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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 17, 2014 6:03:46 GMT
OK - This is a game I have played before and can be a bit of fun: Someone (In this case me) starts by picking a subject/item such as a goat, hypodermic needle, leaning tower, dam, person etc. Your job/task is to find a stamp with that item as the main subject and post a picture - You then get to name the next subject or object to find. If no one finds any stamp with the correct subject within 24 hrs of the post-time; then YOU must post a picture of one, so you must actually know of a stamp with that subject in the first place. You then score a point and then name the next. subject. So the first one shall be... A violin.  |
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Post by Ryan on Jul 17, 2014 7:12:00 GMT
I've been out of town for a while. Before I left, I started work on sorting through a collection of French stamps. Lo and behold, buried on a page within is a violin stamp ...   1965, "The Red Violin" by Raoul Dufy, Scott #1117. Ryan |
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Post by Ryan on Jul 17, 2014 7:15:58 GMT
I'll keep the next stamp hunt on a musical topic. Serpent! Not a snake, but a musical instrument. Believe it or don't, Roy Wood (The Move / Electric Light Orchestra / Wizzard / etc) shows one in one of the pictures on this video ...
Off you go to find a musical serpent on a stamp.
Ryan
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 17, 2014 12:21:28 GMT
I'll play -- DDR 25pf multicolored, perf. 14 French "serpent" 17th-18th centuries (Scott 2032; Aug. 21, 1979).  Let's see one showing a block and tackle. |
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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 17, 2014 20:42:17 GMT
 What a lovely cover, I should get a copy! A weather balloon. |
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Post by stoltzpup on Jul 18, 2014 0:29:59 GMT
 Next: a broken iron chain. |
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Post by Ryan on Jul 18, 2014 7:42:52 GMT
Slovenia, one of a few differing designs showing a man breaking free of his chain. This one is Scott 3L2 from 1919 (found in the catalogue under the precursor issues of Yugoslavia).  Up next - a Canadian stamp on a non-Canadian stamp. Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Jul 18, 2014 8:18:04 GMT
Take your pick.  Hippomobile |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 18, 2014 12:43:29 GMT
 Does anyone have a sunflower? |
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Post by stoltzpup on Jul 18, 2014 12:55:16 GMT
Another broken iron chain:  |
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Post by Ryan on Jul 18, 2014 19:48:16 GMT
Sunflowers - driving through the middle of America, I remember seeing more sunflower fields in Nebraska, but here's a stamp celebrating Kansas. Scott 1183, 1961. And speaking of Scott, check out the funky colours on the stamp scan as it looked in the 2005 electronic catalogue (the second one) - in my 2009 hardcopy, it looks correct, no longer such odd colours.   Up next, a drag racing car! Ryan |
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Post by cjd on Jul 18, 2014 21:18:08 GMT
How 'bout Aruba 263 (in Scott) from 2005: [I'm getting a message saying that the forum is beyond its space allotment, so no uploading...] I won't expect you to take my word for it that Aruba 263 depicts drag racing, so I guess we'll wait... ETA: Doh! I can post a link, in this case to a bidstart auction for the whole set (of 3): stampwants-stamps.bidstart.com/Aruba-261-3-mint-set-drag-racing-issued-2005-/42626529/a.htmlStill, a picture is worth a thousand words...someone else will have to answer this one. |
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Post by rod222 on Jul 18, 2014 23:32:13 GMT
Hi cjd,
to circumvent advertising, we now use remote image storage, photobucket etc.
Cheers.
If you do employ remote image storage, one has to consider leaving the image in the created file FOREVER,
otherwise the forum is left with a blank icon, if you delete or move an image withing the storage location.
PS: You have to nominate the next target stamp.
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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2014 1:45:45 GMT
Too busy spitting sunflower seeds , here in Manioba we call them menonite Benny's
They eat them all day long driving farm tractors . I know plenty of and the joke about it.
I use to work with a bunch and they got me hooked on them ruin my teeth, but still throw a handful in my mouth from time to time.
