gatodiablo
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Posts: 426
What I collect: Places I've been, and places I want to go.
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Post by gatodiablo on Aug 16, 2020 2:03:26 GMT
Finished entering my Colombia collection into an Excel suite (so generously shared by Jon blaamand ). Then found some state of Antioquia, so printed out those pages. Also received a lot of New Zealand and Australia, so printed out the first few Steiner files for NZ. When I first got back into stamping about a year ago, after a long hiatus, I thought I'd go more topical. No, instead, I find myself drawn to places I've been (US, Canada, Costa Rica, Australia), and places I want to go (Colombia, Guatemala, Cuba, New Zealand, PNG, Fiji, etc.). In any case, the end result is a half-dozen more stock books and a lot more binders from Staples are on their way.
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angore
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Posts: 5,370
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Aug 16, 2020 10:40:08 GMT
I spent some time with stamps from the Arabian peninsula - Yemen, YAR, Sharjah Oman, Ajman, etc. There are not many complete sets. Many of these are not in Scott supposedly due to lack of postal validity (never to be used) but do not see it any different from many issues today.
'These may all stay on Vario pages for as long as I own them.
Al
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,652
What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 17, 2020 0:25:24 GMT
I had planned on playing a round of golf this morning and then gewtting home early to start on a stack of France pages that I've had 4-5 months now. Always getting pushed back to sort and organize smaller acquisitions.
It was supposed to be cooler today (they lied) but the morning was cooled by summer showers and a nice breeze, so caught up in one of the "I'm still young" moments I played 30 holes (almost 2 rounds, only quitting because.... well it reached 110F. I did lose almost 4 pounds (sweating and this is good), but I'm already getting sore and stiff (not so much)
Currently 109 outside, but no power outages (so far)
Tomorrow will be a good day to go s-l-o-w...
and maybe get back to those pages of France. Nothing earth shattering (unless I missed something) but should pretty much allow me to dive in to getting pages made! afterwhich I can look at divesting all the 'excess"
Hope everyone had an enjoyable day. Stay healthy!!!
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,866
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 17, 2020 21:42:47 GMT
I continue to work my way through the envelope box archive. Some nice findings.
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,652
What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 17, 2020 23:31:04 GMT
a typically slow Monday ( and very hot today .... 109F predicted with thunder showers) so a perfect stay inside day.
I started to go through France pages, only to find a single Vario of mixed German States, which upon putting those away, I decided to break them out of the "Germany" binder and make one just for the German States. Much more workable, but I opened up a small rabbit hole for a few days as it seemed warranted to refine my page organization a bit more ...
I'm also running out of shelf space for binders.... may have to put the US and UN albums back into boxes...
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angore
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Posts: 5,370
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Aug 18, 2020 19:51:01 GMT
I listened to the ISWSC meeting on zoom (part of the Virtual Stamp Show. I ended up running zoom and Microsoft Teams (another call) at the same time for period. It worked fine! There is a video meeting on Copyrights I wanted to attend but have a work call I need to attend at same time.
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,271
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 18, 2020 21:39:03 GMT
I got two nice items for my Tobacco and antiSmoking display this week , this meant dismantling two of my A3 sheets and rewriting them as 3 new A3 pages to fit the item into the story . It was a useful an interesting exercise . The new pages read well and improve on the original presentation. I have been acquiring material but as the exhibit fits 5 frames I have been reluctant to rewrite and expand . This perhaps is the spur I need to get down to a major rewrite. 40x A3 sheets (equivalent of 80 pages) expanded to 48 to fit 6 frames is the challenge.
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,866
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 19, 2020 10:00:53 GMT
I collect German Federal Republic ( among a lot of other countries) in an old Shaubeck album stopping in 1980. I collect until 1990 (91) when the the three stamp issuing areas (Federal, Berlin and DDR) where united. So I`m making simple pages from 1981-90 (91). Will be back with picture when first page is mounted even this is not very exciting philately. Just need to do this to gather the stamps in one place.
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,271
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 19, 2020 15:20:09 GMT
More pages to write up today. This time for my Mail in Wartime postal history collection. With covers you soon use up pages , two covers with a bit of story , sometimes only one cover if you need to show front and a scan of the back, and the page is filled !
