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Brechinite

04 Feb 2020
06:27:50pm

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Found in the back of a stockbook:-

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04 Feb 2020
06:30:02pm
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Nice find!

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05 Feb 2020
01:53:36pm
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Nice find, Ian! As a Poland collector I know how hard these are to find. Hint, if you ever decide to sell I'm sure you could get a good bid!!!
I quickly checked on line for the top two stamps just to see what they are, no prices, I'll check that later. Here's a web site I found: http://www.stampdomain.com/country/poland/aerotarg/

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05 Feb 2020
03:08:31pm

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Harvey:- When I first saw these I thought "I wonder if Harvey has these?"

Sorry to say I'm holding on to them unless I find them on cover (Ha Ha I wish!!).

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05 Feb 2020
04:08:34pm
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I was doing some checking on the last two stamps. They are very interesting, but not super expensive. I would think they are fairly rare, just not very collectible at this point in time. Your stamps appear to be imperforate, unless they had huge margins. There are some on line that are perfed and the two stamps appear to be issued se-tenant. Your copies are much more interesting because they are used with a regular GB stamp (needed for postage) tied to a piece. I think I read somewhere that on piece is about half of a cover price. I have a NS #3 bisect tied to a piece with a NS #4, nice but I wish it was a cover. I really like your four stamps - good find!

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05 Feb 2020
08:39:13pm

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I received this today. It was mailed on Dec 14, 2019 and received Feb 5, 2020. We thought this shipment was lost never to be seen again, but it did show up after having traveled around.

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05 Feb 2020
08:59:11pm
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A few scans of fancy cancels that arrived today.
The first is a Skull & Crossbones on Postal Card.from Greenfield, MA.
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The next Postal Card is a "S" in an ellipse cancel from Surry, NH, it appears hand carved.
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The next two are on covers from Pittsburgh, PA.
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06 Feb 2020
05:27:09am
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i can't remember seeing three consecutive finds that all are so exquisitely interesting: Polish forces in GB, fabulous fancy cancels, and a missent to Guyana cover


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06 Feb 2020
03:38:51pm

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Doug, thanks for showing the cover...we had tried to figure out where it might be..and Guyana was not suspect.

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06 Feb 2020
05:13:06pm
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I "guess" a machine could have mis-read the "Canada" as "Guyana" -- but wow - that's a good one.

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06 Feb 2020
06:57:25pm
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When I was a kid I used to fool around with my signature - thinking it was cool, I guess. Once I missed a few comics in the local store and sent a letter to Marvel in the states to order them. I always sign my name Joseph H. Wolfe (H of Harvey, of course). The comics came back to a Joseph Hailarpe! That taught me a very valuable lesson, two actually, sign your name so people can read it and always make sure the people who work at the post office know you well!!!

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06 Feb 2020
08:05:19pm

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Harvey, I was always taught that a signature should be recognised but not able to be read. Mine you would have a heck of a job getting name from.

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07 Feb 2020
07:47:59pm
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d1stamper and philb, It’s amazing to me that enough mail gets missent to Guyana that the post office actually has a rubber stamp for it!

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08 Feb 2020
09:29:51am

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Jack, they are a rubber stamp country !

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APS #213005

09 Feb 2020
02:29:19pm
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My 2 main loves (hobby-wise!) are philately and baseball,

so I was quite pleased to find this group of all-different FDC's

for the Babe Ruth stamp of 7/6/1983, Scott #2046.


I found them at an antique and collectibles shop near Muskegon, Mich.



My Mellone's FDC catalog lists them at $6 each; I paid $1 each.
(2007 catalog - the newest I have)




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I accidentally purchased 2 of the same FDC of the last image shown here - if anyone
would like to have the extra copy, PM me and I'll send it to you.







I also found this wonderful early postcard depicting a baseball theme, which also has -
written on the reverse - a message concerning baseball teams. The lower right corner shows a year date of 1909 and the card is postmarked what I believe to be 1911.
A wonderful find, in my opinion!



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14 Feb 2020
06:44:04pm
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".... I always sign my name Joseph H. Wolfe (H of Harvey, of course).
The comics came back to a Joseph Hailarpe! ...."


I digress a bit, but feel constrained to add the classic story of a man
who was drafted during WW II named R.B. Jones, probably apocryphal but
anyway he signed his draft papers R.(ONLY) B.(ONLY) Jones. His dog-tags
came back, and he was forevermore known as RONLY BONLY JONES.