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Post by Ryan on Jul 19, 2014 4:13:19 GMT
How 'bout Aruba 263 (in Scott) from 2005: [I'm getting a message saying that the forum is beyond its space allotment, so no uploading...] I won't expect you to take my word for it that Aruba 263 depicts drag racing, so I guess we'll wait... ETA: Doh! I can post a link, in this case to a bidstart auction for the whole set (of 3): stampwants-stamps.bidstart.com/Aruba-261-3-mint-set-drag-racing-issued-2005-/42626529/a.htmlStill, a picture is worth a thousand words...someone else will have to answer this one. Excellent, I wasn't even aware of that set! Here's one of the images in a larger size, as well as one of the Palau issues that I did know about.   Ryan |
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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 19, 2014 4:25:06 GMT
And the next objective??
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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 22, 2014 0:50:56 GMT
If it's to be, it's up to me... For the next stamp...find one with "a sea-eagle actually having caught a fish!" |
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Post by Ryan on Jul 23, 2014 0:53:41 GMT
For the next stamp...find one with "a sea-eagle actually having caught a fish!" Hmmm - I immediately thought of an osprey, which is also known as a fish eagle. But Wikipedia specifically says that the osprey is not a sea-eagle. Drat & blast. Ospreys are popular birds here - an older issue of the Canadian $10 bill had an osprey on the back, and here in Calgary we have a number of platforms built for osprey nests to try to keep them from causing problems with putting their nests in places that don't work so well for humans (or, ultimately, the birds themselves). Every summer we get an osprey cam to have a look at a nest at the Calgary Zoo. The chicks are handsome now, not like when they're hatchlings. Ryan |
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Post by stoltzpup on Jul 23, 2014 13:24:38 GMT
  Ospreys? Perhaps. Find a gondola not likely to be seen on water or in the air. |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 23, 2014 22:40:44 GMT
I was hoping to find a stamp with an open railroad freight car but had to settle for this cabin suspended on a lift (Switzerland Scott 337).  Let's go back to the bird theme -- anyone have a brown pelican? |
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Post by stoltzpup on Jul 24, 2014 1:14:06 GMT
Hummm. Seems up in the air to me.
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 24, 2014 10:33:36 GMT
How embarrassing...guess I'll have to keep looking for that train car!!!
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Post by Ryan on Jul 24, 2014 12:15:21 GMT
Well, what do we think about this US parcel post stamp? The cars immediately ahead of the full-height enclosed car have short sides, and the stamp does have to do with steel manufacturing, so I would guess that these short-sided cars are gondola cars. But I'm no expert at all, that's for sure.  Ryan |
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Post by stoltzpup on Jul 24, 2014 14:15:52 GMT
Yep, those look like down-to-earth gondolas. Here are two more.   So, let's go on with the brown pelican suggested by tomiseksj. |
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Post by Ryan on Jul 24, 2014 16:51:37 GMT
A brown pelican it is. As a young collector, I was impressed by this series of US stamps - extra large sized, engraved and colourful. I usually spend the American spring break in South Carolina and I enjoy watching the pelicans diving for their supper, while the cormorants roar around underneath the water (and while I stay on the beach so the jellyfish don't wrap themselves around my ankles). The cormorants don't worry about sitting in the same water as the alligators, but the pelicans stay away! Speed is a virtue at times.  Here's a photo from a cloudy spring day along the South Carolina barrier islands - one brown pelican, one cormorant, one dolphin.  Up next - back to a transportation theme, how about a microcar? Ryan |
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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 24, 2014 19:00:18 GMT
 Find a lion-Santa |
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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 24, 2014 19:05:27 GMT
With respect to the sea-eagle question, I guess osprey would have been a more accurate description, altough ospreys are sometime referred to as fish-eagles. Anyway, the stamp I was thinking of was a very nice engraving:  |
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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 26, 2014 1:27:11 GMT
No takers yet? |
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 26, 2014 2:25:39 GMT
 How about a 4-leaf clover? [/p] |
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Post by Ryan on Jul 26, 2014 7:40:33 GMT
4-leaf clover - 3 of them, in fact. And they have nothing to do with luck on this stamp from Sweden, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the United Nations (1970). According to the Scott catalogue, the clovers symbolize efforts for equality and brotherhood.  Here's the next hunt. This lovely young lady was eventually awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Find her on a stamp!  Ryan |
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