Forum: General Discussion
October 2nd 08, 05:45 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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September 14th 08, 06:26 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
September 6th 08, 05:32 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Help ID, please
RADA means "Council", so the inscription at top is
"Ukrainian National Council". The building is the
Kyiv Opera House.
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Forum: General Discussion
September 4th 08, 03:42 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Help ID, please
Rodney's stamp is from a set of 6 issued Dec. 1, 1948 by the
Ukrainian National Council in Munich for use in Ukrainian DP
Camps in Germany.
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Forum: General Discussion
August 23rd 08, 06:11 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Russsian Matroskie? Free Military Frank
"Matros" means "Sailor" in Russian (and several other languages).
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Forum: General Discussion
August 20th 08, 03:27 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Germany: AMG
I seriously doubt that APS can properly expertize ANY
German cancels. Perhaps if Harold Peter examines your
AMGs they might get some of them right, but APS will
not disclose in advance who will...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 31st 08, 08:37 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Censor "skips"
I imagine that different censoring operations used somewhat different
protocols, but most essentially operated as follows.
1. Watch lists of suspicious senders and addressees - always censored.
2....
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Forum: General Discussion
July 12th 08, 04:29 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
July 8th 08, 03:50 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Indonesian pre-independence stamps
I googled "Prangko catalog" and found a few interesting sites,
especially http://www.vanstamp.com/. This site offers a
downloadable catalog "Revolutionary Stamps of Indonesia
1945-1949"and also...
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Forum: General Discussion
July 7th 08, 02:27 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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British Field Post Offices
Proud's "History of British Army Postal Service", Vol. III
1927-1963, only goes up to FPO 1063.
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Forum: General Discussion
June 27th 08, 11:46 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Indonesia ID
Scott began listing these in the 2008 edition. Check with
your friendly local public library.
This was announced in a very informative article in the
July 2007 issue of Scott Stamp Monthly.
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Forum: General Discussion
June 25th 08, 05:59 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Looking for two stamps with theme...
Yugoslavia issued two stamps (March 27 & April 7 1999)
showing both a target and the word TARGET. This was
during the time when the US & NATO was bombing them.
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Forum: General Discussion
June 16th 08, 06:10 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Hungary 1 Pengo Revenue Stamp
Issued April 1, 1934 - 11 years before the start of the inflation.
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Forum: General Discussion
June 12th 08, 05:31 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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More stamp chat?
I know it's the wrong group for this, but contact me
offline if you're interested in the five volume set
"The Plating of Alphabet III" or a Fisher-Brown "The
Plating of the Penny" Vol. 1 (Die 1,...
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Forum: General Discussion
June 10th 08, 03:36 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
May 31st 08, 01:06 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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More stamp chat?
Off the top of my head:
www.virtualstampclub.com
www.stamporama.com
chatboards.ebay.com
www.rfrajola.com
groups.msn.com
groups.yahoo.com
I'm sure there are many more that I've forgotten.
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Forum: General Discussion
May 10th 08, 11:18 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Germany Scott 76,79
The bottom inscriptions are in different fonts,
plus the rays in the background are different.
Scott 76 - old style gothic font, diagonal rays
Scott 79 - like Times New Roman, horizontal rays
If...
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Forum: General Discussion
April 9th 08, 06:11 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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West German(pre-unification) postmarks
Google is your friend. (But you have to prefix the postcode
with D- and search only German pages.)
2807 = Achim (Bz Bremen)
4223 = Voerde (Niederrhein)
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Forum: General Discussion
March 6th 08, 01:09 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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German Postkrieg
Nonsense. IMO this is a very nice Postkrieg item.
Addressed to the Soviet Zone from West Berlin, plus
return address and dispatch postmark from Bln-Lankwitz
(after the June 25, 1948 start of the...
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Forum: General Discussion
February 21st 08, 05:22 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
February 20th 08, 05:35 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Forum: General Discussion
February 12th 08, 09:59 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Help With Portuguese Colonies
I agree with Tracy - this is a HUGE task. For basic
information on papers and perfs (and that's all I'm
interested in) I find the Afinsa catalogs to be perfect.
Fortunately APRL has the Afinsa...
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Forum: General Discussion
January 27th 08, 02:34 AM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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German/Danish Handwriting
Thanks, Mette. That helps a lot. As you might guess, I've
finally started to work on my collection of internment camp
mail. It's quite possible I'll have a few morw questions.
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Forum: General Discussion
January 26th 08, 06:55 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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German/Danish Handwriting
I think I got most of it - V???flyvepladsen. Possibly
the word begins Vand.... Is Vandflyvepladsen the name
of anything near Aalborg?
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Forum: General Discussion
January 26th 08, 05:36 PM Posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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German/Danish Handwriting
I'm having trouble reading the first word on the
second line of this return address on an internment
camp cover. The sender is German.
See http://www.jaypex.com/Denmark/Camps/Address.jpg.
Does...
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