a negative feedback cause of him? over a $10 stamp?? I've had enough. Sorry for "declassing" the board, but I felt the people who deal with the subject should know about him, let's say it's the feedback I'm not allowed to leave because of the 90 day rule. Thanks for the idea Tom (at eBay customer service). I do feel better, now that both sides have been told.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1015 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:43:20 PST   Listings
NOIP… My, my—such a furor. And over $10. Imagine if real money had been involved.

stella... You won’t get far into the sympathies of this board by going off on mini*lindy. She was only trying to be helpful.

What you’ve done is convince everyone who reads this board to stay completely away from anything you sell, on eBay or anywhere else. Such ranting, spluttering rage as you have displayed here, over $10, speaks more eloquently about you than anything you or anyone else could have said.

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:41:44 PST   Listings
Is this the peace and love board or im I in the wrong place
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 82 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:39:12 PST   Listings
Well that was interesting reading, but I don't believe in coincidences either, turning up at the same time. Anyway good info on the silver wire test, especially to Roger with the grit paper, thanks.
cheers
Peter
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 508 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:20:08 PST   Listings
yes Jeff, talk about the original riff raff!!!!!! we got it today! :o)
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3802 ) on Nov-07-07 at 13:17:52 PST   Listings

"Me think he doth protest too much."

Billy Bob Shakespeare
Posted by stashnstella   ( 638 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:53:58 PST   Listings
Dear Stashnstella,

We know that you were in contact with customer support about a recent eBay transaction. We want you to know that you are a valued member of the eBay community and we're sorry to hear about what happened.

Please accept the gift certificate below in appreciation for your past activity on eBay. $10.00 of your next purchase is on us!

Sincerely,

eBay Customer Support Team


Sorry mini-lindy "linda" I guess now you've heard of it. It's amazing to think what one has to go through and endure to try and clear one's "feedback" up and make known what some others are like. But when you're swimming in a cesspool of others it's not that hard to imagine.
Posted by malolo   ( 862 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:46:56 PST   Listings
When holding chalky paper to light, tilt the paper slowly and you will see a light sheen, not only on the inked areas, but also on the paper. This won't happen on regular paper. If you are viewig a used stamps this is also possible, but may have been soaked too long. If you ever get an unused chalky paper and are willing to experiment, do this. Place it in water for 30 seconds, then remove it (notice the ink swirl in th ewater) and place it on your blotter face down. Use your tongs and turn it over - instant offset!

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by malolo   ( 862 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:38:47 PST   Listings
mre_bidder -
Before using the wire, use a very fine 600 grit paper to smooth off the sharp points created when the wire is cut. You only need about 1-2" of fine wire. It should not bend when in use and only wipe it softly along the white paper outside the frame near the perfs. If it is chalky paper there will be a light grey line. Used stamps will have been soaked and the chalk filler somewhat disolved and gone.

I hope everyone realizes the paper was manufactured to provide a smooth surface that accepted a nice ink finish, but when placed in liquid, this chalk surface was designed to "disolve" taking some of the ink with it. This was one of the many attempts by the British PPO to stop people from reusing stamps. Compare unused chalk paper stamps with used singles and you can see the loss of color, etc. Collecting chalky paper on piece is really the way to go!. The more of the chalk that went during soaking, the less visible the silver line when testing for chalky paper.

Roger
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 508 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:35:54 PST   Listings
STASH eBay expressly forbids you selling stamps as old, no warranty or guarantee. Sorry, their rules not ours! By describing a stamp as xyz you guarantee that it is such and not something else or a forgery of xyz. Maybe reading the selling links on the eBay Site Map and doing the sellers tutorial will give you a better understanding of how ebay actually works. And, if as mre says your address on file with eBay is incorrect, or out of date, that too is against eBay rules!! -- methinks you need to do some learning about eBay.
maybe put the energy/time you wasted here with your foul language to better use on the eBay Site Map ?

Mich No, don't think so, I used to come across them ocassionally in the back of old albums, pages of them (or similar) cut off old receipts / deeds / etc. Don't think any of the pre-adhesives were that ''pretty'' mostly just plain PAID type things.

Linda
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:28:39 PST   Listings
This is the FINAl thing I'm going to say on the subject (I promise!). Don't EVEN THINK OF defaming me, Rob, on other boards outside of ebay (see post @6:49) as you threatened or otherwise making use of my personal, confidential information in any manner, shape or form. Got it?

I'm done and headed to a jewelry store for a small piece of silver wire. Hope it works in helping ID chalky paper.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:27:05 PST   Listings
More please
Posted by malolo   ( 862 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:26:40 PST   Listings
stashn... -
You just wrote -
"they are used, old, no warranty or guarentee"

Hate to tell you but you can't sell stamps on eBay with that disclaimer! This isn't a garage sale, you have to meet certain standards, so maybe you should take a business class at your local community college.

I know all the words and when to use them, apparently you need to learn that a public chat board is not the place to practice your vocabulary.

Roger
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 648 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:24:24 PST   Listings
Lindy and Brian I figured it was something like that. At first I thought it might be Spanish.
Was really hoping it might be a pre-adhesive poatal handstamp.
Is there any interest/value in such an (newspaper) item?
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:23:07 PST   Listings
Seeing things, imagining things again, Rob? Here's my feedback--http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2--where's what you quoted (or made up). Clearly you are delusional.

Oh, and the reason I left feedback for you in the fashion I did should be readily apparent to anyone reading any of your profanity laced, irrational posts here this morning. You would have left a retaliatory neg. for me out of spite.

