Another late night - last night - always late! Sitting at my worktable last night slipping stamps into mounts, snipping the mount, lick and stick and then on to the next one. I've often faced an irritation with this because Scott (and Minkus) and probably a lot more publishers do not allow room...

Hey gang: Haven't posted here in a while - but I do read it every day. Here is a poseur that I can't answer - and some of it has been deliberately 'shaken, not stirred' to protect the innocent/guilty or mere bystander. Let's say that the following is true:

Last summer the APS magazine reported that they were going into a relationship with eBay. I note that eBay does have a link to the APS site - but the article I read said that eBay would also have an area specifically (so I remember anyway) for APS stamp sales. That seems to not be the case thus...

Can anyone recommend a good Catalog for S. America? - Better yet an Airmail catalog! Coupla years ago I bought some stockbooks full of WW airmail. This last weekend I decided to get busy with them. Thinking I would be better to start with the bigger groups, I started with Bolivia, Brazil and...

Query 1. From time to time I'll get a packet of album pages that have been ripped out of old albums. I don't know who made the albums, but one in particular has popped up that interests me. These pages are printed on very thin paper. the country names and descriptions are printed in German,...

Google is doing screwy things to me - can't reply to the original post and for the past couple of days it's been showing me only posts up thru May 26th. Dang Dave Kent said: "Ah, but Klein would have written the position in pencil on the gum, and the gum was lost when the bank vault was flooded...

In some recent email exchanges with Seb (Sebastian) Delcampe I made suggestions to him about adding some sort of translation bar to his site. The offers there appear in French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and even English, but such a concentration of diverse languages can be daunting. This...

Hey gang: Today I visited a dealer/friend who tossed a question at me. I'm afraid I don't quite understand what he was asking and it must have been apparent because he asked me to post it 'with your stamp collecting group'. So, please read the following and see if you can determine what it is I'm...

This post is directed to members living on any continent besides North America! I am a member of a small stamp site. The secretary of this site often receives enrollment requests from people outside of North America - and occasionally the new enrollee enters with a main interest of finding out how...

Golly, I've bumped into a real conumdrum - hope somebody here can help me. I'm a Scott person in the U.S. trying to buy some Russian issues from a Michel person in Australia. Up here, Down there - different catalogs - Aw Criminy! Anyway, I have a set of Russian issues from May 27th, 1957. They...

I posted this in another NG and this far have received no replies. Perhaps it isn't of large enough import to reply to, but lets see what interest it might garner here. I posted: Don't know if anyone else here has the same problem or not - but!!!! I've found that a lot of mounts are just a tiny...

Does any mount manufacturer offer big mounts? I've got a souvenir sheet that is 91 MM tall which isn't all that tall, but it is about 300 MM long. For the non-metric here, this is a tad over 11 inches long. I'm using Scott Specialty Pages and they are pretty big, but even placing this puppy on a...

I'm visiting a lot of European sites in my attempt to fill some empty spots in my Russian collection. Everybody there seems either to favor Michel (a little)or much more commonly Y&T. I see "Y&T 1287 non-dentele, 12.50 Euros." WOW!!!! HEY I might just need that one - but which one is it? I send...

We've been here before, but try as I may, I simply do not understand exactly what it is that makes a souvenir sheet! I've consulted four different Ouija boards, 6 different packs of Tarot cards and even had a heart-to-heart talk with Leroy down the road. Leroy is the one that everybody consults...

There was a dealer listing on page 19 offering lots of souvenir sheets. I ripped the page out, tucked it closely into one of my albums - but some pultroon threw it away. (Note to self - Pultroons are evil and they all must die!) Anybody - can you post the dealers name, address and Phone #? For...

Check out the following link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2955989838&category=3495 And this guy sez he's a member of APS - I think APS would look unkindly on this sort of chicanery! Handshakes, Dakota

Hello you wonderful Wizards of Philately! I've recently started bumping into "a" issues. Scott mentions them but confusingly there is no value assigned to them. So, gang - what's it mean? Is there a value? Where can I find this value? Handshakes,

In the latest Amosadvantage catalog this new gauge is being offered at about $14.00 - probably $17.00-$18.00 with shipping included. The description compares a new 'feature' of it with the Kiusalas gauge. I'm wondering if anybody here has actually used both and just how the Multi-Gauge compares...

Hey all: There was an article in the November 24th issue of Linn's - not really an article, rather a disclosure, giving their subscription statistics. All publications are required by law (here in the US) to publish this information once yearly. Many newspapers publish it in every issue - but, I...

In my mail today I received a credit card offer - actually I received 3 of them, two bearing the important notation of "Do not discard"! But I did anyway. As I usually do I ripped them in half and tossed them into the trash. I started to walk away when a light bulb popped up above my head (I love...