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This is an advance program for Third International Philatelic Exhibition held in New York 1936
This is "The American Historical Stamp Album" Given away by Amoco gas stations. The inside has pages for stamps that were also given away. The stamps depict pictures of famous events and monuments, copyrighted 1937.
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These scans are of a couple of reference brochures put out by Tasco (Tatham Stamp & Coin Company). Copyright 1941. These were sold with the stamps already attached so you could use them for reference. I haven't checked the stamps to see if they are correct. The first two scans are for the two cent issues of 1908-1920 and the next two scans are for the three cent issues of 1908-1920.
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These arrived today:
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Charlie, Congrats, nice stamps!
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Starting the New Year right! I woke up this morning to word that I won the following item:
As I copy the NJ DPO book into my spreadsheet, I'm finding post offices that were only in existence for a few years in the distant past. That bummed me out a bit, figuring that I'd never fill those slots in my collection.
Brick Church was a post office in Essex County that only was in business from 1882 to 1887, which would be less than five years depending on the exact months. I grabbed this one for the minimum bid of $9.99 on the 'bay. I had bid much more but nobody contested! SCORE!
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Good catch, Vince....!
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Arrived New Years Eve:
It's a bit ratty, but I think quite rare. It was posted January 29, 1917, in Columbus, New Mexico, by (I assume) a U.S. Army physician. The Pershing Punitive Expedition against the Mexican insurgent Pancho Villa was headquartered in Columbus, following Villa's raid there the previous year. President Wilson federalized the National Guard units in every state and put General Pershing in charge of an effort to capture Villa. That didn't work out so well, since the Mexican government didn't appreciate an American incursion, and Pershing's army failed to capture Villa.
The Pershing expedition didn't work out so well for my father, either. His dad/my grandfather was in the New York State National Guard and was sent to Pharr, Texas to help guard the border. He never got paid, and my grandmother, father, and Uncle Lee had a tough time making ends meet.
I Googled the San Francisco address, and found this street view; 800 Bush Street is the light-toned building just past the intersection on the right. It was built in 1914, and according to a realty web page it was popular with Standard Oil executives. A three-bedroom apartment there recently sold for about US $850,000:
I was surprised to find this cover, especially for only US $7. A few years ago, I spent a fortune on another Columbus cover, with a similar provenance but posted in 1916:
Now I'm wondering: Did I pay way too much for the 1916 cover, or did I get a super bargain with the 1917 cover. (The dealer who sold me the 1916 cover specializes in Mexican revolutionary material and assured me that the cover was extremely rare.
The Pershing expedition lasted from March 14, 1916 to February 7, 1917, so the latter cover dates from relatively early. It's interesting to note that the 1917 cover was cancelled by machine, and the earlier one by hand. I expect that Columbus became a much busier place over the course of the Pershing expedition.
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This came today,it's plate 9,4 margins.Unfortunately already on the penny page.
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Did you find out who Burgoynes and Krupp were? (No obvious internet presence.)
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Was the Krupp firm not German and heavily involved in arms manufacture in WW2.
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Lovely Tasco items !! And the cover on the programme for the 1936 Exhibition looks the same as a Poster stamp for the same event.
I will check. Nice stuff ! 
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Here's a Tasco-related item I picked up in the UK last month. One of a few types and colours.
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Victor,
yes, Krupp was an arms manufacturer during the Second World War... and the first, and the Franco-Prussian and Austro-Prussian, and.......
Krupp was also a major steel manufacturer. Like most German factories, they used "migrant" workers during the war, and like most didn't always treat them as well they did the machinery.
They were given more scrutiny after the war than many other contemporary ordanance mfrs.
Manchester's Arms of Krupp is a good read.
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But can we link the arms manufacturer Krupp with 'Burgoynes' or 'Burgoyne' somewhere in England in 1841?
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Sir John Burgoyne is mentioned together with the Krupp name in connection with military guns, specifically rifling of larger and smaller calibre weapons by none other than Charles Dickens in some of his scribblings.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=1mwhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA548&dq=sir+john+burgoyne+and+krupp&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK3s2gpbvRAhVJq1QKHSVODIsQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=sir%20john%20burgoyne%20and%20krupp&f=false
I presume this is the same John Burgoyne connected with the American troubles, there are numerous books about his life and career. There is also possibly another Burgoyne family of European descent that may be the connection. Have not Googled this as yet.
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Gorgeous covers... thanks for sharing guys.
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Here are some scans of US V-Mail used during WW2. V-Mail was used to save weight on transport planes. You would use a form made specifically made for this purpose. For mail coming from the US to the troops on foreign soil the form would be filled out and placed in the mail. The post office would then open, censor and then photograph the letter and put the picture on micro film. The films would then be sent to a developing lab over seas near to the recipient and then developed on special paper created by Kodak and placed in an envelope and forwarded on to the recipient.
