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I am going to revive the idea and continue on with part 2 of the same thread. I encourage all new members, as well as longtime members, who have blocks and multiples, to share them with the club here in this thread. The purpose of this thread is to get the ball rolling to talk more about stamps, just for the pure enjoyment of the hobby. I hope there are other "blockheads" in here that will add to it and like this idea.
I will start will with these two that I bought for a few dollars, sight unseen, from the "Bargain Bin" of the ISWSC Mail Bid Sale:
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I've always had a fondness for postally used blocks. Here's one of my favorite stamps from my U.S. collection of stamps saved for their cancels.
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I collect mint and used US blocks. I also have a lot of foriegn blocks, but not my main interest. Here are a few from my collections.
The last one is Russia, Scott #210b on Pelure paper.
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I like this thread! Here is my recent acquisition of the MV Abegweit.
Back in the late 50s, I had the great pleasure and excitement to explore this car ferry about 6 times on it's regular passage from Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick to Borden, Prince Edward Island. My family drove there each summer, to stay with my Mom's family for several weeks. You know, as I recall those passages, I imagine I can still remember the smell of the passenger lounge and restaurant. My brother and I explored the ship from top to bottem, and bow to stern. The voyage took about 1 hour each way, and near the end of that time, we would crowd into the bow by the anchor capstans, and peer intently at the horizon to see who could be first to spot the destination coastline. We had also been on 2 other older ferries a few times. The oldest was the Prince Edward Island (PEI), and a newer one I can't recall the name of. The PEI was an open barge type ferry, and everyone had to sit in their cars (or in their train car....we did that trip once on the Abegweit) for the entire passage. Very fond memories.
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USA Scott# 1552 Plate number block of 20
The die cut selvage really adds eye appeal to this block imho.
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A booklet with custom page for Mystic Heirloom
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Panama Scott #256-7 Stamp issue for the first visit of Lindbergh to Panama. Scott# 256 is the only case where Panama issued a stamp with an overprint but the stamp without the overprint was never issued.
These stamps were printed for the Republic of Panama by the Canal Zone. They were never overprinted for use in the Canal Zone. Canal Zone did not issue a stamp for the first visit of Lindbergh to the Canal Zone.
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Panama Scott# 76 used, likely on parcel.
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An airmail block from Syria:
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Great Britain Scott#78 Block of eight used on parcel with parcel cancels.
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Moldova provisonal overprint on USSR block (issued soon after indepence from the USSR).
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South Africa Scott# 72 & 73 with advertisments in the margins.
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The SG catalogue states that there are 10 different arrangements of the adverts on the ½d sheet and 21 different arrangements on the 1d sheet.
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This is probably my favorite block, as it aligns with my collecting interests and the place where I live.
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Canal Zone Scott# 163 plate number block featuring the Cascadas dredge. The Panama Canal requires regular dredging to keep the canal clear of debris. The Cascadas had a sister ship, the Mindi which was a suction dredge.
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Italy Sc 1167,issued in 1974,featuring the Neptune Fountain in Bolgna.
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Panama Scott# 750. This stamp was initially printed with the incorrect scientific name on the stamp. Further stamps were printed with the correct scientific name. Both were used for postage. This example has the incorrect scientific name.
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USA R733 Plate number block. Issued in 1962, the 80th Anniversary of the Internal Revenue department. R734 issued in 1963 is similar but with the "Established 1862" line omitted. This was the last design of regular issue revenue stamps issued by the USA.
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Orcha (Indian Feudatory State) Scott# 2 sheet. I have an affection for stamps a more rustic look.
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More of a strip than a block. These private airletter stamps were issued in sheets of nine.
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Since we've wandered into US territory, I'will toss a few up here;
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Here's some a little more modern;
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I think I've posted this one before, but it begs to be included in the thread -
A shipping/mailing tag for who knows what from a company out in Nebraska;
And here's the other side of the tag;
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if anyone wants any of these, I'd be happy to sell or trade all but the first and the last ones;
Just send me a PM - but do NOT respond here!!
