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The German occupation of Macedonia (then part of Yugoslavia) lasted less than nine weeks at the back end of 1944, and one wonders exactly who ordered these stamps - the only ones under that title - to be produced. As always with stamps made in unpropitious military situations, the feeling has to be that those in charge needed portable goods, and fast, in case matters became really serious. Stamps were a good bet, easily convertible to currency in whatever part of the world their owners might eventually find themselves.
I'll be finding out who commanded what divisions in that part of Europe at that time, and what became of him. Meanwhile, perhaps someone knows more about these?
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I have been playing catch-up with my collection after being "out of it" for a while. Today, my mailbox was a veritable cornucopia of philatelic delights, as I received 5 orders at once.
Starting with some holes I filled in my Panama section.
I picked up this 1961 Swiss set (Scott 406-409 MNH), after reading in Linn's Stamp News that at the current exchange rate, the Scott catalogue value (which I paid) for the set is the face value of the stamps.
Then there was this gorgeous Ukraine souvenir sheet I picked up from a Stamporama auction (thanks, Alejandro, crisale9).
Got a nice wide 4-margin copy of Mecklenberg-Schwerin for my German States section.
And, finally, a lot of 3 postal cards with nice clear Wesson time-on-bottom cancels. A buck a piece, delivered. Can't beat that.
Cheers,
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"Wesson Time On Bottom. Is that one of your collecting areas?"
It's an area I have recently started, Vince. This purchase doubles the size of my collection.
I have just sent off for a copy of Theodore Bozrth's, "Walter D Wesson's Time on Bottom Duplex Hand Cancelers," and am eager to read it.
I'd also like to find Edison & Levere's "Wesson Time on Bottom Markings Revisited — A Listing of Reported Types and Varieties," which was published in 2010 by the U.S. Cancellation Club, but I have been unable to find so much as a mention of it on the web except in a letter to the editor, in an "American Philatelist," available online.
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I was happy to win the stamp below today for $14.50. I don't think the auctioneer could properly identify it because the description was simply "GB RARE Cancel". I have to wonder if many bidders took the time to identify it. Also wonder how many here could? It's really not that hard but at first look doesn't appear so. It's really hard to find nice cancels on early GB but this ones a doozy, methinks
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..when i get bored at a stamp show i pick up odd things for my U.S. cover collection 
Three more stamps have been added to my airmail collection:
Nicaragua C9, France C15, Venezuela C74a
I discovered months ago in a thread on Stampboards that I had C15a. It has reversed burelage (or burelé, if you please). Till then, I was unaware of the variety. I have since been watching auctions for C15. But almost all copies offered as C15 in the U.S. are actually C15a.
Scott does not offer a picture of the variety. So probably few American dealers know what to look for. Sanabria does not even list the variety. Fortunately, someone posted a comparison from an old Yvert catalog in the Stampboards thread.
The above stamp came from a Kelleher auction. It included seven copies, all listed as C15. But five were C15a. I got one of the two true C15's.
I'll post both stamps later.
Ed Foster
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Recently I bid on some Scott Stamp albums at my local club and won them at a great price. I planned on flipping them and took them to The Stamp Center/Dutch Country Auctions in Wilmington, Delaware. They hold auctions about every two months and sell the remainders in their store. they will buy or auction your philatelic material. They also have a decent stock of supplies for the stamp and coin collector and feature a bid board in the store. These stamps were unsold lots from the bid board. My Iceland collection is starting to look decent.
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Here are the last three scans. I keep getting a lot of white space at the bottom of my scans, not sure what I am doing wrong. I will check the settings on my scanner.
It looks like the white space issue corrected itself.
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Those Iceland Flags are yummy !! 
I have a trillion recent acquisitions having returned from the UK with double the weight I had left with ! 
So here is just one..........(for now)
Now you cannot honestly say that you see these every day.
Can you ? 
