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I have a small collection of Worcester cancels. I used to avoid the cards in favor of stamped covers but I found that postal cards show the strike much better.
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By sheer chance I received this miniature sheet on the same day I had booked to see the Chinese film Our Time Will Come, an impressive effort at dramatising the Chinese resistance to Japanese occupation. This is a subject about which I knew virtually nothing, and I'm still not certain of the overall effect Chinese resistance groups had on the occupation, but both the film and this miniature sheet gave pleasing pause for thought.
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I have been wanting this set from Cuba for a while. From 1937, they were only on sale for 3 days, and during those days, only these were available, then remainders were overprinted. Part of the proceeds were paid to the Assoc. of American Writers and Artists.
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Great showings, Guys! Sean, I'm particularly fond of that blue 10c w/Native American motif! I'm gonna need to find one of those for my N/A topical collection.
Here's a set I recently acquired for my Hungary collection. All MNH w/horizontal w/m.
Stamp World doesn't give a name to the set, but I'd assume that the title "Revolutionaries" would apply as well as any. I'll do some research and a write up for each one and mount them on their own page.
I do wish the centering was a little better on a couple of them, but I'm still happy to finely add them to my collection.
WB
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WB. Nice set. The centering is actually not bad for that set. Be sure to leave spaces for the vertical watermark ones. They are not that hard to find but you will end up paying significantly more than you did for these.
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Thanks Sean.
The vertical set is on the list, but I was under the impression that they cataloged for a bit less then the horizontal w/m set. Of course I could be wrong, it's happened a few times before.
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Sean, Congrats on the Cuba set. It is one of my favorite sets from Cuba. It is a scarce issue that is hard to come by, especially the complete set that includes the 14 regular, 6 airmails and 2 special deliveries issues. Any Cuban collector should keep their eyes open for these.
I won the used set below this weekend. It is the key set for Austria issued in honor of the death of Franz Joseph in 1910. I needed the 3 top values only having forgeries as space fillers previously as shown on 2nd page below from my collection. The forgeries were very well executed leaving the Yellowish colored paper as the easiest way of telling them apart as well as perf count. This leaves me only 2 stamps and the Renner sheets to complete all of the regular, Semi Postal and airmail issues thru 1985 for Austria.
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Some junk mail from the 1850's. These are third class mailings.
This first sheet comes from Albany, NY with a US Scott #24 tied with a paid CDS.
These next two sheets are from Glens Falls, NY with precanceled stamps. They both fit into three of my collecting areas. Fire/Fire Insurance, Rates and Precancels.
The first sheet has a US Scott #24.
This sheet has a US Scott #9.
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Marienburg, Marienwerder
Under the control of the Inter-Allied Commission after WWI.
Ceded to Germany as a result of a plebiscite vote on August 16, 1920.
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I received in the mail today a group of auxiliary markings on cover, most are the "Pointing Finger".
The first cover came with a return to sender Pointing finger and "deceased" written on front.
This cover was opened by the dead letter office in Philadelphia, PA. It was returned for 55 cents postage due. 15 postage and 40 for handling. Not visible in the scan under the black marking is "Return For Postage".
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Nothing too rare, but a couple of nice covers. First day C20 / First Flight San Fran to Manila (Manila backstamp). Also a Canada C4 First day / First Flight Ottawa - Bradore Bay. This was an inaugural service to take mail from Ottawa Imperial Conference participants to catch the last docking of the SS Empress of Britain for overseas mail connection. Full slogan cancellation reads By Air from Ottawa to Belle Isle 1/3 of the Shortest Route to Europe. Backstamp reads Bradore Bay.
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Heydekrug, Memel Land
November 21, 1921
German Territory under French Administration after WWI from 1919 to 1923. Was ceded to Lithuania in 1923.
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A couple of decades later Heydekrug was the site of German POW camp Stalag Luft VI. (Not sure how relevant this is to your cover, but I thought I'd mention it anyhow!)
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It was not really a new acquisition, but something I rediscovered in one of the boxes that still needed to be unpacked. I thought I had lost it, or traded it a long time ago, but it turned out I did not 
It is an early Madeira stamp, nr. 13 in Afinsa, from 1873. The cancel appears to be genuine, 45 is Funchal at Madeira.
It is not in the best condition, but since it is a rather rare stamp I think it is acceptable. The beauty of it all is that this stamp was found in a small collection (about 150 stamps) of Portuguese colonies I bought a few years ago for about € 1.50!
