Where in the philatelic world are you today?

I'm in Croatia today, so philatelia can add another red blotch to the map. I just printed off Vario pages for 1991-2005 and spent the afternoon filling the spots I had. (I was going to go to the Daffodil Festival in Meriden, halfway across the state, and catch some live music, but the weather was uncooperative.)



The middle two show some Croatian - here's your word of the day! - incunabula, which is a name for the first generation of books printed in movable type. I've seen one strict definition that limits it to books printed before and in 1500, but I've also heard it used for the first books printed in any region that didn't have a movable-type press available until after 1500. Either way, Croatia makes the cut, because the first stamp shows the Lectionary of Bernardin of Split, which was printed in 1483. (In case you want to spring that word at your next soirée , the accent is on the third syllable.) The stamps on the sides are part of what passed for a definitive series in 1995. Pretty nice, huh?

(Note: I'm not that sloppy putting the stamps in. When I take the page out to scan it I have to flip it over on the scanner and they come slightly undone, which they don't when they're just sitting there. I was pondering ways of hanging the scanner upside-down from the ceiling so the pages wouldn't have to do a vertical 180, but I seem to have pondered my way into some logistical problems.)

agree, mystery - Believe the Falklands and South Georgia are in Antarctica - perhaps too small a population?

Belgian Congo and Umm Al Qiwain.

I can sympathize, René. The doctors here suck too. We're in an ongoing fight with my daughter's doctor because they are refusing to do their job and are instead, pushing their own personal views on their patients. That's not going to go well for them. I have a feeling they'll be out of a job soon.

We also had to rush our new puppy to the emergency vet for surgery on Friday night, spent 5 hours there and she had an overnight stay. Now she's running around with a cone over her head, acting like nothing ever happened. Nice way to blow through a thousand dollars, but she's worth it.

Best of luck to you!

Still in Italy! Isn’t it wonderful when a page is complete?!!

Liberia. I went to a show today a few too many miles away, and was sad to find so few dealers.

I am on a Liberia kick. Dealers who know me are surprised, given its agency cheesecake reputation. One of them places Liberia in a box labeled "countries nobody cares about".

But, nearly finishing my longstanding collecting areas, I am ready to explore new countries. Prewar Liberian pictorials were engraved by the best of them. The postmarks fit in with my explorations of nineteenth century Africa. Nobody buys my claim that Liberia was practically a German colony back then. I keep an eye out for German seapost cancels on Liberian stamps.

The final two pages show the tail end of the period of interest. The others are transitional towards packet cheesecake.

By now, i work on my new Portugal album.

Maroc Français or French Morocco .....earlies only and I will do another page tomorrow

René

madbaker

Maybe this can assist with a visual aid, for your 1993 Aussie. (If'n you use scott)

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madbaker
Lovely words, thank you.
I guess we are all philatelic heroes, every post, image, question, solution
goes towards the great knowledge conduit, to the next generation.

We are privileged to belong to this nerdy? brotherhood and sisterhood of
people collection bits of perforated paper.

My great moments were having material accepted into a museum,
a business card (Flight) returned to an US family, for their family's history
and an CEO of a forklift company, receiving a poster stamp from his great grandfather
of a "trolley truck"

All were obviously delighted.

Thanks to all the authors, known and hidden for all their monographs and catalogues, the plinths we all stand on.

Good luck with that Torbjørn! We all know how this story ends.

I have to admit that my “office” has been like this for months now. I am trying this week to finally get a handle on it and clean up and clear out. I feel like there is never enough time, especially after work at night when I come home.