eBay chatboard archive: Sep-17-07 to Sep-23-07 week

Posted by mini*lindy   ( 478 ) on Sep-23-07 at 23:43:37 PDT   Listings
bookmark-Mon.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 484 ) on Sep-23-07 at 23:16:30 PDT   Listings
When I get to 500 feedback maybe I'll change to no more tracking. It would cut shipping costs for me, and time spent on filling out forms.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 484 ) on Sep-23-07 at 22:40:38 PDT   Listings
Figmente: What you say makes sense. I have at 1/3 or so of my feedback from selling. But I still want to use tracking on first time customers. Maybe that is a mistake. I'm starting to see it that way. Maybe I should put the money I pay for tracking into a fund to pay for the times that I get stiffed.
My feedback would suffer slightly perhaps, but I should get rid of my goal of never getting anything but a positive feedback. That's probably not possible anyway. (though I'm closing in on 500, at 100%)
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 299 ) on Sep-23-07 at 20:02:23 PDT   Listings
Paolo,
I bought some lots from that brazilian seller a lot of time ago. I'm not sure, but I think the shipping wasn't fast. No other problems as far as I remember.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1390 ) on Sep-23-07 at 19:43:49 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by figmente   ( 895 ) on Sep-23-07 at 19:37:27 PDT   Listings
Those tracking requirements only apply if the buyer is a crook. I prefer sellers who do not operate under that assumption.
Posted by de66   ( 1140 ) on Sep-23-07 at 17:04:47 PDT   Listings
Free Money

A couple of lots sold recently on eBay for $80 odd each.

270162922098 Sep-05-07 Sep-10-07 18:10:07 US $86.00 18th Cent Playing Cards Full Wrapper w/ UK 6d revenue rlesnew99 (*) member323433
270162922653 Sep-05-07 Sep-10-07 18:12:37 US $86.00 18th Cent Playing Cards Full Wrapper w/ UK 6d revenue rlesnew99 (*) member323433


Both these lots were modern reproductions, which you can buy direct from the supplier here: http://jas-townsend.com/product_info.php?products_id=308 for $8.50.

I have added this to the TROUBLEMAKER page on the Revenue Web site here: http://www.revenuesociety.org.uk/troublemakers/troublemakers.html

Keep your eyes open, or you will be giving somebody free money.

D1
Posted by malolo   ( 851 ) on Sep-23-07 at 14:29:53 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
Has anyone checked theri searches today. Mine all come up with the "new Search" look. Now I've got to go through each search and change my preferences. GOD, I was they would leave everything alone. How can it possibly be an enhancement if each title is broken into two or three lines each? What is the point of having the Paypal logo beside every auction, and who cares if a seller uses Paypal? Why is the default time the listed time and date? This has no bearing on an auction, only the ending time is relevant!

I'm not reactionary, just can't figure out why everytime eBay enhances something,it becomes more complicated with more bells and whistles than is needed to purchase 99% of the items listed on eBay.

And of course, it all started on a Sunday!!@@!

Roger
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1698 ) on Sep-23-07 at 14:05:59 PDT   Listings
Paul, you certainly are correct.
And there's no excuse.
I'll correct my behavior.
Posted by malolo   ( 851 ) on Sep-23-07 at 13:22:49 PDT   Listings
Found it. The link doesn't show when I'm not signed in. Thank you.

Roger
Posted by knuden   ( 2349 ) on Sep-23-07 at 12:28:57 PDT   Listings
Malol - Hi Roger.

Go to my forum (make sure you are signed in) then ---> Gode links ---> Svejsiske "barberblads" stempler and voila here is the link to your exhibit. :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 945 ) on Sep-23-07 at 12:15:13 PDT   Listings
Drive-by post from Athens, where I've been stuck for one extra day as the ferry to Santorini today was cancelled due to weather. But here's it's been hot and sunny, though a bit windy at times. I will try to get to Santorini again at 7:10 tomorrow morning (yawn!)

