eBay chatboard archive: Aug-06-07 to Aug-12-07 week

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 442 ) on Aug-12-07 at 23:47:03 PDT   Listings
sure TIKTOK. Just post a LINK to a scan of the stamps and we will assist you.
Posted by tiktoktami   ( 0 ) on Aug-12-07 at 21:54:20 PDT   Listings
please help me identify these stamps
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-12-07 at 21:25:20 PDT   Listings
Ted L… Hey!!! My family owns that bridge, my grandfather bought it first thing off the boat in 1913!

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Lindy... Actually I figured it out on my own. The first results returned were the most expensive items in the gallery listings. The regular listings started further down the page, and it was there I found the lot.

To me “gallery” listings are a total waste of time. I always skip past them without a glance, because it’s always the same old crap from the same old shyster sellers using the same old tired pitches—Amazing! Rare! Untouched!! Hoard!!!!!

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 442 ) on Aug-12-07 at 21:06:48 PDT   Listings
JayJimprob. didn't show up for you as seller is in Australia and you would have to check WORLDWIDE box.
Looks like a hijacked account to me, seller used to sell Sea Shells (by the Sea Shore in Adelaide, SthAustralia!), With no activity on the account for 7 months!

Linda
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-12-07 at 19:34:13 PDT   Listings
Jaywild & antonius-ra: Thanks for you input.

I wonder if the seller may be serious about their belief that those are great rarities? Sure are some interesting things to see on e-bay.

Now if I could only find a buyer for my bridge that I own in Brooklyn....... Ted.
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-12-07 at 19:26:00 PDT   Listings
iomoon… Funny, it didn’t show up when I ranked the auctions by most expensive.

I’d say let the lot run. If anyone is dumb enough to buy those stamps, given the crummy feedback score of the seller (7 negs with less than 250 overall) I find it hard to scare up any sympathy.

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-12-07 at 18:41:57 PDT   Listings
rbstudio Welcome to the stamp board. There are many people here that would be glad to help you learn about the hobby. Just ask away!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-12-07 at 18:39:10 PDT   Listings
Jim

This one
Posted by rbstudio121   ( 0 )   on Aug-12-07 at 18:01:41 PDT   Listings
Hi. New to stamp game, but hope will be a fast learner.
Hey-- speaking of Gunga Din, if you've never seen the Peter Sellers take-off on this subject (See "The Party"), this is a must-see. Very hysterical.
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-12-07 at 17:49:09 PDT   Listings
Ted L… I can’t find that auction you referred to. Was it pulled already?

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-12-07 at 17:22:26 PDT   Listings
Paul Go for it! Hopefully you can "acculate" it, in
a meaningful way. You should know if you're always pissing into the fan, it comes back on you.

Been working on cars with 100 degree temp and a heat index of 111 all day, time to jump in the pool.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-12-07 at 16:33:58 PDT   Listings
NOIP------Had a good day working in this 90 degree heat,guys are burned out too many hot days to be working 7 days a week ,but now have to sit down and write up invoices ,lots of invoices for the past few days .

Would like to respond to all those friendly poster who have been peeing in my direction but to busy right now ...later ....paul

Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-12-07 at 16:33:22 PDT   Listings
Ted The answer is yes. Only problem is that there is no category (in reporting) for "stupid obvious rip-offs".

220man There is no finer movie than Das Boot!
Ken I did actually mention Dr. Strangelove in my top favs. It was incredibly poignant when it came out, while being quite humorous. Kubrik was genius! Although the only movie I think was more boring than 2001 was Barry Lyndon.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-12-07 at 16:03:48 PDT   Listings
Question for everyone on this board: Someone has listed 3 common US Stamps as being the "rarest US Stamps you will ever find" and has listed them for 300,000 USD ! Should this kind of listing be reported to APS watch group, or can someone list something like this,and it is Caveat Emptor?

I will not mention the seller ,but just go to US stamps category, and look under highest first, and it will be the first one listed. Thanks, Ted.
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-12-07 at 15:03:05 PDT   Listings
"Das Boot" is a fav.
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 290 ) on Aug-12-07 at 14:39:32 PDT   Listings
infla-alec
Do you know a book for Germany 1933 rates? I searched online but found nothing, just one for the 1906-1923 period.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-12-07 at 14:23:12 PDT   Listings
Kchrist: A Night to Remember is my fav. Titanic movie. Shot in B&W, without the hi-tech special effects of the later films, still I think is the most accurate and most realistic of the Titanic Film's. The British are best at making those type of documentary/fiction film's.

Does anyone know if the UK ever issued a stamp to Commemorate the Titanic disaster? Not that they would want to brag about it but I would think they would want to honour, both the dead, and the survivors.Ted.
Posted by kchrist499   ( 1150 ) on Aug-12-07 at 14:04:05 PDT   Listings
I realize that I am late in joining the "Favorite Movies" conversation, but I could not help but notice that two of my all time favorites weren't mentioned: Dr. Strangelove, and A Thousand Clowns".

Also, some of you oldtimers might remember "A Night to Remember", and Ghunga Din, both with Cary Grant. And who can forget to mention Public Enemy #1 with Cagney?

I guess I'm showing my age, but these have stayed with me all these years.

Ken C.

Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-12-07 at 13:58:42 PDT   Listings
infla-alec… Thanks for the information on the changeover from the old worthless marks to the new currency. I was unaware that the old stamps were valid for any period of time. Also, that official cover—is it possible those stamps were precanceled? I know in some US post offices in the middle of the 20th Century clerks used to precancel mint sheets of postage due and other stamps with a roller cancel, and thus when applied to a cover or parcel they were never “tied”.

By the way, I want you all to know that I am the lucky person that will take possession of all of Mikhail Khordorkovsky’s fortune, the guy who founded the Russian YUKOS oil company and who has been languishing in a Russki jail for several years now. I was just informed by email today. All I have to do is fly to Brussells Belgium and sign a few papers…

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Jim
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-12-07 at 13:02:40 PDT   Listings
Alec I agree that covers with stamp(s) missing can be highly desirable as I have sold several over the years from time to time due to the cover bearing a rare postal marking or some other feature, such as a good postcard image on the obverse or some rare stamp still being tied on the cover. And the INFLA cover could very well be real, but the message here is that there are a whole lot of peripheral things to consider with any difficult-to-attribute postal history item. Best of success to you on this one, I hope it turns out OK for your collection's sake.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-12-07 at 12:56:24 PDT   Listings
I do not see any roller cancel on any part of that INFLA cover. Aside from the magic marker, they are all circular date or box date handstamps.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-12-07 at 12:53:57 PDT   Listings
It takes many decades and hundreds of disappointments in sales of borderline and esoteric material to amass this kind of general knowledge about postal operations the world over.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-12-07 at 12:51:48 PDT   Listings
While that INFLA cover may be authentic, I have a hard time believing that a German postal worker would fail to hammer all or at least some of those stamps with a CDS in favor of magic marker, especially as such would have been against their own postal regulations. As well, they normally used violet pencils to make 'pen cancels' and other manuscript-style markings on covers of any type, such as weight in grams, etc.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-12-07 at 12:47:07 PDT   Listings
which is abbreviated in the rubber receiving handstamp.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-12-07 at 12:45:14 PDT   Listings
Alec On that German inflationary official cover, the cancel which was on the now-missing stamp is the required receiving mark from the destination Lichtenberg,
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-12-07 at 11:54:55 PDT   Listings
Re: Tannu Tuva. I just realized that Scott has finally listed the later issues in my 2005 classic specialized catalog. They use to only recognize the pre 1934 issues.
I was also suprised to see that the later issues had pretty good values attached to them. There are also several stamps listed that I have never seen before from 1938-1943 (quite pricey). I guess it is back to the drawing board with that collection. I thought I was only missing a few of the earlier overprinted items. Wish I could figure out which of my 110 albums I put those few pages in, they seem to be lost in action at present.


The blanket statement that "true unpicked lots don't exist any more" is completely wrong, although it maybe true for 80%. Most collections come from people who are deceased and left to heirs. The heirs will usually either find a stamp dealer who will often offer them pennies on the dollar and then cherrie pick the collection. They might even run them on Ebay and not knowing what is good or not, leave them intact. The third option is of course the auction house. Most auction houses will discuss how to best realize the highest dollar gain and this often means picking out the better items to run in seperate lots. However some auction houses or the seller themselves will decide to keep the collection intact. It should be the sellers call and many would prefer that their relatives collection should remain intact.

Regarding that Tannu Tuva lot that has been discussed. My first impression is that it would go for around $53.00

The World of Stamps
Posted by sayasan   ( 713 ) on Aug-12-07 at 11:12:17 PDT   Listings
Tannu Tuva - If anyone's still interested, I recommend the Tuva Society's website - http://www.tuva.tk/

In particular the section on rehabilitating the stamps of 1934 to 1936. Paul is quite wrong. This was not a fantasy entity, and there is evidence of genuine usage.

Richard W.

Posted by sayasan   ( 713 ) on Aug-12-07 at 11:04:22 PDT   Listings
alec - That makes sense. Thanks! Interesting cover!
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-12-07 at 10:24:15 PDT   Listings
1covers: Even though you and I have never had any business transactions together, I have viewed your lots, both current & past, including the great Denmark Collection.

If all e-bay stamp sellers & the even non-ebay sellers were all, as knowledgeable & ethical as you are,we wouldn't have to spend so much time on here complaining & debating about those who do not share those same 2 qualities with you. Ted.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-12-07 at 10:14:20 PDT   Listings
Re:Picked Over,Salted &Put Together Lots.

I have no problem with the above lots. I put-together and make up lots for my e-bay auctions all of the time.

Here is my problem: People who list the above type lots and list them as "intact" or "as they come from an old collection found in a barn in New Hampshire" etc. etc.Baloney!

I also see many lots described as a "collection",but upon viewing the "collection", it is obvious to me that the best items have been removed. I have always listed such lots as a "collection remnant"
This is the way most reputable Auction Houses list this type of lot. You will often find a group like this described something like this: "very nice US collection remnant, still many nice items remaining,....."

I feel the same way about listing items with condition problems. I often list items with various degrees of fault's,but I list them, as such. Nothing wrong with that except when someone lists the faulty items as sound.

I believe that this is analagous to over stating the originality & degree of intactness of a lot.Ted
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Aug-12-07 at 10:04:14 PDT   Listings
Richard Looking at the scan again I take back my statement about a missing stamp. The cover is almost certainly a reused one. I apologize for not looking at that part of the cover close enough. I say reused because the cancel where a stamp looks to be missing is definately not a Charlottenburg cancel. The reuse of postal envelopes at this time was not uncommon. Lichtenburg and Charlottenburg though are both districts within Berlin.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Aug-12-07 at 09:39:38 PDT   Listings
Postalviews Your concerns are exactly what a non specialist should be worried about. It is only through many years of amassing knowledge you get to know what in some instances is in fact genuine.

I agree a stamp has fallen off or been removed at some point. Nonetheless still a very rare multiple franking. The roller cancel is very typical for such covers with mass frankings. It isn't obviously ideal from a collectors point of view but for a postal period rates collector such things are accepted for that area.
One reason why Dienst (official stamp) covers are often found more than any other with such mass frankings is because official departments had to account for every single pfennig. They did not have the option of returning unused stocks of stamps. Yes even when the rates were calculated in the millions of Marks every stamp had to be used if at all possible. The exception would have been when any stocks held became invalid for postage.
Posted by sayasan   ( 713 ) on Aug-12-07 at 09:28:58 PDT   Listings
And the cancel on the stamp that is now missing passes UNDER the wadge of stamps on top. Unless the envelope was re-used? Alec?
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-12-07 at 09:18:32 PDT   Listings
I have serious doubts about that carpet tile inflation cover for two reasons: 1. None of the stamps are tied by a cancel. 2. The cancel at right on the label was on top of a tied stamp that is now missing.

But like so many things in philately, if so-and-so says so, then it must be so.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:57:59 PDT   Listings
Knud-Erik Yes I did think of you when I saw the Dienst cover. Yes I could have tried to buy the cover at a price I'm sure the seller would have been happy with as he was using the basic Michel to get a value. But I could never bring myself to stoop so low. I have even spoken today to one of the Infla expertizers and he agrees with me it is indeed genuine and extremely scarce. How rare though he would not say until such time as he has examined the item in person.

Jaywild/Jim Yes you are correct from 1 December 1923 the new inflation currency was in place. However during December the older stamps could be used up at a fixed exchange rate of 10 Milliarden Marks = 1 Rentenpfennig. The older stamps were of course no longer officially sold at post offices after 1 Dec 23. Use of the older stamps is known to have taken place as late as April 1924. Those though are very rare indeed.
Worth noting that during December it is also possible to find covers with mixed frankings of the old and new currency. Again those are very desirable by collectors. Often overlooked or underpriced as many don't understand how to calculate if the postage rate is correct on dual currency covers.
In fact you'd be surprised how many people including dealers don't know how to calculate the many different Inflation rates from Aug - Dec 1923. The easiest way is to break the rate down into parts. eg printed matter, postcard , letter, special services, C.O.D. etc and then see what it should add up to. Even valued letters are quite easy to calculate once you know how. Though I must admit the way Michel show it in the limited rates table is confusing.
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:50:46 PDT   Listings
Oops!
Unless they moved, I got the "Caribbean Islands" part wrong.
Gibraltar (continental drift?)
Anyway, here it is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/GIBRALTAR-5-POUNDS-TUPPENNY-BLUE-TITANIUM-2000-CASE-COA_W0QQitemZ220138730830QQihZ012QQcategoryZ4941QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:45:45 PDT   Listings
NOIP: There are lots of stamps with images of coins on them.
I got curious about coins with images of stamps.

Well, I only found one legal tender item and it was more a bullion coin than a business strike.
Off-the-wall metal as far as coins go; titanium I think.
And from one of those Caribbean Islands that issues anything and everything.

Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:39:29 PDT   Listings
jaywild, thanks for the sanity check.
So it appears to be just over-inked or printed with higher pressure.

I'm doing an inventory with image, at least of the better stuff.
Scans at 600dpi are showing me many things that cause me to pause.

Posted by djs127   ( 595 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:25:42 PDT   Listings
Spent a few hours Saturday afternoon putting in some of the scott brown reproduction pages I won last week on Ebay into my scott internationals - need to win a few more sets to make up from 1840-1940 complete with brown pages. Today put in a used hard drive (which I bought on Ebay) into my daugther's old laptop and now installing drivers so I can get it to connect to the internet again.
David Snyder
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:19:19 PDT   Listings
dcderoo… Here’s an even more exacting comparison. Your overprint matches the genuine in all the details.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:10:50 PDT   Listings
dcderoo… Here is an illustration from Scott of a PHILIPPINES overprint. Yours looks different only in that it is impressed much more deeply into the paper. I would say it is likely genuine. Compare the “S”, which has a very distinct pair of serifs.

The bad ones are also at the wrong angle, and yours is at the correct angle.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-12-07 at 08:03:14 PDT   Listings
infla-alec… I noticed the date on the official cover you linked to—December 9, 1923. Wasn’t the currency revalued effective December 1 that year? I’m confused!!

prochute... It is my understanding as well that Manning is one of the “smoke ’n’ mirrors” guys. Perhaps the distinction is lost on those who buy stamps by the ton.

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Just kidding…

JimJim
Posted by prochute   ( 67 ) on Aug-12-07 at 07:37:00 PDT   Listings
stamps12345 Funny, but when I lived in New Jersey and would oft attend MANNING auctionae, it seemed ALL of his lots were well picked over, salted to death, or highly manufactured with much UNRELATED material and yet you always tout him.!?!?!? I found that place to be a waste of time.

Auction houses exist to turn a profit and will do all of the above, when necessary, to turn a buck...

I see many original and intact collections at certain establishments but that is not the norm by any means.

Riff Lornton
Posted by knuden   ( 2304 ) on Aug-12-07 at 07:17:35 PDT   Listings
Alec - Hmmm. That official infla cover should be sitting in my official infla cover collection but I'm afraid I would not be able to afford it. :O) I will be happy to have a cover with only one stamp of these. :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-12-07 at 06:21:35 PDT   Listings
Does the overprint on this stamp look legit?

US Admin of the Philippines

The odd part if it weren't legit is that the unoverprinted stamp is worth more!!!

Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Aug-12-07 at 04:16:07 PDT   Listings
The next international level exhibition in Germany will be in Essen 2009. More commonly known as IBRA 2009. Applications are now being taken for exhibition places. I am applying to exhibit and fingers crossed I will be accepted. But wether I am exhibiting or not it is an event I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to see a 1st class exhibition.
For anyone wishing to exhibit please make sure you read and understand the rules and perhaps most importantly the size of the frames layout. Germany still uses the old 12 sheet frames system. (4 x 3) Though entries are allocated the same number of 12 sheet frames as if they were showing using 16 sheet frames.(4 x 4) But do be aware this can cause problems with how the actual display is seen.
For example using a 16 sheet frame display ones try to have the middle block of four sheets as being the most attractive or eye catching part of the frame. With a 12 sheet frame you can't do this. In theory it shouldn't make any difference to the Jurors points awarded but I can't help but feel it does.
I don't see any Commissioners appointed from outside Europe but that doesn't mean entries are restricted to European residents.
Anyway if anyone from the board does fancy making the trip let me know and I'll see what I can do to arrange a meeting point and of course if help is needed with Hotels etc I can try to sort that out for you.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-12-07 at 03:48:51 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.
member
Posted by dbenson   ( 8464 ) on Aug-12-07 at 03:21:48 PDT   Listings
sheryll, I didn't know Geoff was going, it may have been a last minute decision,

Enjoy yourself in front of the frames, it's always interesting to hear comments from the judges,

David Benson
Posted by knuden   ( 2304 ) on Aug-12-07 at 02:51:55 PDT   Listings
I have recieved this wrapper.
It's a registered 8th weightclass sent to Germany 1906. It consist of 3 different wrappers glued together and uprated. It looks philatelic but as there is only around 30 registered wrappers known, one can't be too picky. :O) (PS. I got it cheap.) :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by knuden   ( 2304 ) on Aug-12-07 at 02:27:55 PDT   Listings
Sherryl & Roger - Congratulation with your GOLD medal. Well done!
Billsey - Congratulation with your medal too (I haven't seen what grade it is.) :O) Well done! :O)

Now I start wonder how many of the member of the board, who have won a gold medal at national or international level?

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Aug-12-07 at 01:37:26 PDT   Listings
Hi all! Many thanks for the congratulations! After a busy but enjoyable day at dealers, meetings and critiques (what a different system to the Aussie style!), Roger, Billsey and I attended the awards dinner.

D1 and D2 - I was surprised and pleased to meet up with Geoff L, who came over for the show. He picked up a gold at the awards dinner, and won the Postal History Society Posthorn Medal (which sounds much more impressive than it looks!). John D won gold too, as well as the AAPE Novice award. ??

Other results were Arthur - Vermeil and AAPE Gold Award of Honor, Jan G - Silver, Glen S - Silver. Tomorrow I meet up with Ross W as first responder in front of the frames.

S2
Posted by bjornmu   ( 939 ) on Aug-12-07 at 00:22:25 PDT   Listings
Richard F, the buyer of that great Denmark collection IS a stamp dealer/auction house. Never dealt with them on eBay but I recognise the name, used to get their auction catalogues back in the early 90's.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Aug-11-07 at 23:37:07 PDT   Listings
Sheryl & Roger Congratulations on your well deserved Gold.

Richard F Fantastic collection and well, "picked". Picked in terms of quality of course. Good price but would it not have done better being placed in one of the major Skandanavain auctions ? Especially since the $ is so weak just now.

Jaywild /Jim Yes it sure is nice to see the helpful things we collectors do come around so to speak.
Very rare though that anyone can find things for my own collection but even so I do sometimes get offered very interesting items such as this Carpet tile franking cover Official covers aren't my thing and although the condition isn't the best such a massive franking of over two complete sheets is very rare especially with the top sheet margins still attached. The basic Michel catalogue lists that with a value of around €450. But with each top marginal stamp being worth € 1400 "each" used and no prices given for being on cover you can see the value soon multiplies.
Hopefully the owner will take my advice and before selling have it sent to one of the Infla expertizers and once it has a certificate achieve a far better price than he ever imagined.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 442 ) on Aug-11-07 at 21:32:19 PDT   Listings
Paul, you should scroll back to claghorn's post at 20:18:25 and look at and read ALL the pages in the second link to see which Tanna Tuva stamps were and were not issued IN the country. (and yes, Virginia, Tanna Tuva does exist).
An interesting read if you can be bothered to spend 10 or 15 minutes on reading and learning!

Linda
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-11-07 at 19:42:56 PDT   Listings
RICHARD Would not call those pages of early Denmark "a unpicked lot" .Somebody put a lot of effort to build that collection .
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-11-07 at 19:36:15 PDT   Listings
RICHARD Nice material and as you stated in the describition exhibit quality material .Its a far cry from what is found 99.9% percent of the time on E-BAY.
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-11-07 at 19:28:27 PDT   Listings
Richard F… Nice realization. Congratulations! Great material. This is your personal collection, isn’t it?

Jim
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-11-07 at 18:52:14 PDT   Listings
jaywild, yep. That's him.
Since I collect 1st, 2nd and 3rd issue revenues, his exhibit was close enough to my interests.
I really enjoy those old engraved stamps.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1367 ) on Aug-11-07 at 18:35:55 PDT   Listings
Paul - This unpicked lot did well on ebay. Good thing some people don't worry about catalog values and judge actual value using their knowledge of quality and scarcity.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-11-07 at 18:15:31 PDT   Listings
TOM L. --------I like your remark about stamp lots are "picked over" "salted" or "put together" they have to be because true unpicked lots don't exist any more .We must be in the fourth or fifth generation of ownership with each previous owner taking something out like color variation,perf. variations ,watermarks and even nice cancels somewhere every lot is now recycled material no matter what country and the U.S. lots are worst because even nice centered copies have been pulled .....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-11-07 at 17:49:03 PDT   Listings
DRAGON------Think your right about breaking that lot down.Complete sets in general terms have been one of the strongest areas for stamp sellers on e-bay .But also with Scott listing of that country ,it will attrach those pre-1940 collectors.Think that collection will do good and excede my bid easily .The first two pages catalog around $100.00 and those registered stamps at the end are not easy to find so over all think it will go higher ,but thats my gut feel .....paul
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-11-07 at 17:33:22 PDT   Listings
dcderoo… Aha—Bob Hohertz. His eBay ID is rdhinmn.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-11-07 at 17:29:59 PDT   Listings
dcderoo… Bob Hohertz, by any chance? I have forgotten his eBay ID. Maybe someone else remembers it.

Jim
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-11-07 at 17:04:19 PDT   Listings
Anyone going to BALPEX Labor Day weekend?
The only eBay person from in here that I even met was at that show.
I can't remember his name.
He had an exhibition of revenue stamped paper.
His last name was something like Hohen(?)

Anyway, anyone going?

Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-11-07 at 16:54:15 PDT   Listings
Those stamps probably never saw the duty they were meant for. But they are popular, and always have been.
That's a decent showing, but I hope you are ready to buy them if need be Paul. I'm not saying you're wrong, but you bid pretty high on that. (it might have gotten more $ broken into 2-3 lots)
The people interested probably don't need them all.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-11-07 at 16:52:55 PDT   Listings
noip----here is some info from my collection about TANNU TUVA ,Their stamps were printed and issued out of Moscow and never seen that so-call country it was a creation of the communist in Russia . INFO ON THE COUNTRY ....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-11-07 at 16:32:37 PDT   Listings
RICHINTALENT -----If you want that TANNU TUVA collection your got to go a lot higher than $5.00. I see you got out bid at $5.50 .There are about 125 stamps in that collection and the bidding will end up around $60.00 or higher .So just to prove my point ,Im going to throw in a bid at over fifty dollars and I know I'LL GET OUT BID ON THAT LOT .Its at $11.00 now and will dilly daliey around to the last hour but watch me get nocked out on that lot also .....paul
Posted by de66   ( 1124 ) on Aug-11-07 at 15:59:19 PDT   Listings
Sheryll & Roger


Well done on your well deserved GOLD's.


Dave

D1
Posted by philatarium   ( 235 ) on Aug-11-07 at 15:39:31 PDT   Listings
Sheryll: Thanks very much for posting the pictures of our fellow EUSC members. Please give them all our best.

And congratulations to you, Roger & Bill S. for your outstanding accomplishments! (I do hope one of you lets a certain someone know that we're all not just AM talk-radio, trailer-park philatelic trash, as was alleged a while back!)

Have a great time there! And thanks for checking in during what I'm sure is a very busy time!

-- Dave
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-11-07 at 08:16:23 PDT   Listings
ID theft/stamps scam: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003831638_stampscam11m.html
Posted by bjstampco   ( 574 ) on Aug-11-07 at 07:03:04 PDT   Listings
ALLEN PARK STAMP CLUB - Allen Park Stamp Show - Allen Park, Michigan - September 8-9, 2007 - 8:00 am - 4 pm both days. VFW HALL - 16736 ECORSE ROAD - ALLEN PARK, MICHIGAN - 20 Dealers and the Allen Park US Post Office available. Kitchen, Free Parking, Free Admission. Email bjstampcompany@aol.com for more information.
Posted by bjstampco   ( 574 ) on Aug-11-07 at 07:01:46 PDT   Listings
Allen Park Stamp Show - Allen Park, Michigan - September 8-9, 2007 - 8:00 am - 4 pm both days. VFW HALL - 16736 ECORSE ROAD - ALLEN PARK, MICHIGAN - 20 Dealers and the Allen Park US Post Office available. Kitchen, Free Parking, Free Admission. Email bjstampcompany@aol.com for more information.
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-11-07 at 06:39:27 PDT   Listings
infla-alec… Wow—that got to Germany quickly. Thanks go to you for all you have sent me gratis. What goes around comes around, pal.

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Sheryll, Roger & Billsey... Wow again, and—

CONGRATULATIONS!

Great photos of you (Sheryll) Roger and Bob in WA. Never had the opportunity to see him before. Tell him if he doesn’t get his computer fixed and get back to this board we’re coming up after him.

Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-11-07 at 05:41:29 PDT   Listings
Great photos.

Congrats Roger and Sheryll.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-11-07 at 05:20:25 PDT   Listings

Congratulations to Sheryll & Roger for your national Level golds. What were the exhibits?

Jeff-Raff

Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-11-07 at 03:44:14 PDT   Listings
RichInTalent North Ingermanland, Nossi Be, Batum all have extendive forgeries. see my site.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-11-07 at 03:37:20 PDT   Listings
CONGRATULATIONS to Sheryll ,Bill S. and Roger ......nice photos also
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 442 ) on Aug-11-07 at 03:31:59 PDT   Listings
Congratulations Sheryll and Roger ! and thank you Sheryll for the lovely photos.... keep them coming, always nice to put a face to the names in here! Hope you are enjoying your time at the show Bob!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 939 ) on Aug-11-07 at 03:30:08 PDT   Listings
Sheryll and Roger, congrats from me too!
Posted by richintalent   ( 137 ) on Aug-11-07 at 03:27:43 PDT   Listings
Claghorn et. al.: Thanks for info on Tuva- I put a bid in for $5 on a so- called 'Dr Bob collection'. If I win it, great if not que sera sera. my 1951 Scott album only has spaces for about a dozen or so Tuva stamps, but the lithoes look interesting. Now if i can just fill the spaces for North Ingermanland, Nossi Be, Batum, Quelimane.......

Rich
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-11-07 at 03:18:08 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Congrats to Sheryll & Roger on your Gold.
Jim L.

member
Posted by dbenson   ( 8464 ) on Aug-11-07 at 02:58:06 PDT   Listings
Sheryll,

it's GOLD, GOLD, GOLD for Sheryll & Roger,

Well done to the both of you,

David B.
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Aug-11-07 at 02:08:38 PDT   Listings
Jaywild - Thanks for your kind response. Well, today Roger and I were excited to visit our exhibits in the afternoon and find ribbons for gold medals on them! And Billsey received a silver. Here's a pic of Roger and I checking out a certain stamp in a U.S. stamps exhibit in the Court of Honour.

Bob in WA, Billsey and I had dinner together at the Dan and Louis Oyster Bar, which brought back some old memories for Bob who had eaten there more than 50 years ago.

S2
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Aug-10-07 at 23:50:50 PDT   Listings
Jaywild Jim The surprise packet of modern US stamps sent to my friend in Germany arrived safely and Stefan sends his many thanks, as do I for being so helpful.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-10-07 at 22:15:29 PDT   Listings
claghorn Hello old friend. I note you state in your post of 18:00:28 that Tannu Touva is not exhibit material, but then go on to post a link to exactly that in your post of 20:18:25.

Rhetorically to all, was there not a US stamp issued with the caption "Learning Never Ends"?
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-10-07 at 22:03:50 PDT   Listings
claghorn1p: Thanks for the Tannu Tuva Information & Illustrations.

By coincidence,, my 2 most "valuable" stamps are 2 triangles from my late Father's 1935 Collection.

They are: Liberian Official Triangle, and Spain Columbus Issue Triangle.Ted.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 442 ) on Aug-10-07 at 21:10:21 PDT   Listings
Wow, Bill, thanks for that. A very interesting Exhibit, well worth the read!

Linda
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-10-07 at 20:18:25 PDT   Listings

http://www.albumsmith.com/Tuva/postal.htm

http://www.albumsmith.com/Tuva/TuvaExhibitFrame.htm
Posted by figmente   ( 890 ) on Aug-10-07 at 20:09:28 PDT   Listings
ebay mystery:
All of my myebay saved searches suddenly changed to
sort by distance: nearest first
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-10-07 at 20:08:59 PDT   Listings
Tannu Tuva stamps were sold through the Moscow philatelic agency along with the CTO Tannu Tuva and general Russia. All of the later Tuva covers I have seen, many, were addressed from or to the Moscow Philatelic Agency.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4197 ) on Aug-10-07 at 19:57:35 PDT   Listings
Richintalent Tannu Touva are perfectly legitimate collectible stamps now listed in Scott.

Tannu Touva was a country in Asia that attempted to remain independent of Soviet Russia, but failed in that regard as their cultural leaders were thoroughly stomped on by the Bolshevik monsters and virtually obliterated.

Commercial uses on cover are known to have passed through UPU mails.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-10-07 at 19:29:36 PDT   Listings
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Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-10-07 at 18:13:03 PDT   Listings
stamps12345 Paul: Yes, the period between 1981 to about 1993 or so was a lot different than the exciting years of 1975-80.

That period was more like the pre 1975 market. Not much investing but a lot of collecting. Remember how long people kept the 1988 Scott Cat's because starting with the 1989 Cat. prices dropped to "retail" listings?

Rich Drews "The Stamp King" was one of my fav. dealers. He is both friendly and honest. He even drove from Chicago to South Bend to bring over a lot for me to look at.

The supply of nice inexpensive lots started to really dry up in 2002. Even during the first 6 years of e-bay there were still some good deals around. Not now. A lot of the stuff looks "picked over", or "salted" or "put together"

There are some really nice Virgin lots available at some of the major Auction Houses. Unfortunately, at the present time, they are beyond my means! Ted.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-10-07 at 18:00:28 PDT   Listings
RichInTalent Black Flag republic was an offshoot group in Taiwan in late 1800's.

Tannu Tuva have a following if you like them. They are not investment nor exhibit material, but they are fun. Most consider them one step above the Dunes.
Posted by richintalent   ( 137 ) on Aug-10-07 at 16:20:52 PDT   Listings
Asked this question before, but missed any answers: are 1920s stamps from Tannu Tuva worth bidding on at all?
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-10-07 at 15:31:03 PDT   Listings
DR. SEARCHPHD Good to see that you confirmed that there was a period of time that a knowledge buyer had the run of the philatelic market place and to fill up the car for a few hundred dollars with stamps .Im sure TED would confirm that there was a period between the fall of the investors bubble in the 1980's and the start of the E-BAY market place for stamps .

This period of time I would call the DARK AGES around here I had free territory on foriegn material especially at RICHARD DREWS STAMP AUCTIONS ,he had great material for the U.S. specialist and top name collectors of U.S. came into town for his auctions ,but the foriegn was left to a small group ,also it was at that time that I started flying out to the East Coast for Gregg Manning auctions and found a more diffucult market because of all the overseas dealers but still got lots of nice material to bring home .But that all ending once E-BAY sellers realised that buying stamps at auction could become very profitable to E-BAY SELLERS.....Paul ....off to test my fighting skills or should of said .... off to get kicked and nocked around

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 442 ) on Aug-10-07 at 15:30:26 PDT   Listings
wow board has been active, I'll leave a bookmark.*L
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-10-07 at 15:30:23 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Talk about clueless. In all the blather in the lot description (soothingly in ALL CAPS) there is not one coherent sentence from which any information as to the item being offered can be gleaned. What would help most of all is a photo of the item for sale, but I guess that would have been going to too much trouble.

?

Jim
Posted by dr.searchphd   ( 0 ) on Aug-10-07 at 13:00:13 PDT   Listings
Ted;

I was fortunate that the several old timers clued me in early on this 'process' so i saved a lot of money and heartache. They had a reason for taking care of me as i would 'vest pocket' diferent items that they would 'point' me towards a certain dealer to sell the item to on their behalf without the buying dealer knowing who the real seller was. After some time i moved up to the 'maven class' of collector with several dealers 'backing' me with material that nowadays would be worth a small fortune on the 'cuff' without anything other than a 'memo' (iou among dealers) someone else had mentioned that at one time a few hundred dollars would fill up a back seat of a buick with material and this is true as i had done it hundreds of times.
'those were the days my friends, i thought they would never end...'

forever searching......
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1451 ) on Aug-10-07 at 12:34:08 PDT   Listings
dr.searchpd: You just beat me by one posting concerning this topic.! I remember the days when I would visit shows and the dealers would quite often be using Brookman to sell.

One day I brought a small group of nice duplicates to one of the dealers tables. I will not mention the dealers name. They were small back then but now are pretty big. I wished to trade them in for some items that I needed. They figured my trade in at 20% of Scott's and their stamps at 80% of Brookman High price.