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Londonbus, Those are very cool, I don't think I've seen any of them before.
I just won the early GB stamp below. There was no catalog number in the description but I must of course assume it is #53, cat $325. The odds are very great against it being the $45,000 first issue #47. The difference is the watermark but it does not appear that the stamp has been lifted from the piece to check for it. It's a great looking piece but the first thing I am going to do is soak the stamp off to check for the wmk unless of course I can see it without doing so. Whatever the case I need both stamps and it is a great looking example.
I also just won a couple key early Turkey stamps #73 an 77
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Hope you don't mind me jumping in with one. Just got this today. Although it was mailed to the "founder" of the company I work at, he was kind enough to let me have the postcard. Probably be the only one I'll ever see with an Antarctica postmark.
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A new cover for my Denmark Advertising Pairs mini collection;
And a "pair of pairs" - a few vertical imperfs for my Venezuela collection;
both thanks to my approval buyers 
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LB1 - these Lundy PUCs are superb
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"LB1 - these Lundy PUCs are superb"
I rather like them myself too, but do not collect them so will be putting them up for sale soon.....I just need to enjoy them a little longer !!
In the meantime, here is something I do collect, fresh from Stampex 2016 !
Problem is, I am not sure where it came from. Another weekend going on research !!
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The Lewis and Clark Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon between June and October 1905 in commemoration of the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
All types of memorabilia were produced and offered including these fine Labels.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Centennial_Exposition
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Another set of 'newbies' to the USA: Philatelic Exhibition & Fairs collection.....these lovely sheets from the Stamps, Coins and Medals Exhibition held in the Public Library, Boston in 1935.
Truly exceptional, they just don't make them like this anymore.
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Wow - that is some public building! Does it still stand?
I love the appellation "Suburban Stamp and Curio Club"! That's a club I'd join.
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I painfully struck out at auction today but a couple goodies came in the mail. Today I received a couple key items from the 1884-6 Turkey issues, that came from an auction lot I won. Also four of the better airmail stamps from Uruguay that I received from my Latin America trading pardner.
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Thought you all might like to see this one;
I just got this off of "FeeBay"
My favorite stamp is US #C11 the Beacon Airmail stamp and all it's varieties;
I found this last week and had to have it to go with them - they called it "The Amelia Earhart Variety Gag Stamp"
I thought it was great fun! (not for Amelia of course)
I think whoever made it did a pretty good job.
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C1910 Minerva Head Sample (Dummy) Stamp from De La Rue. Found it in a carton box from an Estate lot.
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German East Africa, 1905, Scott #s 22-29
Was pleased to find this set with CDS cancellations and nice centering across the set.
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I don't know if I'm more excited about the stamps in the envelope or the stamp on the envelope! Ken Dryden is awesome.
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Won this one last night! Cannot wait to receive it. I am filling out my early US commemoratives and buying interesting pieces to add interest to the album I will eventually create.
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Hey Tom,
Fantastic stamps! Love the margin imprint!
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Great find, Tom. That's a beautiful pair.
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Jopie found this Garibaldi card for her topic and then noticed the addressee. We googled him and found this.
Coolidge, Arthur William (1881-1952) — also known as Arthur W. Coolidge — of Reading, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Woodfords, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, October 13, 1881. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1937-40; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1941-46; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49; defeated, 1948; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1950. Unitarian. Member, American Bar Association; Theta Delta Chi; Freemasons. Died in Reading, Middlesex County, Mass., January 22, 1952 (age 70 years, 101 days). Interment at Forest Glen Cemetery, Reading, Mass.. the town that has the High School named after 
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That's pretty cool Phil! It's amazing the things we can research with the Internet.
I like to take addresses from old covers and put them into Google Maps to see what's there. I had a 1908 cover addressed to Cambridge, Massachusetts and there was an 1850s house still there. I can imagine the postman walking up to that house with my cover!
