eBay chatboard archive: Oct-08-07 to Oct-14-07 week

Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-14-07 at 22:04:47 PDT   Listings
Flying out tomorrow to Boston for a stamp auction on Thursday.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 21:46:35 PDT   Listings
Lindy… Who says stoners never accomplish anything????

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Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 21:30:54 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Speaking of helicopters, my nephew made it safely out of Iraq last month, having completed a year’s tour of duty. He was promoted to captain upon his arrival in Germany, where he will be on hand for the birth of his first child, a daughter, due in December.

He won’t be redeployed anywhere for the next eighteen months, provided of course we don’t find ourselves in another war somewhere. I figure if that doesn’t happen in the next 15 months we’ll be home free.

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I won this lot tonight. I don’t have a 19¢ prexie on card or cover, and even though this isn’t a solo it is a very unusual “3rd class mail—material for planting” usage. Since there is no date it was either an 8 pound-10 ounce package of “grape cuttings” (as noted on tag) if mailed before January 1, 1949, or a 5 pound-12 ounce package if mailed between January 1 1949 and December 31, 1951.

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-14-07 at 20:40:32 PDT   Listings
not only well done Ducatti, but well done to young Australian Rider Casey Stoner who rode his Ducatti to victory in the Australian GP and who is this years WORLD CHAMPION!


Linda

Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-14-07 at 19:03:44 PDT   Listings
Billsey, sometimes it's very hard to distinguish the handstrucks from the plate printed and even though it looks like plate printed there may have been some bidders who thought it was handstruck,

David B.
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-14-07 at 18:37:46 PDT   Listings
Mr. Ra--Raised a MO Synod Lutheran (as conservative as one can get), the freah air of the Unitarians makes me participate more in giving back to society and those less fortunate than myself, there are no caveats to this as found in most other varieties. Of course though, we do have our "nut cases" but all are tolerated. As the mystic said in "Poltergiests", "Come to the light, All are welcome"

Yes, the 9-11 lack of air traffic over my area was quite eerie, except for the occasional fighter jets!
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 18:09:34 PDT   Listings
Paolo… Very interesting about the Ducati engineering! I am always interested in motorcycle developments. The new 4-cylinder design is somewhat like the old Honda Sabre 1100, which was very, very fast and also fired two cylinders at a time. (See here for a thrown-together schematic drawing.)

The new 4-cylinder will sound very different from the “2-banger”, which has a very distinctive roar. I am very interested to see one of the new types on the road, in maybe a year or so.

Jim
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-14-07 at 17:49:31 PDT   Listings
Burt I remember that silent "sky day" when all the palnes stopped flying, 9-11. I live in a flight corridor from KCI to Houston and parts south. On 9-11 after the skies had stilled, in the mid day. There was a plane booking straight North (Neb). I could only think of rats leaving the proverbial sinking ship.

When you posted last night about your dinner gathering, I first read Urantians not Unitarians. I have to say I am a fan of both groups. All religions will soon get around to the Unitarian comprehensive view. I just wish they would stop wasting time...........It's all the same..........
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-14-07 at 17:05:11 PDT   Listings
Yep Paolo!! I'm also in line with the Pres's route to his mountain get away (Camp David) & I see his 'copters flying by on weekends. We also have an Army Reserve base nearby (an old Nike Missle base) and see the occasional Chinook flying by. Plus, the local County Airpark is a mile away, lots of action there! The sky's are busy over the Smith household.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:58:56 PDT   Listings
"Soesterberg" = Shoes,

Sorry for typo's!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:55:02 PDT   Listings
Hi Burton,
About 2 nm (nautical miles) in line of air from where I live, there is the military airport of Sosterberg/
Helicopters (specially the Chinook, just a modified version of old the Boeing Vertol, two large rotors in serie) can be louder than aircraft!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:31:26 PDT   Listings
Still for Motorcycles on stamps (or Motorcycles passing over stamps ;-) aficionados,
here is Filippo's web page.
It includes him at his work table (below on page) and him with his team of Doctors in engineering.

