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Post by zipper on Jul 25, 2015 0:05:42 GMT
What book is it?
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jul 25, 2015 1:19:26 GMT
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Jul 25, 2015 1:21:28 GMT
The control trick doesn't work for me. I use a MacBook.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jul 25, 2015 1:37:19 GMT
The control trick doesn't work for me. I use a MacBook. OK Zipper, try this? www.philatelicsannex.org/reference/Billig's%20Volume%209.pdfNo Good Open the original link, go down to "V" it is the first book offered. Good Luck. |
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Jul 25, 2015 1:47:24 GMT
Thanks, Rod. You really are a dear!
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jul 30, 2015 7:10:56 GMT
Trivia.
Rod's Kwik Kwizz
In Great Britain Philately,
what is significant about the date "13th February 1832" ?
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Post by jaysee on Jul 30, 2015 15:23:24 GMT
Surely not the hanging of John Barrett?
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Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2015 15:34:47 GMT
Surely not the hanging of John Barrett? Or the cholera |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jul 30, 2015 23:22:47 GMT
Surely not the hanging of John Barrett? There's no catching you out, Jaysee  "13th February 1832" ? The last man in England, to be hanged for letter stealing. |
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Post by jaysee on Jul 31, 2015 3:41:18 GMT
I'm amazed. Perhaps the more salient point was that he was "The last POSTMAN in England to be hanged for letter stealing" He was tried at the Old Bailey on 5th January 1832 on several counts of stealing and found guilty, and hanged on 13th February 1832. They didn't mess around in those days. You can read about his trial below: www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?path=sessionsPapers%2F18320105.xml |
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Post by rod222 on Jul 31, 2015 6:06:30 GMT
I'm amazed. Perhaps the more salient point was that he was "The last POSTMAN in England to be hanged for letter stealing" He was tried at the Old Bailey on 5th January 1832 on several counts of stealing and found guilty, and hanged on 13th February 1832. They didn't mess around in those days. You can read about his trial below: www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?path=sessionsPapers%2F18320105.xmlYes, rather sad all round. Further down the page 3 x 14 y.o boys stole 3 clogs worth 2/6d Sentence: "Transported 7 years" |
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Post by jimjung on Aug 1, 2015 0:55:20 GMT
And hanging may have been a lesser penalty considering the lack of pain before death. As for the Transportation - this webpage says,"... people were sent there: men, women and children, sometimes as young as nine years old." |
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Post by jaysee on Aug 1, 2015 8:29:20 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Aug 1, 2015 21:05:34 GMT
Jaysee's ref. Circa 1959 Postmens Sorting Office Postman's Sorting Office PSO Postmark.  |
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Aug 18, 2015 4:45:15 GMT
Great Britain Lot  |
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Post by Ryan on Aug 18, 2015 9:33:54 GMT
The control trick doesn't work for me. I use a MacBook. OK Zipper, try this? philatelicsannex.org/reference/Billig's%20Volume%209.pdfNo Good The apostrophe / single quote in a URL needs to be percent encoded in order for it to work on this forum. Same thing with spaces, they need to be percent encoded to avoid breaking the URL link (and that has already been done, %20 is the percent encoding for a space). To percent encode the apostrophe / single quote here, replace it with %27. philatelicsannex.org/reference/Billig%27s%20Volume%209.pdfOld news now as Zipper has already been able to download the book linked, but keep the percent encoding in mind if you happen to run in to the same problem again in the future! Ryan |
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Post by Ryan on Aug 18, 2015 9:47:28 GMT
PS - Zipper, if you don't (or anybody else doesn't) have the software needed to rotate the pages on that British Postmarks book and you're annoyed by them being tipped sideways, let me know by private message through the forum (click on my user name, then click on the "Send Message" button). I can send you a copy with the pages right side up.
Ryan
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Post by rod222 on Aug 18, 2015 13:49:53 GMT
PS - Zipper, if you don't (or anybody else doesn't) have the software needed to rotate the pages on that British Postmarks book and you're annoyed by them being tipped sideways, let me know by private message through the forum (click on my user name, then click on the "Send Message" button). I can send you a copy with the pages right side up. Ryan Hello Ryan, to rotate, merely right click on any page, drop down list offers the user to rotate the book in any direction. or, perhaps just my computer? |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 18, 2015 14:25:33 GMT
Nice, Zipper. Any chance for a close up of the 2/6d (Two and six penny) Last one Row 3 please ? (Looks like a PERFIN too, so the backside if possible) The 10/- is also a nice one, look out for the same stamp in darker Blue (CV $400 / $44) |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 18, 2015 14:52:12 GMT
Zipper, you may wish to have some fun, and look at all your 1/- (1 shilling stamps ) (2nd row up from bottom) See if you have any "varieties" worth $80 ea in mint cond (However, the prev owner may have already checked)  |
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Post by zipper on Aug 18, 2015 22:49:46 GMT
Here you go, Rod.   |
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Post by zipper on Aug 18, 2015 23:10:36 GMT
Don't see it.   |
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 18, 2015 23:42:06 GMT
to rotate, merely right click on any page, drop down list offers the user to rotate the book in any direction. or, perhaps just my computer? I have a habit of fixing this at the file level rather than correcting it in the browser / reader. At least with my copy of Adobe Reader, I can rotate the pages but attempting to save this under a new file name just gives me another copy of the book with unrotated pages, so I have to turn them every time I open the file. And if I happen to be looking at a PDF on my smart phone I don't even know how to rotate them. It starts annoying me more than it should so I fix the file! Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 19, 2015 1:07:21 GMT
I hadn't noticed that. Similar experience in Foxit Reader.
No matter what you do, the original page orientation remains.
Even with a file : save as...........
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Oct 15, 2015 9:12:48 GMT
I picked up a mixed box yesterday and found some GB in an old album that looks like its been a bit damp. The pages had a cellophane over-cover which would not have helped Q. Any value here in these blocks?   |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 15, 2015 10:17:25 GMT
I picked up a mixed box yesterday and found some GB in an old album that looks like its been a bit damp. The pages had a cellophane over-cover which would not have helped Q. Any value here in these blocks? Hi Bas, Caveat : your stamps appear to have damage. CV 2012 (In GBP) each Mint. Blocks? 2½d 25p 4d £1.10 1/3d £5 1/6d £10 |
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Post by jimjung on Nov 29, 2015 2:23:15 GMT
I go these in an oddball lot of stamps. These look like labels. The two on the right has "Published by WINOX LTD Richmond Surrey England" printed on the back.  |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 29, 2015 5:12:44 GMT
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Post by jaysee on Nov 29, 2015 7:16:33 GMT
"Very nice, the two on the right are the full set, shown here, scroll down. ansmagazine.com/Spring06/Cavell " Actually, on the site it says the 2 poster stamps are from a series of 4. You can see the block of 4 below (about a third of the way down the page). They seem to have been issued in a variety of colours. eastendww1.org/tag/german/ |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 29, 2015 9:26:37 GMT
"Very nice, the two on the right are the full set, shown here, scroll down. ansmagazine.com/Spring06/Cavell " Actually, on the site it says the 2 poster stamps are from a series of 4. You can see the block of 4 below (about a third of the way down the page). They seem to have been issued in a variety of colours. eastendww1.org/tag/german/Thank you, Jaysee, I stand corrected. |
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