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24 Jan 2015
10:34:21am
I started this thread, as I accidentally hijacked the USA one.

I've changed the title slightly.

So if you fancy showing something you're rather pleased about, then go ahead. Just remember that collectors of US material have their own thread:



This arrived just yesterday; a GB 1993 £10 braille high value. Some of the braille raised dots are just visible. I bought this because I love the design and that it had actually been through the post. The 1p Machin is here for scale:

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24 Jan 2015
02:27:48pm

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nice 10 pounder....

i've been told that they do NOT soak, so apparently, that's false, at least some times


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24 Jan 2015
03:32:31pm
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24 Jan 2015
04:55:35pm
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The £10 High values soak quite normally.
Here are a couple of the 25 Mil values I purchased yesterday in Tel Aviv. From a set of 7.
I won't write much about them because all the info I have gained over the time is conflicting.
Suffice to say they are Private airmail stamps by Aviron (Flying School) and PATCO (Palestine Air Transportation Company}. Date: 1937-48.

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It was a birthday treat to myself....and boy, was it a treat !!Drooling


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24 Jan 2015
07:59:26pm
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Very nice too. I suspect these are VERY scarce.

Are you able to explain why there are two different colours for the same value?

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24 Jan 2015
10:28:16pm
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The following is a WWI military cover I bought very recently. It was sent by a serving officer in the Royal Flying Corps on 1st July 1916.
The RFC was the forerunner of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

The Field Post Office and censor have been attributed to a 'station' on the Sommes, in France. I have yet to verify this.

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The date may have some historical significance:

"The Royal Flying Corps made a major contribution during the Battle of the Somme by providing British Army commanders
with vital intelligence of German positions and the progress of British troops. The official historian of the British Army
in France in 1916 stated: ‘It is difficult to over-estimate the value of aeroplane co-operation upon which the accuracy of
artillery fire so largely depended; the aeroplane photograph became an almost indispensable aid to the mapping sections;
and British superiority in the air had a remarkable moral effect upon the troops.’*

From 1 July to 17 November 1916, the RFC took over 19,000 photographs of the Somme battle area and 420,000 prints
were made for distribution to British units."



The sender, which I am not completely clear about is ??H Vernon. The first two initials may be L.G.

I'd be very grateful if anyone could interpret those initials. This is important as there were a number of
Vernons serving in the RFC around that time.


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cocollectibles

24 Jan 2015
10:43:07pm
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I quite enjoy these Red Cross issues. Don't know much about them but they appeal to me nonetheless.

Peter

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Here is a close up of one of the backs, so the writing is clearer.

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25 Jan 2015
04:59:15am
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Hi Ningpo,

This appears to be the officer who sent your letter:

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25 Jan 2015
05:14:21am
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I should say that the extract above is from the 5th April 1917 edition of "Flight".

It looks as though this letter was sent around the time he became attached to the RFC in July 1916. Maybe this was a temporary attachment that was formalised later in the same month?

Sadly, other on-line records suggest that Lt Vernon had already been killed by 11th September 1916.

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25 Jan 2015
05:25:05am
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Hi Peter,

I really like your Red Cross labels and it's most appropriate to see them here given the discussion of Ningpo's letter.

I see the labels show 20 famous allied aviators but I can't make our the names. I guess allied aces like Albert Ball and Billy Bishop may be there as well of course as their French counterparts.

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25 Jan 2015
05:57:27am
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Peter

That's a lovely looking Red Cross item. Are you able to scan in more detail?

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25 Jan 2015
06:02:01am
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Nigelc

You found what I had unearthed. I was reluctant to post this as I wasn't certain about the initials.

I have found a few more details about his service record as well.

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25 Jan 2015
01:51:53pm
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It's official: I will cut off my left hand (not my right!) in payment for Ningpo's RFC cover. Figuratively speaking, of course. It (the cover, not my hand) would make a fine addition to my Joe Hicks collection. Joe was an observer with RCAF 420 Squadron. He was killed in 1942 when his Hampden bomber crashed in Denmark following a nighttime area-bombing raid on Rostock, Germany.

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A few years ago I won an award for an article titled, "Sgt. Joe Hicks and the Battle for Europe". In the article I briefly cover the history of observers. The first ones were soldiers who were carried aloft in balloons to report on enemy troop movements. As I recall, the first observers were used in the American Civil War. Early in the war, both balloons and aircraft were used to carry observers aloft. Aerial cameras were developed to photograph trenches, bunkers, troop concentrations, etc. It didn't take long for "observers" to start shooting at nearby enemy aircraft and dropping grenades and small bombs onto enemy troops below.

By the Second World War, observers were given the added responsibility of navigating to and from bombing targets, thus becoming navigators, and releasing the bombs at the right moment with the help of the Norton bombsight, thus becoming bombardiers. Depending on the size and layout of the aircraft, they might also be trained in the use of defensive machine guns. In larger aircraft such as the Lancaster and B-17, these roles were split among crew specially trained as navigators, bombardiers, or gunners.

While Canadian and British pilots got wings to wear as lapel devices or patches, observers got a single wing attached to an "O," predictably called the "Flying A_ _hole".

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25 Jan 2015
03:47:08pm
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Thank you Bob for your enthusiastic reply. I hope to flesh out the bones of this find, if I can confirm that this is the
same Vernon.

I have just found this entry for the addressee of the cover; Hamburger Rogers & Co:

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So it would seem that the young officer may have been interested in obtaining something ceremonial.

Numerous entries on the web for that company refer to various swords produced by them, as described here:

"Victorian 1827 pattern officers sword by Hamburger Rogers & Co, King Street, London, with curved blade,
34 in., original shagreen grip, wire bound, the guard with regimental crowned strung bugle, with scabbard."



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Tom42

25 Jan 2015
09:11:01pm
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Not as fascinating as the WW1 stuff, but I was happy to acquire this circa 1895 congo free state. Even better after several tries I figured out how to scan it and post it.
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26 Jan 2015
12:51:34pm
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Well in my book the £1 PUC is a glorious stamp. Most GB collectors that I have talked to consider this the 'pinnacle of the engraver's art'. I have never heard anything to the contrary. Congratulations!

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cocollectibles

27 Jan 2015
10:14:11am
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Ningpo, I'll try to get a closer scan of the French Red Cross stamp sections when I return home this weekend.

I have several recent acquisitions due to an inheritance from one of my last remaining stamp collecting relatives. With these additions, I fully complete my British Commonwealth omnibus collections.

Strange as it is, as much as I am thrilled with these additions, filling in my collection gaps this way is less satisfying than locating them, bidding or buying them, and placing them into my collection. My enjoyment of the hobby really comes from putting the work into building, maintaining, and improving it, not just acquiring more. Maybe I'm an odd collector!

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27 Jan 2015
02:43:17pm
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Recently received my first Canada postage due stamps. It will make a nice starter collection. I don't intend to collect any postage dues stamps beyond the series here presented.

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27 Jan 2015
04:58:35pm
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I picked this up for pence at the last stamp fair I attended:

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Of course it may have been a careless piece of stamp-affixing, but that inverted Hitler head implied to my suggestible imagination that the sender may not have been the most enthusiastic supporter of the Third Reich.

She was Eugenie Hilte (or possibly Hietl), of Vienna, and revealed as much together with her address on the back of the envelope, presumably because she had to by law. I rather hope she survived this piece of insolence!

By the way, can anyone direct me to definitive (or at least contemporary) evidence that inverting a Hitler head really was an act of subversion - rather than a myth cooked up in after-years?

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28 Jan 2015
11:42:15am
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" ... By the way, can anyone direct me to definitive (or at least contemporary) evidence that inverting a Hitler head really was an act of subversion - rather than a myth cooked up in after-years? ..."

Just after the turn of the century (early 1900s) there was a fad of sending a message by the way stamps were positioned. I recall seeing somewhere a card that explained the subtle meanings of tilting the King's head to the left or right, inverting it or placing the stamp in other than the top right corner. I'll try to find it but I am not sure where it was that I saw it.

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28 Jan 2015
04:15:07pm
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This is probably the sort of thing you were referring to:

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Here's a link to the article: Picture Postcards from the Great War

Guthrum wrote:

" By the way, can anyone direct me to definitive (or at least contemporary) evidence that inverting a Hitler head really was an act of subversion - rather than a myth cooked up in after-years?
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30 Jan 2015
12:32:15am
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Here is my other big Canada purchase, a paste-up pair of admirals.

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The back:

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30 Jan 2015
06:56:47am
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That is an outstanding pair of admirals, Antonio! Thumbs Up

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30 Jan 2015
10:48:20am
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A gorgeous pair of Admirals! I just love offbeat stamps like this. If there's not a space for them in a proprietary stamp album, then I'm interested! Congratulations, too, on collecting Admirals. They're great stamps. I once started a collection of Admirals and their varieties, but soon got discouraged by colour nuances, paper types, re-entries, etc. I'm just not a flyspeck collector!

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30 Jan 2015
12:46:16pm
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Thank you, gentlemen.

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30 Jan 2015
03:45:38pm
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Here's an update on the following cover I posted before:

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"The FPO H series were used at Corps Headquarters, initially with the number of the Post mark equating to
the Corps HQ that used it; thus FPO H13 was in use at HQ XIII Corps.

But the security changes of June 1916 that instructed all units to swap their hand stamp with other units
saw FPO H13 taken into use with HQ VI Corps between 18/6/16 to 30/9/16.
So on 1/7/16 that is where the unit post orderly took the mail to.

The Censor Mark Type 4 [Hexagon] number 3151 was in use with 23 Squadron Royal Flying Corps.

The censoring officer L G H Vernon was Second Lieutenant Leslie Godfrey Harcourt Vernon, who was killed
in action 11/9/16 serving with 23 Squadron, he is commemorated on the Arras Flying Memorial."



The information that is still missing relates to the exact location of 23 Squadron and Field Post Office H13.

As shown on his obituary posted by Nigelc, Vernon was awarded the Military Cross in the same year of his death.
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31 Jan 2015
11:52:00pm
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Yes, Ningpo, that is the idea and possibly the card I saw it on.

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03 Feb 2015
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Image Not FoundBought these recently,should arrive this week and I think the price was rather low considering they have the original Postmarks from the Phil.Bureaux in Edinburgh.

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Also bought this at £ 4.99,again a rather low price.
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03 Feb 2015
04:37:32pm
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"I don't intend to collect any postage dues stamps beyond the series here presented."



Smauggie, I have to admit, some of my favorite stamps in my entire collection are postage dues..

They're usually pretty simple, but sometimes the designs on them actually intrigue me more than the image-based stamps.
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03 Feb 2015
07:59:34pm
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Inexpensive, but attractive! Cool

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04 Feb 2015
12:21:16pm
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Nice stamp.Thumbs Up



I don't know why I am always surprised when I am reminded that Romanian is a romance language.

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04 Feb 2015
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Another nice classic stamp Happy

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05 Feb 2015
04:37:35am
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Although these two stamps are 20 years apart, Chris, do I detect a theme emerging - the engraved image set within an ornate coloured border? They could have been designed by the same person! Interesting, too, that this style of design should remain popular for so long.

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08 Feb 2015
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Recently purchased this 1896 Rhodesia stamp Happy

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08 Feb 2015
02:07:15pm
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I love the motto, 'Justice, Freedom, Commerce' - what a world of social history lies behind that triad! What would Robert Mugabe make of it?

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09 Feb 2015
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The stamp suggests that this was the British approach to their colonies. No doubt the other European countries would have agreed - I do not think freedom was uppermost in the minds of those who oversaw the workers in the South African mines. Unless, of course, it was the freedom to make as much money out of the land as possible - or 'commerce', as they politely termed it. Stamps remind us of our past, and that is as it should be.

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10 Feb 2015
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#65 with a great Fancy cancel on Patriotic cover (1862)

Great addition to my Eagle Collection

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11 Feb 2015
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Andrew, your cover includes the year, which was fairly uncommon for the period, making it all the better. very nice cover; beautiful fancy cancel and lovely patriotic, a mere ten months into the war

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13 Feb 2015
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A great postcard from the 1930s. The Pander Postjager was a purpose built mail plane to provide a regular mail service between the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies. The first flight in December 1933 got as far as Italy where the aircraft was grounded with engine failure. The mail was picked up by a regular Fokker F.XII IJsvogel, which in turn got stuck in Jodhpur, British India so that the mail was finally delivered in the Indies by the Fokker F.XVIII Pelikaan.
The return flight was record breaking: in 4 days (leaving in the early hours of Dec. 27th, the airplane arrived at Dec. 30th, 10 pm at Schiphol airport)

This card shows all the stages in its cancels as well as a special Postjager cancel.

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13 Feb 2015
10:38:18am
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This surely must be a very scarce card, as only one of this aircraft type was ever built.

This all wooden purpose built 'mail plane' only had a short lifespan.

From what I can decipher, the aircraft, which was renamed the Pander Hunter, was destroyed during take off on 26th October 1934, during the London-Melbourne air race.

Apparently as a result of complete confusion with the aerodrome lighting, the plane hit an ambulance towed beacon trolley at 160 kmh, as it lifted from the runway.

2000 gallons of aviation fuel and a wooden aircaft was a lethal mixture!

Jan-Simon, have you been able to find out how many items of mail were carried on the two legs of the inaugural flight? And was this the only mail run it did? If so, why was this mail run abandoned?

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13 Feb 2015
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The card is not scarce, although it may take a while to find a copy. I have a nearly identical one, and a couple of years ago Roy Lingen, iirc, offered me one.

The mail route was not abandoned at all. It became a mainstay of KLM's business. That triangular airmail stamp was required for mail on special flights, such as the London-Melbourne MacRobertson race that Ningpo mentions; my understanding is that KLM got 100% of the funds from the sale of the stamps.

The first foreign company to buy a Douglas DC-2 was KLM. That aircraft, named Uiver ("Stork" in Old Dutch) won the handicap division of the MacRobertson race, flying the same route that it would fly on subsequent commercial flights from Netherlands to Java, at that time a Dutch colony. Sadly, the Uiver crashed in the Syrian Desert near Rutbah Wells on its first commercial flight, killing everyone on board (four passengers and three crew). At the time, a giant system of thunderstorms was pouring most of the Middle East. The only investigation of the crash was carried out by KLM, which to this day does not publicly acknowledge the crash and has never released the findings of the investigation.

