eBay chatboard archive: Feb-04-08 to Feb-10-07 week

Posted by manhattanconcepts   ( 10 ) on Feb-10-08 at 22:45:41 PST   Listings
Thanks all for the suggestions.

D66: Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately, I read that Frontpage was put out to pasture, not shipped with Vista, and the older versions crash in Vista. Is this not true? (he doesnt have it anyway but maybe you could send him an older version.)

Stamphicj: The NVU would be perfect but no version for macs so I could not help him along. (Alec is the kind of user that doesn't know what an applications folder is :/ You want the job? LOL.

Katrina
Posted by dbenson   ( 8837 ) on Feb-10-08 at 21:46:50 PST   Listings
peetah, it is an owners mark, is it possible to see the other side,

David B.
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-10-08 at 20:32:07 PST   Listings
Alec, congratulation on your web site, I will read thru, even if I do not collect the area.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-10-08 at 20:27:07 PST   Listings
CHASWILLY

alabama stuff right
here is a Doane
defined now as a TYPE 1 no 3

Eclectic
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:56:39 PST   Listings
BILL D

the trow
is on a vanderbilt hotel postcard
mailed hudson term

Sps
on an imperial hotel post card

mailed in seattle

the lsms

chicago on plain envelope

the LV
from kansa city mo
the long building card
Posted by peetah   ( 519 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:37:53 PST   Listings
Natal Anyone recognize the mark on the back of this Natal SG Type #1? Significance?
Posted by de66   ( 1191 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:34:40 PST   Listings
Katrina

Once you open the display link below anybody can go to: file: Edit with FrontPage: this will open it up on your screen and then have a play, i am not worried if my page is copied.

D1
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:33:16 PST   Listings
antonius-ra congratulations on the Venezuela .... hopefully they will make a serious dent in your remaining want list.

due2cents TROW is T86, associated with Trowe General Directory Company of NY, NY. LS&MS is L146, associated with Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad of NY, NY. SPS is either S233 or S234, associated with Southern Pacific Steamship Lines of either Galveston, Tx (S233) or NY, NY (S234). LV is either L156 or L156A, associated with Lehigh Valley Railroad Company of NY, NY (L156) or unknown (L156A).

Bill D.
Posted by de66   ( 1191 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:32:15 PST   Listings
Katrina

Alec should have Mocrosoft FrontPage as part of Vista or XP, i use FrontPage on my site i also use it to lay out exhibits like here:

http://www.revenuesociety.org.uk/invited-displays/qld-bob/frame1.html

D1
Posted by de66   ( 1191 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:28:07 PST   Listings
Alec,

Nice work!

D1
Posted by billsey   ( 885 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:17:28 PST   Listings
Yeah Mitch, you have to bid a bit higher on that seller's auctions. They typically go for higher than the same material from other vendors...
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:14:15 PST   Listings
Interesting read here

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i71n6E1VXI_Y3vba_dvQ9jwL9QbQD8UMUMP80
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 669 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:10:57 PST   Listings
Alec Your site is looking GREAT!
I'm quite glad you made it in English. It should prove to be a valueable reference for many.
Posted by antonius-ra   ( 669 ) on Feb-10-08 at 19:00:41 PST   Listings
This is one of the few times I've ever second guessed my snipe bid. Good thing and just in the nick of time. There are only about ten stamps I need in the batch (that catalog $100) so I think I can justify the bid.
Bill D. Here is the other one I got. It will complete that second page and do a lot of good to some others.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-10-08 at 18:45:57 PST   Listings
BILL D

Here are a couple more

PERFINS



Alec
Here is one from 23-10-23
Posted by abelstamps   ( 1576 ) on Feb-10-08 at 18:43:59 PST   Listings
Does anyone have information or documentation on a recent sale of Greenland Scott #10-18 (9) hole punched Specimen Overprints? I am trying to find an auction realization or retail price. Thanks for any help.
Posted by rmayerii   ( 831 ) on Feb-10-08 at 18:33:43 PST   Listings
Thank you Bill D.

Rich
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-10-08 at 18:30:42 PST   Listings
mayerii the punch cancels are perfins. here is a post made during out "A-Z" board show-and-tell with some information about perfins (mostly US).

Bill D.
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-10-08 at 18:26:52 PST   Listings
katrina...nvu available free at nvu.com is a DreamWorks clone. I've not used it but know of others that have.
Posted by rmayerii   ( 831 ) on Feb-10-08 at 18:22:23 PST   Listings
I've forgotten what punch cancels are for. I have a couple of 1920's German stamps #377 & 355 with DG & DJ punched letters. Can anyone tell me about them?
Thanks,
Rich
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-10-08 at 18:05:32 PST   Listings
again

PolishRegisteredPostacard

RestofStamps

alec nice site
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-10-08 at 17:59:05 PST   Listings
Katrina

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking.

"Alec wants to expand beyond the template format"

I construct all my web pages using basic html and adobe pagemill. Which was free and is, unfortunately, no longer available.

Admitedly there is a trade-off between wanting to display a collection and learning the language required to get it displayed.

Nothing comes easy unless you have the money to get someone else to do it for you!

Perhaps Paul or David can come up with suggestions.
Posted by manhattanconcepts   ( 10 ) on Feb-10-08 at 16:53:05 PST   Listings
Alec,

The new site regarding your inflation collection is a welcome addition and you are so welcome for my help.

Question for board:

Alec wants to expand from the template format we used, long distance, to create his current site. He wants to achieve a more sophisticated exhibition format for other purposes, and as you can see, his collection warrants a sophiticated format.

If it were me, I would use Dreamweaver or Photoshop but I am a mac user and am unfamiliar with inexpensive graphics software available for the pc. I know those programs are available for the pc but there is no point in having him spend a lot of money on this kind of software unless he plans to do sites for a living.

If anyone can think of less expensive graphics applications for pc's, or perhaps ones that comes with Vista out of the box, I would appreciate knowing what they are. I think I can walk him through creating a site with Word 2004, (ugh) but that would be challenging to say the least.

He does not have Photoshop Lite or any design programs convertable into html that I can see. We have considered trials of the expensive stuff but I think the learning curve would eat up the trial time very quickly.

I have also investigated software that comes with hosting packages but all of that is template based as far as I can tell and no improvement over what we have used.

Suggestions appreciated!

Katrina
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-10-08 at 15:50:57 PST   Listings
Nice job Alec.

Please put a link to it on your page.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8837 ) on Feb-10-08 at 15:33:53 PST   Listings
Alec,

my hearty congratulations on a job well done. it shows how diligent research on a specialised subject with examples to show the rate changes is suited for an online display. You will be very successful when the collection is exhibited competively and your work will be envied by many who wish they could do the same with their philatelic endeavours,

David B.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 239 ) on Feb-10-08 at 15:30:56 PST   Listings
ant-ra CYE
Lynn
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 84 ) on Feb-10-08 at 14:23:50 PST   Listings
Alec Congratulations your site looks very good, well done! PS Don't forget to back it up:-)
Peter
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3883 ) on Feb-10-08 at 13:34:41 PST   Listings

hondo 64 - if you have a stamp shop nearby take it to them and ask about the overall value of it. A dealer should be able to thumb through it and determine if it is a common collection or something of value.

Jeff
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-10-08 at 13:20:50 PST   Listings
Hondo Easiest may be for you to show here a couple of pages from a country or two here. It will allow for a better opinion to be given as to what is or could be suitable for ebay or maybe even through a main line auction sale.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 582 ) on Feb-10-08 at 13:19:18 PST   Listings
HONDO, welcome to the board. For starters, scroll way back down this board to the big yellow box and read some of the links there.
You didn't say which countries your family has collected. You will need to check values from a Stamp Catalogue. Value of stamps depends on condition, and rarity. Age has very little bearing on the value. Many fun collections are put together with little money being spent, so you are probably the best judge on whether your Father and Brother spent a lot of money on their hobby or not. If they did they could have receipts and invoices from Auction Houses or Stamp Dealers for some of the better stamps. These will help you.

Some of our chatters here will be along during the course of the next day or 2, so check back often for more advice, but in the meantime read the Yellow Box.

For best results, stamp pictures for eBay need to be SCANS of the stamps, not digital photographs.
Linda
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-10-08 at 13:14:28 PST   Listings
Alec… I have bookmarked your infla site. Very, very kool!!

Jim
Posted by hondo_64   ( 6 ) on Feb-10-08 at 13:00:46 PST   Listings
Could anybody give me some general information.I recently inherited a stamp collection from my Brother.

It was started by my Father around 1917 and my Brother worked on it up until a couple years ago.

I know nothing about stamp collecting or how to go about finding the value of this collection.

Could anybody give me some advice on how to find the value of this.

Is it possible to start taking pictures of some of the stamps,describe them,and put them up for auction,a few stamps at a time ?

I would appreciate anybodys help.

Thank you
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-10-08 at 12:53:32 PST   Listings
NOIP The work on my home page is now well under way. Still a lot of things I want to change and add. That though will be a slow process as I still have a lot to learn.

I must take this opportunity to warmly thank Katrina who came here towards the end of last year and very kindly offered me help to at least get me started. Without her help I'd still be dead in the water.

It is basically just my collection and a lot of text information that I hope explains many things which you do not get to read if the collection is in competition. A site showing it as a competition exhibit is a future task I have set myself.

The first postal period #18 has not all been scanned yet and there are still a few items to be added to the second postal period #19 . The other periods are all completed for content at least.Anyway for anyone interested in Inflation Provisional Postal History please feel free to have a peek at my efforts so far.
O.P.D 1923
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-10-08 at 12:18:43 PST   Listings
Re COM I am aware that ebay/Paypal does not accept the COM as a so called secure method of posting.
I don't sell that often on ebay and though I do accept Paypal as a payment method I certainly don't insist on buyers taking out expensive tracking mail postage costs. Yes admittedly there is the risk that some scammer may try and claim the item never arrived but that is just something I have lived with since day 1 of selling on ebay.