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US Scott# 272-3
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Two blocks from Portugal Working Tools series
1978 Fishing boat and trawler 5 esc Yt 1369
1979 Medical equipment and operating theatre 0.50 esc Yt 1408
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Italy Taranto castle,from the 10th series of tourism stamps.Yt 1586,issued in 1983.
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Here are three pages of my Farley collection, mostly blocks. This material is neither rare nor expensive but makes for an interesting collection. Most of this was picked up on SOR. I also have several pages concerned with line / gutter pairs that is interesting as well!!
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There is at least one person on this site who has a full contact sheet, or whatever it is called, of one of the Farley items. Would you mind posting the picture again so I can save the image? Thanks!!
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Not sure if these are what you are talking about, but !! Picked up in a bulk lot. Someone used a glue stick on the back, hense the bleed through.
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Thanks Mel, that's exactly what I wanted to see!! Do you mind if I save copies of these images on my computer?
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I'm not sure why I think this because I can't find anything to back this up but I think the contact sheet actually has 16 panes as opposed to 4. I also remember, I think, someone showing a picture of one. Does anyone else remember this? Again, I could be wrong. It has been known to happen!
I still really like the two items that Mel showed and would love to find one some day. I think it might just fit on the back of one of the pages in my US Liberty album. It might be close though!!
EDIT: I remember thinking when I saw (?) the contact sheet of 16 panes "How in heck would you ever display it?".
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You can do a search for the "Smithsonian National Postal Museum" website, and once there, search their collection for "Farley sheet." All kinds of things to click on and read about in there, with pictures, about the Farley sheets.
I will leave a link here...
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/ ...
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Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to see! I just bookmarked the site. I'm almost positive that a member here, if he/she is still a member, showed a full sheet at one time. A full sheet would be great considering the amount of Farley stuff I already have but, being an album type person with several stock books, it would be impossible to display. You'd need one of the special map folders or it could be framed. The partial sheets shown a few posts above might fit in an album, just!! I don't know why I like the Farley material so much, but I do!
EDIT: I was looking at my Scott's US specialized and they make mention of most of the Farley material and give very unrealistic prices for much of it. They give no numbers which is a bit of a pain since it would make searching for a quite a bit easier. But you can't have everything!!!
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I just noticed in my Scott's US Specialized that these stamps were issued in "sheets of 20 panes of 6 stamps each". HUGE!!!
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Don't tell my wife, but I seem to have "thing" for triangle stamps, especially blocks — or "blocks"? — of them, like this:
As I understand it, these Dutch stamps were required, in addition to regular postage, on "special airmail" envelopes that were being carried by KLM Airlines on "special flights" to various Dutch colonies. The proceeds from their sale went to KLM.
I also seem to have developed my own definition of a block of stamps. You might call this a strip of Iceland airmail stamps, but I don't think it will harm this thread. Besides, it's only the world's most beautiful bird stamp!
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US Scott# 1541a plate number block with mismatched pate numbers.
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Not a stamps block of stamps, but a se-tenent block of four British propaganda labels from the First World War, in two images so you don't have two turn your computer or "device" on its side. But first, some descriptions:
The upper left label in the first image concerns the execution of the British nurse, Edith Cavell. This is the lead paragraph in the Wikipedia entry about Cavel:
"Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse and member of La Dame Blanche. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination and for covertly helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service during the First World War, which in wartime was a death penalty offence under the German military law. Cavell was arrested and court-martialed for that offence as an act of Kriegsverrat (lit: "war-treason", fig. perfidy), found guilty, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German Government ruled that Cavell knew that her acts were punishable; they thus refused to commute her sentence, and she was shot. Her execution, however, received worldwide condemnation and extensive global press coverage arranged by Wellington House."
In 1930, Canada issued a stamp picturing Mount Edith Cavell, in Jasper National Park, Alberta:
Now, more description:
The label at the lower left refers to the torpedoing, by a German U-boat, of the British ocean liner Lusitania. According to Wikipedia,
“The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. The attack took place in the declared maritime war-zone around the UK, shortly after unrestricted submarine warfare against the ships of the United Kingdom had been announced by Germany following the Allied powers' implementation of a naval blockade against it and the other Central Powers. The passengers had been warned before departing New York of the danger of voyaging into the area in a British ship.