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Jansimon,
I find it nice when I go through a box of material that I haven't handled in a while and find something I forgot that I still own. Helps relive the fun of when I first acquired it.
It was time to feed my fancy cancel collection and these are the new additions that arrived today.
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Vinman, i do the same thing all the time..its amazing what i find that should be in my collections...thats what comes of my having too much disorganized stuff.
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Montevideo, Uruguay
On the back is a received stamp showing the year of 1839.
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Went to the Kent Philatelic Stamp Show in Grand Rapids a week ago Saturday;
found this group of local posts selling for quite cheap, probably because a few had damage/staining....
....but still, some nice covers!
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My grandfather has been cleaning out his house and found a bunch of stamp-related stuff from the collection of my Great Aunt Doris. Some of my favorite finds have been some early 40s commemorative covers. A few of my favorites are attached.
The inaugural run of the Empire State Express was rather upstaged by other events...
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My new favorite covers! Limited edition of 4, 3 pink and 1 beige!
I had these hand cancelled on the way to the hospital to see my one hour old granddaughter. I finally had time to apply the cachets this morning.
I will keep two and give two to my daughter for Kelsie's memory book. Gotta start her off right since she is the heir to my collection!
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Congratulations on your new granddaughter!!!!
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Fantastic Tom way go! All the best to mother and baby.
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Congratulations, Tom! That's a perfect birth announcement.
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What a great idea, Tom! I'm sure that will be a treasured keepsake for both grandfather and granddaughter.
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Congratulations on your new Grand Daughter. That's nice greeting card you made up for her.
This gives us something in common as I also was the proud recipient of a beautiful Grand Daughter named Guinevere, a week ago today.
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Congratulations to both Tom and Mitch.
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Thank you everyone! And congrats to Mitch! It's a wonderful thing!
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That hole in my album has been bugging me for a while.
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Here is a US Scott #73 with a patent cancel. Patent cancelers were an experiment by the Post Office to prevent the reuse of stamps. They were designed to cut, punch a hole or scrape the stamp so the cancelling ink would soak into the stamp to prevent reuse. I am showing the back side of the stamp to illustrate the cuts made in the stamp.
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For Christmas, my wife gave me two "Happy Holiday" binders sent out by Frank Viola, Postmaster of Bronx County, New York, in 1977 and 1978 to select (I assume) constituents. Each binder holds a letter from Viola describing the stamps issued by the USPS in the past year as well as individual pages devoted to each issue with an example of the stamp affixed to the page (completely glued down). I have no clue if any current city or county postmasters continue this holiday tradition. Regardless, it was a real treat to receive these forty-year-old holiday missives. I was particularly intrigued by the very small experimental stamp showing an Indian Head Penny; presumably this cost savings test was a failure. (The second image includes a closeup of the stamp.)
Viola was appointed the Postmaster for the Bronx in 1966 by U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, an appointment approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson. He retired in 1980 and died in 1990 at age 78.
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Here are more items I picked up for my collections while at APS Headquarters aka The Match Factory in Bellefonte, PA
These are for my Philatelic Exhibition collection.
I've added these to my Cinderella collection. They are movie props. I read an article on philatelic movie props recently but not sure what publication it was in. I need to check The American Stamp Dealer and Collector's recent issues, I think the article was in their magazine
These fit in my philatelic ephemera collection. This is another TASCO book. The are 14 blocks of 4 facsimiles of Confederate stamps.
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Here are more patent cancels I acquired over the past month.
The first stamp is Scott US #68 and the second is #65. The small circle in the center of the cancel cuts into the stamp.
The first cover is a Philadelphia Patent, the lines of the cancel cut into the stamp. The second cover has a Buffalo, NY patent cancel.
These two covers are tough to come by.
The first cover is a NY, NY patent. Difficult to tell in the scan but in the center of the cancel there is a small hole punched that would allow ink to penetrate the stamp to prevent reuse. I was happy to find this cover because I have a couple examples of this cancel on stamps that are off cover this is my first on cover example.
The second cover is from Mount Clemens, MI. The small dots in the cancel cut into the stamp.
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These are some "Paid" cancels I picked up last month.
I added these to to my fancy cancel collection. The top row are US stamps and the bottom goes into my Canada Collection.
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Here's a pretty set which arrived in the defaced cover I've posted elsewhere. There's not much to say at present about these stamps - I've looked up Sabah on Wikipedia and noted its grim wartime travails at the hands of the Japanese, but post war it seems that Britain took over by agreement of all sides (despite the British top man being killed in an air crash some years later - one is always tempted to say 'mysterious' air crash in these instances).
