cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jul 5, 2020 10:56:18 GMT
Just bought this morning:
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oldpapercollect
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Posts: 384
What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 5, 2020 11:25:33 GMT
Bermuda Christmas Seals: 1963, 1973 & 1986
Tuberculosis (TB) Cancer & Health Association
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Londonbus1
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Posts: 5,075
What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 5, 2020 15:53:34 GMT
Just bought this morning: I didn't know you collected Christmas Seals from Denmark. Or is this a one-off ? |
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cursus
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Posts: 2,018
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jul 5, 2020 16:27:44 GMT
As a side-collection of my interest on Scandinavian stamps, I pick Scandinavian cinderellas when I find for a decent price. Picking them, once in awhile on stalls, improves relations with salesmen. So I can get better deals, when I find something that really interest me: old Catalan cinderellas and encourages them to bring new items each Sunday.
If you cherry-pick civil war or old (pre-1936) Catalan cinderellas, you show too clear to the salesman what you're interested on; so they tend to ask you for higher prices. But, if you wrap them with some Scandinaviam, Swiss or German cinderellas... You don't look so much as an specialist and student (which I try to be). I told them "I collect, what I like" (which is actually true).
Thus, spending a few euros a week, once in a while, I'm able to pick something really interesting that, in some cases they even keep for me for decent prices. I'm known at the Plaça Reial as "that (foolish) man that buys cinderellas". Once, someone was trying to sell some civil war cindys to the man of a stall and he pointed me "that man, buys cinderellas!". And I bougt some for me and friends, for a song.
We, in Catalonia, say: "If you never sow, you'll never harvest"...
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Londonbus1
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Posts: 5,075
What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 5, 2020 20:43:47 GMT
cursus.....You are not foolish, of that I can attest !  So I will forward to you some Danish Cinderellas for your side-collection !
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cursus
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Posts: 2,018
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jul 6, 2020 5:49:17 GMT
Thank you very much Michael!
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oldpapercollect
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Posts: 384
What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 6, 2020 9:00:19 GMT
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 6, 2020 13:49:42 GMT
Found this item in a neglected box of " well I acquired it, but when, where, and why?" Not my usual cup of tea but I must have got it cheap sometime in the past  Only just noticed that the Sender seems to have the same name as her Post Office " Hinckley" |
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tomiseksj
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Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
Posts: 6,387
What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 25, 2020 20:15:15 GMT
The 2020 Christmas Seals arrived in my mailbox this afternoon.  |
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 3, 2020 18:11:21 GMT
A bit early in the year for Christmas stuff, but I want to post these items before they get lost in an album.
One of the things I watch for when buying covers is the possibly of a connection with another I already have. Such serendipitous happenings don't occur too often, but here is an instance where I found a cover to and from the Christmas Seal Shoppe in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I have had the Christmas Seal Shoppe cover with its holly border in my Iowa Stamp Dealers collection for a few years now. It is the only example like it that I have seen in over 20 years of cover collecting and, as Christmas Seal collecting is not as popular as it used to be, I never even thought that I find a mate to it. The cover from Mrs. M.B. Hunt recently showed up on eBay not only addressed to the Christmas Seal Shoppe, but with an attractive 1939 art deco angel Christmas seal tied to cover by the cancel dial as a bonus. It was a "gotta have" cover for my Iowa collection. While Mrs. Hunt's cover does have a nice Chicago cancel with Stock Yards Station in the dial, it is pretty plain. Surely, it was the tied Christmas seal that "saved" Mrs. Hunt's cover for collectors. Judging by the way Mrs Hunt addressed her envelope to the shop, and the Christmas Seal Shoppe's return address corner card, it was well-known enough to the Cedar Rapids post office to be delivered without a street address. The only other Christmas seal dealer cover I have is from Elmer R. Long of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Long used a similar holly border for one of his covers.
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Post by jamesw on Oct 4, 2020 14:36:27 GMT
Christmas seals from various religious groups. Lutheran Wheat Ridge Foundation  Holy Childhood  American Bible Society  |
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Post by jamesw on Oct 4, 2020 14:47:56 GMT
The label top left is from the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation (Great Britain), soliciting donations to build a chain of homes for cancer sufferers. The others are just vintage Christmas labels. So, charity AND jocularity.  |
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Post by jamesw on Oct 4, 2020 14:58:34 GMT
American Lung Association. Little more practical applications 1983  1985  |
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Post by jamesw on Oct 4, 2020 17:37:54 GMT
Here's a few more. Canadian Wildlife Federation  Mooseheart Children (shown elsewhere I believe)  Boys Town. I've noticed that the Boys Town labels, while there are many which are obviously Christmas images, don't always label them specifically as Christmas.   Omaha Home for Boys  Multiple Sclerosis Interntional and unknown German seal  |
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cursus
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Posts: 2,018
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Oct 4, 2020 18:10:29 GMT
South Slesvig (North Germany) Xmas seals.
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Mr. H
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What I collect: US, Netherlands, Whatever suits my fancy.
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Post by Mr. H on Oct 9, 2020 18:01:21 GMT
Found this one yesterday.  |
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cursus
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Posts: 2,018
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Aug 15, 2021 16:02:52 GMT
US 1957 Xmas seals
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cursus
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Posts: 2,018
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Oct 7, 2021 12:29:12 GMT
US & Puerto Rico Xmas seals on a fragment from a cover circulated from San Juan de Puerto Rico on December 56
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cursus
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Posts: 2,018
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Oct 10, 2021 5:56:28 GMT
1953 Puerto Rico Xmas seal, on a letter of January 1954 from San Juan de Puerto Rico
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Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on Oct 10, 2021 20:26:05 GMT
This year's Christmas seals from the American Lung Association. 
Edit: I bought these to put on correspondence, not to collect, so if anyone wants one of these on cover, PM me. I still have a few of this year's Easter seals left too. |
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cursus
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Posts: 2,018
What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Nov 1, 2021 8:34:16 GMT
South Slevig, 1957.
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Post by daniel on Nov 17, 2022 3:17:56 GMT
Merry Christmas, Gleðileg jól, from Icelandic Post. With missing vertical perforations.  |
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Post by classicalstamps on Nov 26, 2022 22:22:02 GMT
As part of my Danish album, here are two pages showing the Danish Christmas seals 1904-1945. Made on duplex-printed pages - information on the left side - stamps on the right side.   |
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Londonbus1
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Cinderella Stamp Club Member 3059
Posts: 5,075
What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Dec 12, 2022 22:31:06 GMT
A Fraternal Christmas to you all !! Haven't heard that one in a long while.  |
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