Classic meaning: I read this in the Readers Digest during High School

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31 Jul 2020
11:43:49am
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Some new additions to my collection. Hold to light Christmas cards.
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Homemade Christmas card.
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31 Jul 2020
11:52:43am
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Here is a turned cover, also known as an Adversity Cover. Used late 1864 during paper shortages due to the Civil War
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01 Aug 2020
10:13:17am
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Great stuff to see, Vince!

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TribalErnie

01 Aug 2020
07:43:16pm
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Thanks for sharing Vince. I love the strikes on the stampless covers and the homemade Christmas card is very charming. Wonderful items. Hope you're enjoying some nice summer weather up there.

Ernie

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19 Sep 2020
11:19:43pm
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I found this out antiquing. It's a prepaid cloth bag to send in a roll of film for developing.

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TribalErnie

20 Nov 2020
09:20:24pm
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Look what the mailman brought today... Scott 153. Linn's says it's undervalued. Love this stamp. Purchased from my newly discovered top secret auction source.


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21 Nov 2020
01:29:09pm
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"Vinman", I'm curious about the bag. I have a Canadian version from the early 1940's and it was made by the Mailing Bag Mfg. Co. and have never been able to find out anything about it. I bought it at auction with a large lot of locks and keys and it's the perfect size for a padlock. Does anyone out there have any idea of scarcity or value? I still don't have a working camera, but the bag is very similar to yours.

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21 Nov 2020
01:45:51pm

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i thought it was 5 cent Bull Durham bag from my high school daysHappy i think that included the papers... can not recall.

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23 Nov 2020
05:48:26pm

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Always a nice surprise when you buy a stamp, and end up unexpectedly with a perf variety.
Here is 27a perforated 11x12.5, a more valuable variation for the specialist, but i still need my #20 perforated 11.
Not complaining!
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04 Dec 2020
09:56:30pm

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1933 Haiti C4a is a hard stamp to find, and for a well centered stamp at a low price virtually impossible. Finally put my hands on a nice well centered and signed stamp, (wish it was used!) which completes my Air Mail Page 1. Air mail is now complete to 1965. The more recent stamps are less interesting, so my motivation to work on them is low. But C4a is a different story and it took a few years!
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TribalErnie

04 Dec 2020
10:54:59pm
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Attractive cancels. That's a nice looking album page.

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05 Dec 2020
10:51:30am
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OOOOH nice, Ralph!

There is so much awesome material from Central and South America and Latin Caribbean that is very scarce and woefully under priced in the catalog. Don't you think so? It would be so cool if everyone picked just ONE from this area and joined in the fun. I picked Venezuela because I spent some time there in the 1970s when they were booming.

And congrats on the Finland perf variety. That’s a toughie! Great find! One of my recent acquisitions is a Finland collection strong in serpentine perf varieties. I haven't had time to study them yet, but here is a quick pic of part of the loot and some of what I had before that I've roughed out into major types. This issue is incredibly difficult to find with all teeth perfect and intact, so I've nicknamed them "hockey star stamps" - because old time hockey stars lost a lot of teeth on the ice LOL!

Here’s a pic of part of the goodies. The Hagnar sheets house my collection and some of the varieties I’ve identified with my fancy scribbles on blue paper. (Haha) This is going to be a hoot and a half! There are paper varieties, colors, four types of “teeth” and more. A flyspecking dream!

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And a close up of one type: (using my iPad camera)


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If I was a stamp I would be a C15

16 Dec 2020
08:44:53pm
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Here's a few stamps from the W.W. large accumulation my brother sent me from southern California. Don't know who he got it off of. I've been sorting for a week and have been on an adventure around the world lol I am now a multiple country collector,but alot of it I will trade or sell eventually to keep building my U.S. album.

If anyone notices anything that looks fake or anything let me know please. Speaking of, these first two stamps from Columbia look phony to me.
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I don't have a scanner maybe Santa's watching. Hope he wasn't watching last Friday. Lol kidding. Here's more columbian

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Italy had the most specimens out of the lot


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That's all for now . I will post more stuff as time allows.

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If I was a stamp I would be a C15

17 Dec 2020
04:12:45am
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Here's some more..


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17 Dec 2020
04:46:33am
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Monaco.
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17 Dec 2020
06:08:12pm
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Johnny,

From what I can see, most are common and of low value.