Anyway, these overprints pleasingly avoid the main images and conform to the attractive style the British Commonwealth issues followed in the 1950s. I hope you like them:
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Here are some items that arrived recently.
This is the back of an advertising cover, added to my fire related collection.
A mourning cover with a Scott 113.
Wesson Time on Bottom (TOB) CDS with an elliptical cancel that is more round than elliptial. I collect Wesson TOB cancels.
Large negative #3 from New York.
Rail Post Office Minnesota-St.Paul Blue "E".
Blue Ellipse with numeral 1 from Washington, DC. Official mail from the Post office department.
I will post more covers later.
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Cool covers as always Vince!
I went to the post office today and bought 1500 (15 rolls) of postcard stamps for my annual model car show mailing. They gave them to me in the original carrier tray that they are shipped in.
Does anyone collect postal paraphernalia like this? I will tuck it away in my aging vault.
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"Mark Wayne Thompson, 50 of Pitkin in Vernon Parish pleaded guilty to one count of use of delay or destruction of mail by a postal employee.
He is a former U.S. Postal Service employee who had a rural route in Elmer in Rapides Parish.
Thompson admitted that, instead of delivering the mail, he took it home from Dec. 1, 2016, until May 1, 2017, and burned it. He estimated he burned 20 tubs of mail.
As a result, Thompson faces up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
His sentencing is set for April 6."
So is this why I never received my stamps?
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Started sorting a collection..one page.
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Here an acquisition of last week, scored on an eBay BuyItNow, about an hour after the seller listed it, £10!
I'm so excited!
From information in my copy of The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World, Part I: The Caribbean, these were printed by M. Stern (Paris) in 1869, commemorating the Clara Rothe, which was built for the St Thomas-Puerto Rico mail service, named after the daughter of C.A. Rothe, governor of the DWI, 1820-1822. The ship spent a year as a packet boat in the DWI, 1865-1866.
It is presumed that these stamps were prepared for use, but never issued. So, no postally used copies should exist. There were 1/2, 1, 2, and 3 centavo versions printed in black, as well as versions printed in other colors.
This one is DEFINITELY genuine - it has all the hallmarks. There are lots of forgeries out there by Spiro and others. They very rarely come up for sale, so I ignored the condition issues (it's hinged), especially considering the price.
It makes a nice addition to my collection of Caribbean Danish colonial material.
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More, just came today in the mail. SO EXCITING! Here's the scoop. After reading David McCollough's book The Wright Brothers, I've become fixated on very early aviation. It's a fascinating, easy read, too! I want to read it again already. So, I started searching for something collectible (of course!), and stumbled upon some early postcards. I bought 10 of them, but here are a couple nice ones:
The top one is Latham, on an Antoinette monoplane at Reims, August 27, 1909. The bottom one is Curtiss on his biplane at Riems, August 27, 1909.
Born in France, Hubert Latham was famous for being the first person to attempt to cross the English channel on an aeroplane. His engine failed, and he missed by a few hundred yards, thus becoming the first person to land an aeroplane in the water. This was shortly before Bleriot's more famous and successful attempt. Latham survived with 'cuts and bruises', going on to win the altitude prize with a record ascent to 155 meters at the Grande Semaine D'Aviation, Reims (August 22-29, 1909), which (I believe) was the first international flying competition ever held. Latham was also second place in distance flown, speed in 30km distance , and winnings (42,000 francs).
The American, Curtiss was famous at the same event for winning the speed in 30 km, with 2 circuits of 30 km, each in less than 25 minutes. He also famously defeated Louis Bleriot in the Gordon Bennett race after Bleriot crashed in the final lap to relinquish the lead. Bleriot narrowly escaped with his life after his plane burst into flame on impact. Bleriot nonetheless retained the world's speed record of 46.2 miles per hour, narrowly leading Curtiss at 45.4 miles per hour. (the Bleriot XII was notoriously unstable, which led to the crash)
Curtiss was third in winnings, 38,000 francs, and Henry Farman was first in winnings with 63,000 francs. More on M'sieur Farman later!
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"..As a result, Thompson faces up to five years in prison,
three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine ..."
It is a shame that he cannot be "hung, drawn and quartered" just for the public spectical. They could issue a commemorative stamp, or at least design another crappy ink jet cancellation to use as a warning to postal thieves.
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I am starting a new thread for recent acquisitions with this postal card from Worcester, MA.
