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Post by rod222 on Oct 22, 2014 0:29:08 GMT
Some issues from TSF member Ram, (Thanks Ram) and some of my own.  1907 Colour Changelings  Fund for Soldiers of WW1, for a monument.  Princess Elisabeth and Prince Jean. (Child Welfare)  Grand Duke Jean, and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte.  |
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Post by rod222 on Nov 11, 2014 23:28:24 GMT
Stamps from the last TSF auction. (Thanks Ram) 1967 Semi postals Royal children - Handicapped Children  1966 Fairy Tales of Luxembourg.  |
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Post by BC on Nov 29, 2014 15:00:11 GMT
1942-44 Duchess of Charlotte. Now to go find the rest of the set. Yikes, Scott #234, the 20fr is 35c mint, but 17.50 used.  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Nov 29, 2014 21:50:11 GMT
1942-44 Duchess of Charlotte. Now to go find the rest of the set. Yikes, Scott #234, the 20fr is 35c mint, but 17.50 used. Using "Rod's Law"  You should be able to pick that up at quarter Catalogue Brian ($4-5) if it "completes a page" shall be worth it. The problem with that is, you can generally pick them up for quarter, if in a collection, but as a singleton stamp, there's always a premium (plus shipping) I just had a bo-peep at ebay, your six missing stamps in 1 lot could be picked up for $22 (or best offer) (a bit heavy) |
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Post by tomiseksj on Nov 30, 2014 2:44:23 GMT
This lady is $5.50 on Stamps2Go. Two other copies are available at a higher cost. |
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Post by BC on Nov 30, 2014 4:00:38 GMT
Thanks Steve! I will check it out.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Nov 30, 2014 6:39:59 GMT
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Post by ramanandn on Jan 7, 2015 2:42:10 GMT
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jun 18, 2015 6:12:59 GMT
Admin /Mods. Is it possible to meld this with Brian's Luxembourg : Stamps? we seem to have two Folders. Apologies. Stamps from "The Stamp Forum" Auction from Ram 1977  1981 Semi Postal  1985 Semi Postal  |
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Post by rod222 on Sept 3, 2015 7:15:55 GMT
1891 Officials punctured "OFFICIEL" Steiner Page 30 Set CV $25 2009  |
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Post by rod222 on Sept 17, 2015 22:44:36 GMT
1916 Steiner Page 6 Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide  1921 Steiner page 7 Grand Duchess Charlotte  |
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Post by rod222 on Sept 17, 2015 22:46:13 GMT
1921 Views Steiner Page 8  1925 Grand Duchess Charlotte  |
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Post by rod222 on Sept 17, 2015 22:58:26 GMT
BC Brian, in reciprocation of the Azerbaijan freebies you sent me, here are my Luxembourg Duplicates, take your pick Offer open for 5 days, then they go on ebay for $1 Oops..except the 50c with the SON Pmk 
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Post by BC on Sept 19, 2015 20:02:40 GMT
Thanks Rod! I will message you.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Oct 13, 2015 20:28:32 GMT
1936 Steiner page 12  |
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Post by rod222 on Oct 14, 2015 2:08:48 GMT
Under German Occupation 1940 Steiner Page 36  German Semi Postal Overprinted Suggest Favour Pictor Cancels Thematic : Parachutes on stamps. Steiner Page 38  |
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Post by Poodle_Mum on Nov 2, 2015 9:43:20 GMT
Nice surprise to find in a group of early Luxembourg I purchased a few years ago. Not bad - 3 relatively good margins.  |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 1, 2017 21:33:12 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 1, 2017 21:40:41 GMT
More pages from early Luxembourg (1882-1893 Official Stamps):   |
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Post by brightonpete on May 26, 2018 15:43:33 GMT
I recently bid on some pre-cancels (all MNH) from Catawiki. Pricey to send across the pond, though!   That's what I should get going on - Luxembourg definitives are languishing in 2 or 3 stock books! It just takes time to layout the pages for printing. |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 26, 2018 21:07:28 GMT