I did buy two Norwegian stamps from a dealer here on Saturday, hoping that the one-ring cancels (ca. 1880) from VESTRE THOTEN and GLOPPEN are sufficiently uncommon to warrent the price of 1/2 cataloge. Well the VESTRE THOTEN on 50 ore "shaded posthorn" was pretty nice. :-)
Posted by malolo   ( 851 ) on Sep-23-07 at 11:43:24 PDT   Listings
Please ignore the links. I went to upload the old exhibit and discoveredthat what the technicians said they did, didn't!!

Munich is an appeasing gesture to all who are offended by my palm trees.

Roger
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Sep-23-07 at 11:42:56 PDT   Listings
GIOVANNI-----Here is something of interest to you ,you may of seen this before or maybe not .Stamp cut to shape before usage and tied to a piece . On a piece with cancel ....paul
Posted by malolo   ( 851 ) on Sep-23-07 at 11:25:44 PDT   Listings
Munich

Aloha Paolo -
I had a ISP problem - reached an upload limit, but it is resolved now so I have just uploaded the 2005 exhibit which shows cancel types. Remember the items are now dated and I have many better items. I agree with you that the exhibit by post office is interesting for those who wish to find and look up different cancels they may find.

Munich

Scott # 202 - Worth a try at that price! Good luck!

Knud-Erik
That is the page (post) where I found you. But I see no links, or words that look like links. That is why I’m puzzled. I do get lots of banner ads to click closed. LOL My page counter give the URL of the referring page. That is how I backtracked to your chat site.

Bill C -
I guess everyone will gradually go back to the old system of sending cash, or email the seller. Living in Hawaii makes me fully aware of outrageous shipping costs via the “Express” companies. We invariably ask online businesses to send items to us via USPS Priority Mail which they are willing to do. What’s the point of paying for tracking, etc, when items are left on the table in the patio, or against the front door. The delivery person scans in that the item was left at the house, done deal -tracking complete. I’d much rather have the items placed in my mail box out of the rain.

eBay has not been known for being friendly to small sellers and I interpret these moves to use “express” services just a high level business interplay. We’ll require use of your services for free advertising, etc. Just like APS Code of Ethics, and expressing service. Lot of clean hands in the Board rooms.

Roger
Posted by 22028   ( 1651 ) on Sep-23-07 at 10:47:02 PDT   Listings
Jim, thanks for pointing out the error..., already corrected...
Posted by jaywild   ( 995 ) on Sep-23-07 at 09:35:55 PDT   Listings
Rainer… A quibble about your Denmark-Iraq rate page. In this sentence in the English translation of paragraph 7—
“An additional fee for this extraordinary service will not be charged for the time being.”
—you have spelled the word “will” using a “1” (numeral one) instead of an “l” (ell) for the last letter. Otherwise it looks extraordinarily professional and is very informative.

Jim
Posted by xzephyr   ( 987 ) on Sep-23-07 at 09:09:03 PDT   Listings
Claghorn

Thanks for the explanation Bill, I haven’t sold on eBay for a while now as the requirement of Paypal means I just give too much to eBay out of low value sales. However I have bought by Paypal from the USA many times recently and no-one else charges that level of postage. Perhaps they didn’t know? (Don’t you dare tell them!) Suffice it to say that for a stamp of minimal value no-one in their right mind would pay that, quite apart from the ridiculous 1st bid. I guess that international sales will gradually die out?

Sayasan

I know the £ is strong, but not that strong Richard! After the run on the Northern Bank here in the UK over the last 2 weeks (the first such for 150 years) perhaps it is good I have some of my money in stamps! Certainly Stanley Gibbons is pushing buying stamps for investment, but those are the £1,000 + value not my rather low value items! I am however looking at alternative methods of selling my stamps. EBay sales kept me busy when I first retired in 2000 to last year, but now things are too regimented for me. I’ve just put up 100 items on the alternative site I mentioned a day or two ago.

Colin the pragmatic

Posted by dragonstamps   ( 484 ) on Sep-23-07 at 08:58:19 PDT   Listings
Claghorn: USPS Global priority mail has a tracking number I think.
Is that enough proof for Paypal/Ebay?
I think it should be.
I'm still not up to speed on the new shipping rates, regs. etc.
Posted by knuden   ( 2349 ) on Sep-23-07 at 08:38:57 PDT   Listings
22028 :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 412 ) on Sep-23-07 at 08:25:11 PDT   Listings
Colin the incredulous That seller accepts PayPal. PayPal requires on line confirmation of delivery. The only way to get on line confirmation of delivery from USA to UK is by Federal Express or United Parcel Service or DHL. $22.00 is reasonable for that kind of on line verifiable delivery.