I have a small collection of Worcester cancels. I used to avoid the cards in favor of stamped covers but I found that postal cards show the strike much better.
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By sheer chance I received this miniature sheet on the same day I had booked to see the Chinese film Our Time Will Come, an impressive effort at dramatising the Chinese resistance to Japanese occupation. This is a subject about which I knew virtually nothing, and I'm still not certain of the overall effect Chinese resistance groups had on the occupation, but both the film and this miniature sheet gave pleasing pause for thought.
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I have been wanting this set from Cuba for a while. From 1937, they were only on sale for 3 days, and during those days, only these were available, then remainders were overprinted. Part of the proceeds were paid to the Assoc. of American Writers and Artists.
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Great showings, Guys! Sean, I'm particularly fond of that blue 10c w/Native American motif! I'm gonna need to find one of those for my N/A topical collection.
Here's a set I recently acquired for my Hungary collection. All MNH w/horizontal w/m.
Stamp World doesn't give a name to the set, but I'd assume that the title "Revolutionaries" would apply as well as any. I'll do some research and a write up for each one and mount them on their own page.
I do wish the centering was a little better on a couple of them, but I'm still happy to finely add them to my collection.
WB
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WB. Nice set. The centering is actually not bad for that set. Be sure to leave spaces for the vertical watermark ones. They are not that hard to find but you will end up paying significantly more than you did for these.
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Thanks Sean.
The vertical set is on the list, but I was under the impression that they cataloged for a bit less then the horizontal w/m set. Of course I could be wrong, it's happened a few times before.
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Sean, Congrats on the Cuba set. It is one of my favorite sets from Cuba. It is a scarce issue that is hard to come by, especially the complete set that includes the 14 regular, 6 airmails and 2 special deliveries issues. Any Cuban collector should keep their eyes open for these.
I won the used set below this weekend. It is the key set for Austria issued in honor of the death of Franz Joseph in 1910. I needed the 3 top values only having forgeries as space fillers previously as shown on 2nd page below from my collection. The forgeries were very well executed leaving the Yellowish colored paper as the easiest way of telling them apart as well as perf count. This leaves me only 2 stamps and the Renner sheets to complete all of the regular, Semi Postal and airmail issues thru 1985 for Austria.
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Some junk mail from the 1850's. These are third class mailings.
This first sheet comes from Albany, NY with a US Scott #24 tied with a paid CDS.
These next two sheets are from Glens Falls, NY with precanceled stamps. They both fit into three of my collecting areas. Fire/Fire Insurance, Rates and Precancels.
The first sheet has a US Scott #24.
This sheet has a US Scott #9.
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Marienburg, Marienwerder
Under the control of the Inter-Allied Commission after WWI.
Ceded to Germany as a result of a plebiscite vote on August 16, 1920.
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I received in the mail today a group of auxiliary markings on cover, most are the "Pointing Finger".
The first cover came with a return to sender Pointing finger and "deceased" written on front.
This cover was opened by the dead letter office in Philadelphia, PA. It was returned for 55 cents postage due. 15 postage and 40 for handling. Not visible in the scan under the black marking is "Return For Postage".
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Nothing too rare, but a couple of nice covers. First day C20 / First Flight San Fran to Manila (Manila backstamp). Also a Canada C4 First day / First Flight Ottawa - Bradore Bay. This was an inaugural service to take mail from Ottawa Imperial Conference participants to catch the last docking of the SS Empress of Britain for overseas mail connection. Full slogan cancellation reads By Air from Ottawa to Belle Isle 1/3 of the Shortest Route to Europe. Backstamp reads Bradore Bay.
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Heydekrug, Memel Land
November 21, 1921
German Territory under French Administration after WWI from 1919 to 1923. Was ceded to Lithuania in 1923.
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A couple of decades later Heydekrug was the site of German POW camp Stalag Luft VI. (Not sure how relevant this is to your cover, but I thought I'd mention it anyhow!)
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It was not really a new acquisition, but something I rediscovered in one of the boxes that still needed to be unpacked. I thought I had lost it, or traded it a long time ago, but it turned out I did not
It is an early Madeira stamp, nr. 13 in Afinsa, from 1873. The cancel appears to be genuine, 45 is Funchal at Madeira.
It is not in the best condition, but since it is a rather rare stamp I think it is acceptable. The beauty of it all is that this stamp was found in a small collection (about 150 stamps) of Portuguese colonies I bought a few years ago for about € 1.50!