I was not so offended at the 60% difference in the buy sell ratio, but was terribly offended that they ,used one catalogue to buy and another to sell. At that time high Brookman was probably 50% higher than Scott CV.

This happened back in the mid 70's and I still remember the incident well. By the way: the Brookman catalogue was often pronounced the "Blookman" catalogue by many of the dealers at that time. Ted.
Posted by dr.searchphd   ( 0 ) on Aug-10-07 at 12:19:50 PDT   Listings
CATALOGS;
Very common practice for dealers to 'sell' with brookmans and 'buy' with scotts at the shows in the 70s-90s and adjusting for the 'come' and 'go' depending on the 'customer' and his level of understanding of the process.
No doubt there was a tremendous amount of 'adjusting' the deal to fit the buyer.
Dont know if this is still a problem at the shows?

One of the best 'finds' ever was a large collection of catalogs that had been part of the Roy R Wiley Memorial Philatelic Library located in So Cal at the Lockheed Employees Stamp Club which on research had a very well known group of collectors.
Anyone else that might have a part of this library please contact me as i have read that this collection of reference books was the largest collection outside of the APS itself and would like to add to my list of catalogs that might have been contained in this library.
The books and catalogs will have a 'pocket and card' on which the borrower would have put his name on to borrow the book, also sometimes a gold foil label inside cover stating that this is the Wiley Library property.
This group had some tremendous collectors like Emerson Clark, Dr stephen Day, Ivan Deach Jr and others that are well known
This group was involved with the FDCs 1st Flight of the Constellation in India June 8 1948 on C7 stamp issued.
A bonus in this pile is the complete work involved in setting up this event with all the contacts made and different agencies involved in the design and issuing of this stamp, very interesting profile of the amount of work required to bring this about, maybe a single frame exhibit for someone to show would be possible? (willing to lend for this)
Finger tired now.
(school of hard knocks graduate:)
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-10-07 at 09:59:52 PDT   Listings
Try again, my in-person dealer would always price my purchases using his Brookman's, adding or subtracting depending on condition. Maybe some dealers favor it. Too bad, he just retired. I'll miss the local connection.
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-10-07 at 09:57:51 PDT   Listings
Jim: Phil
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-10-07 at 09:55:27 PDT   Listings
Ian

Searching eBay is a trade off beteen finding relevent items and subjecting yourself to piles of crap often written by people who either don't or do know better.

A problem which is augmented by eBay not separating the item description from the shipping and handling.

I am lucky in that I don't search by country thus can search both title and description worldwide with a single search. Even the most cretinous of eBay sellers is not going to write "we do not sell to volcanoes".

My problem is that most sellers wouldn't recognize a volcano unless it erupted underneath their house.

As it goes, I currently get 61 hits on title and description worldwide with 560 in stores or 21 in just title with 151 in stores.

The major problem is the word spammers who copy pages and pages out of Wickipedia articles which have nothing whatever to do with the stamps they are selling. Fortunately, after many years, it is possible to recognize such sellers by their auction titles without even bothering to view the auctions.
Posted by jaywild   ( 965 ) on Aug-10-07 at 09:36:21 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Exhibit A as to why you should never bid on an auction where the seller has made the bidder private. This “stamp” is a mutilated Scott 35 with its perforations cut off, and worth less than zero in that condition. (i.e. normally you’d have to pay someone to haul it away.) Apparently the seller didn’t want anyone informing the buyer that he’d bought a piece of worthless junk.

That’s right folks—I used the “w” word.

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Speaking of movie remakes, why is it that remakes are only made of excellent films? Logic would seem to dictate that remakes should be made of those films which failed for one reason or another, that might be a success if done correctly a second time.

dcderoo... There may be a slight premium for precancels that are inverted, but I don’t think it’s much as a general rule.

Sheryll... Thanks for the show update and photos, and remembering the terrific day we spent together. I wish Dave F would post here more often.

220man... I don’t know of anyone that uses Brookman as a valuation guide. I don’t remember ever running across it in a lot description either. Scott is very much the 800 pound gorilla of the US stamp catalog biz.

Jim
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 290 ) on Aug-10-07 at 09:02:30 PDT   Listings
Hi all
I need help with this cancel.

Seems to be a British killer, I can figure out a "76" but not the first letter (assuming it's from a british postal agency).

I can't find a list of these codes online...
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-10-07 at 08:58:35 PDT   Listings
Concerning the pricing controversy, how does Brookman's figure into the picture for the U.S.?
Phil
Posted by dbenson   ( 8464 ) on Aug-10-07 at 06:59:00 PDT   Listings
prochute, if they are used then the cancel usually gives them away, mint are more difficult,

David B.
Posted by knuden   ( 2304 ) on Aug-10-07 at 06:53:45 PDT   Listings
jim_lawler & prochute - Despice the scan, the cancel is on top of the overprint.
D2 - As far I know, the overprint was made in 40 different setting, all with small differencies.

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by prochute   ( 67 ) on Aug-10-07 at 06:38:34 PDT   Listings
I agree. The cancel is UNDER the 3.

Does anybody know how to determine an authentic Bangkok "B" overprint from the forgeries???
Posted by prochute   ( 67 ) on Aug-10-07 at 06:35:34 PDT   Listings
While not my most favorite movie, Crocodile Dundee II has a most memorable line spoken by the Aboriginee eating the lizard while he is guarding some of the drug dealers in the cave. When asked if he was "really enjoying that?" by Wally, he replies, "Nah. It needs more gahhhlic". In perfect Brooklynese!!!

To be sure, there are other lines from other movies that always knock me off my chair....
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-10-07 at 06:32:10 PDT   Listings
Knud
Not sure from the scan, but might the cancel be underneath the "3"?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8464 ) on Aug-10-07 at 06:27:34 PDT   Listings
Knud,

these are from Sandafayre, the 3 appears different,

http://www.sandafayre.com/gallery/stamp_3576.htm

http://www.sandafayre.com/gallery/stamp_2350.htm

and large & small letters in a block of 4

http://www.sandafayre.com/gallery/stamp_638.htm

David B.
Posted by knuden   ( 2304 ) on Aug-10-07 at 06:04:44 PDT   Listings
Anyone dare to take a shot on this. Here is a closeup of the overprint.
Is the overprint real or fake??

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-10-07 at 05:52:11 PDT   Listings
Here's one for those of you in or near London, England.
Quoted from the September 2007, issue of Discover magazine.

"September 2
GREAT BRITISH DUCK RACE, London, England.
In a sad bid to break a 2001 Guinness World Record set in Singapore, the Brits will attempt to regain imperial dominance by sending 165,000 rubber ducks down the Thames."

More here:

http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/events/great_british_duck_race_record_attempt_70184.htm

Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-10-07 at 05:29:56 PDT   Listings
"Time to grumble again about the efficacy of eBay searches. Of the first 50 listings on the BIN page of my Egypt search, well over half the listings have no visible connection to Egypt."

And I'll bet you included the Description in your search, rather than just the title? I've thought there were errors in the search facility when search for my home village, and my eBay ID. Every one of the searches is correct, though not always what I'm looking for.

This includes people selling cars and cookers in our village, when they have stated the location in the narrative description; it includes those listings with a great long description which includes references to the sort of other things that the seller is listing.

I reckon on yours that 'Egypt' will be in there somewhere, and you can do a page search for it. It's like if you search for Russia and some sellers include in their T&C that they do not ship to Russia, Nigeria, Viet-Nam etc. If the person who has those terms has a large inventory of listings, then you will get a lot of hits on these terms, when all you are looking for is Russian stamps!
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-10-07 at 04:53:39 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

dcderoo
The Chicago precancels on the Parcel Post series are fairly common. I doubt that an invert would increase the value significantly. Hopefully someone more focused on Illinois precancels will answer.

Jim L.
member
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1679 ) on Aug-10-07 at 04:39:48 PDT   Listings
Is a US precancel with the overprint inverted unusual or not?

Q4 Precancel with an Inverted Overprint

Posted by knuden   ( 2304 ) on Aug-10-07 at 02:48:52 PDT   Listings
Another item I recieved, is this Postal wrapper, which at first look rather ordinary and not in finest shape. BUT it's correct uprated to second weightclass with a commemorative stamp. Wrappers uprated with commemorative stamps are as rare as hence teeth and it's the only the second I have seen. :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by knuden   ( 2304 ) on Aug-10-07 at 02:38:19 PDT   Listings
Today I recieved another nice item to my "Italy at work collection".
It's a Registered folded letter with Return Receipt.
I recieved too a Registered cover from Sudetenland with provisional registration mark, which fits fine into my collection of registered cards and cover collection.
I have made a website with my Sudetenland exhibit - here you can see what it's all about. As you can see, I collect anything from Sudetenland, as long it has a postal cancel. :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Aug-10-07 at 01:25:48 PDT   Listings
I received a nice email from Dave Frick, who unfortunately was busy and couldn't make it to the show. He sends his kind regards to us all up here at Portland, and I fondly remember the time we were able to spend together in LA with Jaywild back in May. Here's a pic Steve took of us all at lunch in West Hollywood.

S2
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Aug-10-07 at 01:09:55 PDT   Listings
Hi all! First day of StampShow went very well. Caught up with Roger at the exhibits tour, then he took me for a walk-through of his own exhibit, and we were able to spend most of the afternoon together. Managed to stumble across Bob in WA at closing time, so he, Billsey and I had dinner with a friend of his. Was pleasantly surprised to run into Bill Longley at the show as well. Looking forward to more opportunities to catch up with everyone between meetings and auctions, and taking more photos.

S2
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-09-07 at 22:24:44 PDT   Listings
Good night to all and to all sweet dreams of cinematic superlatives, Italians working, and catalogs priced, overpriced, and underpriced. Anne
Posted by dkru   ( 355 ) on Aug-09-07 at 21:36:27 PDT   Listings
Dunc...Sniped!
Posted by dkru   ( 355 ) on Aug-09-07 at 21:34:39 PDT   Listings
A & S...A few other interesting movies not previously mentioned:


Diva
A Boy and His Dog
The Maltese Falcon
Repo Man
Harold & Maude
Paths of Glory
Stalag 17
A Few Good Men
Maverick
Spirited Away

Dana
Posted by duncan_doenitz   ( 123 ) on Aug-09-07 at 21:22:38 PDT   Listings
Favorite films-

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, except for The Blue Max and a quirky one, Harold & Maude.

Oh, and The Exorcist.

-Dunc
Posted by revenue-bc-2*   ( 227 ) on Aug-09-07 at 20:10:29 PDT   Listings
Hey Guys
Where is your since of humor? What about "My Cousin Vinny"? I loved that movie and have seen it about 20 + times....HA HHA HHHAA
Posted by djs127   ( 595 ) on Aug-09-07 at 19:38:29 PDT   Listings
I have been very luck that my youngest son who is now 13 has gone to stamp shows with me since he was a baby in his stroller. He loves to soak stamps and prices them looking up the values in the scott and bale catalogs. He also helps me at shows - selling stamps to customers, looking at dealer inventories and watching the table when I bring my stock in and out of a show. I can't wait to do my next show.
David Snyder
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Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-09-07 at 19:17:41 PDT   Listings
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Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-09-07 at 19:10:32 PDT   Listings
Some movies filmed in west Texas:

Dancer Texas, Pop.81

Grand Champion

Sylvester

Dead Mans Walk

Streets of Laredo

Barbarosa

Andromeda Strain

Giant
Posted by nomad55   ( 910 ) on Aug-09-07 at 18:44:32 PDT   Listings
A round of applause for Jimbo's film listing. With the exception of Massacre Hill, I have wathced every one of them, and they are all classics in one form or another.

As an aside, appropos of nothing - Fred Zinneman, who directed A Man For All Seasons at the top of Jimbo's list, was my mother's cousin.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:44:13 PDT   Listings
tl, Goodbye Mr. Chips is another example where the remakes are not comparable with the original,

David B.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:29:46 PDT   Listings
Ted I don't want to get in the discussion about perentages of cat for faulty stamps because there are just to many factors to consider. I do however believe that rarer stamps have some decent value even though faulty. Most world collectors will never get a decent showing of the harder stuff by being to picky. I look at the face of stamps I'm not as picky with the backs although I try and get the best I can manage.
I have seen that ALL Zeps (worldwide) command a higher % of cat than most other stamps.

D2 No, I would not have that info. My Gibbons and Scotts are of differing years and the conversions would be a little much for the world. The thought of it being a topic for the club meeting was more on the line of hoping specialists who use more than one cat for a country could
point out stamps that differ widely from cat to cat.

Nearly a 140 posts in the last 24 hours. At least starting an off topic post adds life to the board. We have seen a lot of days lately with less than 20 posts.

The World of Stamps
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:28:43 PDT   Listings
Paul,

and more,

http://www.elstreestamps.com/george_v.htm

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:26:26 PDT   Listings
Paul,

took me a nano second to find all these UPU One Pounds on the web,

check out the prices,

http://www.stampsforsale.co.uk/code/Selected.asp?T=50&Index=0&SEQ=0&S=7&R=1&B=H

http://www.stampsforsale.co.uk/code/Selected.asp?T=50&Index=0&SEQ=0&S=8&R=1&B=H

David B.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:22:52 PDT   Listings
dbenson: Re: Four Feather's: Only version I like is the original 1939 film. C. Aubrey Smith was one of my fav. character actors.It was filmed in glorious old Technicolor.

As an American, I am not ashamed to admit, that England has contributed both many fine actor's and many fine film's.

Another one of my fav's is the original 1939 Goodbye Mr. Chips" Robert Donat was superb in that film, or at least that is, my opinion. My Father made the acquintance of one of his male relatives while he was stationed in England during WW2.

I have noticed that many of the older British Film's are more realistic than their Hollywood contemporaries.

Some of the best documentaries that I have ever seen on either the big screen or on TV are British. Ted.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:22:03 PDT   Listings
Paul, there are 10,000's of dealers price lists on the web,

I don't use any of them to figure pricing when I am listing stamps but hope the bidders do,

David B.
Posted by soggy333   ( 55 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:12:06 PDT   Listings
I say there are 12 movies where stamps are part of the story and are clearly visible. Unfortunately I cannot remember the movie that featured the famous movie stamps that looked like the red parcel posts.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-09-07 at 17:12:00 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. -----Your a worldwide stamp seller of stamps on e-bay ,now do you think that I believe that you get various dealer price list from around the world .Your using a set of catalogs like everyone else to figure pricing.

JUST FOR INFORMATION----------This Saturday ,I'll get my guys working on a job site and then I plan to spent the day viewing stamp auction lots for the largest stamp auction ever held in this part of the country .As Tom said Rasdale move out in the boonies ,well they are walking distance from my house .The auction is the following week ....paul

Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-09-07 at 16:54:42 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. -----The updates done by Gibbons each year could be a token increae of say 5% or so by a clerk in the office. The compling of dealer price list and market information is usally done in a broader time frame and they take sections at a time but its also true as you say sometimes there is not any current information for long periods of time or a lack of staffing to handle the country for update.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 16:40:25 PDT   Listings
tl, no problem as long as you describe the stamps and not use catalogue numbers only as a reference,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 16:39:26 PDT   Listings
tl. & Paul, all the more reason to use dealers buying and selling prices instead of catalogues for items that are regularly sold,

tl. regarding The Four Feathers which is also one of my favourite films, all depends on which version, the last one I saw was utter crXp and deserves another feather,

David B.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-09-07 at 16:38:12 PDT   Listings
dbenson: Sorry, I just now realized that you are an Australian ,and I have been using US stamps in my posts to you, as reference.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-09-07 at 16:35:12 PDT   Listings
Movies: Wow! I am impressed with high quality of movies listed on here as favorites of the poster's.

This includes many of my fav's including some I forgot to mention.

I would like to add the following: The Magnificient Ambersons, Grapes of Wrath,Gunga Din,Little Princess W/ Shirley Temple, The Four Feathers and of course The Day the Earth Stood Still. Ted.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-09-07 at 16:28:36 PDT   Listings
dbenson: Yes, I agree with your last posting. There are many collector's who only go by the "book"

Some collectors demand to buy a Superb Mint NH Jumbo Washington-Franklin for 50% of Scott's. Does not work that way.

I use the catalogue as a guide amongst other tools.

I do believe that many of the non-US catalogues are tied a little closer to actual market value than does the Scott CV.

Is there anyone on here, who uses both Scott & a Foreign made catalogue ,who could comment on the above statement? I am just curious.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:54:05 PDT   Listings
Paul,

" They all have a three or four year cycle before the new prices are changed "

1st. time I have heard of this, Gibbons updates every year although most stay the same for years and some for decades even though the actual prices have changed,

David B.
Posted by hoytier   ( 357 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:42:03 PDT   Listings
Is there a web site that tell you where the micro print is located on a stamp? I just not got a round to getting a current Scott US specialized, mines 2001.

ST64
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:33:23 PDT   Listings
jimbo… Yes! Paul Scofield, one of the most underrated talents in film. Did you happen to see him in the British production of Martin Chuzzlewit? He played two roles to perfection. And A Man For All Seasons is indeed a terrific film. I also agree on The Sand Pebbles. Understated, almost languid in its collapse toward disaster. Movies are just not made with that sensibility any more. Ditto The African Queen.

knuden... Congratulations!! Nice price too.

