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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 27, 2024 15:11:24 GMT
Back Home After a Week Away Maybe a Little Stamping Today....Greetings, stampers far and wide! I hope this post finds you all happy and doing as well as you can be. I have been in Tennessee on business travel from Sunday through Thursday, and I am still a bit in recovery mode after all that. The good news: before leaving on the trip, I was able to clear my desk, which included a fair amount of stamps that I had pulled out. Thanks to an unexpected and amazing gift from my dear friend René ( renden), I was inspired to get my classic Canada collection organized. I have some nice early Canada, but I just never took the time to organize and display them properly. That is now underway, and I should be able to post some images soon. I also received a nice eBay purchase of some official stamps from Hawaii, which has completed my set. The less-than-good news: I made two other eBay purchases from sellers in Europe back in mid-March, and those have still not arrived. One from the UK had international tracking on it, and it was received in Los Angeles on 1st April, but no movement since then. The seller told me that he thinks it's being held by U.S. Customs for further inspection. Hmmmm....... Ah well, not much I can do about those items that haven't arrived. I just hope they will get here in the not-too-distant future. Still trying to decide if I will have any time for stamps today, as this weekend is an alumni open house at a nearby college where my wife went to school, and she really wants us to attend some events over there. I could opt out, but as I have been gone all week, I should probably agree to go. Stay stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 19, 2024 17:23:38 GMT
Greetings, all: rod222, khj, and philatelianick2302 has now provided an image. These do not look like the SOAR types that have been described. Any comments to make about these?
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 15, 2024 15:31:07 GMT
nick2302Thanks for your post. As you have not uploaded an image of the stamps in question, we can only guess that when you state "fairly modern," you are most likely referring to self-adhesive stamps? If so, I was able to find this thread in another online stamp community, which does have some images of stamps of Ireland: stampbears.net/thread/5739/when-soak-stampsIt appears that at least some Ireland self-adhesives are not water soakable, similar to US self-adhesives. Our most knowledgeable member on Ireland on TSF is probably Terri ( philatelia), so I will tag her, but she is currently having health issues, so I don't know if she will be able to respond quickly. I will also tag khj, who is the leader of the other stamp community, in case he can offer further advice. Hope this helps a little.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 10, 2024 17:08:01 GMT
Out & About in San DiegoGreetings, all! This is just a short post to explain my low level of participation in the recent days. My wife and I are on a short trip to San Diego this week, returning home tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon. This past weekend, I did a major clearing of my desk, which felt good to get done before our little trip. It was a combination of both philatelic and non-philatelic items that had piled up while I was preoccupied with other things. Before leaving I sent off a small package to Stan ( stainlessb ) for some upcoming color shade work. I am also working with Hugh ( hdm1950 ) on a little transaction that I should be able to finish up tomorrow when I get home. Sorry for the delay, Hugh! Ok, that’s it for now. Stay stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 8, 2024 15:21:34 GMT
Oleksandr-GermanyThanks for your post. I think that the overprint reads “5 Para 5”. That would mean it is from Great Britain Offices Abroad. Perhaps Offices in Turkey or Levant? I just quickly checked a catalogue, but the overprint doesn’t seem to match any in the listings. Hmmm…. Perhaps the red is not an overprint but rather an auxiliary marking that ended up on the stamp. vikingeck: can you comment?