The British first started to use this form of correspondence first during the war.
The process was the same with mail being sent back to the States coming from military personnel over seas. V-Mail was not mandatory.
These first two scans are the front and back of the form.
This next scan shows the letter after it is printed on the Kodak paper and the envelope used to send it.
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Like those cancels.
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My latest acquisition arrived today, $10 KG V1, yes the cheap(er) one; page almost full.
Start saving for the other one now.
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Here are some more recent acquisitions from the last month.
The first stamp has a patent cancel from Lebanon, pa. The small squares in the center of the three rings would puncture the stamp so the ink could soak into the stamp to prevent reuse. I have a number of stamps with this cancel because it is pretty common off cover but I am still searching for it on cover. It shows up mostly on Scott 210 and 213.
The second stamp is a star in circle with a negative "W" in the center if the star. it is from The Dalles, OR. I enlarged a scan of this stamp to show the "W".
The third stamp shows another patent cancel, the little dots in the center punctured the stamp to prevent reuse. There are a number of cities that used this type of cancel.
The fourth stamp is a negative "W" with a period but I am not sure of it's origin. I have seen it before so I'll need to check my reference literature.
The fifth stamps is a geometric cancel from Cambridgeport MA.
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Great success! At last I have bought a Bluenose. I've wanted one for ages but today I looked on eBay and there it was - finishing in two hours, a starter price I could afford and no bids! So I bid my max and got it for the starter price - mine was the only bid. Now I have to find out who engraved it - I checked on a couple of engraved stamps forums (one down under, the other SCF), but no-one knows the identity of the engraver.
Next up, a PUC £1. In my dreams!
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Re the Bluenose --The Unitrade Canadian Specialized Catalog (2017 Edition) shows a Mr. Harold Osborn as the engraver--no other details provided.Hope this helps
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Thanks Bailey - That's the man! I typed his name into Google and found several references to confirm that he did indeed engrave Bluenose, and a lot of other stamps as well. Odd that typing Bluenose into the search engine doesn't show his name - unless it's buried in one of the later pages.
Anyway that's another page started in my engravers collection.
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Had to post my most recent acquisition. A German Scott #25a with clean back that completes my 1872 Imperial Eagles, both small and large shields. 
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Strider, check out Canadian Postal Archives for details on all Canadian stamps.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/postal-archives/080608_e.html
Yes, Harold Osborn was the engraver of the Bluenose!
Happy research,
Wig
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Wig - Canadian postal archives is a brilliant website! If only others were half as informative - and very nicely presented too. Thanks for showing it.
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Sometimes it's the simple things that make you happy! This one showed up in the mail the other day, from our favorite 'bay. I did a presentation on my Franklin stamps and the period of change in this era from horse and buggy to motorized mail carriers. So I needed this card as an illustration!
It shows signs of being glued stamp side down in a scrap book, but it's pretty cool how some folks were hanging onto their horse and buggy.
I paid a dollar plus 50 cents postage. Can't beat that!
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$65.00
You couldn't even make a spoke for one of the wheels for that price now-a-days.
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Here is a nice SG3 Great Britain (worn plate) I bought recently:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121292872159?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Once in awhile you need to splurge.
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I won several auction lots today but the big score was this 1931 German Polar Zepp set.
Usually Zepps sell at a much higher percentage of cat than most other stamps but I picked up this $750 set for just under 11.5%
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I was happy to acquire this Minnesota National Air Mail week cover with a nice crisp cachet from Moorhead.
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"When Glacial Lake Agassiz receded we advanced and builded."
Nice cover, and I like the grammar distortion!
Cheers!
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I use to live in Moorhead doing a couple years in high school their. The card looks like it shows the back of the old High School where the gym was, seems hard to believe though. There were also two colleges Concordia and Moorhead state, where I learned to pick up older women 
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I only live about 50 miles south of Moorhead. Worked in Moorhead when I was going to school across the river in Fargo at NDSU.
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I agree, it is fun to see those local colloquialisms in these covers. My only experience of the city is having driven through Moorhead a couple times in trips to North Dakota.
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I just received this very nice block of Franklins, Scott 300B the booklet pane. I was surprised to win the auction for $12.50 postpaid since the full pane goes for hundreds of dollars.
I also own this partial booklet, the only one like this I've ever seen. Again, bought cheap. Taken apart, I'd have a booklet pane pair and single with the top selvage.
I also got the error pair seen on my avatar fairly cheap, again from a booklet pane.
Here's a full booklet pane. You'll see these advertised up to a grand, but I've never paid over $200 for one. I have several in the collection.