To be honest I don't agree with the new fee hike increases either but as D1 stated there simply isn't another more popular selling site around at the moment. Until such time as ebay have some serious competition and both buyers and sellers are aware of it then ebay will simply continue to be the main venue for buying and selling for the majority of online buyers. Hence why they continue to do as they please.
By buyers I refer to philatelic material not other categories.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-10-08 at 11:18:17 PST   Listings
Surely the postage cost only becomes a moot point when the cost of the stamp exceeds the cost of postage.

Paying $4.60 to get tracking on a stamp bought for $3 is patently absurd.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-10-08 at 10:57:10 PST   Listings
PayPal does not recognize the Cert. of Mailing in their dispute process. They require a service that's traceable via the web. So you must choose one of such services. PayPal wants to be able to put the number into their computer and get a report on the package's location.
Posted by de66   ( 1191 ) on Feb-10-08 at 10:52:31 PST   Listings
I am not a complainer as this board well knows….

eBay fee hike is fine by me everything goes up and up so what, get over it and move on.

eBay bidders and underbidders filled my stamp tin with cash last week and I can’t see the local dealers giving me that sort of money for my revenue and railway material I often sell.

Good on ya eBay keep it up!

D2 sorry I will not be joining Glen’s possie of groupies give him a kiss for me when you see him. I will be having dinner with the Australasian Specialist Group.

D1
Posted by keleofa   ( 3744 ) on Feb-10-08 at 09:30:03 PST   Listings
Comrade,

Do you expect anyone to say higher fees are a good thing?

Someone posted a commentary here the other day and
Posted by dcderoo   ( 1721 ) on Feb-10-08 at 09:29:37 PST   Listings
I don't believe eBay/PayPal recognize the USPS Certificate of Mailing in Disputes.
All it shows is that something was mailed, not that it was delivered.
And eBay/PayPal take the position that it's the seller's responsibility until delivery is confirmed.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-10-08 at 09:24:35 PST   Listings
comrade… If eBay started charging fees to buyers their business would dry up in a matter of hours, otherwise they would have already done so. They believe in wringing every last cent out of every last person they can, but this has policy has its limits. Remember the foolish king and the goose that laid the golden eggs? Well, there you are.

The feedback issue has its pros and cons, the biggest pro being that buyers who have something to complain about will be able to leave appropriate feedback without fear of suffering a retaliatory negative themselves. If sellers are conscientious they shouldn’t have a problem with the new system—if they are accustomed to walking a thin line between honesty and flummery the new policy might get them to acquire a little more integrity.

The most common complaint any seller has with buyers is non-payment, and since eBay already has policies in place to deal with deadbeat bidders the new policy will neither improve nor worsen that particular difficulty.

Jim
Posted by comrade666   ( 1285 ) on Feb-10-08 at 08:50:56 PST   Listings
hello,
I was just wondering what ebay stamps sellers think about the new changes. I know ebay charges are high, but those of us who sell in a standard auction pay a higher commission rate. Just think what would happen if ebay started charging fees to the buyer, like most stamp auctions!!! The biggest concern that I see the inability to leave negative feedback. I have never left negative feedback, but I would like to just in case. What do you think?

DM
Posted by knuden   ( 2409 ) on Feb-10-08 at 07:29:41 PST   Listings
Intergalactic - I belive this is the stamp i question. It's a German fieldpost packet stamp used in Northafrica (Tunesia) in 1943. It's not in Scott! If you can get a used Michel Deutschland Spezial (not expensive as used), you will get all the information which Scott doesn't have. :O)

K.E  I'm a catalog king, expert and philatelist - whoopee!!
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-10-08 at 07:16:47 PST   Listings
NOIP… Yes, that is a wonderful Warsaw uprising exhibit, and I’m glad it has gone to an appropriate home where it will be kept intact. It always saddens me to see a collection cut up that was obviously put together lovingly. Some weeks back there was flood of covers on eBay from Maine, hundreds of them on pages all carefully labeled and mounted that must have taken twenty years to put together. I bought items that fit into collections of mine, and wrote the seller asking whose collection it was that was being dismantled, but received no reply.

Jeff S... That duplicate COM was part of a prexie-liberty-Prominent Americans-Americana covers collection currently being lotted out on eBay. I got some other choice items from it over the past few weeks.

infla-alec... Certificates of Mailing have only a limited usefulness in terms of legal proof that an item was actually mailed when and where stated. I use them infrequently, and only as a deterrent to potential shifty claims of “I never received —”. I bought one recently and emailed a scan of it to someone who might otherwise have been tempted to pull such a ploy. It’s like putting a sticker on your window that says you subscribe to an on-call home alarm system. Most crooks don’t want to run the risk of finding out just how accurate that claim is.

You can also get a Return Receipt from the PO but that requires sending the item via the much more expensive Priority Mail. (Priority Mail is the Post Office’s version of a tax upon the naïve—priority items all go in the same pouches and the same trucks/trains/planes as regular first class mail, at about ten times the cost.) I think the COM is about a dollar.

Jim
Posted by intergalactic1   ( 92 ) on Feb-10-08 at 07:08:19 PST   Listings
I am trying to identify a german stamp that I saw printed in an album, but cannot find in my Scott catalog (I know, I should get a Michel). THe vertical stamp features a palm tree behind a swastika and was situated with Feldpost, Luftfeldpost and Kurland stamps in the album. It was a black-and-white album photo, so I'm not sure of color. Any help I could get in ID-ing this stamp would be most appreciated.
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-10-08 at 07:03:45 PST   Listings
I have ones again updated my ME page, this time a Tibet 1939/40 Cover, censored by the British-Indian Censor is shown.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1374 ) on Feb-10-08 at 07:02:50 PST   Listings
David C - I just saw an email from you this morning and have responded. My address is linked through my "About Me" page which I should have mentioned. Sorry for the difficulty in contacting me.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-10-08 at 06:18:14 PST   Listings
bookmark
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3883 ) on Feb-10-08 at 06:06:59 PST   Listings

The duplicate Certificate of Mailing is a modern scarcity and congrats to jaywild for his perseverance. I have never seen another.

I guess the eBay protester got his wish, a permanent boycott. Be careful what you ask for.

jeff
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-10-08 at 06:03:15 PST   Listings
Jimbo Thank you for the information. I don't buy much from ebay US side but handy to know I can ask for a mailing certificate. Yes I do mainly make $ payments via Paypal but I also hardly ever ask for registered or traceable mail. Now if only Paypal would agree that a COM is ample proof that an item has been posted and stop trying to force buyers to pay for unwanted expensive registered mail. I say that because I have noticed now a few more sellers insisting on registered mail being used for Paypal payments. I assume because the scammers are using non registered mail to claim item was never sent etc and demanding their money back from Paypal.
I have no idea how widespread that scam is but hopefully it isn't too common amongst the philatelic community.
Posted by jimbo   ( 428 ) on Feb-10-08 at 05:27:55 PST   Listings
infla-alec,
Certificate of Mailing is still an active service provided by the US Postal Service.

jimbo
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-10-08 at 03:40:18 PST   Listings
Rainer Yes a truly remarkable collection and by showing it on Exponet a very clever marketing ploy by Felzmann I think.
I also agree and am pleased it has found a new spiritual home where it will no doubt be very much appreciated. It would have been a great pity to see such a unique collection split up.
Posted by dcanestro   ( 335 ) on Feb-10-08 at 03:32:43 PST   Listings
Richard Frajola , Trying to respond to your last but
Ebay makes it as hard as possible because we are not
currently engaged in an Ebay transaction. So I am not
sure if you got my email! You either got 10 of them or
none! Please advise! Email me at dcanestro@aol.com
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-10-08 at 03:23:48 PST   Listings
knuden, thanks, i was not aware that the collection, apparently even submitted by the auctioneer, was on exponet.

A truly remarkable collection, maybe someone will find the time to translate the German text into English. I am also happy that the collection went to the place where it belongs to.
Posted by knuden   ( 2409 ) on Feb-10-08 at 02:50:16 PST   Listings
The collection can be seen in full here :O)

K.E  I'm a catalog king, expert and philatelist - whoopee!!
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-10-08 at 02:42:48 PST   Listings
The collection was offered azt the Felzmann Auction held from 09 - 09 Febraury 2008, lot 7400.
https://www.felzmann.de/de/pages/tophighlights120/

Description:
1944 UPRISING of national Polish Home Army (ARMIA KRAJOWA) against the German occupation, the so-called WARSAW UPRISING (Aug 01 - Oct 02, 1944), analyzed and illustrated in academical manner using Polish letters, documents, provisional and definitive insurgent postage stamps on more than 80 albums leaves. This collection (consisting of 3 albums) impresses e.g. with the presentation of the ORIGINAL DRAFTS (water colours) of the first POLISH OWN POSTAGE STAMPS 1944, authenticated by the "Sklanica melunkowa Mokotowska 65" (Polish intelligence office Mokotowska Street) or "Komenda placu pld Warszawa srodmiescie" (HQ inner-city South) (naturally unique, all with certificates by Petriuk BPP). The scope of INSURGENT STAMPS in various colours and prints with the well known "1.VIII 1944" designs (illustrating soldiers and ruins) is virtually breath-taking and gives together with the enormous number of SCOUT MAIL COVERS written in and/or delivered to the trenches of the uprising a MUSEUM CHARACTER of the utmost importance for the Polish national identity and history of the Polish State in World War II.
Posted by 7720matt   ( 173 ) on Feb-10-08 at 01:24:03 PST   Listings
Hi All. Saw this in todays paper. Warsaw,Poland. A museum has acquired a collection of rare wwII era postcards,stamps and letters from Polish insurgents. Included in the 123 items are postage stamps printed by insurgents with seals made from potatoes. Some of the letters had never been opened. $280,000 paid at an auction in Duesseldorf,Germany by the Warsaw Uprising Museum.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-10-08 at 01:20:39 PST   Listings
Jaywild Jim I never knew the US had a certificate of mailing system. Does it still exist ?