Otherwise the seller is liable for the PayPal penalty. After receipt of the item the buyer files a claim with PayPal and EBay for non performance. The buyer gets all his money back and the seller gets NARU from eBay for non-delivery like that Singapore seller. Any USA seller which does not use FedEX or UPS for international shipments is under jeopardy of NARU because of the PayPal penalty for not providing electronically verifiable proof of delivery per PayPal terms of service.
Posted by 22028   ( 1651 ) on Sep-23-07 at 07:57:42 PDT   Listings
knuden, your advise was helpful...
http://fuchs-online.com/overlandmail/01_eastwards_Denmark.htm
Posted by sayasan   ( 720 ) on Sep-23-07 at 07:54:21 PDT   Listings
Colin - must have read about the current low value of the dollar against the pound. Still, 100% + feedback there ...
Posted by xzephyr   ( 987 ) on Sep-23-07 at 07:38:52 PDT   Listings
NOIP

This seller seems not only to be too optimistic on low value stamps, but I fail to see how they get to $22 for postage to the UK from the USA for a single stamp!


this lot

Colin the incredulous.
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1698 ) on Sep-23-07 at 07:14:08 PDT   Listings
When you don't know, common sense can help.
Here are some early French postage dues.
The unused 30c looks...different.

Is it legit?

French Dues [170kb]

Posted by philaweb   ( 279 ) on Sep-23-07 at 05:55:02 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by 22028   ( 1651 ) on Sep-23-07 at 05:45:31 PDT   Listings
knuden, thanks..., I posted my request.., lets see.
Posted by gio-in-tassie   ( 184 ) on Sep-23-07 at 05:27:28 PDT   Listings
Hi stamps12345, I am a dealer but I do collect (Yes!!! Not to many collecting dealers around ?????) Australian States, the Victorian Woodblocks & Beaded Ovals Mint/Used.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Sep-23-07 at 05:19:36 PDT   Listings
GIOVANNI----WELCOME .....what do you collect?
Posted by gio-in-tassie   ( 184 ) on Sep-23-07 at 05:11:22 PDT   Listings
Hello everyone, Found this board and wow!!!! You all write good stuff.Great to see, Regards Giovanni.
Posted by knuden   ( 2349 ) on Sep-23-07 at 05:01:50 PDT   Listings
22028 - Hello Rainer.

You can try at the Danish Postal Society of Denmark. Just ask your question in English, as many there understand it. :O) If it don't work out - send me a mail via my me handle.

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by 22028   ( 1651 ) on Sep-23-07 at 04:33:00 PDT   Listings
knuden, Do you know of a place in Denmark whom I could ask for 1923-1930 postal regulations? There were some references in Denmarks postal notices related to the Overland Mail Baghdad-Haifa.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1390 ) on Sep-23-07 at 03:43:22 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.

member
Posted by knuden   ( 2349 ) on Sep-23-07 at 02:15:01 PDT   Listings
Malolo - Aloha Roger.

The link to the page with the link to your Razor collection can be found here on my forum.
The Dnish text reads: "As there is more than Swizz cheese and chocholade, is here a friend of mine's Gold medal collection - with a lot of fine Swizz etc. covers and card with a special type of cancels.
It's really interesting - beside that - he lives on Hawaii !!" :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 20:45:37 PDT   Listings
Hey, does anyone know what was with Rbpuzzles, Richard collector of Spain?

Just wondering!

As a negligible between brackets addition, I tangibly noticed no-one bloody clicked on my links below!
Very, very upset with being 100% (there's nothing more in this reasonable world than 100 per cent) neglected! LOL

;-)
Best, Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 20:18:33 PDT   Listings
"just ", was meant to be metaphoric, but I screwed up HTML
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 20:15:18 PDT   Listings
I just looked David B. eBay feedback record.
He just beats me of about 20000 feedbacks on "uncorresponded gratitude".

I am impressed!