“The Cunard liner was attacked by U-20 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger. After the single torpedo struck, a second explosion occurred inside the ship, which then sank in only 18 minutes. The U-20’s mission was to torpedo warships and liners in the Lusitania’s area. 761 people survived out of the 1,266 passengers and 696 crew aboard*, and 128 of the casualties were American citizens. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany. It also contributed to the American entry into the War two years later; images of the stricken liner were used heavily in US propaganda and military recruiting campaigns.”
“The contemporary investigations in both the United Kingdom and the United States into the precise causes of the ship's loss were obstructed by the needs of wartime secrecy and a propaganda campaign to ensure all blame fell upon Germany. At time of her sinking she was carrying 4,200,000 rounds of Remington .303 rifle/machine-gun cartridges, almost 5,000 shrapnel shell casings (for a total of some 50 tons), and 3,240 brass percussion artillery fuses, but argument over whether the ship was a legitimate military target raged back and forth throughout the war.”
• Wikipedia notes that the casualty figures do not "add up".
In the next image, the label at the lower left refers to "KULTUR," not surprisingly the German word for culture, which was used in a derogatory sense by the Allies to suggest elements of racism, authoritarianism, or militarism in Germany." The label appears to show a dead mother or… mother-to-be? And…a baby? It's impossible to tell.
The label at the lower right references the effort by German to force Great Britain to surrender by bombing its cities from zeppelins. According to Wikipedia, zeppelins made 51 bombing raids on Britain during the war in which 557 people were killed and 1,358 injured. The airships dropped 5,806 bombs, causing damage worth £1,527,585. Eighty-four airships took part, of which 30 were either shot down or lost in accidents.
Among items in my ephemera collection is a complete set of prints, once part of a large wall calendar, published in 1947 by the famous aviation artist Charles Hubbell. One of the prints shows the destruction of a zeppelin by a British fighter pilot, titled “The first Zeppelin Raider to be destroyed”:
I have owned two sets of the 1947 Hubbell calendar; all of the prints picture WW1 aerial combat scenes, including the shooting down of the Red Baron by the Canadian ace, Roy Brown. My father gave me the first set when I was in my early teens; he had gotten it at work, and I happily displayed one or two the prints at a time on one of my bedroom walls. That first set vanished, as childhood belongings tend to, after I joined the Navy, but just last year I discovered a set for sale on eBay, bought them, and promptly ordered a custom-made frame that allows me to switch out prints whenever I wish.
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Very interesting post, Bob. The Edith Cavell story was new to me.
I recently acquired the block below, and was wondering if the cancelation was a type of Belgian railway cancel or something else?
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Recently, I heard "Danzig" was a hot item here on Stamporama, so I will share my Danzig blocks from my WW block collection...
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Linus, what a great thread. I'll share with you some of my favorite stamps in my collection from one of my favorite US series of stamps.
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continued...interesting thing about the Golden Gate stamp: the stamp was released in 1923 and by the next year there was already vigorous public discussion on how to build a bridge to connect SF to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge didn't open until 1937.
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Here is a neat multiple for your consideration... I peeled this off of a package many years ago. I couldn't even begin to tell you when. Scott number 2173 engraved, carmine. I think the red cancel has faded over time but I'm not sure. First of the Great Americans stamps to include additional biographical information. Here's the ironic part (for me anyway...) I fly into Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan in exactly 15 days to start my cruise!
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Several months ago, I bought a bulk lot of worldwide blocks off of eBay that included this block from Muscat and Oman. Much to my surprise, this block had a Scott CV of $400! Anybody know why this block catalogs this high? Seems very high to me compared to other stamps of $400 Scott value.
You save them as you find them, the first block I own from M & O...
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I recently found these blocks in some kiloware.
