rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jul 4, 2014 8:55:37 GMT
Ireland Impressed Revenue Stamp 2d Dated 18th July 1924
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 4, 2014 9:17:22 GMT
That would be a "Lettercard" Ryan. Ah yes, so it is. I had forgotten about my Michel catalogues for European postal stationery - there it is, the Litir-Chárta. You can just see a hint of the perforations on a portion of the image. Ryan
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Post by Jen B on Aug 3, 2014 2:45:53 GMT
Here's a Mexico cut square I came across the other day. I couldn't find any info on it other than a couple of Ebay auctions that didn't provide any descriptions. Nicely embossed though, even if it isn't cut exactly square.
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Jun 25, 2015 22:22:57 GMT
Great Britain. Of course, I was after the advertising collar. And the 6pence violet is nice, too.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jun 26, 2015 2:37:28 GMT
Great Britain. Of course, I was after the advertising collar. You unearth some amazing material. Your collar is Fernau Type Fig 79 5 Bar FB (Foreign Branch) You have some super dooper, Socked on the Nose, Postmarks Printed matter.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jun 29, 2015 2:49:03 GMT
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firstfrog2013
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Jun 29, 2015 11:26:13 GMT
Big lot CHEAP. I've become a fan of half destroyed cut squares now.A very useful side line to look for when pennies are tight,they do however seem to be getting more attention so guess I'm not alone.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jun 30, 2015 5:30:44 GMT
143 pieces sold for $51 sets the going rate CV at roughly 40c a square.
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 13, 2015 20:53:34 GMT
Here are some aggressively cut-to-shape oldies found recently while sorting. Some of these could have been pretty useful to a collector of such things if they had been preserved with a bit of a margin, I would think. Note the Danish indicia, denominated in skillings. That makes it pre-1875. There's a clear 1876 postmark on the Luxembourg piece. (Rumelange, also known as Rëmeleng, also known as Ruomlinga, Rumlingen, Remlingen, Rümblingen, Rümlingen, Riemlingen or Rhemlingen ....) Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 18, 2015 9:11:59 GMT
Another somewhat unusual postal stationery cutout found recently, this time from post-communist Romania. I have a Michel postal stationery catalogue for Eastern Europe that has listings up to 2004 but this one isn't included. The 50b face value is clearly after a currency revaluation - the last envelopes in my catalogue have a face value of 4000 lei! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 19, 2015 23:03:09 GMT
Collectors of worldwide stamps will be familiar with the old Belgian stamps with the little dominical labels at the bottom of the stamp ( have a look here for a good article on these labels). Here's a postal stationery equivalent. There's no perforated label that can be detached so the sender has crossed out the text. Also, a few older examples from countries not often seen (by me) when it comes to postal stationery - Mauritius, South West Africa and Württemberg. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 22, 2015 3:15:10 GMT
Another pair from my sort of a recent batch of old postal stationery cutouts. One with an ugly heavy cancellation from the Australian state of Victoria, and the old Swiss piece with "1875" written on it caught my eye because the indicium is on the "wrong" side of the card. Old Swiss postal stationery had the indicium at the upper left and the upper right was kept clear for the cancellation - I've nabbed an image from an auction site to show an example of the complete card. Ryan
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Post by Jen B on Feb 22, 2016 2:53:07 GMT
Bolivia 1894 Coat of Arms Issue 10c And an example of the entire envelope grabbed from an auction site.
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Feb 22, 2016 3:12:36 GMT
Collectors of worldwide stamps will be familiar with the old Belgian stamps with the little dominical labels at the bottom of the stamp ( have a look here for a good article on these labels). Here's a postal stationery equivalent. There's no perforated label that can be detached so the sender has crossed out the text. Also, a few older examples from countries not often seen (by me) when it comes to postal stationery - Mauritius, South West Africa and Württemberg. Ryan Thank you, Ryan. Enjoyed the article
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Post by Lila Schatten on Feb 28, 2017 1:23:17 GMT
I found some genuine mutilated postal stationery while sorting today. All of them began life as postcards. My favorite is "America the Beautiful."
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Post by Ryan on Feb 28, 2017 2:29:27 GMT
I found some genuine mutilated postal stationery while sorting today. All of them began life as postcards. The middle cutout on the top row (15 pfennig blue Luther sketch from West Germany) brings up an interesting point (well, interesting to me - I like playing with my ultraviolet lamp to look at tagging). You can just see a yellowish coloured vertical bar to the immediate left of the design. That's the tagging used for the automated letter cancelling machine so it can find the stamp that needs to be cancelled. Different countries put their tagging in different locations on postal stationery, and I always check with my UV light if I want to trim edges to make the cutout a bit neater. Sometimes that tagging spot can be quite a distance away from the design rather than directly over top of the image, and I like to leave it behind, just because it's part of the original "printing". Because it isn't always easily visible and it isn't always in the spot where you might expect it to be, I take a look before trimming any further. Similarly, for quite a few years Canadian pre-stamped envelopes had a little bit of the image design overlapping on the back side of the envelope. I try to save that bit too. Maybe I'm just being fussy, I don't know - almost everybody cuts that bit off, I think. Certainly most of the cutouts I have are missing that bit, I usually only see them when somebody has cut or ripped the corner off the entire envelope, or if I had access to the entire envelope before anybody got to it with the scissors. Here's an example of one of those envelopes, nabbed from a Delcampe seller. Ryan
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Post by Lila Schatten on Mar 13, 2017 2:40:19 GMT
Found a fun one while sorting today.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 15, 2017 4:04:43 GMT
Found a fun one while sorting today. (Robert Morris U.S. Postal Stationery photo attached) Well, Edith, you will never believe this, but I swear to you that it is true.
I believe that you posted this photo principally to show the very nice postmark, and for that, well done! But underlying the postmark is, of course, the postal stationery which depicts Robert Morris. Any idea who he was?
Well, I can tell you that Robert Morris was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The reason that I know that is because back when I was living in northern California in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I knew a couple named Bob and Lucille Morris, who lived just a few blocks from my wife and me. They were members of our local historical society, where my wife and I were also members.
One evening, Bob Morris gave a presentation about his personal heritage, and he told us that he was a descendant of Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, a signer of the Declaration of Independence! So, I have actually met part of the family descended from this famous American depicted on your postal stationery.
Just FYI....
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Post by Lila Schatten on Apr 7, 2017 19:06:42 GMT
I was planning on trimming some of my MPS down so they will fit into a small box which I have decided will be their home, and due to Ryan's suggestion I pulled out the family black light. When we moved to Texas we got one because scorpions fluoresce under it, and before we knew any better we assumed that Texas scorpions were the same "sting-you-and-you-nearly-die" brand of scorpions that we knew from Arizona. Anyway, the scorpions here are actually even less dangerous that your average wasp, although Texas red wasps are something akin to monsters from your worst nightmares. At least scorpions don't travel in groups. Texas wildlife aside, the black light has barely seen any use, and I decided to mess with it and my postal stationery. Firstly, the aforementioned blue Luther: I also found uv tabs on the top right corner of most of the large pictoral rectangles like this one:
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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 Lila Schatten on Apr 8, 2017 3:40:30 GMT
No, I cannot change the wavelength of the light. It sounds like it would be pretty cool if I could though! As for it damaging my eyes, I have a special pair of glasses that were designed for uv lights. A.K.A. they are really fancy sunglasses that came with the light itself.
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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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