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Post by Ryan on Feb 12, 2023 8:41:09 GMT
I have two Czech specialized catalogues from different publishers and neither lists any separate prices for stamps which are postally used and those which are CTO (and the POFIS catalogue explicitly lists prices for postally used stamps, not CTO copies). The Michel Deutschland Spezial catalogue does list separate prices for postally used and CTO stamps for East Germany, as do some catalogues that I have for Chinese stamps, but off the top of my head, those are the only examples I know of which do.
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Post by Ryan on Jan 31, 2023 23:40:31 GMT
I missed something somewhere. What is you goal in using this enzyme? This pancreatin stuff stems from this older post on a thread for classic Austrian stamps. I've been slowly gathering these stamps as I come across them, but it will probably have to wait until Austria makes it to the front of the line for the country I'm currently working on, as I'm sure most of the targets for this enzyme are already semi-sorted into one of the Austria piles ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 31, 2023 4:13:00 GMT
I stopped at the local health food/supplements store over the weekend looking for pancreatin. I came away with Creatine monohydrate and as best I can tell there are various combinations of enzymes of which pancreatin is but one of the trade names as i could find nothing specific to what compound 'pancreatin" is. The tiny print on my bottle of pancreatin tablets says the contents are the following: Pancreatic Enzymes:Sus scrofa Alpha-amylase Triacylglycerol lipase Protease A list of 8 separate ingredients in the "high enzyme activity blend" then follows. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 14, 2023 3:26:18 GMT
In the last few days I discovered that Apple created a bunch of typefaces. One serif typeface is called New York. And there is a series of sans serif typefaces called San Francisco. Having always been a fan of typefaces such as Apple Garamond, I thought I would give them a try.
And I REALLY liked them. I had a period early on where I was a font fan, dating back to the purchase of a programmable dot-matrix printer for our TRS-80 computer in what must have been 1983 or so (the printer was an Epson FX-80 - you could program the use of each pin in the print head and if you were ambitious enough, you could create pretty much anything if you could figure out what pins needed to strike to get the image you wanted). I promptly set out and created a Gothic Old English font, spending who knows how many nights working on something we can get from a click of a mouse button today. Yeesh. Anyway, I'm late to the party here but I have to agree with michael - I like the open source font the best among the ones you've shown, especially for the serifed font. Learning how to program the printer for my own font design taught me a couple of things without actually getting any proper typographical training and one thing that always stuck with me was kerning - the word "Cossackdom" really bothers me on your first font choice, Apple's New York. The "k" and "d" are too close together and the "d" and "o" are way too far apart! It looks far better with the open source font you ended up choosing. And I am another who dislikes lower-case-sized numerals with ascenders or descenders! I have miserable eyesight and books that are printed with page numbers in that type of font sometimes leave me baffled as to what page I'm on. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 10, 2023 0:13:37 GMT
I use 104 in colors - white, pink, green, blue. Pink is MNH, Blue MH, Green various, White used singles. But these are for DUPLICATES. My collection is on Hagnar and Vario sheets. I tried 102s but they were too small for too many items and for quantities. Like Terri, I use red boxes in quantity, but mine are almost all for the 102 size. I use glassines for any stamps which I have in too much quantity to fit in the 102 cards. I do have a handful of 104 boxes - I placed one of them on the top of the pile here, you can see that it isn't too much bigger than a box for 102s. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 9, 2023 22:41:17 GMT
Still curious about the design on the bottom (if that is what it is) I think the term being sought for the graphic doodly things is " fleuron" or printers' flower (or horticultural dingbat, to use a more modern term). They were typographic elements (glyphs) available for use by printers in typesetting, just as individual letters or numbers could be used. Some of them could be strung together to make long vines with leaves and flowers interspersed, others were meant to be used individually. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 4, 2023 18:22:36 GMT
Outstanding! That was a catalogue I always hoped to find back in my days of endless purchasing, but I never found a copy ...