Here in the UK we have had it for years now and it still exists to this day and is a free service. I'm not 100% sure but with a certificate of posting here I think it also gives you free insurance up to a certain amount if the item sent is subsequently lost or damaged.
Funnily enough the free service is hardly ever used.
Posted by bradstonian   ( 1459 ) on Feb-10-08 at 00:44:38 PST   Listings
Hi David,

Thank you for the information, I shall pass it on to the buyer.

Martin.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8837 ) on Feb-09-08 at 23:59:40 PST   Listings
martin,

there is another type of cancel, a large cds. with the word ARMY at the top and TELEGRAPHS at the base,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8837 ) on Feb-09-08 at 23:54:08 PST   Listings
Martin,

thanks, it opened up OK now,

I would presume that the handstamp was added at a later date, the normal cancel on those is a large cds. on either the left hand or right hand stamp with the name of the office at the top and the word TELEGRAPH at the base.

David B.
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-09-08 at 23:12:34 PST   Listings
A small clarification...
postfrisch is (must be) Mint Never Hinged (MNH), also indicated with **
mit falz is WITH HINGE, indicated in Germany with *

ohne is WITHOUT
mit is WITH
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 582 ) on Feb-09-08 at 22:48:24 PST   Listings
postfrisch is Mint
mit falz is WITH HINGE

ohne is WITHOUT
mit is WITH
Posted by billsey   ( 885 ) on Feb-09-08 at 22:38:18 PST   Listings
So, in an auction on eBay Germany, if the description for an item is "postfr mit Falz", should I assume the item is MNH?
Posted by bradstonian   ( 1459 ) on Feb-09-08 at 20:32:43 PST   Listings
Hi David,

Thanks for trying to help!

The item number works for me, it was a copy and paste from the actual lot. I left feedback for the buyer on the 19th December 2007 if that helps find it.

Martin.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 582 ) on Feb-09-08 at 20:27:45 PST   Listings
briguy what a waste, that fred guy got his ebay ID closed down, over 2,000 feedbacks on good transactions and he chucks it away over a silly 'fight the eBay increases' advert.
What a silly thing to do.

Linda

counting down, only 3 days to vacation!
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-09-08 at 19:26:44 PST   Listings
jaywild neat perfin on the duplicate COM. Yes, ACA is for Aluminum Company of America in New Kensington, PA. It is an E rated perfin (quite common), but as you point out, it's the use that is scarce, not the perfin pattern.

Bill D.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-09-08 at 16:37:17 PST   Listings
Terry Hines… Another neat aspect of that $50 stamp auction is that it is only available for local pickup. Good news for all those folks who live in Crown Point, Ohio I guess…

On another note, and apropos given the recent perfin discussion, is this duplicate certificate of mailing. The name/address of the addressee is in carbon-paper blue (anyone remember carbon paper?) and the 2¢ Frank Lloyd Wright stamp has an ACA perfin, presumably from Aluminum Company of America, better known as ALCOA. I’m guessing the perfin is very common, but duplicate COMs are pretty scarce. Regular COMs in this period were 5¢; the dups were 2¢.

Jim
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-09-08 at 15:28:45 PST   Listings
Jeff-raff

Interesting, almost current, inflation cover.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3883 ) on Feb-09-08 at 15:05:14 PST   Listings

Pity - neat cover with multi-values from Zaire
Posted by dbenson   ( 8837 ) on Feb-09-08 at 14:59:44 PST   Listings
Bradstonian,

the item number of the Sudan Military Telegraph is incorrect,

David B.
Posted by thines   ( 1559 ) on Feb-09-08 at 14:53:10 PST   Listings
Cloud cuckoo land resident of the day: 320216449056.

Terence Hines

Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-09-08 at 14:21:22 PST   Listings
Jeff-raff

Not unless they addressed by a volcanologist known to me to their spouse or another volcanologist from the country of origin.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3883 ) on Feb-09-08 at 14:12:00 PST   Listings

IO - you aren't particularly interested in volcano stamps on cover are you .

Jeff
Posted by 6381eagle   ( 556 ) on Feb-09-08 at 13:29:54 PST   Listings
oregonstamps

Ahorros Postales are mentioned but not cataloged in the 1979 version of Stevens Revenue Stamps of Mexico but not in the 1968 version. The 1979 Stevens directs yopu to a couple of early 1970s MEXICANA (MEPSI Journal) articles. As I have access only to the 1968 version at home, this is from memory. You can probably get copies of the articles from MEPSI.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-09-08 at 13:25:46 PST   Listings
woohoo!!!

Finally, in a long while, something on eBay to add to my collection.

Scott makes no mention of the volcanoes on the sheet.
Posted by theottawamike   ( 175 ) on Feb-09-08 at 12:25:26 PST   Listings
Re: US RPO Question

Try "OttawaMike & Kearney R.P.O."

Oh, it's a silly Saturday afternoon.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-09-08 at 11:58:26 PST   Listings
Thanks figmente, guess I missed that one.

Not that I could have afforded it.
Posted by figmente   ( 911 ) on Feb-09-08 at 11:45:37 PST   Listings
io-
recent sale of
tristan releif

I've seen them offered twice on ebay, most recently at a (relatively) low start and sold with many bids, previously at a retail-ish buy it now, which I think was less than the cherrystone realization, and no takers.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-09-08 at 11:22:29 PST   Listings
Timm

Your best place to start is with MEPSI.
Posted by oregonstamps   ( 248 ) on Feb-09-08 at 11:06:22 PST   Listings
Ahorros Postales?
I am seeking information about Mexico Postal Savings Stamps.
Website? Catalogue. Varieties?

Thank you

Timm
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-09-08 at 10:54:10 PST   Listings
NOIP

the auction of our local society is posted:

Intenational
Chile

There are some USA and German colonies lots that may be interesting.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1059 ) on Feb-09-08 at 10:53:40 PST   Listings
Bill D

Have already seen butterflies out here.
About all I can tell you is that they are yellow.
It's already 21C here, however the nights are cold.
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-09-08 at 10:44:03 PST   Listings
jaywild yeah, but since I've not been into stamps much in the past year, and just happened to see this lot, there's a reasonable chance it will be a while before he has to worry about me. It's almost butterfly season again .... mid 70s today, four days this week in the 80s. The neat spring butterflies should be on the wing within the next 4 weeks.

Bill D.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-09-08 at 09:59:35 PST   Listings
Bill D… You’ve just tipped your hand to stjohnsstamps as to your bidding strategy. Next time he’ll know to dig deeper in his pockets if he wants to outmaneuver you.



Jim
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-09-08 at 09:45:55 PST   Listings
stjohnstamps hopefully you'll feel better - nope, $22 wouldn't have won the lot either.

Bill D.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-09-08 at 09:38:02 PST   Listings
NOIP… Something to show for today. It’s a third class surface mailing to Denmark from the US showing the correct rate for a ≥ 4 oz < 6 oz article, presumably, because of the date, a Christmas card enclosing family photos. The back seems to have been sealed originally with a “Boys Town” seal at the tip of the flap, however the flap is all stuck down now. The contents, now lost, were removed via the bottom of the cover, perhaps to save the “Boys Town” seal from being damaged.

Jim
Posted by keleofa   ( 3744 ) on Feb-09-08 at 09:09:12 PST   Listings
US RPO Question...

I found this postal card, OM.& KEARNEY R.P.O.

Postmark date is 22 May 1881. I'm assuming it is Omaha & Kearney. Message is docketed Council Bluffs and is addressed to Haynesville, Maine. Killer is a Negative W.

I can't find this in my MacDonald & Towle reference, nor anything on the internet. There is a reference to a 'Omaha & Kearney Junction'. I can't find anything other than an Omaha & Kearney Agent. I've also searched a archive of Jim Mehrer's auctions.

Anyone have information on this RPO? Rarity?

T I A,

Matt in Arizona
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-09-08 at 09:02:55 PST   Listings
Bookmark
Posted by peterc8888   ( 372 ) on Feb-09-08 at 08:42:49 PST   Listings
Thanks Richard and Bill.

It was in a lot that I thought about bidding.

PC
Posted by stjohnstamps   ( 874 ) on Feb-09-08 at 08:41:37 PST   Listings
wrd3 - I was the underbidder for those perfins, just out of curiosity - if I had bid 22 instead of 12 - would I have won it?
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-09-08 at 07:18:28 PST   Listings
Peter C Here are some examples
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-09-08 at 07:05:07 PST   Listings
sniped by Richard.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-09-08 at 07:04:05 PST   Listings
Peterc8888 That is a New York Foreign Mail cancel. It is Van Vlisigen and Waud type W2 and common, used from 1874 to mid 1876. Put NYFM in your title and it will bring in more bids. It is not a great strike but nice.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by 1covers   ( 1374 ) on Feb-09-08 at 06:49:14 PST   Listings
PC - That is a New York Foreign Mails fancy cancel and worth a premium.
Posted by 1covers   ( 1374 ) on Feb-09-08 at 06:45:10 PST   Listings
dcanestro - I have Shenfield book as well as additional original scource material and census information on Private Expresses operating in the Confederacy. How can I assist? Probably easier if you email me you question. I don't need anyhing in return.

Richard Frajola
Posted by thebriguy1   ( 64 ) on Feb-09-08 at 04:24:25 PST   Listings
STORM THE BASTILLE!
Posted by peterc8888   ( 372 ) on Feb-09-08 at 00:37:25 PST   Listings
Is this a common fancy cancel?

Fancy Cancel?

Thanks.

PC
Posted by dcanestro   ( 335 ) on Feb-08-08 at 23:32:01 PST   Listings
Anyone in the community with a copy of
Confederate States Of America, the Special Postal Routes
by Lawrence L. Shenfield and willing to look up info &
figures for the Southern Express Company for me?
In exchange, perhaps I can help you with Confederate
Issues or share Confederate Express mail findings.
Thanks
Posted by bradstonian   ( 1459 ) on Feb-08-08 at 21:48:15 PST   Listings
Good morning,

I recently sold a lot containg Sudan Military Telegraph stamps (lot 320194178647). The buyer has said that the cancell reads 'Muskateneusse' meaning 'Nutmegs' in German.

Does anyone know why a Sudanese Military Telegraph stamp would have such a marking?

I have tried Google, which hasn't helped.

Thank you to anyone who can help.

Martin.
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Posted by billsey   ( 885 ) on Feb-08-08 at 20:48:29 PST   Listings
Unfortunately, I don't see much of value in your images, junksaseller. You'll need to provide a better idea of what's in there in order to sell at much over your start, once shipping is figured in. I'm afraid there not much needed other than research to find out of there are any better items, then good scans of anything worthwhile.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-08-08 at 20:33:54 PST   Listings
junkaseller… My first suggesting regarding your selling—cut down on the verbiage in your lot description, and also make the font smaller and keep it all one color, like black. While it may look artistic to you, jumping around in different sizes and different colors is very irritating to someone who just wants a little information.

Suggestion 2: Put your pictures before all the wordage. People are impatient, and if they have to scroll down again and again just to get to the end of your encyclopedic comments they will think there are no images and will close the lot and never come back.

Last suggestion—take pictures of the stamps on the first pages of both these albums (red arrows) and add them to your lot. If you have any valuable stamps they will almost certainly be on the very first pages.

Jim
Posted by junksaseller   ( 333 ) on Feb-08-08 at 19:23:11 PST   Listings
wOULD SOMEONE GIVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON MY STAMP LISTING . PLEASE LOOK AT AND EMAIL ME TO SEE IF I CAN DO ANYTHING TO SELL BETTER
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-08-08 at 18:32:51 PST   Listings
Bill D… Congrats on snagging those perfins!! A and B+ ain’t hay!

Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 581 ) on Feb-08-08 at 18:03:47 PST   Listings
some days they just forget to take their pills
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-08-08 at 17:51:52 PST   Listings
mrbearbuns… Take the $12 that is under dispute and buy one of these instead. That way, next time you feel the urge to post a rant such as you did below, at least it will be constructed/spelled correctly and you won’t look like such a dipwad.



Jim
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-08-08 at 17:39:50 PST   Listings
bearbuns - all this grief for a $12 item? God forbid you ever have to deal with a real crisis. Have you contacted Oprah yet? Springer? Jeez.......................
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-08-08 at 15:46:47 PST   Listings
I forgot the Chad FM overprint on the 20 fr 1961 stamp issued in 1965.
M1 in Scott.

Never seen it either.
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-08-08 at 15:34:01 PST   Listings
poppadawg patterns S28 and S29 (which were in the link provided earlier) are identified with Seaboard Air Line Railway in Richmond, VA. Patterns S30 and S31 aren't identified as to user. I couldn't tell from the scan, but I thought S30 or S31 were the best matches.

due2cents tough to see the holes in the scan, but FGE in a horizontal pattern is F77, associated with Fruit Growers Express Company in Washington DC.

NOIP the perfin lot I linked earlier arrived today. It did contain I119.7 (A rated) and C23A (B+ rated). The C23A was almost a perfect match for the pattern in the book - only the second from the last hole in the C was slightly off while all other holes were precisely aligned against C23A, while versus C23 several of the holes in the C were misaligned in addition to the crossbar of the A.

Bill D.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 84 ) on Feb-08-08 at 15:32:49 PST   Listings
Alec If I was dreaming then this is the stamp I would enjoy owning:-

http://www.stanleygibbons.com/shop/index.asp?page=item&stockID=P07802984&nav_selected=22
As it is I have to make do with a nice fiscal cancelled one:-)

Peter
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-08-08 at 14:34:49 PST   Listings
Alec

There are many stamps I have never seen either in real life or virtually on the internet.
I therefore cannot supply images of them.
Most are either double or inverted or simply overprints.
Foremost would be some of the Japanese overprints for Ryukyu Islands. I've never seen one from the Amami District with the Fuji image.

Next in line would probably be the double overprint for the Cyprus (Kyrenia) 1960 30m stamp.

Closely followed by the St. Helena "Tristan relief" stamps, which I have seen, but never for sale.

The cheapest set which I have never seen for sale are the St. Kitts 1989 definitives with an ugly outline map of the country.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-08-08 at 13:12:36 PST   Listings
Uh sorry, it's the second (return) half; it was legal to use this as ordinary cards, this is clearly not a philatelic usage.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-08-08 at 13:10:05 PST   Listings
NOIP: philatelic vandalism! The value if this uprated first half of a double stationary to Egypt is probably reduced by several thousand times the value of the cut-off stamp. :-(
Posted by nomad55   ( 960 ) on Feb-08-08 at 11:57:15 PST   Listings
Due 2 -- your Dear Doctor cards are called Pentothal cards.
I know someone who collects them, so if interested I can put the two of you in touch.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-08-08 at 11:39:35 PST   Listings
bjorn, forgot to mention they were used on newspaper wrappers sent abroad with the stamp applied & cancelled by the distributors. The idea was that it would save time as it wouldn't have to be cancelled or sorted by the PO,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-08-08 at 11:31:42 PST   Listings
bjorn, it is a private cancel used by Smith, Elder & Co., not particularly scarce,

David B.
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-08-08 at 11:31:07 PST   Listings
NOIP

nice Germany inflation complete collection:

here

Many high values with certificates. Worth looking!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-08-08 at 11:13:34 PST   Listings
UK experts: is this a very unusual cancel: S in rings? No it's not mine, I wouldn't scan on a coloured background.
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-08-08 at 11:01:57 PST   Listings
Word 2003 help Thanks to Peter, Stamphick and Jaywild for the information. I haven't had a chance yet to see if the link or other methods work but I will try and figure it out this weekend. I apologize for being such a computer dummy but this old dog is trying to learn new tricks and it ain't easy ! Once I know how something is done I'm not so bad but it's the getting to understand part which I find difficult. Sadly my educational years did not include computers.

Paul I wish you the best of luck with the contract. I'm curious though as to how you define a stamp season ? For me it never ends. By that I mean I am continually searching for items that I need. Some I know exist it's just that they haven't been offered on the open market yet. :-(

I wonder how many other covers / stamps many of us needing only ever come on the market once the current owner has died or given up collecting. So out of curiousity if money was no object which "single" stamp item or cover would anyone most like to have ? By that I only refer to items that are known to exist.
If you have a picture saved to your dream item please do share it with the board.

Roger Happy to have been of some assistance. I'm just pleased it has arrived safely.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-08-08 at 10:33:44 PST   Listings
here is what ever is on the other unknown
NoIdea

JeFF-RAFF

Like-This
Posted by poppadawg   ( 811 ) on Feb-08-08 at 10:03:54 PST   Listings
due2cents & wrd3 Your SAL perfin may have been used by the Seaboard Air Line. Despite the name, it was a major east coast railroad. Information here http://railga.com/sal.html
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-08-08 at 10:01:07 PST   Listings
I also noticed that my

DEAR-Doctor

pile had 9 yes 9 new additions
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-08-08 at 09:11:07 PST   Listings
Milenko

Silly question :-)

CYE.
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-08-08 at 08:23:32 PST   Listings
:8(
coputers-computers
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-08-08 at 08:22:34 PST   Listings
Greetings,

I'm still without a computer at home. It's part of the disadvantages of living in a very rural area. The local store said they'd order it and have it ready by the middle of last week. They ordered three coputers from Dell the same day. Once came in this past Monday, a week and three days after they ordered. The second came in Wednesday, a week and 5 days after they ordered. Mine has yet to arrived, a full two weeks after they ordered it.
:8^(

Jim L.
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-08-08 at 07:56:43 PST   Listings
Jim iomoon

New Chile stamps with volcanos here:

New Stamps
I can see 3 stamps with actual pictures of volcanos, and in the "America upaep" series there is one stamp with two volcanos (I don't remember the names now) and another with the "torres del paine" formation of volcanic origin (I don't know if you include these "related" formations in your colection).

Also the bottom right stamp from this sheet has a picture of the extinct Rano Kau volcano in Easter Island.

If you're interested in them, email me!
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-08-08 at 07:31:57 PST   Listings
Paul

Good luck with your new work. Don't forget to visit us from time to time
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-08-08 at 07:24:19 PST   Listings
STAMP SEASON OVER ...off to work for State of Illinois ...The State has given me a open ended contract to repair roadways ,starting tomorrow .......putting everything off until next stamp season......paul
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-08-08 at 07:12:05 PST   Listings


more
Perfinn-FGE Backwards

Got this Just because I liked the nice machine 5 marking on a very pertinent Folder
5
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-08-08 at 06:54:33 PST   Listings
NOIP… Just curious, but the stamps in this lot don’t seem to be “Transportation coils” as advertised.

Jim
Posted by 220man   ( 168 ) on Feb-08-08 at 06:34:24 PST   Listings
Roger: Post a sound file from your posthorn.
Phil
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-08-08 at 05:40:00 PST   Listings
Matt (paperhistory)… A “Cleaveland” Ohio item that might be of interest to you. Kinda pricey though.

Jim
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-08-08 at 00:27:29 PST   Listings
D1, haven't made up my mind if I am going to Kanbra or not.

Glen is organising a meeting at a Thai restaurant and as I know you are not fond of Thai food I will give him your apologies,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-08-08 at 00:19:48 PST   Listings
D1, highly unlikely that it was used on a cover, London to a Brick it was cancelled by someone in Scotland.

http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_en-GBAU211AU212&q=delny+scotland

I can see faint cleaned pen markings under the code letter C
and above JY and also under the Y of Delny.

David B.
Posted by de66   ( 1190 ) on Feb-08-08 at 00:03:34 PST   Listings
D1 to D2

Hmm strange, maybe a receiving cancel? I will stick it in the Revenue Journal of the Uk and see what comes back.

Thank you for your input, see you in Canberra in a few weeks.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-07-08 at 23:52:52 PST   Listings
D1, It is a British cancel and there is a small village in Scotland with that name and presumably someone used their cds. to enhance a mint fiscal.

David B.
Posted by de66   ( 1190 ) on Feb-07-08 at 23:36:08 PST   Listings
Roger

I am thinking Revenue as no country name is on the canceller, googled Delny and came up with zilch

D1
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-07-08 at 22:37:53 PST   Listings
D1 -
It sure looks like DELNY, which means someone in north central Australia used the home town canceler on a stamp from Fiji. Or the canceler made it way to Fiji with a postal clerk who was transfered.

Roger
Posted by de66   ( 1190 ) on Feb-07-08 at 21:21:14 PST   Listings
Looking for help on this Fiji postmark/revenue office. Can anybody translate it?

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb208/Revhead1/fiji1.jpg

D1
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-07-08 at 18:13:30 PST   Listings
Roger… I hear those posthorns are very good for shutting up coquí frogs…



Jim
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-07-08 at 17:39:37 PST   Listings
Roger...Neat horn. If the neighbors complain just tell them that it's a German conch.
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-07-08 at 17:32:30 PST   Listings
Aloha -
My newest item arrived from Germany and it is really fun, though my neighbors may not think so!@@! A replica of a Swiss Mail Coach horn used by the Gotthard Post on the Fluelen-Camerlata Route. This is modeled after one used in 1831. These horns were used to announce the arrival of the mail coach into villages and towns. Many different calls told of the variety of mail on board. I now have something to practice when I get bored with stamps.

Thanks Alec for your help in the payment of this horn.

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-07-08 at 16:13:38 PST   Listings
due2cents JH is, as you guessed, for John Hancock. There are 3 patterns that are extremely difficult to separate, J56A, J56B and J56C.

The SAL pattern is tough to see, but I think it's either S30 or S31, neither of which has an identified user or location.

The Burpee seed pattern is again tough to see, but it should be W13 or 13A or 13B or 13C or 14, all identified with W. Atlee Burpee & Company in Philadelphia.

MKT is, as earlier stated, Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, General Offices: Parsons Ks. It appears to be pattern M148.

WE & M is Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, PA. It is pattern W84.

The No Idea appears to be a pattern with a lot of missing pins - I have no idea what it could be.

Bill D.
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6499 ) on Feb-07-08 at 15:38:56 PST   Listings
Thanks again David. If I can get a scan of it I'll post it to the board, if I get the actual stamp, I'll do the same.

Mark.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-07-08 at 15:35:30 PST   Listings
Cobbie, it all depends if it was a good forgery with the typeface close to the genuine overprint, if so them it would be marketable, if it was a crude overprint then it would be worthless,

David B.
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6499 ) on Feb-07-08 at 15:27:25 PST   Listings
Hi David, unfortunately I do not have the item in hand. I've just been asked if there would be any market for it, sorry.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-07-08 at 15:26:52 PST   Listings
Cobbie,

ps. do not, I repeat do not add a handstamp on the back as per Ebay's rules in case the RPS has made a mistake,

David B.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-07-08 at 15:24:44 PST   Listings
Cobbie, could you link a scan.

David B.
Posted by cobbie10   ( 6499 ) on Feb-07-08 at 15:12:02 PST   Listings
Hello all.

A quick question - would there be any market for a New Caledonia Sc#10 / SG#11 with a forged ovpt together with an RPS cert stating so ?

Mark.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-07-08 at 14:47:27 PST   Listings
Alec… I have Word 2000, and it’s probably similar enough to 2003. The important element is how you paste the image. If you just hit PASTE or Ctrl+V you won’t be able to move the image. But if you do a PASTE SPECIAL and then select “Picture” you will be able to drag the image around after pasting.

stamphick... I thought you used a Mac…

Lindy... What would I want with your old girly uniforms?



Jim
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 581 ) on Feb-07-08 at 13:22:12 PST   Listings
Dave and Soggy, as the toll tickets were stopped a long time ago, and the average age of a car in Sydney is probably only 5 to 10 years, dont think the Scrap Yard thing will work. Maybe try asking some of the Railway / Bus Ticket Collectors.
I know as a kid in the 1950s Sis and I collected all the toll tickets and bus tickets to play, Conductress at Home. Dad worked for the railways and we had odd bits of old uniforms to play with.

(NO, sorry Jay, don't have any uniforms now, so don't ask!)

Linda
Posted by stamphick!   ( 338 ) on Feb-07-08 at 13:19:27 PST   Listings
Actually I think Alec's question was where to find the hand pointer that could be used to move the picture around. The answer is that there is no such thing -- the image can't be dragged with the mouse pointer.

Positioning Graphics in Word 2003. This might help some.
Posted by greenwave4u   ( 84 ) on Feb-07-08 at 13:13:27 PST   Listings
Alec Don't know if you got the answer to your Word 2003 problem. It should just be a case of selecting the picture and moving it to where you want. You do need to right click on the picture and check the formatting for text wrap etc.
Peter
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-07-08 at 12:19:09 PST   Listings
bulkcover this is a bulletin board where you post messages and then check back later for resopnses.

Forgery Identification Site

Posted by bulkcover   ( 3905 ) on Feb-07-08 at 12:09:42 PST   Listings
I see no-one is is here!!! CYL!!!
Posted by bulkcover   ( 3905 ) on Feb-07-08 at 12:09:15 PST   Listings
Hello eBayers!
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-07-08 at 09:36:58 PST   Listings
Due, DOVREBANEN is a railway cancel (Oslo-Trondheim). There are two types of the M cancel, used 1922 to 1939/40 and both very common.
Posted by soggy333   ( 57 ) on Feb-07-08 at 09:14:12 PST   Listings
de66 NSW toll receipts

I remember a guy who was collecting State motor vehicle dept taxpaid decals for truck road taxes. Rare. His source was the junkyards. He would go to truck graveyards and swab them off the cabs with alcohol and other secret solvents. Toll receipts would most likely be found in the glove compartments (maybe you call them map compartments) and under the back seats of junks in the auto graveyards of Australia.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-07-08 at 08:31:33 PST   Listings
Bill D
I'll get a few more up
am still sorting from the weekend .
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-07-08 at 08:30:19 PST   Listings
due2cents thanks for posting the links. When I'm home tonight I'll dig up info on the US ones you've posted.

jaywild and billsey I agree, it's tough to tell which pattern is in the lot .... I'm anxious to receive it! I got positive feedback, so I'm sure it's in the mail. The patterns in the catalog are made, I believe, from stamps with the appropriate pattern. I think they were traced. Often there are bent pins which make it tough to identify which pattern is the right one. If I can't get a good match, I'll contact the catalog chairman to see if he has suggestions.

Bill D.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-07-08 at 08:05:04 PST   Listings
more
PerfinnedStamps.

I guess the J H Is of course John Hancock ?

The Other ...


Here is the GoldCoastReg Back from yesterday sorry
to all the Balconeers

I am also seeing lots (many ,many) of these
At the card /antique shows)
nice?

Roger
isthis abuck

More NORGE

and a card that got mileage for a penny, and handled at least 7 times.
ForwardedM
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-07-08 at 07:58:57 PST   Listings
bookmark
Posted by billsey   ( 883 ) on Feb-07-08 at 07:56:55 PST   Listings
Yeah, looks like a C23B to me... The center hole on the A is dropped like the C23A, the top and first to the right holes on the O are far apart like the C23 the spacing on the last three holes on the C toward the bottom right doesn't match either the C23 or the C23A.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-07-08 at 07:45:56 PST   Listings
Bill D… I made a comparison image of your newly acquired perfin and your C23/C23A illustrations and all three look wildly different. I would have no hope of figuring out which yours is. Are the diagrams made from photos or drawings?

Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-07-08 at 07:39:55 PST   Listings
Thansks

Like this

M-K-T-taxed
Posted by paperhistory   ( 1993 ) on Feb-07-08 at 07:39:46 PST   Listings
pro: nice work on the streetcars. (incidentally, I have a customer for as many Chicago as you can find...) Make sure to watch for the Cincinnati streetcars (the Brighton Car and the Norwood Car). They are $$$.
Posted by chaswilly   ( 1688 ) on Feb-07-08 at 07:14:38 PST   Listings
due2cents M-K-T is Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, or the Katy.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-07-08 at 06:32:45 PST   Listings
BURMA PLEA
with Stamp

SEENhere
I have seen 32 of these postcards in the last 9 weeks
wonder where they were.

Here are a couple of nice early 1900's cancellations.

StreetRPO
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-07-08 at 06:17:40 PST   Listings
Bill D

Here are a few
i sort Alpha betically

in my storage box

some here i made out here is first scanner batch

Burpee
I seee these all the time ,

This one is new to me M-K-T

This one I have not applied my self enuf to make out

ME&&W

Closer VIEW

This next one I just can not see the pattern

NoIdea

and Closer VIEW
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-07-08 at 04:51:31 PST   Listings
NOIP for the lot I linked earlier, the patterns I think are the scarce ones are in the last row, i119.7 and C23A (I think it is C23A instead of C23 due to the position of the single hole of the crossbar of the A). I'll know once the stamps arrive.

due2cents always want to look at perfins.

postalhysteria neat commemorative perfin usage.

Bill D.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-07-08 at 03:58:04 PST   Listings
BILL D>

I have found a few in the wild lATELy
want to look at some perfinns

Posted by stampmad   ( 1094 ) on Feb-06-08 at 22:59:52 PST   Listings
D1...Thank you...I think there may be future articles from other board members down the track as well. This was a result of the magazine's request on this board about 6 months ago for people to share their collections.
Marius
Posted by billsey   ( 883 ) on Feb-06-08 at 22:14:26 PST   Listings
And my 'Bargain of the Day' lot was actually actually was yesterday. I had to pay close to $200 for my first two examples of the 1st impression (one each 2pi and 5pi), and neither of them showed the control band at top. The only other 1st impression I have is badly thinned (can you say 'has a hole?', I knew you could).
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 20:04:49 PST   Listings
Time for bed

TH perfin Night, , , ,
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-06-08 at 19:57:33 PST   Listings
nomad

I stand corrected.
I thought you meant the GW when you wrote Washington.
Obviously I don't live in NYC.

