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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Aust Post's $100 prize for the Month's most helpful tip/post |
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 01:18:01 am
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| I would also like to nominate birder for March for his new thread that brings meaning to some of the most mysterious stamps ever printed. "Spotting Anna" - - Learning Urdu through stamps http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=44570 A rare opportunity to learn from someone who ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: "Spotting Anna" - - Learning Urdu through stamps |
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Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 15:24:00 pm
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Jaipur Paav Anna.
I really enjoyed studying your excellent thread. Thanks Birder. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:25:48 am
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A basic question please:
Of the four known Charkhari State post offices (according to the India State Gazetteer -- Charkhari (Maharajnagar), Isanagar, Ranipur and Chandla -- are any postmarks known other than Charkhari? |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 09:08:33 am
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| In this regard, I still haven't found Isanagar/Esanagar, which had a Charkhari State PO, on my map. It may be in some isolated enclave, or it may have had an alternative name, too. It might even be 'Nowgong' Here is Isanagar in relation to Charkhari town and Nowgong: http://i1002.photobucket.com/al... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 07:17:25 am
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Yes, Morocco, Cherifien or Sultan’s Post
The negative octagonal marks were placed on paid mail. They read “PROTECTED / (town name) / BY GOD.†|
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Need help identifying Turkish(?) cancellation |
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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 04:56:14 am
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| Looks like Der Saadet (در سعادت) which is another name used for Istanbul. |
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Forum: Share with others here your NICE looking stamp and cover images etc. Topic: My Bonai indian state revenue exhibit |
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Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 06:13:39 am
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An amazing exhibit of most elusive material.
I appreciated the write-ups of the complete documents, and the detailed study of "typographic errors."
Congratulations. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India stamp cancellations. Renouf Type 7, "Spider Web" |
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:30:52 am
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| http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r594/coinman88/renoufcover-4-a.jpg I did notice the interesting Calcutta octagonal receiving stamp on the Rangoon cover. The double-circle receiving stamp on this cover is the type usually found on Bengal Circle covers. I assume it is CAL G.P.O. The octagonal sha... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India stamp cancellations. Renouf Type 7, "Spider Web" |
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 08:02:02 am
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| In the 1870s the mail contract between Calcutta and Rangoon was carried by the British India Steam Navigation Company with weekly departures. The company was registered in Glascow in 1856 as the Calcutta & Burmah Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. If the letter "missed" the boat it could easily... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 17:07:49 pm
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| http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg290/tonymacg/Jaipur/IndiawithJaipurCDSscover-back_zpsd731cbc8.jpg The CDSs are a bit faint, but they do show that Niwai and Jaipur RMS were still using the old Jaipur implements in April 1950. (The Jaipur Rajasthan overprints were invalidated from 1 April 1950.)... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India stamp cancellations. Renouf Type 7, "Spider Web" |
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 06:54:54 am
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| To quote from F. E. Wood's The Postage Stamps of the Federated Malay States... : "Mr. Renouf says that Type III cancellation is seen on stamps of East India from 1863 to 1867, concurrently with Type II." Type II being the Renouf Type 7 and Type III being the duplex. Also: "... in fact... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India stamp cancellations. Renouf Type 7, "Spider Web" |
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 13:12:19 pm
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| Birder, here's the entry from Martin's Numbers in Early Indian Cancellations 1855-1884. I am not sure if he is saying that 107 as a T7 postmark was issued in error to Chaunpore/Chandpore or there was a error in the listing of 1864. 107 Ghattaul (Hooghly) 10/55 g. Chaunpore ERROR in issue (1864) See ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India stamp cancellations. Renouf Type 7, "Spider Web" |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 16:28:36 pm
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| Birder, you are a member of the ISC. Check the list of pre-independence India post offices that is in with the Handbook of Indian Philately that is on the ISC web site. They list Chaunpore/Chandpore/Chandipur as spellings of the same place in the Bengal circle with the numeric postmark 107. If this ... |
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Forum: Cinderellas etc - all the stamps that are NOT regular postage stamp related Topic: Indian stamp UGLIES - - Keeping it simple for beginners |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 07:22:19 am
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Could it be a printing setoff where a sheet hot off the printing press is still wet when the next sheet is placed on top of it? The images from the bottom sheet can transfer to the sheet on top.
