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Post by Ryan on Oct 8, 2023 5:43:19 GMT
Wow, the Himalayan Musk Deer looks ferocious. That thing looks like it belongs in Australia, where every animal looks for some reason to murder you ... I wouldn't have expected to see such a thing in the Himalayas! Ryan
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 7, 2023 19:23:27 GMT
All of the TSF newsletters come with a request for articles for future issues:
"We are always looking for articles of a philatelic nature for publication in the Newsletter. These can vary in length from one page to several and can cover any topic imaginable, as long as there is a philatelic connection. Well-researched articles, tips for collectors, stamp collecting memories, stamp show and philatelic book reviews, etc., are all welcome topics. ..."
Don't worry about whether your article fits or not - it's exactly within the range of what can / could / should go into a newsletter.
Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 7, 2023 19:11:02 GMT
Thanks philatelia , Ryan and rod222 for taking the time to look at this and do the research! There is no other printing on the envelope, the PAR AVION is a sticker. A coworker gave me this, guessing between 1994 and 1998 though I am not sure if she had just received it or had been hanging on to it for awhile. I had read the postmark as 1961 as well but 1981 makes more sense Since there are no extra printed markings on the envelope, that's the 1995 issue. That pre-stamped design wasn't used before then (never mind in 1981 or 1961). What is seen is the trailing "6" from a 1996 postmark, followed by a marking similar to a square bracket which preceded and followed the year date on Irish machine cancels of the era. Here's a clearer postmark from 1997 nabbed from an image provided by an eBay seller. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 7, 2023 4:25:04 GMT
I really liked the math joke - Linda is a mathematician with an Erdös number of infinity! Nyuk nyuk nyuk, as Curly Stooge would say ...
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 7, 2023 0:03:46 GMT
Does anyone know the Scott number for this stamped envelope? Scott does list American postal stationery in their catalogue but hasn't included worldwide issues for a very long time - my 1894 (!) edition includes postal stationery but the next one on my bookshelf, the 1927 edition, no longer does. My Hibernian is too new to list Irish postal stationery and my MacDonnell Whyte is too old to show your example, but I do have a Michel catalogue printed in 2000 which covers western European postal stationery. Your indicium had already been used on three separate small envelopes by that time, 1995, 1998 & 1999, all of which served to commemorate St. Patrick's Day. There were also various postcards issued, again listed in Michel as commemorating St. Patrick's Day - the example shown by philatelia is the 1999 issue, which then served a dual purpose of celebrating millennium festivals. Without seeing the entire envelope it isn't possible to definitively identify your example but they can be described easily enough - if there's nothing else printed on your envelope other than the "stamp", it's the 1995 issue, U36. If it has a blue PRIORITY / AERPHOST logo imprinted upon it, then it's the 1998 issue, U37. If it also has "In the event of non-delivery return to" printed in the upper left, then it's U38, the 1999 issue. And if it's newer than 1999 then my catalogue can't help! All three of the above envelopes indicate no value but each of them was denominated at 32p. The envelopes were sold with small collections of greeting cards. In 1999, a large envelope was also sold which included not only greeting cards but also a CD with Irish folk music. I'd gladly get a CD in the mail with Irish folk music! Back in the day, I was a fan of the Green Linnet CD label which released Celtic music, both folk music and popular - perhaps my favourite track here, a blend of both ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Oct 5, 2023 7:58:49 GMT
