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06Honda
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rod222
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Australia
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 Posted 10/23/2010 7:36 pm
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To me, it seems incomprehensible,
the two issues you show, abide in the millions
in boxes, old albums, duplicates et al.
Why on earth would anyone want to soak them off?
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06Honda
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Canada
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Posted 10/23/2010 7:44 pm
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I get your point, just thought I would ask as I am very very new at stamps so these will stay as they are.
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wt1
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United States
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Posted 10/23/2010 8:00 pm
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A recent post on SCF mentioned that one loses about 90% of the history of a stamp when it is removed from the cover (or in this case postcard) from which it was affixed. The stamps are common; the postmark showing the proper use of the stamp on the item itself is not only more pleasing to the eye but gives the collector insight into when and why the stamp was used.
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06Honda
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Canada
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Gaff
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United States
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Posted 10/23/2010 8:46 pm
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Honda: Welcome to the hobby.
Enjoy collecting whatever you like, as you like.
But yes, these are very common stamps and you could find them for dirt cheap...
d.
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rod222
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Australia
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rohumpy
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United States
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Posted 10/24/2010 06:38 am
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Recently, I began collecting Liberty Series Covers. The stamps themselves are very common, but on cover paying the going rate at the time makes them so much more interesting. When you come across an unusual usage, your little heart beats faster.
You might be surprised that a very common stamp may be scarce on cover. Not all of course, but some.
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wt1
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United States
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Posted 10/24/2010 10:07 am
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Here's an example of what history one can glean from that 4-cent Lincoln stamp from 1966 affixed to a postcard from the Crandon Park Zoo in Key Biscayne, Florida (courtesy of Wikipedia):
"At one time Crandon Park also included a zoo, occupying 48 acres (19.4 hectares) of the park. The first animals in the zoo, including some lions, an elephant and a rhinoceros, had been stranded when a circus went out of business in Miami. Some Galapagos tortoises, monkeys and pheasants were added from the Matheson plantation. Other animals were added, including a white Bengal tiger. In 1981 the Crandon Park Zoo was moved from the park to a location south of Miami, and became the Miami MetroZoo, later renamed the Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens."
Likewise, on the card with the 9-cent stamp, the Sheraton Sandcastle Motor Inn on Lido Beach is now the Helmsley Sandcastle Motor Inn. (If you web search for the Sheraton Sandcastle, some are actually selling similar postcards on auction sites).
If you just had the stamps and not the postcards, you would have never known this...
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djd
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06Honda
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Posted 10/24/2010 3:06 pm
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NP Rod, thanks for the great info and history rohumpy, wt1 & djd.
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scotzm
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Posted 10/21/2011 4:20 pm
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I usually buy bundles of postcards at car-boot sales just for the pleasure of reading the messages. For a few pennies I get a piece of someones life in a way. The oldest ones I usually see are from the early 20th century... usually KE VIII. This one I thought had an interesting postmark from Truro in Cornwall. Even more interesting was the date!
Feb 29th 1904.
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PoStat4evR
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United States
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Posted 10/21/2011 4:36 pm
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I guess 1904 had a "extra" day. Nice leap yar catch.
As a side not to the thread, ALWAYS, ALWAYS leave the stamp on the piece of postal history. 1: It adds intrinsic value and 2: in some cases adds
in monetary value.
As a side comment: Years ago, I was given 19 Gunny sacks (80-100 pound bags)of stamps, all US, all on paper (trimmed). I have managed to make it through 1/10th of one bag so far. These things are a treasure trove for flyspeckers. They are all definitivies (mainly 9060's to 1980's). I am thinking of unloading them a pound or so at a time. Haven't, started to do it, but just wondering if there is even a demand? There are literally duplicates to the n-th degree. Several of the bags are just ONE stamp design. If I ever get to retire they could be fun to play with. If I die before I get to them, I am sure someone at the yard sale will get a good deal on fire material. Ha!
Anyway, welcome to collecting ...
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Maiden
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United Kingdom
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Posted 10/21/2011 4:37 pm
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I'm off to Berlin for New Year again this year, I'll have to check out the flearkets (flohmarkts) there and see if I can pick up some covers/postcards there. As Germany is one of my main focuses, hopefully I'll strike lucky
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philb
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Bas S Warwick
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Posted 01/28/2012 04:29 am
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I have thousands of old postcards and everyone tells a story.
Here's an interesting one
This is not officially a 'postcard' as such - more a 'posted' card, because it is a card with a Cinderella stamp posted in an envelope. Writer states "could not find room in your cover to stick it on......."
What makes it interesting IMO (apart from the stamp) is that the writer of the card is the designer of the stamp - Ralph Dyer.
He writes ........."the above seal is the design I made for that event (4th ASDA National Postage Stamp Show - Nov 1952......."
The ship depicted on the seal is SS United States - a luxury passenger liner built in 1952 for the United States Lines designed to capture the trans-Atlantic speed record.
Built at a cost of $78 million, the ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States, the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, and retains in her retirement the Blue Riband given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.
Her construction partially subsidized by the United States government, the ship was designed to allow conversion to a troop carrier should the need have arisen. The United States operated uninterrupted in transatlantic passenger service until 1969; since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.
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