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Post by brightonpete on Apr 25, 2021 14:48:49 GMT
Also, I have a "Stamp Lift" box. If you are worried, this would hep in removing hinges. Although it takes much longer and can only do a few at a time. Tweezers added for sizing.
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 25, 2021 15:02:38 GMT
Pete,
is the bottom of the box filled with water?
Stan
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 25, 2021 15:53:36 GMT
It is, stainlessb . Fill the bottom, wet the cover, close and let sit. Eventually, it'll work its magic.
I never use it, do you want it?
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Post by renden on Apr 25, 2021 16:12:44 GMT
It is, stainlessb . Fill the bottom, wet the cover, close and let sit. Eventually, it'll work its magic.
I never use it, do you want it? If he does not take it (Stan in Sacramento)....I will as mine has 50 years of usage and getting "non spongy" on both cover and bottom which is normal ......... René |
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 25, 2021 16:26:21 GMT
Okily-dokily artichokily, René!
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Post by renden on Apr 25, 2021 16:34:14 GMT
Okily-dokily artichokily, René! Thanks Pete !! beggar René  |
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 26, 2021 0:03:22 GMT
brightonpete SURE!!!! I like gadgets!! It was supposed to rain today.... it didn't..... I played 36 holes of golf! and when I'm on the links I'm offline!
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 26, 2021 0:07:07 GMT
OK Stan (stainlessb), it'll be on its way to you sometime. I don't get to the post office too often, so don't hold your breath!
Sorry René (renden ) it's been spoken for!
I should have mentioned that I received it well used and very smelly. I tried cleaning it out, so now it doesn't stink quite as much!
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Post by renden on Apr 26, 2021 12:22:59 GMT
brightonpete - Pete, am happy you send the smelly stuff to California René
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Post by hdm1950 on May 2, 2021 20:37:01 GMT
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Post by renden on May 2, 2021 20:52:51 GMT
Very nice and appreciated - keep hem coming !!
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Post by paul1 on Jun 15, 2022 9:33:25 GMT
hi all - these two examples of the common 1d. Victoria rose SG 385 from what I think is 1901 (the year in which the old girl pegged it) - with barred obliterator and what looks like the No. 148 - were new on me. Grateful if anyone can explain as to the No. - does it refer simply to a particular city and was it applied at that location. I don't specifically collect the 'States' but as with most stamps, if it's old I invariably keep it. I have another spoon shaped obliterator on a Victoria stamp which shows the No. 51, and another two where the centre of the cancellation shows just the word Victoria. thanks for any information:-)  |
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Post by hdm1950 on Jun 15, 2022 10:12:01 GMT
hi all - these two examples of the common 1d. Victoria rose SG 385 from what I think is 1901 (the year in which the old girl pegged it) - with barred obliterator and what looks like the No. 148 - were new on me. Grateful if anyone can explain as to the No. - does it refer simply to a particular city and was it applied at that location. I don't specifically collect the 'States' but as with most stamps, if it's old I invariably keep it. I have another spoon shaped obliterator on a Victoria stamp which shows the No. 51, and another two where the centre of the cancellation shows just the word Victoria. thanks for any information:-) A 1 minute Google search for Victoria numerical cancels and question answered in this link: www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=17108 |
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 15, 2022 11:26:57 GMT
Victoria and other Australian states followed the British pattern of cancellers using Duplex handstamps, a circular date stamp with the post office name and a numeral obliterator on the stamp . The number does relate to the post office on the date stamp.
I read your left stamp as. 143 not 148, And the right stamp has only part of the number. 48. Which is Melbourne or it could be any from 480 to 489 .
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Post by paul1 on Jun 15, 2022 11:56:09 GMT
thanks also to hdm1950 - wonderful information - will read and sounds very helpful - much appreciated.
