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ing some unusual items. Like - what's this? Thank you.
01:29:24pm
(the two images are not on the same scale)
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Is the border design Swastikas?
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02:30:36pm
People have the idea that Swastikas are always a bad thing. Before The Nazi Party adopted them as a symbol they were looked on as a symbol of good luck, especially by Native Americans. My wife collected "black cat good luck postcards" and I have a large album filled with them. Many of them utilize the Swastika, along with black cats, a single boot, a horse shoe, clover, mistletoe, an ankh, a red bow, a wish bone, and many other symbols. If you dig around on line you can come up with a picture of a Western Canadian girl's hockey team called the Swastikas with the symbol all over their jerseys. There are many stamps that include the symbol as a decoration, including the beautiful Newfoundland airmail stamp C11 and it's DOX overprint C12. The Native population still uses it as a good luck symbol. It will never happen, but maybe every time we see the symbol not used for evil purposes we should try to think "happy thoughts". Just stating my humble opinion, I am not some far right weirdo. I always get right and left mixed up so I hope I have this stated properly. I believe this stamp was dated 1920 which would make it "safe"!
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02:31:18pm
These were issued in 1924. At the time, the swastika had only recently been adopted by a notable political party and was still considered to be a traditional "Good Luck" symbol.
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02:33:47pm
Harvey, you beat me by 42 seconds!
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The reversed swastika called a "manji" is still used as a symbol of hope or good luck in Asia and Buddhist cultures. Also used in Japan to mark where Buddhist temples are on maps. It causes controversy when Japanese media is imported to the west, as characters will have manji symbols on their clothes, but no pro-Nazi or anti-Semitic meaning was intended.
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Yes, no swastikas required.
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03:12:35pm
My highest ever price realized for a Canal Zone cover (my "Sold database")
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03:15:07pm
and my second highest:
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Yeah commercial covers with overprinted prexies are scarce as hens teeth.
Here is an interesting illegal use of the Canal Zone prexies.
And a Panama postal stationary item. I have more but not scanned yet.
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03 Feb 2023
01:29:24pm
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(the two images are not on the same scale)
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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
03 Feb 2023
02:30:36pm
re: Canal Zone
People have the idea that Swastikas are always a bad thing. Before The Nazi Party adopted them as a symbol they were looked on as a symbol of good luck, especially by Native Americans. My wife collected "black cat good luck postcards" and I have a large album filled with them. Many of them utilize the Swastika, along with black cats, a single boot, a horse shoe, clover, mistletoe, an ankh, a red bow, a wish bone, and many other symbols. If you dig around on line you can come up with a picture of a Western Canadian girl's hockey team called the Swastikas with the symbol all over their jerseys. There are many stamps that include the symbol as a decoration, including the beautiful Newfoundland airmail stamp C11 and it's DOX overprint C12. The Native population still uses it as a good luck symbol. It will never happen, but maybe every time we see the symbol not used for evil purposes we should try to think "happy thoughts". Just stating my humble opinion, I am not some far right weirdo. I always get right and left mixed up so I hope I have this stated properly. I believe this stamp was dated 1920 which would make it "safe"!
https://www.google.com/search?q=picture+ ...
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03 Feb 2023
02:31:18pm
re: Canal Zone
These were issued in 1924. At the time, the swastika had only recently been adopted by a notable political party and was still considered to be a traditional "Good Luck" symbol.
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03 Feb 2023
02:33:47pm
re: Canal Zone
Harvey, you beat me by 42 seconds!
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re: Canal Zone
The reversed swastika called a "manji" is still used as a symbol of hope or good luck in Asia and Buddhist cultures. Also used in Japan to mark where Buddhist temples are on maps. It causes controversy when Japanese media is imported to the west, as characters will have manji symbols on their clothes, but no pro-Nazi or anti-Semitic meaning was intended.
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04 Feb 2023
03:12:35pm
re: Canal Zone
My highest ever price realized for a Canal Zone cover (my "Sold database")
Roy
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BuckaCover.com - 80,000 covers priced 60c to $1.50 - Easy browsing 500 categories
04 Feb 2023
03:15:07pm
re: Canal Zone
and my second highest:
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re: Canal Zone
Yeah commercial covers with overprinted prexies are scarce as hens teeth.
Here is an interesting illegal use of the Canal Zone prexies.
And a Panama postal stationary item. I have more but not scanned yet.
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