The black surcharge, added at a later time, would not appear on the back image. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India stamp cancellations. Renouf Type 7, "Spider Web" |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 07:10:37 am
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| B107 would be Chandipur in the Balasore District. |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: 1901 Postcard Transvaal to Vienna - assessed at Letter Rate? |
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 08:22:48 am
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| While true that the wording of "Universal Postal Union" and about the address side were to be on international postcards under UPU rules, the following exception is in the treaty: "When the sender uses for a place abroad an inland postcard, the card is forwarded provided it bears the ... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: 1901 Postcard Transvaal to Vienna - assessed at Letter Rate? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 09:59:47 am
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| But Ian I didn't know about the 5 words rule - is there a reference maybe? From the UPU Postal Convention of 1897: 3. Printed papers of which the text has been modified after printing, either by hand, or by means of a mechanical process, or bears any marks whatever capable of constituting a convent... |
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Forum: Cinderellas etc - all the stamps that are NOT regular postage stamp related Topic: Indian state revenue stamps, and stamped papers |
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 15:23:22 pm
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| According to the Mahi Kantha Directory (1922), Sudasna was a 4th class taluka in the Mahi Kantha Agency consisting of 24 villages. Idar was part of this agency and covered the majority of the territory. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 05:40:51 am
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| World Meter Stamps has an essay of this meter stamps illustrated. http://www.worldmeterstamps.com/ww_meter_specs.html "This is a rare Hyderabad meter stamp ESSAY on an unaddressed cover. The issued stamp was used only for local mail. Printed on a Universal 'Multi-Value' postage meter machine.. ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 13:47:06 pm
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| Wetting the paper caused the ink to adhere better to the paper. It adhered better because it was absorbed better into the paper. One problem of the wet printing method is that the absorbed ink spread away from the design as well as down into the paper. The wetter the paper, the more the paper had th... |
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Forum: Cinderellas etc - all the stamps that are NOT regular postage stamp related Topic: What is this Eine Krone Thingy? Any ideas? |
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 15:24:55 pm
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| It is an example of local currency created by the Germans during WWII to make the Theresiendstadt Concentration Camp look like a thriving town. The Czechoslovakian town of Therezin (Theresiendstadt in German) was then in the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. That is Moses with the tablets ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:43:13 am
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| http://i1246.photobucket.com/albums/gg619/indianstamplover/Uglies/IMG_0035_Copy.jpg Here is the first of the three images of Indore SG6 with some of the cyan removed: http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af147/maptrekker/StampBoards/IndoreClosetoOriginal.jpg It looks close in color to the third imag... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 07:03:11 am
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| 1894 also saw the first of the recess printed stamps of North Borneo which were printed by Waterlow. Previous issues were printed by Blades, East and Blades of London using lithography. But if you look to their work in Latin America, you find Waterlow produced recess printed stamps starting in 1889 ... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Need an Arabic stamp or cover translation? I can help you. |
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 07:06:34 am
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| This is the logo of the Zueitina Oil Company of Libya. |
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Forum: Share with others here your NICE looking stamp and cover images etc. Topic: Paleontology on stamps |
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 08:51:38 am
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| Excellent philatelic treatment of Smilodon. I enjoyed reading it. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 05:32:45 am
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| I have been thinking of purchasing the Stanley Gibbons Colour Key which has 200 color swatches. Does anyone know how well it might identify the Sirmoor shades? |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Batum 4k red Romanov stamp |
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 05:24:59 am
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| Boddah , I looked at a Scott Catalogue to see why you said it was listed there under Batum. Sure enough, the stamp is pictured there -- but it is there only as one of the Russian stamps that were overprinted for use in British Occupied Batum during the civil war. . Also, it is not the cancel that m... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Batum 4k red Romanov stamp |
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 14:34:42 pm
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Why do you say Batum?
It is a Czarist Russian stamp from 1913 depicting Peter I. It has a Vladivostok postmark.
It would be a rare stamp from Batum if it were overprinted with a "Batum" surcharge. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 06:41:08 am
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| Here is an interesting tidbit from the April, 1907 Philatelic Journal of India: "Jaipur -- Mr. B. D. Bhargava, B.A., a resident in this State, tells us that negotiations are taking place with a view to a Postal Convention with the Government of India, similar to those in force with Chamba, Gwal... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:02:42 am
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Here are two copies of Duttia 17b with the distinctive pelure paper. The one on the left looks more like blue-green than yellow-green.
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 05:28:16 am
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| Wasn't "maasool chuka" used to indicate postage pre-paid in cash on letters without stamps? Or, of course, during the period before stamps were issued? |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Japanese F1 Grand Prix - Guess the Winner Podium - Prizes! |
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:02:02 am
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1. Vettel
2. Button
3. Alonzo |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Japanese F1 Grand Prix - Guess the Winner Podium - Prizes! |
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:59:40 am
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1. Hamilton
2. Alonzo
3. Grosjean |
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Japanese F1 Grand Prix - Guess the Winner Podium - Prizes! |
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:58:41 am
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1. Hamilton
2. Alonzo
3. Rosberg |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 08:03:51 am
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Excellent images. They induce me to examine my stamps for flaws.
