renden
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Post by renden on Jan 12, 2024 17:21:06 GMT
60 classic Mauritius stamps arrived this week (from an Auction) - doing inventory (done) Now to choose an album. These will be added to the ones I already have
René
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drblade
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Post by drblade on Jan 12, 2024 18:20:46 GMT
Posted (mailed) a few items today purchased by eBay customers & purchased a relatively scarce smilers sheet from eBay. Nothing much else happening. Keeping indoors away from the cold weather.
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 12, 2024 18:52:19 GMT
Finished France Paix 1st series, ow moving onto 2nd series, and then the surcharges to finally finish up with those. Then it will be back to the Semeuse to see if I can finally get those pages all made and stamps mounted.
Cold, windy, a good day to stay inside.
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renden
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Post by renden on Jan 12, 2024 19:41:41 GMT
60 classic Mauritius stamps arrived this week (from an Auction) - doing inventory (done) Now to choose an album. These will be added to the ones I already have René Why not show what I got from the Auction, around 60 stamps (Mauritius) which will give me a total of 108 MAURITIUSssss, at present. I ws lucky to hit that auction and practically win everything  Had some help with variants/type of paper - All Scott Specialized 2021 #    |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jan 12, 2024 20:22:38 GMT
Wow, looks great, René ( renden), congratulations on such a nice acquisition! If you end up with any duplicates, I would love to have a chance to make you an offer on them! |
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renden
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Post by renden on Jan 12, 2024 20:31:42 GMT
Wow, looks great, René ( renden ), congratulations on such a nice acquisition! If you end up with any duplicates, I would love to have a chance to make you an offer on them! Thanks Chris ! My dups are in the ones I owned previously or a better copy of what I won(in this auction).....let me see what can happen - René |
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Post by rod222 on Jan 12, 2024 22:42:22 GMT
Why not show what I got from the Auction, around 60 stamps (Mauritius) which will give me a total of 108 MAURITIUSssss, at present. I ws lucky to hit that auction and practically win everything Had some help with variants/type of paper - All Scott Specialized 2021 #
Number 11, check for forgery, looks like a Spiro ubiquitous Postmark.
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renden
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Post by renden on Jan 13, 2024 15:27:53 GMT
Found this from: stampsmauritius.com/forgery/Five different forgeries of the Mauritius Britannia 1849-1858 issues, cancelled, probably all printed by the Spiro firm in Germany between 1865 and 1880  The cancels look different René |
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renden
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Post by renden on Jan 13, 2024 16:05:46 GMT
Why not show what I got from the Auction, around 60 stamps (Mauritius) which will give me a total of 108 MAURITIUSssss, at present. I ws lucky to hit that auction and practically win everything Had some help with variants/type of paper - All Scott Specialized 2021 #
Number 11, check for forgery, looks like a Spiro ubiquitous Postmark.
, this is closer to your post....... spiro forgery: catalogue.klaseboer.com/vol1/html/spiro.htm (image shown) Now I am more convinced I own a Sc 11 engraved (legit) with a spiro  ?postmark/cancel Sending info to my expert/dealer.  This is my Sc 11  |
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Post by Cephus on Jan 13, 2024 16:33:07 GMT
Going to Orcoexpo this weekend, still haven't had a chance to pull any albums out to figure out what I want to focus on. I keep saying I will, but I never get around to it. Last night, I had planned to, then about 11pm, my wife said "weren't you going to look at stamps?" Too late now! Hopefully tonight I can get it done and make a plan. Unfortunately, it has been cancelled. I don't know why: www.stampshowsteve.com/Are you on their email mailing list? I did get an email about it a few days ago. I just looked and it was in my spam filter. Good thing you said something before we left. Thanks. I just whitelisted his emails. |
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jan 13, 2024 17:29:33 GMT
