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ggggosh, I don't ggggnow
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but you have a postally used Swiss military seal now
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Phil. I’m a Canadian, so I don’t know…but saying someone putting a US stamp with the American flag on a cover is “vandalism” sounds very…uh…er…UnAmerican.
I’m sure some members will express their justified reproval.
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Sorry, but I'm confused. Americans issue stamps with American flags on them but aren't supposed to use them as postage and thus deface them? Or are you complaining about the use of the Swiss label, which certainly would be philatelic sacrilege.
Once, on a Valentine's Day in the early 1980s, I bought a beautiful 19th Century Canadian Valentine's Day card trimmed with paper lace, and postmarked on Valentine's Day. The dealer I bought it from said, "Let's go over to the post office (just across the street from his shop) and get it postmarked. He assured me that it would add value to the card, and I believed him: I'd only decided a few weeks before to start collecting stamps again, and had learned little more about philately than I knew when I was 12 years old!
Skipping ahead several years: I took the cover to show a dealer here in Vancouver. I told him how the cover came to have a contemporary cancellation on it, and he said, "Why on earth did you do that? You took a cover worth at least $25, maybe a lot more in an auction, and ruined it! It's probably not even worth a dollar, now." As Yoda would say, "Sad, but smarter I was."
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As I was trying to quickly pack a few eBay sales before I left for work one morning...
My practice is to grab the item from inventory, then grab an envelope already prepared with postage and return address. Hand address the envelope... only in my haste, I had hand addressed the first day cover the guy had bought from me and not the intended mailing envelope!
Fortunately I had duplicates of the first day cover!
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ggggosh, I don't ggggnow
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but you have a postally used Swiss military seal now
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Phil. I’m a Canadian, so I don’t know…but saying someone putting a US stamp with the American flag on a cover is “vandalism” sounds very…uh…er…UnAmerican.
I’m sure some members will express their justified reproval.
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Sorry, but I'm confused. Americans issue stamps with American flags on them but aren't supposed to use them as postage and thus deface them? Or are you complaining about the use of the Swiss label, which certainly would be philatelic sacrilege.
Once, on a Valentine's Day in the early 1980s, I bought a beautiful 19th Century Canadian Valentine's Day card trimmed with paper lace, and postmarked on Valentine's Day. The dealer I bought it from said, "Let's go over to the post office (just across the street from his shop) and get it postmarked. He assured me that it would add value to the card, and I believed him: I'd only decided a few weeks before to start collecting stamps again, and had learned little more about philately than I knew when I was 12 years old!
Skipping ahead several years: I took the cover to show a dealer here in Vancouver. I told him how the cover came to have a contemporary cancellation on it, and he said, "Why on earth did you do that? You took a cover worth at least $25, maybe a lot more in an auction, and ruined it! It's probably not even worth a dollar, now." As Yoda would say, "Sad, but smarter I was."
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As I was trying to quickly pack a few eBay sales before I left for work one morning...
My practice is to grab the item from inventory, then grab an envelope already prepared with postage and return address. Hand address the envelope... only in my haste, I had hand addressed the first day cover the guy had bought from me and not the intended mailing envelope!
Fortunately I had duplicates of the first day cover!
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