Other DC-2s were purchased and began plying the same route on a regular basis, and in 1937 were replaced by DC-3s.

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13 Feb 2015
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Off to the Strand Stamp Fair this morning - first fair for several months. Not entirely successful, either. That late 1944 Polish set, unprepossessing to look at but the first after liberation, which was going for £70-odd last summer, is double that now. I did get the two used Gibraltar 1953 top values I thought I needed, for £36, but when I got home I found I already had them! (Have you ever done that? Of course you haven't!) So all I came home with was this:

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I liked the block, of course, and the implication that it had been done especially for Fraulein Elisabeth - perhaps a little girl who collected stamps. What also struck me was the mismatch between the festive holiday cancel (St Wolfgang is a picturesque resort by an Austrian lake) and the date, which is getting a little late in the day for the Third Reich.

Elisabeth (can anyone tell me her surname from that cover?) lived at Waitzstrasse 21, Kiel. Today that is in a large block of post-war flats set back from the main road; I suspect it would have looked very different in 1945. Wikipedia says:

"Because of its status as a naval port and as production site for submarines, Kiel was heavily bombed by the Allies during World War II. The bombing destroyed more than 80% of the remaining old town, 72% of the central residential areas, and 83% of the industrial areas. During the RAF bombing of 23/24 July 1944, Luftwaffe fighters tried to intercept the spoof (i.e. decoy) force instead of the main force attacking Kiel, and there was no water for three days; trains and buses did not run for eight days and there was no gas available for cooking for three weeks. There were several bombing raids of the port area during the period 20 February – 20 April 1945 which successfully eliminated many U-Boats, and the few large warships (cruisers Hipper, Scheer, and Koln) still afloat at that time."

So maybe this envelope (now sealed, no letter inside) provided some comfort for Elisabeth, with its block of four, and perhaps a memory of a childhood holiday by the lake.

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13 Feb 2015
06:12:53pm
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"Have you ever done that?"



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13 Feb 2015
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What is an " ... ambulance towed beacon trolley ..." ???

I just had to ask as it seemed to be an interesting phrase.

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13 Feb 2015
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Won these last Sunday during the auction at The Stamp Forum.

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13 Feb 2015
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One beacon trolley; as published on www.aviacrash.nl:

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Apparently this was the mobile airfield lighting beacon, used at Allahabad primarily as a searchlight. On the occasion of the crash, the trolley was towed by an ambulance.

I didn't mention that all the crew were walking wounded with burns but one of the beacon mechanics lost both legs.



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13 Feb 2015
10:34:27pm
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It has taken me FOREVER, but I finally scored on a nice wad of USED Eastern Silesia.

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13 Feb 2015
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Nice Cinderella's Zipper - beautifully engraved.

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14 Feb 2015
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Czeslaw Slania engraving

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14 Feb 2015
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At the top, we have Brazil Scott 3CL1-3, issued Nov. 9, 1927, by Varig, Brazil's first national airline. Bottom is Germany Sanabria 34a, a se-tenant pair from a booklet issued July 14, 1931.

Varig is now part of Gol Airlines, according to Wikipedia. Its full name was Sociedade Anônima Empresa de Viação Aérea Rio-Grandense, which Google translates as Anonymous Society of Air Traffic Company Riograndense. An alternative translation for Anonymous Society is Joint Stock Company. That makes more sense.

The Brazilian stamps came from Paradise Valley Stamp Co. in the United States. The German pair is from Sandafayre, in Britain.

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15 Feb 2015
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Interesting Brazil airmail history

The stamps were initially made in Germany for Condor Airlines
Varig was given the southernmost area of Brazil to operate in at basically the same time period as Condor.

Varig had close ties to Condor & they used their stamps with an overprint.
There are dozens of variations of these overprints and many errors - some quite valuable.

Shortly thereafter Condor published a second series with SYNDICATO CONDOR on the stamps.
Then they changed the values and overprinted them also with many more errors.
Condor went on to become an international airline.

If I remember right, the Varigs were discontinued in 1934 when both airlines used government airmails

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16 Feb 2015
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"I don't know why I am always surprised when I am reminded that Romanian is a romance language."



Just remember that Romania is a former "Italian" area. ROMANIA = ROMANA = of the Romans.

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Zipper, that set of ten "Eaton's Fine Letter Paper labels were issued during, or for, the New York World's Fair in 1939. My folks attended, despite the fact that my mother was very pregnant in the fall of 1939, (Yes, with yours truly -11/22/39 ) and they had a set of them, some forks and spoons with the WW Fair emblem and a metal molding (stamping ???)of the Trylon and Perisphere that was the fair's symbol of peace and hope of the future.

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They had the ten labels mounted on a separate blank page of their old blue late 1930s Scott world wide album.

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19 Feb 2015
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These were from my uncle's collection. I covered his name during scanning.

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20 Feb 2015
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These arrived today.

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20 Feb 2015
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Anyone know anything about this postmark? Can't find it on Google.

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20 Feb 2015
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Love the colors on this.

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21 Feb 2015
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Would you send me a scan or do I have permission to lift this image from StampoRama, maybe just maybe (no promise) I can enhance this cancel for you.

Now teach me how you search Google for a cancellations? I need to learn this skill.

Thanks in Advance

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21 Feb 2015
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Take what you like.

I googled many variations: Michigan postmarks, Michigan negative postmarks, negative postmarks, etc.

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21 Feb 2015
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Bee See, cool stuff. I, too, am starting to collect castles. Some S O's are on their way.

CDJ, that stamp is one of my favorites. Perhaps I should do a Vario page of them. Am now trying to assemble a page of 2 pence Blues. Cool that you were at the fair.

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21 Feb 2015
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Hey zipper
What are those? Souvenirs from a stamp show? They're gorgeous

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21 Feb 2015
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They're Cinderellas from a large, international stamp show in 1926 (horizontal stamp), and in 1936 (three vertical stamps), in New York. My favorite city.

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An attractive group of GB 1st class Machins, including the pane of four from the Berlin Airlift booklet. Just a shame that so often mailers are ruined by that horrible parcel tape. I guess I will have to remove these, as the oil in the tape's gum will in time bleed through.


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I lifted your image of your cover, tried several enhancements, nothing worked this time. Enhancements of a post mark is a hit or miss type of thing. Sometimes it works real good, or some time only half good. In this case nothing helped. Even tried reverse video.

Sorry I could not help.

I noticed the return address was St. Johns Michigan. I was stationed at Wurthsmith AFB back in the 60's, dated a girl living in St. Johns.

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21 Feb 2015
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Thanks for trying.

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23 Feb 2015
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Congrats! I like how the cross has framed Vickie's face!


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These two came by post this morning.

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They are Soviet Airmails - the writing looks like 'Abuanorma' but is in fact 'Aviaposta' - by different designers. The green 2r. shows 'Aeroplane over landscape' (Stanley Gibbons), or 'mountain stream' (Journal of Russian Philately). The 1r. is more interesting: it shows 'Aeroplane over coastline' (SG), or even 'over the Don river' (JRP).

