Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on Mar 25, 2017 21:40:05 GMT
Registered cover sent from Borivali (a suburb of Mumbai) to a certain Londoner in Israel, 23 November 2005 Stamps on cover - front: Leopard Cat - 2000 (Scott 1825), Painted Stork - 2001 (Scott 1910) - back: Aga Khan Award for Architecture souvenir sheet (Scott 2089c) Philatelic as all getout, but it sure is pretty. Thanks, LB1.  |
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Mick
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Posts: 931
What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.
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Post by Mick on Mar 26, 2018 3:39:33 GMT
From Bombay (now Mumbai) to Hadera, Israel. in 1976. I like this one for the cool airmail etiquette as well as for the address, the lines of which seem to be in the wrong order. Stamps: Scott 720 (part of the Locomotives series) and 733 (Family Planning). 
The law firm of Shah & Sanghavi, which was founded in 1966, is still in operation in Mumbai. Their offices are no longer on M. G. Road. |
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tomiseksj
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Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
Posts: 6,265
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 Oct 10, 2019 12:46:19 GMT
On October 8th I received this registered cover sent from Mumbai on October 1st -- it contained two U.S. international response coupons that I needed for my collection. I was impressed with the short timeframe from mailing to receipt. The sender, ebay seller alphaomegaphilately, added a note indicating that prices on a website he runs are lower than his ebay prices. This was my only purchase from the seller so I can't validate that assertion. The cover, a padded mailer, is too thick to retain so at some point I'll attempt to remove the stamps and registration label.   |
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 10, 2019 16:11:40 GMT
Hi Steve:
I have purchased a few cinderellas from this seller and I have wondered why on some items he charges only $1 shipping and on others $3. The $1 shipping must be from his own website. I have been impressed with the rapidity of his shipments. Excellent service considering the distance involved. The items I have received were franked with blocks of four or souvenir sheets. Unfortunately, the cancels are not clearly struck.
Don
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Post by paul1 on Jul 31, 2022 16:10:32 GMT
another cover from yesterday's purchase - as usual bound for London and this time the letter started out in Sikkim State in north Eastern India - in what I think was December 1932 - not the easiest CDS to read. An attractive 8 Annas airmail stamp which looks to be SG 224 in purple, and for which there are a couple of quite valuable flaw varieties - needless to say this isn't one of them. The front of the the cover is the interesting part with what looks like a circular T stamp - for Taxe?? - but the 10C I can't interpret, so help needed please - likewise with the 1D and F.B. marks please. Presumably, the 8 Annas was slightly less than the correct air postal charge, hence the Tax. thanks for any help:-)   |
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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 Jul 31, 2022 16:40:37 GMT
International Taxe marks are based on a Swiss “gold centime” which the country of dispatch calculates. On arrival in the UK the marked deficit of (10 centimes) is converted to sterling , in this case it is worked out at 1d. due by the GPO. London Foreign Branch (F.B.)
Neither India nor GB used centimes but UPU regulations used it as an international universal currency.
incidentally the “stamp” is not the perforated adhesive one SG224 which has varieties , it is an imprint on a postal stationery envelope
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banknoteguy
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Posts: 284
What I collect: 19th Century US, High denomination US (> $1), 19th century covers US, Indian Feudatory States and most recently I acquired a BigBlue [with about 5,000 stamps] and pristine pages.
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Post by banknoteguy on Jul 31, 2022 16:48:26 GMT
Another India cover, just got this a couple days back. Mumbai to Detroit, 10 days. Not bad at all.
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Post by paul1 on Jul 31, 2022 17:38:21 GMT
Alex - what can I say - how could I have not seen that this was an imprint on a postal stationery envelope - very embarrassed here. As for the reference to Taxe - it threw me since as you say, neither GB or India used a metric currency, so very many thanks for the explanation re the Swiss gold centime system - I'm learning, but it's a steep curve. Yes, there are a couple of very expensive flaw errors on the real stamp - must now look out for the actual stamp.
very attractive cover banknoteguy and all the better for being a corner block.
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Post by paul1 on Aug 1, 2022 8:13:30 GMT
I have something like c. 60 covers for India - London, of which many are Air pieces ........ have looked again for a 'real' 8 Anna example, but no luck - only have 'real' examples of 2, 3, 4 and 6 Annas - and understandably the 12 Anna missing too:-)
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banknoteguy
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Posts: 284
What I collect: 19th Century US, High denomination US (> $1), 19th century covers US, Indian Feudatory States and most recently I acquired a BigBlue [with about 5,000 stamps] and pristine pages.
