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Post by Ryan on Apr 18, 2024 5:24:49 GMT
Here is an oddity and is something new to my worldwide collection - my first postally used bisected stamp, in this case from Bolivia. I would have guessed that such a thing, especially on a relatively modern issue, would be strictly philatelic in nature, but I would have also guessed that somebody concocting a philatelic cover like that would have done a neater job of it rather than overlapping the corner of the bisect over top of the full stamp. I would also have guessed that the bisect cover would have been saved by the collector on one end or the other, rather than having it snipped off and dumped into a batch of kiloware! The postmark is unreadable and in any case I don't know anything about Bolivia's postal rates, so I have no idea whether there was any legitimate need for half a stamp to create the correct rate for any particular usage. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 4, 2024 20:55:21 GMT
Hello & welcome from another Calgarian!
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Post by Ryan on Mar 26, 2024 20:00:38 GMT
Kurrentschrift is largely incomprehensible to me (and the vast majority of non-native and / or non-older German speakers, probably). Have a look at this letter map, nabbed from the relevant Wikipedia article - note how the "f" looks almost like an "h", and the "I" is like a "T", the "B" is like the "L", and how about the mess in differentiating between the "c", "e", "i", "m", "n", "r", "u", "v", "w" ... A popular area retirement town and second-home location for the well-to-do around my part of the world is Invermere, BC - imagine what "Invermere" looks like in Kurrentschrift! ha ha There are translation firms which will translate German written in Kurrent to German written in something other than Kurrent. Yeesh. But it's better than Sütterlin, at least. I recall reading an article on the Japanese language once in which a hypothesis was set forth that the Chinese-origin characters were kept (as opposed to switching to a Latin-based script) as an intentional form of obscurantism, attempting to keep their culture isolated from those of the Western world after the enforced opening of trade with the West in the mid-19th century. I often thought that maybe there was something like that going on with these forms of German handwriting ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 26, 2024 1:44:33 GMT
Charles Lindbergh and his Cat "Patsy" Charles Lindbergh has the largest hands I've ever seen on a non-basketball-playing human ... wow! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 26, 2024 1:41:51 GMT
Just want to share a few more sets I have: "Turks & Calicos Islands" - that would be a very witty turn of phrase for a topical collection of cat stamps! But it's actually "Caicos", if it's just a typo ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 24, 2024 18:12:25 GMT
Note that these Central African Airways issues are from a different Central Africa - in this case, the English language and shilling currency are associated with the former Rhodesia & Nyasaland. CAA was the flag carrier for that federation. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 24, 2024 3:31:59 GMT
... you should be able to zoom in to get the image to fill the frame/window. The photos posted by marbles are hosted on ImgBB - if you click once on the image, that takes you to the ImgBB page that holds the image. If you then right-click on the image and choose "open image in new tab" (or whatever the equivalent is for your browser), you will get an image you can click on (left click, the normal way this time) to toggle from a "fit the screen" image to one that is at the image's full resolution. I've nabbed a screen capture of the last image - plate 12? Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 23, 2024 2:32:22 GMT
I think we owe a combined apology to Life Magazine I found the commentary that came with the cover, that exonerates the editor. The "Rarities" were covered in a spread inside the magazine. The vagaries of international copyright law mean that what I can see in Canada may well be different from what any of the rest of you around the world can see. Be that as it may, I can read that 1954 Life Magazine issue on Google Books. Here's the start of the article (there's more than one article on stamp collecting in that issue). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 18, 2024 6:45:45 GMT
Please let me know who you are, mystery man! I am the aforementioned mystery man. I'll send a PM ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 17, 2024 17:18:50 GMT
Cancellations with those 6-digit numbers are known as POCON cancellations - Post Office Computer Organization Number. They were introduced in 1973 and replaced the older 4-digit numbers (and sometimes 5-digit, for tiny post offices) seen on MOON cancellations, with that acronym standing for Money Order Office Number. Apart from postal cancellations, you can also see those on old Canadian precancelled stamps where they were used to represent the city. Here's an example of that, my city of Calgary (image nabbed from a HipStamp seller). For the non-tiny offices which used the 4-digit numbers, Maritime provinces in the east started with an X, then Quebec starting with 0 or 1, Ontario with 2, 3 or 4, Manitoba with 5, Saskatchewan with 7, Alberta with 8 and British Columbia with 9. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 8, 2024 3:39:10 GMT
Drat & blast! I'll have to wait for the program to show up on YouTube - I registered for the seminar in the hopes that I would make it as scheduled but I failed in that regard. I await with interest!