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 4, 2024 5:03:52 GMT
Many thanks for your post, Xavier ( hrdoktorx). I gave it a "like" but that was to acknowledge its impact, not because I am happy about what you have had to report. It is a sad day, indeed, when another stamp shop has to close its doors. It sounds like you had a good run with this dealer in Germany, and I am glad for you and for him. I have had similar experiences, but of course, those are becoming less frequent with the passage of time. Brick-and-mortar shops are simply too costly to maintain when dealers can do almost everything online nowadays. I understand and accept the practicalities of that, but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I started this thread back when, because I knew then as I still know now, that the days of the traditional stamp shops are numbered. That's why I value each and every one of those places while they are still around, and I patronize them whenever I can. I want to contribute to their survival for as long as I can, even though they are, as the saying goes, "a dying breed." I am glad that you had a good 20+ years with your dealer!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 2, 2024 2:42:35 GMT
Thanks for your post, Darrin ( darkormex) I don’t think that the writing is in French, despite the inclusion of the word “je.” Looking at the accent marks, I am guessing it is either written in Czech or Slovak. That would also make sense because what later became Czechoslovakia would have been part of Austria-Hungary at the time. I don’t know if we have any members who speak Czech or Slovak, but anglobob is knowledgeable about Austria-Hungary town names, so perhaps he can comment.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Apr 1, 2024 5:31:29 GMT
Just posting to give this thread a bump, as I found a pre-existing thread on the same subject, so I have merged them into one. Stay Napoleon III stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 31, 2024 16:50:15 GMT
Very nice stamp, Xavier ( hrdoktorx).... I congratulate you! The bluing looks great. It's a very sharp print, too, with unobtrusive cancel. It's nicer than the one in my collection!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 27, 2024 17:03:05 GMT
Just giving this thread a bump, too, now that the latest issue of the Newsletter is available for your reading enjoyment. We have added a word puzzle for the first time (to my knowledge), and we have three first-time contributors in stamphinger, greaden, and daniel, as well as returning contributor cursus. Many thanks to all of you for these fine articles! It was a privilege to include them in the issue. Also, many thanks to REL1948 and tomiseksj for support with reviewing and editing the draft before final publication. In that regard, we still have a vacancy for another Assistant Editor, and I would love to have someone step up. The task only takes a few hours once a quarter, just reviewing the layout and articles before publication to suggest revisions. If anyone is interested, please PM me. Stay Newsletter stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 27, 2024 16:23:29 GMT
Just giving this thread a bump now that the latest issue of the TSF Newsletter is available.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 26, 2024 4:42:51 GMT
Just giving this thread a bump to show the post that ponso1 originally made in the DWI thread, but it seems a better fit here, and it revives an old thread that needed some attention! Edit: As an added thought, it seems to me quite unusual that U.S. Customs Inspected Baggage stamps would end up affixed to a cover. Does that seem unusual to anyone else, assuming that the primary purpose of these stamps (labels) would be to affix them to baggage?
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 25, 2024 5:44:41 GMT
Thanks for your post, Darrin ( darkormex ) I will try to work on this more tomorrow, but just a quick (and perhaps interesting) observation is that the card appears to have been addressed to someone in a beer hall (Bierhalle Knopf). I will tag a couple of members who may be able to respond more quickly than I can on the rest: salentin cara PostmasterGS scub
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 25, 2024 5:31:49 GMT
xacs: I checked the Scott Catalogue, and there is definitely an imperf Napoleon III issue like this, French Colonies, Sc7. As the CV is much less than that for one of the Rothschild Re-Issues, it is highly probable that you are right about this. Thanks again for reminding me about these French Colonies imperfs. John ( greaden): Can you tell from looking at the earlier post if the stamp in question has a French Colonies cancel on it? As I think more about this, I recall that the dealer in Aix used to tell me that it was often possible to tell a French Colonies from France issue by looking at the cancel. Looking forward to further comments. Thanks, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 25, 2024 4:07:40 GMT
Thanks for your response, xacsI forgot about the French Colonies issues. That’s an excellent point. I will check the catalogue. Thanks again!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 25, 2024 3:26:34 GMT
Napoleon III 1c EMPIRE FRANÇAIS Imperforate Issue ID Confirmed as French ColoniesBelow is the image of a stamp that I bought when I was living in France in 2018-2019. I don't recall much about the acquisition, except that I got it from the same dealer from whom I bought most of my stamps at the Saturday market in Aix-en-Provence. Imagine my surprise when I went to look this stamp up in the catalogue a year or so ago, and I noticed that this issue is normally supposed to be perforated. Edit: Thanks to xacs and hrdoktorx, this stamp is now confirmed as a French Colonies issue rather than France. French Colonies, Sc7 1c Olive Green Thanks again to those who responded quickly to help me with correct ID of this stamp as French Colonies instead of France.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 25, 2024 3:03:48 GMT
France, Napoleon III Issues, 1852-1870 Arranged on Hagner Stock SheetI realize that I have been remiss in not posting in these classic France threads for quite some time now, as I do have a few relevant examples. I have nowhere near the depth of material or expertise of other members, but here are my main Napoleon III issues. I am still missing a reasonable number of these, but I try to fill the gaps when I can find stamps at good prices. Row 1: France, Sc10-11, inscribed REPUB FRANC Row 2: France, Sc12-15, inscribed EMPIRE FRANC (color-shade variety IDs not attempted) Row 3: France, Sc18-19, inscribed EMPIRE FRANC Row 4: France, Sc22-23, 25-28, inscribed EMPIRE FRANC (perforated) Row 5: France, Sc30, 33-36, inscribed EMPIRE FRANÇAIS (perforated) Row 6: France, Sc37, "5F" filled with Light Blue
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 24, 2024 16:53:17 GMT
Please select your favorite article from this issue by checking the box to the left of its title in the poll above.