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 20:00:23 PDT   Listings
Re. "Thanks",
Making this very practical and tangible, forever on eBay record:
As of today, I left 512 positive feedbacks on eBay.
I only received 431 in reply.
I will let you do the arithmetic's!

Look out the term 'tacky'. I am conscious to have been there more than once, I perfectly know how it feels to be that.
When I am capable of, I try to avoid that very unpleasant feeling.

Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8589 ) on Sep-22-07 at 19:25:03 PDT   Listings
Paul, if you mean about your incorrect statement that the Albania Postage Dues without handstamps are Revenue stamps then it is you who should apologise for misleading the enquirer.

David B.
Posted by djs127   ( 606 ) on Sep-22-07 at 19:25:00 PDT   Listings
Paul stamps12345 Thanks for the pictures of the Heligoland stamps. My stamp looks like the same color.
I will be spending the rest of tonight and much of Sunday preparing for Sunday September 30th Clifton New Jersey Stamp show packing up all my stamp sales books, 102 boxes, FDC boxes and going through small collections and Ebay purchases - who knows what I will find. Hopefully when I get back from the show I will have less stamps and more cash. I know my son and I will have had fun and great memories.
David Snyder
Posted by dbenson   ( 8589 ) on Sep-22-07 at 19:20:12 PDT   Listings
sorry Paul, correct about what, must have been something I missed,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Sep-22-07 at 19:19:03 PDT   Listings
INFLA-ALEC------Sorry to hear about your Ma ,will add it to my prayer list ,hope for the best ....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Sep-22-07 at 19:13:59 PDT   Listings
HERE WE GO AGAIN Lets see how many toes ,I can step on tonight .........

SAPHILATELICS ------Since your in the habit of correcting other posters .....so let me correct you ........you wrote "The Thurn and Taxis postal service was merged into the Prussian Postal Service "....thats incorrect because the T and T postal service extented across western europe and central europe and the Prussian system only took the Germany section .Not the other countries .

DCDEROO -------Your not thanking those who answer questions that you put up,or even try to answer your questions .

Its only civil behavior and mindfulness to those who respond to your questions.Looks like you picked up a bad habit from UPPER CANDIAN .Try say thanks .

David Benson -------Someday try real hard and say and post here Paul is Correct I know how hard it will be but im patience.

Back to my day ,it was very good ,push the guys hard and spent a very nice day watching the sun come up and also setting on a big job ....going to bed happy ...lifes good .....paul

Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 204 ) on Sep-22-07 at 19:10:27 PDT   Listings
Alec Please check your ebay messages Lynn
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Sep-22-07 at 18:37:42 PDT   Listings
JAY----Your right ,he will quickly run into trouble or he is just looking to start something,I don't know who he is and not interested in what he says unless its philatelic .....paul
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Sep-22-07 at 18:32:53 PDT   Listings
WAIT----A---MINUTE ........SMUDGE THE INK {Larry} ...In the past week I only sent one e-mail and that was to someone who requested a photo scan of the Heligoland stamps that I had up last Sunday .We discussed the different colors and which ones were in the scan.>>>>>>So I don't know what your talking about and im not in the habit of senting e-mails to anybody who is a first time poster who has negative comments so what ever is your motive and adjendure here keep me out of it .....paul
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 18:18:18 PDT   Listings
Re. controversial posts:
all people born and grown in different places can be controversial at the eye of the reviewer inasmuch they have a different culture from that of the reviewer.
The only exception can be the village idiot, and that can be the reviewer as well.

Ergo, IMO the joy of life resides in differences.
The meaning of life is to create and/or appreciate differences.
*Increasing the entropy of the world in the research of order.*
If there appers to be a shortage of differences this can either denounce rudimentary mind frames or extreme sapience, or something inbetween, faking or obfuscated.

Very quite in here!
Paolo (;-) there is definitely a bit of Nip in the air!)
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 17:16:57 PDT   Listings
P.P.S.: if ... my grandmother had a retractable landing gear, she could have saved on av-gas costs!

;-), Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 17:07:55 PDT   Listings
If this is what I think it is...
anyhow, can't wait to receive to check!

NOIP: does anyone have any experience with this seller?
Besides sending the "instant" payment, not having received the Invoice for all the eBay lots I sent them two (2) e-mails. As of today, no reply and no items (but I understand registered mail from Brazil may take a while).

