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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:02:57 am
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| :) :) Thanks Tony. Really how stupid of me. I didn't analyze the stamp myself and just went ahead with the seller's description. It really is SG1b emerald. And yes the confusion in sorting is mainly between pale yellow greens and yellow greens. There's a little lesson in this for all of us. We will... |
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 10:42:24 am
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PeterS wrote: indianchariots wrote: What a journey this thread has been. All thanks to the Creator and Mentor, Mr.Tony...  Oh dear...there goes his head again. Naming him the Creator?? Really! 
Now, now, Peter. I have recently replenished my stock of thunderbolts, and I know where you live  |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 10:40:05 am
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| Yes: could we have individual scans of the Bussahir stamps, please? Some of them look quite good. The first two appear to have the correct monograms, which would make them SG 14 (the 8 Annas, cat. £25) and SG 16 (the 1 Rupee, cat. £55). The monograms handstamped onto the stamps aren't clear enough t... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 20:35:03 pm
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| Nothing very exclusive but since Idar seems to have been forgotten for long on this board I thought of posting this nice fresh block of SG2b which I recently acquired. :) http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa399/mukulgarga/idar_1943_1-2a_yellow-green_sg2b_fine.jpg A bit of good news: I think this ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 18:35:59 pm
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| Well as I mentioned I got shutout in the Harrell auction. Turns out I spent some money in a variety of places, but managed to get some nice items out of it all. Here is a selection of some of the more interesting items (these are ex-Geoffrey Flack): Bijawar - not Tony's favorite, but you may have s... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 14:00:00 pm
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| Thank goodness that has been resolved. It didn't seem like Gibbons to be withholding the certificates. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 01:13:46 am
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| And Peterh, as far as I know there was only the one printing of the Las Bela 1 Anna. I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt on the colour; after all, different scanners and monitors can produce different effects. But looking at the perforations on the 1 Anna, I don't think I like them eit... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 01:08:47 am
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| Thanks for the reassurance on that Jaipur cover. I don't know why I doubted my initial identification. And thanks also for the plating. You've saved me a lot of hard work in Albrecht |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help wanted with India numeral postmark. |
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 18:23:24 pm
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| You nearly have it, profiq. You don't need to add the Img coding, though, when you copy from Photobucket: Photobucket inserts them for you. http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag132/profiq/Amrit1877Sept_zpsff9dbd74.jpg I wonder if the great Masson did the hack work of checking calendars himself, or ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 12:58:07 pm
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| I saw these las Bela on eBay a few days ago and they didn't look right to me. When Is saw the bid today, I just couldn't believe it. Any thoughts? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Las-Bela-Feudatory-state-India-1-2-Issued-1897-98-/171039115052?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27d2b9c72c http://i251.photob... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 12:36:07 pm
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| Tony, have pulled up this rare cover of yours from the previous pages of our thread. Will it be possible for you to share a Upright & Close-up image of the Stamp on this cover. Is it an SG2...? And could you also share the other Used/Mint examples of SG2 that you have. Thanks in advance... You ... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help wanted with India numeral postmark. |
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 10:34:29 am
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| I gather Masson occasionally got his datings wrong, or at least questionable. |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help wanted with India numeral postmark. |
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 17:32:29 pm
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| Unfortunately, I don't have any dates for the opening of the different postal routes between Srinagar and British India. There may not be any, as the postal runners would have been following the traditional caravan and invasion routes. In any case, the Collecting Kashmir Web site has a useful summar... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 11:11:40 am
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| Thanks for being understanding about this, John. I know the rule is irritating, but you can see the point of it. (One brave, or foolhardy, soul recently told me he'd started reading this thread from Page 1. It would be exasperating to get to, say Page 50, and find a reference to an interesting eBay ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 10:33:59 am
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| jes45, before you bring the wrath of the moderators down on your head, do please include scans of the stamps when you reference an eBay offering. The problem is that the images will shortly disappear from eBay, and noone will be able to see the offending stamps. So here they are: http://i251.photobu... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 00:41:08 am
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 21:19:30 pm
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Well, the Amir of Bahawalpur, who commissioned these stamps, was a philatelist himself
He wasn't entirely without good taste, though. This sheet of Jind (SG J8) came from his collection:
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Vote of thanks to Australia 2013 World Stamp Expo Committee |
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 11:27:12 am
