Some time ago I read about an image-searching software that searches a computer for an image along the same concept we use to search for files or words. For example: you take the entire Scott, Gibbons and Yvert catalogues on Cds and instead of working from the CDs you copy all the pdf files onto...

I'm trying to find an answer for a friend, who has Scott St. Thomas 518-9, the two souvenir sheets of 15 Sept 1979, fully gummed. Scott does not list it imperf. Is it listed in any catalogue? The colors are slightly "off" in his estimation, so I had suggested the possibility of it being...

Well, Since I'm back at this stamp stuff more than a lurker, I might as well make myself useful. (Hold your applause until later, thank you, thank you...) I'll start off this round of inane (always), whimsical (sometimes) and maybe funny philatelic treasures (and evolutionary miracles) that have...

Well, Since I'm back at this stamp stuff more than a lurker, I might as well make myself useful. (Hold your applause until later, thank you, thank you...) I'll start off this round of inane (always), whimsical (sometimes) and maybe funny philatelic treasures (and evolutionary miracles) that have...

....and you thought it was safe to go back in the water? ***** This stamp takes us to the home of deceased Pinochet, it's near Easter Island and has some jokes about it pertaining to something called con carne. There's nothing funny about the dam that is the center of the stamp. What is...

....and you thought it was safe to go back in the water? ***** This stamp takes us to the home of deceased Pinochet, it's near Easter Island and has some jokes about it pertaining to something called con carne. There's nothing funny about the dam that is the center of the stamp. What is...

Lama? Bien sûr que oui! www.adirondack-pc.com\lama.jpg ***** Well, yes, that's the French translation of llama. This lama, however, has a snout like a wombat. That's not too bad, considering the stamp is from OMAN. Waitaminnit - wombats are from Australia.

Lama? Bien sûr que oui! www.adirondack-pc.com/lama.jpg ***** Well, yes, that's the French translation of llama. This lama, however, has a snout like a wombat. That's not too bad, considering the stamp is from OMAN. Waitaminnit - wombats are from Australia.

OK... let's see what artistic license one of you can come up with this issue. Rodney already posted it, well, sort of, indirectly. I'm still taking issue with this, because: There's no snow / glaciers in Oman, unless the sheik has a private and very expensive winter landscape built (hint, like...

Switching gears, we move to western Africa for this small foray into the whimsical. http://www.adirondack-pc.com/koala.jpg Liberia, being one of "those" countries that have intrigued us with one of the earliest CTO stamps, countless 1,000's of errors, freaks and oddities (this can be proven by...

PC Dummy here - Apparently, I've been using the MS "local settings" which seems to allow me to use "\" when I should have used "/" in the URL (location) of the .JPG files. Tracy

I found these at the bottom of a phossick box I won at auction. There are about 500 dated from 1918 to 1939 http://cjoint.com/data/iteKrUNIeN.htm These are letterheads, why they are retained beats me, but I'd like to know the state to which the arms belongs to, any...

Ponder this.... when a kid yells to his parents "The train is coming!" He/she is actually referring to the line of carriages not the locomotive....Rod. Acknowledgement: Mr. Dhirubhai Mehta. LOCOMOTIVES ON STAMPS

http://cjoint.com/data/kqapXrhOqg.htm Would someone help me identify these Indonesian stamps, please. Even just the year of issue would be sufficient. Thanks in advance. -- Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada http://tv-stamps.shorturl.com

Hi - I know we have discussed soaking, drying and uncurling methods extensively, but I can't recall if anyone has ever come up with the industrial strength method that I keep seeing when I sort out the U.S. stamps that I bought from an old time dealer (all pre-1965). These, most times, look like...

Hi. I may have missed a posting. Has anyone news of Mette. I haven't seen any posts from her. Jerry B

Hi, In Linn's Stamp News of 09-15-2008 Bill Sharpe, in his 'Computers And Stamps' column, wrote about a stanp collecting blog. The site has a ton of stamp news, search features and links to other stamp sites. I haven't dug through everything yet but it is great for the wealth of information that...

Hello, The United States Postal Service have made it much easier to make unofficial First Day Covers. It used to be that a stamp was available in one city on the "first day", and then nationwide the next day. Now, the stamp is available everywhere on the first day. In running around town(s)...

Hi - I am no longer the webmaster of the ISPP. There is a new webmaster, but the site has been moved and is not in service at this time. At least that is what I have seen. If anyone was / is looking for it, I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If anyone is interested in...

1970 Postal strike (11th in my (1970) postal strike set) used on cover Suggest local, Perth, Western Australia I have not seen this one listed anywhere so if anyone has seen it before, would appreciate any info. Seems this service offered mail via Concorde Lamborghini and Luxury...