I would like to know how others like me deal with booklet singles with straight edges. Personally, it doesn't matter much to me. I realize I have opened a can of worms here that can go off in several directions but as I tell myself, use the K.I.S.S. method. You people who collect positon of the...

When I first started to collect stamps in the early 60's , I was advised not to collect eastern European stamps of that era, because the communist governments produced stamps in such large numbers and issued them virtually every other week. They issued just enough in their countries that they...

Greetings. I recently came across Wikipedia's article on private overprinting of postage stamps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_overprints. This basically entails having pictures or text rubberstamped overtop of a postage stamp by some person or entity other than a government or...

I am always fond of old postcards, it's always a lucky dip, if they come with an attached stamp. Nice ones with clear cancels I find irresistible. I have on occaisions come across "Naughty French Postcards" with buxom ladies in various stages of undress, usually with a strategically positioned clay...

Single 45 cent stamp to cost 50c 30 March 2006 New Zealand Post says the removal of the five cent coin from circulation will not impact standard postage rates, yet it still intends "rounding up" the cost of a single 45c stamp to 50c. Although the 45c stamp will continue to exist, it will cost...

Albert I became Sovereign prince of Monaco in 1889. He first featured on Monegasque stamps in 1891. The stamps were showing him, and on the right corner there is a lady. Who was this lady, a kind of Marianne? His wife? Xavier

Would anyone have decent scans (or links) of one or both of US 3c "Santa Maria" 1893 Columbus set and/or the Newfoundland 10c Cabot's ship "Mathew" 1897 please. I have the Mathew fron the very nice Canadian Issue (SG412 1949) and could probably scan the Canadian Catalogue for the others but,...

Can anyone tell me why this postcard, from Belgium To England, would be liable to Letter Rate ? http://cjoint.com/?fCqnYjVOWs

what is your most favourite definitive series or long running series? My personal all time favourite are the castle definitives from Italy. I think I must have them reasonably complete, but as I don't have any international catalogues, I have no idea. The reason I like them is simply because I...

How do you decide what to bid at a mail auction (not eBay)? Especially if you bid on groups of atamps - album pages from various countries for example - rather than specific items or sets. What about a mish-mash of stuff in cartons? Let's say the lot has an estimated value of $100 - 125. What...

If anyone can offer any ID, news, gossip catalogue numbers, links, on (any of) these it would be appreciated. http://cjoint.com/data/kmkX5ajkPm.htm Thanks

For my cricket thematic, Andorran 1970 SGF224 If anyone could assist with a decent scan, it would be appreciated. Thanks. rodney at touch88.com.au

I've got a US stamp I'm unclear on identifying. It was filed as a Scott #93, which would indicate a grill. I don't see a grill, on the front or the back, even with a light held at an angle to the surface. Is there another way to identify it as a #93 rather than a #73? Watermark techniques or...

1865 (US) Revenue Experiment Even during civil War days the government was aggravated by the cleaning and fraudulent re-use of revenue stamps, and experiments were conducted regularly toward the production of stamps that would withstand efforts to recondition them again after a prior usage. I...

Hi I have come across quite a few GB commems cancelled "Field Post Office" 1001, and 78 at the bottom. What are these, and where are the locations of these post offices? Any special value in them and are there anyone interested in them? Any help will be deeply appreciated

http://cjoint.com/?jvrd1QgqRX This is a British Guiana stamp with an overprint "Marine Detatchment", which neither Scott nor Stanley Gibbons know nothing about. Please help.

I have recently found this item in my Leonardo-collection http://queries.heindorffhus.dk/DaVinci-BerneraScotland60p.jpg It is for sure a local issue, but I have no idea what Bernera Islands are, nor where they are located. Any information of whichever kind about this item is much welcomed...

Anyone seen this week's Linn's? The article on Slania sings the praises of our very own Mette in a way more usually associated with political campaigns. Well done, Mette! -- Cheers - John Mycroft coryton_at_cobbsmill_dot_com

Rembrandt Specimen stamp This item comes from the archives of the American Banknote Company. http://cjoint.com/data/kjcdSaeLyP.htm I do not know if the design was ever used for the stamp of any country.

Hi - If there are any outstanding trades with me, please send me an e-mail and we'll discuss what's going on and get it cleared up. I want to make sure that everyone gets something out of the trade. I've finally started to look at my stamps again after about a year break in the action for health...