Actually I think it shows a Japanese print, or a detail from a print - I thought Hiroshige, but a correspondent on another part of this website, who I think knows more about these things than me, demurs. Whatever the case, I have not been able to identify it. The words at lower left read "Farthest East" - presumably the extent to which Aeroflot was pleased to go back in 1955.

So, do designers use artworks from other countries without attributing them, and how cheeky is that? Or has Mr Dubasov (Goznak's Head Artist at the time) actually rendered his own 'Japanese' illustration - in the style of Hiroshige?

Somehow, I don't think I'll find out any time soon! (But please, if you are interested in design and designers, see my articles on Dubasov in the appropriate section of this site as and when they are published.)

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Hi Guthrum,

The words at the bottom left of the first "aviapochta" stamp are "dalnii vostok" or "far east".

I agree that the designer is suggesting a Japanese style.

It certainly isn't the Don river!

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23 Feb 2015
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Just won ! Big Grin

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This arrived today: 1976 North Vietnam cover to East Germany, franked with a stamp picturing "Tanks liberating Da Nang":

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There's one interesting attribute of this cover that I haven't seen before: The "airmail stripes" around the edge were pasted onto the cover after, obviously, being cut from an airmail envelope.

I spent one night in hospital in Da Nang, in March, 1966. I had spent a couple of days on hospital ship U.S.S. Haven, where I had surgery for a gunshot wound to my right thigh.

I was flown by helicopter to Da Nang, and was evacuated on a C-131 Hercules to Clark AFB in the Philippines:

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The next day, then after another night at Clark, back to the States in a C-141, at that time the largest aircraft in the world:

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This photo shows the interior of the C-141, fitted out as a hospital plane, just like it was when I was a "guest"; I was one very sick puppy and don't remember a lot about the flight:

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It's kinda hard to get my head around the fact that we worked really hard, and lost a lot of good men, trying to secure South Vietnam against the "communist hoard," and 10 years later it was all over, with nothing gained at all, except the knowledge that we did our best in an impossible situation. I well remember realizing, after only 24 days in South Vietnam, that we Americans had no business being there.

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24 Feb 2015
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24 Feb 2015
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(Responding to the North Vietnam cover post)

Bob, one interesting point about your cover is who might have sent it from Hanoi to the family Hasenpusch in Kirchmoser. A quick check on the internet tells me that Kirchmoser did a certain amount of tank repair for the Red Army in the DDR days, and that Fritz Hasenpusch was well-known in canoeing circles(!). Today there's are Hasenpusches from Kirchmoser on Facebook.

So, was there a Hasenpusch in Hanoi in 1976 (and what was he doing), or is this a Vietnamese letter-writer staying in touch with a German family?


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24 Feb 2015
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An interesting post, Guthrum. East Germany and North Vietnam had quite close ties before, during, and after the Vietnam War. Many North Korean students went to East Germany to study in various disciplines, and East Germany undertook many social programs in North Vietnam, including the the construction of hospitals. East Germany also issued several stamps in support of North Vietnam during the war. Here's a DDR cover posted to Canada in 1971:

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It's what could be called a "para-philatelic" cover. The sender, an East German philatelist, carried on a correspondence for a time with the recipient, a member of my stamp club.

The North Vietnamese used Chinese Type 62 light tanks:

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Perhaps East Germany offered technical and military help to the PAVN (People's Army of Viet Nam).

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H.M.S. Carinthia, a British was a passenger ship that had been converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. On June 6, 1940, it was torpedoed U-46, about 50 miles west of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in Ireland. Although several emergency vessels came to its aid, and it was taken under tow by two British rescue tugs, it sank the next day before reaching safety. Two officers and two ratings died in the attack.

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The British rescue tug H.M.S. Bandit had been dispatched from the British naval base at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland to assist Carinthia, but a radio message changed its assignment to assist another British merchant vessel, S.S. Eros, which had been torpedoed north Ireland on June 7 by another German submarine, U-48.

H.M.S. Carinthia, a British passenger ship that had been converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. On June 6, 1940, it was torpedoed U-46, about 50 miles west of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in Ireland. Although several emergency vessels came to its aid, and it was taken under tow by two British rescue tugs, it sank the next day before reaching safety. Two officers and two ratings died in the attack.

The British rescue tug H.M.S. Bandit had been dispatched from the British naval base at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland to assist Carinthia, but a radio message changed its assignment to assist another British merchant vessel, S.S. Eros, which had been torpedoed north Ireland on June 7 by another German submarine, U-48. Eros, however, was leading a charmed life. Although the ship was sinking, Bandit reached her, got a line aboard, and beached her on Tory Island in the Republic of Ireland (which lead to some interesting diplomatic contortions, since Ireland was neutral).

I’ve managed to obtain three covers that were salvaged from Eros, as as well as a photograph that I obtained from the National Maritime Museum in London. Here's an Eros cover, and the photograph:

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There’s much more to Eros’’story, but this post is about Carinthia.But the postcard, which I received today from a dealer in Australia, is the first artifact of Carinthia that I have found.

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25 Feb 2015
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I could not resist this cover, which has two of my interests: Victorian era stamps, and ship postal usage. The red seals on the back are a bit annoying to be honest, as the color transfers, so I have to keep it in a clear cover.

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I LOVE wax seals on old letters!

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I wish I had the letter from the envelope! Who can't love covers? So much history and interesting finds.

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I found this Czech cancelled to order sheet today at my local stamp fair. I just thought the stamps were great designs, and those wonderful sepia-tone cancels. The Czechs really have produced some wonderful stuff over the years.

This set me back the princely sum of 10 pence (15 cents):


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14 Mar 2015
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At long last, my Portugal 1910 King Manuel II page is complete.
Aaah, the satisfaction of waiting for that last empty slot until the time is right!
No I am not going to try for an all Mint page. I am done, except for planning to add the extra stamps to my next Portugal Approval Book (not self promoting!).
Not the prettiest page, but just the same...Big Grin
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I have some acquisitions from this afternoon but first an explanation..i went to the monthly stamp show in Troy N.Y. with no expectations but to pass the time..as luck would have it a fellow came in with many boxes of netherlands covers...he was selling the higher end covers..$75 to 125 types to a dealer...i asked if his boxes contained any Dutch Indies..he said "they are in there...5 dollars accross the board". I said i am buying !!! Here is what i picked up for 50 bucks today...11 scans !!!

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first is opening flight from Java to Sydney !!!Image Not Found

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15 Mar 2015
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#2 a censored metered advertising cover from 1940 !Image Not Found

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15 Mar 2015
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#3 a registered letter to New York also 1940 but no censor !

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registered cover to New York with censor tape !Image Not Found

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a small airmail envelope to Holland !!Image Not Found

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six a blank and white dutch indies postcard !!Image Not Found

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Another censored to New York..1941 time is running out !!Image Not Found

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Postcard from 1897 with a squared circle postmark !!Image Not Found

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lastly a cover from Holland to the Dutch Indies...the dealer purchased like $2500 worth from the guy and they are going back to the Netherlands,,,perhaps phil the cheapskate should have purchased more..but these will keep me for a while !Image Not Found

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16 Mar 2015
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What is the Z.O.Z marking

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16 Mar 2015
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Hi smauggie,

It's short for "zie ommezijde", Dutch for "PTO" or "see overleaf".




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16 Mar 2015
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As a collector of EFOs, I could not resist these at a local auction!

