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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 27, 2021 15:20:44 GMT
Welcome, Ray.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 25, 2021 14:15:22 GMT
Hello and welcome paul94All the best, Alyn
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 25, 2021 14:05:39 GMT
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 24, 2021 17:10:27 GMT
Spent some time yesterday cataloguing some of my horde collection and in the early evening attended one of the ATA's Warm Up To Topicals zoom presentations. Update the Gastronomy on Stamps Study Units website as well. Hoping today I can get some more cataloguing done as well.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 23, 2021 15:56:50 GMT
January 23, 1898 - Trinidad Stanley Gibbons 106
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 23, 2021 1:45:57 GMT
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 17, 2021 16:24:46 GMT
I am hoping to attend and will probably split time as a volunteer with the couple of international organizations I help out with.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 17, 2021 16:18:21 GMT
I think the justified text looks better than the centred text.
All the best,
Alyn
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 12, 2021 15:26:09 GMT
I bought (for a couple bucks) Stamp Analyser from the Mac App Store, for use on my iMac. It analyzes the stamp to give you a grade of quality and perfs, margin width and stamp dimensions. It is available for Windows, Mac and iOS. If interested it can be found at the Rakium Inc. website. Sorry WERT , no Linux! As a Linux user I shake my head when a developer will provide multiple versions for different platforms but leave out a nix version.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 12, 2021 15:17:48 GMT
clivel I used to have a copy on a USB stick and created them from windows on the command line while on break at work. I am not sure what version it was, but I have been using AlbumEasy for a long time and think it is the best-dedicated album generation program out there.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 11, 2021 15:18:25 GMT
Here is an example from the old command line Album Easy, that demonstrates the "as much information" that designing your own album pages allows.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 8, 2021 13:56:25 GMT
New Zealand Stanley Gibbons 438 January 8, 1934
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 7, 2021 13:36:18 GMT
WERT I would be interested in the PDFs particularly GIMP, gwyddion and Shotwell. Many thanks and all the best, Alyn
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Jan 7, 2021 13:11:16 GMT
Iceland Stanley Gibbons 815 cancelled January 7, 1994
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Mar 1, 2019 1:05:46 GMT
Fedor A VasilevPortrait of Vasilev by Kramskoi Fedor Aleksandrovich Vasilev was a Russian landscape painter who was born on February 22, 1850, in Gatchina, Russia. His dad was a low ranking government official. Having to work from the age of 12, Vasilev was a mailman, scribe and an assistant to an art restorer. After the death of his father, he became the sole supporter of his family. He started to take evening classes at the Society For Promotion of Artists’ School of Painting in 1863. While attending these classes, Vasilev, he met many painters who took care of him. In 1866, famous landscape painter Ivan Shishkin, fell in love with Vasilev’s sister and began to teach him landscape painting. Vasilev and Shishkin worked together between July and November 1867, on the island of Vallam. As a result of his friendship with Shishkin, Vasilev was introduced to other famous Russian painters and art collectors. After painting Thaw in 1871, Vasilev became famous with the Russian royal family ordering a copy. Unfortunately, he was unable to enjoy his fame as he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and had to leave Saint Petersburg for the Crimea. It took him a long time to get used to his new surroundings and he painted landscapes from the plains of Russia. Eventually, he got used to his new surroundings and started painting landscapes of the Crimea. On October 6, 1873, at the age of 23 Vasilev passed away in Yalta. Sources:Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Vasilyev
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Feb 27, 2019 21:25:43 GMT
Haslev, Denmark 7:30PM February 27, 1997
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Feb 27, 2019 18:19:51 GMT
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi was a Russian painter and art critic. He was born on the 27th of May in Ostrogozhsk in the Russian Empire to a petit bourgeois family. He was educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts and while at the Academy he led the “revolt of 14” which led to his and the others expulsion from the academy and the creation of a commune of democratically minded artists. In 1869 Kramskoi was appointed as an academic to the Saint Petersburg’s Academy. While there he started a society who had the intent of (1) allowing Russians to experience their contemporary art; (2) develop a love for Russian art; and (3) to make it easier for Russian artists to sell their works. Kramskoi passed away on April 6, 1887. Sources:Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_KramskoiOlga’s Gallery. www.freeart.com/gallery/k/kramskoy/kramskoybio.html
