eBay chatboard archive: Sep-24-07 to Sep-30-07 week

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1391 ) on Sep-30-07 at 18:42:46 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Sep-30-07 at 16:47:52 PDT   Listings
Paolo Thanks. Your information is very to the point and useful.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-30-07 at 16:03:12 PDT   Listings
philaweb… But maybe you’re right. I just don’t know that script very well, or Yiddish either!

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-30-07 at 16:00:25 PDT   Listings
philaweb… I thought of that, but the tail of those letters isn’t long enough. In Sütterlin, the “s”, “h” and “f” look very similar to eyes like mine. Indicated here are what each looks like, and the tail of the “f” indicated is pretty substantial. To me the tails of the letters in the word in question are too short.

I also found references on Google showing “habbe” used as a word in Yiddish.

Jim
Posted by webtransact   ( 409 ) on Sep-30-07 at 15:47:04 PDT   Listings
Thank you all for the help. I don't think I will spend the half since it is 90% silver and worth nearly 10x face but now I know the cover itself is of no value. I appreciate it!
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-30-07 at 15:15:53 PDT   Listings
Good day/evening/night from tired Shoes!

Was out for the day and I think I caught a cold.

Jim L and Bill C.,
Thanks for your suggestions!
Bill C., you can use those tidbits of info. as you wish.

Hi Knud-Erik,
Re. the Swiss postage due stamps on your German Postal Card:
Despite they were used in August 1887 (12.VIII.87) I believe they belong to the 11th-12th printing from 1884 (as per Zumstein and Michel Special) with the frames colour in pale green (fahlgrün -- hellgrün per Michel) and the numeral in carmine red (dunkelrosarot per Michel). Used late in the small Post Office of Pontresina.
They both appear to be perfect and have the frames of the II type in inverted position.
The one with the highest cat. value is the 5c.: Mi.Nr.17IIAXbaK, Eur 65,- on cover .

Roger,
Welcome back!
You maybe able to add or correct on K.E. Postal Card (link above and below in Knuden's post on Sep-29-07 at 07:41:44 PDT).

Due2cents,
Sorry, I am not familiar with that instrument.

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Sep-30-07 at 15:14:02 PDT   Listings
webtransact

Have to agree with claggy.

Take the 50c out and spend it.

Though you may be lucky and get some former inmates of Big Spring assylum as bidders.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Sep-30-07 at 15:00:16 PDT   Listings
webtransact Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Value is what two informed buyers are willing to pay for an item. There are very few collectors of last day of issue items. The only buyers would be someone preparing an exhibit or collection of such items. On eBay you would be hard put to recover shipping and listing and PayPal costs on such an item. If that item has any sentimental value to you at all, you are better off keeping it. Otherwise you are likely better off spending the coin and forgetting the rest. To prove me wrong, try to find a similar SOLD item of recent US in COMPLETED eBay auctions which sold for more than a dollar. I looked and found nothing similar, only last day of dead post offices.
Posted by webtransact   ( 409 ) on Sep-30-07 at 14:47:36 PDT   Listings
Hi can anyone tell me rarity or approx book value of 1963 Last Day of Issue Cover with Franklin Half Last Year of Issue as pictured. Thank you

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-9/1216559/P1010178.JPG
Posted by philaweb   ( 290 ) on Sep-30-07 at 14:35:09 PDT   Listings
jaywild Seems to me it is "ich hoffe" (I hope) since the second last word also has two f's as in "neffe" (nephew) Jakob.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 81 ) on Sep-30-07 at 14:05:45 PDT   Listings
MitchellWelcome back sounds like you had a good time. I have just got back from Chile this afternoon, about twice that number of miles sitting on my backside in a triple 7...not fun, 23 hours door to door.
Peter
Posted by dbenson   ( 8603 ) on Sep-30-07 at 13:35:29 PDT   Listings
Jay, don't know, my yiddish is only confined to swear words,

David B.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-30-07 at 13:29:34 PDT   Listings
dbenson… If the German “habe” (have) is “habbe” in Yiddish, then that card is indeed written in Yiddish. There’s a “habbe” right after where I indicate “ich”.