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Post by Ryan on Dec 11, 2022 19:47:00 GMT
Has Scott always used the metric perforation measurement based system? My copy of the 1894 Scott International uses the current perf measurement system, number of holes per 2 cm. That's the oldest Scott catalogue I have. Well, OK, I have a reproduction of the first Scott price list from 1867 or whenever it was, and it doesn't show any perforation measurements. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Dec 11, 2022 9:09:29 GMT
... keep in mind the kiusalas perforation Gauge is designed to correctly measure all perforations that occur on United States Stamps ... In Europe the perforations were made in mm In America the pins which do the perforating spaced in 1000's of an inch - NOT in millimeters ... The spacing of pins on any perforation machined to 1/1000th inch specs can be converted to metric dimensions without much fuss, and the Kiusalas gauge came with a conversion chart to convert the inch spacings into a perforation gauge measurement (number of holes per 2 cm). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Dec 9, 2022 1:27:01 GMT
I have this Scott # 60 pre-cancelled that i can not find , i show 12 listings for that year and this is not one The Belgian preos catalogue lists 6 different cities which used typographical overprints in 1925 on the 2 cent brown King Albert stamp (there were 50 different cities which had hand roller precancels applied). There were 3 different printing varieties for that 2 cent stamp which have overprints, and the Brussels 1925 typographical overprint you show has a catalogue value of 20 Belgian francs for the London 1915 printing but is valued at 110 francs for the London 1919 and 1920 printings. I should note that 20 francs seems to be a more-or-less minimum catalogue value - there are a very limited number of listings for stamps with city overprints valued at less than 20 francs, perhaps a dozen or so. There are multiple hundreds of city listings valued at 20 francs. The Leuven 1927 typographical overprint is also a low value stamp, 20 Belgian francs. That 5c stamp can be found with typographical overprints from 6 different cities. Your Ghent 1912 typographical overprint is valued at 75 Belgian francs - note that it is only available with the overprint reading downward, so it's not a case of being rare in that direction, it's the only direction you'll ever see for the 1912 typographical overprints (4 different cities). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Dec 6, 2022 5:37:41 GMT
One more example of a mixed franking was found in tonight's snooping through my mountain of kiloware I'm in the midst of sorting. A UK Machin and a Berlin castle share a postmark from post office Berlin 11. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Dec 6, 2022 0:52:51 GMT
I've started using a service to get translations of my old German items, but due to the cost ($30-$40/item), only for my most valuable items. I was wondering what you were doing! Your recent post on the Wittekind provisionals included some translated postcards that were incomprehensible for me, and I was privately marvelling at your ability to figure them out. For others wondering about this near-impossible handwriting style (Kurrentschrift), note that there are translation firms in Germany that will "translate" such documents for you - that is, they take the German written in Kurrent and turn in into the same German written using letters you can actually read ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Dec 6, 2022 0:16:26 GMT
Siegel 2019 Sale no. 1196 — Lot no. 906, sold for $750: That cover should have had the 5c Trans-Mississippi stamp on it, because it's mailed to a city named after the guy shown planting the flag on that stamp! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 27, 2022 9:18:50 GMT
And just a few days after my last post in this thread, I have another mixed franking cutout involving a stamp from the Cayman Islands. In this case, the Spanish stamp has a high face value so there is certainly no attempt at postal fraud here, just a matter of somebody sticking on an extra 1/4c stamp for the heck of it. I snipped the cutout into two before thinking about it so I had to lay the pieces up against each other again for the picture. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 23, 2022 6:33:24 GMT
I came across something the other night while sorting through some kiloware which fits this thread. Here's a piece cancelled in Reading, PA with mostly Cayman Islands postage and a single 1 cent US stamp. Note the use of the dreaded Comic Sans font on the stamps from the Caymans! I also found a stamp from Singapore in that pile of kiloware which uses that font. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 9, 2022 6:27:15 GMT
