Gold Silver Jewels Etc

yikes. is ther eno way to get rid of the finger prints?

Rod,
I agree with your statement about gold and silver etc stamps and sheets. Many are quite ugly. However, if anyone here has held a 'Jerusalem of Gold' Miniature Sheet in their hand, they would see what can be done with gold leaf on stamps. Tastefully done and an excellent design, the gold enhances the end product like I have never seen before.
Which leads me nicely to.......




Spock,
Current going rate for the three items I showed are $12, $120 and $20 in the same order as shown.

Londonbus1.....Golden days !

$120 wow I will need to sell real planes to make that kind of money. why not hold raffles with a $ ticket that way we all would have a chance :)

actually no, as it illustrates ideally two of the most important
things in philately.
Never mess with something you know nothing about (cleaning)
and <that> is absolutely what is left behind when fingering stamps.

Every time you press that stamp and hinge on your album page,
you leave gunk.

I once spied this collector at an auction, lift a penny black from a mount with tongs, then proceed to inspect both sides using his fingers

wow

well if it was a gold coin I could get rid of the fingerprints if they were not burnt in

How about an Kishangargh Ingot ?

Rod,

you have mor emoney than the rest of usput together. those are so insanely expensive that I had to turn them down. they were set of 13 if I remember correctly.


maybe we can get tony to trade all his mnh for the ingot?

i should take pics of the stamps that you had asked one of these days when I feel a lil better :)

They are certainly nice, but what part they play in philately, I am not sure.
What I love is the Indian costume, probably a part of a mis spent youth as a hippie.

I remember the Indian lass who danced on Michael Jackson's
video "black or white", in traditional dress, absolutely stunning.

ok ill sign you up for a few traditional costume stamps also. I should begin my search soon.

Spock I have registered envelopes from Mongolia these are gold stamps and portray animal there are 21 of these and also from Lesotho these are gold with silver insert stamps and portray rare stamps like the inverted Jenny there are 6 of these,I don't collect them so I want to find them a new home,would any one be interested in them.
regards Harry

I would be interested in the registered envelopes,
(if that is what you meant)

Australia's contribution : gold on stamps.

Rod I'll give you a look at what I mean by registered letters with gold stamps.

first envelope is the Lesotho front and back




and these are the themes



and this the Mongolian envelope




and some of the the themes



one or two do have a crease here or there so

please let me know if you want them after looking at the photo's mate

regards Harry

Oh P.S. Rod I'm off to bed mate so I'll look in to-morrow morning

Wow. Yes please Nugget
My interest is the registration labels.

Feel free to break up, I only need one cover
of each as an example, (Lesotho and Mongolia) other members may have opportunity of having some/one.

Someone tells me Lesotho is pronounced "Le su tu" is that correct?

An engineer-acquaintance of mine who volunteers there from time to time pronounces it leh-SOO-too. So if that is how yours sounded, then I'd say we're pretty close.

C.