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8603 ) on Sep-30-07 at 12:42:52 PDT   Listings
Knuden,

very nice card and many collectors of Russia & Poland would be salivating if they even knew it existed. There are many specialists looking for interesting destinations and Lodz, Poland to South Africa is Gold Medal collector material.

There is the possibility that it is in Yiddish in German script as the addressee has a Jewish name but it would have to be deciphered first.


David B.
Posted by billsey   ( 849 ) on Sep-30-07 at 12:28:12 PDT   Listings
Thanks Dave, I've fixed that now too. :-)
Posted by figmente   ( 897 ) on Sep-30-07 at 11:29:52 PDT   Listings
Round of "You won ..." ebay messages received this morning no longer have any item description or even item number in the email title. What an awful change, I hope they rescind it. Most of the other (uninteresting) item related messages still have the item number and title.
Posted by nomad55   ( 928 ) on Sep-30-07 at 11:20:27 PDT   Listings
billsey....when you get into the pages with the lot listings, the header at top says 2006.
Posted by billsey   ( 849 ) on Sep-30-07 at 10:46:28 PDT   Listings
Roger thanks a lot for the quick response! You were correct, it looks like one of my 'search & replace's went awry. I've fixed it now.
Posted by malolo   ( 851 ) on Sep-30-07 at 10:35:21 PDT   Listings
Billsey -
After q vewry quick look you need to correct the linking for getting to page 1. When clicking on the "1" at the pot or bottom of the pages, one is sent to incorrect pages ranging from 5 to 7. The only way I could get to page 1 was by inserting a "1" in the URL.

Roger
Posted by billsey   ( 849 ) on Sep-30-07 at 10:04:49 PDT   Listings
It's time for once again the Oregon Stamp Society annual auction. I've done my best in creating the catalog, but would sure like some feedback on the online version.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-30-07 at 09:50:07 PDT   Listings
Io… THNK YOU!!

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Sep-30-07 at 09:45:15 PDT   Listings
Paolo

Use one of these when you fly??

Deadreckoning
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Sep-30-07 at 09:22:25 PDT   Listings
Jim

Congrats on the
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-30-07 at 09:13:30 PDT   Listings
K-E… More on that card. Very tough to decipher that script when it is written in haste.

Jim
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 413 ) on Sep-30-07 at 09:02:28 PDT   Listings
interesting cancel
Posted by keleofa   ( 3535 ) on Sep-30-07 at 08:52:18 PDT   Listings
Ant-Ra,

Mitchell - It's actually been very quiet on this Board the past week or so. Nothing to report. Welcome back!

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-30-07 at 08:50:40 PDT   Listings
oggilby… Not really—although it has a nice clear “Oct 5” there’s no year. If there were a way of inferring the year, that would be different, for example if the stamp were on a letter that mentioned some historic fact that could pin it down.

I once saw on eBay a letter addressed to Millard Fillmore, when he was Comptroller of the State of New York, and could deduce decisively the year the letter was written, 1848. He took that job in late 1847, and resigned from it March 4, 1849 when he was inaugurated as Zachary Taylor’s Vice President. But alas, the letter was postmarked “Oct 3”, which was of no use to me…

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-30-07 at 08:39:33 PDT   Listings
knuden… I think your Russian card is written in German—here I have isolated a couple words that popped out upon a casual glance. It’s written in the maddening Sütterlin script, which bears only an oblique relation to Latin script.

Very nice item though…

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Sep-30-07 at 08:30:54 PDT   Listings
Greetings...... Returned last night from 17 day 4,400 mile road/camping trip.
I trust everyone has behaved themselves in my absence.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Sep-30-07 at 06:53:23 PDT   Listings
K-E

Nice card thanks for posting it.
Posted by knuden   ( 2359 ) on Sep-30-07 at 06:40:33 PDT   Listings
Another nice find.

