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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: April 2013 Cover Exchange Participant List |
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 14:27:08 pm
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kajika wrote: Very excited to receive madbaker's cover with extras.... This time I get it right.  Regards, Marcus
Good news! I was starting to worry that it didn't arrive. Glad it made it ok.
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Old Stamp Albums - any value?? |
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Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 13:22:49 pm
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jrobb wrote: The Traveler was my first stamp album 
Mine too! I don't remember where I got mine from but I spent a winter hinging stamps from a packet of 1000 my neighbour gave me. I was 10 years old or so.
My heart skipped when I saw the picture. Good memories. |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Cover Exchange Group - Scans Thread Only |
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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 08:15:15 am
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Was happy to check the mail today and see this from kajika, with some nice Malaysian stamps inside too. Thank you!
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Cover Exchange Group - Scans Thread Only |
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 14:32:05 pm
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kajika wrote: Thank you madbaker. It is a nice cover Cover for April Exchange.  Rgds, marcus
Whoops! That's not from me!
Soon, I hope
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Forum: NO question is too basic or silly - you ask - we WILL help you with it! Topic: Questions about how to grade or classify USED stamps |
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:28:54 pm
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Somerset wrote: Mark - many CTO were printed without gum to save money.
Good to know! Thanks. |
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Forum: NO question is too basic or silly - you ask - we WILL help you with it! Topic: Questions about how to grade or classify USED stamps |
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 08:16:03 am
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| CTO = Cancelled to Order. What you will see is an exceptionally fine cancel on a stamp which also has full, undisturbed gum on the back. What happened (an I'll rely on an expert to tune this explanation) is that the postal authority cancelled the stamp in advance in order to sell it as a used stamp ... |
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Forum: NO question is too basic or silly - you ask - we WILL help you with it! Topic: Questions about how to grade or classify USED stamps |
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 07:09:26 am
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| CDS ... google helped me with that one. Thank you for teaching me another new thing today. The acronyms are a time- and space-saver. Dealer's can annotate their price stickers as such, auction catalogues can save space with the terms. CDS (Circular Date Stamp--showing town name & date of cancel... |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Postcard Exchange - Scans Thread Only |
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Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:57:56 am
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| I was excited to receive a postcard from Jeannette_NL this afternoon. Beautiful landscapes. Makes me want to visit, especially on this snowy, slushy day! :) Thank you, Jeannette. http://madbaker.smugmug.com/Hobbies/Covers/i-37qDM3n/0/L/April%20Postcard%20Front0001-L.jpg http://madbaker.smugmug.com/H... |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: April 2013 Postcard Exchange Participant List |
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:12:36 am
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jeannette_NL wrote: Postcard sent to Madbaker
Jeannette's postcard sent off today. |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: April 2013 Cover Exchange Participant List |
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:11:44 am
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kajika wrote: Cover already delivered out to madbaker Canada....
Hope you will like it
Great! Looking forward to it.
And I sent a cover to Kajika this afternoon as well.
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: April 2013 Cover Exchange Participant List |
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:25:51 am
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I would like to participate in April please!
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: April 2013 Postcard Exchange Participant List |
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:19:50 am
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| I'd like to participate this month, please! |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: It's our 6th Birthday - *WIN* a £1 Kangaroo stamp + others ! |
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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:57:22 pm
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: It's our 6th Birthday - *WIN* a £1 Kangaroo stamp + others ! |
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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 12:56:56 pm
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Fads and fashions in philately |
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 01:19:56 am
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| Omnibus material for a Royal event is a bubble...and a recurring one. Look at all the tat produced for the 1981 Charles & Di nuptials. Value nowadays? First challenge is to actually find an interested buyer at all. Good one! We've all got 6 months or so to figure out how to sell at the top of t... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Fads and fashions in philately |
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 00:25:28 am
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| When I read the OP, I thought he was referring to collecting fads over stamp issuing trends. One that comes to mind is the collecting of gum. This 'fad' seems to have stuck (har har) but there are articles from 50 years ago that bemoan the rise of the Never Hinged craze. I was thinking of others but... |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: What's your weather forecast for the 25th December? |
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 03:04:58 am
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Merry Christmas!
It's chilly here on the Canadian prairies. -29c. But it's sunny so might end up around -20c or so.
