I have just received one of these endless scams, this time not from a "prince something" somewhere in Africa, but from a seemingly Dutch person, allegedly representing the Economic Society of Netherlands Chamber of Trade and Commerce, and sent from the British provider .tiscali.co.uk. I am amazed...

I know that some of you are interested in WW2 covers and a member of our stamp club brought in one tonight that even caught my attention! It was an Australian airmail cover with a Japanese stamp surrounded by Australian stamps and postmarked "HMAS Hobart". Posted on the day of the signing of the...

================================================================ I recently came across a scan of an unusual 1930's Canadian Paquebot (Bahamas) cover. http://www.pennymead.com/images/1936LadyRodney.jpg It bore two 1 cent Canadian stamps and was cancelled at Nassau, Bahamas. It had been posted on...

"Swiss Post is working with drone outfit Matternet for the duration of the tests. The company's first drone can transport packages up to 2.2 pounds a distance of 12.4 miles on a single charge. Matternet has previously tested its drone technology in Haiti, where medicine and other supplies were...

Please label your postings correctly. If you change the subject, please give it a new label. Very often, interesting items are posted as a reply to a posting, but the subject is entirely different. The new subject will be lost for those people that were not interested in he original...

Can some one help me understand what is required for a maximum card or maxicard if you prefer. I am from Mauritius, and recently the Mauritius postoffice has issued a set of 4 stamps on Trochettia flowers. It also issued a 1st day cover with the full set as usual, but it has also for the first...

Merry Christmas to you as well Victor. I have a question regarding AOS. Most modern browsers do not support Java, will you be providing a non-java way to navigate the site? All the best, Alyn On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 1:50:07 PM UTC-5, Victor Manta wrote: We wish you all of the best...

I have just bought a copy of the Maury Cérès & Dallay catalogue of France, which seems particularly good value, being cheaper than the SG version (although it only deals with France itself) and also Yvert It seems very detailed (which I like), and wonder if anyone from France would like to...

Ooops, That should read Tom Kruse. If you every get an opportunity to see this very interesting film, don't miss it. Shows the Australia we all loved (and miss) I think this film won an award in Venice around the late 50's? See Tom and one of the most famous Mail Trucks in the world.

Here is a photo from the Long Island Railroad in the USA. http://www.bradcoweb.com/trains/lirrprr1.JPG The photo shows a locomotive followed by the mail car. Th e colours are same as those of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Blair

Greetings group. I have just set up a new account using my Verizon addy. I no longer have AOL in my system. I also cleaned the system of things slowing my computer. Desk top has only ten icons. Task bar five and start up 15 items. No Norton, Firewall or other speed bumps. I only do minimal email,...

(See bottom-post} On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:23:33 +0800, "Rodney" wrote: STAMP DEALER Stamp dealers for more than a century have been buying and selling postage stamps by the million. Now one of them has been featured on a stamp another philatelic "first". He is the...

http://stamps.ebay.co.uk/ well, I thought Ireland was part of Europe. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.sandrila.co.uk/

The is the 1996 Italian Vespa error stamp that was printed on yellow paper instead of white, so the border is yellow. According to one source their was only one sheet done this way.

Hi All The Stamp Trader List appeared for the first time on r.c.s. some time in 1993 or 1994. The name of the its first custodian and inventor are Nancy Rabel Hall. Do anyone by chance know the date of The Stamp Trader Lists first appearance on r.c.s.? Do anyone by chance have the very first...

What made me cry was both bisected half were sideways watermarks... the point of all this soaking. Don't soak, use a sweat box! Why not? I like to soak. Only exception would be a stamp I knew has water soluble ink. No matter how I took it off the paper, this was a ruined stamp. Into to...

This question is cross-posted to soc.culture.spain. I found a couple of stamps with Pro-Montepio on them and also a similar bunch available on ebay.com and ebay.es from what it appears that they are of no great value. Since they have 'sin valor postal' on them I presume they are charity stamps...

The Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service has blogged about stamp collecting. It was interested in the public opinion of the upright Jenny Invert panes. The blog generated many negative responses. All of them can be found...

renster wrote in message ... Just wondering if anyone knows of any restrictions (legal or otherwise) to creating stamp catalogues online. I want to expand my mysql and php skills by creating an online catalogue of australian stamps and allowing...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5527527147 Thanks for looking !!!