BermudaSailor
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Posts: 75
What I collect: British colonies, primary Bermuda
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Post by BermudaSailor on Apr 22, 2023 13:12:07 GMT
I am in the midst of writing an article for the next issue of Bermuda Post. Got to get it finished before the end of April.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 22, 2023 13:35:55 GMT
coming back to TimG's earlier comments about the trials and tribulations of soaking, I've just had a go with some GB misc. stuff, using a material called interfacing (?) - used apparently in the world of dressmaking etc. - see picture. It looks to be an open weave random fibre of synthetic manufacture, and as it's a non -absorbent material it appears not to take up any remaining adhesive, though the wet stamp benefits from removal of surface water before pressing. Anyway, the stamps seem not to have come to harm.
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reena
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Posts: 352
What I collect: US Federal Duck Stamps
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Post by reena on Apr 22, 2023 18:34:15 GMT
I dove into another envelope have been playing in France. It's great!
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cursus
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Posts: 1,783
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 Apr 23, 2023 6:32:56 GMT
Yesterday, after too many weeks of no-serious stamping, I went to Barcelona's stamp fair "Barnafil'23". I met a few aquitances, had a look around and find four interesting items for reasonable prices. Not so bad!
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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 Apr 23, 2023 7:39:16 GMT
First post in several months. The reason is new bicycle, eMTB. It is a e-mountainbike (electric terain bicycle) bought to myself (sponsored by my wife) on my 60th birthday. Therefore and because of intensive working with stamps during the winter I needed a break. Just maintaining my Colnect sales. But yesterday I started cleaning some Belgian stamps I bought a while ago. I have started to sort them, but I will focus more on the postmarks. My whole way of collecting stamp are in a change, witch I will talk more about when I 'understand' what I and how I want to collect. But it will be more focus on postmarks and some other things. I'm more or less finished with filling gaps in country collections. some images.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 23, 2023 8:26:22 GMT
some lovely cancels there tobben63 - a year or two back I became hooked on Belgium, though didn't seriously put them into album format, and seem to have hundreds now, but not sure they're as good looking as yours with all those well centred cancellations. In the U.K. most old albums, whether children's or adults, always seem to contain a good selection of the more common low value issues - perhaps it's our proximity to that country that made then easily collectible. I seem to recall that there was some debate about whether Belgian railway stamps should be legitimately included - is that because those stamps weren't used on ordinary mail, and on rail cargo only, perhaps?
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eggdog
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I want a new Harley!
Posts: 464
What I collect: It's complicated....
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Post by eggdog on Apr 24, 2023 2:51:01 GMT
Mostly inventorying. I finished Poland, I'm done with the Germany, Austria, and (most of) Norway that I need to keep track of. I'm done with Egypt and France, and I'm done with Jugoslavia - though not its predecessors and successors, and not with those few years after the civil war when Serbia and Montenegro were still calling themselves Jugoslavia. I've got just enough done with Romania that the next time I go to a stamp show, I'll still probably do stupid things but at least buying duplicates won't be among them. I've been a neat, industrious, and responsible collector. You might even say I've been a good boy. If I were a dog in real life, you'd definitely say that I'm a good boy.
I really haven't had much time to actually touch any stamps (I soaked a hundred or so the other day), but I'm continuing to neaten up the stamp cave. And after six weeks of watching me going down the stairs and thinking, "I wish I could go downstairs with the Big Guy, but I'm worried that I'd get trapped on those stairs because stairs are like that," one fine day Duchess (usually known as Dutchie) trotted down after me just like it was the most normal thing on earth, and she watches me as I putter around. I did find a couple of pages out of somebody's album that had some Romanian stamps from the 1890s and found two or three that I needed or could replace what I have. So that was cool. (Dutchie gets a bit anxious if she's down there more than 45 minutes or so, I'm guessing because there's no windows. It's just as well, because we don't have the radon quite under control yet.)
