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Post by Ryan on Nov 13, 2015 10:21:27 GMT
On my cover EVERY stamp was stuck "overlapping" each other to make room on the cover. Hence every stamp left a tacky gum solution on the one below it. No rescue at all. Lost the lot. Stamps like that go in the same pile as self-adhesives with non-water-soluble layers. Your Fuelite will allow you to remove the stamps without damage and will also allow you to remove the gum residue. Even if you've soaked them off cover with water, you can then further soak the stamps in Fuelite to remove the gum residue left on the design surface. Note, however, that you would need to allow time for the stamps to dry from their soak in water - if you try to move the stamps directly from a water bath to a Fuelite bath, the paper is too soft from water soaking and trying to remove gum residue will almost certainly damage the stamps. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 12, 2015 2:15:36 GMT
I think your colour variety is just lead oxide from pollutants containing sulphur. I certainly can't see an excuse for a second ink colour on an engraved stamp normally printed in a single colour, and I can also see some discolouration on other areas of your closeup scan of the stamp (the "B" is tinted as is the frame and the heavily inked portion of his jacket). If I'm right, then hydrogen peroxide will remove much of the discolouration.
This type of thing is most often seen on older red, orange and yellow stamps, but brown contains both red and yellow so it could easily be affected also.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 12, 2015 1:43:23 GMT
I don't lurk around other forums too often, once in a long while I might pop in. So, I'm familiar with Bill from his presence on other sites and have always been impressed with his knowledge and his willingness to pass it on. In the same regard, I noticed in this month's APS journal (thanks tomiseksj for always putting up a post each month) that Jay Carrigan also passed away recently. Jay was similarly knowledgeable in his fields and has been a presence on the internet since before my earliest stumblings on chat forums (more specifically, the old USENET alt.rec.collecting.stamps group). I have since found threads on other forums about Jay's passing but for any others like me who don't get around often enough, this may be the first they've heard of it. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 12, 2015 1:30:08 GMT
Yum, pomegranates! OK, so that won't count as a quality post ....
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Post by Ryan on Nov 6, 2015 0:11:16 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Nov 5, 2015 23:52:58 GMT
The Giori press prints multiple colours from the same engraved plate. It does this with a series of rubber mats (rollers) cut to shape that apply different colours of ink on to the engraved plate. Those rubber mats won't necessarily be dimensionally identical for each stamp's surface and the application of ink on to the plate isn't dimensionally identical either - they're not perfect, they're "close enough". What you're seeing is one of these tiny differences, and that difference then changes the border where one colour changes into another.
Have a close look at the left panel in green ("Christmas") and the brown tree without leaves right beside it. You can see some bleeding of brown ink into the green ink that is larger on some stamps than it is on others. I'm sure if you look close enough with a magnifying glass you would also some some green ink from the text panel bleeding in to the brown tree. This sort of thing is typical of multi-coloured stamps printed on the Giori press.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 5, 2015 6:09:42 GMT
There are of course two sides to every story. Or four sides, as the case may be - Calgary is awash with petitions at the moment regarding Harper. One guy thought Harper to be a fine fellow so he started an online petition requesting a name change for the Calgary International Airport - he wants it to be named the Stephen J. Harper International Airport. Another thought that to be a bad idea and started a petition to stop any name change. A wag showed up and decided that the East Calgary Landfill would be a more appropriate target for a name change to honour PM Harper, so up went another petition. And another wag entered the fray and started a petition requesting a name change for Stephen Harper - he wants Harper's new name to be "Calgary International Airport". ha ha
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Post by Ryan on Nov 2, 2015 21:51:20 GMT
Very nice, there is some good value in the earliest DDR issues. Do you have any of the Chairman Mao stamps? I always hope to find them in large DDR mixes and old collections I have bought over the years. I went through a spell of buying things from eBay Germany and I picked up a few large DDR lots, preparing for day when / if I ever get around to trading. Those Mao stamps don't come too often in the types of lots I buy, though - I've only ever come across a couple of them, and if I remember correctly, they were kind of chewed up as well ...
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Post by Ryan on Nov 2, 2015 21:45:21 GMT
Note that all of your imperf stamps have a much less defined hatching on the jacket compared to both jkjblue's genuine and his forgery. His forgery is line perfed whereas the genuine is comb perfed, and your gutter pair is also comb perfed (albeit a much more ragged perf on your gutter pair than on the genuine copy shown). The 1914 imperfs have a higher value in my SFK Serbian catalogue than the 1911 issue (ranging from 5 to 13 Euros for the values you show) but I don't think your copies look genuine. Genuine examples of both the 1911 and 1914 stamps will be on chalky paper. Can you tell if the paper on your gutter pair is chalky? I don't try the various tricks such as silver wire or rubbing the stamp surface on my lower lip, whatever that's supposed to do - I use a high power loupe or a digital microscope to look for paper smoothness on the surface (chalky paper is much smoother and doesn't have the porous surface seen on uncoated paper). I don't think my Serbian catalogue mentions anything about a gutter pair but I can't read Serbo-Croat so what do I know .... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 2, 2015 15:45:39 GMT
Never say never! You never know, you might just one day come across a horrible ugly spacefiller that you'll decide to buy (but keep the photo of the nice copy - ha ha). As a young pup, my first ever stamp show purchase was an envelope of 300 horrible ugly spacefillers, virtually all stamps that I still don't own in good condition and likely never will ....