Also, NOTHING from Bulgaria (!) yet (expensive unused Swiss Postage Dues -- to verify).

These delays are funny to me because a German seller from Frankfurt (which is not close to where I live) I won an item from three days ago, has sent the item so fast that I already received it!

On the other hand, as of the last weeks a friendly and competent Mexican seller made me have an item in about one week (the "Luzernerli O")

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 16:49:33 PDT   Listings
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Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 16:46:29 PDT   Listings
Bob in WA,
First of all nice to see you posting.
Secondly, I can't but add my best wishes to Alec on his mother illness.
Unfortunately, I can't honestly bring the warmth of a good exmaple. I lost my mother with that disease, but it was 1995...

Paolo
Posted by rclwa   ( 976 ) on Sep-22-07 at 16:39:01 PDT   Listings
Alec -- My Mom had breast cancer when she was younger than I am now (I'll be 67 in a couple more weeks.) She'll be 89 next January, and she's still kicking (though admittedly not raising as much dust! :-) Listening to a good doctor and ignoring scam snake-oil ''cures'' bodes well these days if it's caught reasonably early.

Bob in WA
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 16:34:25 PDT   Listings
P.S.:
Roger,
I linked your former web-exhibit on two different Italian forums (no chat). However, I didn't check how many hits there were from Italian readers.

Congratulations on a very nice new exhibit!!!

As a side not from me, I still have to encounter the page which I suggested you to do. I will likely have overlooked, my apologies in this case, but I miss the description of the various cancel types.
I beg to accept my modest view that I have few respect whatsoever for philatelic judges who do not encourage specialisation, if that was the case.

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 16:12:18 PDT   Listings
Roger,
I forgot to tell you of one funny episode.
Embarking the Ryanair (= rough landings ;-)) flight on our last journey to Italy, my wife was stopped at the check-point-charley ;-) becaiuse they had detected something from the screening of her hand-bag.
A Swiss knife! She had the Swiss knife I had presented her many years ago in her hand-bag, forgotten there from our former BBQ trip to the camping.
The knife was officially confiscated, but she didn't have any other trouble at the check-in in Eindohoven (NL).
I bet that if she didn't have a Dutch passport, but say a Middle East passport, she would have been stopped for subsequent controls (such as: "abre las biernas! Vuelta!".

Paolo
Posted by malolo   ( 851 ) on Sep-22-07 at 16:01:18 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
Well it looks like certain lurkers look down upon those of us who make a living using both our brains and hands.
I'll write it again. My greatest surprise working for TSA in Kona has been the high level of ability of 95% of the screeners. When I first started, my thought was that nearly all could have been teachers, if they had decided on that path. In the mean time I hope "snotty" comments coming from the balcony show a more intelligent basis for discussion.

Back to philately, or stamp collecting, as the case may be.

Roger
PS:
Tthere have been more hits on my Razor Cancel site this week than ever before. It was only posted on two chat boards and the response has been overwhelming. Maybe it is proof people reading these boards truely wish to see and read all topics of stamp collecting and postal history.
Knud-Erik - I found your post page but couldn't tell how Danes found my site! No links in your post, so how did they do that? BTW -Thanks
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:49:50 PDT   Listings
P.S. fake cancels is another matter.
I have my doubts that somebody would make dirty the 1 lira 'VENEZIA / GIULIA" postage due with a fake cancel.
But, as well as humans are unpredictable, philatelic market situations over the decades are also a parameter.
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 193 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:38:07 PDT   Listings
Good day/evening/night from very sleepy Shoes!

David B. and DC,
Thanks for your analyses of those DCderoo's postage dues.
I do not have genuine reference material for these.
For the 1 lira denomination, the most important piece, since it was printed in only 30 sheets (- 30 x 100 = 3000, with 1 plate of clichés of 100 for the overprints), it would be necessary to have, or know of, at least 30 pieces coming from the 30 different sheets, to begin with.
They were perforated comb 14 sideways, so the centering is similar for all the stamps in a sheet of 100 (10 x 10).

I learned directly from Mr. Raybaudy, who's specialised on Italian Social Republic overprints, that the centering of the rare pieces is always one of the tell tales to keep in consideration.

