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Posted 09/09/2009   12:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add sharksfan11 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I am a member of another stamp forum. One specific to WWII collections. Recently they had issued sheets to commemorate an anniversary of the forum. They sold them to the members for $1.00. SFC should look into doing something like that. It would help raise a bit of money for the forum upkeep and make members happy with the sheets.

Has anyone ever suggested anything like this before? I can post an example if you would like.

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Posted 09/09/2009   12:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add WpgLwr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sure, let's see the example.
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Posted 09/09/2009   12:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sharksfan11 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I also think it would be fun coming up with a design. You could make it a contest. Who can come up with the best design everyone can agree with.
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Posted 09/09/2009   1:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamperdude to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Very good idea. We could even exchange "canceled" covers with one another using the s/s, stamp, or sheetlet. I would be interested in seeing what our talented members come up with. There could even be an official cachet cover to compliment the stamp.
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Posted 09/09/2009   3:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, I agree that this would be a great idea.

I would suggest that this could be mailed to all members as a Local post, remainders could be sold as a fundraiser for the site itself and/or give away to new members when they reach a set number of posts.

I believe that a sheet styled much like the one above would be great however, each stamp design could represent a different area of topics discussed on this forum. While the Cinderella & local post topic would be covered by the stamps/sheet existing in the first place. Use the current domestic letter rate on each stamp. We could even precancel some and we would need to design a SCF cancel for the covers. The sheet margins would contain the SCF logo shown at the left top corner of the site screen.

The covers would have the sheet in the lower left corner with the cachet art around it. Then pick out a domestic letter rate stamp to use as well.

Of course this is $$$ unless someone here has some printing capabilities.

Mike

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Posted 09/09/2009   3:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sharksfan11 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I was thinking more along the lines of designing a sheet. Getting it printed. Then selling them to the members for a slight profit to help with the cost of running the forum. I think 1 design is plenty. If you start getting too detailed it will become too expensive to do. As well as being a hassle to get done. I think we should have a contest to design 1 sheet and let people vote on which 1 to produce. That was it keeps it simple.
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Posted 09/09/2009   4:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add warrehouse to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I was just making suggestions.

I would still seriously consider making it a Local Post which would increase interest to a wider range of collectors. Cinderellas for Expos & Philatelic groups
have a very narrow focus of collectors, where as a Local Post, the aforementioned group would still collect the sheet, but we would draw interest from local post collecters & ASFEW (a stamp from everywhere) collectors, Plus if some were precanceled with say "SCF" between two lines, would bring in some of those collectors.

You can still make in simpler form, but expand the interest base.

Mike
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Posted 09/09/2009   4:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamperdude to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a link to a poll about going forward with this idea:
https://goscf.com/t/5876&results=1
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