One final thing (ok, not THE final thing), I will be glad to return the stamp back to you. In the same envelope I mailed it using the address info you have on file with Paypal yet was returned to me as "undeliverable" as no one by your name lived there. There is a "catch"--you have to send me proof of medical treatment for whatever ails ya bub. Plus $10 shipping (same price you quoted in 1 of your responses to my complaint to Paypal and then escalated to a claim out of stupidity, er I mean spite, as a "re-stocking fee"). I won't charge ya the $250/hr I normally charge and get for my services for the 10+ hours (not counting today) I wasted dealing with the likes of you. Sound fair?
Posted by malolo   ( 862 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:20:57 PST   Listings
Aloha All -
The feedback discussin below had me chcking my feedback nmbers. As of right now I have left 1999 feedbacks and have received about 1550 in return. 99.9% of them are stamp transactions. My only neg came from a non-stamp related transaction where I helped a friend buy guitar amplifier which arrived damaged in shipment ( I assume). We were told by the seller to quarrel with the post office or send the amplifier to Canada to the factory for repairs as it was new and under warranty. The factory refused, stating the warranty only applied to original purchaser, which was the seller. We mailed it back to Mississippi where it was refused and sent back to Kona, where I believe it sits today. The CC company reversed to payment so my friend got his money back.

Lessons learned -
1. - be very careful buying new out of the box products from "resellers" on eBay, warranties may not apply.
2 - Only buy from philatelists and postal history collectors, they are the most honest group of people I ever met. Not counting those at bourses who don't want to know some of the items they have on display are not as described. Gee, same as on eBay!

Roger

PS stamps4ever
Here's the Wikpedia site -a good read. It oculd have gone north and connected with the Trans-Manchuria line. I don't have time to figure it out, but there should be build dates within the site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway
Posted by stashnstella   ( 638 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:12:50 PST   Listings
And malao, I am NOT a business......i sell items from my home......they are used, old, no warranty or guarentee, (like a garage sale)and yes the customer is always right. And he received his money back quicker than it could've taken. Does that give him the right to threaten me for $10? Does that give him the right to behave cowardly by leaving lies in a negative feedback at the last minute so the seller cannot retort?? And if you've never heard or said yourself some of the words you think my mouth should be washed out for, maybe you need to find another topic to discuss. Thanks for your opinion, but we all know about opinions.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 648 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:09:58 PST   Listings
Geez, I was just born yesterday so I will believe that someone came here "out of the blue" to contest a previous post.
You guys really ought to get a life! It seems you have both experienced more than a $100 worth of grief over a lousy $8.75 auction. Sheesh you guys must be really bored.
That dosen't seem to satisfy, so you bring it to this board so we can feel your grief.........Get the Friggin frack over it.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 508 ) on Nov-07-07 at 12:08:32 PST   Listings
Roger well said! and Thank You.

stashnstella your vile language is not welcome here

mre bidder my husband was a stamp dealer/auction describer for 30+years and always used an old Australian pre-war 3d coin (silver) to test chalky paper.

In all my years on eBay (over 8 now, and I chat every day on other eBay boards), I have never ever heard of eBay PAYING anyone $10 for their 'inconvenience' hahahahaha.

Linda
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:55:58 PST   Listings
I want to ask if anyone has a small map of the route the Trans-Siberian Route took when people were mailing their letters and post cards from Shanghai in 1909.
Posted by philaweb   ( 313 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:55:26 PST   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!

Anyone here to visit the Frimærker i Forum exhibition that opens tomorrow?
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:53:10 PST   Listings
So back to the topic I came in here for, any other methods, proecedures, "tricks of the trade" to aid in differentiating between chalky and non-chalky GB stamps?
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:51:09 PST   Listings
Well said Malolo.

And he just keeps going at it. Thin he might be a tad obsessively irrational?
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:48:24 PST   Listings
DB, I have no idea why Ebay would give him a $10 credit but consider the source (not just his diatribe directed at me but also stamp dealers in general---see below). Who knows if he's telling the truth or off his meds.
Posted by malolo   ( 862 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:45:51 PST   Listings
mre_bidder -
Seems the seller needed a cup of Kona coffee before starting his eBay day.

stashnstella -
Advice for sellers.
#1 - Scan stamps!!@@@! Photographs at an angle make it impossible for buyers to confirm visually an erroneous description.
#2 - If your description states E6, then the stamp shipped must be an E6, no if's, and's, or but's.
#3 - Didn't they teach you in business school that the customer is always right? This is even more true on eBay because the customer has a means of telling the world that all was not well in a business transaction.\
#4 - Didn't you ever have your mouth washed out with soap when you were a kid? Cussing and using foul language in public shows a lack of discretion and most often fails to garner sympathy to your cause.
#5 - All this for less than $10 !@@@!!

From now on you will have a daily feedback reminder to be civil and work things out with customers. I could see your face bright red and neck veins popping when I read you post. Get a grip! Get a scanner! Change your vocabulary! You look like an idiot!

Roger
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:44:00 PST   Listings
Your paranoia runs deep Rob. It was just a coincidence that I came in here to get input on a stamp related topic today. But, ya know what bub, I'm glad I did so that you could display what I already know about ya based on my dealings with you. It also affored me the opportunity to report you to Ebay.

Have a nice day.
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:39:46 PST   Listings
Thanks David B. for your response to my query.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:37:02 PST   Listings
mre,

I don't understand his comments,

EVEN THOUGH THE CUSTOMER SERVICE REP FOR EBAY, AFTER RESEARCHING IT, AGREED WITH ME he said there was nothing he could do . E-bay customer service was nice enough to give me a $10 credit voucher,

OK, ignore the " agreed with me " comment but why did they give him a $10 credit when he was clearly wrong on many counts, wrong stamp, wrong perf, wrong watermark, badly thinned, no refund when requested. Sellers like that should be banned from Ebay but why give him a refund,

David B.
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:36:36 PST   Listings
Thanks DB for the input but most of the KE VII stamps I have are used and I have tried the holding it up to a light method with no sucess in being able to differentiate between chalky and non-chalky stamps.

Any other ideas? Anyone?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:30:29 PST   Listings
Lars, a couple of the values look OK, have you reported the lot to Ebay.Com.

David B.
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:30:07 PST   Listings


He wrote me an email OUTSIDE of the Paypal Dispute Resolution system that I didn't have to return the stamp as he would refund my money "shortly" irf it had not been done already. After waiting for several days, I sent him a reminder email. No reply. Sent him another email about the refund still not forthcoming after a week. He finally replies the day after the 2nd email stating that he would "have to look into it"??!!