Due to the amount of un-overprinted stamps I have, in theory I should be able to plate the 1 lira with carmine numeral. But unfortunately I still have to deepen that subject: actually, with a very few exceptions in the sheet, most of the stamps in the sheet look pretty identical.

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by jaywild   ( 995 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:32:03 PDT   Listings
portraits-n-paper… Not to pick nits, but how did you spend 24 years in the printing industry without knowing that magenta is one of the primary process colors while red is not? If you want violet to appear in your finished separation you will print cyan and then magenta on top of it. (The proper process sequence is yellow-cyan-magenta, followed by black and whatever else.)

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 995 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:20:09 PDT   Listings
stamphick… Not to mention the trees murdered to print the catalog…

Jim
Posted by esc917   ( 354 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:15:08 PDT   Listings
Oh well. Thanks Jim. Back to sorting.

And infla-alec: A cousin, aunt and great-aunt had breast cancer and they beat it, having been caught early. My great aunt was in her sixties and my cousin in her twenties. Not an easy time but sounds like your family will give her and your father the support they need.
Posted by jaywild   ( 995 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:14:38 PDT   Listings
portraits-n-paper… The $1 Woodrow Wilson stamp from the prexie series was not printed as a color separation. It was run twice through the press—once for the black and once for the violet.

You can leach the magenta out of printed violet ink with an application of bleach, which would leave behind a blue that would be more or less cyan in this case. Scott does not list such a variety for the $1 Wilson prexie, nor am I aware that color trials were printed in those colors, and it is just not possible that a valid example, if one exists, hasn’t turned up in the 70 years since the stamp was first printed. If you have seen such a stamp you saw what is known as a changeling. They are not valuable, in fact I don’t know of anyone who collects them, because this sort of color change is considered a grievous fault, because it usually has been induced by someone with a nefarious aim in mind.

Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:09:35 PDT   Listings
Not only can they be found on eBay but I just got a slick magazine printed at huge cost by eBay that pictured them and told me how to find one.
Posted by jaywild   ( 995 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:05:28 PDT   Listings
normajean… The number of people who still like Elvis Presley stamps is vastly outweighed by the number of people who have come to detest them. However they still can be found for sale on eBay.

esc917… Probably not. Sorry.

Jim
Posted by portraits-n-paper   ( 1237 ) on Sep-22-07 at 15:02:01 PDT   Listings
I am conducting a poll trying to locate owners or sellers that have a one dollar Presidential stamp printed in blue.
These were issued in 1938 and reprinted in 1951, both were magenta and had black centers. I have reports of stamps existing printed in blue(cyan)and black. In my 24 years tenure in the printing indusry I can understand this happening as the frame being magenta, it would have been
cyan ink laid down and red over it to impute magenta.
I have seen one of these stamps and it is true cyan.
Does anyone out these have information on this error?
Dealer inquires welcome.
Posted by esc917   ( 354 ) on Sep-22-07 at 14:39:06 PDT   Listings
I know the title Catalog Queen is probably taken, but can I vie for "Stupid Question Queen"? Here's a question for someone both patient and knowledgable.

I have an unopened cover/envelope from 1954. (sent inside Ohio, probably a family member or friend) Is it worth more unopened?
Posted by normajean1940   ( 0 ) on Sep-22-07 at 14:26:45 PDT   Listings
Is there anyone collecting Elvis Postage stamps? I just wondered if there was anyone who still liked them?
Posted by dbenson   ( 8589 ) on Sep-22-07 at 11:50:42 PDT   Listings
dcderoo,

re the Egypt Due,

include it in a collection of forgeries,

postal,

yes, RL's Philatelist has excellent reference material on all areas of philately but mainly British Commonwealth and should be in philatelic libraries,

David B.
Posted by 220man   ( 160 ) on Sep-22-07 at 11:41:37 PDT   Listings
infla-alec: My wife and I went through that 12 years ago and she beat it and is doing nicely to this day. Take heart, it can be done!
Phil
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Sep-22-07 at 11:34:00 PDT   Listings
Jim Thanks. As my Mom said at the hospital when you go into the cancer wards you see young kids with, "C" also and that makes you realise that there is always someone worse off than you.
The shock for me was that I never knew it could hit a woman at 70. I always assumed, (wrongly) it was something that hit women up to about the age of 60.
Yes family support is in place and my parents 50th anniversary party in November is still going ahead.
I've spoken at length this past week of course to both parents and they themselves seem quite content if that's the right word. Their generation somehow seems to cope better with everything life throws at them.
Posted by jaywild   ( 995 ) on Sep-22-07 at 11:10:18 PDT   Listings
infla-alec… Good luck to your Mom. I am glad that the trouble was caught in the early stages. What your Mom will need most now is family support, and it sounds as if you’ve already got that in line.