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big george, thats pretty good ! smauggie heres the ZOZ or as we used to say in Brooklyn the udder side !!!Image Not Found

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16 Mar 2015
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Thank you Nigel and Phil. Of course, the other side had more postage and the address. That makes sense.

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i should have asked my wife..but Nigel answered it !!!Happy

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16 Mar 2015
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Big George, those are great. Immediately reminded me of doing a page of cartoons with stamps back in the 1970's. Wish I could find and post them. The only one I remember was taking a bunch of the 4 cent Mercury stamps and placing them together so that it formed a complete Earth with 8 or 12 Mercury capsules in orbit. The captions said something about how crowded space is becoming. I've recreated the visual here using PowerPoint, but I still want to find the original!


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Here is a nice one I received yesterday. I will keep this as it is for several reasons, one being the suspicion that there will not be many in good genuinely used condition.

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Another reason is of course the wonderful addressing Big Grin

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This my most recent purchase just need the 15 R now.
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24 Jan 2015
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I started this thread, as I accidentally hijacked the USA one.

I've changed the title slightly.

So if you fancy showing something you're rather pleased about, then go ahead. Just remember that collectors of US material have their own thread:



This arrived just yesterday; a GB 1993 £10 braille high value. Some of the braille raised dots are just visible. I bought this because I love the design and that it had actually been through the post. The 1p Machin is here for scale:

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nice 10 pounder....

i've been told that they do NOT soak, so apparently, that's false, at least some times


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The £10 High values soak quite normally.
Here are a couple of the 25 Mil values I purchased yesterday in Tel Aviv. From a set of 7.
I won't write much about them because all the info I have gained over the time is conflicting.
Suffice to say they are Private airmail stamps by Aviron (Flying School) and PATCO (Palestine Air Transportation Company}. Date: 1937-48.

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Very nice too. I suspect these are VERY scarce.

Are you able to explain why there are two different colours for the same value?

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The following is a WWI military cover I bought very recently. It was sent by a serving officer in the Royal Flying Corps on 1st July 1916.
The RFC was the forerunner of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

The Field Post Office and censor have been attributed to a 'station' on the Sommes, in France. I have yet to verify this.

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The date may have some historical significance:

"The Royal Flying Corps made a major contribution during the Battle of the Somme by providing British Army commanders
with vital intelligence of German positions and the progress of British troops. The official historian of the British Army
in France in 1916 stated: ‘It is difficult to over-estimate the value of aeroplane co-operation upon which the accuracy of
artillery fire so largely depended; the aeroplane photograph became an almost indispensable aid to the mapping sections;
and British superiority in the air had a remarkable moral effect upon the troops.’*

From 1 July to 17 November 1916, the RFC took over 19,000 photographs of the Somme battle area and 420,000 prints
were made for distribution to British units."



The sender, which I am not completely clear about is ??H Vernon. The first two initials may be L.G.

I'd be very grateful if anyone could interpret those initials. This is important as there were a number of
Vernons serving in the RFC around that time.


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I quite enjoy these Red Cross issues. Don't know much about them but they appeal to me nonetheless.

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Here is a close up of one of the backs, so the writing is clearer.

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Hi Ningpo,

This appears to be the officer who sent your letter:

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I should say that the extract above is from the 5th April 1917 edition of "Flight".

It looks as though this letter was sent around the time he became attached to the RFC in July 1916. Maybe this was a temporary attachment that was formalised later in the same month?

Sadly, other on-line records suggest that Lt Vernon had already been killed by 11th September 1916.

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Hi Peter,

I really like your Red Cross labels and it's most appropriate to see them here given the discussion of Ningpo's letter.

I see the labels show 20 famous allied aviators but I can't make our the names. I guess allied aces like Albert Ball and Billy Bishop may be there as well of course as their French counterparts.

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That's a lovely looking Red Cross item. Are you able to scan in more detail?

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Nigelc

You found what I had unearthed. I was reluctant to post this as I wasn't certain about the initials.

I have found a few more details about his service record as well.

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It's official: I will cut off my left hand (not my right!) in payment for Ningpo's RFC cover. Figuratively speaking, of course. It (the cover, not my hand) would make a fine addition to my Joe Hicks collection. Joe was an observer with RCAF 420 Squadron. He was killed in 1942 when his Hampden bomber crashed in Denmark following a nighttime area-bombing raid on Rostock, Germany.

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A few years ago I won an award for an article titled, "Sgt. Joe Hicks and the Battle for Europe". In the article I briefly cover the history of observers. The first ones were soldiers who were carried aloft in balloons to report on enemy troop movements. As I recall, the first observers were used in the American Civil War. Early in the war, both balloons and aircraft were used to carry observers aloft. Aerial cameras were developed to photograph trenches, bunkers, troop concentrations, etc. It didn't take long for "observers" to start shooting at nearby enemy aircraft and dropping grenades and small bombs onto enemy troops below.

By the Second World War, observers were given the added responsibility of navigating to and from bombing targets, thus becoming navigators, and releasing the bombs at the right moment with the help of the Norton bombsight, thus becoming bombardiers. Depending on the size and layout of the aircraft, they might also be trained in the use of defensive machine guns. In larger aircraft such as the Lancaster and B-17, these roles were split among crew specially trained as navigators, bombardiers, or gunners.

While Canadian and British pilots got wings to wear as lapel devices or patches, observers got a single wing attached to an "O," predictably called the "Flying A_ _hole".

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25 Jan 2015
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Thank you Bob for your enthusiastic reply. I hope to flesh out the bones of this find, if I can confirm that this is the
same Vernon.

I have just found this entry for the addressee of the cover; Hamburger Rogers & Co:

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So it would seem that the young officer may have been interested in obtaining something ceremonial.

Numerous entries on the web for that company refer to various swords produced by them, as described here:

"Victorian 1827 pattern officers sword by Hamburger Rogers & Co, King Street, London, with curved blade,
34 in., original shagreen grip, wire bound, the guard with regimental crowned strung bugle, with scabbard."



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25 Jan 2015
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Not as fascinating as the WW1 stuff, but I was happy to acquire this circa 1895 congo free state. Even better after several tries I figured out how to scan it and post it.
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26 Jan 2015
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Well in my book the £1 PUC is a glorious stamp. Most GB collectors that I have talked to consider this the 'pinnacle of the engraver's art'. I have never heard anything to the contrary. Congratulations!

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Ningpo, I'll try to get a closer scan of the French Red Cross stamp sections when I return home this weekend.

I have several recent acquisitions due to an inheritance from one of my last remaining stamp collecting relatives. With these additions, I fully complete my British Commonwealth omnibus collections.

Strange as it is, as much as I am thrilled with these additions, filling in my collection gaps this way is less satisfying than locating them, bidding or buying them, and placing them into my collection. My enjoyment of the hobby really comes from putting the work into building, maintaining, and improving it, not just acquiring more. Maybe I'm an odd collector!

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27 Jan 2015
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Recently received my first Canada postage due stamps. It will make a nice starter collection. I don't intend to collect any postage dues stamps beyond the series here presented.

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27 Jan 2015
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I picked this up for pence at the last stamp fair I attended:

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Of course it may have been a careless piece of stamp-affixing, but that inverted Hitler head implied to my suggestible imagination that the sender may not have been the most enthusiastic supporter of the Third Reich.

