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Santa Claus left a box of Roy’s worldwide covers and a gift certificate under the Christmas tree. When you have the box at home with the luxury of time to savour each item, it is an incredibly lovely way to spend time on a snowy afternoon! This box had something I had never seen before:

   

This item is a sponsorship certificate issued by the (west) German Sports Aid Foundation in 1979. It has four semi-postal stamps featuring historical aircraft and a first day of issue postmark. I believe the stamps were part of the “Jungenmarke” or youth stamp series of semi-postals sold to fund youth activities. This will be a lovely addition to my German album, and it will be a wonderful slide next time I do a presentation on semi-postal stamps.

I can’t believe this is only fifty cents!

I have stacks of Bankers Boxes full of covers.

Two categories - USA and Worldwide (sorry, no "Canada only" -- Canada goes in the Worldwide boxes)

Club members are encouraged to take the whole box home on approval for a good browse -- whether you are interested in them as covers, or just looking for unusual stamps to soak. Just sign out the box and bring it back next meeting.

Price is 50c per cover. I bring a limited number of boxes each meeting. Reserve a box by letting me know before the meeting and I'll bring one just for you! Let me know if you want a USA box or a Worldwide box.


Roy

At yesterday's club meeting, Roy had several dozen (he says he has more at home) Barclays Bank covers from the 1920s. All from the UK. The stamps have Barclays' perfins, most, if not all are registered (the old fashioned way with crossed blue crayon), some interesting cancels (hooded and oval), lots of hand-stamps, R-labels and some very nice red wax seals on the back. 

And, all for one dollar each. 

I don't even collect these but I bought five just for the fun of the perfins, the postal markings and the seals. And, look at the ship label on the bottom cover in this photo. A hand-stamp from the storied S/S Ile de France. Very cool coves indeed. 

   

Send him a note if you want to get some at the next meeting. 

Cheers, Hugh

PS: For more information on the SS Ile de France, check out ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Île_de_France

   

... and nice to put faces to names at my very firstest Stamp Meeting EVER, woohoo! I am SUCH a child...

 See yas all next time! Happy Stamping!

The Merriest of Christmases to you all! May it be both joyful and peaceful!  I look forward to (finally) meeting you all in January!

Hey all. So I'm looking at some Scott 341 which I am told is ribbed horiz.

How can I tell "ribbing"? Do I have to soak the stamp off the envelope first or is there some other way to do it? What am I looking for exactly?

Thanks!

I will buy all U.S. scott 279A types

All the experts are looking for this stamp on and off cover None found to date. The PSE and APS wants to find more. I curanty own two off the three known and the only one on cover. 279A type vertical watermark <-> The dierection of the arrows are vertical.

Pardon my ignorance: Does the new "Trajan Canada Specialized Stamp Catalogue" COMPETE with the Unitrade Canada catalogue or complement it?

Thanks! Just wondering if it's a purchase I should consider when I miraculously get money again 

I was asked today how do I  record all the differences in scott 231. Here is one my pages ive done to help me remember what I looked at. Columbian Scott 231 Plate types or rather differences in them. Plating a stamp is easy. What is difficulft is placing it or finding the origianl place it belongs in that is difficult. You could buy some stamps attached to a plate number. now you know the plate type But where do the rest of the stamps fit? Or do it from scratch just do it get the plating charts lookk at the plates plate them or find out what number they are then use the charts to help find were they belong or might belong. I recoment do all the easy steps first find plate number match all stamps to that. Then find the differences on the chart. Ilimminate them as you go untill you are almost certain they belong in that position.. So first find all the lines and cut edges and arrowes they will have to be placed in the exact postion on the sheet they were cut from. Then use the plate postion charts to help you. And remember close is good enough untill you find out you must move it from that position. Write it all down as you recreat the sheet stamp by stamp. Good luck Most times i remember what is different by my writting but some times i dont and have to take another look Ive done over 50,000 of these stamps so far and they arrive almost everyday to add to mo collection. The bigest problem with this stamp is all the errors with it Some A lot were reentered to the print making it hard to see the origanl lines.This can through out what position the stamp was taken from to be used.