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Ecuador
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Posted 01/04/2011   9:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add novato to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello

Good news:
I got a brand new Desert Magic Book today
I´m ready for a 10kg Machin Kiloware,

Bad news:
sadly can´t afford a USD$110 shipping&handling

FM
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United Kingdom
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Posted 01/05/2011   03:47 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add AnthonyUK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I would love to hear your opinion of the Desert Magic drying book.
It is something I have been considering for a while.

If you cover the shipping I'll send you some kiloware in exchange for your France items
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Ecuador
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Posted 01/05/2011   08:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add novato to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello

First have to figure put how is the mean of "Place stamps face up on the glossy side of the release paper"

FM
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Ecuador
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Posted 01/06/2011   5:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add novato to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello

OK, I use the book, two pages only, and really is Magic, all the soaked stamps are flat and clean. I would try with all the page now

I needed another book, sure Anthony send to me a 10kg Machin Kiloware, with this very useful information

FM
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Ecuador
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Posted 01/08/2011   08:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add novato to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello

I´m wondering why the 16½p and 17½p are so difficult to obtain.



Yesterday I found this one, but in bad condition

FM
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Posted 01/09/2011   09:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add AnthonyUK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They are one of those stamps that are not particularly valuable but difficult to find.
I found a decent one this week after looking through kilos of kiloware.
I'd love to see some scans of your machins Fernando so I can see how you organise them etc.
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Posted 01/09/2011   09:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tomiseksj to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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First have to figure put how is the mean of "Place stamps face up on the glossy side of the release paper"


Place the stamps on the glossy paper so that you can see the images (the gum side is in contact with the glossy paper).
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Posted 01/09/2011   10:07 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't generally collect these, but it was suggested this is a variety that is relatively hard to find? Or is it just postally used copies that are hard to find? (This one is MNH.)

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Posted 01/09/2011   10:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add novato to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello

AnthonyUK:
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I'd love to see some scans of your machins Fernando so I can see how you organise them etc.


Nothing odd here, I play through the kiloware looking for duplicates for trades or my main, side-way collections. The common stamps go to envelopes and the difficult to stockbook.

tomiseksj:

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First have to figure put how is the mean of "Place stamps face up on the glossy side of the release paper"

Place the stamps on the glossy paper so that you can see the images (the gum side is in contact with the glossy paper).


Yep, I use that way on my first "Magic" soak&dry, work very fast and the stamps come flat and clean. Thank you.

wt1:
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I don't generally collect these, but it was suggested this is a variety that is relatively hard to find? Or is it just postally used copies that are hard to find? (This one is MNH.)


That is the "game", easy buy of trade a mint 16½p/17½p/23p green/37p black, but try to find a used stamp
Read the AnthonyUK post.

AnthonyUK:
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They are one of those stamps that are not particularly valuable but difficult to find.
I found a decent one this week after looking through kilos of kiloware.


I found the last after two years! of course I obtain the kilowares/lots in a very slow way. Don´t had the luck than Anthony to play with 30Kg Machin Kiloware

FM
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Posted 01/10/2011   09:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kirks to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Somewhere in the past week, I saw a news item about a man who found a U.K. stamp missing the queen's image.

That might be a lucky find...
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Posted 01/11/2011   7:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Edwin to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
So I had a good laught yesterday, I always skipped this thread topic because in my noobness I thought machine was a computer printed (meter mail) postage slip...

yesterday I was trying to figure out what my Great Brittan big black 1L stamp was and suddenly I knew what and how painful machines are to ID.

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Posted 01/12/2011   12:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


Machin is actually pronounced something like May Chin.

For years I mispronounced it like Match In .
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United Kingdom
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Posted 01/12/2011   01:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add AnthonyUK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah. Machin was the name of the guy who created the 'bust' from which UK stamps and coins use for the image of QEII.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Machin
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Posted 01/12/2011   04:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add AnthonyUK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Anyone with even a passing interest in Machins should download (and donate if possible) the free machin album pages from this site - http://www.adminware.ca/machin/m_album.htm
For the basic free album it shows the current 451 'basic' varieties.
I'll be offering free starter packs here - http://goscf.com/t/11903
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United Kingdom
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Posted 01/12/2011   09:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampgal to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Anthony - that was a great link, I saw you had posted it elsewhere a while back, and I downloaded the free "basic" pages (I don't want to get sucked in too deep.... !!)
They are really good pages, but I have a question.. I would like to print a copy of the pages without the images - i.e. with blank squares, but keeping the descriptions. Not being familiar with PDF format editing, I tried to play around, but no joy. Is there an easy way of removing the coloured images, or it is edit-protected? (For me, read "idiot-protected")
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