Jim
Posted by infla-alec   ( 561 ) on Sep-22-07 at 10:59:44 PDT   Listings
I apoligize for not being so active this past week on the board but the news of my mother being diagnosed with breast cancer simply knocked me for six. Initially it was a great shock but now I am feeling a bit happier knowing that the big C has been caught early and there is every chance of a full recovery.

Saket Firstly welcome to the world of exhibiting.I am by no means an expert on exhibiting on a thematic theme. But having looked at your exhibit I agree with many of the comments made by Roger.
Yes I do exhibit myself but only in the postal histoty class and that has a whole differet set of rules. However no matter what you exhibit and in what class it is important that your exhibit be almost like a good book. It has to be viewed with a beginning, middle and end.
You obviously have a lot of nice material and exhibit a subject you clearly enjoy.
Over the years you will like many exhibitors have new material to add and change the layout many times. Though the jury critique is meant to be helpful what changes you make (if any) are entirely your own choice.
One thing I found helpful when starting out in exhibiting was to look very carefully at other exhibits in the same class and see what ideas in terms of style, layout etc would enhance my own collection.
I'm not saying you need to change everything everytime someone says, "do this" or "do that". Just change things that you agree will improve the exhibit. I sometimes change one page or so and then get an opinion from other friends on how the changes appear before going the whole hog and spending hours re-mounting etc.
As for the write up part if you have discovered anything new make sure you mention it as you will gain points for original research.
I wish you all the very best for future exhibitions.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3770 ) on Sep-22-07 at 10:42:11 PDT   Listings

Recent addition to my US commemoratives on cover collection. Perhaps Anne or someone can tell me if the TPO is of any signifigance.

friendly-raff
Posted by jaywild   ( 995 ) on Sep-22-07 at 09:56:10 PDT   Listings
smudge… If you’re going to pick fights, at least get the alliances straight before you do. In your last post last night you slapped Roger in Hawaii while cozying up to Paul in Chicago. Since they frequently come down on the same side of the tussles here, if you antagonize one of them while blowing kisses to the other I predict you will quickly run into trouble.

Actually the best thing would be for you to send private messages to those posters you wish to inflame. Frankly I can’t figure out what point it is you are trying to drive home anyway.

And feel free to dump on me if you find it necessary. I have no alliances that can’t be rearranged as dictated by circumstances.

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(Er—that was a smiley face, in case you are using an incompatible browser.)

Jim
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1698 ) on Sep-22-07 at 07:20:42 PDT   Listings
Naturally I get suspicious of any stamp in my collection that has significant catalogue value and I can't connect it to a trusted source.
According to Scott there are LOTS of good forgeries of this stamp.

I need an opinion.

Egypt J14

Posted by saketb   ( 49 ) on Sep-22-07 at 07:10:59 PDT   Listings
Dear Roger,

Thanks a lot for your suggestions... Its very difficult for one to judge his own exhibit, unless he himself is the authority.

I really like the points what you have pointed out, I shall take them positivly into the exhibit.

Thanks one again.

Saket Bajaj.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3770 ) on Sep-22-07 at 06:28:22 PDT   Listings

David B. - at a recent show I traded with the dealer next to me for about 150 of Robson Lowe's THE PHILATELIST. Among Commonwealth collectors, is there much interest in these as library materials? They are a great "short read" with some beautiful and scarce postal history items illustrated on the covers.

book-raff
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1698 ) on Sep-22-07 at 05:50:27 PDT   Listings
I tried looking for foulage (indentation) per Paolo's suggestion, but between
- my lack of experience
- sweated gum or regum
- hinge remnants
I got nowhere.