many thanks for the reply vikingeck. You could well be correct about the left hand No., it really is difficult to decide whether an 8 or a 3. Agree with you, I've misread the right hand No. but the 48 does look rather central, so perhaps it is just 48 - so that makes it Melbourne then?, which of course is in the state of Victoria. Perhaps there's a book for these things:-)
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Post by hdm1950 on Jun 15, 2022 12:29:56 GMT
Victoria and other Australian states followed the British pattern of cancellers using Duplex handstamps, a circular date stamp with the post office name and a numeral obliterator on the stamp . The number does relate to the post office on the date stamp. I read your left stamp as. 143 not 148, And the right stamp has only part of the number. 48. Which is Melbourne or it could be any from 480 to 489 . I agree with you Alex and have edited out the town name for 148 from my post. I had not looked all that close and was mainly chasing the location of 148 from the initial post. |
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Post by hdm1950 on Jul 31, 2022 23:21:16 GMT
Multi tasking here looking through my Australian States collection while watching sports. I had shown photos of my Victoria pages last year and noted the earliest items had condition issues. This 2 pence ‘Hall Length’ is the oldest I have. It is just a space filler (cut poorly at the top as well as a hole just above Victoria’s head) but what I am never sure of is if it could be a Scott 5 Lilac or if it is a Brown Lilac Scott 6,7 or 16.  |
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Post by paul1 on May 30, 2023 16:13:51 GMT
Here is the 9d. definitive from 1873/74, which I'm thinking is SG 172a rather than the more brown stamp, but correct me please if I'm wrong - I think the cancel is possibly January 1898 and post marked Ballarat, but not a good strike. When I first looked at Victoria's image, my brain said 'a Plantagenet' monarch - it's obviously the very different hair style. Can someone tell me please what the animals on the corners are .......... possibly ostrich and wallaby maybe? A nice stamp had it not been for the cut perfs. on the lower right  |
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Post by paul1 on Jul 22, 2023 16:37:30 GMT
partly due possibly to the poor centring also likely due to the v. heavy barred numeral cancellation, this two shilling Victoria issue appears to have been overlooked by others, though not sure whether it's from 1857 or possibly 1859 - possibly SG 56 or 82 - some of these issues were repeated at various times, so not easy to be sure as to which this one is. In the top left corner - partly obscured - the word ONE should appear, and the word FLORIN can just be made out in the top right, though the words TWO SHILLINGS has almost been severed at the bottom of the stamp. The barred numerals superseded the earlier barred oval cancels - this No. 1 is almost certainly for the town of Melbourne. Would appreciate confirmation if this is one of Samuel Calvert's wood engravings (typographed from woodblocks), and that the separation looks to be by roulette. thanks. P.S. Just to add a little info. here ............... it seems that Sam. Calvert was personally responsible for engraving these designs onto 'deliberately hardened Turkish boxwood plates' - real wood, and it's boxwood that all the best engravers have used down the centuries. The fact that the plates were wood and not metal of some sort accounts for the slightly 'naive/rustic' appearance of the images of the four issues that he was responsible for in the early 1850s, in Melbourne. Originally, these four designs were issued imperf. but a year or two later he obtained some form of rouletting machine, and the issuing of imperfs. for said values ceased. However, seems our Sam. was involved in some less than honest activity shortly after, and he was summarily dismissed from his official role in the post service.  |
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Post by michael on Jul 23, 2023 8:32:53 GMT
paul1, your stamp is perf 12 so is sg82. I good way of checking this is to search for similar items and check against yours. Search for "Australia Victoria sg56" and "Australia Victoria sg82" on Ebay and you will see examples of both. Unfortunately, apart from the faults you mentioned it also has a couple of creases. However, postmark collectors might like the heavy cancel.
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Post by paul1 on Jul 23, 2023 9:05:00 GMT
thanks for your informative reply michael, appreciated. I did wonder as to perfs. but edges here look somewhat ragged and difficult to be sure as to number. You're right of course about condition, which is rather poor, but for me it's useful to have an example even if less than good condition, and interesting to have the No. 1 for Melbourne.
Can we say with certainty that SG 82 stamps were still being printed from the original boxwood plates which Calvert engraved for the first imperf. issues in 1854, do you know?
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Post by michael on Jul 23, 2023 9:52:37 GMT
thanks for your informative reply michael, appreciated. I did wonder as to perfs. but edges here look somewhat ragged and difficult to be sure as to number. You're right of course about condition, which is rather poor, but for me it's useful to have an example even if less than good condition, and interesting to have the No. 1 for Melbourne. Can we say with certainty that SG 82 stamps were still being printed from the original boxwood plates which Calvert engraved for the first imperf. issues in 1854, do you know?
paul1 , the information you require is in the SG commonwealth catalogue.
The 1854 issues were the only woodblock ones, the other were typographed from electrotypes by Calvert (sg 56) or by Robinson (sg 82).
There's much more information on this in the catalogue, which you will find useful.
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Post by paul1 on Jul 23, 2023 10:19:32 GMT
ah, thanks michael - in fact I do have that one and had been looking there (2020 edition) for some of my information already posted - need to look again obviously. Perhaps you might like to amend to 1854 ;-);-)
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Post by rod222 on Jan 23, 2024 22:33:54 GMT
Postmark : CRIMEA Victoria on FDC (Closed 30th June 1988)
I can find Crimea in my 20,000 postmark database (Vic and Queensland)
but little else.
Strange, I cannot find the town on Google, Google Maps, can anyone assist please?
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Post by tomiseksj on Jan 24, 2024 0:04:41 GMT
rod222 , If one can believe Wikipedia, you won't find the town on the map because Crimea wasn't a town. Melbourne's Kooyong Road post office was renamed Crimea in 1946. I haven't been able to pin down where the PO was located but I'm guessing somewhere near Crimea street. 
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Post by rod222 on Jan 24, 2024 1:32:26 GMT
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