Oh yeah. After my Ghanaian postmark adventures, I leafed through the Scott catalog. Over the years, Ghana has released tons of long sets and lots of souvenir sheets, mostly topical in nature. I found a stamp for Jackie Gleason. The topicals and pictorials are pretty good for what they are, but so much for collecting Ghana. It's too bad. It's a more interesting place than their stamps tell you unless you look really hard.
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Beryllium Guy
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Posts: 5,669
What I collect: Worldwide Stamps 1840-1930
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 24, 2023 4:45:56 GMT
End of a Nice Weekend.... and some Stamps, too!Greetings, all: Believe it or not, I only just opened my laptop for the first time today about 30 minutes ago. That doesn't happen on many days recently. I have had a good weekend, with several accomplishments recorded, some philatelic and some "normal" to borrow an expression from JeffS ! As this is The Stamp Forum, I will bypass the normal stuff and move on to the stampy activities.... Mainly, I have been soaking stamps from an old album that I bought 2-3 years ago when living in Oxford. It has been a real mixed bag. Some pages have pretty nice stamps in pretty good condition, while others are total disasters. In the latter case, I mean that nearly all the stamps from certain countries are damaged. I had particularly bad luck with Netherlands Indies. There were quite a few stamps, which was nice in an album of this vintage (pre-1910), but I am not sure if any more than 1 or 2 out of the whole bunch was in sound condition. I will do a tally on Tuesday after press-flattening to assess the carnage. Also, while soaking today, I received a notification of an eBay auction I had marked as a favorite, and I won a lot of three Cape Triangles for £40 plus tax and shipping. One is clearly damaged, but if the other two are sound as they appear, then I will have done all right. We shall see. Upcoming on my to-do list is to start writing my next TSF Newsletter article, which will hopefully start this week. Good to see Torbjørn ( tobben63 ) again.... nice bike there, buddy! Stay stampy, all!
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djcmh
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Posts: 775
What I collect: Worldwide
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Post by djcmh on Apr 24, 2023 11:45:15 GMT
Tonight was first night of a vacation from work week for me, so did a lot of Colnect stuff tonight, including more work on having separate listings for Israel singles and Israel Tabs issues. Up to mid-1972 on that task, hoping this week to be complete to 1980, but will likely be a few more months before the entire project of having parallel listings in Israel will be completed.
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,440
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Apr 24, 2023 12:43:00 GMT
Been mostly “stamping” from bed - puttering on Colnect lists while recovering - with brief stints at my stamp desk. Feeling better today so will try to finish a few trades. Trading is fairly unproductive for me in regards to finding stamps from my wantlists, but it is still fun to help newer collectors so I sometimes offer one for one bulk trades. Ninety percent of these usually go into the donate as I almost always have them all, but sometimes I find a cool cancel or a flyspeck variety and it’s always fun to look over new stamps. So very happy to see new members participating. Fresh perspectives are delightful! And the return of tobben63 is fantastic! We’ve been missing you, my friend! The bike looks amazing. ‘Oh! I need to update our world map! Will try to get that done today. Happy stamping!
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Post by carabop on Apr 24, 2023 12:56:22 GMT
Glad you are feeling better philatelia. I am currently taking apart a few albums I bought at an auction about a year ago. Sometimes you wonder why other collectors put their stamps in albums the way they did. Mostly speaking of licking/pasting down the whole mount. So far no damaged stamps.
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drblade
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Posts: 726
What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Apr 25, 2023 13:22:55 GMT
I've been printing out more pages today for my used GB commemorative stamps. Got as far as 2005, so only 18 years worth to do. Spent part of yesterday checking back through my specialist Machin stamps to see which ones I have missing in line with the Deegam level 3 profiles system. Looked at a few missing ones I may purchase on eBay to fill some of the gaps.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 25, 2023 14:59:56 GMT
quote from drblade ............. ""I've been printing out more pages today for my used GB commemorative stamps. Got as far as 2005, so only 18 years worth to do. Spent part of yesterday checking back through my specialist Machin stamps to see which ones I have missing in line with the Deegam level 3 profiles system. Looked at a few missing ones I may purchase on eBay to fill some of the gaps.""