The "cross lines" look like they may be cracks or scratches and therefore constant varieties. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 09:55:48 am
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Since Rajkot was a State and not a country, let me stretch things further by suggesting the Postmaster Provisionals of Annapolis, Maryland (1845) and New Haven, Connecticut (1846).
They issued only imprinted envelopes and were replaced by the first issue of the United States in 1847. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 09:17:09 am
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It's worth a closer look.
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 15:05:07 pm
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| A double roulette wouldn't look like this. The first pass would have produced the long cuts between the tabs. A second pass exactly in line would probably just cut through the remaining tabs. There just seems to be some problems with the roulette machines. Look at the cuts on the left side of the st... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 13:31:23 pm
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| Excellent article on the Jammu & Kashmir circulars. The high quality images of the stamps and the papers make all the difference. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:23:16 am
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| Domburd, that really is a most interesting transitional Hyderabad cover. I haven't seen a cut-off date for the Hyderabad State PO, but on the evidence of this cover, Hyderabad Service stamps were no longer being accepted by the 7 April 1950, even though there are a couple of State cancellations the... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:58:16 am
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| http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x373/jadrake/Stamp%20Images/India%20-%20Hyderabad/47.jpg This would be the result if a pin is broken on a line perforator. In this case the pin was broken on the vertical line perforator. Every stamp in that row would have the missing perforations until the perfo... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: India - Used abroad postmarks and other questions |
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 03:47:47 am
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| Stamps of British India were overprinted "BURMA" when Burma was administered directly by Britain on 1 Apr 1937 rather than as a province of India. Since Burma was province of India, Indian stamps used there were technically not "used abroad. However, un-overprinted Indian stamps used ... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: British India stamps used in Princely States |
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 03:28:47 am
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| birder wrote: I have not been able to figure out the quantum of postage on the Bhor to NewYork Postcard. I'm not sure of the rates at that time, but it certainly looks underpaid to me. I can't see 1¼ Annas being enough. But perhaps someone familiar with British Indian rates can correct me. A Eugene... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India cancellations--- The pre 1875 Hexagonals |
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:25:23 pm
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| On these postmarks the left-hand number is the "set" and the right-hand number is the "section." In this case it is set 3 and section 1. |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India cancellations--- The pre 1875 Hexagonals |
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 02:13:50 am
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Interesting Umballa postmark. Note that it is an octagon rather than a hexagon like the others.
If I remember correctly, the octagon postmarks were used by railway traveling post offices and the "T" may simply denote "Traveling PO" |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Early India cancellations--- The pre 1875 Hexagonals |
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 04:24:37 am
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| The switch from UMRITSUR to AMRITSAR was in 1876. |
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Forum: Cinderellas etc - all the stamps that are NOT regular postage stamp related Topic: Indian stamp UGLIES - - Keeping it simple for beginners |
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 23:34:12 pm
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Quote: ..and the best..2Rupee stamp uprating postcard. Why !!! 
Is this not a 2R stamp surcharged to ½ anna? |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 09:17:35 am
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| Srinigar to Amritsar by way of the Imperial exchange PO at Sealkot. Kashmir stamp with brown Srinigar seal obliterator. The date is 1876 or 1877 in that the Sealkot postmark is spelled SEALKOTE, the Amritsar 1st Delivery postmark is spelled UMRITSUR, and the Srinigar obliterator seal is brown. http:... |
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Forum: Discuss stamps - and *anything* at ALL happening with stamps Topic: Banging the drum for the Uglies |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:22:56 am
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| Is it not also possible that the sheets were trimmed to size after printing? The Bhopal SG 2 sheet has such tiny margins that it would have been hard to remove from the printing press without smudging the wet ink. The Barwani SG6 looks like it was trimmed on two sides and bound into a booklet as evi... |
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Forum: Cinderellas etc - all the stamps that are NOT regular postage stamp related Topic: Indian stamp UGLIES - - Keeping it simple for beginners |
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 14:32:06 pm
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| I wonder if anyone would recognise the red cancel on this nice Court fee stamp from Nepal. http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r594/coinman88/nepal1.jpg The legend in the boxes on the left and right is identical. "Naalish Dastur" means "litigation" and "customary offering&q... |
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