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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 18, 2023 20:18:49 GMT
laedingMany thanks for your kind response. I am glad that enjoyed seeing the “philatelic surgery” on the small DWI lot that included the 14c. To tell the truth, I enjoy these sorts of little salvage projects, and I am especially proud of how well the DWI lot turned out. Thanks for your further comments about some of my other DWI stamps, both from the salvage lot as well as the rest of my collection. Yes, I did know about the 7c pair, and in fact, it was correctly identified by the eBay seller in the listing, and I had also checked it. I normally don’t collect pairs, but this one was cheaper than other single copies, so I grabbed it when I had the chance. I haven’t checked for other less-common varieties in my DWI collection, so if you spot any interesting ones, please feel free to let me know. No rush, just when time permits. I had noticed the red cancel on the 10c, but had no idea it was a PAID LONDON mark. Are you able to post a better example that shows what a good strike would look like? Thanks much for that info!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 18, 2023 5:33:40 GMT
Thanks for your comments, rod222I haven’t done the soaking yet, but I will probably give it a try by this coming weekend. I hadn’t really thought about the yellow color of the envelope being fugitive. Perhaps I will soak some other part of the envelope first, separately, to see if it is colorfast or not. Thanks again!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2023 20:18:42 GMT
Many thanks for your responses, hdm1950, swvl, and Philatarium! Ok, so we have a Scott number for the 500R stamp from 2021, but not yet for the butterflies from 2022. I can see that I will need to spend some time learning how to navigate Colnect, a task with which I have long struggled. Does Colnect give any info on catalogue value for the 500R in used condition? If not, I will make do with at least indicating the Scott number. Thanks again, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2023 17:40:08 GMT
Greetings, all! I checked my Scott 2013 WW Catalogue, but I could not find the Sri Lanka stamps shown below in there. I am under the impression that these were issued sometime after 2013. I would be grateful to any member who can tell me the Scott Catalogue numbers for these, as well as the catalogue values, and which edition of the catalogue you are using. Many thanks for your help!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2023 17:31:49 GMT
Recent Package from Sri LankaMy wife recently bought a DVD from a 3rd-party seller on Amazon, and much to her surprise, it turned out that the seller was located in Sri Lanka! So, the bonus for me was some strips of recent Sri Lankan issues, which were used on the package. The postmarks are not very distinct, but the stamps are nice enough, and I am planning to soak them off and use them as trading material.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2023 16:36:33 GMT
laedingI just wanted to say thank you for all the informative posts you made yesterday. That was some very good information about how the stamps were used and the resulting fiscal cancels, as my 14c copy seems to illustrate. Just an observation: it seems to me that they went way overboard on the fiscal-cancelling practices. If these were later sold to collectors, I would have thought that using the circular cancel in one corner to put a quarter-circle on each of four stamps would have been much more efficient. They certainly would have looked better, with the idea that the stamps were eventually going to be sold to collectors. By the way, if you are interested to see how I was able to clean up the DWI 14c from its original state, which was completely pasted down to an old album page with dark brown glue, please have a peek at this thread on "philatelic surgery": thestampforum.boards.net/post/165401/threadNow that you have explained about the practice and resulting appearance of DWI fiscal cancels during this time, I can see that there is at least one other example of a fiscal cancel (4c) in that small lot. All of the stamps in that small lot were fully pasted down to the page remnant with dark brown mucilage glue. They were a real mess, and fortunately for me, all were salvaged successfully. The 3c numeral was already damaged, but all of the other stamps turned out to be in sound condition, a real stroke of luck for me. I also appreciate your comment that the paper on which the 14c was printed is very thin. I noticed that, too, as I was going through the soaking and press-flattening process, and I was very concerned about handling it safely. Luckily, it worked out in this case! Anyway, thank you very much for all of the new information you have provided about the condition of these stamps and the fiscal-cancelling process in particular.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2023 2:56:50 GMT
Do you have in your records the date of the first DLR printing, and while I am asking, the earliest known date of a 4d DLR use? Thanks for your follow-up post, Jeff. In going back to Stevenson, he has compiled a table on p.104, which shows the dates of receipt of the stamps at the GPO in Cape Town. For the DLR prints, the first shipment was received in March, 1863 and the last one in June, 1864. This means that the first DLR stamps would have been printed late in 1862, as it took about 3 months for the stamps to go from London to Cape Town. As for earliest date of usage, Stevenson mentions on p.100 that covers exist showing usage of DLR 4d stamps in February 1864. That said, he does not specifically cite an earliest known usage date that I could find. There is a graph on p.106 of Stevenson that plots supply curves for Triangles and "probable consumpt(ion)" in the Cape Colony, but I don't see how to determine earliest usage from that, either.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2023 2:37:18 GMT
Beryllium Guy OK Chris. Here is a 4d offered as a DLR. To me the bright blue shade is more in keeping with PB, not DLR. Can we agree on this assessment?