Please Note: You will not see the poll if viewing posts using the "Recent Posts" function—you must navigate to the poll's thread to make your selection.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 24, 2024 2:52:21 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 23, 2024 15:23:45 GMT
Stampy Saturday, HopefullyHello, everyone! I hope all are doing well (or at least as well as can be). I am finally catching my breath this morning after a busy week at work and with some stamp trading activities. I have managed to get a few things done recently: - TSF Newsletter, V8.3 is now fully laid out (!) and in final review/ editing.
- Finished going through an extensive early Angola trade lot (see photo of acquisitions below).
- Put away some 1940s-1950s China and Republic of China (Taiwan) trading stock after soaking.
- Went to the PO and sent off one batch of trade lots to my partner.
- Scanned more country headers from an old 1901-1910 era stamp album (I reprint these for my own use).
Today, I need to tidy up some odds and ends still hanging around the desk, and I will need to soak some of the Angola shown below. These all came out of an old, mounted collection, so lots of hinge remnants in the bunch. I should also mention that thanks to Vince ( stanley64) and his helpful posts about the Cape Verde Ceres forgery I traded him, I checked the Angola Ceres stamps shown below for forgeries. The 10E value looked good to me, so I took it in trade. I also examined the early Portuguese Crown issues, and those checked out, too! It was a happy day that I didn't find any obvious forgeries in there. Stay genuine stampy, all! Note: some stamps are upside down simply to differentiate them as ones I already had when accounting for which ones I took in the trade!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 22, 2024 14:53:36 GMT
Thanks for your post, michaelIt is indeed a very nice stamp! I agree with Hugh ( hdm1950) and JeffS that it looks like white (i.e., non-blued) paper to me. I would also add that Stevenson's assertion is that blued paper can only be properly judged by looking at the back of the stamp. In your example, there is what I would call "blushing" of blue ink in the left and right margins of the stamp, which can only be seen on the front. I have observed that this effect is often misidentified as blued paper when it comes to Cape Triangles, and I don't know if that came into play when you bought your stamp. Congrats again on a great acquisition!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 21, 2024 17:46:54 GMT
Thanks for your post, Catweazle I appreciate your kind words about my collection, and I do indeed plan to keep it going. I need to start working on some of the earlier stamps as well as the BOB material like official stamps and the Kahului Railroad stamps. As for blocks and multiples of Queen Liliuokalani issues, I honestly don't know. I don't have any blocks, and I have never looked for them. I will poke around a bit this weekend and let you know if I can find anything. Specifically, which stamp(s) are you looking for? Anything with Liliuokalani, or one stamp in particular? In the same vein, I don't have any Hawaiian postal history at all (from the Republic era), let alone from Molokai specifically. Sorry! My focus to date has been on the stamps, but as I now have most of those, I probably should start to broaden my interests a bit. If I come across anything, I will post here and tag you. Stay aloha stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 21, 2024 5:46:27 GMT
Thanks for this thread, Andy Pastuszak, I have read it with interest. I have to admit that I don't see what all the fuss is about. Lexend doesn't look that different than other non-serif fonts to me, like Arial and Calibri. I think it looks fine, and I like the fact that the capital "I" has serifs on it (it doesn't in Arial or Calibri), but it actually looks very much like the default font here on TSF, which I am using to type this post. If you like it, then that's great, and good for you! For me, I don't see much of a difference from other typical non-serif fonts. As always, it's just my opinion, and I have no special expertise in this area!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 21, 2024 5:34:31 GMT
Welcome to TSF, Clyde ( clydetakahashi) I lived in Hawaii for about 2 years back in the 1980s (windward side of Oahu), and I have been back to visit many times since then. I also have a Hawaii collection, which I have posted here: thestampforum.boards.net/post/121017/threadI would love to see some of your material! Aloha and welcome, -Chris ( Beryllium Guy) in So. Cal.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 18, 2024 20:13:28 GMT
Actually, Al ( angore), unless I am mistaken, based on the appearance of only a partial postmark and plenty of white space, it looks like there were stamps on that piece of postal stationery that have now been soaked off.... Perhaps you mean that they were already soaked off on another occasion?