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Back in May 2017, I started a thread to discuss worldwide blocks. That thread, with over 4,000 views, is quite lengthy and several members that contributed to it have since passed away. It is still a good old thread, in my opinion, and I will give you a link to it here:
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I am going to revive the idea and continue on with part 2 of the same thread. I encourage all new members, as well as longtime members, who have blocks and multiples, to share them with the club here in this thread. The purpose of this thread is to get the ball rolling to talk more about stamps, just for the pure enjoyment of the hobby. I hope there are other "blockheads" in here that will add to it and like this idea.
I will start will with these two that I bought for a few dollars, sight unseen, from the "Bargain Bin" of the ISWSC Mail Bid Sale:
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I've always had a fondness for postally used blocks. Here's one of my favorite stamps from my U.S. collection of stamps saved for their cancels.
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I collect mint and used US blocks. I also have a lot of foriegn blocks, but not my main interest. Here are a few from my collections.
The last one is Russia, Scott #210b on Pelure paper.
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I like this thread! Here is my recent acquisition of the MV Abegweit.
Back in the late 50s, I had the great pleasure and excitement to explore this car ferry about 6 times on it's regular passage from Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick to Borden, Prince Edward Island. My family drove there each summer, to stay with my Mom's family for several weeks. You know, as I recall those passages, I imagine I can still remember the smell of the passenger lounge and restaurant. My brother and I explored the ship from top to bottem, and bow to stern. The voyage took about 1 hour each way, and near the end of that time, we would crowd into the bow by the anchor capstans, and peer intently at the horizon to see who could be first to spot the destination coastline. We had also been on 2 other older ferries a few times. The oldest was the Prince Edward Island (PEI), and a newer one I can't recall the name of. The PEI was an open barge type ferry, and everyone had to sit in their cars (or in their train car....we did that trip once on the Abegweit) for the entire passage. Very fond memories.
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USA Scott# 1552 Plate number block of 20
The die cut selvage really adds eye appeal to this block imho.
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A booklet with custom page for Mystic Heirloom
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Panama Scott #256-7 Stamp issue for the first visit of Lindbergh to Panama. Scott# 256 is the only case where Panama issued a stamp with an overprint but the stamp without the overprint was never issued.
These stamps were printed for the Republic of Panama by the Canal Zone. They were never overprinted for use in the Canal Zone. Canal Zone did not issue a stamp for the first visit of Lindbergh to the Canal Zone.
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Panama Scott# 76 used, likely on parcel.
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An airmail block from Syria:
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Great Britain Scott#78 Block of eight used on parcel with parcel cancels.
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Moldova provisonal overprint on USSR block (issued soon after indepence from the USSR).
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South Africa Scott# 72 & 73 with advertisments in the margins.
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The SG catalogue states that there are 10 different arrangements of the adverts on the ½d sheet and 21 different arrangements on the 1d sheet.
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This is probably my favorite block, as it aligns with my collecting interests and the place where I live.
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Canal Zone Scott# 163 plate number block featuring the Cascadas dredge. The Panama Canal requires regular dredging to keep the canal clear of debris. The Cascadas had a sister ship, the Mindi which was a suction dredge.
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Italy Sc 1167,issued in 1974,featuring the Neptune Fountain in Bolgna.
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Panama Scott# 750. This stamp was initially printed with the incorrect scientific name on the stamp. Further stamps were printed with the correct scientific name. Both were used for postage. This example has the incorrect scientific name.
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USA R733 Plate number block. Issued in 1962, the 80th Anniversary of the Internal Revenue department. R734 issued in 1963 is similar but with the "Established 1862" line omitted. This was the last design of regular issue revenue stamps issued by the USA.
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Orcha (Indian Feudatory State) Scott# 2 sheet. I have an affection for stamps a more rustic look.
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More of a strip than a block. These private airletter stamps were issued in sheets of nine.
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Since we've wandered into US territory, I'will toss a few up here;
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Here's some a little more modern;
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I think I've posted this one before, but it begs to be included in the thread -
A shipping/mailing tag for who knows what from a company out in Nebraska;
And here's the other side of the tag;
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By the way -
if anyone wants any of these, I'd be happy to sell or trade all but the first and the last ones;
Just send me a PM - but do NOT respond here!!