Giampaolo
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:29:22 PDT   Listings
Jaywild--Yep!! I'm looking for more from incoming mail!

Paolo--Past your bed time? All planes from here to Europe are passing over my humble abode, heading NE for the next two hours, 777's ,340's, 767's and the occasional antique 747.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:18:55 PDT   Listings
Ach! Sorry for link accident. Link works, though.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:15:46 PDT   Listings

Grande Filippo!

Before he had the unfortunate accident on the Paris-Dakar and was temporarily (I hope) constrained on a wheel chair, I was driven by him from Bologna to Terontola, through the Futa pass (Tuscan-Emilian Appenines) with his mythical Yamaha 350 RD.
Great memories!

At that time I was Giampaolo Bagagaliari.
With this name I greet you, and In Hoc Signo Vinces!

Yours, Giampaolo Bagagliari
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 16:03:31 PDT   Listings
Only for who collects motorcycles on stamps ;-),
My special congratulations go to the genious I mentioned some days ago right here on this board, for having won, as chief engineer of Ducati racing team, the world championship!
Paolo
Posted by figmente   ( 898 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:59:47 PDT   Listings
oops, I was looking at 2006 catalog, I think they've since corrected the discrepancy.
Posted by figmente   ( 898 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:38:03 PDT   Listings
Paul - Burundi 589-601 and a's really do go well over 1,000 $ as a key wwf item. I noticed blocks of four featured in a b&m auction catalog not very long ago, I think they were estimated at 5500, don't know the results. I think theres an inaccuracy in Scott's listing however - virtually all the value is in the top value (85fr hyena); evidently a lot of short sets were distributed.
I have no idea why many of the other sets seem to actually sell pretty high, much of it looks really about as junky as the sand dune stuff. Perhaps guilt by assosciation.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:28:05 PDT   Listings
Jan (filkom),
I missed the part when you went through the shooting star!
Congratulations on your flawless feedback!!!
If you happen to have contact with him, please introduce my greetings also to G. van Turnhout.
Greetings!
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:17:24 PDT   Listings
P.S. this constant plate flaw (the upper frame cut above the NW ornament) on the common 5c. Issue I showed is never found on the rare (in unused condition) previous printings in slightly or totally different colours, paper type (macroscopic aspect and thickness to be measured with micrometer), printing quality (consistence of ink, wear of plate), embossing type, gum type (plate I, three different compositions of clichés, all from good to rare in unused condition).
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-14-07 at 15:04:26 PDT   Listings
Due2cents,
I decided not to go through the Byzantine eBay mail system, I don't even know if I can send links.
As you can see from here (thanks to tinypic.com for hoisting ;-) my images), the ones I linked yesterday are all position 17 (fourth row, the second stamp from the left).

Paolo

Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:30:38 PDT   Listings
Miss Lindy… That’s OK! A very lovely card from you did just fine.

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Jim
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:27:44 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Today’s winning laughable scam email title—

“Thanks, a girl to be yours in here found!”

Jim
Posted by billsey   ( 851 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:22:09 PDT   Listings
Can anyone explain this realization? Is the yellow color particularly rare or is this some special variety? Note that the three original gum examples that this seller had for offer at the same time went for closer to $15 each.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-14-07 at 14:06:25 PDT   Listings
Y.W. Jim, hardest part was finding the fuchsia pen!

Unfortunately, no commercial mail from Oct.5 came my way :(

Linda
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 13:09:02 PDT   Listings
nomad55… Sorry! I didn’t see your earlier message.

I don’t know what happened. Did you send it to Jim Baughman, P O Box six-nine-one-seven-four-seven, West Hollywood CA, nine-zero-zero-six-nine?

