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Post by smauggie on Mar 16, 2023 18:22:45 GMT
New Zealand KGV Scott# 159 block of 12 used to pay postage for a parcel.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 13, 2023 22:08:36 GMT
You've got it! Go for the gusto! I have all my duplicates identified and organized by country in 102 cards and the cards in boxes. I can offer them for sale at a local bourse where anyone and everyone can come and offer stamps to sell/buy stamps. I can also sell them online.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 13, 2023 20:45:50 GMT
Panama Scott# 76 used block of nine.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 9, 2023 17:28:11 GMT
Panama Reforestation Campaign, 1987.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 9, 2023 15:49:12 GMT
USA Scott# 2393a
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Post by smauggie on Mar 9, 2023 15:38:55 GMT
This is a strip of 3 (from a sheet of 9) of Western AirLetter private mail stamps from the USA.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 1, 2023 18:57:17 GMT
US Scott# 2389a Polar Explorers used block of four.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 1, 2023 2:04:10 GMT
USA Scott# 1049 used plate number block (off center).
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Post by smauggie on Feb 28, 2023 21:44:40 GMT
USA Scott# 1552 Plate number block of 20. The first self-adhesive postage stamp issued by the US.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 28, 2023 20:37:17 GMT
Canal Zone Slip-Up This letter was going from someone living in the Canal Zone to the US. Yet, the postal worker picked up the wrong cancel, and cancelled it as Paquebot (meaning mailed from a ship). Realizing their mistake they re-cancelled the cover using the correct cancel.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 28, 2023 20:24:53 GMT
$14 postage due added to a business reply cards via two meters. Here is a returned business reply card because the permit was not renewed.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 27, 2023 23:14:29 GMT
An official cover sent from Government Railways, NSW with official perfins from the state of New South Wales.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 26, 2023 2:58:58 GMT
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Post by smauggie on Feb 25, 2023 21:57:26 GMT
Tiny postage due cover sent from South Africa to South West Africa with charity cinderella.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 25, 2023 16:58:49 GMT
Registered mail from Puerto Rico.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 25, 2023 1:05:36 GMT
Century of Progress minisheets.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 25, 2023 0:55:45 GMT
Congrats!
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Post by smauggie on Feb 25, 2023 0:53:14 GMT
Registered mail envelope that was forwarded.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 24, 2023 23:04:24 GMT
I would have paid a dollar for it. I am not good at valuing such an item. It was a good buy at least.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 23, 2023 0:33:27 GMT
1965 Flower minisheet from Panama.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 23, 2023 0:28:02 GMT
I was talking to a man from Czechia today and I showed him this cover and we did a bit of a deep dive on it. Arnold Kraus was born in 1873 the son of a weaver of fine cloths Josef Kraus. In 1895 he built a new mill in Velke Porici. Arnold's mill in Velke Porici. Arnold was, it seems, successful in his mill work. He ended up building a nice home for his family. In the intervening years he sold damask and other fine cloth all over Europe. During the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in WWII he was kicked out of his house and was eventually forced to move into the Terezin ghetto (Theresienstadt). Arnold was in poor health and due to the poor conditions and lack of medical treatment he passed away there in September of 1943. His surviving wife was eventually transferred to Auschwitz and there perished. He had managed to get his children to the USA prior to the occupation. His house still stands today and serves as a kindergarten.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 23, 2023 0:04:59 GMT
USA Scott# 1541a
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Post by smauggie on Feb 22, 2023 23:54:02 GMT
I have never trusted PSE since I had a run in with the original guy who runs PSE a number of years ago when he started his grading system. It seems to have gained some cred in USA unfortunately blowing up prices for very ordinary stamps. The suggested price range here illustrated is ridiculous, but there are always some gullible buyers who seem to think the difference between a grade 90 and a 98 is significant enough to pay a huge premium. That aside the addition of fake cancels is FRAUD . I ran into them myself. I didn't even talk to them. I listened especially to one of them as they talked with a dealer friend of mine. They left me with a strong impression of their personalities. I was not impressed.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 22, 2023 23:47:12 GMT
I won't ever really get into sowers as you have but I did have a question. Were all the stamps used for the first semi-postal stamp all from the same printing?
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Post by smauggie on Feb 21, 2023 23:44:00 GMT
Thanks very much. I have always wanted to own some classic forgeries.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 21, 2023 21:03:39 GMT
From a piece of the parcel wrapping paper. 10 cents customs fee due on parcel from the UK.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 21, 2023 20:57:46 GMT
My two favorite blocks. US air mail stamps Scott# C8 and C9 plate number blocks. Some day I will pick up one of C7.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 21, 2023 20:52:13 GMT
One of my favorite blocks. These halfpenny Queen Victoria stamps were used in whole or in part to pay for the postage of a parcel. It has killed me that after years I still can't make out the town name on the parcel cancel.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 21, 2023 20:46:21 GMT
These two stamps Scott 256-7 of Panama were produced for the first visit of Lindbergh to Panama and the Canal Zone. The red 2 cent stamp is the only stamp I have ever seen that was issued only with an overprint. I suspect the overprint in Spanish was added because the Panamanians felt more explanation was needed for the stamp.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 21, 2023 20:37:13 GMT
I don't collect this country though I do like their stamps. I got these two in a lot.
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