Latest word from the market scene, CASH is for fraidy cats.

☺

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:32:18 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. ----Catalog pricing is set months before and no catalog which are issued annually update all sections at the same time .They all have a three or four year cycle before the new prices are changed .

They need to acculate the list of prices over time because not every dealer issues price list at the same time ....paul

Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:27:58 PDT   Listings
Mitchell

BTW it's the back entrance with a metallic staircase like a US fire escape, makes it look more West Side Storyish.

It seems that Fuego put on a display yesterday.
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:23:45 PDT   Listings
rioroyal… Yes, the Last Detail is another movie that ranks right up at the top with me. Perfect all the way through. Also, Five Easy Pieces, another tour de force from Jack Nicholson.

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:23:41 PDT   Listings
Mitch, do you have the exchange rates for GB versus US at the times of issuing the latest Gibbons & Scott's. It would be interesting to know the variances in the rates from then to now,

David B.
Posted by jimbo   ( 403 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:22:47 PDT   Listings
Movies,
There are several I would mention that I always enjoy.

First, A Man for All Seasons is, IMHO, the finest movie ever made. Robert Bolt's book is tight without a wasted word. The cinematography is fabulous - every frame is a near perfect composition. Paul Scofield is a perfect Sir Thomas More. Robert Shaw makes a great Henry VIII. Five academy awards was not enough. The last time we saw it on tv, it reminded us of how much we really thought of it. Result: I ordered a new release of the DVD from an eBay seller.

Another film which I almost never miss the chance to see again is Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury is at his best in this wonderful sci-fi fantasy. The concept of the society is as insightful as Orwell's 1984 (which btw, seems to have been more prophetic than I would have wished). I love the thought of the book people wandering in the ground fog in the woods reciting their book.

Another offbeat film which I hope someday to find again is a 1951 Australian film, Massacre Hill. It was reissued under another title and I have to look it up any time I'm trying to find it. It is a wonderful Aussie Western.

One film which is also enjoyable (as was the book) The Sand Pebbles. The author only had one book in him but it was a doozy. The story of the tiny American gunboats on the Yangtze (Yellow River) is a wonderful bit of history. The first American naval vessel sunk in World War II was the gunboat Panay on the Yangtze in 1936.

Another film with a Chinese setting is Blood Alley which is about the only John Wayne movie I can stand. When it's on, I'm drawn to it like a moth to a candle.

Before I forget, I must mention The Bridge on the River Kwai. It was on the other night and appeared to be uncut. It's a wonderful portrayal of the conflict between what's correct and what's right. Of course, Guiness is absolutely magnificent but Jack Hawkins always gets two thumbs up from me.

Another in the never-to-be-forgotten category is The African Queen. Rosie and Mr. Alnutt are given full-flower characterizations by Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. My skin crawls with the leaches. The triumph of the sinking of the German gunboat is wonderful.

There are two films which are both on the list of great interest because they were both breakout films which clearly set a standard in entertainment: The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars. There was no question that these would be around for a long time when they were released.

West Side Story should be on everyone's list. It's a magnificent film treatment of a wonderful Broadway musical. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim made the music stirring. Jerome Robbins made the dancing electric.

I can't overlook The Sting. It is a wonderful tale of skullduggery on a grand scale. You don't know how it will end til it ends.

Some other great films: The Lion in Winter, Lilies of the Field, Lawrence of Arabia (the spectacle alone is worth the price of admission), Dr. Zhivago, and on and on.

jimbo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:21:26 PDT   Listings
Paul, I didn't take a shot at anyone except you who uses Scott's catalogue value as a guide, I just mentioned that bidders who use percentages of a catalogue value which are out of date are wrong and should be using dealers buying and selling prices as a guide which is more reliable,

tl,

of course the higher the value of a perfect stamp then it will be higher the value of second and third grade copies.

The GB One Pound 1929 UPU almost the equivalent in GB as the US Zeppelins and can be compared in many aspects including the various prices according to condition,

David B.


David B.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:11:27 PDT   Listings
dbenson: You may forget Catalogue Values if you wish to. I realize that they are just one factor in determining a stamps value.

Yes, Catalogues do vary quite a bit.

I will still stand by my previous statement that generally speaking the rarer and more valuable a stamps is, and the higher the CV,the higher the % of CV the stamp will bring on the market in faulty condition.

I can not easily think of any US stamps that do not follow this general rule but there may be some exceptions.

Take the Graf Zeppelins for example. Let's say you have a decent looking mint, hinged set with thins.That set Cat's $1525.00 for VF sound hinged in Scott's. Now go ahead and list that on e-bay and see what it brings.

Now go ahead and list a nice appearing but slightly faulty US C1 which has a CV of: $30.00, or even list 50 of them as a lot which have a total CV of: $1500.00

Then compare the % of current Scott CV those 2 or 3 lots
realized and I am sure that the Zepp set will achieve the highest % of CV.

The reason behind this is that there are many more C1's in all conditions available, and especially in the lower grades, that there is little demand for the lower condition examples except at bargain basement prices. Ted.
Posted by knuden   ( 2303 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:09:22 PDT   Listings
I'm a happy camper!! :O)
As some of you knows, I collect the "Italy at work" issue and try to get as many different way of usages as possible. Today I won this lot and does now have the 5 Lire stamp on a complete newspaper. A very unual item. :O)


K.E 
 
I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 441 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:08:54 PDT   Listings
kids'n stamps I believe they should all be encouraged, and left to stop / start collecting as the mood takes them. Those with a real interest will develop it again at some stage in life.
However, in defence of the dealers and the penny boxes at shows, the majority of general public do not realize just how expensive it is for a dealer to have a table/booth at a show, not just the rental but travel, accommodation, etc too. That table or booth has to return maximum dollar per sq.foot. a Penny box usually means kid is looking Mom, Dad and possible 2 sibblings standing behind/next to him.. .. 50c sale takes 3 or more ft. of table space for 1/2hour. Sorry, I discouraged Penny boxes, and cheap cover boxes at shows for that very reason. I never minded donating to a Kids Corner, or School Stamp Club, or selling packets of 100 / 200 Thematic or World, but not picking over cheap boxes for hours.

Linda, end-rant

P.S. blush, and thank you JJ
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:06:21 PDT   Listings
Mitchell

The first one, though I lived at 443.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:06:04 PDT   Listings
D2 You've hit on one of the topics I have been considering for a monthly EUSC topic. Widely differing catalog values for stamps, from different countires and publishers. I think it would be very helpful to know. I often find myself bidding on something (valueing by Scott)
to find that it is listed at a much higher price in other cats. Result is that I'm not even close in my bid.

I'm not sure the subject would get alot of input though?

I hope that made some sense, been working outside and 109 degree (heat index) tends to melt my brain.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-09-07 at 15:04:43 PDT   Listings
LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE HERE IS TRYING TO PANIC INVESTORS ----- gee maybe what he is trying to say is GO TO CASH .Holding cash is the safes and most caution thing to do but you want to do it 2 months ago and not get panicky now .......Oracle of Delphi.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:54:02 PDT   Listings
THANK YOU--- DAVID B.---- I agree 100% with what you wrote-----"The important aspect is the price that item regularly attains at the present time"------ the important aspect is the new higher levels of less than very fine/perfect stamps are now getting{Thats what my original post was about }

You just took a cheap shot at American collectors and their knowledge and bidding methods .-----just remember for many many years the European dealers were dumping their less than perfect stamps on American collectors and now they are looking to buy them back at a much higher percentage of catalog -----guess the old saying --the door swings both ways lol....paul

Posted by rioroyal   ( 392 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:44:12 PDT   Listings
NOIP--I may have missed it but has anyone mentioned American Grafitti or the Last Detail?
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:44:04 PDT   Listings
I recently mailed my 14-year old grandson two similar appearing Washington (from the W-F series) 1-centers. They were outwardly identital (to a kid) except that one was perf 10 and the other 12. His "assignment" was to describe them and tell me the difference. To my delight, he figured it out. I'd given him a perf gauge some time ago and showed him how to use it. Two days ago I mailed him two stamps of different denominations, one with a SLWM and the other a double. We'll see how he does. He likes to do this and I think he is really interested in stamps and not just pretending for grandpa.
Phil
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:42:02 PDT   Listings
Bill D… Ah, Plan 9 From Outer Space. A friend of mine and I went into convulsions once reading a review of that film—“Universally damned as the worst movie ever made.†The budget had to have been under $200. The “flying saucers†were tin pie plates with lighter fluid burning in them. Bela Lugosi, who died during the making of the film, was not cut out of the script but merely replaced by an actor who looked nothing like him, so had to hold his cape across his face in those scenes where he stood in. I still laugh thinking about it.

Io... Georgy Girl was another terrific film, featuring a very young and ravishing Charlotte Rampling, who I think looked very much like our own mini-lindy at that age. It was filmed in your house??? Tell me more.

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:41:44 PDT   Listings
Io Which one was yours?
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:33:13 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Interesting market action today. Stocks have been on a real whipsaw ride for the past couple weeks—today’s throw of the dice said “thumbs down, way downâ€. 14 million shares of Microsoft changed hands in the last thirty minutes of trading, most of it in huge blocks. Should make for an interesting few days coming up. The market journals have been trying desperately to whip up buying interest all week, and got a little bit of a run going, but false bravado only goes so far, and today was a good example of what happens when that kind of cheerleading runs out of steam. News reports have it that the liquidity crunch has spread to Europe as well, and today MarketWatch reported the collapse of another large hedge fund, but didn’t name names.

At this point anything can happen. The smart money is covered both ways, so there will be no disasters whatever the markets do.

Everybody got his/her seat belt fastened? Keep your hands in the car at all times.

☺

Jim
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:27:49 PDT   Listings
On the subject of movies, I don't know why, but I really enjoy bad movies. Anyone else enjoy watching truely bad movies? Some of my favorite stinkers are Plan 9 From Outer Space, Gargoyles and The Terror of Tiny Town (which was an all-midget western).

I wouldn't put it on my top 10, but last night the family watched The Music Man. My daughter and I enjoyed it, but my wife and son were underwhelmed.

Bill D.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:27:36 PDT   Listings
Twas a zither, not a balalaika.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-09-07 at 14:15:47 PDT   Listings
The Third Man - fantastic Vienna scenery and balalaika music

The Blue Lamp - filmed where I was brung up

Georgy Girl - filmed at my house (in part)

The Quiet Man - best ever John Wayne movie, wonderful Maureen O'Hara

The Lavender Hill Mob - really funny.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 13:56:04 PDT   Listings
tl,

forget catalogue value, the important aspect is the price the that the item regularly attains at the present time. Discussing percentages of catalogue value for faulty stamps will lead nowhere as there are huge variances in catalogue values. The item under discussion is catalogued low in the US and high in the UK, there is also the changes in the exchange rate since the catalogues were printed and buyers in the UK who are relying in bidders in the US are going to have an advantge as they know the values whilst those bidders in the US who can only see the low catalogue value in Scotts (in low $$$$) are going to be outbid every time.

David B.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-09-07 at 13:56:02 PDT   Listings
Ted I think it was the Sundance channel that showed Alice's last month. I don't remember seeing it "back in the day". Being an Old Hippy there are probably a few things I don't remember, and for good reason. I thought it was a lot of fun to watch at this stage in life and quite nostalgic. My younger girl friend thought it was really stupid <:~`(

By the way (Due2) I don't need no stinkin stamps to lick, I prefer el naturale
Posted by luxmark   ( 374 ) on Aug-09-07 at 13:52:06 PDT   Listings
Anne/abt1950 --

My Luxembourg collection has not changed much over the last couple of years. Once in a while I'll go after a cover, including some FDCs, but it is getting more difficult to win items on eBay on the cheap. Going into the school year we'll have three kids in college, so there are more pressing items. I'll have to look around for postcards from Rumelange -- they will not be Raymond Thill items.

For others that may be interested, the Lux Collectors Club website has the quarterly issues in color available. A significant addition to lux. philately in the US. lcc.luxcentral.com thanks to luxduke!

Luxmark in NW Indiana
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-09-07 at 13:44:11 PDT   Listings
Movies: Anyone here remember: Alice's Restaurant?

Interesting discussion of value of stamps with fault's. We may differ somewhat on opinion, but I believe that it would be safe to say generally, that the rarer a stamp is, the higher the % of Cat.Value a faulty copy will bring.

Good example would be: USA # 1 vs. lets say a US stamp that cat's at only 4.00. Ted.
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-09-07 at 13:37:04 PDT   Listings
That's the problem with lists. Every time you see someone else's, you remember other favorites. I should also add Annie Hall, Love and Death, Youngf Frankenstein, etc. etc.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-09-07 at 13:29:03 PDT   Listings
Attempting not to duplicate anything previously offered, here are some more that I consider "Gotta views" are:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Clockwork Orange, The sting, Blade Runner, Maltese Falcon, Silence of the Lambs, Midnight Cowboy, Star Wars, Roger Rabbit, Matrix, City of God, Braveheart, My name is nobody, Ben Hur, Gladiator, Sparticus, Patton, Breaking Away, 12 Monkeys, Big Fish, Butch Cassidy, Bonnie & Clyde, Back to the Future, Shawshank Redemption, Terminator, Alien, Streets of Fire, Near Dark, Tombstone, Dark Crystal, Being There, Emerald Forest, A.I., Montenegro, Harder they come, Eraserhead, Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I will say no more
Jim I have not seen the Bicycle thief, I will try an obtain it, per your recommendation. If you look at my recent feedback you can see some of the (weird) stuff I have recently added to my video library.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-09-07 at 12:47:45 PDT   Listings
Bookmark
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-09-07 at 12:14:01 PDT   Listings
Time to grumble again about the efficacy of eBay searches. Of the first 50 listings on the BIN page of my Egypt search, well over half the listings have no visible connection to Egypt.

Anne
Posted by paperhistory   ( 1989 ) on Aug-09-07 at 12:11:51 PDT   Listings
my 4-year old enjoys playing with stamps on occasion. She likes to sort through a box of on-paper stuff and pick out the "pretty ones". She also likes soaking, but it has been a while. So far she hasn't been much interested in putting things in albums or otherwise arranging them.

More recently she's been interested in coins and she has enjoyed putting pennies in an album by date, so maybe that skill is developing.
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-09-07 at 11:40:16 PDT   Listings
Afternoon/evening/morning from a humid NJ. Thunderstorms coming.

I've had no luck getting The Offspring interested in stamps, topical or otherwise. I can't evenget him interested in reading a book! His interests are so different from mine that if he hadn't been the spitting image of my husband when he was a baby, I'd wonder if he were mine.

Luxmark, How's the Luxembourg collection coming? Mine is less active at the moment. The big ticket, highly forged things come verrrryy slowly. Still looking for non-Raymond Thill postal history from Rumelange.

Movies: I don't think I have a favorite movie, but these are some of the ones I like:

The Way We Were (I can hear the testosterone-induced
groaning).
Philadelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
Screwball comedies in general
The first 3 Star Wars
Sphinx (this may be a stinker, but it's got beautiful
scenery)
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Beauty and the Beast (the Cocteau version)
Black Orpheus
San Francisco
Gone With the Wind
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Dark Passage
Woman of the Year

Anne
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-09-07 at 10:44:28 PDT   Listings
Luxmark

Little one and I have had some luck with Topicals.

It has bitten a couple of youngsters but only Topicals seemed to be a draw.
Posted by luxmark   ( 374 ) on Aug-09-07 at 10:40:03 PDT   Listings
I often lurk on the balcony and read the chat. I thought that the Sea Times article very relevant, particularly with regard to interesting kids in stamp collecting.

I personally have been unable to get more than 1 of my kids interested in stamp collecting, and have tried to encourage other kids to have an interest by giving packages with US stamps (mostly canceled 3 cent commemoratives) to elementary school kids. I'm not discouraged, but very little interest developed. After visiting local stamp shows in both Chicago and Houston areas, it seems that dealers at shows would rather kids go away than provide penny boxes to browse through. And brick-and-mortar dealers are not any better.

Any suggestions? I may have an opportunity again at a local school to have give-away bags.

luxmark in NW Indiana
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 290 ) on Aug-09-07 at 09:42:07 PDT   Listings
dcderoo

I never heard that word before.
Seems to be used in Spain only.

The official spanish dictionary (www.rae.es) only gives the "gipsy" meaning.
But a quick google search through spanish pages shows that it's used in a nationalist context, so jim is right.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-09-07 at 09:16:40 PDT   Listings
DC

Probably "homeland" would be a good translation.
Patriotic affection.
Posted by dr.searchphd   ( 0 ) on Aug-09-07 at 09:16:27 PDT   Listings
PROCHUTE;

A small fact about tarantino is on thursdays at the film sets all the crew wears kilts! (most without panties)

Also his father tony only lives about 60 miles apart from him and they still havent met yet, Quentin (named after the 50s tv western show) also has several sisters and a brother (one sister was Miss Arizona) his father tony has a web site and is part of the silver foxes of hollywood.i have done several projects with Tony and have also worked with Sal Pacino (Als father) who also was estranged from his son Al untill about 10 years ago. The silver foxes are a lot of fun for a bunch of old folks :)

The comments about damaged stamps are interesting as a young collector of being in front of dealers who would tear up and throw away those that were damaged which i would have been thrilled to have in my collection today.