A Russian message? card sent to Johannesburg in South Africa in 1914. The reciever could not be founs and it was returned with cancels on both front and back. :O)

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 485 ) on Sep-30-07 at 04:57:56 PDT   Listings
Fixit51, your local library should have a copy of SCOTT catalogues, that will assist with stamp identification.
Broadly speaking, over time, cheap stamps remain cheap and expensive stamps remain expensive. A collection put together by a school boy, no matter how long it is kept, stays a school boy collection, with little commercial value, just a lot of fun and memories for the collector. So, unless significant money was spent to buy individual better value stamps, your collection is most likely only going to have an interest value, rather than a Dollar value.
There are of course, some exceptions to this, but they are few and far between.
Maybe dust off the collection, and get interested in stamps again? It is a great hobby and one which can be persued even today with little cash outlay.

Linda
Posted by philaweb   ( 290 ) on Sep-30-07 at 03:19:41 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by oggilby   ( 1231 ) on Sep-29-07 at 22:24:23 PDT   Listings
Jaywild--Does this qualify as item of interest to you?

Hello to all from a cool (54 F) early Sunday morn in Central MD., where the Frostburg State Bobcats (my alma mater) are off to another losing season!
Posted by fix-it51   ( 104 ) on Sep-29-07 at 21:48:19 PDT   Listings
Hi! I have a stamp album I started around 50 years ago. My mother helped me for a couple of years putting the stamps in the album. There have been no new additions since then and the album has followed me over the years. I followed a link from here: http://www.theswedishtiger.com/usstamps/intro.htm
I clicked on the green color and I was able to identify a few common stamps but have several not identified. I need help. Can you please direct me to someone that can evaluate my collection? I am in southern Illinois.

I hope I can find my way back to this site; I'm not computer literate.
Posted by malolo   ( 851 ) on Sep-29-07 at 21:46:52 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
Back from Maui, older and poorer. LOL Quick response to Pro.

Re: "De Coppett & Doremus early 1900's up to about 1929 or so".
I also found those names when researching deCoppet. The company was in the brokerage business until 1929 or so, which replicates you research findings. Hmmm, let's think why 1929 is a significant date for a brokerage company! )'>)
I don't think they were involved in cancelers.

Roger
PS: Maui pictures to come tomorrow sometime, now to bed!
Posted by dragonstamps   ( 484 ) on Sep-29-07 at 19:41:16 PDT   Listings
Yeah, the trick in collecting stamps that will make money is to collect what no one else does. If a million people collect a "limited edition" book like that, (Hey, I got one of those books in a bulk lot once. I still have it:)
chances are there will be a million people trying to sell, and everyone else shaking their heads no.
Though I have seen that book approach $100 on here....I was just checking to see what mine might be worth.
Posted by nomad55   ( 928 ) on Sep-29-07 at 16:34:32 PDT   Listings
As jaywild said, there's little to no philatelic value in those covers at all, nor is there any metallic value in the gold. The gold was electroplated onto a (most probably) copper-based foil replica of the stamp, with a plating thickness that can be measured in microns. Total gold value of everything in that lot is probably less than a dollar.

Stuff like this is marketed to the unknowing masses via the sunday newspaper magazine section or ads in other magazines. The target market has zero philatelic knowledge and is looking for an "instant heirloom" or equivalent.

Value of such a cover is 75 cents to a buck each, if you can find a buyer.
Posted by thines   ( 1506 ) on Sep-29-07 at 16:01:10 PDT   Listings
Jaywild,

Well said.

Terry

Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Sep-29-07 at 13:27:37 PDT   Listings
Razor Roger

Do You Know (or care) If De Coppett and Doremus
two famous names in postal devices were ever in any
kind of partnership.

While looking thru a bunch of olde stock certificates
today I noticed a batch that were issued to De Coppett & Doremus early 1900's up to about 1929 or so.

The two names that I recognized used together
just made me want to ask.

They were in the 4-6 dollar range so I No buy Unless
there is a connection . And Then I'll just get one for
The novelty/postal device connection.