Would welcome any feedback on a dead link, "The Philatelic Web" Webmaster Allan Oliver "Tallanent" Hello Sir Rodney! Allan hasn't been signed in to his TSF account since July 2020, and his latest public posting on his Facebook account was around Xmas 2020. But his account summary on Stampboards says he was last signed in there just a couple of days ago, Oct. 2. I've never signed up there and as a non-member I don't think there's a way for me to look at his latest posts there - maybe somebody who is more willing to tolerate The Sheriff than I am can find out if he has posted there recently (his account name there is tallanent, same as it is here on TSF). For what it's worth, not only the Philatelic Web postmarks site is gone, but also his stamp sales site, "Shropshire Stamp Man", which used the same domain root address. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 29, 2023 6:11:30 GMT
I'm another who is a fan of the linen tester. Mine looks like this - the open structure allows light to get in without creating a shadow on the stamp, and for my miserable eyes that's most useful. I use a 10x version. For more detailed viewing, I use a handheld digital microscope. Ryan
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 15, 2023 3:31:32 GMT
I also collect an odd theme which I call “dictators and other bad guys” – essentially unpleasant historical people (plenty of them on stamps!). Ha ha - I have a similar interest in books, biographies on awful people. Welcome to our forum, I'm particularly interested in seeing your stamps from this collection! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 13, 2023 18:24:25 GMT
For now, I am curious as to what the Shaw reference shows for the 'Galt & Elmira M.C.' postmark... With the M.C. included, the Galt & Elmira postmark has a rarity factor of 75 in the Shaw catalogue. The catalogue shows only "S" as the direction, however. If the M.C. is not included on the postmark, the rarity factor is 120 (and again, only "S" is listed for the direction). Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 12, 2023 8:17:20 GMT
When there are 2 parts to the tab, they are referred to as "long tabs". The single tabs are "short tabs" or simply "tabs". This is terminology specific to Israeli stamps. And you need to keep both parts of the tab for it to be considered complete - don't tear off the bottom bit! Unless you want to, I suppose, seeing as how it's your stamp ... Ryan
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 5, 2023 6:07:45 GMT
I am working on the next issue of the TSF Newsletter, and I am needing to check a reference that was given for a submitted article. The reference is: I would very much like to see a copy of this entire publication, if possible, but even a copy of just the article by F.P. Renaut would suffice. I've sent an e-mail to you - hopefully it will be of assistance! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 25, 2023 0:19:21 GMT
I have a minor highlight in my collection of Spanish Morocco - I'll cross post something here from an old (2013) thread entitled " Your nicest surprise". I doubt it's been viewed by too many people recently so I bet I can get away with it. ("TRANSGRESSION," says Officer Pupp.) No $1200 score here - maybe it's worth at least double catalogue value, though, so that would move it all the way up into the 40 cent range. ha ha Many stamps from Spanish Morocco have a control number printed on the back, just like stamps from Spain back in the days of King Alfonso XIII. These numbers are seldom very high - I have maybe 20 or 25 of these stamps that I've found in kiloware and various lots, and maybe only 3 of them have control numbers higher than 10,000. But this one came in a lot of 500 assorted mint stamps that I won on eBay, and it's definitely the lowest control number I've seen so far. I have a corner stamp on another value in the set and the control number on that means that the sheets were likely 5 x 7, thus the #98 here is from the final column on the sheet. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 24, 2023 5:34:15 GMT
My favourite dealer (back in the day when I attended stamp bourses frequently) often recounted the "best" exhibit he had ever seen, put together by a junior collector - women on purple stamps! ha ha
This would be the level at which I could fancy myself exhibiting, something offbeat (or, given my predilections, borderline inane). Stamps made out of unobtanium wouldn't be my focus ...