PAUL1234;

I have been asked about putting in a go-cart track at my ranch, how thick is the a-base required and how much per square foot for the asphalt itself labor and materials? (i would prefer you for the work but your machine would take about 9 months to drive here south of Palm Springs:)
Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-09-07 at 08:43:48 PDT   Listings
dcderoo:

See http://members.aol.com/madridpicts/madpix/EspanaCani/espanacani.html#cani

"After investigating the subject, I now understand that cañí is an adjective that means "very Spanish" or "typical of Spain". However, my dictionary says it means "gypsy", and, I imagine, that many of you will conjecture that "gypsy" implies the same thing. You may continue the research further. This pub will live up to any of these definitions!"
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1677 ) on Aug-09-07 at 07:50:13 PDT   Listings
Since many people here are multilingual, I'll try my question with you.

There is a piece of classical music entitled España Cañí.
I got curious about what it translates to, so I did a Google search.
Wikipedia says it means "The Spanish Gipsy" [sic].
But none of the translators I tried knew what "cañí" was.
Also none of my Spanish speaking acquaintances knew the word.
And the current Spanish word for "gypsy" is "gitano".

What's the story behind this word?
Obsolete? Local? Jargon?

Posted by dcderoo   ( 1677 ) on Aug-09-07 at 07:07:27 PDT   Listings
prochute, which Day of the Triffids?
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-09-07 at 07:03:30 PDT   Listings
Here's some reading on stamps from this morning's paper: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003828243_stamps09m.html
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:30:58 PDT   Listings

GUMP

Run Forrest, run!
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:22:09 PDT   Listings

Anyone rember seeing Tarantino on Leno a couple of years ago promoting (I believe) Kill Bill, he was stoned almost to inconherence. But when it comes to making out-of-the-box movies he has a genius side.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:15:35 PDT   Listings

And the original Hound of the Baskervilles.
And how could I leave out

Chinatown & the Two Jakes.

Guess my top 10 needs a bit of pruning...
Posted by prochute   ( 67 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:10:20 PDT   Listings
postalhysteria

I like your choices for Tarantano!!
Posted by prochute   ( 67 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:09:17 PDT   Listings
At one time when brick & mortar stamp stores were a common thing in most larger cities, LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION, was key to success - good stock helped too.

Today, it's DESCRIPTION + SCAN, DESCRIPTION + SCAN, DESCRIPTION + SCAN. Hence the nice realization on the £1 PUC.

Riff Lornton (anybody know who he was??????)
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:09:16 PDT   Listings
Yes - Fall of the House of Usher!

and any of the first Dracula movies with Christopher Lee, they scared the pizz out of me when I was a kid!
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:05:13 PDT   Listings

Men in Black I & II

that's it, time for work. Didn't say that any of them were great cinema, just ones that struck my fancy, some for a couple of one-liners like Adams Family, "Don't torture yourself my dear, that's my job."
Posted by prochute   ( 67 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:03:21 PDT   Listings
A few of my fav macabre/sci-fi flix

King Kong 1933
Godzilla original with Perry Mason aka Raymond Burr
Rodan
20 million miles to earth
Day of the Triffids
The Birds - Hitchcock
Fall of the House of Usher - Vincent Price. In fact, most of his stuff was way cool.
The Day the Earth Stood Still KLATTU
THE War of the Worlds NOT the Cruise garbage.
Soylent Green
Planet of the Apes
Omega Man
etc., etc., etc.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:02:39 PDT   Listings
The Marx Brothers starring in
Gus Edwards' Postal Telegraph Boys
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 06:00:20 PDT   Listings

Mad Max
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 05:58:20 PDT   Listings

Any Clint Eastwood western
Nothing that John Wayne was ever in
Withces of Eastwick
Death Becomes You
Addams Family
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3749 ) on Aug-09-07 at 05:49:49 PDT   Listings

I N P O

Casablanca
Reservoir Dogs
Caddyshack
Pulp Fiction
Usual Suspects
Office Space
first Star Wars
Apocolypse Now
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Big Lebowski
Godfather

The Pianist
Hard Day's Night
favorites I can recall on my first cup of coffee.

cine-raff
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 441 ) on Aug-09-07 at 05:36:34 PDT   Listings
they are worth bidding on if you collect them, richintalent
!!!!
Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-09-07 at 05:34:24 PDT   Listings
"Are 1920s stamps from TANNU TUVA worth bidding on?"

What a strange question. Any stamp is worth bidding on if you want it. The stamps you refer to were issued for postal purposes although they exist in great numbers both mint and CTO. Postally used are probably scarcer.

What makes you ask the question? - give us a lot number so we can all see.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-09-07 at 05:30:43 PDT   Listings
Oggilby We can not leave Black Flag Republic without discussing Kamigata Collections. THese were sold to tourists leaving on ships from Tokyo at the turn of the scentury. THese stamps proliferate and one must be careful when buying Black Flag Republic. Look at the bottom of the collection page for examples.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 04:35:07 PDT   Listings
Paul, no, it is you that is wrong (as usual), youn were commenting on the high percentage of Scott's catalogue value which is way out and the buyers in GB know the correct value.

You stated the wrong lot # and I couldn't see the condition and it is not too bad and I wouldn't call it a spacefiller and is well worth the realisation. You were the one who originally said

" We are all aware that damaged stamps sell only at a small fraction of catalog .But there is a new trend developing and was puzzled today when I seen this lot sell today .LOT 190136954247 which is the 1929 one pound value from Great Britian .The stamp has both a crease and a thin so thinking it would sell at a small fraction of catalog ".

That example is well worth 20% of catalogue and the cat. value is US$1200 so everyone is happy, the seller and the buyer,

David B.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-09-07 at 04:23:11 PDT   Listings
Greetings to all!

D2 & Claghorn--Thanks for the help! The postmark reminded me of the Labuan & North Borneo CTO's. I can't remember where I got the stamp, probably in a mixture.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-09-07 at 04:04:11 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. -----Sorry your postings over the last few hours have been wrong about the price and the buyer of that defective Great Britian stamp ,The buyer of e-bay lot 190136954247 which was sold by Dr.BOB was to a highly experience Great Britian dealer in Great Britian .He is UKGB and looks like a very experience and knowledgeable buyer and seller who should know prices .But don't feel upset I know it takes time for information and prices to travel to the outer rearchs of the earth and you should be getting the information by packet steamer in three or four months ...lol.....off to work
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-09-07 at 03:22:17 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.
member
Posted by richintalent   ( 136 ) on Aug-09-07 at 01:59:06 PDT   Listings
Are 1920s stamps from TANNU TUVA worth bidding on?
Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-09-07 at 01:30:11 PDT   Listings
All this talk of favourite movies reminds me that in June next year Britain will have a set of stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of the Carry On films, and the first Hammer film.

But don't think the James Bond set in January is film-related because the stamps relate to the anniversary of Ian Fleming and show book covers. The full 2008 programme is on our website which I won't link here as this is not for business. But if you click on 'me' you will find the link there.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4196 ) on Aug-09-07 at 01:20:47 PDT   Listings
Ted I must have been working on stamps while watching North by Northwest, as I see after reviewing its plot via google that it apparently did not have a stamp plot. Only microfilm and a statue bought at auction. But it just goes to show how much I know (and care) about Hollywood.

I have confused it with one movie where a youngster finds the famous British Guiana stamp, etc and so forth. Can't recall any more on that one either as I am usually busy doing something whilst others vegetate passively or grouse vehemently whenever I might chance to interrupt with something related to the real world. No TV at all is watched in this household.

I did enjoy seeing the crime thriller Judgement Night while at a friend's home one evening. It features Dennis Quaid at his sardonic best.

I gave up on Hollywood after viewing Ordinary People. After all, I can see that one in almost any real life household, any time, why pay good money for what is free all around,

Never did see Private Idaho. Am quite sure that someone 'important' out there in this world will be rather disappointed to find that little factoid out. But ya can't have everything, I guess, no matter how powerful you are.

Regarding faulty stamps, in US at least, a distinction is made between faulty stamps and space fillers. Space fillers in US are the badly damaged stamps that are significantly torn or that may have even a small piece missing. They tend to sell for about 3-5% of catalog or less. Most go on to be repaired and sold as faulty stamps.

Faulty early US stamps of higher catalog value actually do have a fairly solid value. After all, if it is authentic, looks good, and is hard to find, then it is collectible. This market bracket allows collectors to acquire many stamps cataloging up to and over $100 for $15-$30 or so each. Such economy can be important to those on a budget when collecting a country that emitted many hundreds of rare issues over the years.

In general, 15% of Scott is a retail rule of thumb for such stamps, but they tend to vary from about 12% to about 18% depending on how well-stocked the dealer is at the time. A few are more, such as the 1918 $2 orange-red and black Franklin Head, Scott #523, which generally can be sold for 40% Scott in faulty condition--if decent looking enough to be identifiable. Heavy parcel cancel, no problem--that is the way they should come: no one in their right mind ever mailed a one ounce letter with a $2 Franklin Head unless they were creating a philatelic cover.

With early GB, on the other hand, there is such a vast oversupply of the stamps and in such ugly condition that the catalog price and selling price actually reflect the price of what amounts to a rarity of condition. Hence little wonder the ugly ones are worth 5% or less. Sadly, few beginning collectors learn this until it is too late, and I put the onus of guilt for that onto the GB stamp industry for not doing a better job of educating the new collectors as to condition vs. price. There should be a separate price listed for such stamps in the catalogs, but frankly, I do believe there is literally no market whatsoever for such postally worthy stamps to begin with, else there would be a separate price listed.

One notes a continuing long term trend towards collecting better and better quality copies of rare stamps in general. To me that shows that prices for such are rather artificial and not very reflective of any sort of rarity other than of condition, as noted above.

With cancels, postal history and picture postcards, such is not the case. Faults are generally expected and tolerated well for the sake of possession. This indicates that these items are generally not in oversupply, at least for now.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-09-07 at 00:15:04 PDT   Listings
Cmon people hang on because the price goes up..up...up.
I'm not saying it's wrong, but it affects the market when values rise. Greed takes over.
If I had extra 124s or 142s scott GB, I would be cautiously listing because those are catching a premium bid.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-09-07 at 00:07:07 PDT   Listings
Oops, no business allowed... Ok, make it $25.
He probably has those and should be listing them btw...
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-09-07 at 00:05:47 PDT   Listings
dragon,

I never said I could and I doubt if one can be found at anywhere near that price as it in huge demand by spacefiller collectors who would willingly pay much more than that.

ps. I haven't seen a scan of the one that sold as the lot # quoted was incorrect and it all depends on how it looked to find out why it realised the price.

pps. I don't want to get involved with a chatwar over the defnition of " market value " as comparing spacefillers with perfect stamps is like comparing apples & oranges,

David B.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-09-07 at 00:00:21 PDT   Listings
D2:
If you can get me a decent spacefiller GB 124 for under $50 US, email me the scan. I'll probably buy it.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:58:37 PDT   Listings
dragon, a one off sale of a spacefiller has nothing to do with the market value of a perfect stamp. Just because two bunnies fought over it doesn't prove anything except that they overpaid,

Stamps like that in good condition have a dealers buying and selling price but spacefillers have no regularity of value,

David B.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:46:33 PDT   Listings
That movie is worth it just to help you in your own fear of being taken. They show several expert "con games" in that movie, taking money from people who least expect it.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:43:50 PDT   Listings
Nine Queens was a good stamp flick.
"Con men" movie; not quite "The Sting" but well worth it if you've got nothing else going on...
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 441 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:42:29 PDT   Listings
Mitch I dont have many favourite movies, but you mentioned once upon a time in the west. I saw it when it was released in Germany in about 1968 or 1969, it was called play me the tune of death (spiel mir dass lied von tod) and the music was so beautiful and haunting.
I had completely forgotten that movie until I just read your post... thank you!
:o)
Bill can you lend me a cpl of grand until pay day???
Linda
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:37:41 PDT   Listings
Hi, Tom and Paolo - Great to see you both posting!

Billsey and I spent today setting up the exhibits at Stampshow. All seems to be going smoothly. I'll drop in to the OSS booth (K) occasionally tomorrow, and will also be at the exhibits tour and helping out with the UN First Day ceremony. Looking forward to meeting Roger, and also hopefully Bob in WA!

Stamps in movies that I can recall:
- Charade
- Nine Queens
- Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

S2
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:35:53 PDT   Listings
Can you please buy me a GB 124 with that? (spacefiller ok)
Posted by billsey   ( 849 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:26:18 PDT   Listings
Wow!!! According to my email, I won €787:000:00 in the "Euromillion loteria Espanol Award 2007" lottery (it says they pick from all email addresses). If that weren't good enough, I won *three* times with my regular email address, and one or two times with each of my other email addresses! That's like several MILLION Euros all told! 8)
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:25:47 PDT   Listings
(trying to go from being the guy who started WWchatwarXVI to the guy who stops it.)
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:23:31 PDT   Listings
Paul, David Benson: You are both correct. The market is setting the price, but I think David is also correct that the price for the fillers is too high. If I was going to spend over $100 for a filler, you can bet I'd pay $300 for the sound stamp instead.
The ratio is out of whack on those, from what I've seen.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-08-07 at 23:02:31 PDT   Listings
postalviews: Re North by Northwest: Was the bi-plane flying upside down by any chance?
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-08-07 at 22:03:21 PDT   Listings
I couldn't think of just ten but here's some I like:
LOTR's, Seven Beauties, Brazil, Wuthering heights, Raiders of the lost Ark, The Color Purple, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wild at Heart, Dr Stangelove, Amadeus, Night at the Opera, Das boot, The Pianist, Philadelphia Story, Pulp Fiction, Usual Suspects, Satyricon, Little Big Man, Bad Santa, American Beauty, Fight Club, Gangs of New York, Good Will Hunting, Zardoz, Wizard of OZ, The Jerk, Life of Brian, Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Once upon a Time in the West, The Producers, Requiem for a Dream, Silverado, Sin City, There's Something About Mary, Swept Away (1974),
Vita è bella, La, The Big Lebowski, Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, Things to do in Denver when your Dead, Fear and Loathing in las Vegas........
Posted by postalviews   ( 4196 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:49:37 PDT   Listings
Jeff Happy Birthday! I guess we both went 'postal' on eBay long ago, eh?

Speaking of puns, a zany English teacher of mine once told my class that cowboys in North Texas had affixed reflectors to the back of their saddles so as to be seen in snowstorms by passing cars. These, he stated, were known as "information saddlelights".

And one day he drew an army of cats wearing burglar's masks on the chalk board. This he referred to as a "concatenation".

The guy made his own blaring postillion out of a piece of garden hose affixed to a plastic funnel, which he used to announce his presence upon entering the classroom on certain days.

One time he drew a tree full of pigs on the chalk board. This, he told us, was a "porkypine".
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:46:03 PDT   Listings
Oggilby Here is what Black Flag Republic look like. The old listings are here. That was one amazing sale. This is one of my favorites . Here is a cover .
Posted by postalviews   ( 4196 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:21:50 PDT   Listings
Paolo Sunny shoes or sunny shores? And a hearty greeting to you from me.
Posted by postalviews   ( 4196 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:12:03 PDT   Listings
tlawrence I believe North by Northwest starring Cary Grant is one. Recall the bad guys tried to run him off Mt. Rushmore with a biplane.

And that approximates my total knowledge of Hollywood movies. LOL
Posted by postalviews   ( 4196 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:08:51 PDT   Listings
To any and all: Speaking of prices, I have a very serious question. As all of my dozens of stamp, postal stationery and postal history catalogs are all 1999 and earlier, and since I have been off slinging picture postcards for the past five or more years, can anyone give a rough idea of how much catalog values have increased since 2000 on a more or less global basis?

Of course it depends on what class of material or particular item it is, but am looking for a rough estimate only. And it is overall change in catalog value which I am requesting, not market value.

To narrow down, I am requesting that those typical collectors who use Scott a lot with standard US and/or foreign stamps--as opposed to covers or esoteric material--can give me a rough global off-the-cuff estimate.
Posted by savoirflair   ( 11 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:06:28 PDT   Listings
Jim, after looking at your comparison...I think it's a dull red....wouldn't you know! Ken
Posted by savoirflair   ( 11 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:04:41 PDT   Listings
Jim, thanks for your help. some are listed on my site and the one's I haven't listed I don't know how to post here. They are all from New York. Some refer to people who may have fought in the Civil War. All are between 1862-64 Ken
Posted by savoirflair   ( 11 ) on Aug-08-07 at 21:02:17 PDT   Listings
Ted I have about a dozen LETTERS written between 1862-1864 to a Geo. McFarland of Troy, NY from different people. I finally figured out that he must have been in the dry goods business because many of the letters are mentioning material they want for making cloaks, etc. I have sold a few and some are being bid on, but I still have more to list. The one's that mention historic figures, like Abe, Artemis Hall (which was the nom de plume of Charles H. Brown) and another guy named Meaghan who was an Irish immigre who bacame a general and died rather early having either been thrown from a boat in Montana or committing suicide. These are been highly sought after.
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:58:51 PDT   Listings
savoirflair… ’Fraid you’ll have to do with me until a genius comes along. Here is a comparison of the colors of the 64 (pink) 64b (rose pink) and a dull red 65. The pink and the rose pink have certificates.

