Position 78 of the famous inverted Jenny (#C3a) was vacuumed up in a vacuum cleaner when it was owned by Robert Zoellner.
Inverted Seaway (#387a) stamp got a cup of coffee spilled on it...and it was done by an auctioneer when the stamp was on consignment.
Don
I did the same thing with a one-of-a-kind silver/turquoise ring, hand made especially for me by my uncle. As I turned a corner, I heard it rattle down the car's roof, only it didn't register in my mind at the moment. Later, I understood what that sound was, and spent hours searching the roadside where it occurred, to no avail.
Someday, I need to take a metal detector out to that spot (in Central Iowa) and find the damned thing.
-Paul
PS, Uncle Howard has been dead for 20 years.
i guess my problem is pretty minor..i have a stamp i want to catalog or mount.i put it down to get the catalog or the album..AND I FORGET WHERE I PUT THE STAMP..how far away can it be ? Perhaps i have a stamp eating gremlin in the house ? On a happier note.. about a week ago a hit and run in a parking lot smashed the front bumper of my Frontier. The adjuster came and gave me an estimate of $945 minus 500 deductible..thats not a lot of money folks to get a new bumper,painted and installed. I went to our local body shop and John the owner said leave it in the morning and i will have it for you in the afternoon. I guess he heated it or boiled it(plastic) and when i came back he said..50 bucks ! I gave him a hundred...and we can bank the remaining $345.00 .
Dave, yours was a tragic stamp related experience...one of our club members home burned and he lost his collection and his fathers advanced collections..i remember seeing damp smoke smudged albums drying on his lawn...but you can't give up.
This does not involve stamps, but my wife put a pie on the roof of the car while she was buckling my son into the back seat. As you might guess she drove off and the pie hit the pavement just as she pulled out into traffic. So it is not just stamps that easily slide off of car roofs. Sorry yours did.
One day I drove out the garage after filling up with fuel, there was a steep dip down to the road, I forgot about the dip and went out too fast. One of the wing mirrors fell off my car onto the road. I reversed back into the garage, got out the car, headed for the wing mirror, this 30 ton lorry ran over the wing mirror and crushed it into a million pieces.
I walked back to my car and one of the girls I knew was standing next to her car laughing her head off!!
I did see the funny side as well.
Ian, that sounds like a scene from a comedy movie.
angore
What was even funnier was that for weeks after, whenever we met, whether it was in the street or the pub she would shout "Wing Mirror" and burst into a fit of the giggles!!
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Tangential, but I think that Domino's Pizza has a winner with their free replacement policy; it seems generous, the ads are humorous, and the policy is not expensive ... they are spending more on the ads than they will ever spend on replacing damaged pizzas.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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I've never had a Domino's, for much the same reason ...
... but I've seen one on TeeVee.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
I've been quite fortunate that nothing even remotely like that has happened to me (with my stamps, at least), so now I'm terrified that I'm overdue!
This was an almost tragedy. Many years ago my wife and I were travelling by plane from Halifax to Edmonton with our stamp collection ( at that time we were only collecting Canada ) in our suit cases. They were not locked since we didn't have any keys for our very old and cheap luggage. We noticed when we picked up our luggage in Edmonton that someone had gone through our it. Whoever it was had found the Canadian album but had passed up anything of value and took recent stuff that could be used easily on letters at that time. Thank God that whoever that person was was very very stupid!!!! We had some good fairly valuable stuff like a mint Bluenose and Parliament Buildings, MNH with perfect centering. That was the last time we carried our stamp collection in our luggage - in hind sight it was very stupid!!
Same story different hobby! Imagine doing that with a model car that you have 100 hours plus into building, on it's way to debut at a show! Happened to a buddy-0-mine!
When I was right out of high school, I spent a summer delivering pizza. We parked our cars out back of the building, and there was a tight corner to the left to drive around to the road. About once a week someone dropped a pizza off their roof, on that corner! Sometimes the box stayed intact and we got to eat the pizza!
I remember seeing someone with a gallon of house paint driving down the highway. I didn't get to see how that ended. I can imagine it was spectacular!
And my favorite story... many years ago I was sitting at a traffic light on the highway and a car pulls up next to me on my right. It's a young girl driving and I notice her purse.. a large pocketbook on the roof of the car. I start waving frantically at the girl to get her attention. She glares at me, gives me the finger while mouthing a not so friendly but easily understood phrase. Witch!
Then the light changes and she zooms ahead, purse takes a dive onto the roadway. She was far enough ahead of me that I could watch a couple of cars dispatch her crushed belongings across the highway. Oh well! I'm sure she put it all together later on and felt like doo-doo!
Classic story that thankfully did not happen to me. Husband puts valuable stamp collection in a safe place before a trip (washing machine). You guessed it- they come home and the wife puts in a load of clothes and turns it on....!
I was trying to get super-organized by taking on projects that I could stick to with my limited attention span before starting another (or 2 or 3 or...)
I had gone through a whole bunch of worldwide pages, envelopes, and boxes and organized lots of stamps into 5 different containers - one of which was was all mint, mostly MNH (some very beautiful, and others possibly with fairly decent catalog values).
I loaded my car to go to the library to look through some catalogs and check out a couple of these stamps. But I was rushing because I wanted to do this before I left town on business.
Here's the lesson: "Stamp Collectors should never rush !!!"
And here's why: When I got to the library I was surprised to see a bunch of stamps stuck in my rear wiper. When I got out to look I said "huh, they all look like...OMG!!!" Yes, you may have guessed it (or you may have done it yourself). I had put the container of Mint stamps on my roof while I juggled getting the other containers into the car, and drove away.
