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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Recent acquisitions — Part 7

 

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11 Apr 2016
08:23:29pm
Time for a new thread — Part 6 was getting pretty long to scroll through, and I want people to see this! Big Grin

Received in today's mail, an all-over U.S. flag cover, franked with an attractive copy of the two-cent Trans-Mississippi Exposition Issue, cancelled with an August 22, 1898 sort-of flag slogan cancellation. The date of cancellation was shortly before the peace treaty was signed between the United States and Spain, ending the Spanish-American War, which delivered Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands into American hands. Philippine Islanders were more than happy to be rid of the Spanish, but didn't wish to become an American colony, with the result that a new war started, the Philippine-American War, a preview of the Vietnam War.

I won the cover from our sponsor, Roy Lingen, in an eBay auction. I was willing to spend a great deal more than I had to pay for it — just over US $39. I've been looking for a cover like this one for a long time; at the same time Roy was offering this cover, another virtually identical cover in godawful condition was being offered on eBay for more than US $500! I would never have paid that even for a cover in like-new condition, but I was surprised when Roy's cover didn't go to someone else for $80 or more.

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Here's the back of the cover:

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One of my pet peeves is dealers, unlike Roy, who don't show the backs of covers, and there are some very high profile postal history dealers who don't don't show the backs. It's not at all uncommon for the backs of covers, not the front, to include the attributes that make the cover valuable.

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Tom in Exton, PA

11 Apr 2016
08:46:03pm
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Wow! That cover is a keeper Bob! I surely would've been a competitor if I had seen it. Everything about it is perfect. The thing I like about it is that it's a genuine commercial cover, not from a stamp dealer.

Funny thing, one of my closest friends is William Barrett. I will send him a jpg of the cover. He's not a stamp guy but he'll appreciate it.

And I agree about dealers that don't show the back of a cover... and worse is post card vendors who will say "used with stamp in 1904" and NOT show the stamp side of the card!

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13 Apr 2016
08:01:41pm
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My three main country collections are: Costa Rica, United States, and Netherlands Indies/Indonesia. This is my 46th specialised book on United States philately... it will be put to good use!

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13 Apr 2016
08:52:38pm
re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

My most recent acquisitions are 4 books;


1) "The First Philatelist?" C.1973 by Kasimir Bileski (signed and numbered by the author)
**A story about Samuel Lord Jr., possibly the first stamp collector of Penny Blacks**


2) "Minkus 1974-75 Trucial States Catalog" C.1975
.....which lists every issue of all 10 of the Trucial territories from their first issues up to the date of the catalog. I have only seen 2 issues of this catalog.


3) "Watermarks and Perforations from 1840 to Date" C.1966 by Ervin J. Felix
A worldwide correlated reference on watermarks and perforations put together with the
cooperation of Stanley-Gibbons, Scott and Minkus; also has a cross-referenced index of watermarks by these three companies!



4)"Fundamentals of Philately" 2008 Reprint by L. N. Williams
Covers printing, ink, paper, watermarks, gum, perforations and much more...hundreds of illustrations...over 800 pages!


I've got a lot of reading to do once baseball is not on my brain! Winking

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14 Apr 2016
10:08:34am
re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

Randy:

"The First Philatelist" is an excellent read!

David

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24 Jul 2016
11:47:58pm
re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

Here is my latest purchase. Might not have been a great bargain at $15 but I like collecting full sheet with various stamps on them.
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27 Jul 2016
11:37:04am
re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

I was searching through some kiloware that I purchased. LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND!!!
Italy Scott# C64 Used with a Scott catalog value of $325.00.Image Not Found

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27 Jul 2016
07:11:36pm
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Now that's a find! I'm assuming that the kiloware paid for itself? Winking

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27 Nov 2016
09:32:26pm
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A very nice looking MNH set that you have there Anglophile.

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Tom in Exton, PA

28 Nov 2016
08:55:30pm
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Very nice! I still need the 2 and 8 cent stamps. I like nice centering but will settle for hinge marks.

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05 Dec 2016
06:22:31pm
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Very nice set. I still need them all Big Grin

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05 Dec 2016
07:50:12pm
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Won at the recent Hipstamp penny auction -- 1p carmine, perf. 14 Wmk. 3, badge type ( Barbados Scott 94; 1909) -- for a winning bid of $0.16.

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Tom in Exton, PA

05 Dec 2016
08:21:56pm
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Adding to my New Jersey postmark collection, I dove at the opportunity to buy this nice all over print cover for $5. It has a very nice Pittstown, NJ cancel.

Then I flipped it over and... better than the front! Check out the Springboro, PA Maltese Cross fancy cancel!

Funny thing, it was sold to me just as a Pittstown cancel. No mention or photo of the back of the envelope!

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07 Dec 2016
04:45:31pm
re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

Just received this back today. This one took a long time.
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08 Dec 2016
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Tom - For me, the interesting aspect of the PA cancel is that it is a duplex cancel. In the 1880-1900's towns used duplex cancels such as these with fancy killers such s this cross pattee in a variety of shapes and sizes as well as other geometric shapes and symbols.

To me it is an interesting period of postal history where the killer (the part meant to cancel the stamp) was seen as a decorative item. From 1880-s to present the killer was often a machine cancel. From 1920's through the 1960's the cancel was a duplex cancel but with a plain oval or "football" shaped killer.

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10 Dec 2016
01:26:23am
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seanpashbyl, Congrats on a great stamp! It's the only one I am missing from The Ryukyus and doubt very much that I will ever get one.

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Sally

10 Dec 2016
08:43:17am
re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

On the PSE cert - why does it say "ungraded"?