Where are your Civil War items from? If from Ohio they have a chance of being one of the “pinksâ€. If not they will be interesting anyway, especially to someone like me who is interested in the era. Can you post links to some scans?

Jim
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:54:51 PDT   Listings
savoirflair: #64 is quite Rare. It is pink and kinda has a "bluish" tint to the stamp. I do not have a photo comparision immediatley at my disposal. I am sure that someone on here does.

#64b looks similar and is much more common than #64. The various shades of #65 are very common even though 140 years old.

Do you just have the envelopes, or do you actually have Civil War letters? Many times the letters may be worth more than the envelope and the stamp affixed to it.Ted.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1450 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:49:39 PDT   Listings
Re: Movies

I remember watching a couple of films where stamps are intregal to the plot. Unfortunately, I can not remember,their names. Anyone remember any one of them?

My fav.movies in order:
Gone With The Wind
Citizen Kane
Pride Of The Yankees
Night At The Opera

My least fav. of the "blockbuster" films: Jaws. Ted.
Posted by savoirflair   ( 11 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:47:00 PDT   Listings
Hello...
Any U.S. experts out there? I have a question. How can you tell a Scott #64 from a #65?? I have some Civil War letters that I'm trying to post and I can't tell what it is?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:35:57 PDT   Listings
I can't locate the lot # in question and it would be interesting to see where the bidders are located although that may be impossible with Ebay's " hide the bidder " feature,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:32:07 PDT   Listings
What is wrong in this discussion is the fact that the catalogue value in Scott's is too low and hasn't caught up with the British retail prices and discussing percentages of a misleading figure is not going to lead anywhere.

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:26:22 PDT   Listings
Paul, there are two types of buyers, those that know what something that regularly comes on the market is worth and those that don't, that doesn't make it the market price.



David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:18:26 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. ----That doesn't make sense .............

If you got a group of buyers and they are willing to pay the price ,then thats what it is worth and that is the market price . Experts don't make prices ,they just make opinions .It is the market place that determines price ....price is a constant changing thing ,not what someone says it is worth ........off to bed before the riff-raff starts .....paul

Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 20:08:58 PDT   Listings
dragon,

all the high face value QV, KEVII & KGV GB are wanted as spacefillers and usually the buyers do not have the valuation skills in assessing faulty stamps and pay much higher than the items are worth.

David B.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1381 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:54:17 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:46:45 PDT   Listings
ANNE----Thanks,saved the scans ----paul
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:45:35 PDT   Listings
That makes it about 1/4 Gibbons catalogue which is still high for a faulty stamp but of course it may not stay faulty for long, creases have been known to uncrease and thins have been known to unthin,

David B.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:41:18 PDT   Listings
I wanted to buy either the one pound green QV or KEVII issue for a long time, but I never got a clear shot. The prices seemed very high to me, every time. Condition? I would have bid on a stamp with perfs cut into with the scissors even. Even on those, the price was too high.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:37:25 PDT   Listings
Oggilby,

Formosa (Taiwan) 1895 Black Flag Republic, the stamp looks genuine but the cancel looks phony,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:27:38 PDT   Listings
DRAGON -------Im using a 2006 Scott's classic ,the stamp used is listed at $625.00 and that stamp sold for $305.00 with major defects .Surprised by the high price,but your say that the prices are climbing ,im surprised by the strong increases .....paul
Posted by dbenson   ( 8455 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:26:15 PDT   Listings
Gibbons cat. value for 1929 UPU One Pound,

438 116 £1 black £750.00 £550.00

what was the percentage of catalogue it sold for,

There would be only a few collections online which include that stamp and I doubt it was bought for that purpose,

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:26:08 PDT   Listings
oggilby… How could I forget The Treasure of the Sierra Madre? One of the best ever. Did you know that the little street urchin who sells Humphrey Bogart the winning lottery ticket is Robert Blake. Yep, the same guy who later starred in another of the best movies ever, In Cold Blood. Hard to believe someone who turned in such a harrowing performance in that movie later was so proud of his work in “Barettaâ€.

Jim
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:24:07 PDT   Listings
Evenin' all. It's been beastly hot in NJ. Heat index is above 100. Not even the AC is working well.

Harry Potter: I enjoyed reading the series but have only seen the first movie, which didn't have much of the sparkle of the book. The interesting thing about the series is taht it starts out as children's literature and ends up as Young Adult/Adult. The overall quality of the first few was higher, but latter books had their moments too. I counted 17 copies of the book on the reserve shelf of my libray the Monday after the book's release.

Ted: I might well have gotten the same reception as your wife did if I had gone to stamp shows in the 1970s or earlier. Things have changed a lot in our society. I collected as a child but stopped during high school and didn't pick it up again until 8 years ago. I never went to a stamp show as a child, but I was lucky enough to have a local stamp shop owner who was friendly and a grandfather and mother who humored my interest. If I hadn't had these, stamp collecting would never have become a lifelong interest.

Paul: I would recommend saving each image individually--there are 12 of them and make sure you're saving them in the right format. If you're using AOL, there can be problems. AOL automatically saves everything into its own image format, which is unintelligble outside of AOL. If you're using AOL, make sure you're saving the files as .jpg or .bmt.

Here goes: right click your mouse. This should give you a menu. One of the choices is to "save picture as." Click that and you'll see the standard Windows dialog screen come up. Choose the destination folder for the file and change the name of the file to whatever you want. Make sure the type of file is .jpg or .bmt. Then hit save. That should do it. I usually save everything to desktop and then move it wherever I feel like. (I have a very cluttered desktop; clutter is a sign of genius.) I just labelled them "egypt cancel lot 1, egpt cancel lot 2," etc. etc., and then moved them all into a single folder of the same name. Let me know if you have problems.

norvic: Thanks for the www.tinyurl.com link. Very useful.

I agree with you about the overhyping and misrepresentation of many lots by ebay sellers. But eBay allows it and there isn't much we can do other than rant and rave, report a lot when we can and try to give decent advice if we're asked for it.

Good night to all and to all sweet dreams of apple-polishing mice, "Harry Potter, Harry Potter," and not kicking sand in each others' faces. Anne
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:23:40 PDT   Listings
Okay, let's try bigger!
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:23:08 PDT   Listings
Hey Jim, if you had the misfortune of watching the 3rd or 4th Harry Potter movie, that would explain a lot. I walked out on both.
In the defense of those two movies, it would take a 26 episode (American TV length) one hour series, one TV year per book 3-7 to do them justice. (in my humble opinion)
They probably did the best they could in those movies, and let's face it, there was no stopping them from doing those movies. :) $$$
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:17:11 PDT   Listings
Can any one guess the country? Looks like a monkey in a bush/tree. My first guesss was Korea but I can;t find it in Scots's.

Movie Faves (no particular order):--

The Godfather Part II

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Horse's Mouth (Guinness)

The Bridge over the River Kwai

The Rescuers (John Wayne)

It's A Gift ("Watch out Mr. Muckle" & Carl Lafonge)

Out of the Past (Mitchum & Douglas)

The Bride of Frankenstein

An quite an eclectic mix, I must say!
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 19:10:40 PDT   Listings
Any auction for a rarer item that has 2 or more interested bidders can go a little crazy.
Those early GB one pound or higher stamps tend to sell pretty well on ebay. The Victoria and KEVII as well. I almost gave up looking for/at them.
Damaged perfs, heavy cancels, even tears don't stop the bidding on a lot of those issues.

Also, what year are you looking at in the catalog?
Most of those have gone way up the last 5-10 years.
At least in Scott.
I only have one recent year of SG, so I can't tell if it's the same upward trend.

The Scott #124(QV) used has gone from $225 to $700 from 1996 to 2006.
So maybe those issues are catching the eye of the stamp investor?
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-08-07 at 18:52:42 PDT   Listings
Ant-Ra… I am thinking about your request for my ten favorite movies. I don’t know that I can rank them properly, but some that spring to mind are—

  • The Bicycle Thief. The movie I would rate the best. Set in Italy right after the war, it is the most moving film I have ever seen. Also, the most authentic.
  • Los Olvidados. The most powerful film I have ever seen. Absolutely devastating at the end—every car crash, every explosion ever filmed, all added together don’t create one thousandth the impact of this simple, tragic human story.
  • The Ladykillers. The drollest movie I have ever seen. There’s not one overtly funny scene, but I have never laughed so hard at any movie. Starring the incomparable Alec Guinness.
  • Oliver Twist, the 1948 version. Also starring Alec Guinness, as Fagin, in one of the greatest performances of all time.
  • Some Like It Hot. The funniest American movie, in my opinion. Starring Marilyn Monroe, poor girl, whose personal demons made her extremely difficult to work with, so much so that Tony Curtis, her co-star, said, when asked what it was like to kiss Marilyn Monroe, replied famously “It was like kissing Hitler.”
  • The Last Picture Show. An incomparable, quiet drama featuring a wealth of terrific performances.
  • The Return of Martin Guerre. A riveting tale set in medieval France, about the power of institutions (i.e.the Church) to do everything wrong, and make everybody miserable.
  • The Seven Samurai. A brilliant film from beginning to end, illustrating all the great themes of life with wit, dash, humor and a profound understanding of what is and what is not important. A very long movie, that has not one dull spot. With the hilarious Toshiro Mifune.
  • Raging Bull. No movie I know of better portrays classic human failings. Robert De Niro’s performance is untouchable.
  • The Third Man. The best whodunit, in my view. All the performances are exceptional, as is the radical cinematography, from the chase scene in the sewers of Vienna to the long last closing shot of the actress Valli walking toward the camera down a long, leaf-scattered cemetery road.
That’s ten, and in no particular order except for the Bicycle Thief, which I consider unsurpassed. There are other movies I have enjoyed tremendously—Gone With the Wind, The Lord of the Rings, to name a couple—but I don’t think they quite measure up as among the greatest. There are more on my favorites list, that don’t come to mind just now. Perhaps I’ll bore everyone later with additions.

?

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 18:32:22 PDT   Listings
NEW TREND IN STAMPS -------We are all aware that damaged stamps sell only at a small fraction of catalog .But there is a new trend developing and was puzzled today when I seen this lot sell today .LOT 190136954247 which is the 1929 one pound value from Great Britian .The stamp has both a crease and a thin so thinking it would sell at a small fraction of catalog .

But then got thinking that if collections and exhibits are going on line then it really doesn't matter what the backs look like .So if a stamp shows good on the front then its value for internet showing becomes a whole lot more valuable .That stamp sold today at half catalog ----unbelieveable with two major faults .Its not that rare because it shows up in many auctions ......paul

Posted by malolo   ( 847 ) on Aug-08-07 at 18:04:11 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
The travelling public is enamoured with Harry P. My guess from seeing books go through check point is that Harry equals all other books combined, all ages, everyone has the book, except day trippers.

I received a new mouse today, an older Apple design, from an ebay seller. God, is it good to be back to a single click mouse where one doesn't keep hitting the right clicker unintentionally with the long middle finger. I have discovered I click with my middle finger naturally, not the index finger as set up with the Macally PC wannabe. Interesting shipping. I won on the 5th, paid on the 6th, shipped on the 6th from New Jersey, received on teh 8th in Hawaii, and used before 3pm. Great service from seller and USPS. $10 mouse (slightly used) and first class postage. I'm a happy camper! )'>)

Roger
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 17:50:52 PDT   Listings
Bill D: Well said. both series are great stories. Fantastic is too light a word to describe how Rowling could have had that whole story in her head before she started, but that's her story and she is sticking with it.

By the way, I'm currently reading two books "HP7" and "England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075-1225."
The latter is a book club book, and it's also very nice.
I don't think it will sell as many copies.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 17:45:01 PDT   Listings
ANNE-----How did you save that file ? I tried to save it to docuement but it doesn't work . Walk me thru your steps .....paul
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-08-07 at 17:41:00 PDT   Listings
All & Sundry… My rant on Harry Potter is strictly my own opinion, for better or worse. All other views cheerfully accepted by me as equally valid and sensible.

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I think on the whole people who frequent this board are agreeable, and usually extraordinarily helpful. In years past there was no way for anyone living in the boondocks to find out the information that is given freely here every day.

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 17:32:34 PDT   Listings
WE SHOULD ALL TRY TO GET ALONG .....Rodney King
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-08-07 at 17:01:40 PDT   Listings
To: Jaywild & antonius-ra

I agree that there is a lot of both ,knowledge & brain-power, on this board. I have learned a lot by just lurking on here.

Just check out some of the other collectible boards and you will see what I mean.

I have a really good general knowledge of Philately but, I lack the specialized knowledge, that many others on this board have.

That is the main reasin that I hope folks get along well on here, as this is one of only a couple places, on the net like it. Ted.
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Aug-08-07 at 17:01:03 PDT   Listings
NOIP for what it's worth, count me in with those in favor of Harry Potter. While it's not "Great" literature, the series has A LOT going for it. My kids grew up learning to read and enjoy reading the series. They are both good readers today, in part because the HP series held their interest. I found all of the books entertaining and worth the time to read. I was disappointed in the latest movie, but have enjoyed the other movies so far.

I've read the LOTR series several times (as a teenager then again as an adult), and have watched the movies. The HP books are easier for younger children, so are better at getting young kids interested in reading. The LOTR books, while good, are not in my opinion "Great" literature.

I don't see why anyone would turn their nose up at HP books. I read a vast variety and range of books, from the classics to modern tripe. All have their place, including Nancy Drew mysteries, Harlequin romances, murder mysteries, etc.

Bill D.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-08-07 at 16:51:56 PDT   Listings
And my Latest Postage Due Item
Centimes

But Alas the Clerks on both sides of the Atlantic missed
something. So while OK it is another example of Clerks
Missing the Verso.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-08-07 at 16:43:19 PDT   Listings
Theses
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-08-07 at 16:42:40 PDT   Listings
WHO
Liked these.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-08-07 at 16:26:44 PDT   Listings
Ant-Ra
Maybe you have licked to many Mushroom Stamps.


SOME Perfins are Easy -Readable

I like Aux Markings Held/Paid

I also like Just Regular Mail. Nothing rare or Fancy Just Proper Usage with the appropriate markings like this Just2cents
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 16:25:58 PDT   Listings
Well, anyway either it is as good as "Lord of the Rings", or the billion people or so who bought the books are just plain wrong!
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 473 ) on Aug-08-07 at 16:19:51 PDT   Listings
The music by John Williams in the HP movies, (1+2?) will be around a lot longer than any of us.
People will be playing that music 1000 years from now. Maybe the books might not make it that far? Who knows.

I bought the first movie for the family, then of course I had to read the book(s).

Having read both, I'd have to say that it IS as good as the "Lord of the Rings". Both are great stories.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-08-07 at 15:44:46 PDT   Listings
Ted This board, is of course, mainly dedicated to the topic of philately. On the other hand many regard it as a community and a home away from home. To that end any itnterest other than stamps that others have helps to generate this concept of community and friendship. So many topics regarding stamps have been beaten to death here and other interests are often welcomed.
There are of course a few that are usually trying to stir the pot (you should know who they are by now). Several here have very little patience for them and find it hard to hold their tongues. Is it better to let the bullies keep bullying or confront them?

J.D. I must be really shallow because I have very much enjoyed all the Harry Potter movies. I consider myself pretty well versed in cinema so I am wondering what
your taste in movies is. Possibly you could try naming your top 10.
Posted by 220man   ( 155 ) on Aug-08-07 at 15:33:41 PDT   Listings
Jim: It's that one post in fifty that makes this sandbox the resource that it is.
Phil
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-08-07 at 14:51:53 PDT   Listings
Ted L… Well, like all rules, the “no personal disputes” parameter is frequently (sometimes flagrantly) disregarded. However there is plenty more wheat here than chaff, so as a long-time pot-stirrer myself let me welcome all your posts, whether on topic or off, and encourage you to skip those posts which might seem overly aggressively or otherwise distasteful to you.

I average about one post in four that has anything to do with stamps, and maybe one post in fifty of mine has something of use to anyone, yet that doesn’t stop me from continuing to air my prejudices here. I labor under the assumption that anyone finding fault with my style and/or ideas can always skip over what I have to say. However if anyone reads my posts and then complains, knowing full well what he was in for before he started, then I have no pity. As someone once said (Edmund Burke?), “The Publick be Damned”.

Jim
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-08-07 at 14:38:53 PDT   Listings
Re: What is proper content on e-bay stamp chat?

I not exactly sure what the parameters are. I would imagine that it should be primarily stamp oriented and quite often tied to e-bay. I have included some non-stamp oriented topics in my few posts on here, but I tied those topics in with, Philatelic events or memories etc. And of course I immediately heard about it.

I do know one thing: E-BAY CHAT MEMBERS ARE NOT ALLOWED INTERPERSONAL DISPUTES! It says that very clearly in the e-bay chat rules.One can be banned etc. etc.