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Time to start a new thread. The first few scans are additions to my Philatelic Exhibition Labels and memorabilia.
This is an advance program for Third International Philatelic Exhibition held in New York 1936
This is "The American Historical Stamp Album" Given away by Amoco gas stations. The inside has pages for stamps that were also given away. The stamps depict pictures of famous events and monuments, copyrighted 1937.
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These scans are of a couple of reference brochures put out by Tasco (Tatham Stamp & Coin Company). Copyright 1941. These were sold with the stamps already attached so you could use them for reference. I haven't checked the stamps to see if they are correct. The first two scans are for the two cent issues of 1908-1920 and the next two scans are for the three cent issues of 1908-1920.
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These arrived today:
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Charlie, Congrats, nice stamps!
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Starting the New Year right! I woke up this morning to word that I won the following item:
As I copy the NJ DPO book into my spreadsheet, I'm finding post offices that were only in existence for a few years in the distant past. That bummed me out a bit, figuring that I'd never fill those slots in my collection.
Brick Church was a post office in Essex County that only was in business from 1882 to 1887, which would be less than five years depending on the exact months. I grabbed this one for the minimum bid of $9.99 on the 'bay. I had bid much more but nobody contested! SCORE!
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Good catch, Vince....!
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Arrived New Years Eve:
It's a bit ratty, but I think quite rare. It was posted January 29, 1917, in Columbus, New Mexico, by (I assume) a U.S. Army physician. The Pershing Punitive Expedition against the Mexican insurgent Pancho Villa was headquartered in Columbus, following Villa's raid there the previous year. President Wilson federalized the National Guard units in every state and put General Pershing in charge of an effort to capture Villa. That didn't work out so well, since the Mexican government didn't appreciate an American incursion, and Pershing's army failed to capture Villa.
The Pershing expedition didn't work out so well for my father, either. His dad/my grandfather was in the New York State National Guard and was sent to Pharr, Texas to help guard the border. He never got paid, and my grandmother, father, and Uncle Lee had a tough time making ends meet.
I Googled the San Francisco address, and found this street view; 800 Bush Street is the light-toned building just past the intersection on the right. It was built in 1914, and according to a realty web page it was popular with Standard Oil executives. A three-bedroom apartment there recently sold for about US $850,000:
I was surprised to find this cover, especially for only US $7. A few years ago, I spent a fortune on another Columbus cover, with a similar provenance but posted in 1916:
Now I'm wondering: Did I pay way too much for the 1916 cover, or did I get a super bargain with the 1917 cover. (The dealer who sold me the 1916 cover specializes in Mexican revolutionary material and assured me that the cover was extremely rare.
The Pershing expedition lasted from March 14, 1916 to February 7, 1917, so the latter cover dates from relatively early. It's interesting to note that the 1917 cover was cancelled by machine, and the earlier one by hand. I expect that Columbus became a much busier place over the course of the Pershing expedition.
Bob
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This came today,it's plate 9,4 margins.Unfortunately already on the penny page.
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Did you find out who Burgoynes and Krupp were? (No obvious internet presence.)
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Was the Krupp firm not German and heavily involved in arms manufacture in WW2.
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Lovely Tasco items !! And the cover on the programme for the 1936 Exhibition looks the same as a Poster stamp for the same event.
I will check. Nice stuff !
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Here's a Tasco-related item I picked up in the UK last month. One of a few types and colours.
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Victor,
yes, Krupp was an arms manufacturer during the Second World War... and the first, and the Franco-Prussian and Austro-Prussian, and.......
Krupp was also a major steel manufacturer. Like most German factories, they used "migrant" workers during the war, and like most didn't always treat them as well they did the machinery.
They were given more scrutiny after the war than many other contemporary ordanance mfrs.
Manchester's Arms of Krupp is a good read.
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But can we link the arms manufacturer Krupp with 'Burgoynes' or 'Burgoyne' somewhere in England in 1841?
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Sir John Burgoyne is mentioned together with the Krupp name in connection with military guns, specifically rifling of larger and smaller calibre weapons by none other than Charles Dickens in some of his scribblings.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=1mwhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA548&dq=sir+john+burgoyne+and+krupp&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK3s2gpbvRAhVJq1QKHSVODIsQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=sir%20john%20burgoyne%20and%20krupp&f=false
I presume this is the same John Burgoyne connected with the American troubles, there are numerous books about his life and career. There is also possibly another Burgoyne family of European descent that may be the connection. Have not Googled this as yet.
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Gorgeous covers... thanks for sharing guys.
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Here are some scans of US V-Mail used during WW2. V-Mail was used to save weight on transport planes. You would use a form made specifically made for this purpose. For mail coming from the US to the troops on foreign soil the form would be filled out and placed in the mail. The post office would then open, censor and then photograph the letter and put the picture on micro film. The films would then be sent to a developing lab over seas near to the recipient and then developed on special paper created by Kodak and placed in an envelope and forwarded on to the recipient.
