Got Any Black Jacks?

I've got three Jacks (of dubious quality).



Wait, make that four of a kind if you count this mutilated Jack.

Gorgeous stuff! Always great to see illegal useage stamps and the foreign mail 24cent rate is fantastic!

stop ... explain to those of us who don't understand... what you're talking about. What's illegal, what was the 24 cent and everything inbetween.
Thanks

How about this one for margins???



Ray

Great margins indeed ray.mac!

Also, bfranton an illegal usage is when a postage stamp is used in lieu of an internal revenue stamp (to show paid revenue.)

24c rate = transatlantic postage.

Just bought some Civil War covers. The second link is a Black Jack.

http://www.buckacover.com/coverbox/...014&review=1

http://www.buckacover.com/coverbox/...088&review=1

Hey Zipper, I actually almost bought those exact ones a few days ago! Glad they made it into the family anyways! Nice stuff!

Hi ILove Stamps,

Thanks so much for leaving them for me. I'm a Civil War aficionado, so I'm delighted to have a hand written letter from that time. I also have a single Black Jack on the way. Also, I bought an unused CW envelope with the flag on it as a present for a History professor friend. I gave him a small limestone tombstone I had from 1861, and he was so delighted he took it to class to show his students. Colleges today are merely training grounds for corporations, so I doubt many of the students cared.

Thanks for the info from I Love Stamps!

Put the tombstone back. It's downright despicable to steal a soldiers head or foot stone.

Didn't steal it. A friend gave it to me. He was from Southern Illinois and it was from his family's church graveyard. It was a baby's head stone, and it was getting hard to read; they replaced it with a new one.

For future reference maybe say that up front. I apologize for my rather gruff tone but you must see how that came off at first read right?

Hi I Love Stamps,

No apology necessary. Perhaps I should have given more details, but I hate to type and never considered that someone would think I stole it. When my friend's father died and they were ordering his headstone, mom decided that the baby's stone should be replaced. It now matches the dad's. Also, my friend died in the early 1990's and his sister died a few years ago. I can only assume their stones are a match, too. Mom is still alive. She must be 100 by now.

The baby's original head stone was a small square of white limestone and the lettering was succumbing to the elements. Knowing how interested I am in that period my friend thought I'd appreciate it, which I did. I'm starting to give away my more valuable historical items to my History professor friend because he's only 40, so I know they'll be treasured. Hopefully, he too will pass them on to someone who loves historical artifacts.

Or, god forbid, sell them off for quick money. Times are tough all over friend....just a thought. Your friend sounds nice though. Hope it found a good home and is an educational tool now.

He's a sweetheart. He really reveres History (I guess one would have to, to put in the years it takes to earn a PHD). I have some old photographs of firemen when horses still pulled the fire truck. I'm undecided about whether I should give them to our History Museum or to my friend.

I'll sell the collectibles I don't care about. Old paintings, autographed baseballs (I care about these, but they should go to sports fans), Victorian tins and Valentines, collectible newspapers, etc. And of course, those covers and letters that disturb so many members here.