Sudbury Guy is correct. This is a 1987 coil that is unsevered. Ryan is also correct, for some coils, there are listings for "imperf pairs" and "imperf pairs without scoreline". For instance, the 34-Cent Parliament coil from 1985 (Scott# 952) The listing for Sudbury Guys Imperf Pair is as follows: 953 - 36-Cent Dar red DF/F, May 19, 1987 953a - Imperf Pair - $375.00 There is no mention of scoreline for #953. Of course, that does not mean it cannot be found both with and without a scoreline. The Unitrade listings for imperforate coil pairs are virtually always for stamps missing all perforations. This isn't the case for sudbury12000 - his stamps are imperforate between two stamps, but there are never supposed to be perforations there in any case, and the perforations which are present on his stamps are exactly where they're supposed to be. That's the proof that he has an unsevered coil. The imperforate coil pair or strip, unless it explicitly mentions an orientation which can only occur with an unsevered coil pair or references a scoreline found on a poorly severed pair, refers to stamps with no perforation at all around or between the stamps, like the middle 11 stamps from the strip seen below (this post is taken from the TSF thread entitled " Canada: Stamps: General"). In the case of the #953 shown, an imperf pair will be a vertical pair, one on top of the other, as in the example shown below. The catalogue listing for #952 (same design but 34c brown instead of 36c red) is for a block of 4, imperforate vertically in between, which can only happen with unsevered coils (coils don't come in blocks! only in strips). Ryan Ryan,I have another strip of the eight cent if you would like it.Just say yes and I'll send it along. I'm already set up with the Caricature coil pairs, thanks very much - it's the Centennial pair that I was ogling! ha ha For those wondering about the mix of perf and imperf on Frog's 8 cent strip, the perforator for modern Canadian coil stamps would hit 12 stamps at a time. On occasion, it would fail to fire and you'd end up with a strip of 13 imperf between stamps. Dealers / collectors like imperf pairs so almost all of them have been cut up, but once in a long while you'll see an intact strip of 13, and once in an equally long while you'll see something like Frog has, from the end of the imperf strip - a nice mix of perf and imperf. Here's an image nabbed from a Sparks Auctions listing showing a still-intact strip of 13. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 9, 2022 6:02:31 GMT
I haven't seen precancel ink change due to contamination, no. This Washington stamp is prone to it, as is one of the Garfield orangeish / brownish stamps from the same rough era, as I recall. And I have a bunch of Newfoundland stamps in a relatively dark red which often end up lead-coloured, whereas I've never seen that on similar Canadian (or British) stamps from the same era, even though they appear to be a very similar colour. Either they use a different ink chemistry or cod fishing puts something in the air ... ha ha
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Post by Ryan on Nov 9, 2022 3:24:45 GMT
This stamp has a characteristic look of a chemical effect in which pollutants in the atmosphere (in this case, sulphur) react with pigments in the stamp ink which contain iron or lead. This particular stamp is one that is often seen with discolouration. Take a look at this previous thread on TSF for a bit of discussion on the subject. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 9, 2022 2:16:11 GMT
I'm pretty sure that there is mention of this made somewhere in the catalogue, with the explanation of an unsevered coil and the additional info that the complete lack of any score line between the stamps makes it much more valuable than a pair that shows a score line, even a very faint one. The examples I've seen for sale that had score lines always had them visible from the front side.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 9, 2022 1:53:43 GMT
Acetone has a very strong smell and is highly flammable. If you want to try it on stamps (I bet it will eat half the ink off of half of your stamps), I'd wait until the weather is warm enough that you can work outside - you might blow up your house the next time the furnace starts if you try it on a bunch of stamps in the winter ... Ryan I frequently use acetone on coins with no problem. It evaporates quite quickly. But, sure, care should be taken. I've never had reason to try it on stamps. I have used acetone a lot as well, for industrial purposes - it's used in fibreglass work to clean off the resin before it cures and I also used it as a cleaner for the sled runners I built as a last step before delivery. But I worked in a 4000 sq ft shop with 20 foot ceilings, lots and lots of room for vapour to disperse. I wouldn't want to sit in my stamp room in the basement (around the corner from the furnace) with a container of liquid sitting there with stamps soaking in them, waiting to see if whether the adhesive on the back was dissolved before the stamp design on the front ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 8, 2022 3:54:49 GMT
Acetone has a very strong smell and is highly flammable. If you want to try it on stamps (I bet it will eat half the ink off of half of your stamps), I'd wait until the weather is warm enough that you can work outside - you might blow up your house the next time the furnace starts if you try it on a bunch of stamps in the winter ...