I recently bid on some pre-cancels (all MNH) from Catawiki. Pricey to send across the pond, though That's what I should get going on - Luxembourg definitives are languishing in 2 or 3 stock books! It just takes time to layout the pages for printing. There are some great-looking stamps there, Peter, I congratulate you! By the way, I just paid a closer bit of attention to your TSF avatar: is it, in fact, a copy of the elusive Scott #62a, perf 11.5, 20-centime brown? My old brown-cover Scott International album (published around 1930) shows the brown color variety as an error, but in the 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue, it is simply listed as a color variety. Anyway, if I have spotted that correctly, it is a beautiful copy that you have, and it makes a great avatar! Edit: I found that you had already commented about your avatar in a thread about Classic Canadian stamps below, so I will leave this post in place, since it seems more relevant here in the Luxembourg thread. thestampforum.boards.net/post/56614/threadYou mentioned that acquiring this stamp was costly. The 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue listed it as $110 MH, $190 MNH, and $300 Used. Based on what you paid (no need to state the price if you prefer not to), how do these values from 10 years ago compare to current market value, in your opinion? |
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Post by brightonpete on May 27, 2018 1:45:55 GMT
I recently bid on some pre-cancels (all MNH) from Catawiki. Pricey to send across the pond, though That's what I should get going on - Luxembourg definitives are languishing in 2 or 3 stock books! It just takes time to layout the pages for printing. There are some great-looking stamps there, Peter, I congratulate you! By the way, I just paid a closer bit of attention to your TSF avatar: is it, in fact, a copy of the elusive Scott #62a, perf 11.5, 20-centime brown? My old brown-cover Scott International album (published around 1930) shows the brown color variety as an error, but in the 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue, it is simply listed as a color variety. Anyway, if I have spotted that correctly, it is a beautiful copy that you have, and it makes a great avatar! Edit: I found that you had already commented about your avatar in a thread about Classic Canadian stamps below, so I will leave this post in place, since it seems more relevant here in the Luxembourg thread. thestampforum.boards.net/post/56614/threadYou mentioned that acquiring this stamp was costly. The 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue listed it as $110 MH, $190 MNH, and $300 Used. Based on what you paid (no need to state the price if you prefer not to), how do these values from 10 years ago compare to current market value, in your opinion? I picked up quite a few of the Luxembourg stamps from the All Nations weekly auction. The price was a pittance compared to the cost of mailing anything from overseas! It is in excellent condition, but with a hinge remnant. He placed the catalog value at $160US, and an estimate of $50 Cdn for the stamp. I believe I bid $150 or maybe even $200 for it, but won it at $121 Cdn. It is indeed an error colour. Stanley Gibbons lists it as #127 (1892) (whilst the orange is #128 (1893)) £225 mint and £450 used. Michel lists it as 59AF, €200 / €300. |
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Post by brightonpete on Jun 13, 2018 0:21:14 GMT
Further to the post in Afghanistan by blaamand ... here is my complete collection off pre-Adolphe Luxembourg. I just can't justify spending so much for so little now. I have far too many other things I need (er, ah... want!) besides those stamps. If I come across them, fine, but I am just not actively looking for them. Same goes with post 1983 issues. If I get them in an auction lot, fine, but that's it. But Adolphe-1983 is almost complete. Just a few issues to get. BTW, Adolphe is a perfin (DL - Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks) that didn't quite fit in on his page. So I just stuck him there. |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Jun 13, 2018 20:36:05 GMT
haha - I think all WW collectors know exactly what you're saying... I like your first page for Luxembourg - quite a time and space efficient approach for your classics! Here's the first page of my novice collection (Appologise the Vario grande sheets are too large for my scanner...  )   Still more empty slots than not  - but it really doesn't worry me at all. Interesting that you mentioned how your collection is far more developed from Adolphe until 1980's. Typically, my collection follow the same pattern, however still far from complete as yours; the trend for 'completion level' from my Inventory Database (they grey filled curve behind the blue bars) indicates the same low-points as you have:  Jon |
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Post by angore on Jun 13, 2018 21:11:13 GMT
Wow! Nice report.