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Post by Ryan on Feb 28, 2024 3:08:07 GMT
I use stock books and bent spades work best for me. The angle of the bend makes it easy to get stamps in & out of a stock book strip without my knuckles running into everything!
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Post by Ryan on Feb 27, 2024 22:53:52 GMT
... I found a block of 4 with the variety almost hidden in the top right stamp. Wow, that is an immense cancellation! I wonder what that looks like when complete (and how big a block of roos you need to catch the whole cancel ...). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 27, 2024 4:21:11 GMT
By dint of great coincidence, last week I was listening to my Smithsonian Folkways CD of music from the former Soviet Union and one of the tracks is an old archival piece of Estonian bagpipe music. If you're a bagpipe stamp collector, then you probably know of this bagpipe stamp from Estonia. But have you heard bagpipe music from Estonia? It's a little bit different ... Welcome to our forum, I hope you have lots of bagpipe stamps to share! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 21, 2024 3:52:41 GMT
Any idea on the 4 digit numbers? One possibility is that they are thicknesses in mm. The '(0.095 - 0.098)' notation sounds like it could be a thickness range (roughly .0038"), and the 4 digit number lines up with those numbers if you ignore the decimal point. That's a fairly thick paper, for what it's worth, you'd want to confirm that before you believe my guess! Why Sismondo would use mm rather than inch is a question, though, as I think his selling market was more US & Canada than overseas. US collectors would likely want inch measurements, Canadians could maybe tolerate either, although older Canadians will be the majority of a stamp dealer's customers, and who knows, maybe people that old are still complaining about the change of our flag in 1965 ... ===== edit - well, a nice guess, but wrong. Your previous post shows a similar glassine, and although the paper thickness there is specifically given mm units, the 4 digit number has nothing to do with that thickness. Oh well, at least the thickness part is cleared up. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 20, 2024 1:58:38 GMT
Note that you have an error in your album page regarding identification of #131. Part perforate Canadian Admiral stamps were issued in sheet form but they had perforations between only the vertical rows, so vertical pairs or strips will be imperforate between the stamps and perforated along the sides, the opposite to what is seen on a strip of normal coil stamps. I'll quote one of my previous posts which shows my copy of the 3c part perforate Admiral, and here's the heading to that section from the Unitrade catalogue, which shows all 3 of the denominations in block form. Good thing the Unitrade catalogue lists vertical pairs as well as blocks on the part perforates - a VF-NH 3c pair already catalogues close to CAN $1900 (or did back in 2020, the date of my catalogue) so a block gets well out of the range of what I could buy! On therealwesty's most recent post you can see three imperforate Admirals. These were released to the general public and aren't too expensive in the catalogue. There were also some "part perforate coil" stamps released in sheet form, and the 1 cent and 2 cent copies are even a little bit less expensive than the fully imperforate stamps. The 3 cent copies were printed in a very limited quantity, only 2200 stamps, and were awarded "by favour", gifts to bigwigs and such. Here's my copy of the Unitrade 130a pair. You have to watch out for faked copies, made out of the fully imperforate stamps with fake perforations added. Genuine stamps were wet printed and have no embossing on the back of the stamps, whereas the fully imperforate stamps (and the faked part perforate stamps made from them) were dry printed, showing embossing of the design pressing through to the gum side. Ryan Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 16, 2024 4:56:48 GMT
Those thin lines for ropes and such are engraved whereas the rest of the ship is printed with lithography, so they're separate parts of the printing process. If the engraving is poorly aligned, the ropes will miss lining up properly with the ship. Unless they miss by a lot (for example, part of the ropes end up on the next stamp beside it), it's considered pretty much the same as a poorly centred stamp and is not something of extra value. The Unitrade catalogue used to list various minor colour shifts but there was a decision made years ago to remove them and for the most part, they've all disappeared from the listings - I think maybe the Welland Canal issue (?) still mentions "hair touching the barn" but that's the only one I remember seeing in catalogues from recent years (maybe the Siamese Bears 25c landscape definitive from the '70s is still there too?). The Darnell catalogue listed all kinds of these colour shifts.