Good day to be inside! |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: My King George VI British Commonwealth Collection |
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 01:45:51 am
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| I'm loving this thread. My meager KGVI Stockbook will be getting some upgrades soon! Some of you might be interested in this auction lot in from Frank van Housen in Vancouver. Lot 410 is an old KGVI album with stamps. Auction ends this Saturday. Mark Note to mods: My apologies if this in an inapprop... |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Australia v South Africa/Sri Lanka - Summer of Test cricket |
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:48:56 am
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| Interesting day today for the newbie spectator (that would be me!) It appears that South Africa is just trying to stay batting all day to achieve a draw. Is that right? What do you think is their chance of success? I'm finding this fascinating to follow because of the time zones. I get to catch the ... |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Australia v South Africa/Sri Lanka - Summer of Test cricket |
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 07:36:18 am
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I'm determined to find a stream for Day 2 tonight. After our second blizzard in two weeks, I need to see some sunshine!
Question: how is this shown in Australia? Basic Tv, special pay per view channel, etc. I'm assuming you can watch the entire match and not just highlights?
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Australia v South Africa/Sri Lanka - Summer of Test cricket |
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:39:39 am
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| Thanks for that, PeterS. I certainly can pick up how (relatively) reckless T20 cricket is. There are only so many balls so better start swinging. Because the first format I saw was t20 I started thinking that the fast bowlers must get tired over the longer formats. 4 overs bowled as opposed to 25+ i... |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Australia v South Africa/Sri Lanka - Summer of Test cricket |
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 09:22:23 am
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| Thanks for starting this thread. I'm new to cricket -- Sportsnet World started showing some t20 games in Canada this year (IPL, World t20) and I'm hooked. Now I'm starting to follow Test cricket via the cricbuzz app on my phone + a stream when I can find it. I think I've figured out how a draw would... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: My King George VI British Commonwealth Collection |
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 05:25:05 am
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Thanks for sharing your collection. I have a small stockbook of KGVI issues that I haven't really added to for several years. But I often think that would be a nice scope to focus on.
Looking forward to more scans!
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 06:12:24 am
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Thanks for the advice Bardhi and Jeanette. I'll retrace the steps on a few of my chains to be safe before diving in to some more exchanges.
With 25 chains going on simultaneously I'm grateful for all the work being done to track them. Thank you.
Mark |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 01:57:45 am
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| Update on Chains 112. madbaker--- brucerob9--- adivaragan--- jeanette--- drvvr ---- valan 113.HOLIDAYS shadowranger13 -----drh ---- Teja -----imworld ---- madbaker ---drvvr 114. jeannette --shadowranger 13--drvvr --valan --adivaragan-- madbaker 117 CW DEF dannyvd--- drh ----kerailija---tillotson---... |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 08:03:17 am
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| post deleted because I answered my own question. |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 03:06:59 am
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Richmond
St Kilda
Port Adelaide
Sydney
Collingwood
Carlton
Geelong
North Melbourne
Adelaide
I'm away next week so here's my Round 23 picks:
Carlton
Collingwood
Richmond
Hawthorn
Sydney
Adelaide
Brisbane
N. Melbourne
Freemantle
Thanks,
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 03:46:32 am
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madbaker wrote: I found Chain #127, from Jeanette_NL in my mailbox. Thanks! I will endeavour to turn it around quickly.
Best laid plans, eh? It's all ready to go to DannyVd in Belgium. I'll head to the post office this afternoon. Sorry for the delay! |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 03:41:40 am
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St. Kilda
Essendon
Melbourne
Fremantle Dockers
Collingwood
Adelaide Crows
West Coast Eagles
Sydney
Hawthorn
I'm safely in the middle of the pack. I think that means I'm as good as flipping a coin. But I'm determined to not miss a week till the end!
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 09:30:55 am
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Round 20:
Geelong
St Kilda
Adelaide
Gold Coast
Sydney
Carlton
Hawthorn
Richmond
North Melbourne |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 09:28:10 am
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Chain #123 was sent 'home' to Jeanette_NL this morning.
And when I arrived home, I found Chain #127, from Jeanette_NL in my mailbox. Thanks! I will endeavour to turn it around quickly.
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 07:00:26 am
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Hi! I received chain #123 on Friday and have it ready to send on to Jeanette_NL on Tuesday. Tomorrow is a civic holiday so the post office is closed.
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 07:05:43 am
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Wow, an 11. I'll pretend I know something this week.
Round 19
Hawthorn
North Melbourne
Port Adelaide
West Coast Eagles
Collingwood
Brisbane
Melbourne
Sydney Swans
Adelaide Crows |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 03:52:56 am
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Methinks I'm too late for this one, but I'd go in the next chain too if there is room.
If not, no problem.