On the other hand, I have a postcard that was sent round robin to several addresses in Houston, Texas. I hit the address to find a downtown area of all high rise buildings! I guess the neighborhood that must've been there back in the 1900s is long gone!
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I've never spent a whole lot of time working on New Zealand or Australia. Lately I've been concentrating on the holes which are often key stamps. The stamp below NZ No. 83 was pretty high on the list until I got this beauty the other day.
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Phil, Probably not and that is the biggest problem with internationals. Most of the best stamps, usually high value of sets are omitted. Then if you do happen to get one you have to stick it out in the margin which does not do it justice. They are also most often the most beautiful stamps a country issues. There were 3 issues of this type having different watermarks with the cheapest being $275.00 It would however seem that Scott would at least allow one space for the type.
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Two beautiful American classics! Great stamps. Question: do you specifically seek out stamps with certs and/or ones that are graded?
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Very nice classics Chris!
I managed to buy these last night...
This is one of my favorite stamp sets so I am stoked! I bought and sold a lot of Columbians as a kid, but never had one larger than a ten cent value!
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Beautiful Tom! I've got em through the $1 stamp. The $4 is my favorite.
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Won a few singles yesterday at auction last night. My favorite is the one below. It is the high value from the 1905 Don Quixote set of ten from Spain. It was the first set to be issued in larger format. Many countries have a first set made in a larger format than the previous issues which usually featured Queens ,Kings and Coats of Arms. These first larger format sets are usually some of the most desirable items from any country. Getting the high value for these sets is a goal I'm always looking complete. Note my previous post of the New Zealand stamp which is a high value of such a set. I'm curious to what the small black markings are in the center. I have a scan of another one of these mint and curiously it has the same type of markings on it. I'll have to wait and see but I'm thinking it is bleed thru from the control numbers that are printed n the reverse.
Picked it up for only $11.00 about 5% of cat.
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I haven't normally added to this thread, but I have one that I received today that some may like to see.
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I hope you don't mind my restarting this thread - for the same reason as the other Ian did with the previous one.
The German occupation of Macedonia (then part of Yugoslavia) lasted less than nine weeks at the back end of 1944, and one wonders exactly who ordered these stamps - the only ones under that title - to be produced. As always with stamps made in unpropitious military situations, the feeling has to be that those in charge needed portable goods, and fast, in case matters became really serious. Stamps were a good bet, easily convertible to currency in whatever part of the world their owners might eventually find themselves.
I'll be finding out who commanded what divisions in that part of Europe at that time, and what became of him. Meanwhile, perhaps someone knows more about these?
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I have been playing catch-up with my collection after being "out of it" for a while. Today, my mailbox was a veritable cornucopia of philatelic delights, as I received 5 orders at once.
Starting with some holes I filled in my Panama section.
I picked up this 1961 Swiss set (Scott 406-409 MNH), after reading in Linn's Stamp News that at the current exchange rate, the Scott catalogue value (which I paid) for the set is the face value of the stamps.
Then there was this gorgeous Ukraine souvenir sheet I picked up from a Stamporama auction (thanks, Alejandro, crisale9).
Got a nice wide 4-margin copy of Mecklenberg-Schwerin for my German States section.
And, finally, a lot of 3 postal cards with nice clear Wesson time-on-bottom cancels. A buck a piece, delivered. Can't beat that.
Cheers,
Ted
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"Wesson Time On Bottom. Is that one of your collecting areas?"
It's an area I have recently started, Vince. This purchase doubles the size of my collection.
I have just sent off for a copy of Theodore Bozrth's, "Walter D Wesson's Time on Bottom Duplex Hand Cancelers," and am eager to read it.
I'd also like to find Edison & Levere's "Wesson Time on Bottom Markings Revisited — A Listing of Reported Types and Varieties," which was published in 2010 by the U.S. Cancellation Club, but I have been unable to find so much as a mention of it on the web except in a letter to the editor, in an "American Philatelist," available online.