Thanks
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-29-07 at 12:16:33 PDT   Listings
thines… That Postal Commemorative Society lot (here) is probably only clumsily worded. I think his intent is to send the covers free insured via UPS anywhere in the US, but will charge for shipment elsewhere.

There’s a terrible object lesson in that lot though, that everyone here already knows—anything marketed as “collectible†will only cause your hard-earned money to collect in someone else’s bank account. “Investment opportunity†is what the Postal Commemorative Society will have once it has its hands on your cash. The only value that huge binder of stuff has now is possible melt value of the gold, and I’m sure the thinnest foil possible was used in producing those “stampsâ€.

Jim
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 412 ) on Sep-29-07 at 10:38:23 PDT   Listings
Paolo Thanks for the informative Sardinia info. Maybe I will use it some day.

Regarding the PayPal extra fees, I just add it into the postage or insurance fees and use the Ebay payment. That way eBay shows I paid and the seller gets the fee. I send a note to the seller explaining how the extra fee was paid.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 412 ) on Sep-29-07 at 10:35:21 PDT   Listings
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Posted by knuden   ( 2358 ) on Sep-29-07 at 07:41:44 PDT   Listings
vonbag - Hi Paolo


Today I recieved this German Postal card sent Poste Restante to Ponteresina in Switzerland 1887. It has 2 (this) (this) postage due stamps for paying the Poste Restante Fee. Can you tell me more about these??

K.E  I'm a silly little man - whoopee!!
Posted by philaweb   ( 289 ) on Sep-29-07 at 07:17:08 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1390 ) on Sep-29-07 at 06:54:16 PDT   Listings
Paolo (vonbag)
You'd do all a favor by forwarding copies of the sellers email to PayPal.
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-29-07 at 06:12:02 PDT   Listings
Jim (Jaywild),
Thank you for your prompt response and suggestions!
The seller is located in the USA;
however, this time I already paid for that 1 cover (a few days ago).
I will certainly do as you kindly suggested, should it happen to me again.

Best, Paolo
Posted by thines   ( 1506 ) on Sep-29-07 at 05:51:53 PDT   Listings
Maybe I'll get it right the THIRD time! The Postal Commemmorative Society lot is 320160900043 (3 zeros).

Terence the typographically challenged.

Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-29-07 at 05:28:30 PDT   Listings
Paolo… Unless the seller is in the UK, it is illegal to add a surcharge onto a PayPal payment. Tell the seller this, and suggest that you will contact PayPal and forward his message to them, and then use the Checkout system to pay for your lot. This usually brings them to their senses.

Jim
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1390 ) on Sep-29-07 at 03:36:57 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all


Jim (iomoon)
I hope you’ve had a happy birthday.

Jim L.

member
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-29-07 at 03:15:04 PDT   Listings
Terence H.,
The search for "32016090043" yields 0 results.
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-29-07 at 02:58:59 PDT   Listings
Jim (IO),
You are always welcome!
It is about one year I don't hear from Maarten, he must be very busy with his work/research.

NOIP: a few days ago I received an invoice for an eBay item
in which there was this following request:

"For buyers prefer using paypal, please add 3% to your total. Please go to
www.paypal.com and make direct to our account: XXXXXXXXXX.net. Please do
not use eBay's "Check Out" and/or "Pay Now" button for paypal payment."

I followed the instructions as usual, but encountered the following problems, which I told the seller about:
I paid with PayPal for the eBay Item XXX159631XXX described as
"........................"
(link)
following your instructions precisely, I've gone to PayPal site and selected send payment to XXXXXXXXXX.net).
I could not select payment for "eBay item", because the page requires item # and then gives a FIXED total of US$39.50, to which it cannot be added the 3% fee.
Therefore, I had to select "Goods".

Problems, apart from having to pay 3% on the total:
both on the eBay page of the item and on 'my eBay' it looks like as if I still have to pay for the item.

Is this procedure regular? (I think not).