Don't envy you any task related to Machins - the all look the same to me- though different colours obviously ... I seem to have pages and pages of these things, not that I collect them but there's always a page or two that come in with other acquisitions. If I knew which ones you needed I could let you have them gratis - any chance you're able to indicate value and colour - assume we're talking decimal values only - or not ??
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drblade
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Posts: 726
What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Apr 25, 2023 15:46:24 GMT
quote from drblade ............. ""I've been printing out more pages today for my used GB commemorative stamps. Got as far as 2005, so only 18 years worth to do. Spent part of yesterday checking back through my specialist Machin stamps to see which ones I have missing in line with the Deegam level 3 profiles system. Looked at a few missing ones I may purchase on eBay to fill some of the gaps."" Don't envy you any task related to Machins - the all look the same to me- though different colours obviously ... I seem to have pages and pages of these things, not that I collect them but there's always a page or two that come in with other acquisitions. If I knew which ones you needed I could let you have them gratis - any chance you're able to indicate value and colour - assume we're talking decimal values only - or not ?? Thanks for your reply paul1 & your kind offer. As I follow the Deegam system the Machins are ALL single varieties & types pre-decimal & decimal. I have 1 basic copy of each Machin in my main collection from when they were first issued, complete. The Deegam ones (I don't have) would be variations of the "normal" issued ones in my main collection. I have many thousands still to source. I have scanned a Deegam profile of just 1 stamp which gives it's full description, so as you can see it would be a mammoth task to identify thousands of different ones, although I have most of the profiles. The scanned profile gives the following information, each different per different stamp. (PRINTED BY WALSALL, ON OPTICAL FREE NONE PHOSPHOR PAPER, SELF ADHESIVE, 2 PHOSPHOR BANDS WITH A2B PHOSPHOR 4.5 mm PHOSPHOR BANDS, T2d/B4 IS HEAD TYPE & VALUE SETTING, BEING AN INVERTED PRINTING FROM SELF ADHESIVE PANE 170 WITH A CYLINDER NUMER OF WALSALL 7 WALSALL 1, FROM BOOKLETS OF 12 STAMPS HENCE THE T, ISSUED IN 2021. THE DEEGAM REF NUMBER IS N1.62.26 THUS BEING A FIRST CLASS NONE VALUE INDICATOR, 62 VARIENT @ LEVEL 2 & 26 VARIENT @ LEVEL 3. I would also need a magnifying glass & long/short wave ultra-violet lamps to identify each stamp correctly. Good to hear from you.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 25, 2023 17:28:35 GMT
hmmm - thanks drblade - not that I understand what you've said, but at least I now know why I don't collect them - a little beyond my pay grade I think;-);-) Can only but wish you luck in your quest for completion.
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renden
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Posts: 8,733
What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Apr 25, 2023 19:32:48 GMT
hmmm - thanks drblade - not that I understand what you've said, but at least I now know why I don't collect them - a little beyond my pay grade I think;-);-) Can only but wish you luck in your quest for completion. Same with me, Paul - my brain refuses to collect Machins but do appreciate other members`work !! René
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,664
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 Apr 25, 2023 23:32:11 GMT
I took a break from France today and did some more detailed organizing of Belgium postage due stamps, and discovered I have more holes than I though I did! I also found a number of Eupen & Malmédy overprints that I had apparently paid little attention to when originally sorted onto Vario pages.
I'll get back to France tomorrow (or the next) and try to wrap up Semeuse 25 c blue stamps (and then clean my desk area!) before starting on anything else.... (he says....)
