Alec -
I’m afraid you are out of sequence. The number 100,000 would be the week of April 10, 3930 AD. Even Mitchell isn’t that far out! )’>) Fun to see such a simp[le looking card is so rare.
Paolo -
I googled your name and find many references to an expert of Italian stamps and hypertension. Do they go together? )'>)
I know one should never recommend a collecting area, but filling holes in a Swiss album con become very expensive. I went that route until only the most expensive were left and I resorted to buying "seconds", which we all know doesn't pay off. BUT, it got me focused on what is truely rare and just not of high catalogue value. It was a confirmation of my GB stamp collecting where all the expensive "rare" stamps, such as the 1929 PUC £1, and a number of high denomination Victorian stamps were all available at nearly every auction, one just had to cough up the money to fill hole. I thought that was an expensive manner to tie up my cash. I've had much more fun collecting Strubels, when the occasion suits me, and my cancels, which are mostly cheap. I think there are other areas of Swiss collecting that can be started where the postal history side is much more interesting than the stamps themselves. Here is a truely rare combination - a Zum 71E (Sc 87b) with a Lausanne razor cancel. This device was used on regular ooutgoing mail so this stamp had to be used on a quadruple weight international letter, internal letters were only 10 centimes (so let's discount this use), or a parcel. I've never seen anything other than card and letter uses of razor cancels. I would love to own the item from ewhich this stamp originated!
NOIP -
I tried to find a "Zero" cover but came up with nothing. So it goes. I'll keep looking.
Roger,
Retreating to the balcony wearing my asbestos coat. LOL
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