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Feb 27, 2019 17:53:36 GMT
The SS Zambezia The SS Zambezia was constructed in 1903 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. of Middlesbrough for Empreza Nacional de Nav a Vap of Lisbon as a cargo-passenger liner. Her tonnage was 1174 gross tons with a length of 220 feet and a breadth of 33 feet. She had a single, triple expansion steam engine designed for 9 knots. Completed in September 1903, The Zambezia was delivered to her owners for service. In May 1917 the Zambezia caught fire and burned out while laden with cased petrol and was deemed a total loss. She was eventually salvaged and then in 1920, the Zambezia sold to Thesen’s Steam Ship company of South Africa. She was sold to the Colonial Navigation Company(Cia. Colonial de Navegacao) of Lisbon in 1931 and renamed the Buzi. Sold to the Colonial Steamships Co. Ltd. of Port Louis, Mauritius in 1934, she was renamed the Zambezia and was used primarily in domestic service. She was sold to and delivered to the breakers in 1951. Sources:ShipStamps.co.uk, shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9148&p=9301&hilit=zambezia Tees Built Ships, teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?a1PageSize=&year_built=&builder=&a1Order=Sorter_name&a1Dir=DESC&a1Page=3&ref=165274&vessel=ZAMBEZIA
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Feb 26, 2019 2:57:16 GMT
One of my favourite stamp sets is Liberia’s 1979 set on Scouting through the eyes of Norman Rockwell. The set of 50 Stamps issued on September 1, depicts various paintings by Rockwell for the Boy Scouts of America. Norman Rockwell was an American painter, illustrator and writer. Through his lifetime he produced over 4,000 original works. Rockwell had a relationship with the Boy Scouts of America for 64 years. Between 1925 and 1976, he produced illustrations for the annual calendars produced by the Boy Scouts of America. Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City. At the age of 14, he started attending the Chase Art School. He then attended the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. His first paying job as an artist was with Boys Life, the magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. On November 8, 1978, Rockwell died of emphysema at his home in Massachusetts.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Oct 14, 2018 0:13:33 GMT
Checking out the ATA, it looks like a scam to me. Pay for membership, pay for lists... That can get quite expensive, especially when one is a foreigner in their eyes. I'll just look in the catalogues for what I am interested in instead. Hi brightonpete, For what it is worth, and I am biased, they are not a scam, they do a lot to promote the hobby, just through a topical lense. While some checklists can set you back a pretty penny they are pretty good to foreigners. The journal alone is worth the cost in my opinion. All the best,
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Oct 11, 2018 13:49:48 GMT
Excellent topic. As an aside the other association I am webmaster for has a free checklist on witches on stamps. You can grab it from the main page 3 news item down. americantopicalassn.org/home.shtmlAll the best,
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Sept 5, 2018 17:15:45 GMT
Hello and welcome to the forum.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Aug 25, 2018 14:48:12 GMT
Welcome to the forum rabi.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Aug 21, 2018 17:13:54 GMT
Hello and welcome.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Aug 21, 2018 17:13:21 GMT
Welcome to the forum
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Aug 16, 2018 18:22:49 GMT
Very well done and thoroughly enjoyable.
I also happen to be the webmaster of the American Topical Association and think this would work very well on a project I am coming up with. Would you mind if I reach out to you about using your presentation?
Many thanks and all the best,
Alyn
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Aug 15, 2018 23:08:33 GMT
Hello and welcome from the Greater Toronto Area.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Apr 1, 2018 12:53:34 GMT
Welcome to one of the friendliest places on the net.
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Mar 17, 2018 15:37:16 GMT
Here is what I said in a recent article I provided for The Circuit, the newsletter of the ISWSC.
I do believe that this is one of the best forums on the internet.
All the best,
Alyn
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Mar 17, 2018 2:30:10 GMT
A tad early but it is the 17th GMT/UTC time. March 17, 1914 @ 2pm
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