JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Aug 1, 2022 16:58:26 GMT
@linda The "rules" for "maximaphily" exist for one primary purpose, and that is to give competitive exhibitors a level playing ground as with all other classes of exhibiting. If you are not exhibiting competitively then don't worry about it. Do whacha want, collect whacha want. This is supposed to be an enjoyable pasttime. So enjoy.
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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 Aug 1, 2022 17:32:58 GMT
Yes It is only when you enter an exhibit at a stamp show that "rules" are set out. As JeffS says (and he is a Show judge) the rules are there as guidance for competitor and Judge so you gain points in a show if you stick to the rules/guidelines and get penalised if you don't. After all in football (soccer) you cant pick up the ball and run, but in Football (American style) you hardly ever kick the ball. Rules is rules. However a personal collection or display not intended for competition should be as flexible as you like !
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Aug 1, 2022 21:42:00 GMT
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Post by carabop on Aug 2, 2022 1:41:18 GMT
When I get a postcard maxicard I actually like it better with the stamp and cancel on the written side of the postcard and not on the front. I don’t like the picture covered up. But I know that is not a true maxicard by the rules. It’s also my collection and I don’t exhibit so it doesn’t matter. 😁
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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Post by Linda on Aug 2, 2022 9:00:35 GMT
carabop -- That's why I design my own covers / maxicards / philatelic souvenirs with space intentionally left for placing stamps on them
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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What I collect: Mostly Canadian and European stamps about art / science / landscape
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Post by Linda on Aug 10, 2022 23:45:24 GMT
Dear all, especially dorincard , JeffS , vikingeck , amongst others, I would like to know your opinion on how to balance between the 'rules' and personal enjoyment. This is my message sent to a potential collector of the complete set of the "maxi"cards I will produce for my Ukraine project: You may suggest that I should produce these cards in a way that will please the potential collectors the best. However, I don't know who will want to buy them (and I am still hoping that some organisation will take over the business side of the project), and in the case of philatelists, whether they will be exhibit them at a competition or not. Being an outsider to a stamp exhibition, I have no idea what the needs of a competitive exhibitor are. For the moment there will be at most two complete sets being produced -- one will be on sale after the project is accomplished, the other one I plan on keeping it for myself for the time being. Then I will arrange it and frame it in an artistically significant way, develop some ideas / concepts about it (in the form of an essay) and present it to the world of fine art and see if any gallery in Montreal is interested in collecting it. I am seriously hoping that this will be considered a work of art that one can appreciate in an art gallery. (I don't know whether other collectors will hate me or love me if I success in bringing this into the artworld, lol.) Beside one complete set, there will also be individual cards from some of the participating countries for sale. Who do you think will be those collectors?
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Aug 11, 2022 14:52:07 GMT
Instead of "Since you are the first to express your interest", say...among the first... It's complicated and subjective to say how your project could be sold. The easiest would be for a non-fussy (art?) institution to step in and buy it all.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Sept 9, 2022 1:20:26 GMT
I am still sorting that huge US FDC lot and turned up this creative Maxi use of a streetcar PPC from ca 1910 used for the first day of one of the US streetcar stamps of 1983.
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Sept 9, 2022 17:59:03 GMT
JeffS, methinks that the name of that streetcar is Desire [to have it]. 😉 Someday, maybe.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Sept 17, 2022 15:52:39 GMT
Another show pickup, a maximum card from St. Pierre
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Sept 17, 2022 15:55:52 GMT
One from Algeria, 1955
I see the quality is lacking so will stop here. Here's a better image from my scanner.
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Sept 17, 2022 23:34:24 GMT
Don't stop! ☺
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Sept 20, 2022 16:15:27 GMT
Another card from my recent show trip:
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Sept 21, 2022 21:56:44 GMT
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philatelia
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Post by philatelia on Sept 21, 2022 23:04:52 GMT
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Sept 22, 2022 0:55:25 GMT
Thank you, philatelia and other philatelists!
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Sept 22, 2022 20:12:42 GMT
A traditional Maximum Card (stamp, relevant image card and relevant postmark) from France featuring the interesting Camelion:
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Sept 22, 2022 20:52:38 GMT
Great chameleon maxicard!
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Post by carabop on Sept 28, 2022 3:08:48 GMT
A few more Maxicards. I love these older ones.
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swvl
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What I collect: FDCs, plus some US modern and new issues. Topical interests include music, art, literature, baseball, space...
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Post by swvl on Oct 15, 2022 20:26:12 GMT
I made a number of FDCs for USPS' recent Charles M. Schulz centenary issue, as I think I've mentioned elsewhere. Most of the ones I sent off to Kansas City for the official first-day cancellation are still on their way back. But a couple of items that I sent to the small Northeastern town of Hadley, MA, for the second-day pictorial postmark it offered, are back now. One of them was this maxicard that I made: watercolor sketch of Snoopy and Woodstock, stamp featuring the same duo, and a postmark with yet another Snoopy.
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Post by carabop on Oct 18, 2022 18:29:05 GMT
A homemade maxicard I received of Homer Bezaleel Hulbert and a Maxicard of a Diamantinasaurus. I think they are both awesome.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Oct 28, 2022 22:29:16 GMT
First day card for the Francis Scott Key American Credo stamp. Card replicated the portrait of Key (author of the Star Spangled Banner, USA's National Anthem) by American artist Charles Willson Peale.
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Post by daniel on Nov 6, 2022 16:55:03 GMT
My cheap purchase of covers has turned into a veritable goldmine of material suitable for posting on the forum. Here are three Maximum Cards from that lot. They are First Day Cards for the British Paintings set from 10th July 1967, SG 748-750. They have pictorial postmarks for the Art On Stamps Exhibition at the Strand Stamp Centre in London. The 9d stamp depicts 'Mares and Foals in a Landscape' by George Stubbs and 1/6d stamp depicts 'Coming out of School' by L. S. Lowry and they are placed on Tate Gallery postcards. The 4d stamp depicts Master Charles William Lambton by Sir Thomas Lawrence, the card has been produced by Stamp Publicity (Worthing). Concordant or not, the Stubbs and the Lowry cards seem, in my mind, to be a perfect match with just the Lawrence requiring some philatelic assistance. The postmarks are clearly visible when tilted at an angle.
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Nov 7, 2022 3:23:55 GMT
Nice!
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Nov 30, 2022 21:21:24 GMT
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dorincard
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Posts: 1,627
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Nov 30, 2022 21:24:20 GMT
Thank you very much, Mihnea Răducu (Romania), for accepting my swap proposal! Polar bear maxicard (Svalbard and Jan Mayen Archipelago, Norway) created by Mihnea, at my request, and mailed as a "postcard" to me. The only postage stamp is the one on the picture side.
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Dec 3, 2022 16:02:22 GMT
Mihnea said that the stamp was for sale for 34 NOK at the counter. No extra fee for "personalized stamp".
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Post by daniel on Dec 7, 2022 1:13:49 GMT
This stamp and card were issued for the 35th Cannes Film Festival in 1982. The stamp promotes Federico Fellini's new film “And the Ship Sails On". The card is philatelic and seems to depict a mixed media image.
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Post by daniel on Dec 7, 2022 2:08:42 GMT
First Day Cards for the British Explorers stamps issued on 18th April 1973. They depict David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and Charles Stuart, SG 923-927. The cards are a mix from The National Portrait Gallery, London, Pitkin Pictorials and Philart.
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Post by carabop on Dec 11, 2022 2:45:25 GMT
Another new Maxicard. It is beautiful.
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