(See earlier post for image.) I find this to be a tough one, Jeff. I have a stamp like this one, too, and it is one of the only ones in my accumulation, which I have never definitively identified one way or the other. I absolutely see your point about the color, and why you would say PB print. On the other hand, depending on which one of my devices I use to look at the image, on one it looks more like a PB blue, but on the other, it looks darker and more like a DLR print. I am honestly on the fence on this one. The only solace I can take in this is that even Stevenson wrote that he found a few stamps that he could not definitively place as either PB or DLR prints. Boy, I sure wish he had captured images of those! That would have been really interesting....
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 17, 2023 2:22:50 GMT
Right you are, JeffS! Sorry for figuring that you must have been accepting the seller's description, since you didn't make any comment to the contrary. Shame on me. At the very least, I am glad that my opinion didn't end up resulting in any disappointment on your part in your purchase. It is a truly uncommon item. In fact, I can't actually recall seeing one of these 1865 CDS postmarks on a Cape Triangle before. There may be a few out there somewhere, but I think this is a really rare item. I think you have a real knack for finding rare or unusual postmarks on these stamps, considering the other items you have also found (red and blue cancels). Thanks also for doing the peroxide treatment and posting the results, the changes in which I agree confirm that it is a PB print. But yes, your point is well taken, which is that it is the CDS postmark that matters, not whether the Triangle is a PB or DLR print. Once again, well done to you, and congratulations on a fabulous find!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 16, 2023 19:53:38 GMT
l8u7se : Thanks for your additional post. The images are still not really clean enough to determine which 1-shilling stamp you have there. I will say that the last image now makes it look more like an SG8 bright yellow green rather than the SG21 bright emerald, at least to me. But as JeffS very astutely points out, lighting during photography makes a big difference in how the colors appear, as does, of course, the display that the recipient of the image uses for viewing it. Too many variables at work without another stamp of known color in the same image for comparison (just my opinion). In that case, I would incline toward stating that yours is most likely an SG8 bright yellow green example, since that is the more common between SG8 and SG21, and therefore, the more likely ID. In any case, it is an exceptionally nice stamp, with large margins all around and a very light, unobtrusive cancel. It's a real beauty! Congratulations!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 16, 2023 19:43:37 GMT
Many thanks for your nice post, JeffS, and sorry for my slow reaction. Well, all I can say is that if it is indeed your last Cape Triangle acquisition, you are finishing on a high note.... going out with a bang, as it were! In my experience, it is very uncommon to find Cape Triangles with postal circular date stamps (CDS). Many of the examples that exist with CDS-type cancels are actually fiscal marks (often misdescribed as postmarks), but yours is clearly postal, so very well done to you! OK, now the bit you probably aren't going to like: I think that this stamp is another example of a sulfuretted PB print (SG6-6a), rather than an SG19-19a. Sorry, as I know we don't always agree on this point. In this example, I can once again see traces of the original brighter PB blue color, which is why I think that. I imagine that I must sound like a broken record by claiming that I am constantly seeing sulfuretting in stamps that sellers are describing as DLR prints, but there you have it. Regardless, that doesn't detract in any way from the beautiful CDS postmark on your stamp, which is a rare example, indeed!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 16, 2023 19:14:40 GMT
As an added thought, if salt water kills some bacteria, I wonder if that would make it effective against mold or foxing? I am not sure if bacterial contamination is really a problem with stamps....
I just did an additional search, and it seems that mold is not bacterial, and foxing is due to microorganisms, but also apparently not bacterial, so my earlier question seems answered in that respect. I am unaware of bacterial contamination for stamps, and therefore, I struggle to imagine why a salt-water bath in particular would be beneficial for cleaning stamps in a way that other, more commonly practiced methods would be. JeffS, were there any other specifics provided by the source you are citing? Why was someone recommending salt water?