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10 Dec 2016
02:42:03pm
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It is too off center to have received a decent grade anyway. The stamp is so rare, I didn't feel a grade was needed. It was the Higa seal in the selvage that really sold me. Once I talked the dealer into a "can't pass it up price", I really couldn't pass it up.

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10 Dec 2016
07:33:27pm
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Thanks for the explanation. Didn't realize it costs extra to have it graded.....

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11 Apr 2016
08:23:29pm

Time for a new thread — Part 6 was getting pretty long to scroll through, and I want people to see this! Big Grin

Received in today's mail, an all-over U.S. flag cover, franked with an attractive copy of the two-cent Trans-Mississippi Exposition Issue, cancelled with an August 22, 1898 sort-of flag slogan cancellation. The date of cancellation was shortly before the peace treaty was signed between the United States and Spain, ending the Spanish-American War, which delivered Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands into American hands. Philippine Islanders were more than happy to be rid of the Spanish, but didn't wish to become an American colony, with the result that a new war started, the Philippine-American War, a preview of the Vietnam War.

I won the cover from our sponsor, Roy Lingen, in an eBay auction. I was willing to spend a great deal more than I had to pay for it — just over US $39. I've been looking for a cover like this one for a long time; at the same time Roy was offering this cover, another virtually identical cover in godawful condition was being offered on eBay for more than US $500! I would never have paid that even for a cover in like-new condition, but I was surprised when Roy's cover didn't go to someone else for $80 or more.

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Here's the back of the cover:

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One of my pet peeves is dealers, unlike Roy, who don't show the backs of covers, and there are some very high profile postal history dealers who don't don't show the backs. It's not at all uncommon for the backs of covers, not the front, to include the attributes that make the cover valuable.

Bob



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Tom in Exton, PA
11 Apr 2016
08:46:03pm

re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

Wow! That cover is a keeper Bob! I surely would've been a competitor if I had seen it. Everything about it is perfect. The thing I like about it is that it's a genuine commercial cover, not from a stamp dealer.

Funny thing, one of my closest friends is William Barrett. I will send him a jpg of the cover. He's not a stamp guy but he'll appreciate it.

And I agree about dealers that don't show the back of a cover... and worse is post card vendors who will say "used with stamp in 1904" and NOT show the stamp side of the card!

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re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

My three main country collections are: Costa Rica, United States, and Netherlands Indies/Indonesia. This is my 46th specialised book on United States philately... it will be put to good use!

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David G.
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re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

My most recent acquisitions are 4 books;


1) "The First Philatelist?" C.1973 by Kasimir Bileski (signed and numbered by the author)
**A story about Samuel Lord Jr., possibly the first stamp collector of Penny Blacks**


2) "Minkus 1974-75 Trucial States Catalog" C.1975
.....which lists every issue of all 10 of the Trucial territories from their first issues up to the date of the catalog. I have only seen 2 issues of this catalog.


3) "Watermarks and Perforations from 1840 to Date" C.1966 by Ervin J. Felix
A worldwide correlated reference on watermarks and perforations put together with the
cooperation of Stanley-Gibbons, Scott and Minkus; also has a cross-referenced index of watermarks by these three companies!



4)"Fundamentals of Philately" 2008 Reprint by L. N. Williams
Covers printing, ink, paper, watermarks, gum, perforations and much more...hundreds of illustrations...over 800 pages!


I've got a lot of reading to do once baseball is not on my brain! Winking

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Randy:

"The First Philatelist" is an excellent read!

David

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24 Jul 2016
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Here is my latest purchase. Might not have been a great bargain at $15 but I like collecting full sheet with various stamps on them.
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27 Jul 2016
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re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

I was searching through some kiloware that I purchased. LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND!!!
Italy Scott# C64 Used with a Scott catalog value of $325.00.Image Not Found

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Now that's a find! I'm assuming that the kiloware paid for itself? Winking

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27 Nov 2016
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A very nice looking MNH set that you have there Anglophile.

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Very nice! I still need the 2 and 8 cent stamps. I like nice centering but will settle for hinge marks.

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05 Dec 2016
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Very nice set. I still need them all Big Grin

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05 Dec 2016
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Won at the recent Hipstamp penny auction -- 1p carmine, perf. 14 Wmk. 3, badge type ( Barbados Scott 94; 1909) -- for a winning bid of $0.16.

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Adding to my New Jersey postmark collection, I dove at the opportunity to buy this nice all over print cover for $5. It has a very nice Pittstown, NJ cancel.

Then I flipped it over and... better than the front! Check out the Springboro, PA Maltese Cross fancy cancel!

Funny thing, it was sold to me just as a Pittstown cancel. No mention or photo of the back of the envelope!

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Just received this back today. This one took a long time.
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Tom - For me, the interesting aspect of the PA cancel is that it is a duplex cancel. In the 1880-1900's towns used duplex cancels such as these with fancy killers such s this cross pattee in a variety of shapes and sizes as well as other geometric shapes and symbols.

To me it is an interesting period of postal history where the killer (the part meant to cancel the stamp) was seen as a decorative item. From 1880-s to present the killer was often a machine cancel. From 1920's through the 1960's the cancel was a duplex cancel but with a plain oval or "football" shaped killer.

I ramble on.

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seanpashbyl, Congrats on a great stamp! It's the only one I am missing from The Ryukyus and doubt very much that I will ever get one.

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10 Dec 2016
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re: Recent acquisitions — Part 7

On the PSE cert - why does it say "ungraded"?

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10 Dec 2016
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It is too off center to have received a decent grade anyway. The stamp is so rare, I didn't feel a grade was needed. It was the Higa seal in the selvage that really sold me. Once I talked the dealer into a "can't pass it up price", I really couldn't pass it up.

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Thanks for the explanation. Didn't realize it costs extra to have it graded.....

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