What world-wide postal system employs owls. Varying sizes from Great Greys down to tiny little Scops owls, ("local deliveries only") ........and in that system, what is a "Howler" (Remove gum to reply)

Here in the States collectors have been upset because the Lewis & Clark prestige booklet was priced at $1.55 more than the face value of the stamps in it. I see that the new Viking Museum prestige booklet from Denmark will sell for more than $5.00 over face (DKK 99.00 for stamps with a face value...

Luxembourg Issues New Art Related Stamps ======================================== On 2004-09-28, Luxembourg will issue a set of 3 stamps commemorating the recently expanded National Museum of History + Art (MNHA). The Euro 0.50 shows the museum. http://tinyurl.com/576x6

Just curious, I know it's a Canadian Railway Post Office, but Is it a place, an area, a travelling PO? and where? The author of the photo postcard "have still 500 miles to go" after leaving his sweetheart, I presume he was returning to the US. Thanks

I can't vouch for this, I found it on another NG. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Should your dog be on a postage stamp? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:21:31 -0400 From: Mike Sellers Organization: None Newsgroups:...

.....and how Australia was deprived of a delightful issue by a change of Government. http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=462

Came accross this puzzler from venezuela. Some sort of revenue stamp, I suppose. Anyone have further info? Thanks. http://users.rcn.com/jnobrien/venez.jpg -- To e-mail me get rid of the cats and dogs.

G'day Malcolm, here is one example I have of the canceller. http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=471 The cover has gone through the automatic "sea mail" canceller upside down, it has been noticed, and 15 minutes later has been hand struck with the "Ship Mail Room" ...

This post is directed to members living on any continent besides North America! I am a member of a small stamp site. The secretary of this site often receives enrollment requests from people outside of North America - and occasionally the new enrollee enters with a main interest of finding out how...

Hi All, Every once in a while an interesting item comes my way. In preparing lots for our Club's annual "Stamp Out Cancer" auction, I came across a post card from Germany mailed to the US in 1923. what is interesting is the inscription on the reverse. It is in Latin! I haven't been able to...

Do you have some rarity hiding in your collection? Time to check out your Australians. Pick out your 1966 $1 Navigators. The 1966 is perf 14.3 In 1973 the PO decided to alter the perf guage to 14.7 This fact was not announced publicly, and was only noticed some 12 months after issue, hence no...

British Occupation og Italian Colonies 1942 3d violet SG M4 I've adjusted the colours in the scan to enhance the overprint. http://www.pherber.com/mef3d.jpg Any specialists in this area care to comment? -- Regards, Paul Herber, Paul Herber Systems Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/

A friend of mine has sent me a photocopy of an article about Mette Kirstine Nielsen, a Danish woman who settled in New Zealand in 1908. She appears to have left her footprints also in NZ-philately, since she was the one who promoted the birth of the New Zealand Health Stamps in 1929. I only have...

Hi, I have a Penny Black tied to a portion of a piece with a postmark of T.P. Cornhill (orange). Of course the Penny Black was cancelled with an Orange Maltese Cross. I just want to know more about the post mark T.P. Cornhill like where it is and if there is anything significant about that. I got...

For those who are interested in fine arts I have just set up 3 pages about Botticelli, Michelangelo and Raphael. http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-Botticelli.htm http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-Michelangelo.htm http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-Raphael.htm giving a short...

Hi, I've been trying, with little success, to find information on dealer/expert marks applied to GB stamps. The only reference I managed to find on the web was at: http://www.rossia.com/stamps/info/expertizing.htm Although I found this very interesting and informative it does not cover GB...

Hello! I have bought a stockbook with plenty of danish stamps, used, and 4 pages older stamps that are most for my connection!! I have a little problem to separate the 2 printings from first brown stamp: the "Fire R.B.S"!! I have Yvert (never the best), Facit 2003 and a DAKA Handbog (1999)!...

Taken from Fred Melville's - Phantom Philately Jacques Lebaudy was possessed of great wealth and a vivid imagination, he marked out a strip on unclaimed coast-line on the west of Africa, between Capes Bojador and Juby , with an indefinitely spacious hinterland, and from Paris proclaimed himself...

A lovely colourful, well designed set, that always gets snapped up at auction. One of the nicer sets of the Oz Catalogue IMO. http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=408

When working on an update of my Titian-page I realized that there seems to be some disagreement about his birthyear. This is reflected on three stamps issued by Bulgaria, Italy and Hungary, all showing the portrait "Flora". The Bulgarian stamp (Scott # 3216 - Michel 3531) states 1487, the Italian...