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Post by banknoteguy on Aug 1, 2022 17:29:16 GMT
This is a recently acquired cover. Old India -- Bombay to London via Southampton, 1844. Looks like it took about a month and half -- 30 April to 11 Jun. This is a folded letter sheet.
The letter is mostly an account of remittances from Bombay (Thos. Edmund & Co) to London (Frederick Huth & Co -- a merchant bank). A lot of money changing hands. The paper has a small embossed device on each page.
The first line of the letter reads:
Mem: of Remittances, Bills of Exchange & appropriations to Messrs Fredrk Huth & Co London per mail of 1st of May 1844
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Post by paul1 on Aug 1, 2022 19:00:18 GMT
That copperplate writing is superb, all ruined by the invention of the Biro. This date might suggest a steel dip nib, but certainly not a pen with reservoir as in fountain pen, so it was dip, dip dip. That upper case B is a work of art. very interesting.
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hdm1950
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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 Feb 13, 2023 2:24:40 GMT
Looking through some covers and I came across this 1941 cover from Samalkot, India to Thurso, Quebec. The reason for sharing it is because of posts about the use of 'per' on a lovely Great Britain cover posted by sudbury12000 . This cover was sent Per S.S. Exporter. A quick search did not produce any hits on who Rev. E.J. Church was nor Mrs. A.A. Angus in Thurso. S.S. Exporter has a bit more information: Hercules (AK-41), ex- SS Exporter, was launched 18 July 1939 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Massachusetts, for American Export Lines Inc. Acquired by the Navy 15 July 1941, she continued to be operated by civilian crews until 30 November 1942, when she commissioned at San Francisco, California. A more detailed history of this ship and activity during the WWII Pacific Theatre is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hercules_(AK-41)The letter was delivered to Mrs. Angus in early July of 1941 so one could assume that SS Exporter was acquired by the US Navy right after this trip from India.   |
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Post by smauggie on Feb 15, 2023 1:42:26 GMT
Jammu and Kashmir   |
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Post by smauggie on Feb 15, 2023 12:53:48 GMT
Convention State of Chamba postal stationary double forwarded eventually to Lahore.   |
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Post by smauggie on Feb 16, 2023 22:31:29 GMT
Registered mail cover from Alwar.   |
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Post by smauggie on Feb 17, 2023 15:18:01 GMT
India cover to Delhi, perhaps sent within the city. It is a bit of a mystery to me why there is so much writing all over it. Perhaps someone's grocery list.. The "Mail Agent" cancel on the back I find interesting even if I don't know what it signifies.   |
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,603
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 Feb 17, 2023 17:46:13 GMT
Since this thread is active at this time I thought I would share this 1942 World War II era commercial cover. It has lots of bells and whistles like being airmail, registered and passed censor. The sender E.D. Sassoon & Co. Ltd. had an interesting history which one can read here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Sassoon_%26_Co. . As there was no Canadian connection I have listed this cover and it has been there for over a year. Having been folded and rather large it appears that commercial covers like this are not that collectable even at a very low price. NOTE: Finally found a new home on April 16,2023 and the new owner is happy with it.   |
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Post by daniel on May 6, 2023 23:31:53 GMT
A cover to the Churchill Machine Tool Company in Mancheater, England sent from the Upper India Couper Paper Mils Co. Ltd. in Lucknow. This company seems to have had their own postal handstamp. The stamps have been placed on the reverse of the envelope, a pratice which is still used today in India. Their post marks are dated 11th Sep 1946(?) and a company handstamp has also been added.
Founded in 1901, the Upper India Couper Paper Mill still operates today in Lucknow. |
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Post by daniel on May 9, 2023 16:34:42 GMT
Although these two items are on piece I think that they are well worth showing here. Firstly, we have two George V postage stamps cancelled with a rectangular Poona slogan handstamp dated 17 Sep 35 9am, which reads 'Buy Post Office / Cash Certificates'. The stamps are the 1½a rose-carmine SG204 from 1929 and a 6a bistre SG239 from 1935. In addition, there is an arrival mark shown for ATH LUAIN for 24 IX 35. This is an Irish mark, in a known style for that period, in English this is Athlone (in Leinster). Below, and shown elsewhere, is a slogan cancel , Support Indian Industry, for Bombay dated 22 May 1938. Both items are named to Rice and are likely connected. |
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