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I was happy to win the stamp below today for $14.50. I don't think the auctioneer could properly identify it because the description was simply "GB RARE Cancel". I have to wonder if many bidders took the time to identify it. Also wonder how many here could? It's really not that hard but at first look doesn't appear so. It's really hard to find nice cancels on early GB but this ones a doozy, methinks
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Three more stamps have been added to my airmail collection:
Nicaragua C9, France C15, Venezuela C74a
I discovered months ago in a thread on Stampboards that I had C15a. It has reversed burelage (or burelé, if you please). Till then, I was unaware of the variety. I have since been watching auctions for C15. But almost all copies offered as C15 in the U.S. are actually C15a.
Scott does not offer a picture of the variety. So probably few American dealers know what to look for. Sanabria does not even list the variety. Fortunately, someone posted a comparison from an old Yvert catalog in the Stampboards thread.
The above stamp came from a Kelleher auction. It included seven copies, all listed as C15. But five were C15a. I got one of the two true C15's.
I'll post both stamps later.
Ed Foster
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Recently I bid on some Scott Stamp albums at my local club and won them at a great price. I planned on flipping them and took them to The Stamp Center/Dutch Country Auctions in Wilmington, Delaware. They hold auctions about every two months and sell the remainders in their store. they will buy or auction your philatelic material. They also have a decent stock of supplies for the stamp and coin collector and feature a bid board in the store. These stamps were unsold lots from the bid board. My Iceland collection is starting to look decent.
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Here are the last three scans. I keep getting a lot of white space at the bottom of my scans, not sure what I am doing wrong. I will check the settings on my scanner.
It looks like the white space issue corrected itself.
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Those Iceland Flags are yummy !!
I have a trillion recent acquisitions having returned from the UK with double the weight I had left with !
So here is just one..........(for now)
Now you cannot honestly say that you see these every day.
Can you ?
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Cruelty to Dragons indeed!
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Londonbus, Those are very cool, I don't think I've seen any of them before.
I just won the early GB stamp below. There was no catalog number in the description but I must of course assume it is #53, cat $325. The odds are very great against it being the $45,000 first issue #47. The difference is the watermark but it does not appear that the stamp has been lifted from the piece to check for it. It's a great looking piece but the first thing I am going to do is soak the stamp off to check for the wmk unless of course I can see it without doing so. Whatever the case I need both stamps and it is a great looking example.
I also just won a couple key early Turkey stamps #73 an 77
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Hope you don't mind me jumping in with one. Just got this today. Although it was mailed to the "founder" of the company I work at, he was kind enough to let me have the postcard. Probably be the only one I'll ever see with an Antarctica postmark.
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A new cover for my Denmark Advertising Pairs mini collection;
And a "pair of pairs" - a few vertical imperfs for my Venezuela collection;
both thanks to my approval buyers
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LB1 - these Lundy PUCs are superb
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"LB1 - these Lundy PUCs are superb"
I rather like them myself too, but do not collect them so will be putting them up for sale soon.....I just need to enjoy them a little longer !!
In the meantime, here is something I do collect, fresh from Stampex 2016 !
Problem is, I am not sure where it came from. Another weekend going on research !!
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The Lewis and Clark Exposition was held in Portland, Oregon between June and October 1905 in commemoration of the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
All types of memorabilia were produced and offered including these fine Labels.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Centennial_Exposition
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Another set of 'newbies' to the USA: Philatelic Exhibition & Fairs collection.....these lovely sheets from the Stamps, Coins and Medals Exhibition held in the Public Library, Boston in 1935.
Truly exceptional, they just don't make them like this anymore.
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Wow - that is some public building! Does it still stand?
I love the appellation "Suburban Stamp and Curio Club"! That's a club I'd join.
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I painfully struck out at auction today but a couple goodies came in the mail. Today I received a couple key items from the 1884-6 Turkey issues, that came from an auction lot I won. Also four of the better airmail stamps from Uruguay that I received from my Latin America trading pardner.