Do you have or are you thinking about obtaining a basic general world-wide album with spaces for about 20,000-30,000 stamps? Many of these would have dedicated spaces in such an album and the others could be shoe-horned in. They aren't really worth anything but could provide some good relaxing leisure time while you find the appropriate spaces for them. Don't worry about the ragged looking stamps, mount them in also. They can always be replaced with a better copy at a later date. If they have already been hinged, just hinge them back into your album.

By the way, it looks like your catalogs are taking the grand tour of Oklahoma. They were mailed on the 14th, it took until the 15th to reach Oklahoma City, they didn't leave Oklahoma City until the 16th and arrived in Tulsa on the 17th (today). They haven't been noted as leaving Tulsa, so they must still be there. Oklahoma City and Tulsa were both remarked as being Regional Distribution Centers; I would how many more Regional Distribution Centers there are between Tulsa and you because it looks like they may see every one of them.

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17 Dec 2020
10:04:56pm
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The stamps I posted were just 3 pages of my stockbook of stamps I have half*ss sorted while I refresh on foreign language on stamps. I have 2 file boxes with over 1000 glassines full of World wide that I have been sorting for 2 weeks. I used to collect world wide , but gave all that to my brother years ago because he liked ww and I have just collected U.S. for the last 40 years lol. Over the years I've accumulated alot even lost alot about a decade ago from a burglary. I received this lot from my brother about 3 months ago from California, and I dont know if he quit or what. We don't talk much after Mother died. Anyway, this lot had pages from older collections of course the higher value spaces were empty with hinge remnants(always) There was about 200 covers a lot of them were other countries stamps celebrating our bicentennial in 76.(yay!) lol.other covers were cool. some were airmail covers mostly from south America to various companies. A set of FD covers with the civil war stamps from 1995. And a few regular covers. There are a couple approval cards from the 70s full still.

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Ads on back..that's my favorite part lol looking at old prices.


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There was about 10 of these with dealers from L.A. and N.Y.

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There's just alot of material!!
To answer your question, sorry for rambling on, I will probably pick a couple of countries (I like South America) to collect and sell or trade to get the U.S. stamps I want.
While I'm here I might as well put some more pics up.


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That's all for now.. and yes the Post office have their hands full right now.. I've read about an aweful lot of postal workers have been busted for stealing/throwing mail away lately.. the world we live in. Thinking

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18 Dec 2020
03:07:40am
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Here's some other covers.


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18 Dec 2020
01:42:35pm
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More covers..


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18 Dec 2020
09:53:18pm

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French Morocco:

One stamp at a time at this stage..to near completion of a difficult series.
Morocco Scott #69, often confused with the much more common #112. The almost identical #112 has an imprint while the #69 does not (nor do #70-71) (note that I still need #71)
This almost wraps up one more page with the painfully annoying empty stamp gap...for years!

A question to French Colonies collectors. Has anyone seen Scott #9-10 and Scott #24-25
Catalog prices puts them out of my league...but I am curious if anyone has ever seen them, (or acquired any of them?)

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Below the #69, #70 and a #71 filler (actually I thought I had it, but it is #115 At Wits End )

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19 Dec 2020
09:36:11am

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24 and 25 were on eBay a few weeks ago, the bidding left me in the dust pretty quickly. I am afraid they will always be empty holes in my album.

How is your quest for a b1 coming? Happy

Bob

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19 Dec 2020
04:22:32pm

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B1, At Wits End Still missing Bob!
Morocco is so close to being completed (apart for the unattainable few stamps noted here). #71 is out there, just waiting for a good price, I was not looking for it, as I had mistakenly thought I had it in my album until I received #69 and noticed my error!

I also miss a handful of Postal Tax, but they are not too hard to get.
For 9-10 and 24-25, I would settle for counterfeits as album fillers, but even those are seldom if ever seen.

I am also working on the Cherifen Post stamps (Scott A1 to A12). It is a bit of a rarity as far as I can tell.

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20 Dec 2020
10:12:30am
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Three years or so ago, I bought a lot listed as the high denominations of the 1923 French Morocco series, including 112. Those finished off the set, so I didn't pay much attention to them when looking over my FM pages - until something caught my eye just a few weeks ago. I took a close look, and found I had a 69 in the 112 slot.

Sometimes misidentification works in your favor.

