I have resumed doing a little bidding on eBay lately, though my selling has been a total zero, but I digress. I won three stamp lots and every day since I won I have received e-mails from the two sellers about every other day. Several days after the auctions I was forced to try to e-mail them so...

Perhaps I'm blind, suffer from cranial rectal insertion & my belly window is dirty or am just plain dumb, but in 2 hours of looking with a magnifying glass, a 10x loupe and my trusty QX3 (10x & 60x) I'll be damned if I can locate "USA" or "USPS" on either of the Purple Heart stamps I have in front...

Hi anyone out there used a signoscope. If so are they very good and are they worth the money. thanks

Hello, I usually lurk here, but I have a question this time. I'm interrested in how the stamp printer make stamps that won't be easily copied. I can mention a few ones (and then try to make myself clear) : - microprint (a list has been posted recently). - a self-adhesive stamp (USA, arround 1975)

First of all, I am not the seller or any relation to the seller so this is not a commercial post! Now, if you look at these two auctions, isn't the posage and handling just a bit excessive? I e-mailed the seller about this, expressing the notion that with those sort of charges they'd never get a...

The Virtual Stamp Club is now conducting its stamp popularity polls for the 2004 U.S. Stamp Program. This is the Internet, and unlike the print publications, we tend to look forward, not back. So, once again, we present our 2004 polls now rather than a year from now, after the stamps have been...

Dear Friends, A friend of mine have asked me which European monarch at one time held the world record for smoking 240 cigarettes in a single day - and had a special stamp issued in commemoration of this "feat"? I think it's a joke of some kind and neither the Danish king Frederik IX (he was a...

Hello To All..... I really had second thoughts about posting to this news group but my curosity has gotten the best of me and after doing a search and not finding the info..... here goes: Does anyone know if the "good", "reverend", "arch bishop" DeRochambeau (what a goof) is still alive. I have...

I know that the APC owner died last year and his company was purchased and moved to Raleigh early this year, but are they still in business? Their website has not been updated in several months, and the listed e-mail addresses and telephone numbers are d/c'd. David Lobdell Simple Country...

I've been able to locate a number of stamps in my small Canadian collection on the Canadian Postal Archives web site (great site) however I'm wondering what the Source: POSTAL #### (number) means? Its not a Scott number. Is it another common identifier or is it something unique to the Canadian...

Not connected with seller, not commercial post. Anyone have an idea what happened here? Looks like part was not printed, but would this be something that was waste and not an issued stamp? Has there been any incidences of inks on this issue fading completely or being removed? Or... the bottom...

I would appreciate information about collecting the postage stamps issued by the Republic of India. As a long-time collector of worldwide stamps, it is impossible to "complete" the entire World, so from time to time my efforts are focused on specific areas. Several years ago, UNESCO data...

http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=164 -- (Remove gum to reply)

A new Aust MS is Imminent. The $1 issue features a John Glover Painting circa 1830 of Hobart from Kangaroo point. http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=172 80 years later, John Watt Beattie took some photographs which were featured on the 1899-1912 def, being the...

From the November 2003 issue of Scott Stamp Monthly, this cutline appears under under a stamp illustration for an accompanying story: "PostEurop assembly delegates recently selected Monaco's 50-cent stamp as the most beautiful Europa issue of 2003." The stamp reproduces the image from a 1951...

I would like to mount my cancelled Italian Castles (Scott type A717) in the appropriate locations on a map of Italy with short notes about each. I notice I an missing quite a few (including coils) and was wondering if anyone out there is interested in selling/trading any cancelled extras...

Old goat needs help - maybe I've missed it in there, however: Scott Specialized but probably any of the Scott Catalogues - If a stamp has two different perfs, say for example 11.25 x 10.75, which is the horizonal reading, the 1st or the 2nd? I'm trying to establish the difference between a 3784 &...

For those who have the list I complied and offered free, add another to the list, Football Heroes, Scott 3808-11. Hidden image of a football player in a corner of the stamp. You'll need the special viewer available from the USPS to see them. If I've counted correctly, that makes 312 stamps so...

How about an rcsd awards like the Oscars for an original album page design or for that matter any page of stamps, stamp, or philatelic item. Someone with a great deal of server space can host the entries. The page would have to be an actual album page with stamps on it, not a webpage. A few...

Got it this time (and the others now) - I'll respond properly tomorrow. All the best, Bob Watson For links to all the album pages submitted for the "RCSD Album Page Award" see: http://www3.sympatico.ca/bobwatson10/rcsd-albumpage/index.html