TIA,
Paolo
Posted by jimbo   ( 411 ) on Sep-28-07 at 20:10:55 PDT   Listings
tomraine,
Scroll down the page to the Yellow Box at Sep-25-07 at 06:15:34 PDT. There is a whole page of recommended articles for someone who wants to know about selling a stamp collection under "Links for New and Non-Collectors". Take a look and come back if you have more specific questions.

digitalspyders,
Hello, to you, too. I'm just passing through.

jimbo
Posted by stamps12345   ( 223 ) on Sep-28-07 at 20:08:11 PDT   Listings
TONIRAINE-----YES,sold a few and purchased many .What do you mean by collection can you describe it .
Posted by digitalspyders   ( 98 ) on Sep-28-07 at 19:57:20 PDT   Listings
Hello?
Posted by toniraine   ( 51 ) on Sep-28-07 at 19:29:00 PDT   Listings
Is anyone there that knows about selling a stamp collection?
Posted by thines   ( 1506 ) on Sep-28-07 at 17:55:35 PDT   Listings
My mistake - the lot for the Postal Commemorative Society group is 32016090043.

Terence Hines

Posted by thines   ( 1506 ) on Sep-28-07 at 17:46:59 PDT   Listings
Cheers and jeers,

A big cheer to a really honest seller who responds to input. Check out 140162666477. He's offering an imperf between pair of 901a, the imperf. between pair. But his scan clearly shows at least one perf. hole. When I notified him of this, he added my comment to his listing. So now buyers will be able to judge for themselves.

A jeer to 150165642943. When I first saw this listing I was sorry for yet another sucker who wasted money on the crap from the Postal Commemorative Society. But look at the listing - at first it offers free shipment. But down below the buyer is asked to contact the seller to get information on a DISCOUNT shipping charge. Hey - if shipment is free, what's to discount????

Terence Hines

Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Sep-28-07 at 16:25:05 PDT   Listings
Thank you Paolo

May we both get old together.
I hope to revisit with you one day to see how your collection of stamps (not cats) has progressed.
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-28-07 at 15:38:23 PDT   Listings
Good day/evening/night from nightly Shoes!

David B. and Due2cents,
Thank you for your very kind comments!

Sheryll,
Thanks! I hope all is fine!

Jim (IO),
One hundred of these posts (so we both get old ;-):
Happy birthday to you!

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Sep-28-07 at 15:21:34 PDT   Listings
And Peter!!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Sep-28-07 at 15:16:55 PDT   Listings
Sheryll & Colin

Many thanks.

Nothing to fix that I can see.
Great photos.

I especially liked Crater Lake since there was fog from the rim to water level the only time I have been there.

Here are some photos of the Chinese equivalent, Baitoushan.

Eastern Oregon is much like west Texas, except lacking in cacti.
Posted by sheryll*net   ( 91 ) on Sep-28-07 at 14:47:04 PDT   Listings
Io - Wishing you a very happy birthday. For your present, I have made up webpages of some of the volcanic formations of central Oregon (see Aug 21-24). Any corrections appreciated.

Paolo - Greetings to you!

S2
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Sep-28-07 at 14:00:20 PDT   Listings
I said "battleship" but it actually was a cruiser.
Posted by 220man   ( 161 ) on Sep-28-07 at 13:58:53 PDT   Listings
USS Pueblo.

This is apparently the 1917 Pueblo, an ex-battleship originally christened USS Colorado. Evidently did duty off Mexico during WWI, see http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/USS_Colorado.html


Phil
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-28-07 at 13:35:52 PDT   Listings
NOIP… I love this military form letter. There’s a check box for “Loveâ€â€”talk about personal and heartfelt!

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-28-07 at 13:27:09 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Jeez, I hope I never get so decrepit I need butt hinges (see lot description).

