For some silly reason I just cannot bring myself to give or throw away souvenir sheets even those outside my collecting period (from Penny Black to December 31, 1959). I have been tempted to buy a full size photo album (some of my SS are rather large) to keep them in - the sticky pages covered...

I have quality MNH Japan stamps to trade for mint Japan Coke phonecards

Last month I was looking at the stamps I would like to add to my 50th anniversary of Europa collection. Central African Republic $26.11 - Congo-Zaire $24.48 I had a battle with myself to see if I wanted to pay that much for non member stamps. This month there is nowayinhell I will pay the...

Part of Australia's 150th Birthday. The Bridge was only 6 years old. Some things to note. You won't see "the stack of dishes" under the Bridge at Bennelong Point, Jorn Utzon designer of the Opera House was only just 20 then. The Lifesaving Issue (probably Bondi but I am not Au fait with the...

OK, a roundup of questions from kiloware that I just sorted: 1. http://cjoint.com/?mtfg5ypcWY This piece of paper has the same design as a Cote d'Ivoire stamp -- it was identified as the stamp itself by the (inept) kiloware dealer. However, it is imperf, ungummed, on roughly 20# stock, and...

An interesting pair of covers: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3502&item=5524929429&rd=1 I don't know what the PO rules about creating bisects are, but it looks as if the local post office had to write an explanation on each envelope and the sorting office to agree. (Is...

I seem to be writing in invisible ink! I draft a post to RCSD It appears in my "sent" folder I open RCSD in OE and it is there but nobody sees it on the NG. Goodness, what a "how's your father" I am trying to get in thru the side door via Google End of test

Scott numbering system is about to send me to the funny farm where all good wackos go. Example: Catalog note after Scott 2597, "Nos. 2595-2597 also available in strips spaced for use in affixing machines to service first day covers." In my opinion that is a coil strip and needs a number, Scott...

Western Australian Financial Emergency Tax 1932-1933 1d to 5 pnds. exist with opt "cancelled" http://cjoint.com/data/iEnoOq1MUD.htm

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I have a need to scan thousands of stamps. I would like to place a few dozen on the scanner at a time, and then have some software automatically ( if possible) separate the individual stamps into separate image files. Does anyone know of the name of such software? Thanks In Advance Bill

I have a few used 3 cent Prince Edward Island postal stamps from 1942/43 time frame. They are in decent condition. Are these worth anything? There are at least 3 different graphics used on them. Thanks

BOTSWANA POSTAL MAIL MAP This interesting set of stamps issued by Botswana in August 1972 recalls something of the country's postal history. When joined vertically the stamps form a map of the Mafeking-Gubulawayo trail that constituted the mail route for Botswana, then the...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/27/nmail27.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/27/ixhome.html MPs are sent letters about misdelivered mail by post watchdog - but none of them arrives By Roya Nikkhah (Filed: 27/06/2004) The postal services watchdog, Pos****ch, has lodged an...

Christmas is coming closer, so it's time for the annual Season's Greetings to this group. This year I have chosen H.C. Andersen's heart-breaking tale about "The Fir Tree" that was transformed to a Christmas Tree -- illustrated with christmas trees on stamps world wide, whatever I could find in my...

Tony here is some details on your cover. (I do note you are becoming more focused on Travancore, this is to be understood and expected, as collectors become more refined in their path) I think CMS is combined Missionary Service, and Bishop Corfield was Church of England. HTH The Rev. B.C....

My club, the BC Philatelic Society, has an enthusiastic new newsletter editor. He used MS Word, with great difficulty, and would very much wants to use friendlier desktop publishing software. Does anyone in this newsgroup have suggestions about inexpensive desktop publishing software that the club...

I'm no historian by any stretch of the imagination but doing another round of soaking tonight it dawned upon me how many different people there are on US stamps. I ran across 2 names I've never heard of, and I'm positive they'll not be the first I know nothing about, but.... Without looking them...

Canada Post released an overprint noting the winning by Vancouver, BC of the 2010 Winter Olympics, reading "Vancouver/2010", on its 48c Flag over Canada Post Building stamp (and on the booklet pane cover of 10/30) today (Fri, Jul 11, 2003). I'll be posting an image later today on my website...

Hi everyone, I would like to invite you all to visit a pair of 100% free online catalogues of Finnish stamps issued between 1856-1962. The URL is: http://www.kerailija.net/postimerkkiluettelo.php Because our site is aimed mostly for finnish collectors, the content is (so far) available only in...