She was Eugenie Hilte (or possibly Hietl), of Vienna, and revealed as much together with her address on the back of the envelope, presumably because she had to by law. I rather hope she survived this piece of insolence!

By the way, can anyone direct me to definitive (or at least contemporary) evidence that inverting a Hitler head really was an act of subversion - rather than a myth cooked up in after-years?

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" ... By the way, can anyone direct me to definitive (or at least contemporary) evidence that inverting a Hitler head really was an act of subversion - rather than a myth cooked up in after-years? ..."

Just after the turn of the century (early 1900s) there was a fad of sending a message by the way stamps were positioned. I recall seeing somewhere a card that explained the subtle meanings of tilting the King's head to the left or right, inverting it or placing the stamp in other than the top right corner. I'll try to find it but I am not sure where it was that I saw it.

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This is probably the sort of thing you were referring to:

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Here's a link to the article: Picture Postcards from the Great War

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Here is my other big Canada purchase, a paste-up pair of admirals.

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That is an outstanding pair of admirals, Antonio! Thumbs Up

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30 Jan 2015
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A gorgeous pair of Admirals! I just love offbeat stamps like this. If there's not a space for them in a proprietary stamp album, then I'm interested! Congratulations, too, on collecting Admirals. They're great stamps. I once started a collection of Admirals and their varieties, but soon got discouraged by colour nuances, paper types, re-entries, etc. I'm just not a flyspeck collector!

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30 Jan 2015
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Thank you, gentlemen.

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30 Jan 2015
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Here's an update on the following cover I posted before:

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"The FPO H series were used at Corps Headquarters, initially with the number of the Post mark equating to
the Corps HQ that used it; thus FPO H13 was in use at HQ XIII Corps.

But the security changes of June 1916 that instructed all units to swap their hand stamp with other units
saw FPO H13 taken into use with HQ VI Corps between 18/6/16 to 30/9/16.
So on 1/7/16 that is where the unit post orderly took the mail to.

The Censor Mark Type 4 [Hexagon] number 3151 was in use with 23 Squadron Royal Flying Corps.

The censoring officer L G H Vernon was Second Lieutenant Leslie Godfrey Harcourt Vernon, who was killed
in action 11/9/16 serving with 23 Squadron, he is commemorated on the Arras Flying Memorial."



The information that is still missing relates to the exact location of 23 Squadron and Field Post Office H13.

As shown on his obituary posted by Nigelc, Vernon was awarded the Military Cross in the same year of his death.
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Yes, Ningpo, that is the idea and possibly the card I saw it on.

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Image Not FoundBought these recently,should arrive this week and I think the price was rather low considering they have the original Postmarks from the Phil.Bureaux in Edinburgh.

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Also bought this at £ 4.99,again a rather low price.
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03 Feb 2015
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"I don't intend to collect any postage dues stamps beyond the series here presented."



Smauggie, I have to admit, some of my favorite stamps in my entire collection are postage dues..

They're usually pretty simple, but sometimes the designs on them actually intrigue me more than the image-based stamps.
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Inexpensive, but attractive! Cool

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Nice stamp.Thumbs Up



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05 Feb 2015
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Although these two stamps are 20 years apart, Chris, do I detect a theme emerging - the engraved image set within an ornate coloured border? They could have been designed by the same person! Interesting, too, that this style of design should remain popular for so long.

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08 Feb 2015
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I love the motto, 'Justice, Freedom, Commerce' - what a world of social history lies behind that triad! What would Robert Mugabe make of it?

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The stamp suggests that this was the British approach to their colonies. No doubt the other European countries would have agreed - I do not think freedom was uppermost in the minds of those who oversaw the workers in the South African mines. Unless, of course, it was the freedom to make as much money out of the land as possible - or 'commerce', as they politely termed it. Stamps remind us of our past, and that is as it should be.

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10 Feb 2015
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#65 with a great Fancy cancel on Patriotic cover (1862)

Great addition to my Eagle Collection

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Andrew, your cover includes the year, which was fairly uncommon for the period, making it all the better. very nice cover; beautiful fancy cancel and lovely patriotic, a mere ten months into the war

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A great postcard from the 1930s. The Pander Postjager was a purpose built mail plane to provide a regular mail service between the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies. The first flight in December 1933 got as far as Italy where the aircraft was grounded with engine failure. The mail was picked up by a regular Fokker F.XII IJsvogel, which in turn got stuck in Jodhpur, British India so that the mail was finally delivered in the Indies by the Fokker F.XVIII Pelikaan.
The return flight was record breaking: in 4 days (leaving in the early hours of Dec. 27th, the airplane arrived at Dec. 30th, 10 pm at Schiphol airport)

This card shows all the stages in its cancels as well as a special Postjager cancel.

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13 Feb 2015
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This surely must be a very scarce card, as only one of this aircraft type was ever built.

This all wooden purpose built 'mail plane' only had a short lifespan.

From what I can decipher, the aircraft, which was renamed the Pander Hunter, was destroyed during take off on 26th October 1934, during the London-Melbourne air race.

Apparently as a result of complete confusion with the aerodrome lighting, the plane hit an ambulance towed beacon trolley at 160 kmh, as it lifted from the runway.

2000 gallons of aviation fuel and a wooden aircaft was a lethal mixture!

Jan-Simon, have you been able to find out how many items of mail were carried on the two legs of the inaugural flight? And was this the only mail run it did? If so, why was this mail run abandoned?

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13 Feb 2015
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The card is not scarce, although it may take a while to find a copy. I have a nearly identical one, and a couple of years ago Roy Lingen, iirc, offered me one.

The mail route was not abandoned at all. It became a mainstay of KLM's business. That triangular airmail stamp was required for mail on special flights, such as the London-Melbourne MacRobertson race that Ningpo mentions; my understanding is that KLM got 100% of the funds from the sale of the stamps.

The first foreign company to buy a Douglas DC-2 was KLM. That aircraft, named Uiver ("Stork" in Old Dutch) won the handicap division of the MacRobertson race, flying the same route that it would fly on subsequent commercial flights from Netherlands to Java, at that time a Dutch colony. Sadly, the Uiver crashed in the Syrian Desert near Rutbah Wells on its first commercial flight, killing everyone on board (four passengers and three crew). At the time, a giant system of thunderstorms was pouring most of the Middle East. The only investigation of the crash was carried out by KLM, which to this day does not publicly acknowledge the crash and has never released the findings of the investigation.

Other DC-2s were purchased and began plying the same route on a regular basis, and in 1937 were replaced by DC-3s.

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13 Feb 2015
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Off to the Strand Stamp Fair this morning - first fair for several months. Not entirely successful, either. That late 1944 Polish set, unprepossessing to look at but the first after liberation, which was going for £70-odd last summer, is double that now. I did get the two used Gibraltar 1953 top values I thought I needed, for £36, but when I got home I found I already had them! (Have you ever done that? Of course you haven't!) So all I came home with was this:

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I liked the block, of course, and the implication that it had been done especially for Fraulein Elisabeth - perhaps a little girl who collected stamps. What also struck me was the mismatch between the festive holiday cancel (St Wolfgang is a picturesque resort by an Austrian lake) and the date, which is getting a little late in the day for the Third Reich.

