Postally Used High-Value

It's hard to find recent high-values in used condition. Here are a few from my clippings box.

First, some Air Force One - two canceled and one missed by the marker monkey.



And two Rushmore from a USPS Box -- also miraculously unmarked.



KirkS

I had the Mount Rushmore stamp but when I tried to soak it....it got damaged...I guess its one of the unsoakable stamps

I think you're right, John. And the two I have are on a thick cardboard box. Also they're so close together, that one can't be clipped without damaging the other. So, I just cut a square from the box and put it aside for now.

KirkS,
Another wonderful grouping of stamps. The astronauts on the moon $2.40 stamp is one of my favorites. I remember purchasing it at the postoffice when it was released as a new collector. I had not spent so much on a new single stamp before, boy have times and inflation changed.

Marker monkey must have been out sick that day

Nice stamps, thanks for sharing.

I'm glad I read this thread before I tried to soak the mount Rushmore I have.

Dianne

Dianne:

I remembered seeing a list of "un-soakable" stamps printed in Linn's. I did a little digging and found it in the Jan 19 2009 issue. I found the back issues on Linn's website and saved the list to a PDF file which I've uploaded to my website. Here's the link, but it's a big file -- about 440KB, so it might be slow for dial-up. I suggest you right-click and save it to your harddrive for future reference.

http://www.mosescreek.com/soaking.pdf

If you have any problems, let me know.
KirkS

Very nice stamps there. It's nice to see the $2.40 Astronaut stamp finally. I have a poster from when they released that stamp. Maybe one of these days I will get lucky and find one. Thanks for sharing them with us.

nice high denomination stamps..the post gum reverses are better left on paper
since they are easily damaged...enjoy!

Atlas. Can you elaborate just a bit there....

do you mean POST as in post office? as in after?

G'Day KirkS,Thought I would show you a high value out of my clippings,I quite like the cancellation's on this as it's not to heavy handed and the best thing is there's no marking monkey marks (m.m.m.)


So what do you think

Regards to all

Harry

Harry.....

Nice big block of Washington/Jacksons....real paper...real perf's....will soak off easily if you choose that option.

Kirk....

Nice group....the $2.40 Astronauts is an easy soaker....not sure about the others.

Thanks Tom that's real good news
Regards Mate

Harry

Gosh Harry...

Those are nice looking stamps, but what in the world takes $50 to mail -- a jeep?

A Jeep I better look through my mail again
I think I missed it

A 5lb monster box of stamps mailed to Canada will cost you $50. LOL

Steve