daveg28
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Post by daveg28 on Jun 21, 2019 13:16:28 GMT
So, I'm becoming curious. Looking through Volume 1 of my U.S. albums the other day, those empty pages for the Farleys and the National Parks inperfs just stand out like a sore thumb among all the filled pages surrounding them. What would any of these set me back, realistically? I can accept the empty pages leading up to the 1922 series. I'll probably never be able to afford most of those. But those empty pages of National Parks and Farleys...maybe, maybe not. Can I assume they are all pretty much out of reach of my limited budget?
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 21, 2019 16:22:41 GMT
They are not that expensive daveg28, I just posted your GB stuff this morning before I saw this. I have the Farley National parks imperf set on ebay at the moment at $7.99 and a lot of the other farleys in club booklet ready to go out for the new circuit season in Sept . [/  ://  Send me a PM and maybe we could do a deal ? Alex |
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daveg28
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Post by daveg28 on Jun 21, 2019 16:47:51 GMT
I don't get the allure of the gutter pairs. It seems like a dealer manufactured item to me. I think I do need to do some more research on these and learn more. The imperf singles are just cut from the different souvenir sheets, correct? Or are there singles that didn't come from souvenir sheets?
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 21, 2019 16:52:49 GMT
I guess Farley produced souvenir sheets with singles like the 10c green Smokey Mountain , but also regular sheets imperforate from which singles and 4 blocks would be cut to collector tastes the singles above would come from regular full sheets not from small souvenir sheets. No one in his right mind would trim the souvenir sheet to make a single stamp  |
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angore
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Post by angore on Jun 21, 2019 21:16:51 GMT
All the gutter pair stuff never interested me.
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 21, 2019 21:30:46 GMT
All the gutter pair stuff never interested me. Yes they are pretty horrible . I guess they were just another fad of the 1930s when new issues were less numerous. |
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Post by kasvik on Jun 21, 2019 22:12:31 GMT
Of course gutter pairs are a total arbitrary item to blow money on. But what is any other old stamp? As a collectable, aren't they similar to advertising tabs, coil line pairs, five strips or plate blocks? And gutter pairs--unfortunate name aside--can be very pretty. Given the exaggerated predictability of normal American stamp production through so much of it's long unimaginative Twentieth Century, I would accept Farley's apology, re-elect FDR and take the results.
For really pretty gutter pairs, I favor the Swiss Post:
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Jun 21, 2019 23:55:15 GMT
You could always put the pages in backwards. Number 1 would be last, then 2, etc. When you'd open your album you'd have the filled pages up front.
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angore
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Post by angore on Jun 22, 2019 10:33:06 GMT
I believe these stamps came from two different sheets and the gutter pair proved it came from one of the printing but no expert.
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mikeclevenger
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Post by mikeclevenger on Jun 23, 2019 14:08:44 GMT
So, I'm becoming curious. Looking through Volume 1 of my U.S. albums the other day, those empty pages for the Farleys and the National Parks inperfs just stand out like a sore thumb among all the filled pages surrounding them. What would any of these set me back, realistically? I can accept the empty pages leading up to the 1922 series. I'll probably never be able to afford most of those. But those empty pages of National Parks and Farleys...maybe, maybe not. Can I assume they are all pretty much out of reach of my limited budget? The cheapest way to fix this....remove the pages. LOL. |
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Post by daveg28 on Jun 24, 2019 14:54:17 GMT
So, I'm becoming curious. Looking through Volume 1 of my U.S. albums the other day, those empty pages for the Farleys and the National Parks inperfs just stand out like a sore thumb among all the filled pages surrounding them. What would any of these set me back, realistically? I can accept the empty pages leading up to the 1922 series. I'll probably never be able to afford most of those. But those empty pages of National Parks and Farleys...maybe, maybe not. Can I assume they are all pretty much out of reach of my limited budget? The cheapest way to fix this....remove the pages. LOL. Believe me, I've thought of this. Unfortunately, I'm so anal-retentive, the skips in the page numbers would drive me crazy. That's the only thing that stopped me. |
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Post by mikeclevenger on Jun 25, 2019 9:16:40 GMT
The cheapest way to fix this....remove the pages. LOL. Believe me, I've thought of this. Unfortunately, I'm so anal-retentive, the skips in the page numbers would drive me crazy. That's the only thing that stopped me. Add another page of stamp, with that number, of something you have that goes with it, a first day cover, different cancellations of a stamp from the previous page, etc? |
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