What Was In Your Mailbox Today??

@angore

What UV lamp did you get your dad?

It was a dual wave Lighthouse unit.

I have a local stamp company that does monthly auctions. I was able to win a few nice Canadian lots that for some reason didn't attract a lot of attention.

Quebec Tercentenary 5¢. This one is a very nice upgrade from my used way off center piece that currently sits in this spot.



From the 1935 KGV pictorial issue the 1$ Champlain statue. Last months auction I won another copy that had a facial thin that I missed when bidding. Actually got this MNH very well centered piece for less.

Rest of the Canada won in auction that arrived today. My Canadian collection for some reason was missing the entire Peace issue of 1946 so quite happy with this group.

My Middle/High School on a postcard sent probably around 1950.

I am grinning like a Cheshire cat!

It's always nice to find something that has a personal connection, isn't it? A few days ago, I bought an Esperanto postcard from 1930 with a picture of a site in Japan that I visited 2½ years ago. (I'll post it when it arrives.) A few years ago, I bought an Esperanto postcard from Germany mainly because it was mailed to an address in Berkeley, California, in the same block as where I currently work. And when I recently searched for my hometown on ebay, I found a cover mailed to my uncle in 1949!

I received this fabulous gift from NB today



Lightly used Unitrade 2016. Thank you very much René

Welcome Jon...glad it arrived (as tracking indicated) - Barbu will now have his copy

Yes indeed, - he'll have no excuse not to follow Unitrade from now on

Today I did receive a bunch of MNH-VF blocks of 5 cents Canada stamps.....Ebay lot for $10.....very nice and I did not have those blocks in inventory - valuation beyond the price I paid.

Yesterday, received another lot from ebay......King G V Admiral coil stamps 125-135 and I have dups of the collection....all used in good shape....mostly VF, some F.....for $10.

The Esperanto postcard that I mentioned earlier arrived today. Mailed from Japan to Switzerland in 1930 (Showa 5), it features a photo of the Chumon (middle gate) at the Todaiji temple complex in Nara:




Here's a photo of the same gate, viewed from a different angle, that I took when I was there 85 years later:

I got my copy of Encyclopedia of United States Stamps and Stamp Collecting.

I skimmed it and not as "wordy" (lots of dense sections of text) as I thought but no idea about content coverage.

Wow, it must be Christmas! Got a gift yesterday, and received another one today from Western Australia :




Pile of nice stamps from Papua New Guinea, even some nice readable postmarks! Thanks Rod, much unexpected and appreciated

My dad always said: "when you are good to others, others will be good towards you" (in french !)

Nice stamps indeed....Papua N Guinea. I did receive once a nice assortment of Australia stamps from a Forum member (he is not active presently)