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Post by Zuzu on Aug 17, 2013 0:36:01 GMT
This one wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the PNC.   Okay, let's commiserate... show us what those monkeys did to your mail. |
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Aug 17, 2013 1:35:00 GMT
I received these two about a week apart in December 2010. Both had been processed through the same post office (as I recall it was somewhere in North Carolina) and it seems that both were processed by the same individual. While I find most marker monkey works distasteful, these two pieces had a somewhat artistic flair to them.   |
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Post by Zuzu on Aug 17, 2013 1:49:49 GMT
It makes me almost sick to see that big swipe through Wrigley Field! (Comiskey doesn't bother me, though.  ) |
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Post by Ryan on Aug 17, 2013 4:01:32 GMT
I just received this from a stamp dealer, who made certain that the stamps received nice CDS cancellations. And then the marker monkeys showed up ....  Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 17, 2013 4:17:28 GMT
Good grief! They had been cancelled, so that is just wanton vandalism. Let's hope the felt pen leaks in his breast pocket.
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2013 4:35:42 GMT
ROD I just put your winning together. I will head to the post office and have them hand cancel . If they show up like the second photo I be mad.   |
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Post by zipper on Aug 17, 2013 4:47:44 GMT
One can always start an album of marker monkey cancels.
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Post by Zuzu on Aug 17, 2013 5:15:14 GMT
Let's hope the felt pen leaks in his breast pocket. Hear, hear! There's something very spiteful about a marker monkey who attacks stamps that are already clearly cancelled. |
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Post by Zuzu on Aug 17, 2013 5:15:43 GMT
One can always start an album of marker monkey cancels. Well, now there's an idea! |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Aug 17, 2013 5:30:45 GMT
This one wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the PNC. Okay, let's commiserate... show us what those monkeys did to your mail. Interesting piece that leads me to the following question. Given that the stamps are Self-Adhesive, can the used [marker-monkeyed] Flags be called a PNC ?? Surely the Freedom stamp is merely a Plate Number single ? |
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Post by I.L.S. on Aug 17, 2013 8:19:06 GMT
Let's hope the felt pen leaks in his breast pocket. Hear, hear! There's something very spiteful about a marker monkey who attacks stamps that are already clearly cancelled. I recently received a registered letter that contained a few thousand dollars worth of classic US material. Now, the thing that gets me is that the sender used the round forever globe stamps that I don't have but apparently just before it was delivered the stamps was scribbled on...all of them! I know it was the mail lady because she the pen and was writing with it when she was handing me the envelope and asked me to sign for it...ARGH!! I'll scan and post it for the thread. |
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Post by I.L.S. on Aug 17, 2013 8:27:21 GMT
OK, this certainly isn't the worst one I have ever received but the worst one in a while. WHY on earth did she do that? She knows I'm a stamp collector too? In fact she's fascinated by it- they both are and me questions all the time? Oh well I guess I can't really stay mad; after-all they're just doing their job I guess?...  |
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Post by tomiseksj on Aug 17, 2013 23:42:59 GMT
This came in today's mail. I'll take the broad, purposeful strokes of a marker to the listless, ball point pen stroke any day...  |
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 22, 2013 6:15:40 GMT
I received a package from Denmark today and was very disappointed to find there is a marker monkey among the Danes as well. Usually Denmark is a very reliable source of good quality cancels - Switzerland is tops in my book for reliable cancellations, but Denmark is close behind. Green felt pen on a 30 Krone stamp and two commemoratives over letter rate - sigh ...  Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 7:29:47 GMT
I can feel a new etiquette coming on.....
"PLEASE (Heart emoticon) do not use felt pen on my stamps."