As I started frantically for home it began to rain. And as I turned on to my street I was just in time to see a city truck leaving after sweeping up the residual sand and salt from the winter plows. I spent the next hour picking up any undamaged stamps with my stamp tongs (about 1/4 of the total) then cleaning up all the other stamps (spread over a 6 car-length area) and crushed plastic from the container.
Anybody have a bigger (or stupider) thing happen to their stamps. Please share on this thread so I can quit crying).
Thanks, Dave.
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
Position 78 of the famous inverted Jenny (#C3a) was vacuumed up in a vacuum cleaner when it was owned by Robert Zoellner.
Inverted Seaway (#387a) stamp got a cup of coffee spilled on it...and it was done by an auctioneer when the stamp was on consignment.
Don
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
I did the same thing with a one-of-a-kind silver/turquoise ring, hand made especially for me by my uncle. As I turned a corner, I heard it rattle down the car's roof, only it didn't register in my mind at the moment. Later, I understood what that sound was, and spent hours searching the roadside where it occurred, to no avail.
Someday, I need to take a metal detector out to that spot (in Central Iowa) and find the damned thing.
-Paul
PS, Uncle Howard has been dead for 20 years.
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
i guess my problem is pretty minor..i have a stamp i want to catalog or mount.i put it down to get the catalog or the album..AND I FORGET WHERE I PUT THE STAMP..how far away can it be ? Perhaps i have a stamp eating gremlin in the house ? On a happier note.. about a week ago a hit and run in a parking lot smashed the front bumper of my Frontier. The adjuster came and gave me an estimate of $945 minus 500 deductible..thats not a lot of money folks to get a new bumper,painted and installed. I went to our local body shop and John the owner said leave it in the morning and i will have it for you in the afternoon. I guess he heated it or boiled it(plastic) and when i came back he said..50 bucks ! I gave him a hundred...and we can bank the remaining $345.00 .
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
Dave, yours was a tragic stamp related experience...one of our club members home burned and he lost his collection and his fathers advanced collections..i remember seeing damp smoke smudged albums drying on his lawn...but you can't give up.
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
This does not involve stamps, but my wife put a pie on the roof of the car while she was buckling my son into the back seat. As you might guess she drove off and the pie hit the pavement just as she pulled out into traffic. So it is not just stamps that easily slide off of car roofs. Sorry yours did.
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
One day I drove out the garage after filling up with fuel, there was a steep dip down to the road, I forgot about the dip and went out too fast. One of the wing mirrors fell off my car onto the road. I reversed back into the garage, got out the car, headed for the wing mirror, this 30 ton lorry ran over the wing mirror and crushed it into a million pieces.
I walked back to my car and one of the girls I knew was standing next to her car laughing her head off!!
I did see the funny side as well.
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
Ian, that sounds like a scene from a comedy movie.
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
angore
What was even funnier was that for weeks after, whenever we met, whether it was in the street or the pub she would shout "Wing Mirror" and burst into a fit of the giggles!!
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
'
Tangential, but I think that Domino's Pizza has a winner with their free replacement policy; it seems generous, the ads are humorous, and the policy is not expensive ... they are spending more on the ads than they will ever spend on replacing damaged pizzas.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
'
I've never had a Domino's, for much the same reason ...
... but I've seen one on TeeVee.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
I've been quite fortunate that nothing even remotely like that has happened to me (with my stamps, at least), so now I'm terrified that I'm overdue!
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
This was an almost tragedy. Many years ago my wife and I were travelling by plane from Halifax to Edmonton with our stamp collection ( at that time we were only collecting Canada ) in our suit cases. They were not locked since we didn't have any keys for our very old and cheap luggage. We noticed when we picked up our luggage in Edmonton that someone had gone through our it. Whoever it was had found the Canadian album but had passed up anything of value and took recent stuff that could be used easily on letters at that time. Thank God that whoever that person was was very very stupid!!!! We had some good fairly valuable stuff like a mint Bluenose and Parliament Buildings, MNH with perfect centering. That was the last time we carried our stamp collection in our luggage - in hind sight it was very stupid!!
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
Same story different hobby! Imagine doing that with a model car that you have 100 hours plus into building, on it's way to debut at a show! Happened to a buddy-0-mine!
When I was right out of high school, I spent a summer delivering pizza. We parked our cars out back of the building, and there was a tight corner to the left to drive around to the road. About once a week someone dropped a pizza off their roof, on that corner! Sometimes the box stayed intact and we got to eat the pizza!
I remember seeing someone with a gallon of house paint driving down the highway. I didn't get to see how that ended. I can imagine it was spectacular!
And my favorite story... many years ago I was sitting at a traffic light on the highway and a car pulls up next to me on my right. It's a young girl driving and I notice her purse.. a large pocketbook on the roof of the car. I start waving frantically at the girl to get her attention. She glares at me, gives me the finger while mouthing a not so friendly but easily understood phrase. Witch!
Then the light changes and she zooms ahead, purse takes a dive onto the roadway. She was far enough ahead of me that I could watch a couple of cars dispatch her crushed belongings across the highway. Oh well! I'm sure she put it all together later on and felt like doo-doo!
re: A Stamp Tragedy !!!
Classic story that thankfully did not happen to me. Husband puts valuable stamp collection in a safe place before a trip (washing machine). You guessed it- they come home and the wife puts in a load of clothes and turns it on....!