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-28-07 at 13:10:42 PDT   Listings
NOIP… For children who really misbehave…

☺

Jim
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 81 ) on Sep-28-07 at 12:44:51 PDT   Listings
Happy birthday Jim! and many more of them.
Peter
Posted by dbenson   ( 8600 ) on Sep-28-07 at 12:35:34 PDT   Listings
thines,

I used to know the answer to that but I forgot,

David B.
Posted by thines   ( 1506 ) on Sep-28-07 at 11:57:01 PDT   Listings
Has Alos Alzheimer (after whom the disease is named) ever been honored on a stamp, piece of postal stationery, by a postmark, etc? I'venot found any such, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist. Thanks,

Terence Hines

Posted by xzephyr   ( 987 ) on Sep-28-07 at 10:27:52 PDT   Listings
IO

Oh, and Happy Birthday Jim! 1 year nearer retirement!

I can recommend it, but after helping my wife to set up a teddies and dolls exhibition I slept the clock round!

Colin the exhausted

Posted by xzephyr   ( 987 ) on Sep-28-07 at 10:25:45 PDT   Listings
NOIP

Would anyone have the patience to download all these scans for a low value lot – actually I assume it is low value as I didn’t have the patience to look at more than 4 scans!


this lot

Colin the impatient
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Sep-28-07 at 10:14:06 PDT   Listings
Thanks Jim & Burt.

Librans rule!!!
Posted by oggilby   ( 1231 ) on Sep-28-07 at 09:45:07 PDT   Listings
A great big Texas Howdy & Happy Birthday to Volcanologist Io/Jim!
Posted by poppadawg   ( 735 ) on Sep-28-07 at 09:35:05 PDT   Listings
Since the item did not meet his reserve price and thus was not sold, no final value fee was incurred.
Posted by poppadawg   ( 735 ) on Sep-28-07 at 09:33:04 PDT   Listings
Abelstamps: It cost him 20¢ to list it, 75¢ for extra pictures and a reserve fee of $4.80. It is now relisted with a BIN of $249,000
Posted by abelstamps   ( 1502 ) on Sep-28-07 at 08:27:38 PDT   Listings
What was the seller's fee on this auction?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220152441106&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:12
Doesn't the seller pay the selling fee on the amount of a reserve auction?
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-28-07 at 07:44:36 PDT   Listings
jimbo… One must bear in mind that swedishtiger’s listed prices that stamps have sold for on eBay are not for verified examples. Also, it must be said that his color examples of the Scott 70 and 78 Washington 24¢ stamp are at odds with reality. He has the steel blue (70b) and violet (70c) correct, but I cannot agree with or support his other examples.

Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1004 ) on Sep-28-07 at 07:35:37 PDT   Listings
Io…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Jim
Posted by jimbo   ( 411 ) on Sep-28-07 at 04:51:16 PDT   Listings
candidofan,
You might try this excellent resource: US stamps - the complete pictorial and price guide - US Stamp Prices provided by the swedishtiger. As it says, it covers only US stamps. Another alternative is to troll through eBay. It will provide many current market prices since in many cases, eBay is the market.

jimbo
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1390 ) on Sep-28-07 at 04:41:56 PDT   Listings
Greetings
and an Indiana "Good Morning"
to you all

Jim L.

member
Posted by philaweb   ( 289 ) on Sep-28-07 at 03:21:00 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!

T.G.I.F.
Posted by candidofan   ( 1093 ) on Sep-27-07 at 22:59:28 PDT   Listings
Is there a online price guide for stamps ?
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Sep-27-07 at 19:56:57 PDT   Listings
Paolo

I too would like to thank you for the Informative Posts

I have printed them out and added to my
" Invaluable Lessons From the Chat Room Board"


Posted by dbenson   ( 8600 ) on Sep-27-07 at 19:35:28 PDT   Listings
Paolo,

thanks for your informative comments, I am learning more about Sardinia with every one of your posts, you should be congratulated for the immense amount of knowledge shown by your postings,

David B.
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-27-07 at 19:23:36 PDT   Listings
... and here (warning, again) is a little tidbit on three types of forged effigy (A,B,C), illustrated at the top of the page, compared one by one in order (A,B,C) below with the two main types (I, II) of genuine effigies (repeated on the right in the pictures A, B, C).
The type B is the most insidious!

Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-27-07 at 19:11:12 PDT   Listings
... just a little addition on the colour of the paper.
Since it may have passed unread for its partial lack of articles, I have to repeat mine of Sep-24-07 at 14:38:38 PDT with a few additions:
Cohn "reprint" with genuine.
Those of Cohn's were called "reprints" by some authoritative philatelists of the past.
They are FORGERIES, in reality, since Cohn in Berlin, like also Moens in Belgium (he did some serious damage on Roman States field), just printed 'fac simile' deriving from a duplication (galvano, or electro) of an original composition of cliché which had been duplicated at its turn.
Forgery is in Lithography, original at right is Typographed (it is a full sheet of Italy 1862 perforated issue in the colour similar to that that Cohn wanted to imitate: dark indigo with violet overtones.
1. Paper is always yellowish in the forgery. It can show a regular frame when observed in translucency.
The genuine never shows a frame in the paper.
The paper is not yellowish in the genuine.
Other differences -- see below -- but of relatively minor importance from a small image in the internet.
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-27-07 at 18:57:28 PDT   Listings
Just for general information's sake, since I'm on a roll:
Of the IV Issue of Sardinia, Cohn only printed the 5c., the 20c. and the 40c. values.
He made it in Berlin around 1889-90.
They can be found with or without perforations.
With perfs., which according to some were added later, they purport to be the Italy 1862 Issue, but either the perforations type and the gauge are wrong (the genuine can be plated from the configuration of the perforations, which weer obtained with a unique comb down the sheet, 11.5 x 12)
Here they are:
1. 5cent.
220 cent.
3.40 cent.

They are commented enough in this post of mine here on Set 26, 2006 1:43 pm (warning! Page in Italian!)
In red are pointed a few of the obvious features that distinguish them from the original according to the work of Carlo Lajolo. There are only a few mistakes in the old work, and maybe a few are the result of these forgeries being retouched after the work of the author was generously edited...
The paper is totally different from the genuine, yellowish and can show a frame in translucency, as well as the colour and the embossing.
They are VERY easily recognisable, even from a small image, by everybody who is a serious collector or a honest seller....
and more and I won't add.

Paolo

Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1390 ) on Sep-27-07 at 18:33:04 PDT   Listings
member
Posted by billsey   ( 849 ) on Sep-27-07 at 17:40:13 PDT   Listings
Thanks all for your kind words. Georgia and I had a relaxing couple of days at Bonneville Hot Springs Resort and Spa. I then headed back down to the coast and she went back to work in The Dalles. I'm now back in The Dalles for the weekend, I'll be supervising some movers tomorrow as we get the last of her things moved from the apartment to the house. Moving my stuff (two storage units full) will happen a bit more gradually, except stamp boxes (which need to get moved before the rainy weather sets in) which I'm hoping to move next weekend.
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-27-07 at 17:30:06 PDT   Listings
among else: "extremne" = extreme
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-27-07 at 17:28:07 PDT   Listings
Jim (IO),
The one in the auction shows a minimum shift to the right-hand side of the colour green grey (engraved), in relation to the rose lilac background (rotary press, showing the screening clearly as it is one of the first printings).
If you look along the right edge of that stamp, you can notice that the roof of the house (or is that a barn? ;-) on the extremne right sticks out of a fraction of millimeter on the right in relation to the ideal line drawn along the vertical right edges of the purplish colour.


Paolo (who wouldn't mind such presents either ;-) but, alas, I do not even dream of it!)
Posted by iomoon   ( 1054 ) on Sep-27-07 at 16:46:48 PDT   Listings
Paolo

I don't see any color shift.

Perhaps if the seller had included a non color-shift stamp, it might be more obvious.

Mark

I don't mind expensive birthday presents!!! :-)
Posted by vonbag   ( 195 ) on Sep-27-07 at 16:18:28 PDT   Listings