Actually it will be a nice item with a No-such-address label…

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I hope Burt & Sheryll & Lindy got my birthday thank-yous from the board…

Jim
Posted by malolo   ( 856 ) on Oct-14-07 at 12:47:50 PDT   Listings
Aloha -
Ironman orld Championships are over for another year. An Aussie won the men's race, and a Pom won the women's. It was probably the quietest day of the year at the airport, locals who wanted out of town left Friday, and everyone else stayed at home. Next couple of days will see 1500 athletes and their bicycles leaving town through our checkpoints to the whole world. I'm off three days this week, more time for stamps. Heh, heh,

I have 11 snipes set in four differnet currencies: US$, GB£, Euros €, and Swiss francs. With the different exchange rates one must remember the currency one is using in each auction. I'm still acheapskate, but I do want to win a few of them. I might even up my snipe later this week according to perceived interest by others!

Roger
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-14-07 at 11:49:51 PDT   Listings
Pul, it's a philatelic fake, probably late 1930's. Is it watermarked,

David B.
Posted by filkomstamps   ( 12466 ) on Oct-14-07 at 11:23:00 PDT   Listings
Thanks Jim, Matt and Terence for the usefull info about that cover. I wonder how this cover landed here in Belgium, probably it will be soon back in the States.

HiJim

Jan
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-14-07 at 10:42:14 PDT   Listings
Pro

I responded.

Rainer

Don't know.
It's a fairly common English name.

Hi Jan!
Posted by summerg64   ( 249 ) on Oct-14-07 at 10:37:30 PDT   Listings
billsey,
Thanks for the info, I found it useful. Summer
Posted by nomad55   ( 930 ) on Oct-14-07 at 10:10:33 PDT   Listings
jaywild....please see my message of Oct-13-07 at 14:52:01 PDT
Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 07:37:06 PDT   Listings
NOIP… Talk about unnecessary blather. All this information for a cover priced at $5.

Jim
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-14-07 at 07:33:34 PDT   Listings
NEAT FIND Here is something of interest .The high value is a fake but I don't have any information that a fake was made .In the scan is a real stamp for comparison .Now I need info if its a philatelic fake or a postal fake with a real cancel ? Forgery......paul
Posted by keleofa   ( 3551 ) on Oct-14-07 at 07:01:10 PDT   Listings
Filkom,

To add to what Jim & Terence supplied, this is the free-franker:

Robert L. Henry, Texas-Democrat
Chairman, Rule Committee, US House of Representatives, 63rd Congress, 1914

Matt in Arizona
Posted by thines   ( 1509 ) on Oct-14-07 at 06:58:54 PDT   Listings
MC stands fr Member of Congress and the person who signed the cover (the signature is probably printed) was a member of the US House of Representatives. House members, as well as US senators, had the franking privilege which ment that they could send mail postage free. But their signature, or a printed copy of it, had to be on the envelope. The cover has only minimal value.

Terence Hines

Posted by jaywild   ( 1007 ) on Oct-14-07 at 06:43:11 PDT   Listings
filkom… “MC” stands for Member of Congress, all of whom had free franking privileges. The signature at the upper right is printed on the cover, whereas earlier, in the 19th Century, the actual signature would be present.

E. M. House was a formidable figure in early 20th Century American politics. See also here.

Jim
Posted by filkomstamps   ( 12466 ) on Oct-14-07 at 06:35:21 PDT   Listings
<body>

 

 



Hopefully somebody can inform me a little more about this stampless cover :



Col. E.M. House Cover


What's the meaning of the initials M.C. in the top corner, also why is there
a signature on the cover (     any idea who signed this
cover).


Also what would the proper category to list this ( is it valuable ?) . A
quick google search learned the Col. E.M. House was the


chief advisor to President Wilson during WW I


 


Greetings from Belgium


 


 




 



</body>
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-14-07 at 03:17:11 PDT   Listings
WORTHLESS STAMPS -----Wife was on my case about the stamp mess in the basement closet before I purchase more stamps .So this weekend I removed a stockbook binder of stamps ,It contains thousands of stamps all modern complete sets of Burundi ,the first thought was the binder is worth a few dollars used and the pictorical modern stuff was 2 cent filler material much like the way I purchased it part of a bulk lot many years ago .

First thing done was match up what was on album pages and fill in a few more pages ,remember this was like mounting labels and stickers nothing to check, nothing of value.Good worldwide collectors have tons of this common worthless stuff ,we just live with it and move on .