I wrote him back asking what was there to look into as Paypal had already decided in my favor and he said the refund was already made or would be "shortly". I also informed him that PER PAYPAL'S rules governing disputes, I only had until the next day to send the stamp back AND to provide Paypal with PROOF OF MAILING via an online tracking number.

No big surprise that he didn't reply. Consequently, I was forced to unnecessarily expend OVER $3 to send the stamp back via certified mail in order to get the refund this joker had promised over 10 days earlier. Clearly, he was just stringing me along hopinjg that I would blow the time in which to send the stamp back!

You would think that that would be the end of the story, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. The address info he had on file with Paypal was either out of date of false because it was returned to me as "UNDELIVERABLE". So now I was informed by Paypal that I was required to jump through more hoops in order to get my refund (i.e I had to make copies of the tracking number receipts even though the USPS had the number on its website) and fax them to Paypal with 2 days! Luckily, I saved the receipt with the tracking number but had a devil of a time finding the cash register receipt showing payment but I finally found it and was able to meet Paypal's deadline. Then I had to wait another few days before finally, MERCIFULLY this ordeal was finally over.

Or so you would think, right? Wrong. This SOB sent me a nasty email after I sent the sttamp back via certified mail threatening me but before the post office sent it back. After I left FACTUAL negative feedback, he emailed me again calling me all kinds of vile things (evidently he's afraid of his feminine side as the vitrole centered mostly around his homo-phobic fantasys).

All told, I expended nearly 10 HOURS plus spent over $3 unnecessarily in a vain attempt to return the stamp to this guy after stringing me along for 10 days assuring me that the refund was pending and/or was going to be made "shortly". And what do I get for for my time and trouble (and the anxiety and stress of having to meet Paypal's requirements in extremely short periods of time)--a whopping $10 and being defamed in the process. Imagine that. What an A*hole.

Finally, I have NOT done "this" (whatever that means) 5 other times. I have rarely had to return stamps that are mis-identifed but I have NEVER had to go thru anything like what I described above with this JERK.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:29:29 PST   Listings
mre,

Mint stamps are fairly easy to tell by the feel of the surface and the shine when held to the light. Used stamps can be very difficult but sometimes dated copies help. I have never used the silver test and have been wary of it as I have seen stamps which show that it has been used but most probably too heavily.

David B.
Posted by poppadawg   ( 767 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:15:03 PST   Listings
mre_bidder: you beat me to it? Your version seems reasonable.
Posted by poppadawg   ( 767 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:13:45 PST   Listings
mre_bidder: interesting you should show up now. Any response to the rant posted at 6:49:01? Your negative feedback seems to be very reasonable.
Posted by deckelmouk   ( 1294 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:12:57 PST   Listings
Good evening! Just looking at that lot makes me sick: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160177522758 - altered stamps or outright fakes. Separation lines are not feature of the genuine stamps. On the 1 Centime you can clearly see the left over perforation holes. And the seller is ignoring my mail as usual.
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 11:06:11 PST   Listings
Wow and I do mean wow! I came in looking for some input regarding a technique on how to identify chalky paper stamps and stumble into StashnStella's rant about a transaction I had the misfortune of entering into with him.

To set the record straight, I purchased what he represented to be an E6 only to find that it was an E11 (rooughly 10% of the value). It was perf 11 (not 12 like it should be if it was a genuine E6), had no watermark and was badly (and I mean REALLY BADLY thinned--not mentioned whatsoever in the listing). So I contacted him about return of the stamp for a refund and he rudely and curtly responds by saying "I don't do refunds".

Consequently, I contacted Paypal and lodged a COMPLAINT (1st step in the process to get a refund). You know what he did? HE ESCALATED the complaint to a CLAIM (2nd step)! 2-3 days later, he was informed by Paypal that following a review of the claim I was entitled to a refund. He wrote me an email OUTSIDE
Posted by mre_bidder   ( 738 ) on Nov-07-07 at 10:51:27 PST   Listings
Greetings all. I was at a stamp show this weekend and had an interesting conversation with 2 dealers regarding how to differentiate CHALKY paper versus non-chalky stamps of the KE VII era.

According to them, gently rubbing a piece of STERLING SILVER wire over the face of the stamp will cause stamps on chalky paper to "blush" (i.e. a light gray residue will form). I guess this is some type of chemical reaction to the silver. They assured me that this would NOT damage the stamp as the residue can simply be wiped away.

Anyone hear or use this "trick" to identify chalky paper? Does it work? Will it damage the stamp?

Also, are there ANY other "tricks of the trade" someone could help me out with in identifying chalky paper stamps?
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 491 ) on Nov-07-07 at 10:50:25 PST   Listings
ClassicBruce:
That happens all the time!
I don't mind space fillers as a rule, but I don't want to pay as much as if it was in good condition!
Sometimes you get 2 bidders who want it, and they lose all sense (of value).

I can just picture them... "Oh, no, you're not getting it, *I'm* getting it!!

I feel like telling them.... Yeah, you're getting it alright!!
Posted by dbenson   ( 8687 ) on Nov-07-07 at 10:37:53 PST   Listings
Stamps 4 ever,

The Hong Kong DP overprint is a private company overprint for security reasons similar to the use of perfins. DP was used by the English language newspaper " Daily Press ",

David B.
Posted by thines   ( 1517 ) on Nov-07-07 at 09:21:40 PST   Listings
The New York Times reported today that F. Maynard Sundman, founder of Little Stamp Co., died on Oct. 31 at age 92.

Terry Hines

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-07-07 at 09:19:29 PST   Listings
I am sorry Stashn

the Negative reads
wrong stamp--- Not did not recieve

So more to this than your version.
In the Neg he claims You Do Not Do RETURNS
As your listings are long over any comments

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-07-07 at 09:13:40 PST   Listings
Stashin

Would the Use of a 50 cent Delievery Confirmation
have avoided all of your troubles
(even better it's only a few cents if you print your own postage out)
I thought that PP and the Bay required Dealers to
prove that Items paid with PP were ttrackable.