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Jansimon,
I find it nice when I go through a box of material that I haven't handled in a while and find something I forgot that I still own. Helps relive the fun of when I first acquired it.
It was time to feed my fancy cancel collection and these are the new additions that arrived today.
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Vinman, i do the same thing all the time..its amazing what i find that should be in my collections...thats what comes of my having too much disorganized stuff.
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Montevideo, Uruguay
On the back is a received stamp showing the year of 1839.
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Went to the Kent Philatelic Stamp Show in Grand Rapids a week ago Saturday;
found this group of local posts selling for quite cheap, probably because a few had damage/staining....
....but still, some nice covers!
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My grandfather has been cleaning out his house and found a bunch of stamp-related stuff from the collection of my Great Aunt Doris. Some of my favorite finds have been some early 40s commemorative covers. A few of my favorites are attached.
The inaugural run of the Empire State Express was rather upstaged by other events...
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My new favorite covers! Limited edition of 4, 3 pink and 1 beige!
I had these hand cancelled on the way to the hospital to see my one hour old granddaughter. I finally had time to apply the cachets this morning.
I will keep two and give two to my daughter for Kelsie's memory book. Gotta start her off right since she is the heir to my collection!
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Congratulations on your new granddaughter!!!!
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Fantastic Tom way go! All the best to mother and baby.
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Congratulations, Tom! That's a perfect birth announcement.
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What a great idea, Tom! I'm sure that will be a treasured keepsake for both grandfather and granddaughter.
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Congratulations on your new Grand Daughter. That's nice greeting card you made up for her.
This gives us something in common as I also was the proud recipient of a beautiful Grand Daughter named Guinevere, a week ago today.
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Congratulations to both Tom and Mitch.
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Thank you everyone! And congrats to Mitch! It's a wonderful thing!
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That hole in my album has been bugging me for a while.
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Here is a US Scott #73 with a patent cancel. Patent cancelers were an experiment by the Post Office to prevent the reuse of stamps. They were designed to cut, punch a hole or scrape the stamp so the cancelling ink would soak into the stamp to prevent reuse. I am showing the back side of the stamp to illustrate the cuts made in the stamp.
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For Christmas, my wife gave me two "Happy Holiday" binders sent out by Frank Viola, Postmaster of Bronx County, New York, in 1977 and 1978 to select (I assume) constituents. Each binder holds a letter from Viola describing the stamps issued by the USPS in the past year as well as individual pages devoted to each issue with an example of the stamp affixed to the page (completely glued down). I have no clue if any current city or county postmasters continue this holiday tradition. Regardless, it was a real treat to receive these forty-year-old holiday missives. I was particularly intrigued by the very small experimental stamp showing an Indian Head Penny; presumably this cost savings test was a failure. (The second image includes a closeup of the stamp.)
Viola was appointed the Postmaster for the Bronx in 1966 by U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, an appointment approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson. He retired in 1980 and died in 1990 at age 78.
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Here are more items I picked up for my collections while at APS Headquarters aka The Match Factory in Bellefonte, PA
These are for my Philatelic Exhibition collection.
I've added these to my Cinderella collection. They are movie props. I read an article on philatelic movie props recently but not sure what publication it was in. I need to check The American Stamp Dealer and Collector's recent issues, I think the article was in their magazine
These fit in my philatelic ephemera collection. This is another TASCO book. The are 14 blocks of 4 facsimiles of Confederate stamps.
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Here are more patent cancels I acquired over the past month.
The first stamp is Scott US #68 and the second is #65. The small circle in the center of the cancel cuts into the stamp.
The first cover is a Philadelphia Patent, the lines of the cancel cut into the stamp. The second cover has a Buffalo, NY patent cancel.
These two covers are tough to come by.
The first cover is a NY, NY patent. Difficult to tell in the scan but in the center of the cancel there is a small hole punched that would allow ink to penetrate the stamp to prevent reuse. I was happy to find this cover because I have a couple examples of this cancel on stamps that are off cover this is my first on cover example.
The second cover is from Mount Clemens, MI. The small dots in the cancel cut into the stamp.
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These are some "Paid" cancels I picked up last month.
I added these to to my fancy cancel collection. The top row are US stamps and the bottom goes into my Canada Collection.
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Here's a pretty set which arrived in the defaced cover I've posted elsewhere. There's not much to say at present about these stamps - I've looked up Sabah on Wikipedia and noted its grim wartime travails at the hands of the Japanese, but post war it seems that Britain took over by agreement of all sides (despite the British top man being killed in an air crash some years later - one is always tempted to say 'mysterious' air crash in these instances).