After I got finish adding a few pages thought of just forgetting the rest of the binder exist.So looked around e-bay to see how to dump the huge inventory .Surprise surprise the sets sell for a few dollars apiece and many stamps sell for huge prices {huge -meaning the price paid and the price its now selling for },remember this stuff ain't worth 2 cents apiece at a stamp auction but on e-bay it goes for over thousand dollars if listed and sold ,shocking just shocking ....who would pay a buck for a butterfly label oh i mean stamp . That stuff sells and get multiple bids, oh well .....like money in a bank ......paul

Posted by antonius-ra   ( 641 ) on Oct-14-07 at 00:07:56 PDT   Listings
forget that last post, I like Unitarians also.
Posted by 22028   ( 1658 ) on Oct-13-07 at 22:23:08 PDT   Listings
iomoon, Re: Mr. Shoemaker, coincidence, my daughter has a teacher with the same name in here school in Abu Dhabi..., relatives? http://acs.sch.ae
Posted by oggilby   ( 1236 ) on Oct-13-07 at 21:50:25 PDT   Listings
Criminey (sp)! It's 12:43 AM Sun here in MD and the Red Sox vs. Indians game is still being played (into extra innings! Last night I stayed up until nearly 3:00 am this morning (Sat) watching the Diamondbacks/Rockies game. These games start too late (even th East Coast games) to garner any attention except for the die hard fans. It's great timing though for those across the Big Pond who can watch these games with their morning tea & crumpets & bangers!

Off to wash more dishes from tonight's dinner party with my Unitarian friends!
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-13-07 at 21:06:28 PDT   Listings
IO
Did you notice the Meteorite? thread on the collectibles Board,

Ifin you get a chance see if that rock is one ?

The Piece is huge if it is.
Posted by djs127   ( 610 ) on Oct-13-07 at 20:19:41 PDT   Listings
This week Volume 6 of 2007 Scott catalog arrived in the mail Item number: 190156931947. This week I won Volume 2. So now I am just trying to win a 2007 Scott US Specialty catalog.
David Snyder
Posted by lloydstamps   ( 593 ) on Oct-13-07 at 20:14:01 PDT   Listings
The Virtual Stamp Club "front page" has been revised with an exclusive: An article by John Cropper on the Dan Walker APS Appeal postponement, and new Internet & Stamps and John Hotchner columns. Earlier this week, John also posted the first edition of our 2008 U.S. Stamp Program chart. Inside, in the message board, learn about a serious health problem for another American Philatelic Society officer. All free, all at www.virtualstampclub.com
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:55:10 PDT   Listings
Maybe we should have a competition to guess what his name used to be, a few names come to mind already.

D1
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1394 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:54:35 PDT   Listings
purpleandgold23
Thanks for posting the link. Neat cover!!!!!

Jim L.

member
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:53:44 PDT   Listings
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Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:50:01 PDT   Listings
D1

Sorry, I've been watching a program on TV on asteroids, followed by one on comets.

Featuring one of my mentors, Gene Shoemaker.
Who unfortunately died in a road crash in Australia.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:49:11 PDT   Listings
"tset" = Test
Doesn't it sound chines?
Best,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:46:03 PDT   Listings
Prometheus,
Thank you for your kind attention.
Tomorrow (in a few hours) I will send you the right answer by private eBay message.
The one I occasionally picked for the "tset", is the easiest position that can be plated in the sheet of 50 from single copies, throughout the printings from about the end 1862 to 1863 (just about one year, but lots of request of postage stamps from the printer).
All the best,
Paolo
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:44:37 PDT   Listings
Mini Thanks for the correction [where were you IO]

I am not game to ask what his name used to be, was it changed to protect the innocent?

D1
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:38:37 PDT   Listings
D1 by the way.. its STEPHENS, With a PH--- he took his name from the street in Bondi, where he lived in the 70s, when he changed his name to become a 'stamp dealer'
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:34:39 PDT   Listings
If I understand it correctly, this cannot be a comb perforation.
The top left non-stamp has the left side elliptical perf missing and the two upper rows have a different perf to the bottom two rows.

It can't be a line perf since it would have cut the lower stamps in half.

It could be a harrow perf, but would have to be a one-off unless future issues are envisaged with the same arrangement.
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:20:44 PDT   Listings
2c

I do really think if G Stevens stayed out of the threads the board would thrive, in all my posts I never used bad language maybe the odd slang word or two which he did not understand anyway. But on other threads there are bare breasted pictures of women vulgar innuendos, so very sexist etc I note the people who have posted them have not had a ban. But mention G Stevens and your out!

You mention "Childish and infantile sounding whiny I am The rules maker email."

I am inclined to agree, for interest I just went back to the last email GS sent me on 5 Sep 07 which I still have not read through, because it is the length of a short novel, I cut it into word and hit the word count, it came up as 1276 words just to tell me "you are suspended for 30 days". He must have too much time on his hands, who knows.

I even got accused that I had stopped him from making the last mail for the day and he had an order to get out.

D1
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 495 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:14:29 PDT   Listings
due2 you say really tired of him and his buddies disrupting. . . ?? buddies??? he has buddies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I doubt it !

Linda
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Oct-13-07 at 19:09:06 PDT   Listings
1covers yes, I realize experts also rely on general characteristics when expertizing stamps. I can fully understand why an expert committee could be unable to certify the strip of three without the additional information the submitter researched. I didn't view the article as negative toward expertizing.

Paul I just wanted to add information that was in the article, so other readers could judge for themselves what might have been "the real" story.

Bill D.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:38:17 PDT   Listings
Paolo

I would try to plate those stamps
But Plating this one
SEEN-Here
Was such an effort
I am now too worn out to play.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:36:42 PDT   Listings
Time is out for the quiz.

Sorry,
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:25:19 PDT   Listings
"XXI"
Obvious screw up.
arghh, me and the keyboard!

On a different matter, if nobody solves the quiz, I am never going to give the right answer.

Paolo (the snake that bites its tail)
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:19:52 PDT   Listings
Guys, this situation reminds me of a certain forum. I can't be specifical, I could risk to have my throat cut off (only if they catch me when I sleep, I am not like Turtle Head man, pharting out oriental terms, I do have a sword and I can use it), however, I am astonished at how this wealth of philatelic public help offered online for free could degenerate into meager, subtile, calculated private interest. Maybe that is the way things go, in this early XXII century?
Even though I mentioned Machiavelli in one of my posts, I keep his writings far from my philatelic behaviour.
Others seem not to....
Et de hoc satis (= nuff said).

Good continuation,
Paolo
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Oct-13-07 at 18:07:27 PDT   Listings
DE66

Don't feel to0 bad mate

I got kicked off that board BECAUSE I posted a scan that was off center, one that was Upside down, and kept removing the Avatar HE assigned me .

Have not been back. Since his Childish and infantile sounding whiny
I am The rules maker email.
What a joke.
That and I was tired really tired of him and his buddies disrupting most Interesting threads with their sales pitches.
But I will have to admit that as a sales and marketing tool
He has is going good.

Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 17:37:20 PDT   Listings
Close, Oh Fufluns, but not good!
About 50 minutes to go!
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 17:35:39 PDT   Listings
Io me old cock, I have been called a Pommie here in Australia since I arrived in 1973, I can handle it no problems unfortunately some of the Aussies can't take it back.

As for me being argumentative I was just sick of GS coming into a thread and selling his bits off his pages. In the last thread I set up he completely ruined it by going off the subject time and time again and even getting the off subject matters wrong, I told him to but out of the thread and leave it to people who know what they were talking about.

