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Post by Ryan on May 20, 2017 10:38:42 GMT
The Scott catalogue used to have an error in those listings, with both #148 and #162 showing the same stamp! That has since been fixed - my 2016 copy shows the correct issues. The six stamps you show are all #162. The difference is in the background - #148 has a solid, dark-coloured background, whereas #162 is as your copies with a lighter-coloured background made of horizontal lines. Here are two images nabbed from Les Molnar's Stamps of Victoria website. The top image is Scott #148, the bottom is Scott #162. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on May 18, 2017 2:15:08 GMT
Right next to the "thumbs up" button for liking a post, you'll see a gear with a drop-down arrow that opens up a menu. Then choose "Link to Post". You're then given a choice between a link for the post and its surrounding thread, or just the post alone without any thread. I always choose the one that includes the thread, as otherwise the context of your desired post is lost.
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Post by Ryan on May 15, 2017 9:38:46 GMT
I like that Queen Victoria set very much - British engraved stamps were becoming less common by this time, so it's always nice to come across one of these in a pile of kiloware.
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Post by Ryan on May 12, 2017 14:30:46 GMT
Possibly the most useful is the new stamp issues. That's the reason I subscribe to Linn's - I have a long-term project in which I collate all of the new issues into individual country files, thus I keep my Scott catalogues continuously updated (more or less - any number changes are not posted in Linn's, and of course price changes aren't either). But as a long-term project, I'm behind schedule with it, as I am with virtually every long-term project I have on the go. Lots of those, unfortunately ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on May 12, 2017 10:23:14 GMT
I happened to come across this old thread while searching through TSF for some of the posts by Andy Pastuszak about his Stamp Hacks site. Linn's has recently updated their archived issues page and you can now look at issues from 2008 to 2013, all of which can be downloaded as .PDF files. The list of issues isn't 100% complete but there's quite a lot there. Everybody can see these issues - you need to be a Linn's subscriber to get access to all the issues from 2014 forward. Linn’s Stamp News - Magazine Archives 2008-2013Ryan
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Post by Ryan on May 11, 2017 22:20:38 GMT
Ummm - maybe that you received letter #32 of 52 but your folder is #10 of 52?
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Post by Ryan on May 5, 2017 17:38:31 GMT
Unfortunately the return address of NYC was hand crossed out so I don't know exactly where it was posted from That's the sender's name that has been crossed out - William Tilden Blodgett, a varnish magnate and philanthropist who was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the U.S. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on May 5, 2017 4:11:52 GMT
You'll need to make sure you aren't posting any images of stamps under copyright. Each country has its own laws regarding such things - there is an oversight page which summarizes the status for each country in regards to its stamps (and note that this status can occasionally change, as with Germany a few years ago as a result of a court case). If your articles contain images of stamps that don't have the proper copyright clearance, odds are very good that the images will be challenged by another editor and they'll be removed. Wikimedia Commons:Stamps/Public domainThere is also a list of templates to be used in the Wikicode to indicate the copyright status of the stamps in your articles. Wikimedia Commons:Stamps/Public domain templatesAnd here are a couple of Wikipedia categories which contain listings for various postage stamp articles. Note that these category listings are never complete - the contents of each category are automatically comprised of articles which have the correct category Wikicode markup links in them. Wikipedia Category:Postage stampsWikipedia Category:Postage stamps by countryRyan
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Post by Ryan on May 2, 2017 21:26:14 GMT
