Let's Talk About Profile Pictures!

Hello everyone!

I have a question for every member here who have a profile picture. (Most of time a stamp). Why did you choose your profile picture? What is the story behind this profile picture?

Here's mine: The stamp on my profile picture is a 3c Washington from the US 1851-57 issue, my favourite one. This stamp has been the first one I had in the 3c Washington 1851-57 I collect. It interested me enough to dig and to ask questions about it. And I discovered an amazing philatelic world: the world of plating this issue. This stamp also have some interesting characteristics, like a nice misplaced C relief and an inverted "11" cancel.

Can't wait to know why you did choose your profile picture!

CS

Mine could have been better as it is not particularly readable. However, I consider the cover my most important Parcel Post Cover I own. Yes, it has no, zero, none, nada, zip parcel post stamps affixed on this parcel post cover. So why is it so important?

The rules of parcel post effective 1-1-1913 at the start of the service, required ONLY parcel post stamps to be used on parcel post matter. Well, much to the surprise of the USPOD, the Parcel Post Service was successful beyond hope. The vast majority of early parcel post mailing were the 1, 2, 3, & 4 cent mailing paying for 1, 2, 3, or 4 ounces of parcel post matter without limit to the distance sent.

Here in Greenville, Ohio, during the second week of Parcel Post Service the postmaster had run out of parcel post stamps such that no parcel post stamps could be affixed. No other stamps were permitted so the postmaster marked the envelope paid and noted the lack of available parcel post stamps. Additionally the 3 cent PP Stamp was not available until April 1913 so here it means the post office was out of both one and two cent PP stamps and never had any three cent PP stamps.

Here the sending office did not date the cancellation following the directions issued for the new Parcel Post Service. However a receiving marking indicates the envelope was received by the addressee on January 13, 1913.

This is the only recorded example of such "Out of parcel post stamps" mailing known.

Wow! It's an amazing story! I can't believe you own this parcel post cover! Thank you really much for sharing.

Mine is a stamp from my plate number coil collection...Scott 2915C Flag Over Porch, plate number 66666, with an error reverse die cut (12x11). I bought it in late 2014 for more than I care to remember. There have only ever been 7 found (5 used singles and 2 on cover) since it was issued in 1996.

Mine's pretty simple. It's a De La Rue stamp from New South Wales, cut down so as to appear imperf.

I wrote a monograph about those stamps which you can read here:

http://goscf.com/t/76809

Really nice, Bobby de la rue and Walkman82! Thanks for sharing!

Mine is Scott #12, Position 23R1, the defective transfer position. It is the only major variety on the imperforate 5c stamp. There is a minor double transfer, position 40R1, which is hard to see.

There are only two recorded copies of 23R1 imperforate, in a multiple. Both are on cover, and I currently hold both of them. Top cover, its the left stamp, bottom cover, its the bottom stamp in the strip.





You can see the variety in that the right interior side of the vignette, vertically is white, and not printed well. This is consistent.

Mine is the first stamp of Spain. At the time, I was specializing in the early Spanish stamps, so this was a no-brainer. I did, however, manipulate it to appear as a bi-colored issue, which never existed.

Great parcel post item. Amazing that it was saved.

Nothing special in my case. I just chose it because it's the first stamp issued in my country on July 1, 1853.
It was printed in London by Perkins, Bacon & Co. Ltd. in a plate with 240 stamps

Quantity: 300,000
Engraver: Charles Henry Jeens (1827-1879)

My profile picture is one of the standard ones, but it is the same stamp, Scott #65, that represents the 1st stamp from that era that I ever collected. I still have that stamp, first mounted in 1976. Maybe I will update my profile picture to be that actual stamp.

My pic is of the first stamp I scanned on my Epson 4490 PHOTO back in 2009
and I have used it for all the various stamp forums I've been on.

Canada Scott/Unitrade 388 1959

200th Anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham where the British
defeated the French and gained a huge land mass north of their existing
13 colonies to the south.



I was just a kid when this stamp was issued in 1959 and I liked the design
of the 3 maple leaves which represented the French, the British and people of other origins that make up Canada.

Simply my nickname at work is Bobcat (at my current job full time job) - that is why I chose this stamp as my profile pic.

Yes it is a surprise that it was saved, but more impressive is that 35+ year friend, Rob Haeseler, found it for me.

For those who don't know or remember Rob:



We met in the Berkeley area at the Collector's Item Shop where we continued to met and talk. During that time we discovered a previous contact when I was being covered in the news and as a reporter and editor it involved Rob. Thus why I did not write "we first met in the...."

Mine is the painting The Philatelist (1929) by Swiss painter François Barraud, 1899-1934. The medium is oil on canvas.

John

I owned the stamp pictured which was one of the highest graded Scott 161's. Besides, Commodore Matthew Perry was a genuine bada**.