BTW if you google-earth the High Bridge, there is a wonderful shadow of the bridge in the Harlem river.
Posted by nomad55   ( 960 ) on Feb-06-08 at 19:57:24 PST   Listings
And to make the last post philatelic related, see Scott US #1012
Posted by nomad55   ( 960 ) on Feb-06-08 at 19:49:33 PST   Listings
IO - the George Washington Bridge (GW) crosses the Hudson from Manhattan to Jersey. Its a double decker, with the lower deck being nicknamed the Martha.

The Washington (or as New Yorkers call it, the Little George), spans the Harlem at 180th Street in Manhattan. The Little George was build in 1888. Jeff's photo was snapped from the Washington Bridge, so named because the Manhattan side is called Washington Heights.

Then there's the Hamilton bridge, which is between High Bridge and the Little George. It was build about 1960 or so, and connects the Cross Bronx to the Manhattan approach to the George Washington.

Its all a bit confusing to someone who's never lived in the city.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-06-08 at 19:36:06 PST   Listings
nomad

Thanks for the extra info.
I pass by that view every time I travel from my NY home to La Guardia down the Major Deegan.

Its actually a little to the south, not north, of the GW bridge.
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Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 19:09:58 PST   Listings

Bill & Roger: Indiana Territory Sesquicentennial commemorative with T.H. Territory of Hawaii perfin with beauty shop permit enclosure.
Posted by wrd3   ( 101 ) on Feb-06-08 at 18:55:49 PST   Listings
NOIP on the subject of "bargain of the day", I'm anxiously awaiting this lot, which appears to contain an A rated perfin and a B+ rated perfin. I enjoy finding scarce perfins "in the wild". I haven't been into stamps much the past year - this was one of the first lots I viewed in probably 8 months.

Bill D.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 18:45:25 PST   Listings

Dave - so the bridge is still there, that's amazing. I guess I should have picked up on that fact when IO stated it was the oldest bridge there. Is it still trafficible? (is that a word?) Happy Old Home Week to all NYers.

Jeff

Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 18:38:17 PST   Listings

And, now for something completely different

a page from my US Commemoratives, Washington Bicentennials,

Wasserman Test Wrapper
Posted by nomad55   ( 960 ) on Feb-06-08 at 17:37:33 PST   Listings
To Hysterical Jeff....

Neat NYC postcards. I have quite a few similar 'oldies'.

Let me tell you about the bridge view. The bridge is a pedestrian only bridge, called High Bridge, and contains an acqueduct that used to supply water to northern Manhattan. The acqueduct started at the Jerome Park Reservoir, travelled south underneath Acqueduct Avenue (naturally) until Tremont Avenue, when it then was under University Avenue. At the Bronx side of the bridge the acqueduct turned right onto the bridge. The tower in the background is a water tower. When I was just a little tyke, my folks lived 3 blocks from the bridge, . I remember walking across it.

The photo itself was taken from the Bronx side of the Washington Bridge, just to the north. Tracks are the New York Central Railroad, river is the Harlem River but the pier is long gone. To the left of the tracks and parallel now runs the Major Deegan Expressway, built mid-1950's. The brick pillars that support the acqueduct interfered with barge traffic on the river, and were replaced by a steel span just over the river portion.

(Probably more than you ever wanted to know)
Posted by oregonstamps   ( 248 ) on Feb-06-08 at 17:34:20 PST   Listings
Ahorros Postales?
I am seeking information about Mexico Postal Savings Stamps.
Website? Catalogue. Varieties?

Thank you

Timm
Posted by de66   ( 1190 ) on Feb-06-08 at 16:47:58 PST   Listings
Stampmad

Stamps mag just hit my local newsagent’s shelves and had an enjoying read of your Brisbane article, well done.

ALL

Any Aussies out there collect or have a few NSW toll tickets in your top draw? i have added a page to my web site i have also contacted all my known NSW collectors of this material and ALL have said they do not have a single ticket, somebody must have a few stuck away. Here is my web page:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/dave1/nsw_revs/nsw_toll_revs.htm

D1
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-06-08 at 16:36:10 PST   Listings
Some eBay sellers really p me off.

A normally coin seller has stamps at 2/3 catalog start price, a $4.60 S&H charge, and then states that item will not be mailed till the end of February cos their mailer is on vacation.

Oh, and NY buyers add sales tax.

Excuse me if I don't bid!!!
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 16:04:51 PST   Listings

grin of the day - I emailed a seller asking if a post card he had listed had been mailed.

He replied, no, it hasn't sold, its still right here.

Ahh, the twist of the old tongue...

Jeff
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-06-08 at 14:50:41 PST   Listings
Postage: well the really frustrating thing when I did some selling two years ago, was that a typical cover with some cardboard and a big enough envelope usually weighed in at 22-23g, and postage outside Europe doubled above 20g. A few times I actually sent covers protected only by a folded sheet of paper...

OTOH, I've bought large amounts of postage on eBay for about 50% of face, so if and when I start selling again I can afford to undercharge so as not to scare away bidders...
Posted by brad   ( 528 ) on Feb-06-08 at 14:44:17 PST   Listings
I'm not expecting that my $5 stamp be dipped and examined under 30X magnification ... just a basic look.

(sorry again)

Posted by brad   ( 528 ) on Feb-06-08 at 14:39:32 PST   Listings
Two "sound" stamps received today with file folds right down the middle ... geez ... is it really so difficult to eyeball both the front and back before listing?

(sorry about the vent)

Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 14:30:23 PST   Listings

Roger - I like the ones going to Peru, different destination, and nice condition. Jeff
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-06-08 at 14:20:43 PST   Listings
NOIP Does anyone who has Word 2003 on their machine know how to find the tool that lets you move pictures around when you are trying to prepare a word document for the web ? I'm told it should be something like a waving hand but damned if I can find it :-(

Pretty late here so I will have to check back tomorrow for any replies.

PS Quite enjoyed the postcard showings also and the buys from "due2cents". Sometimes I wish I was into buying things on the spur that I like but if I did that I'd have no cash for whenever items I do need get offered. I just have to be content to save and hopefully add one or two items a year.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-06-08 at 14:17:09 PST   Listings
Nice LOT
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-06-08 at 14:17:08 PST   Listings
Aloha -
Postcard Steal of the Day: Part 2

My interest is actually not the razor cancels, but the Lausanne Barre-Cité examples. In the Swiss PTT ' deCoppet correspondence logs are references to deCoppet billing the PTT for a "Barre-Cité" in June 1902. It is not a razor canceler. In August he wanted it back for a few days as a sample. It is possible he used this canceler as a pattern to deterine whether his mechanism would work on the standard size cancelers currently in use. Since he lived in Lausanne, and he is known to have frequented the PO, it's quite possible the "Barre-Cité" was used by him for research purposes. It is interesting to note that I've asked my Swiss friend where and what is the significance of "Barre-Cité". He doesn't know and the cancel researchers don't actually know where it was used and why the "Barre-Cité" is in the cancel.

I only have one other in my collection and that is from 1900, maybe prior to deCoppet tinkering with it.

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:36:06 PST   Listings

Thanks all for your interest and input

Jeff
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 581 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:33:58 PST   Listings
oh Jeff that was the one I liked, Yosemite ! very nice !
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:30:32 PST   Listings

The card in the lot that interests me for my collection is the thin bookmark card labeled printed matter. As an odd size post card it could have been mailed at the 1-cent 2 ounce printed matter rate. It did not qualify for the pc rate due to its size. But as the sender had written a message on it it then became liable to the UPU surface letter rate of 5 cents, hence short paid 3 cents, or 15 centimes, and charged 30 centimes double deficiency due. Then at some point someone said heck with that and crossed it out and allowed the 2-cents to do the job. Its a neat item.
Posted by paperhistory   ( 1993 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:29:35 PST   Listings
Jeff: well done. And most of the cards are Rotograph or its predecessor, National Art -- one of the best publishers. I actually collect Rotograph in a somewhat desultory fashion (i.e., when I stumble across them or in the rare instances I make it to a postcard show).
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:25:49 PST   Listings
Jeff S… Oh, then cool. Since I don’t collect such items I know nothing about them. Nice to learn something!

Jim
Posted by theottawamike   ( 175 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:22:33 PST   Listings
Guess I'll have to change my search specs again.
Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:17:14 PST   Listings
NOIP,

I found this amusing,

Announcements,

" We’re removing a category for Knuckle Dusters under Personal Security. "


David B.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:16:22 PST   Listings

correction, 90c
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:14:31 PST   Listings

bjorn - that is really expensive compared to here, I can send a well packaged cover overseas for 92c.

Posted by dbenson   ( 8833 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:14:02 PST   Listings
bjorn, the decline in the value of the US$ has caused the increase of postage but it will be interesting to see how many sellers adjust their postage charges when Ebay increases it's charges,

David B.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:08:14 PST   Listings

$6
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-06-08 at 13:03:34 PST   Listings
To send a normal size cover with proper protection to outside Europe actually costs me almost $4 in postage. A postcard can go for $2 as it's below 20g. Of course, a few years ago that was $3 and $1.50....
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-06-08 at 12:45:25 PST   Listings
How much were you charged?

BTW, some time ago I received a complaint that my US $3 shipping (priority registered mail worldwide) was too high. When I see I'm charged about EUR 4 or 5 for regular mail from europe, I'm sure that complait was unfair!
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 12:38:29 PST   Listings

Use of commems on ppcs overseas with receivers are nice, and the early NYC views at this time are quite collectible (thank you IO)

My shipping then was quite reasonable.
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-06-08 at 12:34:36 PST   Listings
Looks like a nice lot!
However, the shipping charges from this seller are quite high. I was charged US $8.10 for a single cover some time ago!
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-06-08 at 12:30:36 PST   Listings
Neat buy Jeff.

I like the NY cards, especially the Croton High bridge aqueduct. The oldest bridge in NY city.
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-06-08 at 12:29:13 PST   Listings
Jeff & Bjorn… What’s so great about that postcard lot? You pulling my leg?