Check out one of my £5,000.00 here:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/dave1/qld_revs/qld_revs.htm

D1
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-13-07 at 17:21:48 PDT   Listings
15?
Absum!
(= I am far from here)
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:51:59 PDT   Listings
Sorry Fuflins, Deity of the Etruscans, and symbol of flowing rivers, I owe you this correction: (in semi-integral version so to avoid misundesrtanding):

...just for precision, you are wrong, it is not that position in the sheet.
But if you are still sober, you take that number you wildly gambled, you detract P greek and the base of Neperian logarithms, you add to it the absolute value integral of a circular function between 0 and P greek, and you detract to it the square root of 10, you get very close to the Natural number which is the Correct (deterministically speaking) answer.
Bood luck, Paolo ;-)
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:44:27 PDT   Listings
D2

There is often a misunderstanding on the British behalf when called Pommy by an Australian; as 'Pommy' is widely known as 'Prisoners of Her Majesty's Service'.

The term limie is derogatory in the sense that the British would be allegedly more preoccupied with the savings of limes over lemons which were traditionally used to prevent scurvy.

In December 2006, the Advertising Standards Board of Australia unanimously ruled that the word "pom" was a part of the Australian vernacular, and was largely used in a "playful or affectionate" sense. As a consequence, the board ruled that the word did not constitute a racial slur, and could be freely used in advertising. The Board was responding to a complaint filed by a community group called British People Against Racial Discrimination.

Humpf.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:43:32 PDT   Listings
Fuflins,
You are not a friend of mine and I hate sliming or flattering (that is OUT of my dictionary).
Anyway, just for precision, you are wrong, it is not that position in the sheet.
But if you are still sober, you take that number uou wildly gambled, you detract P greek and the base of Neperian logarithms, you add the absolute value integral of a circular function between 0 and P greek, and you detract to the resultant the sum the square root of 10, you get very close to the Natural number which is the Correct (deterministically speaking) answer.
Bood look, Paolo
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:29:03 PDT   Listings
IO,

The term " limies " is very seldom used here and most peoiple wouldn't know what it means. " Brits " is more of a derogatory term whilst " Poms isn't derogatory unless preceded by the F word or followed with the B word,

David B.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 16:03:57 PDT   Listings
D1

Further.

Brits don't like being called Poms.
Limies is digestible.

Anyway we are in the final, much to the chagrin of Oz and Kiwis.
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:52:23 PDT   Listings
I am very forgetful, I suffer of black outs, and I easily forgive, upon confession.
vonbug: my take is position 25!
Hope I won the prize!
Greetings to you,
Fufluns
Posted by iomoon   ( 1055 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:48:17 PDT   Listings
D1

Glen, by virtue of owning his chatboard site, has a legitimate argument for preventing anyone who disagrees with him from posting to it.

Whether you would agree that this is a curtailment of "free speech" is a question pondered over by governments and the populace for thousands of years.

Perhaps, if you had been less argumentative in your postings, you might have regained access to the site (though Glen has been out of the country for a while).

It is very easy to forget details as to which what stamps have been issued and when. Though I must agree that a £5,000.00 stamp would probably stick in my mind.

If, as you write, you have a revenue site (which you can possibly ban Glen from accessing) perhaps you could deem to opening a page where we could obtain access to such information.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:26:14 PDT   Listings
Three (3) hours of time, from now.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:22:05 PDT   Listings
Err. "price" = prize
Paolo
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:19:58 PDT   Listings
Some days ago I linked one of my full sheets of Sardinia 5c. green (in a green shade) of plate II (or IV composition).
Who amongst my friends (which strictly doesn't include people I do not know, or people I knew but I cannot call as 'friends' anymore, worse than acquaintances, yes that might include you) can tell me the precise position in the sheet of 50 (5 x 10) of these three almost identical copies:
here

The price (philatelic goods, of your own choice) will go to one of my friends, as I have already said.

Let's see...

Paolo
Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:08:11 PDT   Listings
Gee that was quick already had 2 emails asking why I do not put this on the Oz Chat site.

Well that is easy to answer as I have been kicked off for 30 days [must be 50 days now] for speaking/typing my mind. This apparently is not allowed on the site so at least I still have this good old eBay chat site to air a few of my views.

Well done to the Poms this morning in the rugby World Cup.
Being an expat from the UK i am glad i did not have to put my Union Jack at half mast!

