Forum: General Discussion
September 23rd 09, 04:04 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
September 23rd 09, 03:45 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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One for the technically minded.
Camborne-Redruth is not exactly a conurbation ( too small ! ). However
it was a local authority made up of two (more or less ) equally sized/
important towns - this in the time before ever larger...
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Forum: General Discussion
September 23rd 09, 03:34 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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India query. Postal and Fiscal.
Could it not also be a received mark from the company registry. I used
to work in a company where all incoming mail was "date-stamped" on
receipt before being dispatched on a very convoluted journey...
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Forum: General Discussion
September 23rd 09, 03:04 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Sierra Leone ~for the rail enthusiast.
Rodney
The postcard refers to British Railways ( ex-LMS ) "Jubilee" class
4-6-0 no 45627 Sierra Leone ( class built from 1934 onwards ).
Giving my age away, I remember as a teenager seeing these...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 31st 09, 04:43 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Using Google to complete town postmarks
I find that not many countries postcode sites will identify a place
name ( or list of possibles) when presented with a string of three or
four letters in the middle of a word.
There is a French...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 31st 09, 04:35 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
July 31st 09, 04:30 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 13
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Hungary query~transport
Philatelically irrelevant is actually my invention in respect of
myself.
If you look at the British philatelic press in the days of the early
decimal Machins, there was much huffing and puffing...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 31st 09, 04:06 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Postcards from phantomm
Just a heads up everyone.
Don't remove this sort of stuff from covers/postcards.
The Sheffield pmks are very common ( Sheffield being a very large
city). However the New Britain ( arrival marks? )...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 31st 09, 03:54 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Postmark ID (no4?) Poland and KUT
Thanks both. I have saved the Polish site for future ref.
I was 99.9% sure of the Polish ID, but I have learned never to be
complacent in these matters.
Statistically I am pretty sure of the KUT...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 28th 09, 06:31 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Using Google to complete town postmarks
Joshua
For Australia postmarks I use the Australia postcode finder
www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes
As you can imagine this deals with modern postcodes but can be used to
identify some ( probably not...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 28th 09, 06:18 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Hungary query~transport
The only thing to do Rodney with all these common stamps is to
establish a "control" set and then compare every individual stamp you
receive with the control copy for size,shade,perf,watermark etc...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 28th 09, 06:08 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Archery Topical.
It is alleged ( probably after a jar or two ) that it is still the law
in England that
"On Sundays every male shall attend church in the morning and practice
archery on the Village Green in the...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 28th 09, 05:35 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 12
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Accuracy problems
In the UK the Head Office decrees on what date stamps are available
for sale.However Humans being Humans pre-releases in error while not
common are certainly not exceedingly rare, many issues seem to...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 28th 09, 05:23 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Laos error.
Suggest this might not be an error, but a non-specific
Actually A..miniature ( yes a spelling error ) as one might use rosa
miniature (miniature rose ) using genus only rather than species.
Unless...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 27th 09, 08:43 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Postmarks~Intertwined ropes.
Rodney
These days when most people pay for parcels at the post office a label
is issued from a machine in 99% of cases ( the post office operators
actually receive more credit for machine labels...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 27th 09, 05:24 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 19
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Postmarks~Intertwined ropes.
They are also used on pension book counterfoils,to validate car-tax
discs and for any other receipt,cancellation or validation for
transactions made at post office counters. I suspect that use on...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 27th 09, 04:53 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 5
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UK Postal Area (City / Town) codes
Note that these are "area" codes, rather than "town" codes-for sorting
purposes only. Some quite large towns have no codes of their own - for
example Dewsbury (pop 54000 + ) and nearby towns of...
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Forum: General Discussion
April 19th 09, 07:05 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 11
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new to the group but very interested
I was encouraged by my parents to collect stamps "as it is
educational" and guess what - it was and still is! At the age of about
11 I could recite the capital city of almost every country in...
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Forum: General Discussion
April 19th 09, 06:48 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Supporting the ripped and torn.
I am not comfortable with scans on album pages either. However what I
do have is scans ( and magazine articles,downloads from the net, and
other relevant material ) in plastic sleeves interleaved in...
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Forum: General Discussion
April 19th 09, 06:10 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
March 14th 09, 09:00 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 10
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Stamp Collecting~an axiom.
As a generalist I would say
"variety is the Spice of Life"
and also I can hopefully pass comment on a wide variety of subjects.
Who (outside another specialist of the same subject) wants to...
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Forum: General Discussion
March 14th 09, 08:38 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 9
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British Meter Slogans 2
I think that as an over-simplification - meters applied by "franking-
machine" at your home or business have to show the value, as it
automatically deducts the amount from your pre-paid "credit"...
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Forum: General Discussion
March 14th 09, 07:37 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Replies: 6
Views: 370
Ireland cancellation info
I think that this is a PO counter stamp, the 1 identifying the clerk
( or possibly window position). I have seen these cancellations on
counterfoils for old age pension books from Ireland ( don't
ask...
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Forum: General Discussion
March 14th 09, 07:13 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Peccavi.
Peter
When talking to or about Australians do not make any comments about
"chain marks around your ankles" - especially not in a bar within
earshot !!!!
Malcolm
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Forum: General Discussion
March 14th 09, 07:08 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Marathon ~ Queensland.
Rodney
For modern postmarks the Oz postal code site will identify all
possibilities by inserting any "string" of consecutive letters. All
other sites please copy this idea. Hence no queries of...
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