What Was In Your Mailbox Today??

Following on from a couple of other recent posts, I'm filling a few holes in my France collection, and this arrived today. I've been wanting one of these for a long time, the 1937 PEXIP sheet. I had some Cinderellas issued for the event, but not the sheet or the individual stamps. This one is MNH and I got it for a pretty good price. One thing I've often wondered. I've often seen pictures of this sheet as well as other souvenir sheets issued by France in the mid 1920's, and wondered what is the purpose of the three small holes : one banana shaped and two diamond shaped punched near the bottom of the sheet. Does anyone on this forum know their purpose? The picture I believe is a generic one posted by the seller, because there are no wrinkles in the one I received

I received this rather nice FDC of the one pound brown KG VI definitive issued in October 1948 (my birth year!) I don't as a general rule collect FDC's, they take up more room than they are worth, but I do have most of the KG VI issues on FDC. This one has a particularly nice cancel. One pound was the highest face value stamp in Great Britain for many years, (apart from the Queen Victoria five pounder) and in 1948 would have been quite an outlay of money, when this would have amounted to perhaps 8-10% of the weekly wages of the average British worker. Quite out of reach for the typical British schoolboy who constituted a large proportion of the British stamp collecting community, but perhaps not for a major. I tried googling his name but couldn't find it. I also find it odd that he lives in Alresford, but mailed it (or had it mailed) in Lyndhurst, a good 15 or 20 miles away. I generally find that with these self-created FDC's they're usually sent from post offices very close to the recipient's home address

Perhaps the Major was stationed at RAF Stoney Cross near Lyndhurst and mailed the FDC to his home in Alresford.


Edit: added name of the RAF base at Lyndhurst.

Some stamps I purchased were delivered in an envelope with 6 plate block numbers. Goes to show how things have changed in the decades since I've started collecting, when these would be kept in albums.

Ceylon in my KGVI collection I picked up a partial set in blocks of 4. IIRC I grabbed them because it was cheap and figured I'd complete the rest as I went. The set was complete to .50C

The key values have been a lot more difficult to find in blocks of 4 than I thought.

1 down, 2 to go

Latest addition to my France collection. I bought a ready-made collection from Apfelbaum a few years ago and slowly but surely I'm filling in as many of the empty spaces as I can afford. Here's Scott 197 which is Scott 125 overprinted to commemorate the Philatelic Congress of Bordeaux in June 1923. Not the greatest centering but still an attractive stamp.

Just obtained this block today, April 1.

Very nice. Well done.

That's a gem, Germania, looking forward to seeing it in a Siegel auction one day.

You made me snort half my gin and tonic with that!
Well done.

SG 18 COGH

Received this cover a couple of days ago. #346 Blk. of four

I never expected my thread to get this long!!



These arrived on Postcrossing cards today: