Mutilated and very busy card Pforzheim to Zagreb with "Gilbote Expres" German Special delivery sticker. Would someone explain what the card is about please? Of special interest was the Yugoslav fiscals? cut by the scissors with the moire protection. Anyone recognise...

WE HAVE FOR US 500 !!! ON-LINE EXHIBITS FROM 43 COUNTRIES (ALL FREE, NON PROFIT, NON GOVERNMENT PHILATELIC PROJECT) Today we add 500. on-line exhibit on International Virtual Philatelic Exhibition EXPONET - http://www.exponet.info/ 500. exhibit: POSTAL HISTORY OF THESSALONIKI (SOLUN) from...

from "99 extraordinary uses of ordinary things"........... http://cjoint.com/data/dhcW6cQ2C7.htm another (off topic) but suitable for Mr. Tracy Barber. from "99 extraordinary uses for cats"......... http://cjoint.com/data/dhc0uXyRsE.htm

The 1949 Turkish issue showing a plant with a broken stem was surcharged 20p on 100k green in 1955. I have a similar 10p on 100k green which I cannot find in my Scott. Was this by any chance one of those famous Turkey private issues of the period? Thanks in advance for all assistance. --...

A couple of unknowns, and gossip welcomed. The rhs is a 1930's non obligatory surtax from the former Yugoslavia any others in a possible series etc? http://cjoint.com/data/dgbnTHMiAS.htm Thanks.

It is time again for my one time a year post about the Quad City Stamp Club annual “Stamp Out Cancer Auction.” Each year for the past 32 years, the QCSC has been sponsoring an annual philatelic auction for the benefit of the American Cancer Society. All of the items in the auction have been...

Washington-Area NAPEX Offers Prospectuses For Literature, Stamp Competitions The Stamp and Literature exhibit prospectuses for NAPEX, the Washington, D.C.-area World Series of Philately Show, are now available. They can be downloaded at www.napex.org or by mail from exhibits chairman Steve...

Americover Seeks Exhibits For 2009 Show In Massachusetts The American First Day Cover Society is seeking exhibits for its Americover 2009, a World Series of Philately show to be held July 31-Aug. 2 in Boxboro, Mass. The prospectus is now available on the AFDCS Web site, www.afdcs.org, by regular...

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I am very interested in the overprinted issues of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia-Slavonia, Slovenia, and Carinthia Plebiscite that Scott list before the stamps of Yugoslavia proper. I would like to help my collection of these stamps along but not by purchasing them individually on Ebay. Can...

Good morning / afternoon / day, all This is an unashamed ad for my new novel, Saving Romford which has just been published. It's "hero" is an incompetent, beer-swilling computer programmer who happens to be a stamp collector, too. The stamp collecting forms a minor but key part of the novel...

A philatelically pertinent afternoon in front of Auntie on the talking box this afternoon. "Stealing Klimpt" Stealing Klimt recounts the struggle by 90-year-old Maria Altmann to recover five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in Vienna "My Stamp Collection"

http://cjoint.com/data/ddkrpKYifA.htm This one posted from Ibiza. In Spain the IFCC International Mail Post has sold pre-paid tickets for mailing postcards and letters within Europe — a small blue label roughly the size of a definitive stamp, many readers may have seen these on holiday...

http://cjoint.com/data/dddBLJ1SXi.htm Probably drawn by Stanley J.L. Simmons circa 1913 note the design of the Kookaburra and those on "Our Boys League" cinderellas featured here. http://users.bigpond.net.au/dave1/odd_items/our-boys.htm

Need a bit help. What does a "Reparto Urbano" cancel mean, in connection with a fiscal (South America)? Google did not help very much. Peter --

Arrghh? Why didn't I think of that Blair :) Philately, the hobby of Kings, and Smiths, and Wongs, and Nguens..... "Blair" I was not aware, Australia had Colonies. :-))) Peter Of course they do.

From the poster's collection. http://cjoint.com/data/cCot0OJnqu.htm A complicating factor for the revenue collector is how to define what constitutes a "stamp"? For many, including most postage stamp collectors, this is often taken to be synonymous with a sticky label that is more properly...

Very early United Nations Meter Slogan. The United Nations had officially came into existence 40 days prior. It was to be another 7 days before the first general Assembly of the 51 member nations. http://cjoint.com/data/dbfWsBqLth.htm A book on the study of this Meter cancellation.

http://cjoint.com/data/dbaGYxw5Qs.htm RHODESIAN RAILWAY PARCEL STAMPS. Courtesy of Norman Hart, an example of a Railways Parcel Stamp current in smaller stations from 1951 to 1969 in both Rhodesia and after 1959 also in Bechuanaland. There were 13 Sterling values, replaced by 9 Decimal values,...

On Feb 26, 9:42*am, Peter Baumann wrote: rodney schrieb: From the poster's collection. http://cjoint.com/data/cCot0OJnqu.htm A complicating factor for the revenue collector is how to define what constitutes a "stamp"? For many, including most...