I might be wrong But it seems you were penny wise and pound foolish. IMHO
Posted by soggy333   ( 56 ) on Nov-07-07 at 08:58:08 PST   Listings
Mitch
I think that item you showed is a British revenue, but more importantly a newspaper revenue stamp.It would never be listed by scott as a newspaper stamp according to their listing policies because it did not pay newspaper postage but a newspaper tax. Also, it is stamped on to the paper and is not adhesive.
Brian
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-07-07 at 08:27:59 PST   Listings
I have a Hong Kong Stamp with a Hong Kong 1901 Circular Date Stamp, the stamp also has the initials D P, with the D on the left side of the stamp and P on the right side of the stamp, why did they put the initials DP on this stamp.
Posted by classicbruce   ( 322 ) on Nov-07-07 at 08:26:15 PST   Listings
Stashnstella - one can see, if one frequents the "Coins" Ebay lots + Stores, that they have dealt with the situation better in general, maybe by trial & error over the years. The typical sequence there for a coin of Richard's value (even less, often) is: 1) Coin is graded and slabbed 2) placed up for auction or price 3) buyer knows the coin is solid with the slabbing and grading.


This means a slight premium for a coin is added-in, since the buyer ultimately pays for the grading (indirectly) in the price they pay (via Min Bid, store price...). And I/we usually crack the slabs open after I get them to mount them better, but it's still a way to instill confidence in sales/products.


We could do something like that in Stamps for better material (Certs before sale), but it would take a big change...

Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3802 ) on Nov-07-07 at 08:14:08 PST   Listings

A fool and his/her money are soon parted.

Some are more foolish than others.

Some just have more money than others.

Some just need medication

catalog(ue)-raff
Posted by classicbruce   ( 322 ) on Nov-07-07 at 07:56:26 PST   Listings
Thanks for the correction, lluehhhb.
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 303 ) on Nov-07-07 at 07:47:23 PST   Listings
here is the Zululand item
Posted by classicbruce   ( 322 ) on Nov-07-07 at 07:38:49 PST   Listings
Oops, sorry, the Completed Items doesn't link easily. Anyway, it's under Zululand completed items. Check out the fold on face and poor repair on back...
Posted by classicbruce   ( 322 ) on Nov-07-07 at 07:34:25 PST   Listings
Holy cow. This Zululand 5sh> went for $470 USD, and it's quite faulty.


Apparently 2 bidders got in an "I won't lose no matter the cost" last-hour war, and drove the price way up. (I think the "winner" was actually the loser here). I need the 5Sh too, but I'd rather pay the extra $200 or so for a decent copy.

Posted by 1covers   ( 1369 ) on Nov-07-07 at 07:25:32 PST   Listings
Stashnstella - I consider it to be a reasonable expectation for a collector to be able to sell better items (over $200 value each) at a good percentage of cost (80% or better) if held for a period of five years or more. However, buying such items, uncertified, on ebay requires knowledge beyond the ability of most casual collectors. It is a tough game and not for the those who can't, or don't wish to, take the time to learn the importance of quality and authenticity and how to judge those factors.

Sorry to hear of your experience but it is typical really. Try buying from main line auction houses or brick and mortar dealers who will stand by their product. One of the reasons I have virtually quit listing material on ebay is because it is about impossible to compete selling correctly described material when so many others are selling rubbish as gold.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-07-07 at 06:12:42 PST   Listings
Not philatelic:
Very curiously and coincidentally, speaking of material slapping:
The brother of my wife (I don't call him 'brother in law' because I don't have brothers) had to pay a fine of 10000,00 euro (roundabout 14 grands) and to serve about a week of public service, for slapping someone inside of a parking lot: that one had parked his car in a way he couldn't get out with his, and he reacted violently, with corporal punishment.
Paolo
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-07-07 at 04:56:20 PST   Listings
off to court today ------some judge is going to slap me around a little it will be hard to keep a straight face when he fines me{somthing about obstructing the roadway ,we were dumping broken asphalt in the street instead of loading it into trucks and blocking the parking lot at McDonalds ,it is a fine i of $100.00 but the cost of another semi-truck was $300.00 so } -----oh well typical day--- someone is slapping me for something ....paul
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1423 ) on Nov-07-07 at 04:54:23 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Jim L.

member
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-07-07 at 04:30:36 PST   Listings
STAMP 4 EVER Those special cancel Japanese stamps most likely are from something like this. Japan was selling all types of stamp items to tourist and they were very popular in the early 20 th century .Without seeing them ,my quess is that it was a tourist souvenir item. Early Japenesse philatlic item ......paul
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-07-07 at 02:39:23 PST   Listings
Dave,
Curiously, some days ago whilst deciphering a cancel date from an image, I mistook a 1 for a 4 (and a 6 for an 8 as well): when the "1" is impressed without the lower horiz. bar and the cancel a bit blurred it can look very similar to a "4".
Greetings,
Paolo
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-07-07 at 02:34:23 PST   Listings
Thanks Philatarium for the information, and others who provided information on the Japanese stamps. Yes Philatarium the year is 1894 my mistake.
Posted by spirit_helper   ( 1639 ) on Nov-07-07 at 01:47:00 PST   Listings
Posted by philatarium   ( 240 ) on Nov-06-07 at 22:19:18 PST   Listings
David B: I bet you're right. That certainly seems reasonable. (Someday I'll dig through some past issues of "Japanese Philately" and see what I can learn about this.) Thanks for pointing this out.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8677 ) on Nov-06-07 at 21:53:35 PST   Listings
philatarium,


dave,

re. the IJPO on the pair of commems. They must have cto' a lot of them as I have seen them in blocks of 4 and I doubt they actually saw any postal usage.

David B.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3595 ) on Nov-06-07 at 21:25:47 PST   Listings
David,

re: Gibson

Quite a realization. My friend collects music memorabilia pointed it out to me a couple of days ago and I noticed a line pair. The high bidder is a music memorabilia collector.