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Thought you all might like to see this one;
I just got this off of "FeeBay"
My favorite stamp is US #C11 the Beacon Airmail stamp and all it's varieties;
I found this last week and had to have it to go with them - they called it "The Amelia Earhart Variety Gag Stamp"
I thought it was great fun! (not for Amelia of course)
I think whoever made it did a pretty good job.
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C1910 Minerva Head Sample (Dummy) Stamp from De La Rue. Found it in a carton box from an Estate lot.
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German East Africa, 1905, Scott #s 22-29
Was pleased to find this set with CDS cancellations and nice centering across the set.
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I don't know if I'm more excited about the stamps in the envelope or the stamp on the envelope! Ken Dryden is awesome.
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Won this one last night! Cannot wait to receive it. I am filling out my early US commemoratives and buying interesting pieces to add interest to the album I will eventually create.
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Hey Tom,
Fantastic stamps! Love the margin imprint!
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Great find, Tom. That's a beautiful pair.
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Jopie found this Garibaldi card for her topic and then noticed the addressee. We googled him and found this.
Coolidge, Arthur William (1881-1952) — also known as Arthur W. Coolidge — of Reading, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Woodfords, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, October 13, 1881. Republican. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1937-40; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1941-46; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49; defeated, 1948; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1950. Unitarian. Member, American Bar Association; Theta Delta Chi; Freemasons. Died in Reading, Middlesex County, Mass., January 22, 1952 (age 70 years, 101 days). Interment at Forest Glen Cemetery, Reading, Mass.. the town that has the High School named after him.
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That's pretty cool Phil! It's amazing the things we can research with the Internet.
I like to take addresses from old covers and put them into Google Maps to see what's there. I had a 1908 cover addressed to Cambridge, Massachusetts and there was an 1850s house still there. I can imagine the postman walking up to that house with my cover!
On the other hand, I have a postcard that was sent round robin to several addresses in Houston, Texas. I hit the address to find a downtown area of all high rise buildings! I guess the neighborhood that must've been there back in the 1900s is long gone!
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I've never spent a whole lot of time working on New Zealand or Australia. Lately I've been concentrating on the holes which are often key stamps. The stamp below NZ No. 83 was pretty high on the list until I got this beauty the other day.
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Phil, Probably not and that is the biggest problem with internationals. Most of the best stamps, usually high value of sets are omitted. Then if you do happen to get one you have to stick it out in the margin which does not do it justice. They are also most often the most beautiful stamps a country issues. There were 3 issues of this type having different watermarks with the cheapest being $275.00 It would however seem that Scott would at least allow one space for the type.
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Hey Chris,
Two beautiful American classics! Great stamps. Question: do you specifically seek out stamps with certs and/or ones that are graded?
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Very nice classics Chris!
I managed to buy these last night...
This is one of my favorite stamp sets so I am stoked! I bought and sold a lot of Columbians as a kid, but never had one larger than a ten cent value!
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Beautiful Tom! I've got em through the $1 stamp. The $4 is my favorite.
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Won a few singles yesterday at auction last night. My favorite is the one below. It is the high value from the 1905 Don Quixote set of ten from Spain. It was the first set to be issued in larger format. Many countries have a first set made in a larger format than the previous issues which usually featured Queens ,Kings and Coats of Arms. These first larger format sets are usually some of the most desirable items from any country. Getting the high value for these sets is a goal I'm always looking complete. Note my previous post of the New Zealand stamp which is a high value of such a set. I'm curious to what the small black markings are in the center. I have a scan of another one of these mint and curiously it has the same type of markings on it. I'll have to wait and see but I'm thinking it is bleed thru from the control numbers that are printed n the reverse.
Picked it up for only $11.00 about 5% of cat.
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I haven't normally added to this thread, but I have one that I received today that some may like to see.
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