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Post by antoniusra on Aug 18, 2013 18:08:37 GMT
Have to say I am in a bit of shock having just won this French lot which is comprised of all the stamps and covers shown below. Never thought my $99.99 bid would take it but I even had a couple bucks to spare. Even if that is a cut corner on the #37 selling it should pretty much cover the rest. This is known as happy campin!!!       |
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Post by antoniusra on Aug 18, 2013 18:12:12 GMT
and one more.......... By the way I don't think there are any stamps I don't already have but surely to be some upgrades and a variant or two. I don't have any early french covers so they will make a nice addition. Be nice if that #37 was missing the denomination. Attachments:
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Post by spain1850 on Aug 18, 2013 21:51:55 GMT
Man, that is a great batch of French! I especially like the covers. Ebay?
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Post by antoniusra on Aug 18, 2013 22:23:28 GMT
Richard, it would not have gone near that low on Ebay. The covers are nifty but all cheap as far as I can tell but there are quite a few. They will be a nice addition to my coverless French collection. I just realized that the #37 looks like it has a straightedge, I was so concerned on whether or not it had a UR cut corner that I did not really notice it until now. Still with an additional 92 Napoleans and Ceres a nice batch to play with.
I could get better than $50 for the 37 as it appears. Besides possibly a #1, I think most collectors want the 37 most. Thins are what really haunted those 5Fr stamps. Probably just the crummy scan but I cannot see the denomination and seems as though you should that would be a nice but nigh impossible 100 fold increase in value.
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What I collect: Classic GB, QV, France Ceres/Napoleon, Classic U.S., Cinderella & Poster Stamps
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Post by zipper on Aug 19, 2013 0:17:56 GMT
They're gorgeous! You really did well.
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Post by cjd on Aug 19, 2013 2:34:45 GMT
Looks like an exceptional amount of fun.  |
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What I collect: Worldwide USED up to the 1960's, later years from countries that came into existence after then, like Anguilla, Tuvalu and Transnistria.
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Post by BC on Aug 19, 2013 3:40:22 GMT
Great find !
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Post by jkjblue on Aug 19, 2013 7:04:03 GMT
Nice classical French group.  France is a great country for collectors. I picked up a French album last week that was numbered according to Yvert. The collector had lots of shades in the sowers and earlier that are not in Scott. |
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Post by cjd on Aug 20, 2013 3:52:41 GMT
In contrast, here is a page fragment that I picked up a day or two ago. Much slower going this way. Condition isn't fabulous, but I paid $2, or so, so that I could check the shades, etc.  This 25c was a throw-in because of the damage.  I took it because I know that many of the 6000-series cancels in the gros chiffres lozenges were used abroad. Turns out this one was not. It was used in Arromanches-les-bains, a small town of a few- to several-hundred people over the last few centuries, but right at the epicenter of D-Day. Arromanches is the site of a current D-Day museum, and one of two Mulberry harbors constructed for the allies, as a part of Gold Beach (a landing site for the Brits). |
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Post by antoniusra on Aug 26, 2013 19:33:02 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Aug 26, 2013 19:35:17 GMT
And a couple more from the same lot.......   |
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Post by ramanandn on Sept 5, 2013 20:27:42 GMT
Looks like you did very well for yourself there. Love the early French covers.
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Post by antoniusra on Sept 6, 2013 3:15:55 GMT
I've recieved both lots and was quite pleased with the contents. The large 5fr Napoleon unfortunately had a mirad of faults but it did happen to be the Bluish shade which I did not have. The covers were for the most part in pretty good shape and make a nice addition to the collection. The $50 second "Mish Mash" lot was just that. I have never seen so many different forgeries from so many countires in a single lot before. The best items in the lot were a group of stamps that were not even shown in the auction scans! $450 cat worth of the first 6 stamps from the Netherlands that had four different shades I was lacking. See below Also another Expo stamp I did not have for my "Way Back of Book" U.S. collection...see below Also below my new and improved, first page of Holland    |
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Post by jkjblue on Sept 6, 2013 5:07:59 GMT
Nice First page Holland! I was adding a few stamps on the first page to my own Netherlands collection earlier this evening, so I can appreciate (quite acutely!) what you have.  |
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Post by spain1850 on Sept 6, 2013 5:19:32 GMT
You just gotta love those unexpected surprises. The extra shades really make for an awesome looking page.
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Post by I.L.S. on Sept 6, 2013 10:37:49 GMT
I love looking through lot's like that. Looking at all these world wide lots makes me think that I'll have to work on my WWI German collection some.
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Post by antoniusra on Sept 9, 2013 1:20:02 GMT
Besides the Vlad sheet and one other $12 lot I lost all the 20 or so I bid on this weekend, except the one that ended last and I wanted the most. Glad I lost all the others or I would have not been able to afford this one. My <a href=http://mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/europe/portuguese/azores.html>Azores</a> was already pretty good compared to most but this set helps to raise the bar a bit higher. At 10% of cat it's a very nice deal!  |
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