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They deserve a stamp
The folk singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited this fall, twenty
years after their separation, for a concert tour of North America. I believe that the authors of unforgettable "El Condor Pasa", "The Sparrow", and "The Sound of Silence" deserve a stamp, and this *before* they pass by. The lyrics of mentioned songs can be found on: http://people.fm.uniba.sk/veres/mp3i...ondor_pasa.htm http://www.lyricsdepot.com/simon-garfunkel/sparrow.html http://people.fm.uniba.sk/veres/mp3i...of_silence.htm Victor Manta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org Art on Stamps: http://values.ch Romania Shown by Its Stamps: http://marci-postale.com Communism on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/Communism/ Spanish Africa: http://www.values.ch/sna-site/ Remove "um" from the e-mail address to reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"Victor Manta" wrote in message
... The folk singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited this fall, twenty years after their separation, for a concert tour of North America. I believe that the authors of unforgettable "El Condor Pasa", "The Sparrow", and "The Sound of Silence" deserve a stamp, and this *before* they pass by. If you are talking about a US stamp, you are forgetting the requirement that the honoree be dead for 10 years. |
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It is because I know this rule that I have (indirectly) suggested that it
should be repealed. If not, it is Liberia, Gambia, and especially the agencies that represent such countries that will continue of taking profits (plus the illegals' producers, of course), by issuing stamps dedicated to US and other artists. Undesirable Stamps: http://www.pwmo.org/articles/undesirable-stamps.htm Illegal Stamps: http://www.pwmo.org/Illegals/frame-illegals-en.htm Victor Manta "John O'Brien" wrote in message ... "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... The folk singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited this fall, twenty years after their separation, for a concert tour of North America. I believe that the authors of unforgettable "El Condor Pasa", "The Sparrow", and "The Sound of Silence" deserve a stamp, and this *before* they pass by. If you are talking about a US stamp, you are forgetting the requirement that the honoree be dead for 10 years. |
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John Dupont ,presumed owner of the one cent magenta British Guiana of 1856,
who is now serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania for murder, once paid some island "nation" (Grenada, I think, but don't quote me) to honor himself for introducing the triathelon to America, or some such thing. IMO,I think these countries would continue their wallpaper-issuing practices, even if the US relaxed the rules on honoring its own notables. "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... It is because I know this rule that I have (indirectly) suggested that it should be repealed. If not, it is Liberia, Gambia, and especially the agencies that represent such countries that will continue of taking profits (plus the illegals' producers, of course), by issuing stamps dedicated to US and other artists. Undesirable Stamps: http://www.pwmo.org/articles/undesirable-stamps.htm Illegal Stamps: http://www.pwmo.org/Illegals/frame-illegals-en.htm Victor Manta "John O'Brien" wrote in message ... "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... The folk singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited this fall, twenty years after their separation, for a concert tour of North America. I believe that the authors of unforgettable "El Condor Pasa", "The Sparrow", and "The Sound of Silence" deserve a stamp, and this *before* they pass by. If you are talking about a US stamp, you are forgetting the requirement that the honoree be dead for 10 years. |
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I believe that the authors of unforgettable "El Condor Pasa", "The Sparrow", and "The Sound of Silence" deserve a stamp, and this *before* they pass by. Oh my, I can hear those Nigerian printing presses warming up right now! Actually a coule of years ago I saw a sheet (Cindie) featuring these guys, there was also "Strawberry Alarm Clock", Iron Butterfly", Janis Joplin" Arlo Guthrie" and really baffling "Mirielle Mathieu". They'll not be done in the US until they're dead. The US has a thing about featuring living people on it's stamps and coins - although that rule was broken once on a coin. Handshakes, Dakota |
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Dakota wrote: I believe that the authors of unforgettable "El Condor Pasa", "The Sparrow", and "The Sound of Silence" deserve a stamp, and this *before* they pass by. Oh my, I can hear those Nigerian printing presses warming up right now! Actually a coule of years ago I saw a sheet (Cindie) featuring these guys, there was also "Strawberry Alarm Clock", Iron Butterfly", Janis Joplin" Arlo Guthrie" and really baffling "Mirielle Mathieu". They'll not be done in the US until they're dead. The US has a thing about featuring living people on it's stamps and coins - although that rule was broken once on a coin. And on the first man on the moon stamp. Handshakes, Dakota -- Remove "details" to respond |
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:48:53 +0200, "Victor Manta"
