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Before anybody asks how much I paid? "Money and Good Words"
All I need now are:-
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Just for the heck of it I looked these up in my 2010 Classic Scott's. The ones you are missing are in the $300 000 range and the ones you picked up are quite expensive as well. Take very good care of them!!
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The pictures I put up are from another source rather than the ones I have bought as SOR cannot cope with a png file.
The scan I saw was just the front of the stamps and they looked fresh but they belonged to a gentleman who lived abroad so I am expecting there to be some foxing or tone spots on the back.
But they look great from the front.
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Ian, if you have irfanview open your png file and then ctrl s and change save as to jpeg, hit enter.
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Thanks sheepshanks I'll try it out later.
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Good luck in your search.
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"But they look great from the front."
Says it all really. That's what a stamp collector needs. Anything else has more to do with Wall Street and the City of London.
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" ... Says it all really. That's what a stamp collector
needs. Anything else has more to do with Wall Street
and the City of London. ..."
The birth of each of the MNH, plate block and coil strip
craze, were all initiated or driven by speculators who
did not have either the time, the knowledge or the
intellectual curiosity to learn more than the daily price
of their "stamp investments."
However, foxing or mold spots seem to spread to both
the front as well as the album page, so there is some
value in being able to see the reverse. Thus, hinges.
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Brechinite good luck with your search for the K&U high values - you will need a very deep wallet or you may settle for fiscally used copies as I did.
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I like the discount on buying fiscally used high value stamps, but they seem to be getting more expensive.
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This came today from the land down under. Looks a fairly reasonable postally used item. Rather than the cto copies that abound.
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Ian, I have always wondered about these Kenya and Uganda denominations. With GBP100 at the time one could probably go on a one week safari and shoot a few lions, rhinos, buffalo and antelopes.
What was the use of a GBP100 stamp? Did it get attached to a rail car of cargo?
If I were you, I would send a kind letter to the palace of her majesty and ask her for her spares.
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I recently got this Minnesota postal history cover with location-specific auxliary marking and an it was sealed with an official seal to boot. It's a bit of a hat trick for me.
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Regarding Smauggie’s cover: Its destination — Bath, NY — is my birthplace.
Bob
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I bought 6 albums at an auction last week. Mainly for the MNH Machins, Regionals and High Value Machins.
One of the albums was an old Lever Arch File which was rusty, smelly and full of multiple copies of U.S. stamps from the sixties to the eighties. On going through it on an old home made album page this was attached:
You never can tell what is hidden away in rusty smelly albums!!
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Thats true i have found some beauties loose between pages..why they stayed there waiting for me who knows ?
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Nice find, Ian!
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"You never can tell what is hidden away in rusty smelly albums!!"
And think of the ones that don't get found and wind up in paper recycling!
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i almost shudder to think what will happen to our room of stamps, better to enjoy them and not think too far ahead.
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"i almost shudder to think what will happen to our room of stamps"
A while back one of the guys in my model car club gave me three big black trash bags containing his father in law's stamp collection. His wife was clearing out her dead parents house and already had it all in trash bags before he noticed. And if he hadn't...
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Recieved a book yesterday won in a Auction. I found a missing piece for my collection. Michel 671x, Vertical gum corrugation. This stamp alone is worth more than double what I payed.
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At our last local stamp show I bought a huge Halloween-colored bin and two albums
from a fellow outside the show. He had been unable to sell anything but postage to
a dealer. His collection had stamps stuck together, damaged, not well organized.
But I have time to soak and go through it all.
I gave him a two figure sum and was able to sell a portion of that and recoup all that
I'd paid.
Am finding many stamps for my collection.
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Bought this a couple of weeks ago for $ 83.00. I checked the Cert to make sure it's real. Present Michel Cat Value € 2500.0
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Here is a stock certificate for the "The Valentine Iron Company", Bellefonte, PA. The significance is that the owner of the forge was John Gephart, the previous owner of the property that my house was built on. John's Daughter Sarah, married John's partner and successor, Lorenzo Munson, and built the house that I live in. The date of the house is 1905-06 and is a Four Square design.
My house is #5 on the homes tour. House #10 is the Vanentine House, the original owner of "Tha Velentine Iron Company.https://www.bellefonte.com/historic_tour ...
This house is for sale two doors down from me. It needs lots of work. If you ever wanted to live in a small town near the APS her's your opportunity It is house #7 on the homes tour. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/237-2 ...
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My experience with 'rusty smelly albums' is that they contain a lot of rusty smelly stamps... but with a lot of TLC you can sometimes do wonders, and sometimes not. I won't tell you how many valuable stamps I damaged by trying to 'rescue them'!
Oh.. this is my latest acquisition, ........
Larry
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Picked up today 2 Lidner printed albums of Jersey MNH, covering from 1969 t0 2004. The collection is complete apart from 1 Minisheet.
You could hardly turn the pages the albums were that full. Thankfully I had a spare empty Lidner folder and the three albums are now fine.
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Here is the new 4 x Ist Class Booklet. Showing the front of the booklet and the stamps inside.
The stamps are coded M22L and MFIL and are larger than the current red Ist class Machins.:-
Found in an old junior album:-
Are they genuine or forgeries?:-
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Are they genuine or forgeries?:-..."
Or genuine forgeries, perchance ?
