I have an 1897 Italy 5 centesimi green with B.N. (sans-serif) perfinned on it. First time I saw it I assumed it was a Banca Nazionale perfin, however that presented me with a little problem. In 1897 there were two "banche nazionali" in Italy, the Banca Nazionale del Regno d'Italia (based in...

I had access to a large number of stamps from a local tax collector. The trial and error method reeducated me to the art of soaking these little devils. This is the way to successfuly save most all of the SA stamps: Soak in warm water....do not rush. If the stamps do not come off easily, do not...

I wonder if anyone out there has a link to a page that shows actual perforating equipment and how it works? I have always been curious how it worked and yet have never seen any pictures or the like of hte process. Thanks Jim

Has Zorro been in town? The Catalogue references odd stamps with this mark on the back, but no why's and wherefore's. Any links with information on these? will they wash off with the gum? http://cjoint.com/data/gzowfON0mo.htm

Is someone able to offer the SG Numbers on these fellows please? http://cjoint.com/data/gzezY2M61g.htm (375Kb) I have scoured the "simplified" to no avail. The Dr. Sun Yat Sen issue (shown as green/olive) for example exists in a matrix of 75 differing values and overprints, in R China, Sinkiang,...

http://cjoint.com/data/gyoS1IEfNi.htm Catalogue blindness, strikes again.

There were no stamps between 1963 and 1966 why was that?

Hi I'll look later but from memory it is either a money order or a postal savings stamp, Art

The engraver with this issue has attempted to repoduce the statue of Caupolican in Chile. I wondered if anyone has seen it? I am curious as to what Caupolican is doing? re-stringing a bow? image of duplicate http://cjoint.com/data/gxfVkFf72O.htm

Can someone help me with name , address and tel # of the major stamp vendors in India . I understand there are a good number of them in Mumbai / Bombay . Thanks , Kam -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

I am about 3 stamps short of the entire collection of 65 issues (that were not overprinted) In the 40f olive, this stamps seems to be the only one with the value tablet printed in a colour other than the colour of the stamp (black-olive) indicating a two pass print regime. I just wonder if it's...

Anybody? http://cjoint.com/data/gxfuzxoarq.htm Thanks.

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Exhibit: MEMORIES OF SCOUT NECKERCHIEF Exhibitor: ROBERTO BASSO, BRASIL http://www.japhila.cz/hof/

Here is a question for Blair... I finally bought a decent digital camera and was able to take a photo of an interesting stamp from the Centennial Definitive series. http://cjoint.com/data/gtuzogJuRF.htm Can Blair - or anyone else remind me about the specifics of this stamp?

Here's one for you guys to ID. Any ideas? http://cjoint.com/data/gwcnWWzav3.htm Blair

For Father's Day, I received, among other things, a Stamp Decoder issued by the US Post Office. When placed over certain stamps, it allows to see the "scrambled indicia", whatever these are. Can anyone provide information on what recent stamps have these indicia? I looked at current tamps in...

Since some weeks there is a new exhibit on EXPONET: The J.S. van Oosterhoud collection "World War II". http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0103/index0103a.htm The collection has been built-up in 60 years and consists of different parts, partly exhibition collection (under cover addresses and Jewish Mail) and...

Hello, The French Post has issued a Marianne de Lamouche in silver, 5 euros face value and sold at face value : http://blog-philatelie.blogspot.com/2006/06/marianne-de-lamouche-en-argent.html Two previous exemple that I know of are from the Nederlands (2001, 12,75 guilders) and Belgie (2005, 4...