wrote: The folk singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited this fall, twenty years after their separation, for a concert tour of North America. I believe that the authors of unforgettable "El Condor Pasa", "The Sparrow", and "The Sound of Silence" deserve a stamp, and this *before* they pass by. The lyrics of mentioned songs can be found on: http://people.fm.uniba.sk/veres/mp3i...ondor_pasa.htm http://www.lyricsdepot.com/simon-garfunkel/sparrow.html http://people.fm.uniba.sk/veres/mp3i...of_silence.htm Victor Manta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org Art on Stamps: http://values.ch Romania Shown by Its Stamps: http://marci-postale.com Communism on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/Communism/ Spanish Africa: http://www.values.ch/sna-site/ Remove "um" from the e-mail address to reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------- When my daughter was small, she asked me what music she should listen to. I replied that it was up to her to judge but that she should try to listen to good music. After a few moments, she asked me how to tell if a piece music was good or not. To that I replied that if a piece of music was really good, then it would be played 200 years after it was written. Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:14:59 -0400, "John O'Brien"
wrote: John Dupont ,presumed owner of the one cent magenta British Guiana of 1856, who is now serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania for murder, once paid some island "nation" (Grenada, I think, but don't quote me) to honor himself for introducing the triathelon to America, or some such thing. IMO,I think these countries would continue their wallpaper-issuing practices, even if the US relaxed the rules on honoring its own notables. (from Linn's Stamp News...) British Guiana was a colonial outpost of the British empire on the northeast coast of South America. You will see lots of zeroes to the left of the decimal points in the catalog values of many of its early stamps issued in the 1850s through the 1870s. No value, however, is listed for British Guiana Scott 13, shown in Figure 3, the Penny Magenta. So far there is but one example of this 1856 1¢ stamp, printed in black ink on magenta-colored paper. This stamp is not likely to be coming on the market anytime soon, and putting a value on it probably seemed like a pointless exercise for the Scott catalog editors. The rarity was locally produced when postage stamps failed to arrive from London. The local printer produced crude-looking stamps to fill the breach, among them the 1¢ black on magenta paper. Twelve-year-old L. Vernon Vaughan, a resident of the colony, found the only known stamp in 1873 among some old family correspondence. He soon sold it locally for the equivalent of about $1.50, which he used to buy stamps for his collection that looked better than this somewhat bedraggled, heavily canceled, scuffed and clipped stamp. Within a few years, the stamp was in the collection of famed collector Count Philippe Ferrari, who also once owned the Swedish 3SB error of color stamp. From Ferrari the Penny Magenta went to eccentric millionaire Arthur Hind in the United States for $30,000. Hind's widow sold it in 1940 for an undisclosed price, but possibly as much as $75,000, to Edward Small, an Australian living in Florida. That sum was eclipsed within 90 seconds of the stamp's next appearance on the market in a 1970 Robert A. Siegel auction in New York City. Bidding for a syndicate of investors, Irwin Weinberg, a dealer in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., won the stamp for $280,000. The British Guiana 1¢ black-on-magenta-paper stamp and Weinberg subsequently toured the international stamp world, but the syndicate returned the stamp to the Siegel auction block in 1980. The successful bidder was John DuPont, yet another eccentric American millionaire. He paid $935,000 for the stamp and reportedly often slept with it under his pillow. DuPont now sleeps in a state prison, where he is serving up to 30 years after being found guilty but mentally ill in 1997 for the murder of a wrestling coach. The stamp is said to slumber in a vault in Philadelphia. http://www.sammler.com/images2/british_guiana.jpg In 2000, a stamp purported to be an 1856 British Guiana 1¢ black on magenta paper was exposed by the experts of the Royal Philatelic Society of London as being an altered 4¢ stamp from the same issue. John Dupont..... An Antigua-Redonda - 1987 - Capex $5 m/sheet (unissued) showed Triathlete John duPont Running, Swimming & Cycling . It was imperf from Format Security Printers Various Proofs are known. (I believe he paid them $10000 for the honour) Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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John O'Brien wrote:
"Victor Manta" wrote in message ... The folk singers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited this fall, twenty years after their separation, for a concert tour of North America. If you are talking about a US stamp, you are forgetting the requirement that the honoree be dead for 10 years. I think the same is true of coins etc too. Heaven forbid that someone might be honored while alive by somesuch. |
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Dakota wrote:
snip Actually a coule of years ago I saw a sheet (Cindie) featuring these guys, there was also "Strawberry Alarm Clock", Iron Butterfly", Janis Joplin" Arlo Guthrie" and really baffling "Mirielle Mathieu". Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints, hey, a scratch and sniff stamp perhaps?G I didn't think anyone remembered them but maybe myself. Its an old goat thing. LAWYER: the larval form of a politician. |
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