Stamps? What are Those?Greetings, stampers far and wide! I hope this post finds you all doing as well as you can be. I have been struggling with ongoing health issues, and I just can't seem to get better. I got sick right after Thanksgiving, and I have been sick on and off ever since. I went to the doctor earlier this week and got some meds, which have helped, but I am still not 100%. As you may have guessed from the title of this post, I haven't done much with stamps or on the Forum recently. But it is a bit of an exaggeration, as I did find time to do some soaking yesterday, and those stamps are being press-flattened now. This is mostly material from China and Hong Kong from the big gift lot I received some months ago, in addition to some of my auction winnings from Xavier's extravaganza ( hrdoktorx ). I have been using dishwashing soap in the soaking water, per advice from tobben63 and stainlessb , and I have to admit that the stamps look cleaner afterward, so I will probably continue this practice. I was sorry to see that the OrcoExpo stamp show in Orange County is cancelled this year. I went with Dave ( Philatarium ) last year, and I made some interesting acquisitions. I wasn't going to attend this year anyway, but I am still sorry to see the event cancelled. Also, since I last posted here, the article that Stan and I wrote together on the Soaking Study for the TSF Newsletter, V8.1 has been revised and re-published in the Cape & Natal Philatelic Journal (CNPJ). The new version has added content on the Cape Triangles, and I was pleased that the CNPJ Editor was interested in including it in their publication, as it is quite different from the sort of material that they usually have in the Journal. Back to do a bit more soaking-type work (mainly philatelic surgery items) next thing. Stay stampy, all! 
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renden
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Post by renden on Jan 13, 2024 17:36:02 GMT
Rod rod222 I left my post as is and sent the stamp to the expert who sold it to me: re opinion in: catalogue.klaseboer.com/vol1/html/spiro.htm A reminder of the Mauritius Sc 11, 9p Britannia mag - engr.  The opinion of my expert: I am familiar with this site and with Spiro's fake dumb cancels, and they have a very different appearance to this. For starters, the spacing of the bars is further apart from the one you have. The ink is also less solid in appearance.
I can guarantee you that this is not a Spiro forged cancel. Most spiro forged cancels are only found on forged stamps.
So, since I am keeping the stamp and expect Rod will come back with another reference on Spiro - René |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 13, 2024 20:18:39 GMT
As you may have gathered from my many recent posts, I received a large order this week and was finally able to give it serious attention today. There are still quite a few pieces to get through, but the focus was on "early" (1960-80s) Central African Republic issues, some Finland, some YAR, and several turn of (this) century stamp packets. There's also a new stockbook in there that I will use to decompress my Asia K-O stockbook. Laos and the Maldives in particular need more room! And, in the next order, I'll need a larger stockbook for the CAR |
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Post by angore on Jan 14, 2024 11:54:41 GMT
I have been working on Germany and there was a timely article on the Third Reich in Gibbons Stamp Monthly. It felt like the situation where you make some bank transaction online and by coincidence (we hope) you get some spam email arounf the same time purporting to be from the same institution.
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Post by anilkhemlani on Jan 14, 2024 17:11:41 GMT
renden nice Mauritius stamps. Thank you for sharing
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madbaker
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Post by madbaker on Jan 14, 2024 18:13:01 GMT
I have been working on Germany and there was a timely article on the Third Reich in Gibbons Stamp Monthly. It felt like the situation where you make some bank transaction online and by coincidence (we hope) you get some spam email arounf the same time purporting to be from the same institution. Oh wow, I thought I was the only one this happened to.
In my case, I'll be working on Japan and thinking, those National Park issues sure are nice, I'd love to get them. And the next Weeda auction has five lots of Japan including the parks.
And then I'm thinking, you know I might as well pick up a Scott International album and fill it for fun. And the next auction has a 13 album collection in Scott Internationals. Or if I'm thinking Minkus, it will be a Minkus collection. Or a King George VI album...
You know, it sure would be nice to get a fat cheque in my mailbox from the estate of an unknown Aunt.....anyone listening??  |
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 14, 2024 23:11:14 GMT
a bit of this and a bit of that. Going through stamps (some for the second time before remove from vario pages and going into glassines (dupes). Just now soaking a small lot of France (nothing exciting)
and I actually won an auction. My bid has sat for almost 2 days and I fully expected it to fall in the final minutes. now I have a specialized Austria collection on pages heading my way!
need to make sure I all caught up on soaking!
