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Worldwide/Cinderellas & Seals : Recent Acquisition

 

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bobgggg

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09 Oct 2016
10:17:03am
Well..OK about a month ago..added these two Postcards to my Christmas seal collection from 1915 and 1921 Image Not Found

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21 Jan 2017
07:08:52am
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One of my latest additions was this full sheet of 1900 War Fund Labels organized by the Manchester Philatelic Society.

This is the scarce 2½d sheet of 12. Poorly printed, bad design and colour but a British icon of War Fund items. I was lucky !Smug


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Tom in Exton, PA

21 Jan 2017
10:04:30am

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Here's a cover I recently acquired for my New Jersey postmark collection. Commercial usage of a commemorative stamp, along with two different seals. This was 1953 so Polio was still a threat. And the Elks seal on the back is a sign of those times too... we'd never say "Crippled Children" today.

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Tom in Exton, PA

21 Jan 2017
11:05:24am

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"added these two Postcards to my Christmas seal collection from 1915 and 1921"



I've been putting Christmas covers aside. Both those with Christmas seals and those with Christmas Eve and Day cancels. I have been looking for the first seals in 1907, 1908 and 1909 on cover with my Ben Franklin stamp. I've seen many with the seal off to the left but I want ones that are officially tied with the cancellation.

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21 Jan 2017
01:50:34pm
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Control stamp from the sales Department of the American Philatelic Association followed by a very nice Great Britain Dealer advertising label served up in a Miniature Sheet. The firm was not known by me.

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21 Jan 2017
01:55:38pm
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Do not recall the Kingston dealers but remember the one at top of Wimbledon Hill, near the common. Cannot recall the name but it was in the early 1960's. Seem to remember that there was a collectors shop down at South Wimbledon who sold stamps and matchbox labels, next to an electrical ( radio ham) store.

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londonbus1
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22 Jan 2017
03:02:07pm
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I was only a wee lad in the early sixties! Wimbledon and stamps were an age away. Found nothing in a search either, sadly.

Here is another item or 2 that have recently landed on my desk.

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Commemorative label celebrating 75 years of Postmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. Nicely engraved, the building has not changed much since 1906. Issued in booklets of which there are a number of text and printing varieties. A fine souvenir.

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24 Jan 2017
03:31:52pm
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Here's the 1p War Fund label sheet from the Manchester PS to go with the 2½p sheet shown previously.


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24 Jan 2017
06:30:47pm

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Tom and Bob,

Christmas Seal and Charity Stamp Society has been tracking tied seals for a while now. We have a census of tied seals, starting with the 1907. There are no comparable censuses for other seals that I'm aware of.

it's quite a treat to see an Elks and Sister Kinney seal on the same cover; those double seal covers are on the rare side; rarer still if tied.

nice

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Guthrum
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25 Jan 2017
09:31:35am
re: Recent Acquisition

Once, I suppose, it was only Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg. Then, gradually, other stories began to surface: Chiune Sugihara, Aristides des Sousa Mendes, Giorgio Perlasca. They're all on stamps worth looking for, and here's another couple, just arrived:

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Gilberto Bosques Saldivar - well, check out his story... what a man!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto_Bosques_Sald%C3%ADvar

These are the heroes of the twentieth century, I'd say. That was a long life, well lived.


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25 Jan 2017
01:40:09pm
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This cover is a recent virtual acquisition:

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It is a survivor of the 1954 collision of a Trans-Canada Airlines North Star airliner with an RCAF Harvard trainer over the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. There were no survivors, and one woman on the ground was killed by falling debris. My web page, North Star Falling, provides extensive details about the circumstances of the collision and the aftermath; at the time, it was the worst airline disaster in Canadian history. The web page includes a lot of philatelic information about the handling of the mail that the North Star was carrying when it crashed.

A Vancouver resident, Chuck Hamilton, found my web page and sent images of his crash cover to me, thinking, correctly, I would be interested. He wasn't interested in selling it to me for obvious reasons: His mother had posted it to his aunt, and it contained photographs of his sister, who died a few years ago from brain cancer. He hadn't known about the photographs until last year when his mother sent them and the cover and letter to him.

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The inclusion of the multiple polio labels is interesting. Mr. Hamilton didn't mention whether anyone in his family had polio, but his mother might have, hence the heavy use of the labels. At the time, thousands of people were contracting polio. I'm sure that many Stamporama members remember getting the first vaccine in cubes of sugar.