I have only posted on this board for a couple of weeks but have lurked since June 2001. I can say ,with surety, that if someone would have given me a free "Baby Zepp" for every time I have seen interpersonal disputes on this stamp chat board I would now be holding the largest hoard of Baby Zepp's in existence! Ted
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-08-07 at 14:13:03 PDT   Listings
Richard W… I totally agree with your assessment of Harry Potter, at least the movies—having seen one movie I have no interest in seeing another or reading the books. The characters are all one-dimensional, as interesting as yuppie clones in a car commercial, the special effects a big yawn, the plot plodding and predictable, and the resolutions of crises always in Harry’s favor. Boring!!

Harry Potter is the rising generation’s Lord of the Rings, but while we were rewarded with a mesmerizing tale they have been sucked into something inane and lifeless, the same way they flock to hip-hop culture, “reality” television and “professional” wrestling. LOTR is not literature, however the story contains elements that are dazzling, such as the swamps on the fringes of Mordor in which the shades of long dead warriors can be glimpsed in the murky waters holding candles, as if searching endlessly for the truths that sent them to their deaths. Likewise Gandalf’s battle with the Balrog in the Mines of Moria, at the end of which he cries to the rest of the Fellowship “Fly, you fools!” before plunging into the abyss.

Harry Potter, or what I’ve seen of him, is all shouts and blather, designed to appeal to the most unsophisticated of readers (or viewers). If you make enough noise with any movie (or book) you are guaranteed to turn a profit, but that doesn’t mean you haven’t done anything more than waste everybody’s time.

Jim
Posted by ed845   ( 4539 ) on Aug-08-07 at 13:15:18 PDT   Listings
norvic You said'I'm sorry, I thought this was a message board for discussing the sale and purchase of stamps and postal history on eBay, not for ranting off about post office closures, mobile phone companies, fuel companies etc.'

Pity you haven't read this boards posts for the last say 36 hours.

I notice you haven't said anything about some of that content.

Never mind.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-08-07 at 13:07:47 PDT   Listings
Thanks DB
I had that feeling , lots of little Philatelic Bureau Bag type
envelopes (Plastic) full of FDC's. Same place I found the Barbade Postals.
Posted by philaweb   ( 264 ) on Aug-08-07 at 12:53:00 PDT   Listings
Have to correct my previous post. Anonymous names are used when "reserve or Buy It Now price is initially set at or above $200.00".
Posted by dbenson   ( 8452 ) on Aug-08-07 at 12:48:15 PDT   Listings
Pro,

I think you will be lucky to find a buyer at $1 each,

David B.
Posted by malolo   ( 847 ) on Aug-08-07 at 12:28:26 PDT   Listings
Bill -
Thanks for the delivery confirmation. Booth K it is.

Burt -
By 1900 all razors were being used in a regular manner. They had been repaired and some had a different spring. Neuchatel and Lausanne are what I consider normal, “common” uses, though they are still not 5&10 type items. As other have noticed, razors don’t come on every cover or stamp. Remember there were only 11 cancelers in use in 1900 and there were thousands of post offices across the country.
NOIP -
The Kailua Candy Company opened a contract mailing office recently. It’s in an industrial area but very convenient to where I live. It’s sort of fun to see the cancel go out on piece, canceled “Kailua Candy Company”. There won’t be many examples from this office for a long time.

Roger
Posted by philaweb   ( 264 ) on Aug-08-07 at 12:25:20 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!

Funny example on how you can spot a reserve of more than $300. Note that bidders ID's are cloaked.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-08-07 at 11:11:52 PDT   Listings
DBENSON
Should I even bother with these even at $2=3FDC
or move on past . I bought 9 for $5 . They have the little booklets in them also.

PApUA

" Everyone can't Visit Papua New Guinea However....."
Posted by sayasan   ( 711 ) on Aug-08-07 at 11:07:53 PDT   Listings
norvic - Ian, is that you? Take no notice of Ed. He has a jaundiced outlook on life. Imagine him as a version of Victor Meldrew.

For what it's worth, I've some sympathy with your point of view, but the auctions are either reportable or not. If they're not, it's a moral issue and there's not much you can do except sigh ...

On the other hand, I personally think that the Harry Potter books are complete and unmitigated PANTS, and the films are even worse. A teenager who buys these covers in ignorance may deserve a little pity, but any adult who's an HP fan, frankly, deserves what they get. But now I'm beginning to sound like Ed ...

Richard W.

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Aug-08-07 at 10:57:44 PDT   Listings
OK

Everyone take out the fluid , ahh fumes.

Should I save the Watermark pages from olde falling apart albums? or wrap fishes in them?
Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-08-07 at 10:56:43 PDT   Listings
ed845

I'm sorry, I thought this was a message board for discussing the sale and purchase of stamps and postal history on eBay, not for ranting off about post office closures, mobile phone companies, fuel companies etc. You have a serious problem.

"My monthly costs are far too high." Your choice - you don't have to pay. Spend the money on your stamp collection.

I live in a village in the middle of Norfolk which has a very busy sub-post office thriving on goods sold on eBay (which brings us back on-topic), and he has blank FDCs for every issue.

And if you are a collector who wants them you can ask your PO to get them and they will normally order them in. Not rare at all.
Posted by ed845   ( 4539 ) on Aug-08-07 at 09:50:44 PDT   Listings
norvic Of course they are rare..

First you have to find a post office that hasn’t been closed down. Then you have to wait for an undetermined time before getting served. Then the chances that they have what you want are rare to say the least.

If you ask them to order some they say it’s too much trouble. So you go looking for another post office. Bit difficult if you live out in the country. So I would say definitely rare.

As for cheating the buyers. Since when has it not been the case in the UK where everyone gets ripped off.

The mobile telephone companies have been doing it for years, the fuel companies for even longer, as have the utilities, transport, supermarkets all get in on the act so what’s new. This guy is a small seller. Why not pick on one of the mobile telephone companies. Now that would be a challenge or better still take on Sky. My monthly casts are far too high.
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-08-07 at 08:01:55 PDT   Listings
norvic… When the seller stated NOT AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC he meant that part of the public which are Army generals, such as Eisenhower and Patton. All such generals are turned away at the door of all British Post Offices.

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I have to second Miss Lindy’s remarks, in that certain words (RARE! UNIQUE! VINTAGE!) are flypaper for the naïve. Alas, there is nothing to be done about it. In Barnum’s day a sucker was born every minute—now it’s down to nanoseconds.

Jim
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-08-07 at 07:30:04 PDT   Listings
vintiques4u Welcome. This is a bulletin board rather than a chat. Post you question with a LINK to a scan and check back throughout the day for answers.
Posted by vintiques4u   ( 532 ) on Aug-08-07 at 07:20:54 PDT   Listings
Hi,
is there anyone here that deals with state revenue stamps?
Posted by vinnysf   ( 540 ) on Aug-08-07 at 06:35:09 PDT   Listings
thanks claghorn!
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 411 ) on Aug-08-07 at 06:25:26 PDT   Listings
Vinny 1 is on buff paper. 6 is on white paper. Yours has no trace of buff so it is a 6.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-08-07 at 06:23:59 PDT   Listings
mini*lindy - agree with your sentiment, we all make some profit (hopefully!) but to say that they are NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC BUT I GOT SOME is a downright lie.

Anybody in the world could get 5,000 or more unstamped FDCs from the Bureau in Edinburgh simply by making a phone call.

I'm sure the fans know that the 'figurine that cost .25p to produce in plastic' retails for £29.99, but we are talking of here is something that costs 30p to buy over the counter, not something that COST 30p to make and retailed at £30.

I wonder what others think about his deception.
Posted by vinnysf   ( 540 ) on Aug-08-07 at 06:15:30 PDT   Listings
ooops. try again here is that pic again
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1379 ) on Aug-08-07 at 06:12:24 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.
member
Posted by vinnysf   ( 540 ) on Aug-08-07 at 06:10:08 PDT   Listings
hey all does how can you tell if this baden 1 kreuzer is scott #1, #1a or #6?
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 440 ) on Aug-08-07 at 06:02:48 PDT   Listings
norvic, sorry, I cant really see anything wrong with someone making a profit on a sale of something he bought, and then offered on ebay and sold at a profit. OK so maybe those envelopes ARE available at certain UK post offices, but the rest of the world dont get a chance to walk into a UK PO and obviously some HP fans will pay ANY AMOUNT to buy ANYTHING HP. Is is really any different to a fan paying £29.99 for a figurine that cost .25p to produce in plastic?? or £129.00 to buy a figurine that cost £1.25 in resin?
I think not. suppy and demand is the name of the game.
RARE, SCARCE and VINTAGE are probably the 3 most overworked and overused words on eBay !!

Linda
Posted by soccers_cn1   ( 34 ) on Aug-08-07 at 05:37:34 PDT   Listings
Could you find any special on this Argentina S/S?

I got this Argentina today, It's very beautiful, but I found some problems when I saw it carefully at first time.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_8AMmfBQS1QA/RrmuvFMDNPI/AAAAAAAACAs/pkc4yAqqC9A/s320/2007-07-28+Argentina+Meteorite.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_8AMmfBQS1QA/Rrmuv1MDNRI/AAAAAAAACA8/dU_p0Be-ObY/s1600-h/2007-07-28+Argentina+Meteorite+SS.jpg
Please check large scan of this S/S carefully, could you find any special??

If you haven't enough patient to find out it, you can get quick answer in my blog.
http://myfdc.blogspot.com/2007/08/argentina-meteorite-fdc.html
Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-08-07 at 05:25:32 PDT   Listings
For soggy333 re your Aug-04-07 at 10:23:09 PDT

You may find http://tinyurl.com useful for shortening URLs for display purposes.

The link you used can also be found from http://tinyurl.com/yvuej7

It's very useful, especially on emails and some message boards (though this one just makes the long URL extend way out there--------------------> to the right of the screen!
Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-08-07 at 05:20:43 PDT   Listings
I'll try this again: the board seemed to be deserted yesterday, so geting back to stamps....
Any thoughts on this?

I've been wondering what the stamp community can do to stop misleading descriptions (OK, downright lies!), such as is shown on item #270151806174

This is a blank GB FDC (no stamps) described as "RARE - NOT FOR SALE TO GENERAL PUBLIC" simply because they are not sold thus on the Royal Mail online shop. We (here) all know that they are sold thus at Post Offices so that people can service their own covers. It's not too bad when they are listed in the 'stamps' category, but for the Harry Potter stamp issue he was listing them in other categories which would appeal to HP fans. And of course he sold some of these GBP£0.30 envelopes for big money - see 270151488676 sold for AU$15 (US$12, GBP£6) that's 20x cost PLUS shipping.

I know - caveat emptor - but it gives us a bad name!
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 03:46:34 PDT   Listings
Hola, Paolo! How was the vacation? Is wooden shoe land hot & humid too? I'm heading for the Upper Great Lakes region later this week, hopefully it's cooler up there.
Posted by vonbag   ( 178 ) on Aug-08-07 at 03:28:52 PDT   Listings
Good day all from sunny Shoes!

Paolo
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 03:27:15 PDT   Listings
Wow! I'm in the 21st century, look out world!

Roger-- The illusive razors here and here!
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-08-07 at 03:20:40 PDT   Listings
Greetings from steamy Central MD (82 F currently).

Time for an image
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-07-07 at 23:52:42 PDT   Listings
abt1950: From my 33 years experience as being a dealer, I would I would say that, a much higher % of Women are topical collectors. This does not make them less serious of a collector, but I believe that,many perceive them as less serious.

I have had many Female collector's who are very knowledgeable and collect a wide range of material.

The % of collector's that are Female is much lower than males,but they come in second ,only in numbers, not in quality.

Call me weird, or whatever, but overall I have had a higher % of positive experiences with Women vs. Men.

Janet Klug is a good example of a Women who did very well in this so-called man's hobby.

If I sound a little sour about this subject is it because I remember how my Wife was treated when she first started to attend shows with me in the mid 70's.She was ,in my opinion, treated like a second class citizen by many of those male big shot collector's and dealer's. Things have improved since then.

Anyway enough ranting & raving.I noticed that you collect Egypt. I have long been fascinated with both their stamps and their history.Too bad stamps were not invented thousands of years ago. Imagine if ancient Egypt issued stamps of the Pharaoh's. Wouldn't that be cool? Ted.
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-07-07 at 22:16:32 PDT   Listings
Diamonds work.

Good night to all and to all sweet dreams of dazzlling diamonds, philatelic gems (98+ grade of course), and untold millions in email treasure. Anne
Posted by smolcott   ( 230 ) on Aug-07-07 at 21:53:55 PDT   Listings
Anne- instead of a crown, how about a tiara with lots of sparklies? my wife always had a soft spot for diamonds.
Steve
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-07-07 at 21:33:48 PDT   Listings
Bill D… I’ve been getting a sudden flood of those same scam emails, and each batch is dumber and more quixotically written than the last. My auto-scam catcher yanks about 80% of them, then I further screen for any email that contains any of these in the body of the message—

Benin
Ghana
Nigeria
million
millions
lottery
sweepstakes
.fr

The last—“dot”fr—is most important, because the email addresses in the message of scan emails generally are located in the former French colonies in Africa, thus they end in “.fr”.

Anne... Yes, what was I thinking? A crown and a blinding aura do not go together at all…

Jim
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-07-07 at 21:10:36 PDT   Listings
jaywild Jim, thanks for the welcome back. As for the crown, I'll pass. A stamp goddess does not truly need a crown.

Paul: I'll copy them if you want me to, but downloading the images might be just as good. I did that myself, so that I have a permanent record.

As a woman, I've never felt particularly uncomfortable at bourses. In some ways, being female is a kind of advantage in a male-dominated hobby. In some instances, I've gotten extra attention. It may depend on how you present yourself and how knowledgable you appear. There are some dealers that are more helpful than others, but some of that depends on whether they have much in my areas of interest. Maybe I've learned to be assertive over the years.

Women are a definite minority in the hobby. Only rarely do I see another woman in my local stamp shop and there aren't that many at bourses. But there are always a few women dealers. If you look at the leadership in APS, women are quite visible. I'm wondering if the percentage of sesrious collectors vs. casual collectors is higher for women rather than men. That would make some sense if Ted's perception about how they're treated is right. Only the more fanatic women collectors would be willing to persevere.

Anne
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Aug-07-07 at 20:31:32 PDT   Listings
NOIP I don't know if I'm tired and slow, or if the junk (scam) emails are getting less coherent. Just received an email I can't make heads nor tails of (I usually don't even read them. For some reason I read this one). It says:

"Hello,

I am a United Kingdom citizen living and working in London with Union Attorney Chambers of 20 Park Road,
Bristol BS25W London, United Kingdom.

I need you pertinently for something very legitimate with a view to Your Surname identity.

On your response, I will discuss with you further.

Thank you,"

Why would ANYONE reply to such an email?

Bill D.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1379 ) on Aug-07-07 at 19:49:23 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by billsey   ( 849 ) on Aug-07-07 at 19:39:57 PDT   Listings
OSS Booth is 'K' on the floor plan Sheryll posted earlier (plus half of 'J', but that's another story). I spent most of the day (8-4) at the show today, helping to get stuff ready. Some of the exhibit frames have moved from that floor plan, they'd put the rows too close together and the fire marshal made them spread things out, which moved two rows over by the auction viewing areas. Roger, I can vouch for your exhibit arriving, I went over and picked them up from the PO today.

Tomorrow I work during the afternoon and evening, mounting exhibits. I believe Sheryll will be there during the same time, working on the same task (want to carpool?).
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-07-07 at 17:52:28 PDT   Listings
Iomoon: I agree. I also think that women may be intimidated by so many males at a show.

I have also noticed that there is a % of male dealers who really do not treat both ,adult Females & Children, with very much respect. This is especially true with many of the older male dealers.

Personally ,when I used to set up at shows ,I did not care who sat down at my table unless they were a problem. Ted.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-07-07 at 17:26:53 PDT   Listings
Ted

I agree.

I think most women would prefer the anonymity of eBay in their collecting habits, than going to a bourse.

I may be wrong!
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-07-07 at 17:21:23 PDT   Listings
NOIP… I didn’t know it was going to be sad story night on the chatboard. I can’t find my violin, and I’m all out of hankies. Every time I think of that poor 17 year old thief kid who was so rudely treated, I just want to—scream.

Anne... Nice to see you posting to the board. We were just about ready to mount a search party. We have a crown to give away (catalog Queen) and all the other possible candidates have turned it down.

?

Jim
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-07-07 at 17:17:49 PDT   Listings
stamps12345: Paul. I think the e-bay's greatest contribution to Philatlely is bringing in many younger and newer collectors.

I have noticed that I am getting more of these types of bidders than ever before. Also seems like a hgher % of female bidders on e-bay than at shows etc.

Hotter than heck here 98 and humid and we had some short power outages. Looking forward to Winter!. Now that is something I never used to say back up in Northern Indiana!Ted.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8452 ) on Aug-07-07 at 16:37:44 PDT   Listings
Anne, glad you will be happy with it, yes, the early rettas are fakes and I am sure the seller would be delighted with the result,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-07-07 at 16:28:11 PDT   Listings
TED ----Guess i'll run into you at some area shows in about two years .My youngest sister just moved to the Atlanta area from Joplin Mo. and we plan to retire to the Orlando area in two years ,as soon as my daugther graduates .

