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Nice!
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At about $45 this is the most expensive single item I have bought so far this year. It is a nice mint paste-up coil pair.
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Sure, i picked up this cover Sunday at a stamp show in Troy...9-13-49 it was the swan song for the Dutch in Indonesia !
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thats a clean one !!!
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Are we supposed to be showing U.S. items ? Oh well !
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Oops. I am sorry. I didn't notice the category this was in.
Maybe we could have a 'general' category for 'most recent acquisitions' as well!
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My apologies to all for hijacking this, I have removed my image and moved it to a different thread. I hope this is ok!
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I bought this cover at a stamp fair last week for £6, as I considered it a bit quirky.
Having just done a search on the 'interweb', I found this description in an eBay listing:
Lufthansa's Around The World Pre-Inaugural Press Flight, Jun 2 - Jul 26th, 1955
"Hermann Sieger identifies this as Lufthansa Flight # 34. The 1996 (latest) version of the Haberer/Sieger
German Air Post Catalog prices the cover at DM 275! It is identified as the private Global Air Odessy
"Fresh Air Fund" flight, and was carried jointly by Lufthansa, SAS, TWA, Air France & Northwest Orient.
The reverse shows numerous enroute cancels including Oslo, Dacca, Murree, Dambulla, Manila & Honolulu.
Extremely attractive and a must for "Around The World" followers!"
The cachet has got a small ding but I'm sure I can flatten that out with a firm hammer blow.
Still haven't a clue what this is all about though.
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After messing up my last posting on this thread, I thought this had more of a connection with the US of A,
even though I was spoilt for choice,
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RVT2 Trailer Permit stamp. On license and early usage (Grand Tetons 1939) Acquired through an auction of miscellaneous BOB stamps for a song - 
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WOW! I've never heard of a trailer stamp!!! Thanks for sharing those! Cool!
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Here is RE31 I won off EBay recently, it was listed as RE20, but by using my method of determining the perfs, I was able to determine it was a misidentified RE31!
Seems like a lot of dealers, and also collectors have trouble with the proper identification of Wine Stamps. I'm not a big Wine Stamp collector, but always looks for misidentified Wine Stamps.
By the way, this is the second RE31 I've found this way. The newest stamp (shown below) is mint, I prefer used, but I still bid on it. True enough it's badly off center!
Above stamp RE31
DAVID THOMPSON
MSGT/USAF/RETIRED
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"Still haven't a clue what this is all about though."
Looks to me like the back stamps on the cover are related to the stops made during the flight. Doesn't include all of the stops, though.
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All the other Fresh Air Fund covers of this flight I've seen, are the same.
What I don't understand is the purpose of the flight.
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I did a little research, and having grown up about 60 miles north of New York City, I remembered what the Fresh Air Fund was about. The fund was started by the New York Herald Tribune to give a chance for inner city children to get a chance to leave the city for a couple of weeks so that they could see a non-urban area. May sound silly, but it was found that many poor children had never traveled outside of the city and did not even know what a cow looked like. I remember collections taken up in school to help fund these visits for these children.
Anyway, here is a link that provides more specific information regarding the flight and Ernest A Kehr:
http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW004J.HTM
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Thank you for posting that link. At last an explanation has been found.
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I wish i could show a Biafra collection that came into our club Thursday...it was put together by a Priest and given to a fellow in a nearby town. Going to be interesting to see where it ends up !!
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i did it again..meant to post under general philatelic instead of U.S. Apologies !!
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Among my uncle's collection were these three covers. Each has a bonus feature: One has what looks like a Cuba cancel; the second, an inverted 3 in the date; and the third has a Hawaii cancel, which I look for.
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Hi Peter,
Interesting covers.
I like the Cuban one which appears to have a Guantanamo cancellation.
Here's a picture of the light cruiser USS Marblehead from Wikipedia. I see in early 1927 she was sailing off Nicaragua:
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" have a Guantanamo cancellation"
Good eye Nigel..... It is a "Gitmo" cancel!!!
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Excellent eye! I couldn't make it out. Cheers, Nigel!
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This one showed up in my mail recently. It's a Cincinnati, Ohio precancel of Scott 300 on an interesting 1904 Worlds Fair cachet envelope. Back stamp is Butler, PA in 1905 so these must have been left over envelopes someone used for an unrelated commercial mailing.
I am collecting usage on Scott 300 so I am buying precancel usage.
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Peter, I know you made someone on SOR very jealous with those covers.
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Few engraved Sweden
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Bought today at a local stamp fair, this German printed card states: "Visit the American nuclear cargo vessel Savannah in Hamburg". It was date stamped 25th June 1964. I think the bottom line of the slogan postmark reads: "Atoms for Peace".
The N.S. Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship and was built at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core. It was launched on 21st July 1959.
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In October 1962, I joined the U.S. Navy "to see the world" and, even more, to go to sea. I'd never seen an ocean, or a ship. I went to boot camp in San Diego, and on my first liberty I headed for the harbour and got on a water taxi which sailors used to get back and forth to their ships. One of the ships in in port that weekend was N.S. Savannah, and it was open to the public. I got pictures from a water taxi and from the wharf where the ship was tied up.
Savannah never met her potential. Labour problems and the public's general (and not unfounded) fear of nuclear power meant that she was in port much of the time, and banned from entering some ports abroad. She carried both passengers and freight for a few years, then just freight, and was taken out of service in 1971.
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GerardG,
That Slania engraved glass blowing set is really stunning. congrats!
Don
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After several missed connections I was finally able to acquire that Germany 1N54 to complete the set. Not expensive, just elusive as mnh anyway.
Mike
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Great centering too.
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Good choices, all with nice centering and most with light cancel. What else would one desire in classic stamps?