So WWII charity covers “thanks for parcel”, from soldiers in France and N Africa , WW I censored covers , WW I letter in France , Paris Bank to village in Picardy 1915 with return to Sender and a Neat cachet “LIEU DE DESTINATION INVAHI” As the village was on the wrong side of the front line.
In all 4 new pages written up..........and after 4 days overcast skies the sun has just come out ! Garden time beckons.
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angore
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Posts: 5,370
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Aug 19, 2020 16:05:35 GMT
I recall a poll of collecting interests and my observation was that even though many collect US they do not post about them. The collectors of German material seem to be prolific posters.
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,652
What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 19, 2020 23:34:17 GMT
Finally back to France- Germany, and Austria have all been sorted away into Varios. So now to focus on France and also looking to trade / send stamps as I start to ween myself form thos countries I am not currently interested in (and best to eliminate temptation....)
A lovely day here, orange sunlight from smoke and ashes falling from the sky, and hot , but the smoke has cooled things down a bit. The fires rage southwest of us, closest fire is 45 miles away and it will need to jump the Sacramento River. So while I am OK, others have not been so fortunate, having minutes to grab belongings, pets, etc and evacuate. At last toll the closets fir is no over 50,000 acres and 50 plus structures have been lost and as many more damaged-
here but for the grace of God go I.....
i'm not sure if things can get much crazier (at least I sure hope not)
stay safe everyone
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cursus
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Posts: 1,775
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 20, 2020 6:00:35 GMT
I'm sorry to hear the news from California. I hope that you, your people and belongings are ok. Here, in Catalonia, we're being badly hitted by covid; but, we manage to go along. Not much stamping, lately. The Artesa de Segre stamp gathering has been cancelled for this year. So, no friendly stamp chatting and lunching; no new cinderellas for my collection. That's life! I've been printing some modern (2008/09) Switzerland Steiner pages and buying used Swiss stamps from these years on internet. Also, got a few used Greenland stamps (not so easy to find, at a decent price!). Scandinavian stamps, up to 1990 or 2000 (depending of the country), are among my favorites. We're also working with a friend in Lleida (170 km from Barcelona, a long way here!) on the cataloging of Catalan cinderellas. If everything goes fine, I'm thinking on driving next week to Andorra (220 km/ 3 hours driving) to spend a day visiting the Postal Museum at Ordino and going to both the French and Spanish POs, see what they have in stock and, perhaps, circulating me a few stamps (I'm thinking on the Europa issues). Perhaps, I'll go to a stamp shop, to see what they've. Just a nice stamping day in Andorra and a change on a strange summer.
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stanley64
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Posts: 1,832
What I collect: Canada, USA, Netherlands, Portugal & Colonies, Antarctic Territories and anything that catches my eye...
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Post by stanley64 on Aug 20, 2020 10:49:15 GMT
I like angore have been exploring and taking part in all that has been made available as part of this week's Virtual Stamp Show. Overall, it has been a relatively positive experience and all done from the comfort of my own home. The one drawback I see from a virtual show such as this, is from a facility's perspective and the hospitality suite of '1 guest'
In addition to attending a couple of ZOOM sessions including the ATA Topical Roundtable and David Beech's presentation, "Philatelic Research and the British Library", I also took some time to visit the dealers and exhibits. There are some great exhibits on view and some of the more notable ones for me include:
For those with time and an interest a full list of available exhibits can be found here.
I also popped in on a few dealers with want/wish list in hand and made a few new connections along with adding some bookmarks for dedicated sellers with e-store frontages in my areas of interest. I was disappointed to see that the list had not been vetted and contained sellers from the usual on-line consolidator sites and the 'hobby' seller. Not a big deal though as I was quickly able to identity the latter sites when hovering over the shop's logo and determine a Go / No Go strategy.
There is still a few days left and I look forward to the remaining sessions that I have registered for and the speakers' topics. I might even be able to add one or two more additional items to the collection before the weekend and the show's conclusion...
Happy collecting!