D1
Posted by fufluns_pakhies   ( 0 ) on Oct-13-07 at 15:03:56 PDT   Listings
Religion admits mysteries...
Fufluns (-9)
Posted by nomad55   ( 930 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:57:30 PDT   Listings
jaywild.....the card I sent to you came back with a nixie label as Undeliverable.

What's up?
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:52:01 PDT   Listings
DAVID B. ---Thanks for info on the airmail stamp.

BILL D. ---Thanks for the additional info on the news article ,just added a little to make it more interesting read with the morning coffee .Guess I'll never make it as a news reporter .

Posted by de66   ( 1146 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:42:39 PDT   Listings
As you all know I am a Revenue collector of Australian States and run a web site to help other collectors in this area which is only a click away.

I find it quite amazing that supposedly professional dealers can still get away with selling Australian revenues with totally wrong and misleading information in the description.

Just had a look at the OZ chat board where there is a thread on NSW Stamp Duty not in SG Cat & Tasmania postmark

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=1628

In it well known dealer Glen Stevens mentions and shows a stamp from a set of 63 of Queensland Revenues saying “This is one I advertised on my rarity page a couple of months back” with the description: Queensland 1895 Queen Victoria Chalon design Impressed Duty - complete set of 63 from 3d to £500: In a range of different colours. The first time I've handled a set of these Chalons for 20 years. One often sees odd values, but full sets 63 are very rare.

They were sold to any interested collectors by the Government for apparently 10 shillings a set mint. Not unlike the Roo specimen packs. All mint with gum and albino impressed cancels as always. Most important - all fresh - many I've seen are badly toned. All with hinge remainders, and the usual few condition faults found on these enormous sets.

The FACE value of this set is about £1,775 as there are £100, £200, £300 and £500 face values (and 59 others!) I understand this is the highest face value of any set issued by any Australian state. $A525.

The last two paragraphs are very misleading and can FOOL the collector.

Firstly if the set of 63 has an albino impressed cancel is in NOT MINT [Stevens a dealer of 20 years should know the difference between mint and used]

Secondly. MUH full sets are known, I have them in blks of 4 MUH without the albino cancel.

Thirdly to say: I understand this is the highest face value of any set issued by any Australian state is a total fabrication my guess is the dealer purposely used the words “I understand” as he well knows Queensland issued a set to £5000.00 this is stated clearly in Barefoot Catalogue of Commonwealth revenues which he has in his library and if you read the thread it is clear other collectors do not have this reference which can leave them open to this kind if misinformation.

Hopefully this will be corrected by Stevens and if the set sold from his pages he will have the decency to contact the buyer and give him a FULL REFUND along with an apology.

D1
Posted by purpleandgold23   ( 121 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:18:33 PDT   Listings
To Jim and others,
Thanks for further comments on 1831 Irish cover referred to below. With help from PurpleandGold(Junior), links to the cover are attached below:

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Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 14:07:32 PDT   Listings
Hallo Celine, Celine hallo! Hier ist die Nadel, komen. ;-)
Paolo
Posted by philaweb   ( 299 ) on Oct-13-07 at 12:05:15 PDT   Listings
Good Morning/Day/Afternoon/Evening!
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 10:46:40 PDT   Listings
Dragonstamps, Mitchell and anypne interested,

Regarding those contemporary Italian golden colour 'Priority Stamps' which are impossible to soak in water.
Of the serie,
when extremely common becomes scarce, or even rare:
one in his right mind would certainly not try a liquid hydrocarbon, or anything else for that matter, to detach this one here (thanks to tinypics.com) from its paper support...
Look at the serpentine-like perforation: it has a dramatic shift, so much that the denomination value E 0,62 has been cut out of the stamp vignette.
One doesn't see these things everyday!!! ;-)