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20 Dec 2020
06:21:57pm

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Nice break Tom (dollhaus)
Somehow the misidentifications seldom works in one's favor, so it is nice to see some luck-balancing cases. Morocco Scott #69 is a toughie!!!
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21 Dec 2020
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21 Dec 2020
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Brechinite

04 Feb 2020
06:27:50pm

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Found in the back of a stockbook:-

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04 Feb 2020
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Nice find!

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05 Feb 2020
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Nice find, Ian! As a Poland collector I know how hard these are to find. Hint, if you ever decide to sell I'm sure you could get a good bid!!!
I quickly checked on line for the top two stamps just to see what they are, no prices, I'll check that later. Here's a web site I found: http://www.stampdomain.com/country/poland/aerotarg/

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05 Feb 2020
03:08:31pm

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Harvey:- When I first saw these I thought "I wonder if Harvey has these?"

Sorry to say I'm holding on to them unless I find them on cover (Ha Ha I wish!!).

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05 Feb 2020
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I was doing some checking on the last two stamps. They are very interesting, but not super expensive. I would think they are fairly rare, just not very collectible at this point in time. Your stamps appear to be imperforate, unless they had huge margins. There are some on line that are perfed and the two stamps appear to be issued se-tenant. Your copies are much more interesting because they are used with a regular GB stamp (needed for postage) tied to a piece. I think I read somewhere that on piece is about half of a cover price. I have a NS #3 bisect tied to a piece with a NS #4, nice but I wish it was a cover. I really like your four stamps - good find!

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05 Feb 2020
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I received this today. It was mailed on Dec 14, 2019 and received Feb 5, 2020. We thought this shipment was lost never to be seen again, but it did show up after having traveled around.

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05 Feb 2020
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A few scans of fancy cancels that arrived today.
The first is a Skull & Crossbones on Postal Card.from Greenfield, MA.
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The next Postal Card is a "S" in an ellipse cancel from Surry, NH, it appears hand carved.
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The next two are on covers from Pittsburgh, PA.
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i can't remember seeing three consecutive finds that all are so exquisitely interesting: Polish forces in GB, fabulous fancy cancels, and a missent to Guyana cover


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06 Feb 2020
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Doug, thanks for showing the cover...we had tried to figure out where it might be..and Guyana was not suspect.

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06 Feb 2020
05:13:06pm

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I "guess" a machine could have mis-read the "Canada" as "Guyana" -- but wow - that's a good one.

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06 Feb 2020
06:57:25pm

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When I was a kid I used to fool around with my signature - thinking it was cool, I guess. Once I missed a few comics in the local store and sent a letter to Marvel in the states to order them. I always sign my name Joseph H. Wolfe (H of Harvey, of course). The comics came back to a Joseph Hailarpe! That taught me a very valuable lesson, two actually, sign your name so people can read it and always make sure the people who work at the post office know you well!!!

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06 Feb 2020
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Harvey, I was always taught that a signature should be recognised but not able to be read. Mine you would have a heck of a job getting name from.

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07 Feb 2020
07:47:59pm

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d1stamper and philb, It’s amazing to me that enough mail gets missent to Guyana that the post office actually has a rubber stamp for it!

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08 Feb 2020
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Jack, they are a rubber stamp country !

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09 Feb 2020
02:29:19pm

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My 2 main loves (hobby-wise!) are philately and baseball,

so I was quite pleased to find this group of all-different FDC's

for the Babe Ruth stamp of 7/6/1983, Scott #2046.


I found them at an antique and collectibles shop near Muskegon, Mich.



My Mellone's FDC catalog lists them at $6 each; I paid $1 each.
(2007 catalog - the newest I have)




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I accidentally purchased 2 of the same FDC of the last image shown here - if anyone
would like to have the extra copy, PM me and I'll send it to you.







I also found this wonderful early postcard depicting a baseball theme, which also has -
written on the reverse - a message concerning baseball teams. The lower right corner shows a year date of 1909 and the card is postmarked what I believe to be 1911.
A wonderful find, in my opinion!



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14 Feb 2020
06:44:04pm

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".... I always sign my name Joseph H. Wolfe (H of Harvey, of course).
The comics came back to a Joseph Hailarpe! ...."


I digress a bit, but feel constrained to add the classic story of a man
who was drafted during WW II named R.B. Jones, probably apocryphal but
anyway he signed his draft papers R.(ONLY) B.(ONLY) Jones. His dog-tags
came back, and he was forevermore known as RONLY BONLY JONES.