May 2nd (1898) Canada, Scott #69, 3c carmine, perf 12, unwatermarked, from the Queen Victoria "Leaf Issue". This example was postmarked on this date in St. John, New Brunswick and came from the firstfrog2013 TSF Donation Auction lot. Not just any cancellation, either - that's a squared circle. It's such a socked-on-the-nose example that you almost miss the squared part. If you're not familiar with such things from a Canadian perspective, here's a random page with some info and lots of examples. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 23, 2017 17:39:30 GMT
April 10th, 1904
1 ruble Russian Imperial Arms (Scott 45), cancelled in Moscow. Notice the postmark with posthorns. I see that the bottom word on this cancellation is "Expedition". Do you know exactly what this cancel was commemorating? The Russo-Japanese war was on at the time (and wasn't going particularly well for the Russians) and I was curious as to if you knew more about the cancel. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 23, 2017 3:06:33 GMT
I'll start - is there a specific term for those instructions and\or description of contents of an envelope or package that are written or stamped by the sender? I am thinking, for instance, of "Photos enclosed, please do not bend", "Live bees, handle with care" and the like. OK, I'll take a stab at this one. There has been a series of recent articles by Wayne Youngblood in the APS monthly journal American Philatelist in which the term "private auxiliary markings" has been used. As you might know, TSF is a chapter member of the American Philatelic Society so we have access to their journal. These APS journals are located in a section of TSF which is accessible to those forum members who have met the 14 day / 50 post minimums (I think - Steve is the one who knows all about the APS stuff). So, go to the TSF thread containing the monthly issues of American Philatelist and have a look at these articles: November 2016, page 1194 - "Private Auxiliary Markings" December 2016, page 1290 - "Unofficial, but Very Interesting" January 2017, page 28 - "A Little Something Extra On That Cover" Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 23, 2017 2:20:18 GMT
There are some nitpick aspects of stamp collecting that I enjoy quite a bit - plate varieties, perforation varieties, watermark varieties, etc. But colour shades have never given me much joy, mostly because I find it so hard to tell one from another. If I had $100K I'd buy one of those nifty video spectral comparators and I'd let a machine come up with a quantified difference. Here's an article which says "stand back, I'm going to do some science!" A VSC and X-ray fluorescence are used to pick apart some shade differences on classic US stamps. The U.S. 1851 3¢ Stamp: Color, Chemistry, and Changes[Broken image link removed] Ryan edit - I can't guess what broken image link was here, as I've been using the same image host (Google Photos) since this forum began and haven't lost any other images (as far as I know, anyway). Maybe it was this snip from the article referenced, showing the spectrograph resulting from the X-ray fluorescence machine's analysis of stamp ink, in which the relative concentrations of various elements can be measured. Or maybe it was this lolcat meme. Hooray for lolcat memes!
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Post by Ryan on Apr 21, 2017 16:38:22 GMT
This won't apply to you since you're in the US, but I thought I'd pop this note in here, in case any other Canadians should see the thread in the future. Oxfam Canada runs a stamp program which sells donated stamps, with the funds received then going to various Oxfam projects. Amounts are modest but donations are always appreciated, I'm sure. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 21, 2017 16:30:06 GMT
I can see subtle differences between some of the stamps - for example, the shape of the "C" in "CENTS" of the top pair in your second post above. Do serious collectors attempt to plate this issue? Are there any varieties that are sought after? (At the "flyspeck" level, not the large differences like the broken crown you noted in another thread.)
And by the way, I really like that mock up of the wing margin pair you show - I don't think I've ever seen a genuine pair of those before. Were sheets provided to sales counters with wing margin pairs still intact, or were they always broken into individual panes first? There is a Canadian equivalent to that - the 1934 Cartier issue can be found with a gutter margin between stamps. This block (nabbed from a Sparks Auctions listing) shows the wider margin at the centre. Not as dramatic as the view you'd get with those wing margin stamps, though ....
