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Post by smauggie on Feb 21, 2023 20:25:36 GMT
Two of my favorites (faulty though they are). I love the seals. This one possibly has broken perf pins lower right.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 17, 2023 15:18:01 GMT
India cover to Delhi, perhaps sent within the city. It is a bit of a mystery to me why there is so much writing all over it. Perhaps someone's grocery list.. The "Mail Agent" cancel on the back I find interesting even if I don't know what it signifies.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 16, 2023 22:31:29 GMT
Registered mail cover from Alwar.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 15, 2023 12:53:48 GMT
Convention State of Chamba postal stationary double forwarded eventually to Lahore.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 15, 2023 1:42:26 GMT
Jammu and Kashmir
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Post by smauggie on Feb 15, 2023 0:31:22 GMT
Canadian Christmas seal on cover. Ceylon coronation cover with coronation cinderella and cute air mail etiquette. Hawaii FDC with giant airline cinderella.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 13, 2023 21:01:07 GMT
A newer one from Minneapolis.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 13, 2023 20:53:35 GMT
How about Ankh-Morpork?
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Post by smauggie on Feb 13, 2023 20:50:57 GMT
An advertising cover with corresponding slogan meter for Ornisa, a pet shop in the Netherlands. The meter rate is the printed matter rate at the time.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 9, 2023 4:53:59 GMT
My 10A 38L Plate 1E
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Post by smauggie on Feb 9, 2023 3:53:03 GMT
Maybe I will get around to using Colnect one day. I have a few stamps posted but I am not sure the work of data entry is worth the time Though I do have scans of some of my better stamps, such as this 10A.
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Post by smauggie on Jan 14, 2023 22:56:03 GMT
There are a few but US Scott #28A MNH - 5 cent Jefferson Indian red type I. I haven’t been able to find a picture of a mint copy. From theswedishtiger.com
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Post by smauggie on Jan 13, 2023 17:49:55 GMT
Ok, I have put some thought into it and I think the rarity I would most like is this: It is a DiBrazza meter. As far as I know there is only one known. He was an Italian nobleman who moved to the US and tried to address the issue of putting stamps on lots of envelopes. He developed this meter and placed like a dozen meter units in New York City in 1897. They were in use for a few weeks I think. It is a critical piece of the history of postal franking.
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Post by smauggie on Jan 11, 2023 18:12:15 GMT
In the event neither of my first two choices were available, with the right incentive-vization I might consider this repaired tatty cover: Yeah, the Icehouse Cover would be in my top ten.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 18, 2022 13:16:36 GMT
Ciao! Benvenuti. That's about my limit when it comes to Italian.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 8, 2022 19:14:25 GMT
Mexico reply card Overprinted postal card from Natal An uprated Ethiopian Aerogramme British India Republic of India registered envelope Princely State of Cochin envelope Princely State of Kishangarh Postal Card
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Post by smauggie on Mar 6, 2022 19:11:54 GMT
I currently live in South Saint Paul. It was home to many years to the stockyards that collected and processed meats for consumption here in the Twin Cities. The stockyards and their associated smell that used to hang over the town are no longer.
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Post by smauggie on Mar 3, 2022 11:41:15 GMT
Business reply was a service whereby mailers could pay a fee plus postage on BRM items sent to them. Postage consisted, in this instance, 1 cent per post card plus 1 cent BRM fee. Thus 300 cards were charged $6.00 at pick up at the post office. Thanks for clarifying Jeff.
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Post by smauggie on Feb 25, 2022 11:12:00 GMT
HI Jeff,
What exactly do you mean by "300 cards at 1c postage due and 1c business reply free." I don't quite understand what you mean by that.
Cheers!
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Post by smauggie on Jan 22, 2022 15:46:52 GMT
Here is an odd assortment of postal stationary in no particular order. A franked envelope with both private and postal franking. I refer to these as reply postcards. Here is one sent from German New Guinea no doubt to a philatelist for their collection. Here is a postal card franked with an image of the first stamp of New South Wales. Keep in mind the first stamp of New South Wales was not a postage stamp, but rather a revenue stamp. A privately franked letter card from a private mail company in Berlin. An uprated postal card from Germany An overprinted envelope from the US territory of Cuba. A stamped envelope from the United States modified to be an order form for more postal stationary. A United States stamped envelope with an official overprint. A possibly unique cut square of a wrapper from Great Britain with NPB W or News Paper Branch W. The W branch is not currently listed in catalogs as far as I know.
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Post by smauggie on Jan 13, 2022 20:09:57 GMT
Chamba State postal stationary (front and back) Gwalior Scott# 112 Jind Scott# O48
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Post by smauggie on Jan 3, 2022 17:40:22 GMT
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Post by smauggie on Dec 14, 2021 11:32:53 GMT
Welcome, Ivan!
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Post by smauggie on Dec 4, 2021 18:02:08 GMT
and "Voie de Suez" Ie "by the Suez route", the canal did not open until 1869 and this route in 1862 would involve overland transport to the Mediterranean.
It would still be quicker than the alternative ship mails by the much longer route round Cape of Good Hope Suez in this case means the city of Suez (now at one end of the Suez canal). Mail for Europe was offloaded there and sent by train to Alexandria where it sailed by ship to a European port.
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Post by smauggie on Dec 4, 2021 2:51:01 GMT
My latest acquisition is this Island of Reunion cover sent to Nantes in 1862.
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Post by smauggie on Nov 16, 2021 5:07:29 GMT
He was a gentle kind soul with a sense of humor. He will be missed. Condolences to family and friends.
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Post by smauggie on Oct 30, 2021 18:05:54 GMT
The odd shape of the P in PAID strikes me as off.
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Post by smauggie on Oct 23, 2021 17:47:52 GMT
It seems I never shared my odd Newspaper Branch cancel. Newspaper Branches ad a cancel stating NPB in some fashion plus a letter identifying the branch. In this case the letter B is turned 90 degrees to the right and had dots in in that makes it looks like spectacles. The branch letter is W, which is not listed in the catalog (or so I am told).
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Post by smauggie on Oct 22, 2021 15:54:38 GMT
While I have been to Gatun a number of times, I once spent the night in Gatun in 1997. The house was vacant with no furniture, but cots were provided. By then I don't think there were any people living there. It was a nice town, though. Gatun existed primarily as housing for both American workers who worked in Cristobal, which was a huge logistics hub as well as home to many offices of the Panama Canal, as well as for those who worked at the Gatun locks. In fact at one point there was need for additional housing, so the township of Margarita was created which was actually closer to Cristobal than Gatun. Mail posted on ships would be dropped off at Cristobal. Fort Clayton was one of the main US Army bases in Panama. It sat practically on the banks of the Panama Canal. The Jesuit Ruins are known in Panama as the Arco Chato or "flat arch", because it is the first incidence of a flat arch being used to build buildings. The entrance, which is partially obscured in the image has the flat arch.
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Post by smauggie on Oct 19, 2021 23:04:10 GMT
Iraq #1 (according to Scott)
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