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 18, 2024 15:34:42 GMT
Alex ( vikingeck), I have now combined the threads. Thanks for pointing this out, as I had not realized that there were two alike myself!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 16, 2024 22:57:35 GMT
Quiet Weekend Working on the NewsletterGreetings, all: I hope this post finds all of you doing well. I have been busy this past week with both work and stamp-related activities. Here is a quick list of the stamp stuff: - Organized return for misdescribed eBay lot
- Sent a gift packet to an unsuspecting member(!)
- Reviewed draft article written by capejack for submission to CNPJ
- Sorted and organized Republic of China stamps (1950s-60s era) in prep for trading
- Soaked a couple of batches of odds and ends on Friday afternoon
I spent several hours this morning and early afternoon working on the TSF Newsletter, V8.3. I have one major article now fully laid out, and it looks great! I will get to work on the others tomorrow. I have also started to lay out the images for the cover. We are leaving shortly to go out for the evening to listen to an Irish music concert, which seems a fitting way to spend St. Patrick's Day eve! Stay St. Patrick stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 13, 2024 16:28:41 GMT
Thanks for posting that image of the back, JeffSThis would seem to confirm my suspicion that something is not right about the paper. For one thing, there is no hint of a watermark visible, which is certainly an indicator of something amiss, although it is not absolute, as there are known examples without the watermark. The more intriguing point to me is to note that the brown discoloration of the stamp only seems to affect the margins and the back but not the printed image on the front. I would have expected the discoloration to be visible in the lettering and/or the image of Hope. This leads me to suggest that perhaps this stamp has been trimmed and re-backed, which would account for a genuine-looking image but faulty paper. What do you think?
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 12, 2024 19:03:10 GMT
I have heard that the glassine desove in water, ....... Glassines dissolving in water? With my technical background, I highly doubt this. But if you are concerned, then clip a piece of glassine as a test specimen, put it in water, and see what happens. My guess is that it will get soggy, but it won't dissolve. The freezer trick has actually worked for me on occasion. I had some mint stamps that were stuck together, and a few of them separated with only slight bending when they came out of the freezer. Others did not, however, and I ended up needing to soak those and lose the gum. I can totally understand your hesitation since you are handling mint US Columbians, which are quite valuable. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Mar 12, 2024 18:48:15 GMT
Sorry for my delayed response, JeffS It's hard to tell from your latest image what this is. If it's a forgery, then I think it must be made from a scanned image of a genuine example. The image is very woolly, and the color is a very deep, dark blue. If it is genuine, then I am thinking it is likely an SG19 or potentially SG19b Slate Blue. The problem for me is that the paper doesn't look right. I can't tell if it is stained, foxed, discolored, or photographed in poor lighting (or some combination of all those). In any case, at least to my perception, the image looks like it comes from a genuine Cape Triangle. Without an image of the back or the ability to examine the item, it is quite difficult to draw conclusions. That's just my opinion, and of course, others are welcome!
Edit: I should also add that I recently received a multiple of "facsimile" Cape Triangles in an eBay lot. They looked genuine in the seller's photo, and there was nothing in the lot description about them. When I got them, it was clear that they were printed from scanned images of genuine stamps. I note that there is another eBay seller who is asking GBP 3.50 per copy for such facsimiles. In a photo, these can be tough to differentiate from genuine stamps.
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