Matt in Arizona
Posted by philatarium   ( 240 ) on Nov-06-07 at 21:12:46 PST   Listings
Oh, forgot to mention: Do you think the year might be 1894 instead of 1891? I ask because the stamps were issued March 9, 1894. If it's definitely "1891" on yours, then I think someone applied a nice bogus cancel instead.
Posted by philatarium   ( 240 ) on Nov-06-07 at 21:06:44 PST   Listings
Stamps-4-ever: Still around? The stamps you described sound like nice items, especially if they are socked-on-the-nose (which I'm inferring may be the case from your description of "full").

As David Benson said, Japanese stamps were used in China (and Korea, and Taiwan) at that time, so this type of cancellation is not atypical for the period.

According to the Japanese Specialized (JSCA) catalog, it looks like that particular type of cancel, from China, is valued at a bit of a premium. The value of the 85 would be about 2x catalog, and the 86 at about 1.5x cat.

By the way, those 2 stamps are Japan's first commemoratives, and they're still favorites of mine.

Hope that helps a bit.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1421 ) on Nov-06-07 at 19:53:48 PST   Listings
member
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 505 ) on Nov-06-07 at 19:33:41 PST   Listings
Mitch at a guess, I'd say its some sort of English Stamp Duty, cut from a document.

Linda
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 645 ) on Nov-06-07 at 18:50:32 PST   Listings
Anyone have a clue what this is?
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Nov-06-07 at 18:12:07 PST   Listings
matt...I suspect that you already know that since it's from Kalamazoo that it's guitars.
Posted by keleofa   ( 3595 ) on Nov-06-07 at 17:53:49 PST   Listings

Stamps or Guitars????

Matt in Arizona
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-06-07 at 16:38:51 PST   Listings
Tongue in cheek, of course!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-06-07 at 16:34:27 PST   Listings
P.S. "attractive" -- On the line of Number 10
*very hypothetically*,
I have a very nasty Scottish competitor in business and bad enemy as well.
Through a business intermediary, I invite him in the middle of the night at a certain address within the ancient City walls of York, for a one million pound affair, only with the extravagant condition that he must bring a bow and arrows with him, for the deal to be concluded.
I hire an assassin, old resident of York, who kills him in the place with a sward.
Even if the hired assassin is discovered, the lawyer will appeal to that article, and the hired assassin would walk (and not talk).

Paolo
Posted by patcurragh   ( 24 ) on Nov-06-07 at 14:05:54 PST   Listings


Peter,
Placing a stamp upsidedown was an act of patriotism in Ireland before 1922. Writing names and addresses in Irish was also not allowed, the PO wrote in the English version on the envelope. I have interesting examples of both "acts of treason".

Our Justice Department is currently tidying up old English laws we inherited in 1922. For example, "1210 AD John, English laws and customs should be observed" is due to be repealed along with many similar.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-06-07 at 13:51:19 PST   Listings
Peter,
LOL!
I find number 10 the most "attractive".
Now, how can I get that Scottish passport?
Paolo
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 81 ) on Nov-06-07 at 13:23:30 PST   Listings
NOIP If you want a good laugh read this:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7081038.stm

On stupid laws, apart from the obvious number 2 act of treason for placing a stamp upsidedown, I like not being allowed to name a pig Napoleon in France:-)
cheers
Peter
Posted by dbenson   ( 8677 ) on Nov-06-07 at 10:50:36 PST   Listings
stamps4ever,


this is from Stamp Atlas,

" Japanese POs in China
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FIRST STAMPS ISSUED January 1900.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CURRENCY
1900, as Japan.
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Comprising Shanghai (15 April 1876), and agencies at Chefoo, Chinkiang, Foochow, Hangchow, Kiukiang, Newchwang (now Yingkow), Mingoo, and Tientsin. From 1896 Hangchow, Shansi, and Soochow.
Used stamps of Japan 15 April 1876 until 31 December 1899. "

David B.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-06-07 at 07:52:58 PST   Listings
man that new alternate DE site scrolls quick.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-06-07 at 07:49:29 PST   Listings
Daves not home man.
Posted by stamps-4-ever   ( 134 ) on Nov-06-07 at 06:35:37 PST   Listings
I received 2 stamps Imperial Japanese Post Scott #'s 85 and 86 which I do not know anything about these stamps, they both have full Circular Date Stamps which say MEIJI I.J.P.O. shanghai both are dated 30 IIII 1891. I am wondering if someone give information on these stamps and about the Circular Date Stamps and a little history on the use of these Circular Date Stamps.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-06-07 at 06:07:43 PST   Listings
SLOW GOING I can't believe how slow it is going ,over the past three days been working on meagering a worldwide pre-1940 Supreme Global Stamp Album set of 6 volumes into my collection.Just got finish with Denmark ,had to check very thing for perfs,watermarks and inverted frames.The time is gone just on the reorganization and mounting better copies of existing stamps from my pages .I keep a large box on the floor next to the desk as i finish a page,I pull it out of the above albums and put it in the box .Hope to fill three large boxes of duplicates for a stamp auction consignment next spring .

Color variations and nice cancels also help to slow the whole process down. Have not even started on the recent auction purchases maybe next month .

Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Nov-06-07 at 05:27:26 PST   Listings
Yes, from the moment I first saw a little pink & white PVI being applied, I reacted like all faithful philatelists should in that moment. A cold shiver ran up my spine, as it dawned on me that here with this insideous pink sticker, thus tolls the death knell for our beloved stamps.

Of course other visionaries saw them as something to embrace, collect, even dedicate a web page to. Being a philatelic pioneer and blazing the path for others is frequently rewarded. Even cancel collector Roger "the razor" Heath, has to admit that the poor soul who invented the "Doane" cancelers has been completely forgotten. That honor went to Edith Doane who began waxing eloquently about them some 50 years ago.