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Post by Ryan on Feb 12, 2024 14:47:43 GMT
I was going to ask if the green pages are privately created by a collector or are from the Greenlandic Post Office Pete provided that green paper himself - here's his post on the specifics. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 11, 2024 23:11:24 GMT
I have recently started using Colnect and it will be handy for keeping want lists. But I'm progressing very slowly and I keep getting sidetracked by other things, and so far have only made it about 60% of the way through the used portion of my Iceland collection. At this rate it will take me 30 years to finish 15 percent of my worldwide collection - I need to get a move on ... My Colnect want lists (and trade lists, when the day comes for those) are restricted to those stamps with a catalogue value maximum of $5 - more expensive stamps are something I would specifically target and they don't need to be on a want list, nor am I likely to trade for them until I get to the point where I have most of the inexpensive stuff, and I will likely never have most of the inexpensive stuff. The more expensive stamps do go on a list, but it's the "Ignore" list on Colnect - I can still see what I need / don't have, but that way I don't clutter up my main lists with a bunch of stuff I'll likely never see unless I specifically buy that particular stamp. That "Ignore" list is also limited and I don't bother with putting the really expensive stamps on there. For the sake of completion, my Colnect profile page. I should put that on my TSF profile page ... I also keep some spreadsheets for other collections I intend to build up - Albrecht Dürer, Canadiana (for example, worldwide issues for Expo '67, Olympics held in Canada, CAPEX issues, etc.) and "nifty stuff" (issues that strike my fancy for whatever reason, like these two issues from the Math on Stamps thread). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 9, 2024 11:27:17 GMT
This thread has now been fully restored. Soon more exhibits of other early Great Britain stamps posted here by tallanent will also be restored, but the British postmarks thread has not been so fortunate and many of those images are lost. Oh well. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 9, 2024 8:22:27 GMT
I was last there about 20 years ago. Well, hello Bud! Long time, no see, as they say in the movies ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 5, 2024 21:56:58 GMT
Yes, there are almost as many Icelanders in Manitoba as there are in Iceland! I'm in Alberta, we don't have as many of them out here (I am part Norwegian, though, so that's almost like an Icelander) but we do have the Stephan G. Stephansson House not too far away from where my parents grew up in west central Alberta. Every summer there's an Icelandic Day celebrated there. Stephansson House in Markerville, ABRyan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 5, 2024 6:43:54 GMT
Just trying to figure out how to reply to posts and add some scans As far as adding images is concerned, take a look at these two threads from our " Frequently asked questions about using the forum" board. Adding Images to Forum Posts - an overview of the three different methods you can use to add images. Using TSF Image Host - instructions for using an image host specific to The Stamp Forum. This ensures that images will stay with the forum, whereas using other sites could cause image links to be broken if those sites close / change names / hold you to ransom like Photobucket / whatever else might befall us ... Welcome to TSF! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 4, 2024 21:35:22 GMT
I must say I am impressed with the coffee table quality with hard covers and dust jackets. Once upon a time I bought a mint Canadian collection and it came in a Lindner hingeless album (volumes 1 & 2, up to 1974 or so), so later on I started looking for later volumes of the Lindner hingeless albums. A dealer told to me to not bother beyond volume whatever it was, because the Canada Post yearbooks were so vastly better in value - hardly any more costly than the mint stamps themselves and packaged in such nicely illustrated books. I did eventually buy another collection that contained even more Lindner pages so now I have them up to about 2014 or so, but I kept buying the Canada Post yearbooks up to about 2015 too, and they are certainly far more informative and nicer to look at. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 4, 2024 21:21:02 GMT