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 16, 2023 19:10:55 GMT
Coming back to the original question from JeffS, here is what I could find in a general web search about the benefits of cleaning with salt water: Source: www.homesandgardens.com/life-design/cleaning-with-saltPersonally, I have never tried using salt water with stamps, as it simply never occurred to me, and I had never heard of its being done prior to Jeff's post! I am not really sure that I see the benefits of it in this case. It seems to me that using a little dishwashing detergent, as Stan ( stainlessb) and Torbjørn ( tobben63) do, accomplishes the degreasing and cleaning quite nicely.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 16, 2023 18:59:19 GMT
Thanks for your post, Terri ( philatelia)! It's an interesting observation. I just took a look at my collection, and my 5-bit example appears more like your left-hand copy. I checked my duplicates, and I don't have any of the 5-bit for comparison. But I do have several copies of the 10-bit red from the same series, and at a glance, I could see the same sort of color variation as shown in your 5-bit examples. Based on that very small sample size, my best guess is that the difference could well be caused by over or under-inking. Hopefully, laeding or vikingeck may be able to comment further based on their depths of experience.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 16, 2023 17:52:39 GMT
DWI Wedge CancelMany thanks for your informative post, laeding! I find it interesting that what is being referred to as a "wedge" cancel, is not actually shaped like a wedge, which is what I was initially expecting as I started reading your post. I hope that I have correctly deduced that it is a circular cancel with a wedge missing from it. I suppose this kind of name is a bit analogous to what are generally referred to as "perforations," which are in reality the bits of paper remaining in between the actual perforations, which are, of course, the holes that have been punched through the paper, not the remaining bits! That's why I usually use the word "teeth" to describe what many in our hobby call perforations. I'm an engineer, and I can't help the fact that I really like accuracy in technical terminology! Please don't take that as a criticism! It's simply meant to be an observation about some of the terminology in our beloved hobby. To that end, I have prepared a little composite image below to make clear what I think we are talking about. By all means, please correct me if I have misunderstood to what the DWI Wedge Cancel is referring, and/or if I have misrepresented it here. You mentioned in your post that the Wedge Cancel is known on the DWI 14c numeral issue, so I took a look at my one and only copy, and sure enough, it looks like mine indeed has the Wedge Cancel. In fact, I am imagining that this example must have originally been part of a franking with multiple stamps on it, as I can spot bits of five circular cancels on it. I have overlaid the image of the cancel from the Hagemann publication to give more of an idea of how it must have looked when it was on its original envelope or parcel. (Edit: later in this thread, it is explained that this is a fiscal cancelling, and it was done on the stamps in a full sheet.) Personally, I wish it had fewer cancels evident on it, and I am guessing that because it is so heavily cancelled, its market value would be lower than a nicely postmarked example with only one cancel on it. As a specialist in DWI, laeding, are you able to offer an opinion about that? I am not a DWI specialist, just a WW classics collector who has taken a particular fancy to DWI stamps, so I don't know much about the subtleties or varieties. Thanks again for your post and reinvigorating the DWI thread.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 15, 2023 17:17:16 GMT
Is this thread supposed to be about US stamps or Ukraine stamps?
The title and content seem to be at odds with each other.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 15, 2023 16:50:23 GMT
Thanks for your post, Rod. I hate to be the one to have to say this, but the first image in your post is misplaced in this thread. The Sandwich Islands are another name for the Hawaiian Islands, not to be confused with the South Sandwich Islands, which are the ones that this thread is about. Full disclosure: I haven’t done any research (yet) to determine why two groups of Islands with such similar names would, in fact, turn out to be nowhere near each other! If I find out anything interesting, I will post again to share it.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 13, 2023 15:25:33 GMT
Rene ( renden), I just sent you a PM test message. Please let me know if you can receive it, and please attempt to send a reply. Thanks! Linda: Yes, I also had a few moments of reflection when seeing Peter's posts. I miss him....