Mark |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 05:11:05 am
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I'm still hanging in there in the middle of the pack. Wouldn't mind moving up a couple of spots this week!
Hawthorn
Geelong
North Melbourne
Collingwood
Carlton
Sydney Swans
Freemantle
St Kilda
West Coast Eagles |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: July 2012 Cover Exchange Participant List |
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 07:04:40 am
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Wow, must be summer heat affecting my brain. Totally missed July. I will try to remember to sign up in August!
Mark |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 07:00:39 am
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| Sent Chain #114 to Jeanette_nl this afternoon. I think. :) You see, I had it all ready to go then remembered to add the Stampboards tracking sheet to the envelope (for real, the gum on the envelope was already wet), which already had some card stock for stiffness and the stamps split into two glassi... |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 06:44:27 am
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my tips:
Essendon
Hawthorn
Adelaide Crows
Brisbane
Carlton
Port Adelaide
Sydney Swans
North Melbourne
Fremantle Dockers |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 13:18:55 pm
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Chain 114 arrived today. (Yippee!! My first chain letter!)
I took a brief look at the contents and will have a package ready to send in the next day or so. It's the return to the originator: Jeanette_nl
Best mail I've received in a while. |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:09:10 am
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my tips for round 16:
Carlton
Fremantle
Essendon
Richmond
Geelong
St. Kilda
Adelaide Crows
Hawthorn
West Coast Eagles |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 02:04:44 am
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my tips:
Collingwood
W.C. Eagles
Richmond
Sydney
Essendon
Adelaide Crows
Hawthorn
Geelong
Fremantle |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Cover Exchange Group - Scans Thread Only |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 22:54:59 pm
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prabhakar wrote: Here is another two beautiful cover from Robert1
That's a very nice Olympic stamp. I don't recall many Olympic stamps that don't feature the athletes. I have this image in my head of the whole team piling into the bus in Sydney to drive on over to London! |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Swap postage stamps WORLDWIDE by a "Chain" Letter |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 22:52:36 pm
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| Chain#114: Received today(27/6/12) from Valan, Malaysia. Will leave to Madbaker,Canada, by 29/6/12. rsa Holy Moley! That's the closest I've been to receiving a chain. Quite excited. This will be a good test for me -- how many stamps went the whole chain without being selected by anyone. I'll let yo... |
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Forum: Swap your stamps with other collectors Worldwide - or GIVE them away FREE! Topic: Cover Exchange Group - Scans Thread Only |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 06:42:32 am
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| I received another cover from JonEboy today. Thanks! http://madbaker.smugmug.com/Hobbies/Covers/i-p7JHBjn/0/L/June-2012-Cheshire0003-L.jpg I've been getting quite a kick at how different countries have tackled the Diamond Jubilee. I like these stamps, although the postmaster blocked out the Queens e... |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: The Official 2012 AFL Tipping Contest. Now Open For Business |
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:55:00 am
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who hoo! Within 10 picks of the leader. Healthy in the middle of the pack. Glass is half full. Blah, blah, blah...
Hawthorn
Collingwood
Adelaide Crows
West Coast Eagles (141)
Essendon
Sydney Swans
Geelong Cats
Brisbane Lions
St Kilda |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: So I like designing album pages... |
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 01:59:35 am
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| That's pretty much the way you do it in any program. I thought Visio had a way to draw a box and have the box automatically have a top and bottom caption. If you have to make the boxes yourself, you run into the problem of lining it all up and making sure that the space between the text and the pic... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: So I like designing album pages... |
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 01:24:15 am
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| My program (the user interface is just two input fields) reads the XML and produces a PDF. I can open the PDF from the application if I want to look. Neat. I was having trouble visualizing the output format. Generating a PDF makes sense. I like the visual creation process I can get with Visio but t... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: So I like designing album pages... |
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 00:58:31 am
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| What am I using? .... my own program written with my own fingers.... Took me ~ 12 hours to write it and produces pages to my needs matching the 3000+ pages I had previously produced with Page Maker. Why? Why not still use page maker? Well I found I can produce pages quick enough with page maker, bu... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: So I like designing album pages... |
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 00:52:48 am
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| How do you do captions above and below the box? I was tinkering with Visio on Thursday and couldn't figure this out. Sorry for the delay -- I didn't see this post with all the activity in the thread. :) What I did was create a box for the stamp with a text box above and one below. Get the spacing a... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Help and direction in setting out a post mark collection |
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 04:50:18 am
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I love the common place names between countries. I'm a 6 hour drive from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It sure made me read your album page closely to see if you were talking about the same place!
Mark |
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