Your right about the age thing the collectors are getting older but its also true that e-bay came along and gave many old timers something to keep their interest and also to get a better price when it comes time to down scale their holdings ....paul

Posted by russell3265   ( 24 ) on Aug-07-07 at 16:20:33 PDT   Listings
Anyone here ?
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-07-07 at 16:16:47 PDT   Listings
ANNE -----When you get that lot of pages on Egyptian cancels would you please run them thru a copy machine for me{ a flat face copier not a feed type} ,to have a copy before you take it apart .Any cost will be covered .By the way ,nice find ....paul
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-07-07 at 15:56:18 PDT   Listings
I bought it in part as a reference lot and in part as an addition to my general accumulation of cancels.

I've been stashing cancels away in a stockbook for almost as long as I've been collecting Egypt. One of these days I'll work through it and see what I come up with--dates of usage, what cancels are most commonly associated with each issue, that kind of thing.

The reference part comes in because there are a number of examples (e.g., the Queen Naazlly) in which the Arabic is clear and can be matched potentially with things I already have. This is a plus since, outside of a letter or two, I don't yet read Arabic.

I don't think there's anything in that lot that's rare as hen's teeth, but it's a good selection of some cancels that are less common than most and other items that are useful to me.

-----The star and the star and crescent cancels are not common, although "v.rare" may be an exaggeration. I have a couple, but only a couple.

-----The first set of rettas look a little dubious; lots of forgeries of that issue have those kinds of rettas.

-----The first stamp in the lot is from the first issue. The "Poste Egiziane" cancel is not much, but it does have an early retta. The stamp itself goes into my first issue collection. There are nine or ten types of each of these values, depending on which you're talking about and assuming that you can distinguish them.

-----The second and third issue stamps have some nice nice strikes of several early cancels--SON or close to it. Also, I've been accumulating 3rd issue stamps because of their perversely poor quality and tendency toward plate and other printing flaws. There are watermark varieties as well.

-----One of the airmails (the red 40 mills Queen cancel) may have a constant plate flaw, but I have to check it.

-----There are a rew salt tax stamps and other revenues that may get added to the collection as well--again because of their cancels.

So-I didn't buy the lot for any one thing. It just seemed to be a generally useful lot.


BTW, I envy all of you who are able to go to the APS show in Portland. My son will be there for a wedding this weekend and I had planned on going with him. Then TWMWM got corporately reoganized.
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-07-07 at 15:55:35 PDT   Listings
Stamps12345: Yeah, there are always a couple of nasty folks around.Glad to see that,you still have,your beginner's album.

I am originally from South Bend ,Indiana. Only about 90 miles East of Chicago so was able to go there quite often.

I joined my local Club when I was 21. As you said members were mostly men who were between 40&80.Most collectors today are still male and over 45 with many old enough that both the nursing homes & funeral homes are preparing for their arrival! I am 58 and really not that old as a Philatelist.

Ten years ago I moved down here in the Atlanta Ga. Metro area. While there are some enthusiatic collectors here in the deep South, overall I would say, that the % of the population who collect anything is lower here than up North.

Ted.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-07-07 at 15:24:12 PDT   Listings
TED -----I grew up on the southside and join the Ogden Hills Stamp club ,didn't go much on the north side and it was years later that I got to know the people you mentioned .The Ogden Hills club was older guys over 40 at the time and I was the only member{ 17 years old} who today is still alive ,They were the ones who started Compex ,it was people like Charlie Hann who collected German States and Fred Bell who specialisted in British Colonies ,they influenced me .They were a bunch of nasty and mean collectors but fun to be around .It was this club that one of the members told everybody my worldwide collection in this album was worthless in 1965. MY ALBUM......paul
Posted by dbenson   ( 8452 ) on Aug-07-07 at 13:55:33 PDT   Listings
Anne,

was there anything special in that Egypt lot you were after,

David Benson
Posted by big_bird   ( 634 ) on Aug-07-07 at 13:52:42 PDT   Listings
jaywild

I think I've won at lease $333,999,989.00 US dollars in the last 6 Months with all those e-mails I received. All I needed to do is give them my bank account number or send them some money to cover expenses.

Darn, I can't remember what My back account no. is. And my wife won't give it to me. Love her.

Glen
Posted by malolo   ( 847 ) on Aug-07-07 at 13:05:30 PDT   Listings
Big bird -
The shipping is reasonable. I might set an eSnipe, which gets me thinking what the largest eSnipe bid has been to date.

Might set a record on that auction. );>)

Roger
Posted by malolo   ( 847 ) on Aug-07-07 at 13:02:32 PDT   Listings
Aloha -

Happy Birthday Jeff!

NOIP -
The day eBay blocks eSnipe is the day I kiss eBay goodbye. I bid on so many European auctions and work such opposite hours to teh ending of those auctions that there is no way I can be at my computer when the auction closes. I refuse to place an early bid on any auction and become a target. I'm a buyer and my objective is to pay as little as possible when bid on an auction. I am not a philanthropist, therefore, eBay must not close the door on buyers who have budgets. eBay still doesn't understand "international" business! Anyway, I've not had any snipes blocked over the past week.

Anne -
I see you got sucked in to buying a lot of "Rare" cancels. It must be a challenge to collect a country where 95% of the cancels are "Rare". );>)

StampShow plans.
I'm packing this morning and flying tomorrow. Oregon Stamp Club table sounds like a good idea. Anyone know the booth number? The APS map doesn't seem to identify society and club booths.

Roger
Sipping coffee waiting for a real eruption of Mauna Loa.
Posted by big_bird   ( 634 ) on Aug-07-07 at 12:48:58 PDT   Listings
US Scott 388 http://cgi.ebay.com/momen-US-Stamps-388-Coil-Mint-OG-NH-PSE-Graded-SUP-98_W0QQitemZ190136365785QQihZ009QQcategoryZ683QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Cat is $2,200.00

Opening bid is $120,000.00 I guess the seller wants to retire early. or did I miss something?

Glen
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-07-07 at 12:34:01 PDT   Listings
Interesting. I had no problme two days ago, when I esniped this lot of Egyptian cancels.

But eBay does periodically nag me about changing my user name.

Anne
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6408 ) on Aug-07-07 at 12:26:00 PDT   Listings
I saw a post a while back about passwords being re-set. Apparently this is due to the use of Esnipe. It appears that Ebay has blocked them from accessing Ebay and when they do, they are assuming that someone is trying to hack into an account, hence the resetting of passwords. There are several posts about this happening over on the various help boards.
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Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3746 ) on Aug-07-07 at 05:41:21 PDT   Listings

Good morning, and thanks again for the kind birthday wishes.

Now back to reality, as I have to go stain and polueurathane the floor of a house.

badknees-raff
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1677 ) on Aug-07-07 at 05:02:00 PDT   Listings
Looks like Kilauea is getting uppity again.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1379 ) on Aug-07-07 at 04:13:35 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jeff
Happy Birthday to you!
Jim L.
member
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Aug-07-07 at 00:44:44 PDT   Listings
Jeff - Wishing you a very happy birthday!

Deb and Laura - Good to see you back!

Bob in WA - I talked to Billsey today about an eUSC meeting spot/place to leave messages for others. He suggested the Oregon Stamp Society (OSS) table, which is one of the A-X booths on the floor plan.

I'll be attending some of the exhibiting/judging meetings during the show (see schedule),and also want to go on one of the daily 1pm tours of the exhibits (aiming for Thursday at this stage).

I've printed off a few eUSC flyers to put on an info table. Others are encouraged to print and bring more along.

S2
Posted by norvic   ( 928 ) on Aug-06-07 at 23:54:15 PDT   Listings
I've been wondering what the stamp community can do to stop misleading descriptions (OK, downright lies!), such as is shown on item #270151806174

This is a blank GB FDC (no stamps) described as "RARE - NOT FOR SALE TO GENERAL PUBLIC" simply because they are not sold thus on the Royal Mail online shop. We (here) all know that they are sold thus at Post Offices so that people can service their own covers. It's not too bad when they are listed in the 'stamps' category, but for the Harry Potter stamp issue he was listing them in other categories which would appeal to HP fans. And of course he sold some of these GBP£0.30 envelopes for big money - see 270151488676 sold for AU$15 (US$12, GBP£6) that's 20x cost PLUS shipping.

I know - caveat emptor - but it gives us a bad name!
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-06-07 at 23:39:34 PDT   Listings
"I think, therefore I cannot ever quiet my mind to know that, I AM"

-99.9999% of the human race

meditated raff
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Aug-06-07 at 23:22:16 PDT   Listings
Jeff Warm regards on yet another year in your rear view mirror. Hope the highway ahead will be happy and long.
Posted by vinnysf   ( 540 ) on Aug-06-07 at 22:03:44 PDT   Listings
happy birthday postal!
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-06-07 at 19:44:34 PDT   Listings
Stamps12345: I used to enjoy having a booth at Chicago area shows. One thing you could always count on is that you will sell plenty of European Stamps.

Chicago is quite a melting pot.Did you ever have a chance to visit Roman J. Burkiewicz up on the North Side? He had a super stock of Poland. I used to buy my old Poland K-line album's and supplements from him. At one time I lacked only about 8 stamps of having a complete Polish Collection.

My Dad would speak to him in Polish. Unfortunately ,I never learned ,the language. Both sides of my Family came to the US in the early 1900's from what was then known as Russian Poland. I only wish that both, my Grandfather's and my Dad, would have lived long enough to see Poland free again.

Now back to food lol: Close to Burkiewicz was a Jewish Deli called Braverman's. I believe that it was also on N. Milwaukee Ave. The Corned Beef Sandwiches were so large and delicious that they made me want to become Jewish! LOL. Ted.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-06-07 at 18:59:13 PDT   Listings
Happy 61st postal hysterics
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-06-07 at 18:53:12 PDT   Listings
Roger--I tried again, both form NOAA and Verizon. Maybe I'll just senf you the F*&%*&$ stamps and they'll get there sooner.

Burt the frustrated (Hi Colin and I still haven't forgotten about you, sorry, life is way to hectic with a 13 year old girl child).
Posted by jaywild   ( 963 ) on Aug-06-07 at 18:19:51 PDT   Listings
Jeff…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-06-07 at 17:42:40 PDT   Listings
TED -----The stories that I heard about John Ross was that after the second world war .John who was a collector and a small time dealer got money from his dad to go to Europe to buy stamps at the time food was more important than a hobby .He came back with suitcases full of collections .Chicago had a growing European population after the war and money was moving around and people here started into the popular pasttime of stamp collecting .With John bring loads of material into the city he was the go to guy .

The other two guys you mention ,it would be better to talk about with a beer in hand and not on a chat board .

The reason the older guys had so much experience was because they were collectors first and have been taken, or con a few times and learn a few lessons the hard way much like ALEC did ,which he expressed on here .The older dealers would tell stories and learn from each other before or after the stamp shows at supper or at the bar .When I had a bourse table all the sellers would meet up at the bar at the hotel and exchange stories of types of customers or cons that were attempted by visitors .A true learning experience to be the youngest one in the group .

Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3746 ) on Aug-06-07 at 16:47:22 PDT   Listings

Thanks all for the good wishes. The steak was yummy and I ate as much of the Cantaloupes 'n Cream as I could right out of the tub. Time to shower and go out for coffee with some friends.

Jeff-Raff
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-06-07 at 16:34:18 PDT   Listings
Stamps12345: John Ross was, in my opinion, one of the most knowledgeable dealers of his time. Not only did he command great knowledge of stamps, but also of, the stamp market.

His expertise was greatest in European Philately.He used to travel to Europe often.I believe that he was both fluent in German & Yiddish but I am not positive.

I spent quite a bit of time talking to him. He told me that he thought that I was quite knowledgeable for a youngster. I purchased quite a bit of Austrian material from him.Every year I would buy a copy of Netto's Austrian Catalogue from him.

I remember my Dad buying a complete mint set of US C1-6, probably NH, for $22.50! Of course my Dad had to work a little while for that amount of $ back in 1960.

I used to enjoy buying stamps from Larry Edmunds,remember him? He and Bob Weisz were both honest and very nice to young collectors.

As I look back at many of the "old time" dealers that were still around in the early sixties most of them had one thing in common: they really knew their material.

Many of the current dealers may know marketing, advertising etc., but overall I just do not think they had the same "stuff" those old timers had. Yes, many of them were gruff, some even rude, but boy if they liked you they would take care of you and you could learn a lot from them. Ted.
Posted by abt1950   ( 227 ) on Aug-06-07 at 16:29:59 PDT   Listings
Jeff--have a hysterically happy birthday.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-06-07 at 16:02:10 PDT   Listings
Happy Birthday POSTAL ----
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 440 ) on Aug-06-07 at 16:01:17 PDT   Listings

Happy Birthday Jeff


not a Mac thing, I keep getting those COOKIE messages too, and we dont even have cookies in Australia, just biscuits!
think it's just eBay having a cuckoo day!

Linda
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-06-07 at 15:58:20 PDT   Listings
Correction ------wife says it was more like $600.00 to $1200.00 on the purchases four times a year ,but I think it was less .She may be right because the lots that I was selling was making about $300.00 a month and sales and purchases were about even at the end of the year for about 12 years .But the better material stayed with me as a end results .
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Aug-06-07 at 15:55:32 PDT   Listings
Happy birthday-raff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3746 ) on Aug-06-07 at 15:49:34 PDT   Listings

Today I am 61.

I bought a NY strip and a half gallon of Cantaloupes 'n Cream ice cream.

Life is good

happy-raff
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-06-07 at 15:47:19 PDT   Listings
Vinnysf: Thank You. That site will save a lot of cursing when I use Michel's.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3746 ) on Aug-06-07 at 15:37:14 PDT   Listings

the fellow at my old parking garage who was given the job of clearly marking the directions to leave the garage considered himself an exitstencilist.

laff-raff

Roger - the cookie thing happened to me as well, I just hit reload. I think it was a Mac thing.

Posted by vinnysf   ( 540 ) on Aug-06-07 at 15:34:39 PDT   Listings
oh my god! i just found this philately site for translating german to english! i'm sure everyone here already knows about it. but its a new discovery to me! wooohooo!
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Aug-06-07 at 15:08:13 PDT   Listings
TED L -----You bring back a lot of old memories first of John Ross ,who was Mr. Stampman around Chicago .Remember buying stamps from him when I only had $1.50 for stamps and he would let me look at his small stockbooks .It was years later that he knew me to spent much larger amounts with him.That is one reason after his death that I flew to New York to purchase part of his inventory from his estate which was put up in a stamp auction . JOHN ROSS

About BERGHOFF's ,I spent many a days in the panelled bar area were the dark beer was a speciality of the house and the dark bread was free .The markets {grains} closed at 1:15 and the first train to the western suburbs was at 3:30 home ,so going over there with my bright green traders jacket with my name badge made for a easy introduction to all the young girls ,boy those were wild times ,but the food was good they say ,all we did was drink .

The stamp shows {Compex} were always big events and all the old timers and experts walked around to greet old and new friends .Thats were I met Greg Manning and many other east coast dealers and they always welcomed the young guy who had lots of cash to spent .It was a fun time .

The real fun time for me was the time period after the the stamp market crashed in 1980 and before the start of e-bay .That was the time a person who had money and didn't care about return-on -investment or time to sell could purchase a SUV {CHEVY BLAZER} full of boxes of stamps for $300.00 at auction at Rasdales for years .Ask the people at Rasdale ,the routeine was so common for years that they check all the other customers out and then the last buyer{who never paid the day of the auction }.They would load everything remaining into my truck .Then they would call my wife about thirty days later and she would issue a check .It got so common that Linda Rasdale stop asking me to pay they would just call her .cont.....wife is yelling to come for supper ...paul

Posted by malolo   ( 847 ) on Aug-06-07 at 14:26:40 PDT   Listings
Burt -
I got the scans - Brian damage I'm afraid. You must have caught it when you visited Chicago. The peanut gallery has moved on to tasting wiener schnitzel and other droppings.

Kidding aside, I have not received scans in any form, Verizon stikes again.

Roger
No rush, I go to work in an hour.
Posted by rclwa   ( 970 ) on Aug-06-07 at 12:56:52 PDT   Listings
I'm forming plans to hopefully get to the show in Portland. I'll probably take train or bus to Seattle and then a friend and I will drive to the show, with luck for 3 or 4 days. We haven't yet figured out where to sleep and shower, but budgets will be tight. Has anyone mentioned getting together there? How can we find each other?

Bob in WA
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Aug-06-07 at 12:56:01 PDT   Listings
Jeff, David B & Jaywild Jim Thanks for the advice and help. I've decided to draw a line under the matter and put it down to being unlucky with one buyer. Scammed or not it's time to drop the subject and move on.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1223 ) on Aug-06-07 at 12:10:16 PDT   Listings
Roger-- did you get the scans? What do I have? (no comments from the peanut gallery)
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-06-07 at 12:03:10 PDT   Listings
My Spellink is preddy good, but my typinng nott so goot leatley.Ted
Posted by tlawrencestamps   ( 1449 ) on Aug-06-07 at 12:00:50 PDT   Listings
Iomoon: Re: Weiner Schnitzel

I specializ