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 13, 2023 0:25:44 GMT
Sorry to hear about your misfortune, Steve ( tomiseksj). For what it's worth, I can empathize, because the same thing has happened to me, too. I can also totally understand your feeling depressed about it. It's a real let-down if you think you are finally getting a long-sought-after item, and you are excited because of that, and then you get it and realize it isn't what it was claimed to be.... Well, I can absolutely relate to that. Perhaps it's time to have a drink and do something to take your mind off it!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 12, 2023 23:17:43 GMT
I haven't done much stamping lately. Just, went to the stamp market and bought some used stamps. Got some Andorra FDCs from an on-line seller and, last but not least, worked on my first article for the TSF newsletter. Not so sure about the result. Perhaps, it would be my first and my last... Joan, I am delighted with your article, and as long as I am Editor, I hope it won't be your last one for our Newsletter. And thank you Michael ( Londonbus1) for adding your support, too! I really appreciate your contribution, Joan, and I am especially grateful that you agreed despite a relatively short timeframe. I am working to build up a little stockpile of submissions so that we always have a nice variety of articles to work with for each upcoming issue, and I wanted to be sure that we had something on Cinderellas. Thank you very much for your contribution this time!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 12, 2023 22:43:46 GMT
Thanks to Steve ( tomiseksj) for posting this, and apologies to all for my slowness to comment. It looks like today is finally the day! I have been working on V8.2 of the Newsletter for the past couple of weeks, and I have decided to try to incorporate some of the suggestions from the APS judges. A couple of things that I have done: - Since more than one judge mentioned the readability of the vertical text box on the cover, I have changed the font color from yellow to white. I have also increased the font size by a point or so, and I have put more of the text in bold. That's as much as I can do unless I eliminate some of the text.
- I have now included a "Calendar of Upcoming Philatelic Events." I have chosen the events based on known TSF member involvement to date. After a trial run in V8.2, I will ask members for feedback and for items to be added to the list, as space permits.
- I have tried to use larger images and text-wrapping around the images as much as possible, but I have not yet changed to a two-column page format. I also tend to avoid long paragraphs, so when I receive submissions with large blocks of text, I usually break those up into smaller paragraphs, which I believe makes them easier to read. If members would prefer a two-column format, that could be considered, but in general, I find it harder to work with for editing.
Are we lacking a raison d’être? My thinking is that the purpose of the Newsletter is to capture ideas and activities that transcend the content of a typical post on the Forum. Does that sound like a realistic reason for being? Should we have a statement of purpose for the Newsletter and put it somewhere prominent in the issues? We can do that if members wish, and I am open to ideas. Bottom line: I agreed to become Editor because I like the idea of a TSF Newsletter. But I want it to be a product of what members think it should be, too, so your input is important to achieving that. As a final comment, while I appreciate the feedback from the APS judges, the point of our Newsletter, I think, is to serve our members and represent the TSF community to the world. I did not volunteer to get involved to win awards. I am happy if we are recognized by others for doing a good job, but it isn't the main point for me. I am interested in doing my best for all of you, the members. Feedback and comments are welcome, of course!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 10, 2023 16:53:12 GMT
Vicarious Adventures & Still on the MendGreetings, stampers near and far! I hope this message finds you all doing as well as can be. I know that the winter and the holiday season in particular can be a difficult time of the year for some. Anyway, I hope that you will all be able to enjoy the time, one way or another. My stamp time has most recently been devoted to three main activities: editing, editing, and editing! That can mean only one thing: yes, it's TSF Newsletter time! The official submission due date was early last week, but I had almost all the materials before then. I made one late request for a submission that it is still in process, but I do have all the images for that one, so layout is already underway. If all continues to go well, we should be in good shape to have the Newsletter ready the last week of this month, which is the normal target timeframe. In addition to getting V8.2 of the Newsletter ready, I also squeezed in some time to create a new version of Stan's ( stainlessb) and my Soaking Study article, with more content about Cape Triangles, and that has now been submitted to and accepted by the editor of the Cape & Natal Philatelic Journal for their next issue. I am delighted that has worked out, and I am looking forward to seeing the new version in print! Thanks again to Stan for all your work on making that study happen, because without that, there would have been no article to write. Cheers, my friend! As much as I would like to dig into some actual stamps today, I need to resist that urge and return to my vicarious travel adventures through the editing process. Today, it looks like I am headed to Venezuela. Terri ( philatelia) will know what that means.... Can't wait! Stay stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 6, 2023 20:25:35 GMT
