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Nice stuff, but ordinary stuff, Like the 8 bar 27 Postmark on the QV 16 pearls. ...and being from Somerset, I like the "Weston-Super-Mare" pmk (home of the Helicopter Museum) If you soak the QV, make sure cold water.
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Rod ya gotta help me out here,I am totally new at aall of this and just started digging into these albums full of stamps,,its really overwhelming but I am going to be persistant and tak emy time..but I dont understand anything of what you said there,especially the soaking part..can you help me out a bit on that and any idea on any values here? I cant see how it can be ordinary stuff rod..so old so clean and still ordinary huh?? What the heck do folks look for then in stamps? I really need to know that much,,I keep thinking I finally find something great and its not at all ahahha..I guess thats whats so fun,,ya never know from stamp to stamp..keeps ya coming back for more! Also wheres the weston mare postmark Rod? |
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you are improving day by day keep up the good work nice very nice Downy heads |
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Ordinary stuff in respect to being able to replace the stamps with other similar issues at little cost. No reflection of the stamps themselves.
Soaking. Most collectors like their stamps either mint with gum or clean, yours has paper attached. If you soak the stamp in cold water, that paper will float off. If you soak in warm or hot water, the ink will run or "bleed"
In the turquoise green King Edward7 stamp it has been cancelled twice, you can see "MARE" and "WE" on portions of the cancelling hammer impression. We know this to be WESTON-SUPER-MARE post office in Somerset, sth west England.
If you feel the samps are special, just retain that, that's called the passion of collecting, I go weak when I see Travancore stamps, others screw up their nose, It's just what blows your hair back.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks so much guys I have learned a ton on here the least few days already and I cant thank you all enough for taking the time out of your day to help me out like this..THANK YOU! All of the stamps to be honest are blowing my hair back,,I have never really seen or spent the time with stamps like this before to be honest and they are truly amazing and highly interesting to say the least..hooked now thats for sure! |
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I was going to say that that red QV stamp from Victoria had a fiscal usage. Then I realized it was a fiscal stamp.  |
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UFOAIRMAIL... the first stamp on your list is the 1881 penny lilac. To get it into context, there were 34 BILLION of them printed (around 500 million with 14 dots in each corner and 33.5 billion with 16 dots). A very common stamp but worthy of study. Very commonly used for revenue purposes (around 1% of the total) so you often see them with signatures across them. First stamp to have "Postage and Revenue" printed on them. |
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