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Post by Ryan on Apr 20, 2017 22:27:01 GMT
Judging by the partially-submerged rocks in the foreground of the original photo and the size of the vegetation in the background, I'm not convinced that much trickery was involved. The "trickery", such as it was, was that the image made it appear as though these were substantial in size. "He discovered that positioning his camera at a particular angle could make a cascade tumbling over a silt bank appear to be a sizable waterfall." And in fact, the photo showing men standing on top of the falls is trick photography in itself, a superimposed image of men standing over top of another image of the falls. According to this snip from Monty Wedd's book "Stamp Oddities" (a favourite of Rodney's, no doubt), the "falls" were only a couple of feet tall. (Image nabbed from a thread on Stampboards which shows scans from the book.) The book referenced earlier made mention that there is no such "Dilston Rivulet" (as Spurling named it), and that Lady Nelson Creek must be the one in question as it is the only one in the area that feeds into the Tamar. Dilston Creek was a name in use at least until 1927, as I have found a newspaper article from that date which mentions it. [Broken image link removed] Lady Nelson Creek is dry for at least part of the year - the current imagery on Google Maps shows it to be completely devoid of water. And speaking of Rodney ( rod222 ), here's a note of his posted on rec.collecting.stamps.discuss back in 2002, in which he quotes the Australasian Stamp Catalogue - "Dilston Falls, depicted on the 6d value, existed only for a brief period in the 1890's when a two foot cataract developed at the junction of Dilston Creek and Tamar River as a result of a local flood. A photo of the "Falls" appeared in a Launceston newspaper and was subsequently used as the basis for the erroneous stamp design." Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 20, 2017 1:15:37 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Apr 20, 2017 1:02:36 GMT
I tried to find a written reference on this point, but the best I could come up with is a link below in the "Companion to Tasmanian History" which briefly discusses the designs of the pictorial stamp set, and refers to Dilston Falls as "ephemeral". I will keep looking and post more info if I find anything. I got curious about this after reading your post so I thought I'd take a stab at finding out something. I came up with a book entitled "The Spurling legacy and the emergence of wilderness photography in Tasmania" which contains a subsection entitled " The Dilston Fall affair" - it seems the "falls" were as much a trick of photographic angles as anything. Apparently they were only about 2 metres tall! My link should take you to the correct page - if not, go to page 218. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 20, 2017 0:52:49 GMT
Wow! Maybe this will end up being like the Audrey Hepburn stamps from Germany that weren't supposed to have found their way on to the mails (and which ended up being worth 6 figures for those lucky enough to come across one of them).
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Post by Ryan on Apr 11, 2017 9:39:03 GMT
I'm familiar with Google Photos as it is my image hosting choice. I find it fairly straightforward - there must be some small detail that's going haywire with your attempts at posting. First, when you're looking at your image in Google Photos, right-click on the image and that will bring up a context menu. You need to choose "Copy image address" (or whatever similar command, various versions of Windows might have various ways of saying the same thing - if you're on a Mac, you'll need to get help from somebody other than me!). This will paste the image's Google Photos URL on your clipboard. Now you need to put that URL into your post here on TSF. When you're posting images stored on Google Photos here, you need to choose the blue "Reply" button on the right side of the posting area - if you don't, you're stuck in the "Quick Reply" mode and you aren't given the option of posting images, videos, URLs, etc. Google Photos URLs don't have a ".jpg" at the end so the forum's ProBoards software doesn't know that you have an image. You have to click the blue "Reply" button in order to get to the icons that allow you to specify image URL locations. Click on the little "Insert Image" icon, 3rd from left in the pile of icons at the far right. It looks sort of like a landscape in a picture frame - hovering your cursor over those icons should bring up alternate text that tells you what the icons do (in order from the left, you have "Link", "Email", "Insert Image", "Insert Video", etc.). This brings up a small dialog box that you can use to insert your image URL. Click inside the "Image URL:" text box to get the cursor in the right place (I also get rid of the "http://" that is pre-written there, if you don't you might manage to ruin the URL syntax). Then right-click to bring up a context menu and choose "Paste". This will put the Google Photos URL currently on your clipboard into that text box. Then click on the "Insert Image" button (or just hit Enter) and the ProBoards software will figure out the correct codes to treat your URL as an image location. The image will then show up. The image is going to appear where you had the cursor when you clicked on the "Insert Image" icon. I habitually enter three blank lines and then put my cursor on the middle one before I insert the image - that gives me a blank line above and below my image and makes it easy to continue typing afterward. One final thing - sometimes you might accidentally click on the "Preview" or "BBCode" links at the bottom of the Reply window. This just allows you to have a look at the codes that the ProBoards software uses to make your images (or videos, or URL links, or whatever) show up properly. If your picture disappears and is replaced by an ugly string of characters, that means you clicked on the "BBCode" link and you need to choose "Preview" to get back to seeing pretty pictures again. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 8, 2017 4:04:48 GMT
I have some clear plastic safety glasses that block UV light. I suppose my regular eyeglasses also have UV blocking, so maybe I'm double safe. My UV light has two separate bulbs to generate the two different wavelengths. It isn't done by means of single bulb with two different filters - I don't think that sort of thing would work, I've only ever seen bulbs with specific UV wavelength outputs. Here's an example similar to mine (mine is a Raytech, this is just something I found on a quick search). These are fairly high priced but there are inexpensive battery-powered units available for each wavelength. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 8, 2017 1:29:30 GMT
Does your UV light have multiple wavelengths? US stamps use a different fluorescent taggant than many other countries - Canadian stamps, for example, glow yellow (or greenish yellow) under either short or long wavelengths but US stamps need shortwave UV light to glow properly. I would guess that you have a longwave light - the taggant on the 21c cutout above should be much more visible if you had the correct wavelength.