I also tried to determine what was on top, the overprint or the cancel.
Marginally better success:
- the 30c is probably good
- the 40c is probably bad
- the 1 L is indeterminant.

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1390 ) on Sep-22-07 at 03:15:24 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.

member
Posted by retorix   ( 4 ) on Sep-22-07 at 03:07:03 PDT   Listings
love posting ID's.
let's a person make invalid statements and not be responsible for factual truth.
me thinks smudger jealous of those who live in tropical climes carefully tossing bags full of personal effects,
while he tosses comments full of .....
Posted by dbenson   ( 8589 ) on Sep-22-07 at 01:37:53 PDT   Listings
re. the Albanian Besa overprint. They were applied by the Albanian POost Office to validate stocks in hand, without the overprint were from looted stock.

Paolo, thanks for the encouragement, those overprints are very tricky and there are most probably 100 fakes to 1 genuine even on the commoner values. I don't like the 20c. and there is a problem with the date on the 40c. It looks like 11.19 which would be very late usage whilst if it was 11.18 would be too early to be genuine,

David B.
Posted by sayasan   ( 720 ) on Sep-22-07 at 00:21:27 PDT   Listings
smudger - Still not sure what your point was exactly. Not convinced that you are, either.
Posted by 22028   ( 1651 ) on Sep-21-07 at 23:39:59 PDT   Listings
Larry, see it like this, Paul aka stamps12345 is one of the more controversial posters here..., in Germany we have a saying "A crawl never scratches the eye out from another crawl"...
Posted by smudger_the_ink   ( 1 ) on Sep-21-07 at 23:19:39 PDT   Listings
sayasan

Well it seems that there are many who can post to this board with a posting ID. You may not like but who cares.The same for the baggage handler in the palm trees.

stamps12345 Thank you Paul for your email of support. You are right in what you say about some other people here.

Larry
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Posted by vonbag   ( 191 ) on Sep-21-07 at 19:24:12 PDT   Listings
DC,
Even though it is tough to judge an overprint, sometimes even in the flesh, to me they all would appear to be OK. But wait for D2's opinion, who's certainly handled several of these overprinted postage dues (I recall tha some years ago I bid on a 1 lira offered by him, but was outbid).
I would suggest to begin with checking the foulage (indentation) left by letterpress overprint on reverse; it is always present in the genuine.
The 1 lira, which is almost always badly centered and with a printing of only 3000 copies, is a very scarce stamp, in used condition especially.

Paolo
Posted by ioloonie   ( 5 ) on Sep-21-07 at 19:14:22 PDT   Listings
WOW wwcrlc2004

THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING INFORMATION I'D GUESS IT MIGHT BE A UNITED STATES STAMP HOWEVER AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT DIDN'T APPEAR ON A 1 CENT STAMP TILL 1908 SO IT'S PROBABLY NOT WORTH VERY MUCH.
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1698 ) on Sep-21-07 at 19:07:36 PDT   Listings
Okay, from my 17:35:45 post what is the value of those revenue stamps?

And I'll add my next questions.
Which of these Austria-Italian Occupation postage dues are real (not fake overprints.)

5 c.
10 c.
20 c.
30 c.
40 c.
50 c.
1 L.
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 484 ) on Sep-21-07 at 19:07:26 PDT   Listings
Also: Today I looked for a job at the new worm cannery that is about to open. I got tired of opening them, so now I'll try the opposite.
European wars will cause arguments for another 1000 years. Please, just don't fight anymore. That's all it takes.
Posted by vonbag   ( 191 ) on Sep-21-07 at 19:04:09 PDT   Listings
Wwcrlc2004,
Congratulations! When you get another one you will have two, and so on, 3,4,5... most of us started like this before getting swamped with covers.
I didn't get it from my grandma, but from my uncle.

However, in your case, I presume it is a US postage stamp.
Many readers of this board can be of help to identify and, eventually, evaluate the 1 cent stamp your Grandmother gave you. Already the denomination can be of help; if you perchance remember the colour, it would even be more helpful.
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 191 ) on Sep-21-07 at 18:54:04 PDT   Listings
I see Fufluns never misses a chance to... ehm, stay silent.

To make this philarthritic,