Forum: General Discussion
December 18th 10, 07:34 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 4
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Stamp Shows in the Cleveland, Ohio Area?
Hi Nick,
For small local shows why not ask any of the stamp and/or coin dealers
in Cleveland that you deal with? They would know. If you Google
'Cleveland Ohio stamp dealers' you will find a bunch...
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Forum: General Discussion
November 17th 10, 09:09 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,114
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Forum: General Discussion
November 3rd 10, 08:17 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,069
False Istrian overprints
Hi Tony,
if you are 100% sure it is fake I would mark them 'false'. In
addition I would sign with your initials. I have done this with some
stamps that I know for sure are fakes. This way another...
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Forum: General Discussion
October 24th 10, 08:52 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 1
Views: 681
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Forum: General Discussion
October 15th 10, 08:45 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,133
Meta-question
Hi
I can help answer questions about South America, especially Colombia,
Ecuador and Venezuela.
Jerry B
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Forum: General Discussion
August 31st 10, 09:39 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,588
Collection software
Hi Don,
My preference would be a MySQL database. Using hyperlinks is alright
but if one moves the images somewhere elese you might have to reset
the hyperlinks. I am not sure how OpenOffice...
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Forum: General Discussion
August 14th 10, 01:29 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 6
Views: 796
TEst - No new messages for a week?
Hi Victor
Where are you guys? Too many Bar-B-Ques & beers?
Been wondering myself where everybody is. Is Rodney still collecting?
Jerry B
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Forum: General Discussion
April 2nd 10, 06:43 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 2
Views: 598
Sudden dearth of posts
Hi Tony,
I was wondering also. Since February there seems to have been very
little posting.
Jerry B
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Forum: General Discussion
March 29th 10, 09:49 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 5
Views: 417
Print Error on Back_Reply
Hi,
In the few years that I have been reading this group, and posting, I
have never read anything that could be construed as stamp collector
'bashing' or degrading a poster. True, there have been...
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Forum: General Discussion
March 20th 10, 09:04 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 2
Views: 477
UN Flags and mounting
Hi Ralph,
Are you breaking up the UN blocks? If so do the following.
If you are using Scott album pages, Scott makes a stock page for the
album. Just put the stamps in that and they are mounted...
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Forum: General Discussion
February 22nd 10, 09:28 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,276
Minkus Supreme Global editions
Hi Tim,
What you are referring to was not a special edition of the Minkus
album. Initially the album was printed by Minkus Publications which
also published a catalogs, therefore the album pages...
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Forum: General Discussion
February 19th 10, 05:09 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,067
OT..New computer burped, big time.
Hi Sir Rien,
The settings that are in the 'CleanUp" utility are permanent. As far
as I know there is no other place to set them except maybe the
registry and I haven't looked there.
Jerry B
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Forum: General Discussion
February 16th 10, 10:16 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,675
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Forum: General Discussion
February 1st 10, 10:55 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 3
Views: 431
Art on stamps.
Hi Rodney,
Here is a link for the artist: http://www.aeiriz.com/html/about_the_artist.html
and a link explaining the Anunciation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciation
You can find a lot by...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 20th 10, 08:31 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 2
Views: 546
Stamps and Other Images Site
Hi Bill,
I found the hideen images interesting. My wife is from Colombia and we
found a lot of images for her town of Tunja and the province of
Boyaca. In fact her childhood home is on a Colombian...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 18th 10, 09:45 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 2
Views: 546
Stamps and Other Images Site
Hi,
The article by Bill Sharpe, "Computers and Stamps" in the "Linn's
Stamp News" of
December 21, 2009 had the following link:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stamps
I started...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 9th 10, 08:22 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 7
Views: 676
To clean or not to clean
Hi phantomm_1,
Not knowing what you have to be certified I would leave the stamps
alone. Using 'cleaning fluid' is not a good idea as some inks will
dissolve.
Also I am curious. What do you mean...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 9th 10, 07:46 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 5
Views: 560
Buying current US Postage Stamps
Hi Raphael,
You make a good point. I know a couple of stamp dealers who also buy
from Rhode Island. They get better service than that from the Cave
They say that the lady is a pleasure to deal...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 9th 10, 07:44 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 3
Views: 389
OT Chavez Bolivar
Hi Ralph,
Here is an article from Forbes about the new Bolivar rate:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/09/chavez-devalues-bolivar-markets-currencies-venezuela.html
Most Latins I know think, my wife is...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 2nd 10, 08:59 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 17
Views: 626
Ping: Rein
Hi Ralph,
Fat fingered a button so the previous post was incomplete.
Also with AOL I had all kinds of viruses and other nasties, For dial-
up I went with Yahoo! and was satisfied for years. ...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 2nd 10, 08:52 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 17
Views: 626
Ping: Rein
Hi Ralph,
I had AOL at the start and their software steppedove everything on my
computer. Had to re-format the hadr drive and reloadeverything to get
rid of their garbage.
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Forum: General Discussion
December 23rd 09, 10:36 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 6
Views: 555
Any Science boffins around?
G'day Rodney,
Best answers are on this link:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090115082449AAAKyUN
In general look...
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Forum: General Discussion
December 20th 09, 05:58 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 11
Views: 640
Credit Cards & USPS
Hi Guys,
I am not sure what you are talking about. Here in Atlanta, Georgia,
USA we have had credit cards at the USPS for a number of years. The
clerks, at least here, do not even look at the...
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Forum: General Discussion
December 15th 09, 08:03 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 8
Views: 512
How to make you own 3D glasses.
Hi Rien,
Thanks for letting us know that it does work. My friend has a
signoscope watermark detector and these filters would be helpful.
At least on single colored stamps you have a good chance to...
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Forum: General Discussion
December 14th 09, 04:36 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 8
Views: 512
How to make you own 3D glasses.
Hi Rodney,
Now that we are discussing colored filters, I wonder if making colored
filters from film could help in identifying watermarks, i.e.;
especially yellow stamps. In fact both methods are...
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