Flags On Stamps.......new Additions !

Yes, I thought about it but cannot find them on their own.
Guess I will have to play around at Picasa and come up with something.
Thanks for the idea.

In the meantime, a request for someone, anyone in the USA.
On December 1st, a new Forever issue of Lady Liberty and the The Flag !
This one in a Se-Tenent pair, the first Forever stamp to be issued in Coil format.
But will I be able to get these without having to buy a coil? Often only full coils are available.
If it is possible and someone chances upon a PNC strip, I would love one. Can exchange,buy or whatever. Will pay all costs.

Thanks.




Londonbus1

Hmmm - bit too curly to be readable, maybe?

Maybe they need to be spaced apart a little.

yep - I'll have another go later.

Another slightly strange one......



Londonbus1...also slightly strange !

Canada personalized Picture Postage stamp with Canada Pictorial Cancel with flag on it too. Just got this at my first stamp club (well, second) meeting.


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Posted this one recently on the Elephants thread, but it belongs as well here, as the elephant's rider is holding the Jaipur State flag:



SG 42, the 1 Anna from the 1931 Investiture of Maharaja set

Tony - all I need is an Indian States KGV surcharged precancelled overprinted engraved stamp showing an elephant on a map eating corn and flying a flag, and I will never have to scan another stamp again

Sorry, Stampgal, the Indian States never used precancels ...

oh well, it was a good plan while it lasted...

Probably not available outside of buying full coils. That's my guess, anyway. To further complicate the matter, read this:

"The nondenominated (44¢) Lady Liberty and (44¢) American Flag forever stamps will be issued, with alternating designs, in coil rolls of 100. Since all three of the Postal Service's contract printers will produce the stamps, collectors might turn up six different collectible stamps."

Since each coil of 100 is $44.00, that means one would potentially need to spend $132.00 to obtain all potential varieties. Sounds to me like an underhanded way for the U.S. Postal Service to get more money out of us collectors and yet another reason why many of us choose not to collect modern issues.

But don't coil stamps come from a machine in the USA like they do elsewhere ?

A strange way of marketing in my opinion.

In the UK. coil stamps can be purchased singularly, in Rolls or from machines.

I had a problem with the Flag Coil series of the 50 states too.

When the business clerk struck lines as anti theft device,
was that not pre cancelling?

Quick answer: Yes, we do have postal vending machines in the U.S. Odd, though, that in the town of 20,000 or so where I live, we have only a traditional post office with a boarded up location in the wall where a vending machine used to exist.

Another local town has a large, newer post office with no vending machines. A third smaller town has a newer post office, but there, too, no vending machines -- what makes that one even worse is that they close for lunch from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, so if someone needs postal services during their lunch break at mid-day, they are out of luck.

I was at the post office the other day and had to wait on line with about 8 other people just to buy stamps. When I got to the window, I asked the clerk about vending machines, His explanation was that the larger cities tend to use them more, that they are complex and expensive and very often are out of order more than they are working, so they just sell stamps the old fashioned way (face to face).

The larger cities (where you can seldom find a place to park) are just the opposite, using the vending machines for virtually everything and having fewer postal clerks to deal with customers.

So I guess its a trade-off in whether you want to have personalized customer service or vending machine automation.

A very nice point, Rod - but to my mind, not pre-cancelling. The clerk's intention wasn't to cancel the stamp, but to indicate that it had been placed on the envelope for later cancellation.

In a pathetic attempt to keep within a bull's roar of the topic, I offer this stamp of Duttia:



(SG 10b - the 1897-8 2 Anna, Type II Ganesh)

Gibbons describes the device in Ganesh's right hand as a ' "flag" ', although it's submerged under the splodge of blue ink. The blue device isn't a pre-cancel, of course, it was a security seal. All Duttia stamps were supposed to be impressed with it before issue, attesting to the genuineness of the stamp. So this is a simple unused stamp.