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Bedrock Of The Community
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I have worked with salt, and whilst it holds some merit,
it has limited success with the deep magentas, that ink seems
to be fragile, to say the least.
My Selangor mint unhinged in that colour, even show faint signs of seepage
right from the printing press.
Vinegar is a novel one, I'll have to have a few test runs.
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The $200.00 is now around $5,000-$10,000. And the $500.00 is around $20,000. Neither of these were near that when I sold them  |
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Well RevMan, at least you can say you owned them, which is beyond even my wildest imagination. |
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True, but I fear I will never be able to again.
I guess it is better to have owned and sold.
Than to have never have owned at all. |
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Rest in Peace
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Groan  ! 'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all' by Tennyson in 'In Memoriam' to a beloved friend, recently passed. Actually pretty good paraphrasing revstampman. Very nice stamps also. I think some of my favorite stamps are those I encountered when I first made the decision to collect stamps seriously. Canada 1971 era. Just because. |
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An easy one. It would be my avatar if I could work out how to set it as my avatar, but in the meantime a scan is below - a bit on the small side, sorry! It's the 1 centavo from the 1937 Mozambique "Indigenous Designs" issue - if the giraffe looks familiar then it's because it later featured as the cover to the first edition of Alexander McCall Smith's "The Tears of the Giraffe".  |
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It would be my avatar if I could work out how to set it as my avatar Just search out the last "Avatar" thread, a few days ago, and add your image to the end. It'll get added as soon as bobby is back. At least that's what I hear...you could start a new thread, too, but finding the last one is just as easy. |
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This was my favourite stamp for many years after I picked up the set at a London show 17 years ago. Recently, I can say I have been changing my mind !   |
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The Kingdom of Laos certainly took a lot of pride in its stamp issuance. The complexity of the printing on some of their multi-color issues would put many a larger country to shame.
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That stamp reminds me of the jungle scene in the movie Apocalypse Now. Great stamp, great movie.
Just a comment, No political discussion required! |
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The Kingdom of Laos certainly took a lot of pride in its stamp issuance. The complexity of the printing on some of their multi-color issues would put many a larger country to shame.
I agree ! I started to collect the Kingdom of Laos soon after I rediscovered Stamp Collecting as a hobby. They were not easy to come by and a few cheap sets always eluded me. Printed in France, they had the superb French style look which I have always admired. This stamp, and the other two in the set, were the key items of the 1952-75 era. Londonbus1......I still have them  |
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Like many of us, I assume that londonbus went away from collecting for many years. In my case, I collected as a schoolboy. Then I drifted away until about 30 years later! (marriage, mortgage, kids etc) |
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Like many of us, I assume that londonbus went away from collecting for many years. In my case, I collected as a schoolboy. Then I drifted away until about 30 years later! (marriage, mortgage, kids etc) Yes, exactly that.....well almost ! I gave up for 25 years while I went travelling, worked like an idiot,and met some great people. The marriage and kids bit came after I rediscovered the joys of Stamp collecting. I was in your part of the world too Spock...for a few months. Londonbus1.....and your tea is was awful ! |
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