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Post by Ryan on Oct 28, 2015 3:46:30 GMT
Both the links from the previous post go to a Log-in page. Looks like Falschung has fixed his link - leastwise, I get the document when I click on the link. And an impressive document it is, 32 pages! In case others have problems with his link, here are a couple screen grabs. Looks like excellent stuff, I look forward to the launch of your website. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 7, 2015 10:00:55 GMT
Ryan: You are the Box guru. I selected share - People with Link for all the uploads so I do not know why they do not show up when you access the tables. Try again please. If they do not show then Help! I'm the Box dummy, as it turns out - I was looking in the private folder we set up before you had posted these tables for all to see! All is fine now ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 30, 2015 9:38:48 GMT
The perforated gutter in the upper right stamp is known as a "gutter snipe". A very nice example, Ryan! The format in which they are collected will depend on the type of gutter. Usually, they are a production anomaly rather than intentional, and would therefore fall under the category of EFO. Excellent info, and pretty much in line with what I had suspected (in short, it isn't supposed to be that way). I found a second example in the same pile but it wasn't as good - the example I show has pretty much an exact 1/2 hole showing at the edge of the gutter, but the second example only has maybe 20% or so, the cut almost missed the perfs completely. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 28, 2015 8:32:13 GMT
I still didn't see anything when logging in to Box.com but your link in the message above has worked for me - thanks! I doubt I'll ever have enough of those Corrientes stamps to need to study them in great detail but I find some of the other more general files very informative so I try to keep all of it updated.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 27, 2015 22:23:30 GMT
Is there a sharing setting that you need to set to make the file public? This is all I can see in the Argentina folder, I can't see the file you have updated. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 27, 2015 2:21:21 GMT
Once upon a time I was showing some stamps to a girlfriend who claimed interest in what I was collecting (I remain doubtful about that ...). We played around a bit with my UV light on various things, stamps, paper money, passports, credit cards, etc. I told her I preferred the old engraved stamps and I dug out a couple of them - first thing she said was, "they feel like money!" ha ha
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Post by Ryan on Sept 25, 2015 6:32:59 GMT
Here are a couple of old revenue stamps from New Zealand that I came across recently. The stamp duty issue was released in 1878 (my copy shows an 1882 cancellation) and can be found in both lilac and blue - the blue stamp is much more common, or at least it's worth less. Usage as a revenue stamp wouldn't make it worth very much, only 75p in my Barefoot. But they were also used postally (Campbell Paterson and other New Zealand catalogues list them as "postal fiscals", although Scott doesn't). If this is in fact a postal cancel, then it has some value - my Campbell Paterson says NZ $60, my Auckland City Stamps says NZ $100, although the centring on my stamp is too poor to match those values. I guess the second one isn't technically a revenue stamp, although revenue stamp dealers do often sell them. It looks like I have the 1890 issue. There was a 1925 issue with the same design but a different wave below the word "newspaper". There's a good booklet available online in PDF format here, and a priced catalogue for these stamps is online as well. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 25, 2015 5:59:33 GMT
Here we are at the tail end of another scanner load, two more cycling stamps from the French hoard (OK, one of them is a bit tenuous, the bike is hardly the main focus of the stamp) and two from the United Kingdom's millennium series. Boy, those European / international rate millennium stamps are sure tough to come across in good condition. Most of the ones I see are dinged up one way or another (hooray for white borders around stamps, they hide so many of the perf teeth that have the top surface torn off them). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 25, 2015 5:55:04 GMT
Tonight's maps come from Argentina. The first is a common definitive from the 1935-1951 series that allows for great specialization - there are over 20 booklets written by Antonio Rubiera available for download. The second publicizes the 1960 national census. Both maps show the Falkland Islands under Argentine dominion, and the census map oddly includes the Argentine Antarctic sector - you don't really think of a national census including enumeration of a nation's Antarctic claims, but there you have it. I've since come across another couple of Argentine stamps with maps on them, they'll show up here once they get their turn on the scanner. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 24, 2015 6:31:47 GMT
In recent posts I've shown a zoomed out map of Jersey and a zoomed in map of the Faroes. Here they are again, instead of zoomed out and zoomed in they're zoomed in and zoomed out. ha ha Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 24, 2015 6:27:44 GMT
As mentioned by James, these stamps have been forged (hasn't everything from that era?) and I came across one in a recent sorting expedition. Note the different perforation, as mentioned above it has perf. 11-1/2 instead of the genuine perf. 13. They're barely worth more than a dollar, I wonder why such inexpensive stamps have been forged. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 24, 2015 6:22:15 GMT
