Can anyone please give me any information on this cover from Liechtenstein and the souvenir sheet (no denomination) on it? http://cjoint.com/data/fobXcl4Tl1.htm Any help would be appreciated. Blair

I'd like to understand the practicalities of hyper inflation. I have just seen an image of a cover franked with 750 billion marks. Just how would the customer have paid for that?

Something strange is going on the 2006 Rembrandt joint issue between the Netherlands and Germany. Postbeeld has a listing for the Rembrandt stamp with German text for 40 euros. They claim this stamp is good for postage only in the Netherlands. Well, I don't think so. Printed in Germany with...

SIAM PREUSS Peter, MAINZ, GERMANY http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0234/index0234a.htm 12 frames classical philately !!!

http://cjoint.com/data/frqAUPRKrV.htm I found this stamp in an Italian collection I just acquired. I assume it is Italian - San Marino also has an Imposta Generale sull'Entrata but I doubt SM would use the Italia figure on its revenues. An Italian bill of lading I translated quite some time...

One of the titans of Intaglio, was Eugene Mouchon. This is his last stamp engraving commission. http://cjoint.com/data/fpcC4ESasV.htm I am trying to marry the gossip to the issue. Do I have the correct issue? or was it repaired prior to release?

It appears that Royal Mail is converting Great Britain into a stamp- issuing Sand Dune State. Bad enough that there is a flood of souvenir sheets (some with high-value stamps) and that the accountants are charging large fees for processing orders (ignoring the fact that most collectors overseas...

In the last month or so, somebody posted an image of the letters "MB" on a stamp, (A violet stamp IIRC) I cannot locate it in the archives. Is someone able to locate it, or re-post the image and or the accompanying post text, please? Thanks.

Australia - 150th Anniversary - set of 49 cinderellas http://cjoint.com/data/fopSPaVLyD.htm http://cjoint.com/data/fopUiVGCnZ.htm http://cjoint.com/data/fopVJ5Dfe3.htm http://cjoint.com/data/fopWQzyoOV.htm

My granny died recently and whilst clearing the house we discovered a small envelope (4cm x 4cm) with two stamps inside - a photo can be seen he www.prestoncwu.co.uk/dvd/stamps.jpg Are they worth anything and if so, anyone care to hazard a guesstimate of how much? Sorry if this isn't the...

In February 2006, I reported that postal rates had jumped by 1800% during 2005. Since August 2006, when the Zimbabwe dollar was revalued by 1,000 old dollars to 1 revalued dollar, postal rates have again jumped twice to keep up with Zimbabwe's skyrocketing hyperinflation. (over 2200 %) The latest...

1984 A Forgery Upsets the Swiss Forgeries to the detriment of Postal Administrations are becoming more numerous lately, and very dangerous. You will have read that Italy had to scrap its set of definitives showing the Coin of Syracuse, and replace it with a new set of definitives depicting castles...

The Serbian Issue I have just posted, is a great example of the occaision where very fine parallel lines are employed. It always fascinated me, of the accuracy of such lines and why there not more errors in evidence. It turns out these are made by a machine of some sort. If anyone has any...

For Blair, in appreciation for the Cinderellas. (and any other RNLI aficionados) http://cjoint.com/data/fppPMih7Jc.htm (warning: large 300Kb scan) (Page 2, on the morrow.)

Postal clerk horsewhips Paparazzi. http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=4188 FYI "Printers devil" is an apprentice. "Hell boxes" are the containers of spent lead from type.

Just a broadcast seeking the image if any "lurkers" :) may have one, of a perfed label of "The Marquis de Sade" It was released IIRC around 1999 with the release of the similarly named red wine. "A wine as voluptuous as its namesake" .....or so the story goes.

You may find this label interesting. I am unaware of any history that goes along with it. http://cjoint.com/data/fnoOJpJmek.htm Rod

I don't know which of the three printers will produce the 41c Official stamp due out in July, but I hope it is Avery, which produces the least scrap. Scrap on officials is a problem, since it cannot be used by collectors. That means dealers have to "eat" tons of 41c stamps. And unlike current...

News on International Philatelic Exhibition EXPONET - http://www.exponet.info/ „ÖSTERREICHISCHES SCHLESIEN - POSTGESCHICHTE 1785 – 1900“ from Svatopluk PETR, Ostrava, Czechia http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0233/index0233a.htm

OK Tony, what say you. Dancing Dervish, Nautch girl or aspara" Jhalawar http://cjoint.com/data/fkocsBzgPg.htm