Elisabeth (can anyone tell me her surname from that cover?) lived at Waitzstrasse 21, Kiel. Today that is in a large block of post-war flats set back from the main road; I suspect it would have looked very different in 1945. Wikipedia says:

"Because of its status as a naval port and as production site for submarines, Kiel was heavily bombed by the Allies during World War II. The bombing destroyed more than 80% of the remaining old town, 72% of the central residential areas, and 83% of the industrial areas. During the RAF bombing of 23/24 July 1944, Luftwaffe fighters tried to intercept the spoof (i.e. decoy) force instead of the main force attacking Kiel, and there was no water for three days; trains and buses did not run for eight days and there was no gas available for cooking for three weeks. There were several bombing raids of the port area during the period 20 February – 20 April 1945 which successfully eliminated many U-Boats, and the few large warships (cruisers Hipper, Scheer, and Koln) still afloat at that time."

So maybe this envelope (now sealed, no letter inside) provided some comfort for Elisabeth, with its block of four, and perhaps a memory of a childhood holiday by the lake.

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13 Feb 2015
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"Have you ever done that?"



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What is an " ... ambulance towed beacon trolley ..." ???

I just had to ask as it seemed to be an interesting phrase.

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Won these last Sunday during the auction at The Stamp Forum.

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13 Feb 2015
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One beacon trolley; as published on www.aviacrash.nl:

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Apparently this was the mobile airfield lighting beacon, used at Allahabad primarily as a searchlight. On the occasion of the crash, the trolley was towed by an ambulance.

I didn't mention that all the crew were walking wounded with burns but one of the beacon mechanics lost both legs.



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13 Feb 2015
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It has taken me FOREVER, but I finally scored on a nice wad of USED Eastern Silesia.

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Nice Cinderella's Zipper - beautifully engraved.

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14 Feb 2015
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Czeslaw Slania engraving

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At the top, we have Brazil Scott 3CL1-3, issued Nov. 9, 1927, by Varig, Brazil's first national airline. Bottom is Germany Sanabria 34a, a se-tenant pair from a booklet issued July 14, 1931.

Varig is now part of Gol Airlines, according to Wikipedia. Its full name was Sociedade Anônima Empresa de Viação Aérea Rio-Grandense, which Google translates as Anonymous Society of Air Traffic Company Riograndense. An alternative translation for Anonymous Society is Joint Stock Company. That makes more sense.

The Brazilian stamps came from Paradise Valley Stamp Co. in the United States. The German pair is from Sandafayre, in Britain.

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Interesting Brazil airmail history

The stamps were initially made in Germany for Condor Airlines
Varig was given the southernmost area of Brazil to operate in at basically the same time period as Condor.

Varig had close ties to Condor & they used their stamps with an overprint.
There are dozens of variations of these overprints and many errors - some quite valuable.

Shortly thereafter Condor published a second series with SYNDICATO CONDOR on the stamps.
Then they changed the values and overprinted them also with many more errors.
Condor went on to become an international airline.

If I remember right, the Varigs were discontinued in 1934 when both airlines used government airmails

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"I don't know why I am always surprised when I am reminded that Romanian is a romance language."



Just remember that Romania is a former "Italian" area. ROMANIA = ROMANA = of the Romans.

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Zipper, that set of ten "Eaton's Fine Letter Paper labels were issued during, or for, the New York World's Fair in 1939. My folks attended, despite the fact that my mother was very pregnant in the fall of 1939, (Yes, with yours truly -11/22/39 ) and they had a set of them, some forks and spoons with the WW Fair emblem and a metal molding (stamping ???)of the Trylon and Perisphere that was the fair's symbol of peace and hope of the future.

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They had the ten labels mounted on a separate blank page of their old blue late 1930s Scott world wide album.

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19 Feb 2015
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These were from my uncle's collection. I covered his name during scanning.

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These arrived today.

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Anyone know anything about this postmark? Can't find it on Google.

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Love the colors on this.

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21 Feb 2015
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Would you send me a scan or do I have permission to lift this image from StampoRama, maybe just maybe (no promise) I can enhance this cancel for you.

Now teach me how you search Google for a cancellations? I need to learn this skill.

Thanks in Advance

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Take what you like.

I googled many variations: Michigan postmarks, Michigan negative postmarks, negative postmarks, etc.

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Bee See, cool stuff. I, too, am starting to collect castles. Some S O's are on their way.

CDJ, that stamp is one of my favorites. Perhaps I should do a Vario page of them. Am now trying to assemble a page of 2 pence Blues. Cool that you were at the fair.

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21 Feb 2015
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Hey zipper
What are those? Souvenirs from a stamp show? They're gorgeous

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They're Cinderellas from a large, international stamp show in 1926 (horizontal stamp), and in 1936 (three vertical stamps), in New York. My favorite city.

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21 Feb 2015
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An attractive group of GB 1st class Machins, including the pane of four from the Berlin Airlift booklet. Just a shame that so often mailers are ruined by that horrible parcel tape. I guess I will have to remove these, as the oil in the tape's gum will in time bleed through.


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21 Feb 2015
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Zipper

I lifted your image of your cover, tried several enhancements, nothing worked this time. Enhancements of a post mark is a hit or miss type of thing. Sometimes it works real good, or some time only half good. In this case nothing helped. Even tried reverse video.

Sorry I could not help.

I noticed the return address was St. Johns Michigan. I was stationed at Wurthsmith AFB back in the 60's, dated a girl living in St. Johns.

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Thanks for trying.

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Congrats! I like how the cross has framed Vickie's face!


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23 Feb 2015
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These two came by post this morning.

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They are Soviet Airmails - the writing looks like 'Abuanorma' but is in fact 'Aviaposta' - by different designers. The green 2r. shows 'Aeroplane over landscape' (Stanley Gibbons), or 'mountain stream' (Journal of Russian Philately). The 1r. is more interesting: it shows 'Aeroplane over coastline' (SG), or even 'over the Don river' (JRP).

Actually I think it shows a Japanese print, or a detail from a print - I thought Hiroshige, but a correspondent on another part of this website, who I think knows more about these things than me, demurs. Whatever the case, I have not been able to identify it. The words at lower left read "Farthest East" - presumably the extent to which Aeroflot was pleased to go back in 1955.

So, do designers use artworks from other countries without attributing them, and how cheeky is that? Or has Mr Dubasov (Goznak's Head Artist at the time) actually rendered his own 'Japanese' illustration - in the style of Hiroshige?

Somehow, I don't think I'll find out any time soon! (But please, if you are interested in design and designers, see my articles on Dubasov in the appropriate section of this site as and when they are published.)

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23 Feb 2015
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Hi Guthrum,

The words at the bottom left of the first "aviapochta" stamp are "dalnii vostok" or "far east".

I agree that the designer is suggesting a Japanese style.

It certainly isn't the Don river!

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23 Feb 2015
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Just won ! Big Grin

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23 Feb 2015
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This arrived today: 1976 North Vietnam cover to East Germany, franked with a stamp picturing "Tanks liberating Da Nang":

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There's one interesting attribute of this cover that I haven't seen before: The "airmail stripes" around the edge were pasted onto the cover after, obviously, being cut from an airmail envelope.