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Post by Ryan on Aug 21, 2023 15:02:47 GMT
cjoprey Try the main supermarkets, look for the plastic yellow containers shaped like a lemon. They contain lemon juice, I don't know if they will have the same effect as the citrus sprays, might be worth a try they are cheap enough to buy. I don't know if lemon juice will do much - d-limonene (the active ingredient which is the solvent for self-adhesive gum) is sourced from citrus fruit peels, not from their juice. There is some d-limonene in the juice but not nearly as much as there is in the peels, and what is in the peels undergoes chemical processes in order to concentrate it. Raw juice won't have nearly the concentration needed to be effective, I don't think. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 18, 2023 4:00:08 GMT
ARCTIC RED RIVER NWT cancels If, like me, you like to play the fun game of "what is that town called now?", you'd be interested to know that Arctic Red River is now known as Tsiigehtchic. Postmarks with the new name do exist but they're tough to come by in kiloware, that for sure - the settlement has never been home to more than 200 people. If you like those "Ice Road Truckers" kinds of TV shows, then head up to Tsiigehtchic and take your car across the Mackenzie River when it's well frozen over! During thaws, a ferry takes you across. What you do for all the other months of the year, when the ice is too thin to be a highway but not thawed enough for the ferry, is unknown to me. Maybe you just hunker down and sit tight for a while ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 17, 2023 2:52:35 GMT
This looks to be the 100d with inverted arabic script on right side of design - SG 2020a Mi 1573 II. Excellent! I hadn't noticed that it was a catalogue variant. Hooray for catalogue variants! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 10, 2023 22:18:04 GMT
Bolivia, 1991, 'Peace Emblem of the United Nations': This is a souvenir sheet for which I will have to be on the lookout - it fits nicely into my long-neglected Albrecht Dürer topical collection. Ryan
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 10, 2023 21:57:04 GMT
I suggest trimming close and square , rotate 90degrees right and show on a white background . That's the oddest thing - when I look at hdm1950 's original image I see a stamp on top of an envelope (Normal World). When I look at the rotated version, especially these two sides, I see a perforated frame laid over top of a stamp image (Everything Is Backwards World). The shadows make it look different to me ... Ryan
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 9, 2023 10:01:26 GMT
Here's one I liked from the 1883-1891 delivery book. Its the delivery of all the dies, plates and rollers for the first issues of Nova Scotia and New Bruswick dated 29 August 1893. It follows a request by Sir Charles Tupper, the Canadian High Commissioner to the U.K, to Perkins Bacon on 24 July 1893, asking for them to be handed over. For those not immediately au fait with a history of Canadian government, Sir Charles Tupper was the 6th Prime Minister of Canada and holds some notoriety due to having the shortest tenure of any of them, only 68 days in the seat. His knighthood came long before his days as Prime Minister, so at least he got to call himself "Sir" for a good long time. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 9, 2023 7:49:55 GMT
Come on USPS! Where is the Van Lingle Mungo stamp?
Ryan
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Aug 3, 2023 5:45:40 GMT
Can someone please help me identify this pre-cancel? I cannot locate it in my PSS CATALOG. That is Chicago Heights, Illinois - Style 465 in the PSS Town & Type catalogue. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 31, 2023 3:08:20 GMT
Don't know if your Mom is also Asian, but even the arrangement is similar. Like most in her generation, my Mom sorted stamps by topicals/themes as she received them. Later when she had time, she would reposition/combine the topicals together into another stockbook. Collectors frequently complain about the "back of the book" methods of the Scott Catalogue listings, where air post stamps and semi-postal stamps and whatnot are listed in separate sections after the bulk of a nation's stamps. They would go apoplectic if looking at a Chinese catalogue! My Yang PRC 1949-2009 catalogue is an example of this. The first chapter belongs to "Commemorative Issues", going from 1949-1967. Then there are four chapters which start off with a step backwards: "Special Issues" from 1951-1966, "Cultural Revolution Issues" from 1967-1970, "New Series with Number" from 1971-1973 and "New 'J' Commemorative Issues" from 1974-1991. Then you go backwards again for the chapter "New 'T' Special Issues" which runs from 1974-1991. Then a chapter for "1992-2009 Special Issues", followed by another brief step backwards for the "Z Series" from 2003-2008. Backwards again, this time for the "PJZ Series" which at least has something of an intuitive feel for deserving a separate chapter since all of these are souvenir sheets issued for stamp exhibitions dating from 1995-1999. Then finally you get the "Regular Issues" chapter for all of the definitives, some of which look just about as fancy as commemoratives. And then after those stamps, a bunch of things that Scott would agree belongs at the back of the book - local issues, air mail, military post, postage due. The intro to the catalogue explains the justification for such a listing methodology - it has to do with the tiny characters printed at the bottom of each stamp, which determines which of the chapters each stamp belongs to. That's not to mention other Chinese catalogues I have, which include prices not only for mint & used but also CTO stamps, both with and without gum (CTO stamps with gum are in general more valuable than postally used copies, according to Chinese catalogues - a reverse of our pricing standards according to the Scott catalogues which give an unspecified "more" valuation for postally used East Block stamps in comparison to CTO copies). Yeesh! Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 24, 2023 21:44:30 GMT