Soon even the term "PVI" will fade to black. We'll likely be refering to them as "Io labels" or perhaps "Whitford-Stark stickers"
Posted by philaweb   ( 313 ) on Nov-06-07 at 04:12:24 PST   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-06-07 at 03:53:01 PST   Listings
Oh and Good day to all.




SAphilatelics

That is kinda a waste of electrons there.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-06-07 at 03:51:18 PST   Listings
Sprite

There are 11 in NC

maybe one is close to you
'


http://www.stamps.org/directories/chapter.asp

list is at link above
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-06-07 at 03:48:57 PST   Listings
K.E.
Nice Wrapper
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 505 ) on Nov-06-07 at 03:38:16 PST   Listings
Paolo, I think thats Customs
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1421 ) on Nov-06-07 at 03:31:48 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Jim L.

member
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-06-07 at 02:51:00 PST   Listings
Knud-Erik,
Interesting wrapper; when you describe it in your exhibit, care to omit the "g" at the end of "Tientsin".
Likely Jim (IO) will be able to tell you what is written there.
I can't make out what's written in red above "Tientsin" in the new address either.
Paolo
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 505 ) on Nov-06-07 at 02:42:33 PST   Listings
#12 crispy fried duck with wonton noodles??? maybe??

Linda
Sorry Knud, could not resist!!! :o)
Posted by knuden   ( 2386 ) on Nov-06-07 at 02:10:28 PST   Listings
Today I recieved a nice Postal wrapper to my exhibit.
It's first sent to Shanghai in China and here redirected to Tientsing? in 1926.
Can anyone tell me what's written in chinese??

K.E  I'm a catalog queen - whoopee!!
Posted by jaywild   ( 1014 ) on Nov-05-07 at 21:19:08 PST   Listings
billsey… I don’t know the wavelengths specifically, but short wave is used to spot tagging, long wave is useful in detecting repairs and removed cancels. Long wave lamps are cheap, short wave much less so.

Jim
Posted by sprite.336   ( 22 ) on Nov-05-07 at 21:07:18 PST   Listings
dose any one know of a stamp club in mount airy n.c
Posted by saphilatelics   ( 477 ) on Nov-05-07 at 20:15:40 PST   Listings
Scan of the day:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Thurn-Taxis-48-Used-32-50-CV-1859_W0QQitemZ130171160437QQihZ003QQcategoryZ3489QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-05-07 at 19:57:27 PST   Listings
dcderoo What you refer to as your new syntax, is the identical syntax I have been using for several years, (since Mediaone became part of Comcast).Up until about 2 weeks ago it worked fine. Now the only way I can see pictures within my descriptions, is to click on the red X then hit my browser (IE) back button. From then on, I can see all my pictures within all my listings, until I log off my computer. Other Comcast users are experiencing the same problem. A fellow Club member/collector has moved to photobucket and I may do the same.
And you know how much of a waste of time it is to speak to a Comcast tech. If you haven't yet, be happy. Very happy!
Posted by billsey   ( 854 ) on Nov-05-07 at 19:50:36 PST   Listings
I forget, what are the wavelengths I need for UV lights? I just remember that someone gave us that info a year or two back, but can't find my notes...
Posted by natures_best   ( 560 ) on Nov-05-07 at 18:44:17 PST   Listings
Amazing, I would never of thought of collecting PVIs.
Posted by natures_best   ( 560 ) on Nov-05-07 at 18:33:55 PST   Listings
stamps12345 - Wow! you are right. I looked at the stamp under a loupe and my mind tricked itself into seeing a 7. It is a 1. :/ thanks for the help. I'll be back.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Nov-05-07 at 17:55:10 PST   Listings
Wow, I received an email from a collector of PVI's in the Netherlands whose knowledge exceeds mine by quite a bit.

A major update to the PVI page coming soon.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 505 ) on Nov-05-07 at 17:52:24 PST   Listings
bookmark
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-05-07 at 17:06:46 PST   Listings
Brigguy thanks

convinced myself it would be a proper Use
and sent my money order.

As I see so little CSA material
a Dietz is far down the list of books
i must have.

I pass out a lot of cards at Fleamarkets and such places, this time a call from the wilds of Arizona.
A person has passed on my info
to an olde guy who was interested in the fact
that I like olde mail.

He had some pieces his Father collected in the early 1920's
I can't wait.


That's is one beauty there in that Scan

@stamps12345
Thanks for the dates. I think I'm in O town that weekend (the area anyway) for a show/sale
will have to pencil in at least a day.
I have never been to a stamp show that had exhibits.
Not once , ever,
maybe this will get that out of my system.
I have tried to go to the Big show south of me
but have never made it.
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Nov-05-07 at 16:12:25 PST   Listings
Hello Everyone!

I see about 2/3 of the way down the board Prometheus (Due2cents) asked about a Richmond due 2 confederate stampless cover. YES, such things exist and are by and large treasures. Richmond had a large population of transient soldiers both coming and going throughout the war. Any soldier passing through could create a 2c due drop cover by simply leaving a letter at the PO for any local resident. Get thee a Dietz catalog and learn to identify both Richmond dials, and the Richmond auxiliary 2 cent handstamps. OR, get a scan and plunk it here, so those who wish to live vicariously via your exploits can enjoy it too, while looking up the particulars in their Dietz for you in exchange.

For the rest of you, may you buy an old book for two bits at a garage sale, ...and find something like this! in between the pages. Its a Richmond due 2 stampless with a twist. The sender was none other then Jefferson Davis himself (the Confederate President), writing to a confederate congressman. Pre war Davis was a US Senator from Mississippi and had free franking privileges. Apparently he forgot that NOBODY (except postmasters communicating official CSA postal business) got free service in the CSA post....not even the president. The Richmond post office looks to have sent it to their dead letter "Held for Postage" department, until its being in an official CSA Executive Dept envelope made clearer minds prevail. Appparently the Richmond PO relented and let it go to the addressee due. Thats right, when the CSA congressman came in to pick up his mail, he was informed he had a letter from the president......now, please cough up 2 cents!
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-05-07 at 16:11:57 PST   Listings
DUE-----The stamp show in Orlando is at the fairgrounds .The dates are Nov 30 to Dec 2 .I plan to be there Dec 2 ,it has 2800 pages of exhibits .
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-05-07 at 16:05:44 PST   Listings
Roger,
frame active hyperlinks that open in a new window is what I would suggest.

Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8677 ) on Nov-05-07 at 15:28:01 PST   Listings
mitch, I am only going by comments in Gibbons although there would be more detailed comments in the Belgian specialist catalogue.

You should presume that the 25f. & 50f. are reprints and comparison with the paper and height with the others when you receive them.

Like I said apart from the reprints there are plenty of types of forgeries of the 50f. to worry about,

As far as I am concerned they are placed in the guilty until proven innocent material,

David B.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 645 ) on Nov-05-07 at 15:03:29 PST   Listings
David Are you sure the reprints are taller? The 50fr looks to be 1/2 mm shorter. The rest are the same.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8677 ) on Nov-05-07 at 14:39:38 PST   Listings
Mitch,

Gibbons mentions unofficial reprints including the 2 unissued values which were made in the late 1910's. They can be distinguished from the originals as they are 1/4mm. taller. The lower values were never reprinted and comparisons in height between the 5c., 10c., 15c. & the better values 50c. Chocolate, 5f., 10f. and the unissued 25f. & 50f. should ascertain what is good and what is bad. The reprints are on thicker paper. Apart from the reprints there are also many forgeries,

David B.
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1705 ) on Nov-05-07 at 14:17:51 PST   Listings
My new syntax works as expected.
My old syntax gives me "The webpage cannot be found" screen.

So for me things work.
Looks like you'll have to talk to Comcast's technical help.

Posted by dcderoo   ( 1705 ) on Nov-05-07 at 14:14:13 PST   Listings
peetah, strange.
My syntax examples are correct as I used them.
Let me try both methods on the same file:

New syntax (with the tilde):
My new syntax

Old syntax (other format):
My old syntax

Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-05-07 at 14:03:06 PST   Listings
natures best -----Here is a scan of the stamp ,notice the "1" is thick enought that with the right cancel it could be made to look like a "7",, just a nice oddity. EGYPT STAMP ....paul
Posted by malolo   ( 861 ) on Nov-05-07 at 14:00:58 PST   Listings
Paolo -
Thank you for the referrals and compliments. Nice to hear other enjoy the exhibit. As other have written here, razor cancels aren’t that easy to find, but they are out in collections and dealer inventory. There is certainly a ”fun” value in opening a generic auction title and discovering a razor! Stll the rare ones are rare, and the more common, common.

If I undersand you correctly you are suggesting a better click back to frame pages, or the first frame? I once had all links open in a new page and that became cumbersome when viewing multiple pages. To many were open, so I simplified and only the frames open in new windows, not the individual pages.

Maybe I need to “name” the arrows so viewers know where they are going. If this is what you are suggesting, please confirm and I’ll give it a try.

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
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Posted by natures_best   ( 560 ) on Nov-05-07 at 13:42:12 PST   Listings
here's a big pic of the stamp
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-05-07 at 13:30:01 PST   Listings
natures best ----Its a 10m stamp with a odd cancelation making the stamp look like a 70 ,how about a better scan,bigger on just the stamp
Posted by natures_best   ( 560 ) on Nov-05-07 at 13:16:29 PST   Listings
Please tell me what you think of
this stamp?

I believe it is from Egypt but I can't find a 70 denomination on and Egypt stamp site. I will offer this item on ebay for the stamp, the missent stamp and the opposite side image. thanks!
Posted by dbenson   ( 8677 ) on Nov-05-07 at 13:05:01 PST   Listings
Mitch,

I would be very wary of the higher values as there are many forgeries.

David B.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 645 ) on Nov-05-07 at 12:41:26 PST   Listings
Arrgh! There always has to be some wise guy that jumps the bid way up on me. I' m suprised there were not several. If that guy hadn't been around I would have got it for about $100 less. Still I think I can get the three stamps I need and sell the rest to pretty much recoup my investment.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1238 ) on Nov-05-07 at 11:21:36 PST   Listings
Hello from Mr. Semi-dyslexic! :-)
Posted by oggilby   ( 1238 ) on Nov-05-07 at 11:11:40 PST   Listings
ajywild--I didn't see a section of the bar graph for ased hippies! BTW, It's a Stephen Stills/Manassas afternoon on the LP player.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-05-07 at 11:07:25 PST   Listings
Sprite 335

Some Folks Think This is a place for
LINK_HERE

stamps.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1014 ) on Nov-05-07 at 10:49:59 PST   Listings
NOIP… Here’s a place for fellow Americans to while away the lonely hours when waiting for stamps to dry…

Jim
Posted by fred_baumann   ( 549 ) on Nov-05-07 at 10:39:05 PST   Listings
Course at WESTPEX Among Spring Attractions from the Education Department at the APS


Hard on the heels of the recent success of “The Essentials of Aerophilately” — a two-day course October 17–18 at the American Philatelic Center — the Education Department of the American Philatelic Society has unveiled the first of its planned offerings for collectors in the year to come.

Spring 2008 will see the initial APS “traveling tutorial” — an intensive course offered on the road in conjunction with a World Series of Philately stamp show. Veteran APS instructor Dennis Gilson will offer a two-day version of his popular Summer Seminar course on “The Washington-Franklin Issues” on Wednesday, April 23, and Thursday, April 24, 2008, immediately prior to Westpex 2008 April 25–27 in San Francisco, California. This course is not just for the expert collector, but for anyone who has collected or wants to collect these classic issues. A minimum of eight students is required for the course to be held. Registrants will be given one month’s notice in order for them to have sufficient time to arrange for transportation and accommodations, which are not included. Details of “The Washington-Franklin Issues,” including a link for online registration, are available at www.stamps.org/Education/edu_Courses.htm

The first 2008 weekend courses at the American Philatelic Center will be “Collecting Revenues” with Ron Lesher and “Collecting First Day Covers” with Lloyd de Vries. Lesher is past president of the American Revenues Association, former APS Director at Large, a Director of the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors and longtime revenues columnist online and in the weekly philatelic press. De Vries, First Vice President of the American First Day Cover Society and a past APS Secretary and Director-at-Large, has written columns on first day covers for more than 20 years for the weekly philatelic press. He manages The Virtual Stamp Club online, and produces a weekly radio stamp collecting report for CBS News. Since 1983, he has produced his own line of first day of issue cards, and for about eight years, was a weekend bourse dealer selling FDCs and related material.