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Post by blaamand on Jun 13, 2018 22:14:48 GMT
Thanks Angore! Similar reports will be automatically generated from my Inventory Database (excel) for any country I would choose to establish the database. Quite time consuming, for now it's making custom pages that has the priority, not the database. Too many stamps, too little time  |
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Post by brightonpete on Jun 14, 2018 1:12:42 GMT
And they said computers would cut paper usage & create things quicker! Ha! Paper usage sky-rocketed with computers, and time? I never have enough, and I don't work anymore!
I love that report. I just have a simple basic report for mine, with some manually filled in. I like yours though. Something else to work on when my mind wanders!
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Post by brightonpete on Jun 15, 2018 13:04:28 GMT
I forgot about the Heraldic Lion, Coat of Arms pair that was issued December 20th, 1930. So, I just stuck 'em in at the bottom of this page. Doesn't look that great, but I'm not re-printing & re-mounting all those stamps! It's good enough for me!
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Post by jimwentzell on Jun 15, 2018 14:52:54 GMT
Just discovered this thread.
LOVE Luxembourg (the town, the country. the stamps!)
I first visited in 1970 or 1971 (as a newbie 11-year-old stamp collector) on a field trip from school just for the day. I remember our bus stopped briefly at the main post office and I bought a few definitives from the automat and mailed my postcards. The casements, a few local sights, lunch and that was the "tour".
Next time I visited was flying into Luxembourg on Icelandic Air from Nassau, Bahamas (I lived in Florida) in 1974. My first solo long-distance flight at age 15. More stamps bought from somewhere in the hilly capital. Aunt and uncle from nearby Cologne picked me up and again a short stroll through town.
Trip 3 was in the summer of 1982 backpacking (with a two-month EurailPass) for a few days I rented what must have been the cheapest flea-bag room for maybe ten dollars. More money saved for stamps, again from the main post office. Tried to learn some Letzeburgesch (local dialect/language) from some friendly natives. Got lost in the meandering streets, many bridges and gorgeous vistas. I also picked up the 1930's Princess Charlotte souvenir sheet, one of my all-time favorites which I carefully packed and hauled all over the railways of Europe and eventually brought back home.
Of course I still have my beautiful Princess--sheetlet proudly in my collection!
Fast forward to 2004 when I towed my wife and son (and Linda our travel friend) yet again we visited Luxembourg (my fourth trip there). Only spent the afternoon as we were enroute to Belgium. What a change in the city! Many more handsome modern buildings set among the treelined avenues, blending in well with the older architectural beauties. No time for stamp acquisitions but by this time I'd discovered stamp auctions--traditional as well as online.
Last trip (number five for me) to the city was in 2014 or 2015, again with my wife, son, and Linda who also collects stamps, much less emphatically so than me or the TSF gang :-)
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By this time I have purchased, over the years, about eight or nine different Luxembourg collections, in various stages of completion, and various album manufacturers. Most were picked up in online auction lots and probably cost just pennies per stamp. One collection I recall spending a couple hundred dollars for, years ago, but the others were less extensive.
Less expensive as well.
Every few weeks I puddle around and consolidate the nine Luxembourg albums I have. One day I will likely have it done, and since the stamps are relatively inexpensive there are probably only a hundred or so I think I will need for completion. At the rate I'm going I will be 80 years old before things look even close to completion--I will keep TSF updated on progress....
Ahh, Luxembourg--the city, the country, (and yes, the stamps) reminds me of a beautiful love-interest/girlfriend/elegant (Princess?) who is never quite within reach, alluring and tantalizing....yet I know I likely never will woo her (or complete that collection!).
Talk about a fixation with Luxembourg, I am definitely a candidate......
--Jim Wentzell
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Post by brightonpete on Jun 15, 2018 15:26:52 GMT
Lucky you, jimwentzell! I used to live near Baden-Baden for 3-½ years & never made it to Luxembourg. But that was about the time collecting was waning. Everywhere I went, I never stopped at any post office. I did when I was in the Navy, but not in Europe. I'd love to go there sometime and see the sights & stamps! |
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You should be able to pick that up at quarter Catalogue Brian ($4-5)
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