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Post by daveg28 on Jan 14, 2024 23:34:23 GMT
3 degrees, -14 wind chill here. I’m huddled in my man cave (basement) sorting through some Canada and adding stamps to my albums. My goodness, I have a lot of stamps to soak , but I’ll sort and make sure I’m only soaking stamps i need. I was going to work on my 2022 US supplement, until I discovered…I never ordered one! So, it’s been ordered, I’ll work on that later this week. Hopefully order a 2023 supplement soon as well.
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Post by madbaker on Jan 15, 2024 6:13:41 GMT
A bit more stamping serendipity this weekend. Yesterday I was sorting through Danish West Indies and Indonesia and I noticed a few DWI Queen Wilhelmina stamps had these scratches on the surface, like the colours had been scraped off with a fork. Well, today I was reading old Stamp Collecting books on the Internet Archive, as I do, re-reading the Standard Handbook of Stamp Collecting by Richard McP. Cabeen. (I had an old copy in Saskatchewan but it didn't make the move.)
In the section on soaking stamps, he mentions that the paper of some of the 'more recent' DWI stamps were coated with a substance before printing that caused some of the design to be removed when soaked. I wonder if that's what happened to my stamps, especially after I gave them all a nice bath to clean them up!
I likely read that paragraph many times before and would've glossed over it if I hadn't seen those stamps the day prior. Fascinating how things work like that.
(And it's not at all surprising that I read that after soaking the stamps, not before!)
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Post by Statesman Stamper on Jan 15, 2024 15:06:46 GMT
I recently finished working on a packet of New Zealand I had purchased back in 2022. In all, it was a relatively easy process to identify each stamp according to the SG catalogue. I set aside a small pile which will need further investigation to determine the paper type. These I'll swing back to at a different point.
Needing a change of pace, I decided to jump over to Iceland. I had a set of stamps previously identified by Scott number that I want to convert to Facit. I spent my weekend working on this while the arctic air moved in. Completing that, I have a group of a few hundred stamps awaiting identification. I'll work on that this week as time is available.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jan 15, 2024 17:04:39 GMT
A bit more stamping serendipity this weekend. Yesterday I was sorting through Danish West Indies and Indonesia, and I noticed a few DWI Queen Wilhelmina stamps had these scratches on the surface, like the colours had been scraped off with a fork.
In the section on soaking stamps, he mentions that the paper of some of the 'more recent' DWI stamps were coated with a substance before printing that caused some of the design to be removed when soaked. I wonder if that's what happened to my stamps, especially after I gave them all a nice bath to clean them up! Hey, Mark! Just wanted to mention that the stamps depicting Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands would be from a Dutch colony.... so these would be Dutch Indies aka Netherlands Indies rather than Danish West Indies (present-day US Virgin Islands). I also wanted to mention that there is a thread that I started a while back on Stamps with Fugitive Inks that is intended to be an online resource for TSF members and other collectors alike: thestampforum.boards.net/thread/9051/online-resource-stamps-fugitive-inksUnfortunately, the timing of when I moved this thread into the public board wasn't very good apparently, so it has never really gotten much new info added to it. But if you read the first three posts, you will find some good info there. Although it is a bit after the fact for your Dutch Indies, those issues are already in the list, as they are one of the few mentioned explicitly in the Scott Catalogue. And if it is of any further comfort to you, I made the exact same mistake as you did by following the "soak first, ask questions later" protocol, and I destroyed some of my nicest postally used Dutch Indies. Here is just one example:  Anyway, I hope you may enjoy having a poke around the thread on Fugitive Inks! |
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Post by salmantino on Jan 15, 2024 17:27:51 GMT
Beryllium Guy, the 'Nederlandsch Indië' stamp was not printed in fugitive ink. It was printed on paper treated in a way that when trying to clean the cancel, the colour would detach from the paper. As you can see in the image you posted, the colour does not fade. It just disappears. The outcome is the same.