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| Others have said it all. I can only add my thanks for a wonderful experience. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 11:20:49 am
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| I will get around to this, Indianchariots, please be patient! (Also prepare to be disappointed. I don't have much at all of those first types ) |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Need a Japanese translation Please, Thanks |
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 10:56:58 am
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| Thanks for that Machaggis. My Chinese is pretty rusty, and I dread coming up against this kanbun (漢文) in Japanese texts. Maybe the writer and recipient could read and understand it. It was still in active use at the time, and was being taught in schools until recently at least. The location of the w... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help wanted with India numeral postmark. |
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Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 10:45:06 am
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| Profiq, thanks for confirming Masson's (and my) reading of the date on the cover. As you say, it doesn't match the cancellations, but it appears to have been written by whoever addressed the letter. I'm not sure what to make of it, unless the calendar in use at Srinagar was radically out of alignmen... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 19:40:18 pm
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| Good point! I received a BPA Certificate for the Jaipur, an RPS Certificate for the Kashmir 4 Annas myrtle-green, and a Sismondo certificate (insert your own comment) for the Jammu & Kashmir SG 41 cover. The others didn't come with certificates. but I'd think that, as long as you could show an i... |
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 18:19:22 pm
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| I still can't believe my luck with that lot. Perhaps the perforation errors of those Jaipur State Press printings are as relatively common as Gibbons' pricing suggests. But if they are, they're remarkably tightly held. How often do they appear for sale, compared with other £180 - £275 items? Last of... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 17:41:42 pm
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| Then the second ½ Anna black of Kashmir, SG 88 http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Jammu%20and%20Kashmir/SG88-exHarell_zps22d372c4.jpg [/URL] My first specimen of the early Kashmir blacks. Then, a bit of an attack on the Kashmir 4 Annas. First, the emerald-green tête-bêche pair, SG 99a... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 17:07:09 pm
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| My lots from the Harell sale have now arrived, and as the Constant Companion is away in Taiwan for the next 4 weeks (and she never reads Stampboards either), I think it's safe to show what I got. First, Bhopal SG 320ba, the ¼A + THREE PIES pair, surcharge inverted, used: http://i251.photobucket.com... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help wanted with India numeral postmark. |
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:44:04 am
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| Thanks for your comments on my Kashmir cover, profiq. I know a little of the postal arrangements in the States, but next to nothing about those prevailing in British India. There are a couple of interesting points about the cover. You mention the red ink annotations. These are a translation of the I... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 13:43:44 pm
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| Do post scans of what you won, before your wife discovers and confiscates them |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Need a Japanese translation Please, Thanks |
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:59:48 am
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| This is ultra-formal old Japanese, and very hard to make sense of. However, it appears to be an acknowledgment of condolences on the death of the writer's grandmother. The writer's given name is a bit of a problem - my name dictionary offers five possible readings - but his surname is probably Nagat... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 00:56:22 am
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Quite right: I was reading the numeral the wrong way  Time I went to bed. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 00:44:42 am
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| A very nice find, Domburd! And just as well it didn't appear in the Harell sale - you'd probably have had to pay twice as much for it :D Nayeem seems to say that the 42 was allocated to Jagtial. That can't be a terribly common post office either. So a considerable rarity used from a small post offic... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 00:32:46 am
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| Cill Dara, Jammu & Kashmir is a notoriously tricky area. Picking the reprints from the legitimate Old Circular types can be difficult: http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Jammu%20and%20Kashmir/SG26reprint.jpg Genuine SG 26 (£48) on the left - reprint on the right As for wives with ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 18:48:38 pm
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| Ah, but it was an SG 1 :lol: The buyer paid £9,500 for it, and there are said to be fewer than 12 in existence. Well, the last time a true - and as yet uncatalogued - Barwani No.1 came up for auction, I went to £2,000 to buy it. And there are a lot fewer than 12 of them in existence. Not sure I woul... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 16:46:14 pm
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| And I see that, in all the excitement, I forgot to thank indianchariots for elucidating the address on that Bundi cover. Thanks! That makes perfect sense |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 12:58:38 pm
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| Ajay, I may not be able to get in to the Exhibition again before it closes. However, you can phone me on 9428 9156, and we may be able to arrange a meeting. |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 11:05:20 am
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| Well, I've examined the sheet again, and I still can't see any discontinuity between the upper and lower halves :D In any case, both halves should come from the same setting, because both show the same (Setting 26) serpentine rouletting: there's a small but definite trace of it at the lower right si... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 01:22:44 am