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US Scott# 272-3
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Two blocks from Portugal Working Tools series
1978 Fishing boat and trawler 5 esc Yt 1369
1979 Medical equipment and operating theatre 0.50 esc Yt 1408
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Italy Taranto castle,from the 10th series of tourism stamps.Yt 1586,issued in 1983.
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Here are three pages of my Farley collection, mostly blocks. This material is neither rare nor expensive but makes for an interesting collection. Most of this was picked up on SOR. I also have several pages concerned with line / gutter pairs that is interesting as well!!
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15 Dec 2023
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There is at least one person on this site who has a full contact sheet, or whatever it is called, of one of the Farley items. Would you mind posting the picture again so I can save the image? Thanks!!
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Not sure if these are what you are talking about, but !! Picked up in a bulk lot. Someone used a glue stick on the back, hense the bleed through.
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Thanks Mel, that's exactly what I wanted to see!! Do you mind if I save copies of these images on my computer?
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Harvey,
Be my guest, save away
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15 Dec 2023
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I'm not sure why I think this because I can't find anything to back this up but I think the contact sheet actually has 16 panes as opposed to 4. I also remember, I think, someone showing a picture of one. Does anyone else remember this? Again, I could be wrong. It has been known to happen!
I still really like the two items that Mel showed and would love to find one some day. I think it might just fit on the back of one of the pages in my US Liberty album. It might be close though!!
EDIT: I remember thinking when I saw (?) the contact sheet of 16 panes "How in heck would you ever display it?".
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You can do a search for the "Smithsonian National Postal Museum" website, and once there, search their collection for "Farley sheet." All kinds of things to click on and read about in there, with pictures, about the Farley sheets.
I will leave a link here...
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/ ...
Hope this helps,
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16 Dec 2023
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Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to see! I just bookmarked the site. I'm almost positive that a member here, if he/she is still a member, showed a full sheet at one time. A full sheet would be great considering the amount of Farley stuff I already have but, being an album type person with several stock books, it would be impossible to display. You'd need one of the special map folders or it could be framed. The partial sheets shown a few posts above might fit in an album, just!! I don't know why I like the Farley material so much, but I do!
EDIT: I was looking at my Scott's US specialized and they make mention of most of the Farley material and give very unrealistic prices for much of it. They give no numbers which is a bit of a pain since it would make searching for a quite a bit easier. But you can't have everything!!!
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I just noticed in my Scott's US Specialized that these stamps were issued in "sheets of 20 panes of 6 stamps each". HUGE!!!
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Don't tell my wife, but I seem to have "thing" for triangle stamps, especially blocks — or "blocks"? — of them, like this:
As I understand it, these Dutch stamps were required, in addition to regular postage, on "special airmail" envelopes that were being carried by KLM Airlines on "special flights" to various Dutch colonies. The proceeds from their sale went to KLM.
I also seem to have developed my own definition of a block of stamps. You might call this a strip of Iceland airmail stamps, but I don't think it will harm this thread. Besides, it's only the world's most beautiful bird stamp!
Bob
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US Scott# 1541a plate number block with mismatched pate numbers.
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Not a stamps block of stamps, but a se-tenent block of four British propaganda labels from the First World War, in two images so you don't have two turn your computer or "device" on its side. But first, some descriptions:
The upper left label in the first image concerns the execution of the British nurse, Edith Cavell. This is the lead paragraph in the Wikipedia entry about Cavel:
"Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse and member of La Dame Blanche. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination and for covertly helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service during the First World War, which in wartime was a death penalty offence under the German military law. Cavell was arrested and court-martialed for that offence as an act of Kriegsverrat (lit: "war-treason", fig. perfidy), found guilty, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German Government ruled that Cavell knew that her acts were punishable; they thus refused to commute her sentence, and she was shot. Her execution, however, received worldwide condemnation and extensive global press coverage arranged by Wellington House."