Jim
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-06-08 at 12:20:08 PST   Listings
Postal, what was that seller thinking? Even I can see that $25 is a steal. Yikes!
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 12:00:01 PST   Listings

My Buy-it-Now Steal of the Day!
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 581 ) on Feb-06-08 at 11:38:10 PST   Listings
I too am enjoying all the interesting covers & cards Due2 is posting. Thanks!
I have been busy preparing our Inkwell Exhibit for the National Collectables Show in Toowoomba, Queensland. We leave next Wednesday.
Linda
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-06-08 at 09:07:08 PST   Listings
bookmark
Posted by redlion48   ( 2449 ) on Feb-06-08 at 08:44:48 PST   Listings
Here's a potentially truthful feedback I just received:

Good Stamps Many Thanks. Sellers are nice people don't mistreat them, Ebay!
Posted by paperhistory   ( 1993 ) on Feb-06-08 at 07:08:33 PST   Listings
pro: nice postage due sd card. Not at all common.

peetah: I don't know that I'd call integral rate usage on stamped covers necessarily common, but it did vary town by town. There is an ongoing on integral rate markings (on stampless mail) in the Chronicle (the publication of the Classics Society) by James Milgram.

I have a gold-medal exhibit on the integral rate markings of Cincinnati. Scans of an older version of it here; I've added some material since these were done.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-06-08 at 06:54:54 PST   Listings

I like this Postage DUE Card
SpecDel
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-06-08 at 06:32:25 PST   Listings
JIM -----You can play that accordian at the funeral of the APS,if they don't get beyond the lawsuits and Match factory building program .
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-06-08 at 06:24:41 PST   Listings
JEFF

Here is wrappers buddy

another wrapper
not taxed like the other
Just-a-few-days-later
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-06-08 at 06:23:33 PST   Listings
Jim’s Irreverent Dictionary…

accordilly n. A very fancy accordion.



Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-06-08 at 06:04:42 PST   Listings
auxiliary markings

are like donuts
never enuf

i liked that UNLAWFUL to MAIL here
below
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-06-08 at 05:30:59 PST   Listings
JEFF

The book in the wrapper was the best find
to me any way.
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-06-08 at 04:52:58 PST   Listings

Curious that Paul's post in reply to my psst below about Stamp Wants has been deleted.

Due2cents - thanks for all the posts of the esoteric finds, we could have a lot of fun together! I really like the Philippine wrapper. You have a treasure chest source for sure. In your searches keep a lookout for US commems on cover with auxiliary markings, one of my interests / compulsions / addictions.

Jeff
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-06-08 at 03:53:36 PST   Listings
Here is a Black Jack I picked up
mainly for the Report card inside

1863
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-05-08 at 20:14:59 PST   Listings
LynnOf course ebay and not paypal. It seems it it too early for me...
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-05-08 at 20:09:59 PST   Listings
Lynn, I just sent you a mail via paypal. I was not aware that they are so many pages.
Posted by 19thcentpostal   ( 239 ) on Feb-05-08 at 19:17:55 PST   Listings
22028
I have The R.L.-Asia text you refered to. Pages 485-550. Unfortunately, I don't have time to copy them until this Sunday. If you would like them emailed or snail mailed contact me thru my email address in my ME page.
Lynn
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-05-08 at 18:16:00 PST   Listings

This was part of an email message from Stamp Wants:

But one policy change in particular is sure to have far reaching consequences - eBay's policy regarding fixed price listings and store items under $1.00. Starting February 20 - THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED! After February 20, you will no longer be able to list any item with a fixed price or in your store under $1.00. If you have existing items which are under $1.00 you will have 60 days to increase the prices. If you do not increase the price of or cancel these listings, you'll still be charged for them, but they won't show up in search results!

Jeff

Posted by peetah   ( 518 ) on Feb-05-08 at 17:43:52 PST   Listings
Thanx Jeff!
Posted by red-dog9   ( 3556 ) on Feb-05-08 at 17:10:49 PST   Listings
Thanks Jeff & Jim - figured as much.
cinderella-raff
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-05-08 at 17:06:35 PST   Listings

For red dog

several on ebay.
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-05-08 at 16:59:45 PST   Listings
Rick

They were issued by the government in exile and, as such, had no postal usage.
So they are cinderellas.
Everything is collectable.

Yesterday was just windy.
Today is freezing and windy.
Posted by red-dog9   ( 3556 ) on Feb-05-08 at 16:46:35 PST   Listings
Greetings: I have these stamps from Croatia and I don't find them in Scott's. Are they actually stamps or just cinderellas? And if so, are they collectable?
Thanks, Rick
http://www.picture-monster.de/image/view/UxyhapWA2F/AAAStamps014.jpg
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-05-08 at 16:04:52 PST   Listings

peetah - it is called an Integral Rate postmark, it was used on stampless mail where postage was paid in cash, often found later as a cancel on stamps. A popular collectible US postmark. Jeff
Posted by peetah   ( 518 ) on Feb-05-08 at 16:01:44 PST   Listings
I know the town is Taunton, Ms.
Posted by peetah   ( 518 ) on Feb-05-08 at 15:59:54 PST   Listings

Any US Collector(s) familiar with the cancel on this
stamp? Why the 3Cts.?
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-05-08 at 14:24:59 PST   Listings
Knud-Erik… What do the markings say on this cover? I am assuming it is a redirect, but I’m curious about the marks at the upper left too.

Jim
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-05-08 at 13:35:30 PST   Listings
Rainer Express label looks to me like of being British origin. I have similar in brown from an earlier UK postal period.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-05-08 at 12:41:16 PST   Listings
I also Like any use of the

" ExPOSITION"

here is a Polska Exhibition
FOREcds
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-05-08 at 12:03:06 PST   Listings
Aloha -
Thought I'd show an interesting seller's image. This seller is NOT using a view finder! Based on the shadow, could be an aerial photo from an SR-71. LOL

Or one can have the total eclipse view.

Roger
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-05-08 at 11:16:15 PST   Listings
I got a few US Early Postals

Christmas-Tree-1875

and a Perfinned
Foriegn Postal

JZ
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-05-08 at 10:40:21 PST   Listings
Dangit! but I have no idea how rare or collectable such a label is. Sometimes I gamble on mystery items that will eventually end up in the local club auction. :-)
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-05-08 at 09:56:11 PST   Listings
due2cents
Nice cards, thanks for sharing. I like to dig in these $1 boxes for surprises.

sayasan
Bizarre and paranoid bidding pattern! I guess that guy couldn't sleep the whole week thinking in that sheet!
Posted by sayasan   ( 745 ) on Feb-05-08 at 09:21:49 PST   Listings
NOIP - I know Myanmar new issues can be difficult to get hold of, but ... This guy was obviously making sure.
http://offer.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=150211662157&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:BIDN
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-05-08 at 09:12:15 PST   Listings
Bjornmu
Just ordinary mail that is mostly what i get
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-05-08 at 09:10:03 PST   Listings
Due, the Norway cover is correctly franked: the semipostal pays the base international letter rate, the Posthorns together pay the airmail surcharge to North America. A nice, proper and timely usage of the semipostal.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-05-08 at 08:48:07 PST   Listings
These are ok too

SEE
Posted by jim_lawler   ( 1468 ) on Feb-05-08 at 08:32:16 PST   Listings
bookmark
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-05-08 at 08:13:34 PST   Listings

Here are some more things I got
i assume nothing But then again thats just about what I paid for them

MailHereUNlawful

Registered=IvoryCoast

KUWAITovpt+due

NorwayMulti

NiceINFLAstrip
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-05-08 at 08:04:15 PST   Listings
RETURN

here
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-05-08 at 08:04:03 PST   Listings
Does someone recognize the Express label in the Iraq railway cover shown on that page?
http://fuchs-online.com/iraq/postal_history/Stations/Hamza.htm
The label is definitely not of Iraq origin, I assume someone brought it from abroad to Iraq and put it on the cover prior of posting the cover. Also, the label did not serve any postal use...
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-05-08 at 08:02:30 PST   Listings
Wrapper

Below
are scansof an Interesting HOMEMADE wrapper

what I like best it that it
is Registered
sent from CORRIGIdOR
Fort Mills Gibraltar of the Pacific

taxed failed customs
arrived in OHIO Dec 8 1941
she gets her christmas present from husband in PI
day after Japanese invaded and attacked

Cover=BiggerThanscanner

Return Address
http://usera.imagecave.com/Prometheus/anything/scan0016.jpg">here

and postage due what could be better,
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-05-08 at 07:04:32 PST   Listings
Thank you Bjorn for the explanation!

I've been trying for some time to get a correctly used copy of that card. So far I've seen usages like this one. The rate is 6c for a domestic card, but 5c for a local one. The card in the auction is sent within Hamburg, so it's overpaid in 1 rpf.
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-05-08 at 06:46:08 PST   Listings
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Posted by mini*lindy   ( 581 ) on Feb-05-08 at 02:14:22 PST   Listings
davidross... if you believe a forgery is being offered on eBay there is a message on this page above the message board --------- to report a stamp listing you suspect is in violation of eBay policy..

you should not be trying to contact the bidders of that auction, that is against eBay policy.

Linda
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-04-08 at 23:33:01 PST   Listings
Jim Jaywild, I would have no problems writing software for eBay, they are very professional. At least those who maintain their core systems, otherwise it would break down. The ones who write the messages for the web interface may be another breed...
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-04-08 at 23:27:33 PST   Listings
Milenko, it's not the stationary that is a rarity, it's the special cancel "BAYREUTH FESTSPIELHÜGEL". With this, it catalogues DM 3500 in my Michel 1999 stationary catalogue, and apparently EUR 1750 now. The description says "probably less than 5 known". An ordinary used copy is DM 8 (EUR 4).
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-04-08 at 21:08:32 PST   Listings

Thanks Jay, corrected now, 10 visits, no one else mentioned it. Tough playground this eBay. Jeff
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-04-08 at 20:53:54 PST   Listings
Jeff S… The scan with this auction of yours is not the right one.

Jim
Posted by 22028   ( 1682 ) on Feb-04-08 at 20:10:35 PST   Listings
Good Morning from Abu Dhabi. Topic is Wind? Also here in the UAE we have very high winds since several days ..., and meanwhile 4 defective sea cables..., wonder what is going on!