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,418
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Aug 20, 2020 14:15:36 GMT
OMG stainlessb Please keep us posted and let us know you're safe. These climate changes are certainly triggering horrific events - no one is immune. Been Stamping less here due to a few days under the weather, trying to play catch up today on a bazillion messages. But when I couldn't be at my stamp desk I was playing around with ideas for articles for the newsletter and wrote a few outlines on my iPad. I was thinking about writing something on modern USA stamps - we don't discuss USA very often here is this forum, but I'm fairly certain that many of us have a stash of modern issues that we dabble on occasionally. Any interest there anyone? What ideas are you percolating for forum newsletter articles? I've been playing detective with a lost parcel - my birthday present from a European auction which includes collections from Austria - offices in Turkey, Austrian Bosnia & Herzegovina, A Vatican Collection and more. I ended up having to contact the postal service as the package went through customs then was supposedly sent to the distribution center in Chicago, but it never made it to the next step and has been AWOL for almost a month. I've been assured that I should see movement in a few days. I discovered "Informed Delivery" while researching my lost parcel. If you're in the USA, you can preview incoming mail and track your packages all in one location. Here is the link to where you can sign up for this service - it's really spiffy! informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.actionFor example, today it shows me that I will be receiving a surprise from renden this afternoon! Thanks, Rene - can't wait! Happy stamping everyone!
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brightonpete
Departed
Rest in Peace
On a hike at Goodrich-Loomis
Posts: 5,110
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Post by brightonpete on Aug 20, 2020 19:54:36 GMT
Hallelujah, I repeat... Hallelujah!
I finally finished designing and printing out the Germany album pages. I use Steiner to get the stamp frames and then add extra info, so I know what I'm looking at. I'm just collecting to 2000, as the numbers of stamps issued & costs are the deciding factors for that decision. Now all I have to do is mount what I have, try to fill the holes and give away the rest! Anyone want some modern used German?
Now I can move on to other countries & take the same amount of time to print out their pages too!
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,866
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 20, 2020 20:15:18 GMT
I'm on the same route Pete. But I make from 1981 - 91. Do it simple, no description, just Michel numbers inside the frame. Print on both sides.
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angore
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Posts: 5,370
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Aug 21, 2020 10:53:22 GMT
It has been a busy work week so mainly spent a little available time doing the less attentive task of scanning album pages. I have scanned about 65 out of 146 countries but more like 25% of the total pages. I an redoing my spreadsheet that tracks which countries I have album pages, whether it has been inventoried in Stamp Manage, and if country pages have been scanned. It need to work on trading and want lists in Stamp Manage.
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Post by spain1850 on Aug 21, 2020 22:47:19 GMT
Been kind of relaxing, doing non-stamp things recently. I just needed a break I guess. I did do some stamp "related" sorting though. Most of my to-do stamp projects are housed in glassines, cards and envelopes. Every time i get done with a country I wind up with a small pile of empties, of all sizes, that get thrown in a plastic bin. Every once in a wile I take the time to sort them out, by size and store them away. Last time I did this was at least a year ago, so there was a mountain to go through.
Also, been doing some thinking about my US collection, which I haven't worked on in a few years at least. During that time I've bought, mostly by accident, many more US stamps, many in old albums like Scott's Minuteman and Liberty Harris. They just pile up too as I don't really need them. Some are still in decent condition, but usually outdated. I made the decision to try and actually use some of those old albums as 2nd and 3rd US collections, but with a twist. One of them I will mount ONLY stamps with SON cancels, and the other I will use for used plate number singles. This will help me utilize US duplicates I may have, but it will also make me feel better about not throwing the empty albums away.
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,652
What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 21, 2020 23:30:42 GMT
Pulled stamps to send to stamp friends, scanned to make sure what i send they want. Put a small lot of Russia onto Varios and into a binder (not sure if I will keep). And with the arrival of the correct size mounts I completed another page for my Jugoslav Government in Exile "mini-collection/focus group".
Very little outside activity, the air quality from the fires is horrible, and temperatures still high (100F today) , but cooler as the smoke is blocking the sun. The closest fire is 40 miles (or more away) but overnight grew from 137000 acres to over 200000 acres and there is still zero containment and a growing number of structures lost or damaged. According to the latest update California has 397 active wildfires and the firefighters are spread very thin.
So best to just stay inside and be grateful all is "well" here.