In 1930, Canada issued a stamp picturing Mount Edith Cavell, in Jasper National Park, Alberta:
Now, more description:
The label at the lower left refers to the torpedoing, by a German U-boat, of the British ocean liner Lusitania. According to Wikipedia,
“The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 kilometres) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. The attack took place in the declared maritime war-zone around the UK, shortly after unrestricted submarine warfare against the ships of the United Kingdom had been announced by Germany following the Allied powers' implementation of a naval blockade against it and the other Central Powers. The passengers had been warned before departing New York of the danger of voyaging into the area in a British ship.
“The Cunard liner was attacked by U-20 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger. After the single torpedo struck, a second explosion occurred inside the ship, which then sank in only 18 minutes. The U-20’s mission was to torpedo warships and liners in the Lusitania’s area. 761 people survived out of the 1,266 passengers and 696 crew aboard*, and 128 of the casualties were American citizens. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany. It also contributed to the American entry into the War two years later; images of the stricken liner were used heavily in US propaganda and military recruiting campaigns.”
“The contemporary investigations in both the United Kingdom and the United States into the precise causes of the ship's loss were obstructed by the needs of wartime secrecy and a propaganda campaign to ensure all blame fell upon Germany. At time of her sinking she was carrying 4,200,000 rounds of Remington .303 rifle/machine-gun cartridges, almost 5,000 shrapnel shell casings (for a total of some 50 tons), and 3,240 brass percussion artillery fuses, but argument over whether the ship was a legitimate military target raged back and forth throughout the war.”
• Wikipedia notes that the casualty figures do not "add up".
In the next image, the label at the lower left refers to "KULTUR," not surprisingly the German word for culture, which was used in a derogatory sense by the Allies to suggest elements of racism, authoritarianism, or militarism in Germany." The label appears to show a dead mother or… mother-to-be? And…a baby? It's impossible to tell.
The label at the lower right references the effort by German to force Great Britain to surrender by bombing its cities from zeppelins. According to Wikipedia, zeppelins made 51 bombing raids on Britain during the war in which 557 people were killed and 1,358 injured. The airships dropped 5,806 bombs, causing damage worth £1,527,585. Eighty-four airships took part, of which 30 were either shot down or lost in accidents.
Among items in my ephemera collection is a complete set of prints, once part of a large wall calendar, published in 1947 by the famous aviation artist Charles Hubbell. One of the prints shows the destruction of a zeppelin by a British fighter pilot, titled “The first Zeppelin Raider to be destroyed”:
I have owned two sets of the 1947 Hubbell calendar; all of the prints picture WW1 aerial combat scenes, including the shooting down of the Red Baron by the Canadian ace, Roy Brown. My father gave me the first set when I was in my early teens; he had gotten it at work, and I happily displayed one or two the prints at a time on one of my bedroom walls. That first set vanished, as childhood belongings tend to, after I joined the Navy, but just last year I discovered a set for sale on eBay, bought them, and promptly ordered a custom-made frame that allows me to switch out prints whenever I wish.
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Very interesting post, Bob. The Edith Cavell story was new to me.
I recently acquired the block below, and was wondering if the cancelation was a type of Belgian railway cancel or something else?
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Recently, I heard "Danzig" was a hot item here on Stamporama, so I will share my Danzig blocks from my WW block collection...
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Linus, what a great thread. I'll share with you some of my favorite stamps in my collection from one of my favorite US series of stamps.
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continued...interesting thing about the Golden Gate stamp: the stamp was released in 1923 and by the next year there was already vigorous public discussion on how to build a bridge to connect SF to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge didn't open until 1937.
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Here is a neat multiple for your consideration... I peeled this off of a package many years ago. I couldn't even begin to tell you when. Scott number 2173 engraved, carmine. I think the red cancel has faded over time but I'm not sure. First of the Great Americans stamps to include additional biographical information. Here's the ironic part (for me anyway...) I fly into Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan in exactly 15 days to start my cruise!
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Several months ago, I bought a bulk lot of worldwide blocks off of eBay that included this block from Muscat and Oman. Much to my surprise, this block had a Scott CV of $400! Anybody know why this block catalogs this high? Seems very high to me compared to other stamps of $400 Scott value.
You save them as you find them, the first block I own from M & O...
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I recently found these blocks in some kiloware.
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