To return to philately, is someone here having the Robson Lowe Encyclopedia, Asia part, where the India Postmarks, classified by Renouf, are included?
Posted by postalhysteria   ( 3881 ) on Feb-04-08 at 18:30:33 PST   Listings

And to think some people don't like letter enclosures.

scottpel3 - thanks for getting back about the Arbor Day letter. I wonder how the recipients were determined? I have not received my lot yet. I will try to get some info from the APRL

Some comments about my auctions closing last night, those were extras from a 20-year search and study of the FECB, Foreign Exchange Control Board of Canada, a currency control censorship directed primarily at the US.

Way back in 1995 or 1996 I got a national level vermeil for 7 frames, which qualified me for Capex in 1997. It was accepted in a 5-frame version and won a Large Silver with Felicitations. I am told Harry Lussey (rip) liked it. Just last year I reworked it into a 10 frame exhibit, hope to show it at Texpex in Dallas this spring.

In listing the lots I took some advice that Richard F passed on here, when listing something, make an impact with the subject. It has worked well for me many times since.

One thing I did this time was to start 7-day listings on Sunday, then more 5-day on Tuesday, and more 3-day on Thursday. It was interesting to monitor WATCHES in my eBay, I could tell it was going to be an active couple of hours when the lots fell.

Something sellers might want to consider. Or maybe not.

Jeff
Posted by jaywild   ( 1049 ) on Feb-04-08 at 18:26:12 PST   Listings
Bjorn… Yes, that eBay blurb is pretty silly. Can you imagine writing software for such dopey projects? It’s like companies that insist their secretaries answer the phones with: “Good morning, XYZ Company, how may I assist you?” Only a complete moron would think that makes his company sound more professional. What it actually does is tip everybody off that the people in charge are anal-retentive past all hope.



Io... We’ve had terrific winds here too, so please be on the lookout for a copy of my phone bill, which the wind ripped out of my hands two days ago.



Jim
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-04-08 at 17:49:24 PST   Listings
interesting postal
Posted by lluehhhb   ( 338 ) on Feb-04-08 at 17:39:37 PST   Listings
Anybody knows why this 1933 German postal stationery card is described as a rarity?
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 581 ) on Feb-04-08 at 17:33:04 PST   Listings
so SHAKERDOM, care to share a scan of your color error?
Posted by shakerdom   ( 1348 ) on Feb-04-08 at 16:50:51 PST   Listings
best place in the world to get color errors - eBay!!
Posted by scottpel3   ( 866 ) on Feb-04-08 at 16:20:19 PST   Listings
That should read: However when the PMG wants to send out the Arbor Day stamp early, or when President Kennedy wants to have a ceremony a couple of days early for the Labor Day issue they are not subject to the rule.
Scott
Posted by scottpel3   ( 866 ) on Feb-04-08 at 16:17:17 PST   Listings
Jeff:
Sorry I don't remember where I read about the letter. It was probably in one of the weeklies. I do have two copies of the letter in my collection.
It seems that some public officials pursue a policy of "due as I say not as I do". Stamp sheets are sent to post offices with the missive "positively DO NOT SELL until the FIRST DAY SALE DATE". However when the PMG wants to send out the Arbor Day stamp early, or when President Kennedy wants to have a ceremony a couple of days early for the Labor Day issue. The program is dated a few days before the FDOI cancel on it. The ceremony appears to have been held on the printed date and handed out with the stamps cancelled FDOI dated a few days later. http://www.ceremonyprograms.com/programs/labordayprogram_1886.JPG
One other example is the Magsaysay program. The ceremony was held the night before the FDOI and handed out with a mint block of stamps.
This is what I collect and find interesting. These items are also documented pre FDOI usages - not by a cancellation but by their printed document.
Scott
Posted by iomoon   ( 1058 ) on Feb-04-08 at 15:55:46 PST   Listings
Unless they are PVI's.

I am getting sick of the wind.
They say Chicago is the windy City!!
Obviously they were never in Texas in the Spring.
Winds constantly blowing at +25 mph for over a week!
The "tumbling tumbleweeds" are probably in Florida by now.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-04-08 at 15:03:29 PST   Listings
Rich-pa

and we try to get a discount after all they are old stamps.
Posted by bjornmu   ( 977 ) on Feb-04-08 at 13:41:24 PST   Listings
NOIP: anyone else think this is silly? After I place a non-snipe bid at the opening price for an item (which I sometimes do if I don't intend to bid more), eBay says:

Congrats bjornmu, you're the first bidder. Hope you win!

No eBay, I don't beleive you. You don't hope I win, and neither does the seller. You hope I get outbid, that's what you do!
Posted by rich-in-pa   ( 223 ) on Feb-04-08 at 13:21:59 PST   Listings
bradspahn...We are stamp collectors. We don't print postage,we buy stamps!!!!!
Posted by bradspahn   ( 12 ) on Feb-04-08 at 13:01:24 PST   Listings
Any one else having trouble printint postage thru Paypal? I have not been able to since yesterday afternoon.
Posted by 220man   ( 168 ) on Feb-04-08 at 12:23:54 PST   Listings
Anyone recall the USPS rules for using stamp images as illustrations? I remember reading about their policy but can't recall where. TIA.
Phil
Posted by malolo   ( 877 ) on Feb-04-08 at 11:48:10 PST   Listings
Knuden -

I don't remember seeing other multiple wrappers except the one in my exhibit.
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~rheath/razorexhibit2007/3_page14.html

It would have beem much easier for any regular user to cut the wrappers into singles then add the necessary stamps for uprating. The storage space required would have been much easier after cutting the wrappers.

I almost bid, and if it had had a razor you would not have won LOL!

Roger
Swiss Razor Cancels
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-04-08 at 10:32:12 PST   Listings
I also tend to gather semi-postals

danmark


This is my favorite
From this weekend

DENTENTION

This pair of REVALUED Suisse
2no5

and I like the Use and the Stamp used to tax this one
ClevelandstaD
Posted by infla-alec   ( 574 ) on Feb-04-08 at 10:12:44 PST   Listings
Knuden I have seen double wrappers before but I can't say I have seen that many so congratulations on a nice find.
Somewhere here I know I have a registered wrapper and once I find it again I'll scan and ask what you think of it. I don't recall seeing many registered wrappers before either.

Paul When finished sorting please do show any interesting Columbia items you come across. I don't know why but I find S. America stamps and postal history quite fascinating. I don't know much about any of it really but I do like to see it.
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-04-08 at 08:45:50 PST   Listings
I Like these Infla cards

HereTheyare
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-04-08 at 08:39:46 PST   Listings
Nomad
nedd addy for disk

56 =
Posted by due2cents   ( 26 ) on Feb-04-08 at 08:23:49 PST   Listings
K.E.

Nice wrapper
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-04-08 at 08:07:59 PST   Listings
GOOD NEWS -----The stockbook that I purchased at auction of Colombia and its States had a catalog price written in it ,on the first page .I assumed and probabily other bidders that it was with all the reprints and fakes counted as real stamps so I bid accordingly .Today found out that wasn't the way it was figured .Lots of better stuff but it needs work because the value is not in the main numbers but the different varities the stockbook has ,time will be worth sorting and puting everything in dealer cards so the real value can be seen,many items are not in the catalog also a bonus to me . ....paul
Posted by knuden   ( 2407 ) on Feb-04-08 at 07:54:22 PST   Listings
By the way - the double Swiss wrapper, which Malolo mentioned I won is this. It's the first double wrapper I have seen and if I compare with double wrappers from Denmark, they should be rare. :O)

K.E  I'm a catalog king, expert and philatelist - whoopee!!
Posted by billsey   ( 883 ) on Feb-04-08 at 07:53:11 PST   Listings
I always suggest a trip to Goodwill for scanners... You can typically get one that will do everything you want for under $10. I always get HP scanners that way (since it's so easy to download their software), but I would assume other brands would work as well.
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-04-08 at 07:49:59 PST   Listings
CLAGHORN Don't have those but a lot of other fakes and reprints.
Posted by knuden   ( 2407 ) on Feb-04-08 at 07:48:36 PST   Listings
Mail of the day:

"Hi,

I am trying to link to other websites on the net that my viewers, from Bayareakicks.com, might go to once they leave my site. I know your site: http://sudeten.bizland.com/postal_history.htm deals with various recreational activities, and sine my viewers are pretty active; I think it might be a good idea to link to you."
As far I know, the only "various recreational activities" was the ones the German soldiers got! :O(
If the story of Sudtenland wasn't so sad, it would be a funny mail but .....

K.E  I'm a catalog king, expert and philatelist - whoopee!!
Posted by claghorn1p   ( 414 ) on Feb-04-08 at 06:54:51 PST   Listings
Paul I could use a nice 600 DPI scan of Bolivar #1 and Antioquia #2. Thanks.
Posted by mini*lindy   ( 581 ) on Feb-04-08 at 03:52:45 PST   Listings
Greenrose Any flat bed scanner will do fine. I just got a new Cannon 3 in one, printer, scanner, copier for under $100
Some of the guys here could give you tips about which dpi suits best etc. I don't understand any of that, I just scan everything at 150 and hope for the best in my auctions. (don't have any auctions running at present as I'm off on vacation next week).
Post some links here to what you scan and they'll tell you how you can improve if necessary.
Good luck.

Jeff nice selling! well done.

Linda
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-04-08 at 03:44:55 PST   Listings
POSTALHYSTERIA -----Congrat. on the sale of all those Canadian covers looks like you know the subject and attracted a lot of bidding with good timing and nice scans .E-bay prices has to be better than any other site for selling speciality items ,impressive .
Posted by stamps12345   ( 225 ) on Feb-04-08 at 03:35:09 PST   Listings
GREENROSE Go with any basic flat bed scanner ,here is a example of my HP 3970 scanner but any popular scanner will do. This picture was increase to show at 300 DPI.

This is a fold over during printing and the details are good enought for a catalog queen,or a hole filler to examine and start crying about something .For those experts here ,the stamp is from Tolima .Will be working on Colombia and states for the rest of the week . Tolima ,printing fold over......paul