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 22, 2013 11:37:08 GMT
At least I was happy with the package innards. I buy piles of stamps for an eventual stamp trading website ("eventual" as in "hopefully up and running in less than 5 years"). It's tough to find trading stock for a place like Greenland, but I came across an eBay listing for good groups of Greenland and Iceland for a surprisingly low price, so I snapped them up. I haven't looked through the Iceland group yet, but on a quick check I found over 150 stamps that catalogue more than $2 a piece among the Greenland stamps - 22 copies of a $9 stamp! Yay for that, now all they need to do is put the marker monkey behind bars.  Ryan |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 14:17:31 GMT
Nice buying there Ryan.  So how do you keep them now, manila stock sheets? |
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Post by Ryan on Aug 22, 2013 14:41:55 GMT
So how do you keep them now, manila stock sheets? They're kept in the "piles of stuff" department. Ready to be catalogued because they're already off paper and clean (I don't like hinge remnants, leftover gum, wrinkly stamps, etc) go into successive sizes of baking tins for the more common countries, glassines for the less common.  Stamps with gum go into 102 cards and then into red boxes. Too many of those, over 50 boxes full already. Then there's the pile of boxes of off-paper stamps awaiting sorting into those that are ready for cataloguing and those that need soaking. Here's about half of them. You can see what state my guest room is in. No room for guests, the stamps take priority!  Then a massive pile of on-paper, hiding in the closet. And the binders and stockbooks awaiting the first level of sorting. And the ones awaiting their turn in the bath for their soaking. And I still buy stuff! ha ha - I have more I can finish before I die, unless I radically ramp up my production. Oh well, I'll have lots of fun until then. Ryan |
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Post by rod222 on Aug 22, 2013 14:57:50 GMT
Oh Man, I love that hehehehe.
Long live the hoarders I say!
I am an apprentice hoarder, not quite as experienced as your good self.
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Aug 22, 2013 15:08:23 GMT
Must be me but that looks normal.Grew up doing this so I guess it's ingrained.
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Post by Zuzu on Aug 22, 2013 16:22:30 GMT
You can see what state my guest room is in. No room for guests, the stamps take priority! Ever have the urge to just empty a few boxes out on that bed and take in the enormity of your hoard?  |
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Post by stampgeezer on Aug 22, 2013 17:18:13 GMT
Ryan, If I had a guest room, it would look somewhat the same.
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Post by Ryan on Jan 17, 2014 21:00:01 GMT
No scanner here, a photo will do. As with Zuzu's first post, a PNC (4c Chippendale chair) lost to the marker monkey. One of the 3c coils had escaped a cancellation, so they all received a hefty scribble. Grrr.  Ryan |
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Post by Zuzu on Jan 17, 2014 22:56:22 GMT
Where's the "Thumbs Down" button when you need one?
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Post by KirkS on Jan 19, 2014 21:48:15 GMT
The Blue Whale makes my heart hurt !
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Jan 20, 2014 2:21:05 GMT
Stuff I posted for member here I had hand stamped at counter hope it doesn't get marker treated as well.I tried.
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Jan 20, 2014 2:21:33 GMT
Stuff I posted for member here I had hand stamped at counter hope it doesn't get marker treated as well.I tried.
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Post by ChickasawStampMan on Jan 20, 2014 3:55:22 GMT
I received a monkey marker from Great Britain for a trade. And the sticker that was on the envelope stated stamps for collection as the contents!!!
Unbelievable....
I took my trade to the post office, they were very patient and even put a corner edge post mark.
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Post by Jen B on Apr 27, 2014 2:32:39 GMT
This isn't Marker Monkeys. More like Border Patrol Tape Trolls. Surprisingly, the tape peeled off without damaging the stamps. However, once I got it off I realized that the cover was probably more interesting with the tape than without it.
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Post by rogo on Apr 27, 2014 2:38:51 GMT
Interesting piece that leads me to the following question. Given that the stamps are Self-Adhesive, can the used [marker-monkeyed] Flags be called a PNC ?? Surely the Freedom stamp is merely a Plate Number single ? PNC = plate number coil. Those are coil stamps. S/A's do come in coils...... |
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