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This envelope has been in my family through 3 generations. I have been collecting since I was 5. My grandpa was an 1851 3cent red brown fanatic and I inherited the collection after my dad died. This is one of the best covers and there is a slave catalog inside. I am interested to hear from anyone else that is interested in great stamp covers  |
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Absolutely a great American history. Can you show us the slave catalog inside? PLEASE?  |
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I have a few of these # 1 and #2  I have been out of collecting for awhile. I worked for Minkus back in the late 60's and early 70's and sold stamps at a federated department store. |
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Absolutely fantastic. Please keep the scans coming. There is going to be much drooling going on ... |
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Here is my granfathers thing. He collected literally 1000's of this stamp scott # 11 and remade the plates. If I remember corectly [and the memory is not the best] there are at least 20 some plates with 2 100 stamp sheets, so there are 4000+ positions. These multi stamp combinations helped them rebuild the entire plates. I still have the books that show all the cracks and reetched lines.  |
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United States
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These sheets were made for my grandfathers stamp show bourses in the 60's and 70's. Here I present them again for the public in his honor  |
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Here is the last one for today. If you really like I can go through many more. The collection is extensive.  |
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Oh my garsh! That stuff is unbelievably AMAZING! Your Grandfather had good taste that's for sure! I'm sorry I forgot but-  (I was just in shock for a moment...lol) |
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Forgot this one. You can use as a #11 color chart. I will have to do more scans! All for now.  |
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Let me expand on my eloquent remarks at the beginning of this thread. These are incredible! Some I would say museum quality. Absolutely beautiful.
And, of course, welcome! |
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That is indeed some incredible stuff. Can't wait to see more scans. I'd also love to see scans of the slave catalog. I'm a history teacher & I'd really love to share it with my class. |
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Posted 05/04/2013 4:53 pm
Oooooooooooooo!