Paolo
Posted by 1covers   ( 1368 ) on Oct-13-07 at 09:17:39 PDT   Listings
PS - I believe that the cert says "lightly cleaned" or similar. If such is the case, that may well have affected the appearance to the experts looking for shared general characteritics of #613. Some things aren't as simple as one would hope.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1368 ) on Oct-13-07 at 09:11:36 PDT   Listings
Bill D - As you may know, most experts rely to a degree on certain "shared general characteristics" of rare stamps such as #613 (impression, color, paper, etc). It may be that the strip did not have the characteristics generally seen on #613 - at to those who have handled the largest number of them. Such a scenario can make expertising extremely difficult.
Posted by stampmorons   ( 1872 ) on Oct-13-07 at 08:36:44 PDT   Listings
thanks for the input on the 139, Bob
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 07:41:14 PDT   Listings
Very interesting, Bill D.!
Paolo
Posted by wrd3   ( 100 ) on Oct-13-07 at 07:36:25 PDT   Listings
For anyone who cares, here are a few details of the Scott number 613 (2 Cent Harding, rotary press gague 11) strip of 3 Paul references below. An unnamed collector found a strip of 3 of this rare stamp (fewer than 50 known copies, only one other multiple known to exist (a horizontal pair)). The collector sent it to the Philatelic Foundation to be expertized. Apparently the main sticking point with the foundation is the height of the stamps. The flat plate printing is 19.25 mm x 22.25 mm (this is the common variety of the design), while the rotary press printings are 19.25 mm x 22.5 mm. The strip of 3 are slightly less than 22.5 mm tall, so they aren't clearly the "right" height.

To assist the foundation, the collector did 2 things. First, documented rotary press stamps of this design perforated 10 (again, a common variety of this stamp) that are shorter than 22.5 mm. Second (and I think most telling), he went to the National Postal Museum where plate proofs of the rotary press version of the stamp are held. He was able to plate the strip of 3, with markings found on each of the 3 stamps that matched markings on the plate proof, showing this strip of 3 were rotary press printings.

Bill D.
Posted by vonbag   ( 201 ) on Oct-13-07 at 05:25:25 PDT   Listings
Good day from sunny Shoes!

Jim (IO), Thank you!
It took some time to get there! ;-)

It also took some time before I realised the Swiss postage due 100Rp. I was frantically/frenetically speaking some days ago is just a 13IIK (on granite paper) and NOT an 8IIK... it was just written in the description and you can even see the silk threads... fortunately I didn't put it those bids!
Could this be a phenomenon of 'tunnel vision'?
My apologies!

Paolo (we crashed, but no-one died! Thanks for using 'vonbag' airlines and come back often after you're healed!)
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-13-07 at 04:44:52 PDT   Listings
Paul, the Australia re-entry is s.g. 123a, which cats. at 50 Pounds unused,

David B.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-13-07 at 04:34:07 PDT   Listings
EXPERTS ---news in todays philatelic press Today got the stamp newspaper and here is a story about "experts".Will tell the story as accurate as possible .

A guy finds a rare and unique strip of stamps in a shoe box accumulation .He sents it in for expertation. They pull on each others ying-yang for 18 months and got nothing done .He takes the stamp and does his own research ,goes back and kicks a few of these experts in the head with well place Muay-Thai kicks .So they issue him a cert. that he is right .....end of story as told in a accurate manor{LINN'S 10/15/07} .....paul

Posted by stamps12345   ( 224 ) on Oct-13-07 at 03:09:03 PDT   Listings
NEAT FIND -----Here is a nice Australian airmail plate flaw ,which I found last night going thru dealer cards .Notice the "F" in KINGSFORD and the "LD" in world.AIRMAIL

Off to work ---need stamp money for next week .There is a big stamp auction in Boston Mass. lots and lots of early Switerland and some early Austria .Got the wife to book the plane,hotel and car ---boy ol'boy im going to be broke next week .....after next week will be luck to buy 99 cent lots on e-bay......paul

Posted by retorix   ( 4 ) on Oct-13-07 at 02:33:39 PDT   Listings
Historically, if one lived in England, anywhere east of Calais was India!

Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8627 ) on Oct-13-07 at 00:24:06 PDT   Listings
Paul, those values in Robson Lowe, Europe are slightly out of date, multiplying by 50 to 100 times would be more