On 4 Feb 2004 13:37:17 -0000, (Jack Dobson) wrote: By your vitriolic Considering yours is out of place in the first place... and since you have no actual personage, I consider you to be a puff of smoke, a few dots and dashes in the cyber world and 0s and 1s...

I've just subscribed to the www.allworldstamps.com site, initially for the three day free trial as it looks to be a good option for to catalogue my collection as well as giving an up to date valuation. However I notice for the countries I'm interested in (e.g. Great Britain, Channel Islands etc.)...

to the Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition this weekend? If so, look me up - I'll be manning the Florida Philatelic Library Foundation silent auction up on the stage at the back of the auditorium, near the USPS booth. As an incentive, here's the current...

Hi, Is the value of a block of 20 simply 20 times the value of a single stamp, or is there a premium associated with the block? Thanks, Scot Kamins -- Currently liquidating a collection of US slabs

I have a piece of paper that is engraved on one side with: SOTIR MANTSU. and the other side: A 3.5 mm diameter circular black stamp Value 3K with KREU 51 ZER (Grochen?) at the bottom part of frame. Has 2 black dots with (numerals) above 8 & 1 in frame

Tore myself away from soaking another load of stamps for a snack and a quick look at the paper when a paragraph caught my eye: "She* suggests that the bulk of today's excessive viewers of Internet pornography are likely overweight young men who avoid sports and who, 10 or 15 years back, would have...

On 4 Feb 2004 18:43:13 -0000, (Jack Dobson) wrote: You obviously are, in effect, a victim of brainwashing. Maybe somebody else on RCSD can help you. Could be, but I don't think it'll be you sir. I'm voting for Dennis Kucinich.

I am listing stamp club shows that are occurring in Canada & USA on my web page under STAMP SHOWS. I beleive that it is the most complete and up-to-date listing of STAMP CLUB SHOWS in North America on the web. If you wish to have your club's show listed, please email me the details. Listing is...

Hi I have a number of stamp packs put together - listed below - to swap on a 1 for 1 basis for Australian stamps, and themes - Fire trucks/appliances, cats, dogs, horses, tigers, Lady Diana and other royals (only special issue queen stamps, not definitives), disney & looney tunes. I have these...

Oregon became a state in 1859, but the mail system isn't running much faster than in the pioneer days. See: http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=64319 To bad Wells Fargo doesn't serve this part of the country any more. -a

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2982773056&category=3502 To quote the seller: "This is getting spooky". I hope the people who ran that jumble sale get a cut! Chris

US Post Office To DESTROY AFRICAN AMERICAN STAMPS! ` Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Patricia Roberts Harris are all on these stamps. ` Please forward this and buy a book of our stamps ASAP. ` The P.O. will DESTROY all remaining African American Heritage stamps...

For your information my websites "slaniastamps", "art history on stamps", and "christmasseals" will be taken down temporarily for maintenance, and will at the same time be moved to a new URL. The moving is due to technical problems with my present provider. Notification of the new URL(s) will be...

I was appalled to read that the National Postal Museum is planning to destroy the bulk of its revenue stamp holdings. According to the story in Linn's, the museum plans to sell a few select revenues to the public to raise money for other stamp purchases---a move that seems to make good sense---and...

First let me say I'm sure you get these types of questions all the time I have a book that I've had from my youth, a international stamp collecting book published in the 1930s filled with hinged stamps from arround the world. Is this a group I can post links to scans of the pages to see if there...

Pictured in the scan below are two scarce examples of the Central African Airways, Air Letter Service, Stamps, 1/- and 3/6d, in used condition. Both bear a violet cancellation : CENTRAL AFRICAN AIRWAYS CFO...

Since my Slania site was moved to a new URL some days ago, I have received a number of emails from visitors claiming that the site doesn't work in their Netscape/Mozilla browsers. The site is optimized for Windows IE5+ and Netscape 7+, and nothing has been changed in connection with the move. If...

I am putting together an article on the German "Slogan of the week" gummed labels. They were often placed on envelopes. I would like a nice one on cover to show in the story. If anyone has one and would be kind enough to send me a scan, I would be very appreciative. Herb

My faith in French design has been restored after the Warhol monstrosity. http://www.geocities.com/stamppna/

I have not read anything in these posts nor on the web about a 3 cent stamp labeled "300th anniversary of printing in colonial america" at the bottom of the picture of what i assume is a press..it is marked "stephen dave press". any clues?