Thanks for your comment, rod222: My opinion is that it would have been mainly to economize by conserving paper. I base that on my knowledge of Cape Triangles, which were laid out by Perkins Bacon in the 1850s and had some very close and also non-uniform margins in between impressions, which is one reason why it is hard to find full-margin copies now. In addition, it was also during the 19th Century that people used to cross-write letters, i.e., writing in one direction and then rotating the page 90 degrees and writing over the top of the original script. Upon reflection, they may have also done that to reduce postage, too. Anyway, it has long been my impression that paper was expensive back then and closely printed images were done that way to conserve. This is just my opinion, and I have no special expertise in this area.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 5, 2023 6:06:06 GMT
On the Mend.... HopefullyGreetings, all! Apologies that I have not been posting much lately. I got sick on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and I have been under the weather ever since. I am finally feeling a little better today, and I am hoping that this is the first sign of recovery mode. The only stamping I have been doing is working on the next issue of the TSF Newsletter, which is now well in hand, thanks to some excellent contributions from Linda, stainlessb, Jerry B, cjoprey, and philatelia. Editing and layout are proceeding, and I hope to have the first full draft ready for review by my assistant editors in the coming days. We shall see. I haven't been feeling well enough to do much else, but I am hoping that will continue to improve as this week goes along. Stay stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 5, 2023 5:53:16 GMT
Many thanks for the reminder, Rob ( REL1948). I have already signed up, and I am planning to be there, assuming nothing else gets in the way!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Nov 28, 2023 5:39:21 GMT
Thanks for your post, rod222mberry is correct. The TSF Image Host is separate from TSF, so you need separate credentials to login. As Mike posted, you need to request a TSF Image Host account from Admin by PM, and he will set up an account for you. Rod, this is something that was developed during your absence from TSF. It was not an option during your original period of activity from 2013-2016. It came about because of the great Photobucket Debacle, at which point the majority of the Forum's images were lost because most members were using Photobucket for image hosting. By using the TSF Image Host, the long-term security of posted images is much more easily ensured, so many of us have converted to using that platform. If you would like to set up an account, please contact Steve by PM.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Nov 26, 2023 21:44:44 GMT
rod222 and sudbury12000The postmark on the 5-pence looks like 135 to me. That’s just my opinion, and it may not be correct. Hope this helps.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Nov 26, 2023 6:12:07 GMT
For my next mission…. Trying to work out information about these cape of good hopes if anyone has some interest/information that you would be kind enough to share so I know where to focus looking that would be very much appreciated Many thanks for your post! If I understood your intro post correctly, you were gifted these stamps, right? Well, all I can say is that the original collector must have been a person of means and good judgement when it came to stamps. These that you have shown all look to be premium examples of Cape Triangles. Also, thank you very much for posting images of both the fronts and backs of these stamps.... that's very helpful for proper identification. Do you have a catalogue for reference? If you need one, please contact me by PM, and I will help you to get something you can use. Here are my opinions on what it looks like you have: - 1-Penny: SG5a Rose or SG5b Deep Rose Red, unused
- 4-Pence: SG6 Deep Blue, unused, and it appears to be sulfuretted, mainly on the left side
- 6-Pence: SG7 Pale Rose Lilac, postally used
- 1-Shilling: SG21 Bright Emerald Green, postally used
The 1-Shilling might also be an SG8 Bright Yellow Green, but it looks like it could be the less common Emerald shade. If I am right that it is an SG21, it is an XF used copy. Very nice indeed. I also notice that all four of these stamps have full margins, which is not common for Cape Triangles, either. I hope this helps. If you need a catalogue for reference, please send me a PM. All of the above are just my opinions, and as always, others are welcome to add theirs!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Nov 25, 2023 16:04:41 GMT
Still Buried in Belgium, but Digging Out! Stampy Start to the Holiday SeasonGreetings, all! For those in the US, I hope you had a good Thanksgiving holiday, and for those everywhere else, I hope you had a good Thursday and Friday! I have had a nice couple of days, filled with many things, including stamp activities. - Sorted and organized some hundreds of Belgium stamps (from huge gift lot) for trading
- Soaked Belgium definitives to prepare for organizing for trading
- Made the decision not to collect all of the Belgium Railway Parcel stamps, so most of those will be put on the trade/sell block
- Bought a long-sought Hong Kong KGV CHINA overprint on eBay
- Lunch and stamp chat with Dave (Philatarium)
Activities for today and tomorrow: - Remove the Belgium stamps from press-flattening and sort as needed
- Finish labelling the 102 cards of the Belgium material and file
- Finish editing alternate version of Soaking Study article for submission to CNPJ
- Get going on reading and editing TSF Newsletter article submissions for V8.2
Just for fun, here's an image of the results of one of the recent sorting sessions with the Belgium accumulation: Well, I'm off to get to work on the list, smiling all the way! Stay stampy, all!
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Nov 24, 2023 15:20:39 GMT
No worries, Roy ( sudbury12000), everyone was excited by your question and wanted to answer! By the way, I just checked my 2023 Gibbons Commonwealth Catalogue 1840-1970, and I believe your stamp is SG233d, Perf 12x11 variety. Stay NSW stampy, all!
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