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| I can: http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Bundi/SG27unidentifiedScover-sheet_zps09609479.jpg http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Bundi/SG27unidentifiedScover-sheet1_zpsb7069886.jpg http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Bundi/SG27unidentifiedScover-sheet2_zpsb... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 01:05:45 am
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| Tony as far as I can see the left side 4 stamps are not a sheet at all. They are just 2 pairs stuck closely above and below. Visual Proof 1)The vertical rouletting of both the pairs are not in line. 2) The gauge of rouletting is VERY different on both the pairs. I went through various sheet images ... |
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Forum: Share with others here your NICE looking stamp and cover images etc. Topic: The dubious charms of the Uglies - Jhalawar |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 00:40:35 am
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| Very nice: used multiples of SG 1 aren't at all common. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 19:58:25 pm
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| In the past, I've just dumped my Gwalior cards and covers into my junk box. That's a pretty good junk box you have then. Often when I see junk boxes, they are well and true junk--common definitives, damaged, modern FDCs. Aethelwulf, any time you're in Melbourne, you're welcome to root around in my ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 19:55:11 pm
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| Thanks! Fixed it so that the image is upright - stampboards doesn't allow me to edit that post apparently http://i838.photobucket.com/albums/zz305/rakeshkrishnan/SG60-sheet-specimen-perfin_zps4432d5fe.jpeg It looks as if someone - Perkins, Bacon presumably - folded the sheet in half before perforat... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 17:55:47 pm
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| Here's one for the Sacred Cow fanciers, an SG 27 cover: http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Bundi/SG27unidentifiedScover-back_zps113c174f.jpg http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Bundi/SG27unidentifiedScover-front_zps61c7e5af.jpg As you can see, it's in deplorable conditio... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 16:06:14 pm
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| Couple of unlisted / uncataloged Cochin items I recently acquired SG 12 1/2 puttan green - stamp printed both sides http://i838.photobucket.com/albums/zz305/rakeshkrishnan/SG12-var-printed-atback-1_zps8fc76b8d.jpeg http://i838.photobucket.com/albums/zz305/rakeshkrishnan/SG12-var-printed-at-back-2_z... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:54:21 am
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| Keep up your interest in Indore and we may see few new things in this neglected state. Opkedia I will now be looking out for the possible Indore office at Jhalrapatan :D In fact, this sent me back to look at my Jhalawar combination covers. I have one to Indore, one to Bombay ... and two to Ujjain, ... |
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:39:25 am
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| I've been to the Australia 2013 Exhibition being held here in Melbourne, and saw some very nice Bhopal and Cochin exhibits, Tony any nice items from cochin. that we didnt disussed here??? The Cochin exhibit was in the Postal Stationery class, so its focus was on that aspect. I've never even checked... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help sought to identify Japanese stamps |
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 21:24:36 pm
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| Thanks again, interesting to know that a paper goods company produced these seals looking so much similar to genuine stamps ! Not just one company: it was from an industry association. I've seen these sorts of seals for various industry associations - ceramics and bowler hats (!) makers amongst oth... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 20:27:05 pm
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| I've been to the Australia 2013 Exhibition being held here in Melbourne, and saw some very nice Bhopal and Cochin exhibits, and member opkedia's Indore. I was so fired up by the Indore, I went the rounds of the dealers' stands again, looking for Indore, and found this one: http://i251.photobucket.co... |
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Forum: Cinderellas etc - all the stamps that are NOT regular postage stamp related Topic: Barwani 2 Rs. Writing Fee stamp overprinted "Court Fee" |
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 20:05:47 pm
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| You have some wonderful multiples there! Have you been able to date the printing (or printings) of the Rana portrait types on laid paper? I have just one single, off paper, and without any date on it. I suspect it might be related to the contemporary postage 1 Anna on laid paper, which I discovered ... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help sought to identify Japanese stamps |
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 19:29:24 pm
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| Bit hard to read all of it, but basically both inscriptions are saying that penalties will apply for misuse of the seals. |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help sought to identify Japanese stamps |
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 14:25:56 pm
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| These are Japanese. They're certification seals for the Tosa Paper Goods Association. (Tosa is a town in Kochi Prefecture on Shikoku.) Sorry I can't read the inscription at centre bottom. If you can provide a larger scan of that portion only, I might be able to do something for you. From the general... |
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:33:56 am
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| Thanks Tony for all that information and No I do not intend to exhibit my collection (minuscule as it is) but just wanted to know the proper way to stock the stamps so that a quick review later, for study, is possible. I mean so that the stamps are not stored around haphazardly. Any particular choi... |
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