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renden
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Posts: 8,733
What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Apr 25, 2023 23:38:53 GMT
I took a break from France today and did some more detailed organizing of Belgium postage due stamps, and discovered I have more holes than I though I did! I also found a number of Eupen & Malmédy overprints that I had apparently paid little attention to when originally sorted onto Vario pages. I'll get back to France tomorrow (or the next) and try to wrap up Semeuse 25 c blue stamps (and then clean my desk area!) before starting on anything else.... (he says....) Really...Stan....you took a break from FRANCE (bravo!) Belgium I love !! René
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,664
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 Apr 25, 2023 23:49:49 GMT
yes, believe it or not!
But Belgiums not far from France, so it's just a short vacation!
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renden
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Posts: 8,733
What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Apr 26, 2023 0:21:02 GMT
yes, believe it or not! But Belgiums not far from France, so it's just a short vacation! Been 3 times to FRANCE (mid and South) - good times and even met 2 stampers (Chris and Xavier or Beryllium Guy and hrdoktorx ) R
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eggdog
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I want a new Harley!
Posts: 464
What I collect: It's complicated....
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Post by eggdog on Apr 27, 2023 2:55:34 GMT
I touched a stamp today! I even touched several of them! You'll find these in Scott as numbers 11 through 14, the so-called Warsaw Issue. After more than a century of being divided up between its neighboring empires, Poland didn't have a currency of its own, or a central bank to authorize it. Much of the country still used German currency (the Fen. in the overprints is for Fenig), and the southwest part used Austrian currency. The base stamps were local Warsaw stamps. They weren't legal for anything, and I don't know of a catalog that puts them in their main listings along with "real stamps". But some Varsovians did get away with using them if the local postmaster was known to be a friend of the cause and the letter was destined for local delivery in safe hands. Considering that they were printed more or less in secret at a time when paper was scarce (I imagine ink was too), I think they're really nice - especially the 25-fenig on 10-grozcy one. (The grozcy unit of currency was not legal for anything, just like the rest of the stamp, but nobody wanted to put "fenig" on these patriotic homebrews. But the Poles were stuck with foreign currency until a Bank of Poland was established and the złoty was instituted. In case you were wondering, they dug back into history for that name; the złoty was a unit of currency in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a time that Poles looked back on with nostalgia and pride - the Lithuanians, maybe not so much.) Anyway, this quartet is no big deal as a market item; I found these in retired collections, and the catalogue value is a few dollars. But I like them, and they do qualify as among the earliest issues of the Polish Republic. And it was about time to go look at some stamps. I've been pretty busy at home, and most of my stamp activity has been inventorying some of my more extended collections. I realized a couple of days ago that nothing touches my soul like data entry does, and that data entry is for me like life itself. My wife said maybe I should go walk the dog for a while and asked me if I still had that counselor's phone number. But today as I was shuffling through stamps, replacing OK ones with nicer ones and adding a few newcomers here and there, I conscientiously added the new ones to my official Poland inventory, proving once again that I am a Serious Philatelist™ and not somebody to be, ahem, taken lightly. So that's my day, and it's been a good one .
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cjoprey
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Scanning stamps for my website...
Posts: 1,468
What I collect: Belgium (predominantly), British Commonwealth (older ones), WW (whatever comes my way...)
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Post by cjoprey on Apr 27, 2023 8:05:50 GMT
eggdog - I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your posts. They are exceedingly well written and always a pleasure to read. I'd love to see an article by you in our newsletter!
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Cephus
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Posts: 162
What I collect: U.S. 1847-1993, Australia, China, New Zealand
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Post by Cephus on Apr 27, 2023 18:54:01 GMT
Still waiting for stamp mounts to come back into stock. Nobody has them in the sizes I need.
