Let's see your latest acquisition.

Here is my latest acquisitions, at the time of discovering this thread. 

Both lots scored on eBay a couple of nights ago.

1863 Cape of Good Hope one penny for £12.99
and a trio (3d brown missing from the set) from the 1872 perforation 12 series from British Honduras for $20

Still looking forward to their arrival.
Happy collecting
`Paul

Waited long time for this to arrive from Pakistan.You all know how I love my used blocks.

Steve coughed up : "I just acquired these for the same amount that Rod paid for his elephants...a few blemishes but the price was right."

Nice catch, great value.

Postmark is "Used by the London Office for letters passing by the general Post" Yours is numeral 36, issued September 1854

It may very well be. This article regarding the race indicates that soldiers were guarding the aircraft so the postmark.

Thanks for that link and information on the Signal Branch, Rod & Steve. I liked the part about the British pilots appreciating the sandwiches and especially the etc. Does this mean that folks actually imbibed alcohol during prohibition? 

I did rescan the postmark @ 2400dpi and it certainly looks like Signal Branch.  Interestingly, I also found a postcard from 1927 to Czechoslovakia to a Rudolph Dinnebier that was sold on Ebay.  I also found one purportedly from Charles Lindbergh addressed to the same name in Chicago.  Anyone able to research him?

After the latest Maresch auction, I've blown my stamp budget for quite a while, I think.  I picked up 3 of the major numbers missing from my Canada collection and now my wallet is much thinner, oh well.  Canada #8 MNG, #19 MNG and #40 MH - not really hinged but it looks like it has a small spot of redistributed gum.



Ryan

Those are beautiful Ryan! I have yet to get to a Maresch auction, though I did get the catalogues for the last couple.
For me joy today is finding a new stamp store, and not far from work. There is the guy I've mentioned around the corner, and there I can get supplies cheap, but stamps? Fuget-abut-it! If you ask whether he has something, he'll mumble, "I don't think so". You look around at the room that looks like a scene from 'Hoarders' and just KNOW there's got to be something there. But why bother.
This new place is bright, cheerful, organized, inexpensive (so far) and my lunch hour can be wisely wasted.
Here's what I picked up today. 
1. Canada War Savings stamp 1940-41 #FWS7 (I already have two others from this booklet pane. My WWI Canada War Tax project is branching out to other wars and other countries)
2. Mozambique War Tax 1918 (See? Purchased some Spanish 1879s and 1890s as well as British Empire overprint war tax off ebay the other day as well)
3. 1984 MNH British Columbia Private Courier
4. 20¢ and 30¢ Rattlesnake Island Bird stamps
Fun? Wow!

Nice date stamp 11th day 12 month 13 year cancels.

Got the cancel on a mini sheet 100 Years Australia's first stamp the 1d red Map & Kangaroo.

In 990 years for the next line up of dates and it will be 1 day 2 month 3 year in the year 3003.

Nice to have a bunch of these dates 11 day 12 month 13 year.

Except, they should have made the Roo stamp bi-coloured, being a high value,
in my opinion.

Here are last nights picks on eBay.
Can hardly believe how cheap I got the triangle for.
For the Bahamas overprint I paid 22 pounds ($US35), expectable price for a missing corner spacefiller,
but the 6d Slate triangle, on blued paper, I won for $US15.50.

I tell you,
if you see something you need, and it is still within your budget,
don't not bid for thinking it will go too high for you.
Make sure you have your "cry price" riding on it.

Like tomiseksj's score with those two GB for $2.
Nice bargain. Did you get those on eBay Tom?
(If not, I want to know where you get bargains like that

Philatelic happiness
`Paul

Today I won a couple lots of Monaco that really helped out that collection.
The first one was a small lot of imperfs, which value better than the more common perf varieties.
Out of the 7 stamps, I needed the 30fr of the monte Carlo radio issue and the block of 4 ovpts.
These 5 stamps complete my Monaco regular issues thru 1963 The next lot had 22 early stamps but I was only interested in the 5 Semi postals shown in the second scan. It is a complete set (#'s B9-13) for THIS PAGE .  These little buggers are pretty highly prized and get quite expensive.  The B13 cats for $6,500 and $1,000 for the B8.  I never thought I get but a few of them but a couple months ago I picked up the B6 and B7 NH which cat for around $800,  more or less hidden in an auction lot Happy Campin!
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I won a small lot of Jamaica and Australian States the other day on ebay in another one of my "drive-bys."

I don't even know if I need any of these stamps...but hey looked good in the listing and they look even better now that I have them in hand and they are off of the album pages.

Here's mine! It's a Scott #30A. It has some nerfed perfs up top but the centering is so magnificent I definately thought it was well worth the price! Hard to find these with the whole design intact. I'm actually thinking it may a Scott #30 but we'll see when it gets here. The reason I suspect it may be a #30 is the color. Dark brown looks much different than orange brown.

Scott #30 info on the Swedish Tiger site.

www.theswedishtiger.com/30-scotts.html

Scott #30A info on the Swedish Tiger site.

www.theswedishtiger.com/30A-scotts.html

www.ebay.com/itm/131068101433



Also, you may be interested in a little history and background on this issue from USPCS site.-

www.uspcs.org/the-1851-1860-issue/1851-5c-issue/