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Post by Ryan on Nov 5, 2022 23:59:01 GMT
I think I'm going to get brave and attempt to soak my stamps and hope for the best. Don't worry too much about anything that is a "lick and stick" stamp - if your tongue is enough to make the gum on a stamp or an envelope sticky, then you can expect a sink full of water to get the gum soft enough that the paper will come off. If all you have are self-adhesive stamps, then Canadian stamps are a good bet as 99.x% of them will come off when soaked in water long enough. Go through your pile of stamps and separate out anything that looks like it's damaged - missing corners or rips in the stamp or perforations cut off by angry scissors or "marker monkeys" ruining the stamp by cancelling them with a scribbled pen mark or what have you. You can then practice on a bunch of stamps that you know are more or less ruined already - as long as you don't accidentally set them on fire there's nothing much that will make them more ruined so go ahead and fill up something with water and give them a bath for a while. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 5, 2022 4:56:00 GMT
Thank you for the information it really helped. Some of the stamps on that envelope are self-adhesive. It's a general rule that water-activated gum (or what we call "lick and stick") will usually soak off when left in water, but that isn't 100% accurate, and it also doesn't mean that it will be a completely stress-free procedure! If you spend enough time soaking stamps, you'll eventually run into problems of some sort. Some stamps will get damaged by soaking. Sometimes that's intentional - way back in the stamp stone age, countries were convinced that everybody was trying to remove old cancellations in order to use a stamp a second time, and they would print the stamp using a kind of ink that would get damaged if it was soaked in water. Sometimes you will come across stamps like that - bright pink or purple is a stamp colour which is often used in this way and sometimes you'll soak a stamp and will find that the colour has soaked through the paper and can be seen on the back side, or it might be seen on the front side as a kind of bleeding into the unprinted area of the stamp, or even sometimes the ink will change colour. We call that "fugitive ink". And sometimes the same thing happens even though it was never intended to be the case - you have to watch out for stamps at Christmas time, if you get anything in a festive red or green envelope, the chances are very good that soaking the stamp will cause the colour in the envelope to damage the back of the stamp. And even normal stamps can cause this bleeding problem if you let them soak too long. Next time you come across some damaged copies of this common Abraham Lincoln stamp, try soaking them for 24 hours - the chances are excellent that you will see huge amounts of ink bleeding and you might end up with completely pink paper on the back of the stamp! Look at these awful things - these Polish stamps are available from many different printings, some of which are on regular paper and some are on paper which has a fluorescent glow (for use by automatic cancellation machines). The regular paper stamps are fine, no problems there, but the stamp designs are printed over top of the fluorescent layer on the other printings, and some of those fluorescent layers will dissolve in water. The Netherlands Indies (now this country is Indonesia) also went through a phase where stamps were printed in an ink that dissolved in water. Proof of concept here! Some of these dissolve so quickly you can't get them off their backing paper before the image is damaged. Sometimes the gum is almost indestructible, it seems to turn into a kind of cement over time. Old 19th century Austrian stamps are a real problem, same with old Romanian stamps - I don't know this for certain, but I think perhaps they used animal-based gums. Whatever the case, I've bought some pancreatin enzyme capsules in the hopes that it might be a solution. USA & Canada stamps from the 1960s and earlier were almost always trouble-free as far as the gum was concerned. They used a plant-based gum which came off easily and left the stamp back very clean. By the 1970s, they were using synthetic gums and these often make the soaking water a bit cloudy and often the stamp needs a bit of light rubbing to help the gum come off cleanly. By the 1990s, Germany was using a gum which leaves the water very cloudy - soaking a sink full of newer German stamps needs a change of water or you can no longer see the stamps that fall to the bottom of the sink. And older British stamps (and all the little colonies for which they printed stamps) had a gum which turns kind of slimy - it often needs quite a bit of rubbing to get that stuff off, because if you don't, when it comes time to dry the stamp it will stick to whatever it is pressed against when the stamp goes through its drying & pressing stage. Engraved stamps go through a printing process which uses a great amount of pressure and the paper those stamps are printed on is very tough. Stamps which aren't engraved need much less pressure while printing and that paper is often weaker. If you soak this 13c bell stamp, you will rarely damage anything regardless of how long the stamp is in the water soaking, but the paper on this 13c eagle is much weaker and softer, and if you need to rub the back of the stamp to help remove gum, you might cause damage to the paper (it sort of balls up and ends up looking like a towel that the cat has used to sharpen her nails ...). This stronger / weaker paper trait is common to most countries but USA and Great Britain stamps seem to be among the worst for having weak paper on non-engraved stamps. And there will be other examples of stamps with "normal" lick and stick gum which will cause you to pull your hair out, if you are prone to such excesses. When you open the field up to include modern self-adhesive stamps, things get much crazier much more quickly and many collectors react by simply stopping their collection at a point before problematic self-adhesives became the norm. I still collect (or rather, I "accumulate") such stuff - I'm no hair puller! Good thing, I'm running out of hair anyway ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Nov 4, 2022 6:17:44 GMT