If you have the right kind of UV light, then find some US airmail stamps (or postal stationery) - you'll find that whereas the normal US stamps glow green or yellow, airmail stamps glow red or pink. And if you look at your Robert Morris 13c cutout shown earlier in this thread, I bet the entire printed image fluoresces. Some of those US single-colour prints use fluorescent ink, so there are no separate tagging bars on them. Just a guess - I know there are others in that same series of postcards that are printed that way.
Yay UV lights! Just don't look at the light, over the long term that can mess up your eyes. (That's why sunglasses block UV light.)
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Post by Ryan on Apr 3, 2017 8:34:12 GMT
I know Rein peripherally dating back to my days in rec.collecting.stamps.discuss on USENET back before the turn of the century - he's very knowledgeable and has particular interests in stamp production minutiae. Somewhere buried in my piles of literature I have a booklet he wrote on Belgian stamps. The difference he cites between EME and photogravure (note he states "traditional photogravure") have to do with the methods used to create the printing plates. Traditional photogravure is a strictly mechanical process using chemicals and has existed since the 19th century. The process is at its most basic sort of like what hobby photographers will go through to develop their own film except there are quite a few more steps (and you can see what you're doing for much of it). See the Wikipedia article on photogravure. Electromechanical engraving is a modern process which uses a computer to engrave the plate, controlling a stylus that digs little holes - there is also a method using a computer to control a laser which burns holes into the plate (which I suppose would be essentially indistinguishable from EME but shouldn't really be called "electromechanical" because it's missing the "mechanical" part). Here are a pair of brief marketing videos from a printing company that uses such processes. The printing process is then essentially the same as for traditional photogravure, as far as how the plates are inked and the paper printed. The differences are in the production of the plates. I will save your link to that Stampboards thread and look forward to investigating the screen angles in the future - I like that kind of fussy flyspecking stuff. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 2, 2017 4:09:17 GMT
Your sample of 15 may be too small, so you may as you say, have just one type. I have around 80 grams of off-paper used stamps in the Hong Kong tin, so that's a bit north of 1000 stamps. I just picked a little through the pile a bit until I found a few - there are more in there, and will be more added as I continue to soak my way through my mountains of stuff, so I'll eventually get a better look at these. As it was, I had a look at the ones I picked out, particularly at the "O"s in "Hong Kong". The dot pattern was prominent around the edges on all of them so I just put them back in the tin and called it "inconclusive" (I never thought to have a look at them with my UV light). The photo / litho comparison has been fairly straightforward on some other common issues so I kind of expected the same thing with these Hong Kong issues. It may yet turn out to be easy to see a difference, and it's just waiting for me to come across some litho copies. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 2, 2017 0:13:37 GMT
I have made no attempt to distinguish between the issues (Photo and Litho), as I want to retain the will to live. Do you have a good way of checking this? I don't have my stamps sorted well enough to make it easy to look for my stamps from this set, but I dug through the Hong Kong pile long enough to find about 15 copies or so, thinking that would be enough to make sure I had some of each printing type. I thought the difference would be something simple to spot, like a visible dot mesh for photogravure and a solid background for lithography, but that wasn't the case (unless all of the stamps I found were in fact photogravure) as all of them had dot meshes visible. Quick glances through Scott & Michel didn't help much, and Yang didn't help at all! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Apr 1, 2017 23:47:00 GMT
I'm a former Portland resident (a long, long time ago, though) - can't say I remember Waldport but I've been to both Newport and Coos Bay, so I suppose I've been through Waldport at least once. The last time I stayed in Medford I arrived in town and the sign on a bank said 118° F - I found out on the news that night that it had "only" reached 113°. YEESH - that's way too hot for a Canadian.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 30, 2017 16:19:51 GMT