The British first started to use this form of correspondence first during the war.
The process was the same with mail being sent back to the States coming from military personnel over seas. V-Mail was not mandatory.
These first two scans are the front and back of the form.
This next scan shows the letter after it is printed on the Kodak paper and the envelope used to send it.
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My latest acquisition arrived today, $10 KG V1, yes the cheap(er) one; page almost full.
Start saving for the other one now.
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Here are some more recent acquisitions from the last month.
The first stamp has a patent cancel from Lebanon, pa. The small squares in the center of the three rings would puncture the stamp so the ink could soak into the stamp to prevent reuse. I have a number of stamps with this cancel because it is pretty common off cover but I am still searching for it on cover. It shows up mostly on Scott 210 and 213.
The second stamp is a star in circle with a negative "W" in the center if the star. it is from The Dalles, OR. I enlarged a scan of this stamp to show the "W".
The third stamp shows another patent cancel, the little dots in the center punctured the stamp to prevent reuse. There are a number of cities that used this type of cancel.
The fourth stamp is a negative "W" with a period but I am not sure of it's origin. I have seen it before so I'll need to check my reference literature.
The fifth stamps is a geometric cancel from Cambridgeport MA.
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Great success! At last I have bought a Bluenose. I've wanted one for ages but today I looked on eBay and there it was - finishing in two hours, a starter price I could afford and no bids! So I bid my max and got it for the starter price - mine was the only bid. Now I have to find out who engraved it - I checked on a couple of engraved stamps forums (one down under, the other SCF), but no-one knows the identity of the engraver.
Next up, a PUC £1. In my dreams!
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Re the Bluenose --The Unitrade Canadian Specialized Catalog (2017 Edition) shows a Mr. Harold Osborn as the engraver--no other details provided.Hope this helps
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Thanks Bailey - That's the man! I typed his name into Google and found several references to confirm that he did indeed engrave Bluenose, and a lot of other stamps as well. Odd that typing Bluenose into the search engine doesn't show his name - unless it's buried in one of the later pages.
Anyway that's another page started in my engravers collection.
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Had to post my most recent acquisition. A German Scott #25a with clean back that completes my 1872 Imperial Eagles, both small and large shields.
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Strider, check out Canadian Postal Archives for details on all Canadian stamps.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/postal-archives/080608_e.html
Yes, Harold Osborn was the engraver of the Bluenose!
Happy research,
Wig
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Wig - Canadian postal archives is a brilliant website! If only others were half as informative - and very nicely presented too. Thanks for showing it.
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Sometimes it's the simple things that make you happy! This one showed up in the mail the other day, from our favorite 'bay. I did a presentation on my Franklin stamps and the period of change in this era from horse and buggy to motorized mail carriers. So I needed this card as an illustration!
It shows signs of being glued stamp side down in a scrap book, but it's pretty cool how some folks were hanging onto their horse and buggy.
I paid a dollar plus 50 cents postage. Can't beat that!
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$65.00
You couldn't even make a spoke for one of the wheels for that price now-a-days.
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Here is a nice SG3 Great Britain (worn plate) I bought recently:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121292872159?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Once in awhile you need to splurge.
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I won several auction lots today but the big score was this 1931 German Polar Zepp set.
Usually Zepps sell at a much higher percentage of cat than most other stamps but I picked up this $750 set for just under 11.5%
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I was happy to acquire this Minnesota National Air Mail week cover with a nice crisp cachet from Moorhead.
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"When Glacial Lake Agassiz receded we advanced and builded."
Nice cover, and I like the grammar distortion!
Cheers!
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I use to live in Moorhead doing a couple years in high school their. The card looks like it shows the back of the old High School where the gym was, seems hard to believe though. There were also two colleges Concordia and Moorhead state, where I learned to pick up older women
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I only live about 50 miles south of Moorhead. Worked in Moorhead when I was going to school across the river in Fargo at NDSU.
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I agree, it is fun to see those local colloquialisms in these covers. My only experience of the city is having driven through Moorhead a couple times in trips to North Dakota.
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I just received this very nice block of Franklins, Scott 300B the booklet pane. I was surprised to win the auction for $12.50 postpaid since the full pane goes for hundreds of dollars.
I also own this partial booklet, the only one like this I've ever seen. Again, bought cheap. Taken apart, I'd have a booklet pane pair and single with the top selvage.
I also got the error pair seen on my avatar fairly cheap, again from a booklet pane.
Here's a full booklet pane. You'll see these advertised up to a grand, but I've never paid over $200 for one. I have several in the collection.
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