Mike
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At about $45 this is the most expensive single item I have bought so far this year. It is a nice mint paste-up coil pair.
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Sure, i picked up this cover Sunday at a stamp show in Troy...9-13-49 it was the swan song for the Dutch in Indonesia !
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thats a clean one !!!
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Are we supposed to be showing U.S. items ? Oh well !
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Oops. I am sorry. I didn't notice the category this was in.
Maybe we could have a 'general' category for 'most recent acquisitions' as well!
EDIT
My apologies to all for hijacking this, I have removed my image and moved it to a different thread. I hope this is ok!
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I bought this cover at a stamp fair last week for £6, as I considered it a bit quirky.
Having just done a search on the 'interweb', I found this description in an eBay listing:
Lufthansa's Around The World Pre-Inaugural Press Flight, Jun 2 - Jul 26th, 1955
"Hermann Sieger identifies this as Lufthansa Flight # 34. The 1996 (latest) version of the Haberer/Sieger
German Air Post Catalog prices the cover at DM 275! It is identified as the private Global Air Odessy
"Fresh Air Fund" flight, and was carried jointly by Lufthansa, SAS, TWA, Air France & Northwest Orient.
The reverse shows numerous enroute cancels including Oslo, Dacca, Murree, Dambulla, Manila & Honolulu.
Extremely attractive and a must for "Around The World" followers!"
The cachet has got a small ding but I'm sure I can flatten that out with a firm hammer blow.
Still haven't a clue what this is all about though.
PS.
After messing up my last posting on this thread, I thought this had more of a connection with the US of A,
even though I was spoilt for choice,
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RVT2 Trailer Permit stamp. On license and early usage (Grand Tetons 1939) Acquired through an auction of miscellaneous BOB stamps for a song -
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WOW! I've never heard of a trailer stamp!!! Thanks for sharing those! Cool!
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Hi All
Here is RE31 I won off EBay recently, it was listed as RE20, but by using my method of determining the perfs, I was able to determine it was a misidentified RE31!
Seems like a lot of dealers, and also collectors have trouble with the proper identification of Wine Stamps. I'm not a big Wine Stamp collector, but always looks for misidentified Wine Stamps.
By the way, this is the second RE31 I've found this way. The newest stamp (shown below) is mint, I prefer used, but I still bid on it. True enough it's badly off center!
Above stamp RE31
DAVID THOMPSON
MSGT/USAF/RETIRED
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"Still haven't a clue what this is all about though."
Looks to me like the back stamps on the cover are related to the stops made during the flight. Doesn't include all of the stops, though.
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All the other Fresh Air Fund covers of this flight I've seen, are the same.
What I don't understand is the purpose of the flight.
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I did a little research, and having grown up about 60 miles north of New York City, I remembered what the Fresh Air Fund was about. The fund was started by the New York Herald Tribune to give a chance for inner city children to get a chance to leave the city for a couple of weeks so that they could see a non-urban area. May sound silly, but it was found that many poor children had never traveled outside of the city and did not even know what a cow looked like. I remember collections taken up in school to help fund these visits for these children.
Anyway, here is a link that provides more specific information regarding the flight and Ernest A Kehr:
http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW004J.HTM
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Thank you for posting that link. At last an explanation has been found.
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I wish i could show a Biafra collection that came into our club Thursday...it was put together by a Priest and given to a fellow in a nearby town. Going to be interesting to see where it ends up !!
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i did it again..meant to post under general philatelic instead of U.S. Apologies !!
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Among my uncle's collection were these three covers. Each has a bonus feature: One has what looks like a Cuba cancel; the second, an inverted 3 in the date; and the third has a Hawaii cancel, which I look for.
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Hi Peter,
Interesting covers.
I like the Cuban one which appears to have a Guantanamo cancellation.
Here's a picture of the light cruiser USS Marblehead from Wikipedia. I see in early 1927 she was sailing off Nicaragua:
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" have a Guantanamo cancellation"
Good eye Nigel..... It is a "Gitmo" cancel!!!
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Excellent eye! I couldn't make it out. Cheers, Nigel!
Peter
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This one showed up in my mail recently. It's a Cincinnati, Ohio precancel of Scott 300 on an interesting 1904 Worlds Fair cachet envelope. Back stamp is Butler, PA in 1905 so these must have been left over envelopes someone used for an unrelated commercial mailing.
I am collecting usage on Scott 300 so I am buying precancel usage.
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Peter, I know you made someone on SOR very jealous with those covers.
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Few engraved Sweden
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Bought today at a local stamp fair, this German printed card states: "Visit the American nuclear cargo vessel Savannah in Hamburg". It was date stamped 25th June 1964. I think the bottom line of the slogan postmark reads: "Atoms for Peace".
The N.S. Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship and was built at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core. It was launched on 21st July 1959.
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In October 1962, I joined the U.S. Navy "to see the world" and, even more, to go to sea. I'd never seen an ocean, or a ship. I went to boot camp in San Diego, and on my first liberty I headed for the harbour and got on a water taxi which sailors used to get back and forth to their ships. One of the ships in in port that weekend was N.S. Savannah, and it was open to the public. I got pictures from a water taxi and from the wharf where the ship was tied up.
Savannah never met her potential. Labour problems and the public's general (and not unfounded) fear of nuclear power meant that she was in port much of the time, and banned from entering some ports abroad. She carried both passengers and freight for a few years, then just freight, and was taken out of service in 1971.
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GerardG,
That Slania engraved glass blowing set is really stunning. congrats!
Don
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After several missed connections I was finally able to acquire that Germany 1N54 to complete the set. Not expensive, just elusive as mnh anyway.
Mike
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Great centering too.
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