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New Website! Emrick Cachets
To all Collectors of Hand Painted First Day Covers and "Add-Ons" -
please take a moment to look at my new website. I've been selling on eBay and will continue there but thought I'd try going on my own to see if I can build a stronger customer base. All my work is hand drawn (most have the base original art "keyline" printed lightly on my computer printer) - then each is hand painted signed and numbered. Please, take a look and let me know what you think! www.emrickcachets.com Thanks for your time! Bob Emrick |
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New Website! Emrick Cachets
EmrickCachets wrote:
To all Collectors of Hand Painted First Day Covers and "Add-Ons" - please take a moment to look at my new website. I've been selling on eBay and will continue there but thought I'd try going on my own to see if I can build a stronger customer base. All my work is hand drawn (most have the base original art "keyline" printed lightly on my computer printer) - then each is hand painted signed and numbered. Please, take a look and let me know what you think! www.emrickcachets.com Thanks for your time! Bob Emrick Is this another advert? Perhaps I'm just over sensitive, after all Boob is asking for feedback!!! -- John Taormina The MIDDLE-AGED one To email me you must remove "notme" and "jack" |
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New Website! Emrick Cachets
John,
I guess I have to admit that this IS an ad... If this goes against the group rules I was unaware... I know as a collector myself I am always glad to learn of a new source for quality covers... and really thought this group would appreciate the opportunity to just take a look. I did not join JUST to advertise... hope to get to know some collectors out there. Thanks for your input. Bob *(I tried to delete the "notme" and "jack" from your email - would not delete...???) John Taormina wrote: EmrickCachets wrote: To all Collectors of Hand Painted First Day Covers and "Add-Ons" - please take a moment to look at my new website. I've been selling on eBay and will continue there but thought I'd try going on my own to see if I can build a stronger customer base. All my work is hand drawn (most have the base original art "keyline" printed lightly on my computer printer) - then each is hand painted signed and numbered. Please, take a look and let me know what you think! www.emrickcachets.com Thanks for your time! Bob Emrick Is this another advert? Perhaps I'm just over sensitive, after all Boob is asking for feedback!!! -- John Taormina The MIDDLE-AGED one To email me you must remove "notme" and "jack" |
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New Website! Emrick Cachets
Questions of the propriety of Bob Emrick's post aside, I'd like to
comment on his covers, which are undeniably attractive, as in "Wow! Those are nice!" However, I have to take issue with one of his offers, "Naval Ship Add-On" (see http://www.emrickcachets.com/id78.html). While the results are impressive (he is a talented artist), I am less than impressed with the thought of "upgrading" postal artifacts, regardless of how plain they are. To a postal history collector, such additions to a cover, regardless of how attractive they are, largely destroy the historic and philatelic value of the cover. The point of postal history collecting is not to beautify old covers, but to recognize their historic value in building up a picture of the events and circumstances in which they were created. I recognize the argument that many "ship covers" are philatelic in the extreme, and are also about as exciting to look at as a fast-food cash receipt. But if I had such a cover dated on the day Saigon fell to the Communists, or the first day of the Tet Offensive, or the days that the Turner Joy and Maddox were supposedly attacked, I would certainly not want it defaced by add-on art years after the event. Having said that, I will also say that I am most impressed by Bob's work, and even have an idea for a cachet to present to him. Bob Ingraham John, I guess I have to admit that this IS an ad... If this goes against the group rules I was unaware... I know as a collector myself I am always glad to learn of a new source for quality covers... and really thought this group would appreciate the opportunity to just take a look. I did not join JUST to advertise... hope to get to know some collectors out there. Thanks for your input. Bob *(I tried to delete the "notme" and "jack" from your email - would not delete...???) John Taormina wrote: EmrickCachets wrote: To all Collectors of Hand Painted First Day Covers and "Add-Ons" - please take a moment to look at my new website. I've been selling on eBay and will continue there but thought I'd try going on my own to see if I can build a stronger customer base. All my work is hand drawn (most have the base original art "keyline" printed lightly on my computer printer) - then each is hand painted signed and numbered. Please, take a look and let me know what you think! www.emrickcachets.com Thanks for your time! Bob Emrick Is this another advert? Perhaps I'm just over sensitive, after all Boob is asking for feedback!!! -- John Taormina The MIDDLE-AGED one To email me you must remove "notme" and "jack" |
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New Website! Emrick Cachets
Bob,
Thank you for your response. As an avid collector of First Day Covers and Historic Covers (and Stamps) I must agree with your view... There are MANY such covers that I would not personally want to change in any way. There are MANY in my own collection that will definitely NOT be "Added-On" with cachets. However, there are thousands out there that have little significance historically and my offer is basically aimed at those... there are also many "non-philatelic" (non-stamp collectors) folks who have such covers just setting in the attic that could be made into something "special" that can be framed and displayed or included in a Memorbilia Collection of the USS *_____ (whatever ship they may have served on). Thank you for your kind words about the artwork... I always put my best efforts into each one. As you can see by looking through my website MOST of my work IS done on NEW stamp issues as they come out each year. I just had a couple of "non-descript" USS Newport News Covers (I served on this Heavy Cruiser in Vietnam - 1967-68) that I wanted to dress up and the thought came to me that just maybe other Ex-Crewmembers of various ships would like to have something like this. Again, thank you for taking the time to look and I DO appreciate your comments. Bob Emrick Bobstamp wrote: Questions of the propriety of Bob Emrick's post aside, I'd like to comment on his covers, which are undeniably attractive, as in "Wow! Those are nice!" However, I have to take issue with one of his offers, "Naval Ship Add-On" (see http://www.emrickcachets.com/id78.html). While the results are impressive (he is a talented artist), I am less than impressed with the thought of "upgrading" postal artifacts, regardless of how plain they are. To a postal history collector, such additions to a cover, regardless of how attractive they are, largely destroy the historic and philatelic value of the cover. The point of postal history collecting is not to beautify old covers, but to recognize their historic value in building up a picture of the events and circumstances in which they were created. I recognize the argument that many "ship covers" are philatelic in the extreme, and are also about as exciting to look at as a fast-food cash receipt. But if I had such a cover dated on the day Saigon fell to the Communists, or the first day of the Tet Offensive, or the days that the Turner Joy and Maddox were supposedly attacked, I would certainly not want it defaced by add-on art years after the event. Having said that, I will also say that I am most impressed by Bob's work, and even have an idea for a cachet to present to him. Bob Ingraham John, I guess I have to admit that this IS an ad... If this goes against the group rules I was unaware... I know as a collector myself I am always glad to learn of a new source for quality covers... and really thought this group would appreciate the opportunity to just take a look. I did not join JUST to advertise... hope to get to know some collectors out there. Thanks for your input. Bob *(I tried to delete the "notme" and "jack" from your email - would not delete...???) John Taormina wrote: EmrickCachets wrote: To all Collectors of Hand Painted First Day Covers and "Add-Ons" - please take a moment to look at my new website. I've been selling on eBay and will continue there but thought I'd try going on my own to see if I can build a stronger customer base. All my work is hand drawn (most have the base original art "keyline" printed lightly on my computer printer) - then each is hand painted signed and numbered. Please, take a look and let me know what you think! www.emrickcachets.com Thanks for your time! Bob Emrick Is this another advert? Perhaps I'm just over sensitive, after all Boob is asking for feedback!!! -- John Taormina The MIDDLE-AGED one To email me you must remove "notme" and "jack" |
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