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hrdoktorx
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Posts: 6,616
What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 22, 2020 20:25:56 GMT
[...] over the weekend doing some antiquing with the hopes of finding SOMETHING philatelic. Came home empty handed. Whenever I happen to be at a garage sale or the like, I always search for philatelic items, but very often come up short too. Seems there is less and less of such material being offered. On the few times that my wife and I did a garage sale ourselves, I would add a few sets of duplicates of mine to sell at bargain-basement prices, and usually sometimes along the day, a collector would pass by and take the lot. Often came to be our biggest sale of the day. I was away on a two-week computer-free vacation, so will need to catch up on the TSF action. By the way, I did happen to see some nice aeronautics and space-themed stamp covers at the gift shop at the Airbus factory museum (named "Aeroscopia") in Toulouse-Blagnac. They were not prominently featured and not of real interest to me, so I didn't buy them, but I do recommend the visit!
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tomiseksj
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Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
Posts: 6,270
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 Aug 22, 2020 21:04:50 GMT
Five covers for my hometown collection arrived in today's mail.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,613
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 22, 2020 22:12:51 GMT
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tomiseksj
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Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
Posts: 6,270
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 Aug 22, 2020 22:18:37 GMT
JeffS , It is Cicero, Illinois.
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philatelia
Member
Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,418
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Aug 24, 2020 2:47:37 GMT
Not a good time stamping here. It looks like my very expensive big birthday auction purchase may have been stolen from the USPS while in the Chicago area - somewhere in between transfers to the customs dept. I have to file loads more paperwork and the search goes on. The package was registered, too. One of the supervisors told me to just request a replacement so I had to try to explain that these are one of a kind items. This year just keeps getting suckier by the day. I feel like hiding in a hole until New Years. I may shut down all of my stamp trading until mailing is less risky. I’ve also had mail to Argentina, the Philippines, The UK and Sweden come up missing this year. Terri is bummed!
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angore
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Posts: 5,370
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Aug 24, 2020 15:53:19 GMT
Sorry to hear!
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,271
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 24, 2020 16:04:59 GMT
Just had two packages of GB to sort by value into stock book . They arrived safe and sound in less than a week from Terri philatelia ( pm sent) in FL to Aberdeen UK 🇬🇧. Some good news from this side of the Pond . Coincides with us coming out of. 4 week city lockdown due to a spike in COVID at the end of July.
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,866
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 24, 2020 19:39:20 GMT
I'm still working my way trough different envelope archives. Today's find Switzerland Pro Juventute 1917 5+3C Postmark on Christmas eve!
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anglobob
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Posts: 2,433
What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Aug 24, 2020 23:16:26 GMT
Due to the lack of reliable mail service to Ecuador,I have been purchasing stamps and having them sent to my son in California.However,there seems to be some problems with the USPS,mostly in Chicago as mentioned by philatelia.I am missing 7 registered letters from UK and France which were sent in June and early July.The tracking information shows them arriving in Chicago,and no more information. Normal airmail letters have been arriving without any delays.It appears to be just a problem with registered mail.Fingers crossed they will eventually turn up. Also,it has been announced that Correos del Ecuador will close permanently on November 6,2020.Nothing abouut a replacement service or what will happen to the almost 1 million pieces of undelivered mail which were discovered in a warehouse in Quito.
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,613
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 25, 2020 0:12:10 GMT
anglobob - Chicago is notorious for being a registered mail black hole. I've had registereds held for 2 months. They have finally made it to me with no signs of inspection or other customs molestation. Fingers crossed sir. Re Ecuador, that is tragic. Apparently the same situation exists in Bolivia. Aa seller from Bolivia continues to list material but offers deal-braking postage from mails posted at an adjacent country. He has a set of 3 Orange stamps and is the only seller I've seen who has them. Oh well.
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stainlessb
Member
qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,652
What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 25, 2020 1:22:06 GMT
spent time today organizing some trade materials... got my Michel specialized Germany (!!!) and 4 boxes of canning lids (important this time of year!)
so my weekend cleaned desk area is now (again) small piles of stamps.....
but it's too smokey to spend even more than a few minutes outside and a mask is mandatory. Fires here have now reached the side to Delaware.... and more lighting storms predicted tonight
Everything has become bizarre and surreal, had you told me a year ago this is how I would be living, I would have asked for some of your Kool-Aide....
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