The courses will be offered Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12, 2008, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

Planning is well under way for the 28th Annual Summer Seminar on Philately, June 22–27, at APS Headquarters. Since 1980, these annual conclaves of like-minded collectors have become a mainstay of the stamp hobby, spreading philatelic fellowship and imparting the latest thinking and knowledge through intensive, expert lectures and hands-on workshops.

To learn more about these and other educational opportunities, contact Gretchen Moody by e-mail at gretchen@stamps.org or call 814-933-3810.
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-05-07 at 10:37:47 PST   Listings
P.S. I know that the tool bar menu on top and bottom of each page might already suffice, however, wouldn't it be possible to plant active hyperlinks that open in a new window of each and every page. I believe this could be accomplished without making the pages too heavy.
In the remote eventuality, in fact, that a visitor not very practical of internet 'left clicks' on a page, and, for instance, doesn't find what he /she thought he found, or was looking for or whatever, might not press the back button to go back to the home-page.
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 206 ) on Nov-05-07 at 10:05:45 PST   Listings
Roger,
Put a sponsor in your web-exhibit! ;-)
I linked and introduced it with pleasure in two different "places".
Then, I will also show a few of my razors in the same places...
You got a visitor from Egypt, for the first time. Friend of mine, works in Sharm El Sheik and is a VERY passionate philatelist (collects mostly only Postal History, and the thematic 'Camels on Stamps' -- maybe he could convert into Razors?).
You had a very positive recension from the kindest friend who is a pluri-gold medal exhibitor (on Italian soil) on some a chapters of Roman States Postal History.

Paolo
Posted by sprite.336   ( 22 ) on Nov-05-07 at 10:01:55 PST   Listings
we can i get some real nice stamps
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-05-07 at 09:38:55 PST   Listings
220man
nice stamp
if you like Unused ones.
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Nov-05-07 at 09:27:43 PST   Listings
test
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-05-07 at 08:55:14 PST   Listings
dcderoo I show a X just before my words, "Your post...."
I intended to type img src = httttp etc
Posted by peetah   ( 511 ) on Nov-05-07 at 08:52:19 PST   Listings
dcderoo Is it possible you have the "OLD" and "NEW" syntax reversed? I always used what you describe as "NEW", for posting a clickable link within a description.
What about showing a picture within a description?
Your post is the first reasonable explanation of how to resolve the picture issue. But, I still wonder about the possibility you reversed the "NEW" vs "OLD", syntax.
Posted by mendelbrot   ( 45 ) on Nov-05-07 at 08:29:27 PST   Listings
Greetings to you all

Michel
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Nov-05-07 at 07:46:24 PST   Listings
Stamps12345

What are the Dates of the Stamp Show in O town

Is it at the Fairgrounds?

If you move down here , don't do O Town

Buy in up near Clermont, or Mt Dora

more dirt for your dollar
and still just a few minutes by asphalt
to O town
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1421 ) on Nov-05-07 at 06:22:46 PST   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Jim L.

member
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1705 ) on Nov-05-07 at 05:02:23 PST   Listings
peetah, if Comcast did to you what it did here, yes, you're going to have trouble bringing images into places like this.
When they gave us more "personal space", they also changed the address.
I could download images to their site, but couldn't post them anywhere.
If that sounds like your problem, here what I had to do:

Old Syntax (trying to get this to show correctly)
<a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/UserID/filename">LABEL</a>

New Syntax
<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~UserID/filename">LABEL</a>

Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-05-07 at 05:00:43 PST   Listings
NOIP----Spent my first day yesterday of unemployment sorting out three different groups/collections of early Cyprus.Found a CC watermark stamp and soaked a few Kings Edward and George's.Removed paper and heavey hinges by soaking how the previous collectors determined watermarks is beyond me.Now have a few album pages of early Cyprus and put together a nice set of the 50 th year as a British colony now all i need is the one pound value mint to complete the set ...off to search e-bay .......paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-05-07 at 03:04:40 PST   Listings
DAVID B. ----They can instigate what ever they want.Their lawyer will tell them 20 or 40 or 50 compliants against 16,000 positives wouldn't give them much of a standing in the eyes of the court .Also purchasing over time and continue to purchase even weaken their case further. The court system most likely wouldn't take the case .
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Nov-05-07 at 02:53:17 PST   Listings
WE HAVE A TOTAL MISUNDERSTANDING HERE ABOUT E-BAY It is the "wild-west" of the sales and marketing .Why some people here think God gave them a direct commandment to police it. If you want structure go back to your APS sales books or their on-line service .This place has grown to become the first place for treasure seekers and new discoveries and over hype-material.

.I welcome the people like NYSTAMPS they look like they fill a need for the pie -in-the-sky buyers and they also keep the low end buyers satisfy What they sell looks picked over and over-hyped but to imply they purchase the same is a total frabrication by the poster here ,who doesn't know squat about the stamp auction business .

By the way as a kid I grew up in public housing ,I'll never live in joint housing .In 30 days the wife and I are going to Florida to purchase a house .I'll get to meet a whole new group of collectors down there at the big stamp show in Orlando next month .

In the U.S. some of the respondsibilites rest with the buyer and somewhere this will all come to a head. Then we all will learn what the deal is between E-BAY ,the stamp watch committee and the APS ,all they need to do is bite at the wrong person and the public will find out during a court ordered discovery process ........All they need to do is step on the wrong toes ......and everything goes public .....paul