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renden
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Posts: 8,733
What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Apr 27, 2023 19:06:39 GMT
I prepared 2 custom pages (Newfoundland) for my next series - The Discovery of Newfounland - bought from a very nice Canadian seller/spouse - No Taxes - No shipping this time, paid by e-transfer (not PAYPAL)
I have not received (Canada Post must be negotiating another raise !!) my Newfld 59 Pair with top inscription
I won a few items on Brixton-Chrome Auction (weekly), covers and a nice Newfie Dog # 57, Mint VF (for $9) - Now I need the 56 to complete that 1887-1898 series (Unitrade) which I will buy inn a few minutes......another page to make....
René
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2023 20:35:31 GMT
I've been slowed down recently by an attack of arthritis in my stamping hand, but I'm now back to normal, so I've been adding a few odds and ends to my collection. In particular, I've acquired some GB WIlding definitives and commemoratives with overprints for use in North Africa and the Middle East. Although I'm a Wildings specialist, I didn't have any of these historical oddities, and now I have quite a few. Next will come the familiar joy of hunting for the stamps needed to fill the gaps, as well as the equally familiar joy of examining the stamps closely for printing flaws. Here's an example of a "British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia" stamp from circa 1952-1954, with Tudor Crown watermark and Dubai postmark.
If you're interested, you can learn more about such overprints than you'd think it was possible to know from the GB Overprints Society: www.gbos.org.uk
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,633
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Apr 28, 2023 21:02:30 GMT
My stamping the last few weeks has mostly been watching the forum and scouting for items on eBay and at auction houses I follow. One of my finds on eBay is a seller who is not a stamp dealer or collector that is breaking up an old Scott Junior World Wide Album. The seller had listed a few sample pages that ended today and now has listed over 60 lots finishing next week. If you like pre 1925 classics you may want to check him out. The starting price is reasonable. I was successful on one of the early lots I wanted. I do not see anything else at this time I will be bidding on. The seller name is kar-fowl.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 28, 2023 21:07:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2023 21:54:27 GMT
paul1: I try to confine myself to Wildings, but those Morocco Agencies overprints with French and Spanish currency are very tempting!
I find it mysteriously fascinating that countries that were never part of the British Empire chose to use British postage stamps. An added mystery is that they chose to use Indian currency. Not for the first time, acquiring some stamps that looked interesting may lead me to learn something new about the wonderfully complicated world I have the good fortune to live in.
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Post by paul1 on Apr 29, 2023 7:53:13 GMT
thanks Peadar. I wouldn't pretend for a moment to understand the reason behind many of these overprints - it was a subject that I picked up on some few years back and since they seemed to involve GB and countries I mostly collect, found myself hoarding them, though my usual overly-wide collecting passion has meant that I've yet to understand them fully. From a practical point of view there are only two British monarchs showing here - QE II and her father George VI - Ed. VIII abdicated and what you see here are the only stamps bearing his effigy. Overprints exist in profusion of course - going back a long way - and they are always interesting, though not easy to know exactly the cause of their birth, especially many of the far eastern examples. It may well be that various U.K. Governments have found it more economical to use up surplus existing stamps - when needing some postal facilities in other areas of occupation - rather than creating whole new designs. I could be wrong, but don't believe most of the territories shown here, as overprints, would be considered as examples of the British Empire - apart from Malaya - now correctly called Malaysia - and overprints for that country show BMA (British Military Administration), which was the outcome of activities post 1945. Collecting overprints is a whole world on its own, and you need to be brave to start out on that road - think of the examples of British Empire activity in Africa and India alone. Have attached couple more pix just to illustrate diversity - hope the Zanzibar examples are genuine.
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Apr 30, 2023 12:58:59 GMT
Ib the absence of anything special, I decided to organization my philatelic information stored on my computer.
I have files (data and images_ scattered and decided to better organize everything and if anything refresh my memory on what I have.
I dream is to get everything organized in Microsoft One Note but Microsoft One Note (2019 edition) is garbage. Microsoft as part of redoing everything for Windows 10 redid the app interface and abandoned the old version. The new version has not had all the features of the old. Search did not work well.
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