I've now retired to the coast of beautiful central Oregon. Yum, salt water taffy - welcome to our forum! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 21, 2017 23:14:44 GMT
Chris, one thing to take from Keijo's reply is that humidity is essential for these organic moulds / fungi to take root. I assume your part of Arizona is dry (because there aren't many parts of Arizona which aren't dry!) so that is a good sign - as long as your stamps start off clean, they'll probably stay clean as long as you stay in Arizona. Calgary, where I live, has a low average humidity indoors and although I have plenty of stamps which have come from elsewhere already affected with toning, all I do is just set them aside and I don't worry about them much. We might get high humidity numbers outdoors overnight or during rainstorms, so that's the number that shows up on our weather readings, but once you warm up the air enough to tolerate life indoors that humidity number really drops. We have had a couple of very wet summers (by our standards) recently and my indoor weather station has now set a new record, all the way up to 41% humidity inside my house at one point last summer. In the winter months it's almost never above 20% indoors, and when it's ugly cold outside it's always below 10%. That causes its own problems, of course - I get static electricity shocks from absolutely everything and the cats don't like being petted in the winter nearly as much. Oh well. I can deal with it fine, I'm born & bred here so low humidity doesn't bother me, and I've actually removed the humidifier attachment from my furnace (a common feature in houses here) because I prefer the safety for my stamps given by the lower humidity.
Don't store any stamps in the basement, that's my biggest piece of advice. Lower temps down there will mean higher humidity values, and that's where the problems can start, especially if you're putting boxes of stamps directly on to a concrete floor.
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Post by Ryan on Mar 11, 2017 10:06:42 GMT
... Now, if only I could figure out what they mean by "meridian behind Columbus's head," then I will be golden! Imagine that Columbus (the figure on the left) had a ponytail. Immediately above where the ponytail would be, the designs on the bottom row have a line of longitude on the globe (a meridian). The designs on the top row don't. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Mar 11, 2017 3:05:07 GMT
I'm also a fan of Adblock Plus. If you get creative with it, you can use it to block news article comment sections, which are truly the nadir of the internet!
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Post by Ryan on Mar 11, 2017 2:59:37 GMT
Believe it or not, the older Scott catalogs had a section near the back of each catalog called "For the Record". As a young collector (a "still living with the parents" collector, that kind of young) I used to borrow Scott catalogues from my local public library and I would order & organize to my heart's content - they had newer editions permanently shelved in the reference section of the library but there were some older copies available for borrowing, so I'd take those home. Everything that was listed in the "For the Record" section (or anything that didn't even make that grade, like Christmas seals and such) went into a cardboard box. I hated throwing stamps away (and still do) so nothing got tossed, it just went in that box instead. Well, the calico cat found the box and decided it made a good litter box replacement, so out went all of those stamps. In the years since, I've accumulated many more catalogues so I would now have listings for many of these dearly departed stamps. And in other cases, such as Bhutan or Panama or Ecuador (among others), stamps which were formerly in the "For the Record" section are now listed in Scott. Some, such as the Bhutan stamps for the history of steelmaking that were printed on thin sheets of steel foil, are things that I have never since come across again (at least not in such nice condition, I have a few of them but they're rusty!). Grrrr .... The catalogue listing snip that Steve showed earlier (Bhutan 84, 84A, 84B, 84C, etc.) is one of the examples of a set formerly unlisted in the main Scott catalogue that had been relegated to the "For the Record" section. They're numbered that way because there wasn't enough room allocated for all the catalogue numbers needed for each individual stamp in the set. For whatever reason, an editorial decision was later made to put all of those stamps back into the main listing so they had to get creative with the numbers to avoid changing all the later issue numbers. Ryan
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