okay, fine!nevermind

Once a year I purchase from a office supply store a bundle of 5 banker boxes and keep one under my desk .All year about one or two of those boxes get filled with glassines,albums,album pages,and stock cards then I take them over to the stamp auction for sale .

Since you lost interest in the smaller break down of lots why not just sell the whole box as one lot and be done with it.But with the huge increases coming in catalog values maybe wait to see how they sell in 2009 .

Or better yet put 100 or so stamps on a album page and call it a specialized study and get big bucks for it .You can soon retire rich with e-bay sales .

Nice to see what was stated here many years ago finally confirmed by others that the graded stamp huge valuations was nothing but a fad .But that Fad also has cause prices for average to fine stamps to fall in price for a lot of collectors who had U.S. for sale ,just look at prices Dr. Bob has been getting for U.S. on e-bay .

Morning all - RE half-cent Wash Bicentennial, no half-cent rate, just use as a make-up rate, primarily for uprating 1c PSEs to the 1.5c third class single rate.

Gawg

So is it possible that those of us who sold stamps over the past few years are going to be crying .But in turn those who were buying will be smiling ....paul

Gawg

JAY------Believe it or not your negative respond factor is getting to a critical level ,try your best to change that .

Youngsters are pliable to any new sport .............This is from today's newspaper ........Its good that this chat room is more up-to-date to the interest and trends going on . LATEST TREND .........and all you old farts thought I was the only one doing this ,about a year ago notice more and more young kids,especially teens coming to watch us fight and wanting to know how to take someone to the ground fast and submit them with a arm lock or a rear naked choke.

Looks like you learn more about whats going on by reading this chat board ...lol.

My interest only lasts a few weeks on any country and finding and identifing as much varieties as I can in a recent purchase old stockbook or collection .Then adding those to my worldwide collection. As pointed out by others sarcasticly here not all or even most varieties are recognized by the philatelic establishment.

The fun is in the hunt and creating your own pages with the describtions on them . Im surprised over the years how much items were found and written up that years later ,when I got a chance to see a foreign catalog or the Scott Classic lists the item that I have.

What was a joy for many years was the finding of all kinds of varieties that American collectors had no interest in since it was the "fill the hole mentally" ,now as Europeans are coming here to buy and the catalogs are expanding each variety listing ,those days are ending .......paul

hometown of Sofia Loren

I think I have found something you might appreciate. Its part postal history, but mostly personal history.

I have a post card of a Danish farmhouse where my father was indentured at 8 years of age. His father had been killed in a tractor accident and the family had no other means of support (he was the oldest of 7).

Someone sent this
side2, I believe in 1917, to his sister, Sophie (I think).

His story of how he made to America is another piece of little known history. As a farm hand, living near the German border, he stole/bought horses, took them across the border and sold them to the Germans.

That's what paid his passage to the USA!

Knud, if you are still around I would be grateful for a translation.

Ken C

Due2 - wire stretcher? Wouldn't have recognized it for that. Ours are all metal jawed things, they sure can pull a wire though.

Can't see the postmark.......

Gary

To continue my totally uninteresting attempt to come down from the balcony, here is a set from my US collection. Sorry, no covers!

Ken C.

Gary - not familiar with it but obviously out of my specialty area of US XIX fancy postmarks on stampless covers.

NOIP - I think last week there was discussion on mailing glitter cards. Here is an elusive example of one mailed in a glassine envelope. Note the diecut hole over the stamp area by which the stamp can receive part of the postmark. The rest of the postmark is on the glassine.

Have had this cinderella quite a few times mint, but do not recall seeing one actually tied on cover. I have seen them pasted on, but not with a tying cancel. Any ideas of value? Took a shot and probably paid too much.
Willy S.

Jeff - Tough to find anything to St Pierre, nice card.

US 2-cent Washington & Shield on PPC to St. Pierre, a less-than-common destination.

Gary

Gary - heart rate go up any?

Thanks. RF I just posted this to your board also, just disregard....

Gary - the eagle is a postmark, just thumbing through ASSC Vol 1 and came across a similar from UPPER DUBLIN, CV of $2000.00

Might want to do some digging on this one. Jeff

A not-too-exciting stampless with great content. Written from a sailor in Haiti in 1852, discusses severe yellow fever, black vomit raging on the island. Always read the content folks!
Haiti

Cuba, not difficult to find, but about as nice a strike as they come.
Cuba

Hawaii - dark blue stamp, black cancel, magenta HONOLULU black FORWARDED. Aaahh, very easy on the eyes.....but only a front &*%$#@!!
Hawaii

Lundy: Always thought these were cute!
Lundy

Jamestown NY stampless DUE 6. I would guess the fancy eagle handstamp is just a private applied marking?
Jamestown NY

Gary

Terry Hines

I received a cover from Germany yesterday, containing payment for an Ebay lot. But there's an unusual feature of the cover I'm curious about. It is franked with e2.05 in stamps. There is also a purple rectangular handstamp reading "Entgelt bezahlt / Taxe percue / 170 ct" with the "170" in manuscript. I assume that this indicates that additional postage of e1.70 was paid. So, is the German post office doing away with stamps now and just using a handstamp? If the sender had used no stamps, would payment of the entire amount have been indicated with only a handstamp?

Terry Hines

Morning everyone, if you can't go to covers then go to Stamps Texas

Jeff - re:Nigeria cover. Thanks, I barely passed math too you know...
FA Covers: Very nice, but hands-down, mine is uglier. That counts somewhere I think... (grin)
Mike: Only see him at Sarasota, my 1st stop. Amazing "little" stock he carries.

Mitchell Thank you!

fxxy

There is a detailed booklet pane book by Robert Furman, Subway or the like should carry it. May be a little out of date, but tons of info. The Littlefield/Frank I am not familiar with, but Furmans goes to '95 I believe.

NOIP Got an email from a customer that buys very regularly, every other week maybe, had his payment returned as undeliverable. Only had the same addy for over 11 years now....God bless the PO, we are so lucky to have them..

Gary

Have you seen what one of our powersellers been getting for groups of stamps like 6 or 8 Macu stamps or MOZAMBIQUE stamps ,these are stamps I remember finding in the two cent boxes at stamp shows .These stamps put on e-bay are getting 20 or 30 cents apiece when layed out even when they are only a partial set . Amazing properaly presented the junk box stuff of years ago is getting a ten-fold price realization .

Another area were stamps are getting high realization to catalog price is all the 1960's to 1990's MNH complete sets ,this material has been called wallpaper and common in bulk sales but now a dealer could sell that material by the set on E-bay. Remember in past years dealers at shows had books and books of that MNH material and they would sell only a few dollars worth of it to someone who sat at their table for hours with a list of what they wanted . E-bay has changed that all.

Gawg