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Post by Mick on Aug 5, 2014 0:43:01 GMT
Well, I am still new enough to stamp collecting that I am hoping you will indulge me another silly question: were many of these cinderellas actually put on envelopes? (I realize that local\vanity post stamps often did get put on covers.) If so, where did the they go? The back of the envelope?
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Post by Mick on Jul 26, 2014 16:34:27 GMT
Okay I'm impressed while I've always been informal type,I can see that structure has it's place.As I have said many times THANK YOU ALL for being more than screen names but honest down to earth friends.Is there any doubt that we are truly a family?? My daily check of this forum is always one of the high points of my day. Glad I started collecting.
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Post by Mick on Jul 25, 2014 22:59:09 GMT
It is July 25th for a few more minutes in South Shields, my mum's hometown.
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Post by Mick on Jul 24, 2014 0:07:17 GMT
I'm such a stamp nerd. Catalog is on the USPS truck out for delivery. I guess I need to make a list: 1. Science nerd 2. RPG geek 3. Computer geek 4. Stamp Collecting geek How did I ever managed to get married and have 2 kids? I married a fellow nerd. That helped.
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Post by Mick on Jul 9, 2014 0:26:37 GMT
Steve, is it usual to have an explicit "Return Postage Guaranteed" stamp for that time period? I don't remember having seen one before.
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Post by Mick on Jun 27, 2014 17:57:44 GMT
Teamwork! Glad I could contribute. :-)
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Post by Mick on Jun 27, 2014 2:17:29 GMT
I don't know my stamps well enough to play along, but the image is of course Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Post by Mick on Jun 24, 2014 4:56:34 GMT
Could it be a quick and dirty postage due stamp?
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Post by Mick on May 31, 2014 18:23:16 GMT
Going back to the fantastic IUTS stamps, which I have somehow missed until this morning: could these also be classified as a local post? Or would they need to have denominations to be local post stamps?
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Post by Mick on May 27, 2014 4:52:05 GMT
It seems to be an automatic reaction with me to relate whatever postmark appears here to the local football team, and today is no exception. I'm a long time Newcastle United FC supporter, as my family comes from Tyne and Wear. This year they finished tenth in the Premier League, after a horrible end to the season. 1974 was a better year for them, as they got to the final of the FA Cup, losing to Liverpool.
Cambridge United won promotion back into the Football League this year after a long absence. Good luck to them for next year.
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Post by Mick on Mar 30, 2014 21:04:38 GMT
Hi Tony. I did one year each of Latin and Classical Greek way back when, and barely passed both of them! I've always regretted not keeping my basic Latin and Greek skills up, but maybe it is not too late for me to do that.
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Post by Mick on Mar 19, 2014 0:51:42 GMT
Dave and stolzpup, thanks for the responses. I think I will take on the suggestion of 100 years.
Dave, yes I'm definitely talking about blurring the image, not the original item. :-)
What got me thinking about it was the following: a few years ago I picked up a number of used postcards, and am finally able to scan them. One of them is a very charming handmade postcard from 1981, an invitation to a Halloween party. I got to thinking that perhaps the people involved would welcome a scan of this card - perhaps it would bring back pleasant memories. I couldn't find anything on the addressee, but the sender now has her own business and was easily found via Google. After exchanging a couple of emails, I sent her a scan of the card, and she was delighted to have this digital keepsake.
I toyed with the idea of posting a scan of the card to this board as a fun little story, but then realized that it contained a fair amount of personal information. Which in turn of course got me to thinking about the etiquette of what to blur out and whatnot, and thus this question.
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Post by Mick on Mar 18, 2014 21:51:48 GMT
Hi All.
This seemed like a good subforum for this question, but please let me know if it is more suitable for another one, or if it should go directly to an admin.
When posting scans of more recent covers (e.g. around 30 years old), is there a general rule of thumb or best practice in what information to blur out? For example, I have an interesting postcard from 1982, and was thinking about posting a story about it. It contains the name of the recipient (obviously), as well as the sender. Since there is a good chance that both parties are still alive, should their names be blurred out in the posted scan? How about if the postcard was from, say, 1952?
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Post by Mick on Mar 14, 2014 0:14:38 GMT
That's one lovely Tottenham postmark. Not auspicious for Tottenham Hotspur FC though. They lost 3 - 1 to Benfica today.
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Post by Mick on Mar 8, 2014 19:21:07 GMT
This is by far the coolest first day cover I have seen.
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Post by Mick on Mar 6, 2014 22:33:16 GMT
'Douane' is also the Afrikaans word for customs.
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Post by Mick on Feb 17, 2014 3:38:43 GMT
What a fantastic cover! Do you have a bigger scan of it?
Do you know if any other UN peacekeeping countries maintained post offices in the Congo?
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Post by Mick on Feb 14, 2014 23:23:48 GMT
Rod, how common is it to find used copies of the various Bantustan stamps? I imagine they must be a lot less common than unused ones.
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Post by Mick on Feb 11, 2014 15:53:28 GMT
Yes, I'm really glad that I finally found this board after reading a number of others. You lot are both friendly and knowledgeable, and there seems to be a nice mix of nationalities from what I can tell.
As I said, I have been having great fun going through the various threads. Are there any particularly entertaining or informative threads that I should be sure to hit? I expect that I will be able to read most of them over the course of the next month or so, but I don't want to miss anything epic.
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Post by Mick on Feb 8, 2014 20:06:02 GMT
Stampgeezer: I didn't know about that event, but it looks like it might be fun. Probably not this year, unfortunately. Jack: Thanks. Judging from my sorry attempt to show a picture in my last post, I need to spend more time in the Help section. This is what I was attempting to show:
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Post by Mick on Feb 8, 2014 19:31:54 GMT
Thanks for the welcome messages, all. I do appreciate the friendliness of this board. jkjblue: There are few things I hate worse than snow. The past few days have seen some long commutes. firstfrog2013: I'm actually a transplanted South African. The rest of my family are Brits, though. My family settled there in the late 60s, and I came to the US in the early 90s. I have also become interested in cinderellas, mainly those put out by those vanity local posts that still exist. With that in mind, and to practice adding graphics to posts, here is local post cinderella I received. It's from Philosateleian Post of Georgia, USA: i.imgur.com/SZv6tOu.jpg
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Post by Mick on Feb 8, 2014 17:33:35 GMT
Hello all, I've spent a bit of time lurking and have been enjoying this board very much. It's become my favorite stamp discussion forum. I've only been collecting for a little while, and am really just at the stage where I am learning philatelic terminology and the basics of the hobby. It's been very exciting learning from the seasoned collectors on this board, who so generously give of their time and knowledge. Many thanks! From what I can tell, my collecting tastes are already a bit idiosyncratic. I like to get stamps that having meaning to me, rather than focus on a specific area or period. So I have bought a few auctioned common stamps or cards that are postmarked from my mum's home town of South Shields (in Tyne and Wear, UK.) I have been actively involved in the postcard writing site Postcrossing, and like to get copies of the stamps that were affixed to favorite received postcards. And then perhaps get other stamps of the same series of those. I like to buy unused older stamps, and use them on the postcards that I send out. Hopefully some of my correspondents appreciate receiving those more than yet another forever stamp! Stamps that were not used for their designed purpose (that is, never sent on an actual piece of mail) don't hold much interest for me and I honestly can't see why mint copies are more desirable than franked stamps. Philatelic constructs (like first day covers and the like) also really don't excite me very much - I like covers that were used in actual personal or business correspondence. All of that is convenient, as I am usually quite broke and don't have much stamp money! Thanks again for this wonderful resource. I am having great fun going through the various threads. Mick
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