Gibbons preambles The entry in the SG Commonwealth catalogue 2023 edition: Well, fascinating - I wonder when Gibbons made the change with their watermark illustrations from being viewed from the front to being viewed from the back? I'm currently working on Icelandic stamps (yes, still, forever and ever it seems) and the crosses watermark shown below is often found reversed, so it makes for total confusion if you don't know which side of the stamp you're supposed to be looking at ... I'm not using my SG Scandinavia catalogue for this Icelandic project as I haven't found anything that isn't listed in my other catalogues - I'm using Scott, Michel & FACIT, all of which specify looking at the back side of the stamp for viewing watermarks, and I've also found a little bit extra (such as some reversed watermark listings / pricings) in Thomas Graungaard's online catalogue. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 4, 2024 3:21:58 GMT
Stamp issued by Egypt in 2000 to commemorate the 25 th anniversary of the death of the singer Omkolthoum I think she is perhaps the closest contender to Muammar Ghaddafi for the number of different ways in which her name has been transliterated, and that is yet another way! In fact, I've never seen her name as a mononym. From her Discogs page, they list the following: Oum Kalthoum, Oum Kalsoum, Om Kalsoum, Om Kolthom, Oum Kolthoum, Umm Kulthum, Oum Kaltsoum, Oum Kalshoum, Oum Koulthoum, Om Kolsoum, Oum Koulsoum, Om Kolthoum, Oum Kolsoum, Oum Kaltoum, Oum Kahltoum, Om Koulsoum. And there will be more yet, I'm sure. A fine performance, including a typically eager audience, pleased to interrupt frequently with applause and shouting. It isn't unusual at all for single songs to last an hour in her live performances, which are legion - if you're a completist, you'll be listening for months to hear every track a single time ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 4, 2024 0:17:11 GMT
I like my LS-7 so much I bought a second one in case my original borked. I haven't needed it yet, but I sure use the original a lot and I'm sure at some point some part of it will fail. Or I'll drop it, or have some other stupid attack that will disable it for good ...
I bought my original unit new at least 30 years ago, the second one was found on eBay. It's long enough since I bought it that I'd have to go on a search mission to find where I put it.
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Post by Ryan on Feb 3, 2024 12:58:30 GMT
Seems they do not use Scott numbers They do, but not under that name. They call them "Stamp Numbers", they're the Sn code - in this case, Sn BI 336, where BI is their country code for Burundi. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Feb 1, 2024 8:17:36 GMT
(My guess TYULENOVO ?) If so, what are the 3 letters preceding? I think it's Malko Tarnovo. The Cyrillic matches better than it does for Tyulenovo. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 31, 2024 18:46:03 GMT
I don't know what the newest catalogue values look like - my hard copy of the Scott catalogue is dated 2016, and I only have Linn's updates up to 2019 (and they're tucked away on another disk right now). But in snooping through my catalogue recently, I was surprised to find that the Scott editors really seem to dislike modern Australian stamps. The recent self-adhesive commemoratives are all valued at the minimum catalogue value, 25 cents (the lick-and-stick stamps are priced higher, but it seems to me that those are so uncommon that they should maybe be higher yet). If I just jump ahead a few pages, modern commemoratives at the domestic letter rate from Austria are valued at $1.75.
I can understand that USA modern commemoratives are sometimes seen listed at the catalogue minimum - they have a huge population, 12 times or so that of Australia, and it stands to reason that the print quantities and consumer usage of these stamps will also be higher. Are Australian commemoratives really that unloved? Send them to me if you hate them so much! ha ha
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