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I am looking forward to receiving these that I bought last night:-
Before anybody asks how much I paid? "Money and Good Words"
All I need now are:-
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By Jove ! (is that still an expression ?) i do not blame you
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09 Oct 2021
02:17:38pm
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Just for the heck of it I looked these up in my 2010 Classic Scott's. The ones you are missing are in the $300 000 range and the ones you picked up are quite expensive as well. Take very good care of them!!
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The pictures I put up are from another source rather than the ones I have bought as SOR cannot cope with a png file.
The scan I saw was just the front of the stamps and they looked fresh but they belonged to a gentleman who lived abroad so I am expecting there to be some foxing or tone spots on the back.
But they look great from the front.
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Ian, if you have irfanview open your png file and then ctrl s and change save as to jpeg, hit enter.
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Thanks sheepshanks I'll try it out later.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
09 Oct 2021
06:50:36pm
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Good luck in your search.
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"But they look great from the front."
Says it all really. That's what a stamp collector needs. Anything else has more to do with Wall Street and the City of London.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
10 Oct 2021
03:34:54am
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" ... Says it all really. That's what a stamp collector
needs. Anything else has more to do with Wall Street
and the City of London. ..."
The birth of each of the MNH, plate block and coil strip
craze, were all initiated or driven by speculators who
did not have either the time, the knowledge or the
intellectual curiosity to learn more than the daily price
of their "stamp investments."
However, foxing or mold spots seem to spread to both
the front as well as the album page, so there is some
value in being able to see the reverse. Thus, hinges.
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Brechinite good luck with your search for the K&U high values - you will need a very deep wallet or you may settle for fiscally used copies as I did.
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I like the discount on buying fiscally used high value stamps, but they seem to be getting more expensive.
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This came today from the land down under. Looks a fairly reasonable postally used item. Rather than the cto copies that abound.
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Ian, I have always wondered about these Kenya and Uganda denominations. With GBP100 at the time one could probably go on a one week safari and shoot a few lions, rhinos, buffalo and antelopes.
What was the use of a GBP100 stamp? Did it get attached to a rail car of cargo?
If I were you, I would send a kind letter to the palace of her majesty and ask her for her spares.
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I recently got this Minnesota postal history cover with location-specific auxliary marking and an it was sealed with an official seal to boot. It's a bit of a hat trick for me.
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Regarding Smauggie’s cover: Its destination — Bath, NY — is my birthplace.
Bob
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I bought 6 albums at an auction last week. Mainly for the MNH Machins, Regionals and High Value Machins.
One of the albums was an old Lever Arch File which was rusty, smelly and full of multiple copies of U.S. stamps from the sixties to the eighties. On going through it on an old home made album page this was attached:
You never can tell what is hidden away in rusty smelly albums!!
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Thats true i have found some beauties loose between pages..why they stayed there waiting for me who knows ?
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Nice find, Ian!
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"You never can tell what is hidden away in rusty smelly albums!!"
And think of the ones that don't get found and wind up in paper recycling!
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i almost shudder to think what will happen to our room of stamps, better to enjoy them and not think too far ahead.
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"i almost shudder to think what will happen to our room of stamps"
A while back one of the guys in my model car club gave me three big black trash bags containing his father in law's stamp collection. His wife was clearing out her dead parents house and already had it all in trash bags before he noticed. And if he hadn't...
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Recieved a book yesterday won in a Auction. I found a missing piece for my collection. Michel 671x, Vertical gum corrugation. This stamp alone is worth more than double what I payed.
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At our last local stamp show I bought a huge Halloween-colored bin and two albums
from a fellow outside the show. He had been unable to sell anything but postage to
a dealer. His collection had stamps stuck together, damaged, not well organized.
But I have time to soak and go through it all.
I gave him a two figure sum and was able to sell a portion of that and recoup all that
I'd paid.
Am finding many stamps for my collection.
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Bought this a couple of weeks ago for $ 83.00. I checked the Cert to make sure it's real. Present Michel Cat Value € 2500.00
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Here is a stock certificate for the "The Valentine Iron Company", Bellefonte, PA. The significance is that the owner of the forge was John Gephart, the previous owner of the property that my house was built on. John's Daughter Sarah, married John's partner and successor, Lorenzo Munson, and built the house that I live in. The date of the house is 1905-06 and is a Four Square design.
My house is #5 on the homes tour. House #10 is the Vanentine House, the original owner of "Tha Velentine Iron Company.https://www.bellefonte.com/historic_tour ...
This house is for sale two doors down from me. It needs lots of work. If you ever wanted to live in a small town near the APS her's your opportunity It is house #7 on the homes tour. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/237-2 ...
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My experience with 'rusty smelly albums' is that they contain a lot of rusty smelly stamps... but with a lot of TLC you can sometimes do wonders, and sometimes not. I won't tell you how many valuable stamps I damaged by trying to 'rescue them'!
Oh.. this is my latest acquisition, ........
Larry
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Picked up today 2 Lidner printed albums of Jersey MNH, covering from 1969 t0 2004. The collection is complete apart from 1 Minisheet.
You could hardly turn the pages the albums were that full. Thankfully I had a spare empty Lidner folder and the three albums are now fine.
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Here is the new 4 x Ist Class Booklet. Showing the front of the booklet and the stamps inside.
The stamps are coded M22L and MFIL and are larger than the current red Ist class Machins.:-
Found in an old junior album:-
Are they genuine or forgeries?:-
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
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"...
Are they genuine or forgeries?:-..."
Or genuine forgeries, perchance ?
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