[RICHARD]

In 2010 I got invited to participate in a auction in Switzerland Peter Rapp Auctions. It was a red carpet event picked up in a Rolls- Royce red carpet from Air plane greeted with champagne To spend a week A free bmw CAR AND A TICKET TO WINE TASTING. Here is a page in one of the 3 hard cover auction catalogues he sent me. Some of the items had not been seen in more then 50 years.

[Hugh]

Sounds like a great event Richard ... did you find anything to your liking? 

Cheers, Hugh

[Janet MacD]

In 2010 I got invited to participate in a auction in Switzerland Peter Rapp Auctions. It was a red carpet event picked up in a Rolls- Royce red carpet from Air plane greeted with champagne To spend a week A free bmw CAR AND A TICKET TO WINE TASTING. Here is a page in one of the 3 hard cover auction catalogues he sent me. Some of the items had not been seen in more then 50 years.

Very interesting! Google Lens makes it so much easier to translate as you browse! But I have to remember not to crop so close if I want to share the translation!

[Hugh]

I like your style Richard if you think that US$130,000 is a 'low' price. It may be lower than US$220,000 but if I had that kind of money to throw around, I certainly wouldn't be buying stamps ... or, at least, one stamp. 

Luckily, as a postal historian, I never worry about the quality of a stamp. I collect historical artifacts. Used, even damaged covers and stamps, are evidence that they served their intended purpose. It's part of their story. Even when a stamp has fallen off a cover (or been taken off by someone more interested in the stamp's 'valuue') it's still fun to try to reason out what stamp was originally on the cover. A fun game to play. 

From time-to-time, on another forum, I do a weekly Postal History Challenge. Earlier this year, I asked people to identify the missing stamp and find out as much as they could about this cover. I bought it for fifty cents from one of Roy's boxes. A world of amusement. 

   

Cheers, Hugh