Pony Express

Last time I looked, around 427,000.
It started in a rather benignant fashion,
I just wanted a high resolution scan (600 dpi) of every Australian
stamp in existence, I figured with a small image database of around
4000, it would be a snip to sort Australian stamps that I bought at auction.
I would sort stamps into values, hit the corresponding
amount on the image database, and I could sort 500 stamps in a whizz,
into year sets.

I figured similar thinking stamp collectors could do the same, and there could be a culture of exchanging stamp images as a catalogue boost. I could supply the entire Aussie collection in image form,
and swap with other countries. It seemed so simple and brillant.

This never came to pass, however, and my image collecting...
well it got a bit out of hand

"A bit out of hand" - 427,000 is a BIT out of hand??? Hliarious.

Anyone wishing to swap images in year sets, the lines open

A year set in Australian for a year set of yours....

Pony Express Stationery cut square.

rod222
What database software to you use to track your images?
Paul

G'day Paul,
I keep it simple, and use the Free ACDSee Image viewer married to the Free "Agent Ransack" (the lite version of filelocater pro)
Once you name the images in a constant format, old "ransack"
will find them in a nanosecond.
If you name your philatelic word processing documents
in the same fashion, ransack will bring them up "se-tenant"
with the image file.

just want to add this to the thread.

That's an interesting illustration 19th century guy.
If you perchance had the top right example as a singleton,
then you would be forgiven in thinking that the perforating pins had become blunt.

Your example illustrates perforations towards the edge
of the sheet sometimes fail when the sheet must move slightly, preventing the pins from puncturing the paper.

rod222, what are you talking about? I never said anything about perforating pins. all I did was add a pic to the thread.

Just explaining the "blind perforations" in your image.

Well I have Tuvalu image year sets, but none have Yellow Text.

Here is another nice Pony Express stamp!



(note: not mine just googled it)

Gift received today from SCF'er 1775Mac.

The 1869 2 cent stamp shows a 1763 Post Rider, whose route was the Old Boston Post Road between New York and Boston. A bit early for the Pony Express.

Terry

Not a stamp, but one of my favourite pieces of comic book art. It is from a Buffalo Bill annual and shows a Pony Express rider being chased by what look like Cheyenne or Sioux. Not sure that can be right, but I like this drawing by Dennis McLoughlin for the perspective and the balance and attitudes of horse and rider.

Terry