I spent one night in hospital in Da Nang, in March, 1966. I had spent a couple of days on hospital ship U.S.S. Haven, where I had surgery for a gunshot wound to my right thigh.

I was flown by helicopter to Da Nang, and was evacuated on a C-131 Hercules to Clark AFB in the Philippines:

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The next day, then after another night at Clark, back to the States in a C-141, at that time the largest aircraft in the world:

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This photo shows the interior of the C-141, fitted out as a hospital plane, just like it was when I was a "guest"; I was one very sick puppy and don't remember a lot about the flight:

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It's kinda hard to get my head around the fact that we worked really hard, and lost a lot of good men, trying to secure South Vietnam against the "communist hoard," and 10 years later it was all over, with nothing gained at all, except the knowledge that we did our best in an impossible situation. I well remember realizing, after only 24 days in South Vietnam, that we Americans had no business being there.

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24 Feb 2015
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24 Feb 2015
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(Responding to the North Vietnam cover post)

Bob, one interesting point about your cover is who might have sent it from Hanoi to the family Hasenpusch in Kirchmoser. A quick check on the internet tells me that Kirchmoser did a certain amount of tank repair for the Red Army in the DDR days, and that Fritz Hasenpusch was well-known in canoeing circles(!). Today there's are Hasenpusches from Kirchmoser on Facebook.

So, was there a Hasenpusch in Hanoi in 1976 (and what was he doing), or is this a Vietnamese letter-writer staying in touch with a German family?


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24 Feb 2015
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An interesting post, Guthrum. East Germany and North Vietnam had quite close ties before, during, and after the Vietnam War. Many North Korean students went to East Germany to study in various disciplines, and East Germany undertook many social programs in North Vietnam, including the the construction of hospitals. East Germany also issued several stamps in support of North Vietnam during the war. Here's a DDR cover posted to Canada in 1971:

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It's what could be called a "para-philatelic" cover. The sender, an East German philatelist, carried on a correspondence for a time with the recipient, a member of my stamp club.

The North Vietnamese used Chinese Type 62 light tanks:

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Perhaps East Germany offered technical and military help to the PAVN (People's Army of Viet Nam).

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24 Feb 2015
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H.M.S. Carinthia, a British was a passenger ship that had been converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. On June 6, 1940, it was torpedoed U-46, about 50 miles west of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in Ireland. Although several emergency vessels came to its aid, and it was taken under tow by two British rescue tugs, it sank the next day before reaching safety. Two officers and two ratings died in the attack.

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The British rescue tug H.M.S. Bandit had been dispatched from the British naval base at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland to assist Carinthia, but a radio message changed its assignment to assist another British merchant vessel, S.S. Eros, which had been torpedoed north Ireland on June 7 by another German submarine, U-48.

H.M.S. Carinthia, a British passenger ship that had been converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. On June 6, 1940, it was torpedoed U-46, about 50 miles west of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in Ireland. Although several emergency vessels came to its aid, and it was taken under tow by two British rescue tugs, it sank the next day before reaching safety. Two officers and two ratings died in the attack.

The British rescue tug H.M.S. Bandit had been dispatched from the British naval base at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland to assist Carinthia, but a radio message changed its assignment to assist another British merchant vessel, S.S. Eros, which had been torpedoed north Ireland on June 7 by another German submarine, U-48. Eros, however, was leading a charmed life. Although the ship was sinking, Bandit reached her, got a line aboard, and beached her on Tory Island in the Republic of Ireland (which lead to some interesting diplomatic contortions, since Ireland was neutral).

I’ve managed to obtain three covers that were salvaged from Eros, as as well as a photograph that I obtained from the National Maritime Museum in London. Here's an Eros cover, and the photograph:

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There’s much more to Eros’’story, but this post is about Carinthia.But the postcard, which I received today from a dealer in Australia, is the first artifact of Carinthia that I have found.

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25 Feb 2015
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I could not resist this cover, which has two of my interests: Victorian era stamps, and ship postal usage. The red seals on the back are a bit annoying to be honest, as the color transfers, so I have to keep it in a clear cover.

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I LOVE wax seals on old letters!

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I wish I had the letter from the envelope! Who can't love covers? So much history and interesting finds.

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14 Mar 2015
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I found this Czech cancelled to order sheet today at my local stamp fair. I just thought the stamps were great designs, and those wonderful sepia-tone cancels. The Czechs really have produced some wonderful stuff over the years.

This set me back the princely sum of 10 pence (15 cents):


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At long last, my Portugal 1910 King Manuel II page is complete.
Aaah, the satisfaction of waiting for that last empty slot until the time is right!
No I am not going to try for an all Mint page. I am done, except for planning to add the extra stamps to my next Portugal Approval Book (not self promoting!).
Not the prettiest page, but just the same...Big Grin
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15 Mar 2015
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I have some acquisitions from this afternoon but first an explanation..i went to the monthly stamp show in Troy N.Y. with no expectations but to pass the time..as luck would have it a fellow came in with many boxes of netherlands covers...he was selling the higher end covers..$75 to 125 types to a dealer...i asked if his boxes contained any Dutch Indies..he said "they are in there...5 dollars accross the board". I said i am buying !!! Here is what i picked up for 50 bucks today...11 scans !!!

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15 Mar 2015
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15 Mar 2015
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#2 a censored metered advertising cover from 1940 !Image Not Found

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15 Mar 2015
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#3 a registered letter to New York also 1940 but no censor !

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registered cover to New York with censor tape !Image Not Found

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a small airmail envelope to Holland !!Image Not Found

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15 Mar 2015
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six a blank and white dutch indies postcard !!Image Not Found

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15 Mar 2015
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15 Mar 2015
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15 Mar 2015
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lastly a cover from Holland to the Dutch Indies...the dealer purchased like $2500 worth from the guy and they are going back to the Netherlands,,,perhaps phil the cheapskate should have purchased more..but these will keep me for a while !Image Not Found

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16 Mar 2015
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What is the Z.O.Z marking

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16 Mar 2015
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Hi smauggie,

It's short for "zie ommezijde", Dutch for "PTO" or "see overleaf".




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16 Mar 2015
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As a collector of EFOs, I could not resist these at a local auction!

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big george, thats pretty good ! smauggie heres the ZOZ or as we used to say in Brooklyn the udder side !!!Image Not Found

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16 Mar 2015
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Thank you Nigel and Phil. Of course, the other side had more postage and the address. That makes sense.

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16 Mar 2015
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i should have asked my wife..but Nigel answered it !!!Happy

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16 Mar 2015
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Big George, those are great. Immediately reminded me of doing a page of cartoons with stamps back in the 1970's. Wish I could find and post them. The only one I remember was taking a bunch of the 4 cent Mercury stamps and placing them together so that it formed a complete Earth with 8 or 12 Mercury capsules in orbit. The captions said something about how crowded space is becoming. I've recreated the visual here using PowerPoint, but I still want to find the original!


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18 Mar 2015
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Here is a nice one I received yesterday. I will keep this as it is for several reasons, one being the suspicion that there will not be many in good genuinely used condition.

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Another reason is of course the wonderful addressing Big Grin

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20 Mar 2015
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This my most recent purchase just need the 15 R now.
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