Ras Al Khaima : Japanese Locomotives. A really nice label set. http://cjoint.com/data/ktlql60XUQ.htm

I had read it had been recorded, but didn't believe it. Two (2) Joeys in one pouch! I think Stan Fairchilds' UNPAWS is the only explanation. http://cjoint.com/data/iEn1rTVXdW.htm

Two of the world's best to smear on the sunblok (Both Western Australians) The other fella who's name escapes me (Gazza may know) He liked his team to bowl underarm. http://cjoint.com/data/kyiqH5I7zq.htm (222Kb) Rodney Marsh (that's him in centre) & Ian (Beefy) Botham (England) When Ian Botham...

Mutilated floor sweeping, it will be nice to know what it is though. http://cjoint.com/data/ktnCHTwdmZ.htm King V Emmanuel3, looks like rev in two parts Thanks.

http://cjoint.com/data/kmu1iVqQFu.htm May I ask anyone who has any of these Parma newspaper stamps please post a scan so I can compare the cancellation. Thanks in advance. -- Tony Vella, Ottawa, Canada http://tv-stamps.shorturl.com

(RCSD) Italy Postage Due question This stamp appears to come from the Italian postage due series of 1870-1925, however I cannot find a 3 cent. value listed in Scott. http://www.guillermojalil.com/images/16297.jpg Could anyone please give me a pointer on this stamp? Maybe it is in Sassone or

Here is one for you Rob, Jersey issue, with her original artwork. A case where a Cinderella is an genuine stamp? (I havn't looked at the catalogue, but the clock at 5 to midnight looks ominous) http://cjoint.com/data/jooeRM8Ofd.htm

Hello Ralph, For your information a collector friend in Latvia has sent me the below images of a joint issue (July 2007) from Latvia and Germany. Latvia Issues: House of the Blackheads, Riga http://worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk/latvia2007-Riga.jpg Town Hall in Stralsund + St. George Church in...

Good morning all, Just a couple of labels should there be anyone who recognises them, for any gossip or history. http://cjoint.com/data/ixbKlfAJj1.htm (they are stuck together via gum, and need washing) This is probably a central panel from a dune MS, however the image is rather disturbing.

Further to the Nicaragua thread, here is a pane of "line perfed" triangulars, (or at least, what would fit nder the scanner) Butterflies from Maluka Selatan. http://cjoint.com/data/jgdljvE3Xc.htm (large 420Kb)

I have added a link exchange page to my philatelic website. Basically, if you are a philatelic site and link to me, I will link back to you. Details he http://spaceandastronomystamps.com/notstamps/reciprocal-submit.shtml The links he ...

See "Lithographs on Stamps." this NG (forgot the (RCSD) prefix)

Why not let philately influence your gardening? need a plant as a talking point? A plant with a deep history, endless uses and a history of derring do and murder? Ladies and Gentlemens, I give you "Cordyline Terminalis" http://cjoint.com/data/kzceEV81lc.htm (terrible scan of 160Kb)

http://cjoint.com/data/lxcfS7Tre4.htm A young lady friend of mine has just returned from Europe with an odds and sods collection of postcards. She has decided to collect postcards so a scan of the back of one is the best I could do. What is interesting about this postcard is that there is no...

Do You Like Tapioca? Really? Well, you've been absorbing it, and as far as I have noted none of you have particularly objected to it, on the score of taste, and you generally pay regular dough to secure on the backs of your mint stamps. Some of you hold it in such high esteem as to...

Circular Delivery Companies For thirty years after the great postal reforms of 1840, the British Post Office turned a deaf ear to appeals for a reduced rate of postage for printed papers and circulars. And so private enterprise stepped in. In 1865 Robert Brydone formed the first of the Circular...

Cross Posts The introduction of cross posts, under an Act of 1711, was the first great reform in the history of the British Post Office. In the seventeenth century the postal system was organised in six great post roads, each administered separately with its own by-posts. At this time...

Dickenson Paper John Dickenson, a founder of the famous British paper-making firm, patented in 1830 a security banknote paper containing long silk transverse threads which could be so arranged and devised that one or more ran through each individual note. This was adapted for stamp printing, and...

Booklets Luxemburg was the first country to adopt the practice of selling stamps in handy booklets in 1895, and the idea was soon taken up in many other countries. http://stamps.luxcentral.com/booklets/1.jpg This was the first stamp booklet ever issued in the world. ] In Great Britain, booklets...

St. Kilda and the Outer Hebrides St. Kilda is a group of four small islands, the largest of which is Hirta which is a sixty mile passage west of the Outer Hebrides. The islands and the surrounding marine area are now a World Heritage site and have a fascinating history.