Classic meaning: I read this in the Readers Digest during High School

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31 Jul 2020
11:43:49am

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Some new additions to my collection. Hold to light Christmas cards.
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Homemade Christmas card.
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31 Jul 2020
11:52:43am

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Here is a turned cover, also known as an Adversity Cover. Used late 1864 during paper shortages due to the Civil War
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01 Aug 2020
10:13:17am

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Great stuff to see, Vince!

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01 Aug 2020
07:43:16pm

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Thanks for sharing Vince. I love the strikes on the stampless covers and the homemade Christmas card is very charming. Wonderful items. Hope you're enjoying some nice summer weather up there.

Ernie

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19 Sep 2020
11:19:43pm

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I found this out antiquing. It's a prepaid cloth bag to send in a roll of film for developing.

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20 Nov 2020
09:20:24pm

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Look what the mailman brought today... Scott 153. Linn's says it's undervalued. Love this stamp. Purchased from my newly discovered top secret auction source.


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21 Nov 2020
01:29:09pm

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"Vinman", I'm curious about the bag. I have a Canadian version from the early 1940's and it was made by the Mailing Bag Mfg. Co. and have never been able to find out anything about it. I bought it at auction with a large lot of locks and keys and it's the perfect size for a padlock. Does anyone out there have any idea of scarcity or value? I still don't have a working camera, but the bag is very similar to yours.

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21 Nov 2020
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i thought it was 5 cent Bull Durham bag from my high school daysHappy i think that included the papers... can not recall.

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23 Nov 2020
05:48:26pm

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Always a nice surprise when you buy a stamp, and end up unexpectedly with a perf variety.
Here is 27a perforated 11x12.5, a more valuable variation for the specialist, but i still need my #20 perforated 11.
Not complaining!
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04 Dec 2020
09:56:30pm

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1933 Haiti C4a is a hard stamp to find, and for a well centered stamp at a low price virtually impossible. Finally put my hands on a nice well centered and signed stamp, (wish it was used!) which completes my Air Mail Page 1. Air mail is now complete to 1965. The more recent stamps are less interesting, so my motivation to work on them is low. But C4a is a different story and it took a few years!
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04 Dec 2020
10:54:59pm

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Attractive cancels. That's a nice looking album page.

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05 Dec 2020
10:51:30am

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OOOOH nice, Ralph!

There is so much awesome material from Central and South America and Latin Caribbean that is very scarce and woefully under priced in the catalog. Don't you think so? It would be so cool if everyone picked just ONE from this area and joined in the fun. I picked Venezuela because I spent some time there in the 1970s when they were booming.

And congrats on the Finland perf variety. That’s a toughie! Great find! One of my recent acquisitions is a Finland collection strong in serpentine perf varieties. I haven't had time to study them yet, but here is a quick pic of part of the loot and some of what I had before that I've roughed out into major types. This issue is incredibly difficult to find with all teeth perfect and intact, so I've nicknamed them "hockey star stamps" - because old time hockey stars lost a lot of teeth on the ice LOL!

Here’s a pic of part of the goodies. The Hagnar sheets house my collection and some of the varieties I’ve identified with my fancy scribbles on blue paper. (Haha) This is going to be a hoot and a half! There are paper varieties, colors, four types of “teeth” and more. A flyspecking dream!

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16 Dec 2020
08:44:53pm

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Here's a few stamps from the W.W. large accumulation my brother sent me from southern California. Don't know who he got it off of. I've been sorting for a week and have been on an adventure around the world lol I am now a multiple country collector,but alot of it I will trade or sell eventually to keep building my U.S. album.

If anyone notices anything that looks fake or anything let me know please. Speaking of, these first two stamps from Columbia look phony to me.
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I don't have a scanner maybe Santa's watching. Hope he wasn't watching last Friday. Lol kidding. Here's more columbian

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Italy had the most specimens out of the lot


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That's all for now . I will post more stuff as time allows.

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17 Dec 2020
04:12:45am

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Here's some more..


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17 Dec 2020
04:46:33am

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Monaco.
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17 Dec 2020
06:08:12pm

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Johnny,

From what I can see, most are common and of low value.

Do you have or are you thinking about obtaining a basic general world-wide album with spaces for about 20,000-30,000 stamps? Many of these would have dedicated spaces in such an album and the others could be shoe-horned in. They aren't really worth anything but could provide some good relaxing leisure time while you find the appropriate spaces for them. Don't worry about the ragged looking stamps, mount them in also. They can always be replaced with a better copy at a later date. If they have already been hinged, just hinge them back into your album.