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madbaker
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Post by madbaker on Jan 15, 2024 18:17:29 GMT
Hey, Mark! Just wanted to mention that the stamps depicting Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands would be from a Dutch colony.... so these would be Dutch Indies aka Netherlands Indies rather than Danish West Indies (present-day US Virgin Islands). And if it is of any further comfort to you, I made the exact same mistake as you did by following the "soak first, ask questions later" protocol, and I destroyed some of my nicest postally used Dutch Indies. Here is just one example: Anyway, I hope you may enjoy having a poke around the thread on Fugitive Inks!
Yes to both! We are both talking about the same place. It was late, I was tired, and started abbreviating, and used the incorrect abbreviation. But we're both talking about modern day Indonesia area.*
And that is exactly what happened with my two stamps. A nice 20c and 32c as well, which will live on in my album as a reminder of what not to do.  The wavy pattern of colour loss is interesting in its own way, as it clearly shows what those pesky Dutch postal authorities cooked up as a defence mechanism.
*Besides, 'west' and 'east' is all relative to where you are and which way you're facing. Indonesia may feel east of Netherlands but it's west of where I live. I have a hard time remembering that the Caribbean islands, which is east of me, is called the West Indies, except in cricket season. (It's always called the west Indies -- I only remember that in cricket season. My English is poor this morning!) |
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Post by hdm1950 on Jan 15, 2024 21:06:27 GMT
Been quiet on the stamp front so it was nice to have a few purchases show up in the mail today. It was especially nice to fill a few holes in the classic Hong Kong collection. Scott numbers for these from left to right are 11,37,61,63 and 80. The bottom row includes some additions to my British America collection. Both the Grenada stamps are postage dues (Scott J6 and J8). The Nevis is a Scott 8. I especially like the red cancels seen on some of the St. Vincent early stamps. (Scott 14B)  |
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 16, 2024 0:55:53 GMT
Put aways several soaked batches, and then began making a final sweep through France Semeuse issues that I have mounted to make sure I have not missed anything (specifically roulette cuts). No luck yet, but did get some Vario pages cleared and stamps into glassine.
I am making a concerted effort to go through all my France dupes that have pages made and look for anything missing/overlooked/came in later and never really got a close look, and pull out any major faults.... and then into glassine so i can start preparing to list study lots.
Too many stamps in binders/Varios
this oughta keep me occupied!
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Post by greaden on Jan 16, 2024 1:59:19 GMT
After several months I finally got a book on Ethiopian postal history from an Italian auction house. I was about to start complaining. It arrived wrapped up in a bag better used, or reused, for dog debris.
But, along with the book, came an old-school floppy disk, a 3.5" disk reminding of my past as a notorious pioneer of the art of trolling. Now I need to figure out how to access the key data on that disk. And maybe I can sort out an article about the art of 1990s era trolling.
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Post by madbaker on Jan 16, 2024 2:05:18 GMT
No luck yet, but did get some Vario pages cleared and stamps into glassine. .... and then into glassine so i can start preparing to list study lots. Too many stamps in binders/Varios this oughta keep me occupied! That sure is the way it goes, eh? Our holdings expand and contract like an accordian. I compressed my worldwide collection into a dozen bulging stockbooks, rough sorted by region and country. Now things slowly expand as I sort each country by year. Then they contract as I start writing up pages. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. 😊 And then, like Statesman Stamper I lose interest in Thailand and skip over to Iceland for a change of pace. There's always something to do. 💖 |
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Post by madbaker on Jan 16, 2024 2:07:41 GMT
And maybe I can sort out an article about the art of 1990s era trolling. I'd read that! How did mailing floppies fit into trolling? I've never heard of that. 😅 |
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Post by cursus on Jan 16, 2024 6:29:34 GMT
No proper stamping on the lasts weeks. Just, going to the stamp market every Sunday and picking a few items. I'm thinking on buying a collection or hoard of Sweden or Switzerland (up to 1930), Austria, Norway, Finland or Iceland, to keep me bussy. UK post-2005 could be another option. The problem is where in Europe to find those at proper prices.
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 16, 2024 11:02:16 GMT
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The wavy pattern of colour loss is interesting in its own way, as it clearly shows what those pesky Dutch postal authorities cooked up as a defence mechanism.
