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I was fed up once with all the "wild" figures people tried to quote regarding bulk stamps to make a sale. It's pretty clear if they try to quote an off-paper yield for an on-paper lot with massive excess paper.
MargoZ wrote:Mr Samoa won, Ram but I think it will take him the next 25 years to sort through it
I couldnt have guessed. I would have thought there were plenty more in that box. Looked like it would hold at least half a million.Allanswood wrote:108,347 was the winning number.
For the benefit of those outside Australia, please tell us more about the rumor!Global Administrator wrote:The rumour about the average IQ in Queensland has been confirmed beyond doubt.
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I think that it was Glen's way of suggesting that posting in a competition that finished over three years ago is not the most productive use of one's time.Ram wrote:For the benefit of those outside Australia, please tell us more about the rumor!
We moved the bed yesterday, and found 2 more stamps that had fallen down the back - do I need to mail them to Mr Samoa in New York?Allanswood wrote:108,347 was the winning number.
Admin wrote:I was looking for a cool promotion here, and Moderator fromdownunder (Norm) mentioned he still had "The Box" sitting on his floor he was wondering what to do with.
"The Box" was a large carton filled with off-paper stamps Norm had accumulated over the years. As many know, Norm is one of a near extinct breed - the true "Whole World" collector. His aim I think he once posted, is to try and collect one example of EVERY simplified stamp from EVERY country.
So when buying collections and mixed lots and stockbooks etc, Norm took out and kept the ones he did not have already, and in general I gather the balance then were tossed into "The Box". And "The Box" over time got larger, and larger, and larger .........
Anyway, I did a deal with him, and Norm was very happy with the outcome, and he mailed it up, and that box will soon be someone else's "Box"!
What is in there? Well even Norm did not really know, as he'd been assembling it for decades, and had lost track.
All I can say was that when spread out on the bed as you can see, it was several inches thick in places with stamps, and off paper stamps are incredibly dense - a small handful is way over 1000 stamps.
The vast majority looked used to me but I did see some mint, even MUH imprint blocks among it.
Taking a look at them when spread out on my bed to photograph, I'd state the obvious that Australia and AAT and earlier "States" component was a lot stronger than you'd get, if an American or a British collector had assembled them, for obvious locale reasons.
There looked to be HUNDREDS of Australia KGV heads spread around there .. with lots of 1d reds etc sighted. Norm said he thinks a complete KGV used booklet pane went into "The Box" at some point at the time he added all the other KGV heads.
I also saw quite a few Kangaroos - and even noted several 2/- 3rd watermarks, which of course are $35 stamps EACH these days.
As you can see from the photo, I saw things like postally used GB blocks of 10 of the £5 Machins, and blocks of other different £5 types, and even some of the seldom seen massive £10 GB "Britannia" mega high values.
They are all in "The Box", along with higher face values from Australia, NZ, USA, Hong Kong, Canada - and you name it!
And I saw Cinderellas, and revenues, and fiscals, when nosing around in it, and when popping stamps back into "The Box".
Norm had stamps in here from the mid 19th Century, right up to a few years back it seems.
And as is very plainly evident these are NOT just all common letter rate stamps. It is a genuine mixed lot. Looking though it spread on the bed I saw all kinds of better stamps in there - from all over the place. From Queen Victoria issues onwards.
We spread the carton out on a large sized bed as you can see, and even then they were MANY stamps deep in places .. often several inches deep.
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