I was never on the Concord but remember it landing in Toronto while I was at work. The Concorde flew in to Calgary in 1977. I still remember being able to see it with the nose in its bent down position for landing. (Exercise for the reader - compare our puny 1977 skyline to the way Calgary looks today.) Image nabbed from somewhere on the internet, I think I found it on Pinterest. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 23, 2023 19:12:39 GMT
If you ever come across a damaged stamp that you're willing to throw in the bin, you can use scissors to cut them along the width direction. This gives you a quick & easy template - you can just lay the cut stamp directly over top of your good stamps to compare widths (you can most likely get a more accurate comparison by using a cut template than you can when the frame margin and perforations are still intact). Of course, you need to know whether your cut template is a wet or dry print, but if you have enough stamps and if the two printing types are both relatively common, you will eventually figure out that you have one pile of stamps wider than the other pile. Here's an example of something similar done for the Admiral series. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 21, 2023 3:49:02 GMT
All catalogues have given this issue a date of issue as 2nd Jan 1926. I submitted it to Hugh Jefferies at Stanley Gibbons for him opinion. He has confirm the date of issue should be Jan 1st. Outstanding! This always interests me very much, when "commoners" are able to provide better info for a printed stamp catalogue. We've seen a few examples of that over the years here. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 17, 2023 21:29:33 GMT
I think the term "ribbed" paper refers to the marks that appear on the paper due to the way the gum was deposited or to the exercise of a linear pressure after the stamp was gummed to prevent the curling effect. For Canadian stamps, ribbed paper comes from the paper production process rather than anything to do with the gum. There are some Canadian stamps with "gum breakers", bends added to the paper after gumming - I'm thinking specifically of later KGV-era definitives here - and they have long been seen on some American engraved stamps also, but these ridges are much farther apart, perhaps only 4 or 5 ridges in the long dimension of a small definitive, as opposed to the 40 or so ridges seen on ribbed paper. Here's an image nabbed from the sales website belonging to TSF member brixtonchrome, which shows the ribbing very clearly in the margins of this plate block. Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 16, 2023 5:45:11 GMT
More Doraemon stamps, issued in Japan in 1997: With my favourite, Lovesick Doraemon at the bottom. ha ha Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 15, 2023 22:24:03 GMT
I've used the plastic over stamps trick many times, but only on boxes. I didn't want to put the stamps on the cardboard, so I put them on paper, then taped the paper to the box, had it cancelled, then taped a heavy plastic over the whole shebang. I never had a complaint from the USPS clerks. I've done something similar before - I would give the mint stamps (usually affixed to backing paper) to the counter worker, ask her to cancel them with a handstamp, slide those into a freezer ziplock bag which has been taped to the box, and then seal up the ziplock bag. The first time I tried that she was a bit leery about doing it but eventually I trained the counter workers back in the days when I used to mail more stuff around. I had received packages like that in the past from a Dutch dealer I used a couple of times for kiloware so I can't claim that it was my idea. Included among those Dutch stamps was one of the 12.75g silver stamps released in 2001, I was very happy to receive that in good condition instead of something that was all scuffed up after being on the outside of a box which had been sliding around in transit for a couple weeks. (Image nabbed from a Linn's Stamp News article on Dutch silver stamps.) Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 15, 2023 5:02:57 GMT
I recently received 'The International Engravers Line' by Gene Hessler, 2005. I'm jealous! I looked for that for years but only found horribly expensive copies available and after enough of that I stopped looking. Perhaps I'll have to get back on the wagon again ... Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jul 15, 2023 4:48:23 GMT
The Pound. £. (Latin libra ) Was 20 shillings. S (Latin solidus ) or. /- , each shilling was 12 pennies d ( from the Latin coin Denarius) Referred to as “£sd”. Which gave rise to such phrases as this: You've heard of Ali Baba Forty thieves had he Out for what we all want Lots of LSD Rather a different connotation could have been drawn when the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band recorded this song in the late 1960s, so here's a 1931 version instead ... Ryan
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