I have a question about soaking stamps that have been on cardboard envelopes. Will that work to get the stamps off? Also I see a lot of people talking about removing the glue from the stamp after soaking how exactly is that done? If the stamp will soak off a paper envelope, then it will also soak off a cardboard envelope. It just needs more time to get the cardboard soaked to the point where the gum on the back of the stamp will release. Much of this thread deals with the problems of many countries and their self-adhesive stamps. Some countries, like the US or the United Kingdom, used to have self-adhesive stamps that usually could be soaked, but now their newer stamp rarely can be soaked. Some countries, like Canada, almost always can have their self-adhesive stamps soak off an envelope. Self-adhesive stamps from some countries, like Brazil, could never be soaked off an envelope. It's enough of a problem that many people have simply given up on trying to soak self-adhesive stamps - they just leave the backing paper in place (and the stamp catalogues which list and value stamps sometimes price these stamps with the envelope remnant attached - they don't think you need to fight with trying to get the backing paper off). If you read through the previous posts, you'll get an idea about this and you can make up your own mind as to what you want to do. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 27, 2022 23:58:51 GMT
Here's something I posted somewhere else on the forum a long time ago (2014, according to my picture folder info). It's an old and homely cover with an embossed Queen Victoria imprinted stamp on the envelope. And on the back of the envelope is a surprise - apparently Vicky went along on one of Mr. Toad's wild rides and she ended up all cattywampus, as my wife says ... upside down and in the ditch. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 27, 2022 23:29:47 GMT
Canadian perforated OHMS stamps were very common for some issues - there have been single years where over 24 million stamps were perforated. But rare issues are prone to fakery - I have a copy of Ken Pugh's reference manual on Canadian official stamps and I'll nab a few sentences from the introduction to help fill in the story. Later on, he says that "$1000 of inexpensive used bulk stamps" were punched with fake OHMS perforations, that Wrigley purchased the lot for $25,000, and the retail value of the lot was inventoried at $1 million. No mention is made of Wrigley's fate, but the other two dealers who did the actual manufacturing of the fakes were convicted of fraud. The original 5 hole stamps (the legs of the "H" are 5 holes long) were perforated with a machine that could punch a row of 5 stamps at a time, and there are thus 5 distinct perforation dies with minuscule differences in pin location. The 4 hole stamps were perforated on two different machines that could punch a row of 10 stamps, so the 4 hole stamps have 20 distinct perforation dies. All of the original dies are shown with great magnification, but it's a real task to figure out whether your own stamp is an exact match for one of them or not. Suitable for those with a true flyspecking mentality only! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 27, 2022 6:41:51 GMT
Probably the "most unusual" stamp-series of Bhutan: "speaking stamps" But for sure the most expensive one ! Theses little records bear folk-songs,the history of Bhutan in Bhutanese and English and the national anthem. Here's a video that allows you to hear all 7 of these record stamps. If you do choose to listen to them, note that the two largest records at the end of the video contain the same recordings as the 5 small discs (and one of the small discs, the black one, is repeated on both of the two larger records). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 27, 2022 1:02:55 GMT
A couple of days ago The Guardian had an article tied to the 100-day deadline for use of the old definitives without the barcode: And there's another article with a considerable quota of distress in the opinion section of today's edition, with a name-drop for Muffin the Mule (hooray for Muffin the Mule!): My stash of old stamps is beautiful. Why make them unnecessarily obsolete?Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 26, 2022 19:39:00 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Oct 19, 2022 22:38:15 GMT
For those who haven't come across Ron's posts that often, he was primarily interested in cinderellas, poster stamps, seals and such like, and as an authority on Canadian cinderellas in particular, his posts can be found throughout the extensive thread regarding them. If you have an interest in non-postage stamps then have a look at that thread, but allow some time for it as we have over 600 posts in that one thread alone. Ryan
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