Anyway, these overprints pleasingly avoid the main images and conform to the attractive style the British Commonwealth issues followed in the 1950s. I hope you like them:
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Here are some items that arrived recently.
This is the back of an advertising cover, added to my fire related collection.
A mourning cover with a Scott 113.
Wesson Time on Bottom (TOB) CDS with an elliptical cancel that is more round than elliptial. I collect Wesson TOB cancels.
Large negative #3 from New York.
Rail Post Office Minnesota-St.Paul Blue "E".
Blue Ellipse with numeral 1 from Washington, DC. Official mail from the Post office department.
I will post more covers later.
Vince
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Cool covers as always Vince!
I went to the post office today and bought 1500 (15 rolls) of postcard stamps for my annual model car show mailing. They gave them to me in the original carrier tray that they are shipped in.
Does anyone collect postal paraphernalia like this? I will tuck it away in my aging vault.
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"Mark Wayne Thompson, 50 of Pitkin in Vernon Parish pleaded guilty to one count of use of delay or destruction of mail by a postal employee.
He is a former U.S. Postal Service employee who had a rural route in Elmer in Rapides Parish.
Thompson admitted that, instead of delivering the mail, he took it home from Dec. 1, 2016, until May 1, 2017, and burned it. He estimated he burned 20 tubs of mail.
As a result, Thompson faces up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
His sentencing is set for April 6."
So is this why I never received my stamps?
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Started sorting a collection..one page.
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01:35:41pm
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Here an acquisition of last week, scored on an eBay BuyItNow, about an hour after the seller listed it, £10!
I'm so excited!
From information in my copy of The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World, Part I: The Caribbean, these were printed by M. Stern (Paris) in 1869, commemorating the Clara Rothe, which was built for the St Thomas-Puerto Rico mail service, named after the daughter of C.A. Rothe, governor of the DWI, 1820-1822. The ship spent a year as a packet boat in the DWI, 1865-1866.
It is presumed that these stamps were prepared for use, but never issued. So, no postally used copies should exist. There were 1/2, 1, 2, and 3 centavo versions printed in black, as well as versions printed in other colors.
This one is DEFINITELY genuine - it has all the hallmarks. There are lots of forgeries out there by Spiro and others. They very rarely come up for sale, so I ignored the condition issues (it's hinged), especially considering the price.
It makes a nice addition to my collection of Caribbean Danish colonial material.
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05:02:26pm
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More, just came today in the mail. SO EXCITING! Here's the scoop. After reading David McCollough's book The Wright Brothers, I've become fixated on very early aviation. It's a fascinating, easy read, too! I want to read it again already. So, I started searching for something collectible (of course!), and stumbled upon some early postcards. I bought 10 of them, but here are a couple nice ones:
The top one is Latham, on an Antoinette monoplane at Reims, August 27, 1909. The bottom one is Curtiss on his biplane at Riems, August 27, 1909.
Born in France, Hubert Latham was famous for being the first person to attempt to cross the English channel on an aeroplane. His engine failed, and he missed by a few hundred yards, thus becoming the first person to land an aeroplane in the water. This was shortly before Bleriot's more famous and successful attempt. Latham survived with 'cuts and bruises', going on to win the altitude prize with a record ascent to 155 meters at the Grande Semaine D'Aviation, Reims (August 22-29, 1909), which (I believe) was the first international flying competition ever held. Latham was also second place in distance flown, speed in 30km distance , and winnings (42,000 francs).
The American, Curtiss was famous at the same event for winning the speed in 30 km, with 2 circuits of 30 km, each in less than 25 minutes. He also famously defeated Louis Bleriot in the Gordon Bennett race after Bleriot crashed in the final lap to relinquish the lead. Bleriot narrowly escaped with his life after his plane burst into flame on impact. Bleriot nonetheless retained the world's speed record of 46.2 miles per hour, narrowly leading Curtiss at 45.4 miles per hour. (the Bleriot XII was notoriously unstable, which led to the crash)
Curtiss was third in winnings, 38,000 francs, and Henry Farman was first in winnings with 63,000 francs. More on M'sieur Farman later!
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29 Jan 2018
02:53:21pm
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"..As a result, Thompson faces up to five years in prison,
three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine ..."
It is a shame that he cannot be "hung, drawn and quartered" just for the public spectical. They could issue a commemorative stamp, or at least design another crappy ink jet cancellation to use as a warning to postal thieves.
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