By the way, it looks like your catalogs are taking the grand tour of Oklahoma. They were mailed on the 14th, it took until the 15th to reach Oklahoma City, they didn't leave Oklahoma City until the 16th and arrived in Tulsa on the 17th (today). They haven't been noted as leaving Tulsa, so they must still be there. Oklahoma City and Tulsa were both remarked as being Regional Distribution Centers; I would how many more Regional Distribution Centers there are between Tulsa and you because it looks like they may see every one of them.

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17 Dec 2020
10:04:56pm

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The stamps I posted were just 3 pages of my stockbook of stamps I have half*ss sorted while I refresh on foreign language on stamps. I have 2 file boxes with over 1000 glassines full of World wide that I have been sorting for 2 weeks. I used to collect world wide , but gave all that to my brother years ago because he liked ww and I have just collected U.S. for the last 40 years lol. Over the years I've accumulated alot even lost alot about a decade ago from a burglary. I received this lot from my brother about 3 months ago from California, and I dont know if he quit or what. We don't talk much after Mother died. Anyway, this lot had pages from older collections of course the higher value spaces were empty with hinge remnants(always) There was about 200 covers a lot of them were other countries stamps celebrating our bicentennial in 76.(yay!) lol.other covers were cool. some were airmail covers mostly from south America to various companies. A set of FD covers with the civil war stamps from 1995. And a few regular covers. There are a couple approval cards from the 70s full still.

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Ads on back..that's my favorite part lol looking at old prices.


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There was about 10 of these with dealers from L.A. and N.Y.

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There's just alot of material!!
To answer your question, sorry for rambling on, I will probably pick a couple of countries (I like South America) to collect and sell or trade to get the U.S. stamps I want.
While I'm here I might as well put some more pics up.


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That's all for now.. and yes the Post office have their hands full right now.. I've read about an aweful lot of postal workers have been busted for stealing/throwing mail away lately.. the world we live in. Thinking

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18 Dec 2020
03:07:40am

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Here's some other covers.


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18 Dec 2020
01:42:35pm

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More covers..


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18 Dec 2020
09:53:18pm

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French Morocco:

One stamp at a time at this stage..to near completion of a difficult series.
Morocco Scott #69, often confused with the much more common #112. The almost identical #112 has an imprint while the #69 does not (nor do #70-71) (note that I still need #71)
This almost wraps up one more page with the painfully annoying empty stamp gap...for years!

A question to French Colonies collectors. Has anyone seen Scott #9-10 and Scott #24-25
Catalog prices puts them out of my league...but I am curious if anyone has ever seen them, (or acquired any of them?)

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Below the #69, #70 and a #71 filler (actually I thought I had it, but it is #115 At Wits End )

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19 Dec 2020
09:36:11am

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24 and 25 were on eBay a few weeks ago, the bidding left me in the dust pretty quickly. I am afraid they will always be empty holes in my album.

How is your quest for a b1 coming? Happy

Bob

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19 Dec 2020
04:22:32pm

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B1, At Wits End Still missing Bob!
Morocco is so close to being completed (apart for the unattainable few stamps noted here). #71 is out there, just waiting for a good price, I was not looking for it, as I had mistakenly thought I had it in my album until I received #69 and noticed my error!

I also miss a handful of Postal Tax, but they are not too hard to get.
For 9-10 and 24-25, I would settle for counterfeits as album fillers, but even those are seldom if ever seen.

I am also working on the Cherifen Post stamps (Scott A1 to A12). It is a bit of a rarity as far as I can tell.

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20 Dec 2020
10:12:30am

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Three years or so ago, I bought a lot listed as the high denominations of the 1923 French Morocco series, including 112. Those finished off the set, so I didn't pay much attention to them when looking over my FM pages - until something caught my eye just a few weeks ago. I took a close look, and found I had a 69 in the 112 slot.

Sometimes misidentification works in your favor.

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20 Dec 2020
06:21:57pm

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Nice break Tom (dollhaus)
Somehow the misidentifications seldom works in one's favor, so it is nice to see some luck-balancing cases. Morocco Scott #69 is a toughie!!!
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21 Dec 2020
09:29:43pm

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21 Dec 2020
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