Another pair of cartoon stamps from France. Slobber Wolf is from the classic cartoon " Red Hot Riding Hood", a typically wild Tex Avery work. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 24, 2015 5:46:13 GMT
Here's a stamp from the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition issue. Perhaps the only stamp that would fit in the topical "beating a dead horse" .... I found it in one of my random piles of stuff and was very surprised, stuff in that catalogue value range is almost never seen in the random piles. I realized that the straight edge would reduce value (by how much?) but I didn't even notice the tiny scissors cut in the margin until after I scanned the stamp. Oh well, I keep the spacefillers and it's unlikely I'll come across a better example unless I specifically target that particular stamp. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 17:04:41 GMT
And because I can, Okinawan rock 'n roll! Shoukichi Kina is the Elvis of Okinawan rock, and Shang Shang Typhoon managed to gain quite a following internationally.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 16:30:42 GMT
Here are a couple of stamps from the Ryukyus from an earlier period than what Rod has already shown. The little stamp has no English text, only Japanese characters - when I first came across these early issues I had a tough time finding them in the catalogue. This one was issued in 1952 and is denominated in Japanese yen. The other one was issued in 1961 and is denominated in US dollars. I have very little in the way of used stamps from the Ryukyus, but once upon a time a batch of kiloware had a bundle of these $1 stamps. Most of them were in poor shape, either yellow on the back from soaking off a yellow envelope, creased, tore or otherwise unhappy. This one looks mostly OK, though. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 16:03:30 GMT
Here's a British Guiana stamp that can be found in both postage stamp catalogues (like Scott) and revenue stamp catalogues (like Barefoot). This one comes from 1888 or 1889 (depends on which catalogue you wish to believe) and pricing varies wildly. The Scott catalogue prices examples used postally, of course, whereas the Barefoot catalogue wants revenue cancellations. This is a cheapie in Scott, only 40 cents in my older 2009 edition, and is worth quite a bit more (percentage-wise, anyway) as a revenue stamp, £2 in my Barefoot. But for the 5 high values (plus one variety), postal cancellations are very rare and they come to a total of $4,165 for used stamps in Scott - they're only valued at £55 in total with revenue cancellations. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 10:22:26 GMT
Here's a 1976 issue from Sweden showing a bobbin lace maker. The design is rather simplistic but it's one of my favourite stamps engraved by Czeslaw Slania. It has a remarkable photographic quality to it, but if you look at it under high magnification you can see how simply the hair and face are actually engraved, for example. I also like the way so many of his engravings have plenty of white space, rather than filling every possible bit of area with cross-hatching or other types of shading which make the design "muddy". I wonder how extensive his consultations with the stamp designer were - is it just a coincidence that so many of his stamps look like that, or was Slania fairly involved with the stamp's design as well? Slania was a big rock star among stamp & banknote engravers, and there are plenty of people who collect his engravings. Ann Mette Heindorff created an excellent page for Slania collectors - although she has since passed away, her page lives on. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 10:07:43 GMT
No Greenland stamps posted here yet - better fix that. My favourite stamp from Greenland was never issued. OK, it sort of was, 70 years after the fact. In 1932, a set of three essays were created as a draft for the first stamps to be issued for Greenland. They never proceeded past the draft stage, and in 2001 (timed for release during the Hafnia 01 international exhibition in Copenhagen) a set of stamps was released showing these essays. The souvenir sheet issued at the time was entitled "The stamps that were never issued", and this fine seal is the one I like the best. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 2:31:36 GMT
Ryan, Your 2nd 3c Jubillee may be worth a bit more as the 1st day of issue was June 19, 1897. You have a first week of issue postmark there of June 26, 1897. I hadn't even thought of looking at dates! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 23, 2015 0:39:34 GMT
This stamp is somewhat unremarkable, but the machine cancellation caught my eye. This is one of the "Peace" issue stamps from 1946 - it didn't stay in circulation too long before another 50 cent issue was released in 1950 featuring oil wells. During that period, postage within Canada was 4 cents for a 1 ounce letter, up to 10 cents for a heavy 4 ounce letter (I don't know how you could jam that much stuff in a regular sized envelope that would be cancelled in a machine, though). So how would it end up with a machine cancellation? Special delivery and registration were both 10 cents each, so even if both of those were being used, the cost of postage is still nowhere close to 50 cents. Also, those services would get a non-machine cancellation, I assume, since they wouldn't be part of the regular mail stream. Seems odd that such a high-value stamp would have a slogan cancellation after being passed through a machine. Ryan
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