The North Star was a Canadian variant of the Douglas DC-6. It used the same engines — Rolls-Royce Merlins that were used on the Lancaster bomber and Spitfire fighter of the Second World War. I recently purchased this 1/400 scale diecast model of TCA Northstar, registered as CF-TFB:

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The same North Star, CF-TFB, is pictured on Canada Scott #313, issued in the Stamp Centenary set in 1951:

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Here's a detail image, showing the registration, TFB:

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I know of philatelists whose collections are entirely virtual, which allows them to "own" almost any stamp they can find an image of. But I get a lot of pleasure out having stamps and covers and collateral items in my hands (or grasped by my tongs, so nearly all of the philatelic items illustrated in my web pages are also in my albums and stock books. Nevertheless, I was pleased to add Mr. Hamilton's cover and its contents to my North Star Falling web page, partly because of that green postal inspector's stamp (I have several Moose Jaw crash covers, but I'd never seen one in green ink) but also because of the interesting back story that Mr. Hamilton provided.

Bob



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27 Jan 2017
07:19:16am
re: Recent Acquisition

FIRST HUNGARIAN MEDITTERANEAN CIRCULAR FLIGHT.

During February and March 1933, Hungarian Pilots Antal Banhidi and Tibor Bisits made the first circular flight around the Meditteranean Sea. It took just over 100 hours of flying time to complete which included an 'illegal' tour over the Pyramids of Giza ! The Gerle.13 Bi-plane was designed by Banhidi himself and was one of 15 Gerle light aircraft designed by him.
Shown below are some items won at auction, at least the ones I managed to win. A couple did get away !
Commemorative label produced for the occasion Perforated; Imperf Tete-Beche pair; Imperf Vertically and Progressive Proof in Black only. Designer/Printer not found up to now but research is marked down as ongoing.


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04 Feb 2017
12:29:35pm
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Slovak Rising 1944. Was part of my Flags on Cinderella Topical but since I learned the labels were valid for postage, the sheet moved albums !! Blushing


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10 Feb 2018
03:13:13am
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Not the latests (they're already on the post), but some recent adquisitions. My cinderella's main interest are Catalan ones.

These were issued at the begining of XXth century and are "souvenir stamps" of Montserrat, Catalan's holy mountain.

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10 Feb 2018
03:22:29am
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By contrast, some very modern ones, issued on December 2017, showing was has happened since last autumn in Catalonia. I was there.

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The text says: "Catalan Republic" "We will be, what we will want to be" "Catalans, be worth of Catalonia"

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bobgggg

President Cortlandt Stamp Club

09 Oct 2016
10:17:03am

Well..OK about a month ago..added these two Postcards to my Christmas seal collection from 1915 and 1921 Image Not Found

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londonbus1

21 Jan 2017
07:08:52am

re: Recent Acquisition

One of my latest additions was this full sheet of 1900 War Fund Labels organized by the Manchester Philatelic Society.

This is the scarce 2½d sheet of 12. Poorly printed, bad design and colour but a British icon of War Fund items. I was lucky !Smug


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Tom in Exton, PA
21 Jan 2017
10:04:30am

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Here's a cover I recently acquired for my New Jersey postmark collection. Commercial usage of a commemorative stamp, along with two different seals. This was 1953 so Polio was still a threat. And the Elks seal on the back is a sign of those times too... we'd never say "Crippled Children" today.

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Tom in Exton, PA
21 Jan 2017
11:05:24am

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"added these two Postcards to my Christmas seal collection from 1915 and 1921"



I've been putting Christmas covers aside. Both those with Christmas seals and those with Christmas Eve and Day cancels. I have been looking for the first seals in 1907, 1908 and 1909 on cover with my Ben Franklin stamp. I've seen many with the seal off to the left but I want ones that are officially tied with the cancellation.

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londonbus1

21 Jan 2017
01:50:34pm

re: Recent Acquisition

Control stamp from the sales Department of the American Philatelic Association followed by a very nice Great Britain Dealer advertising label served up in a Miniature Sheet. The firm was not known by me.

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sheepshanks

21 Jan 2017
01:55:38pm

re: Recent Acquisition

Do not recall the Kingston dealers but remember the one at top of Wimbledon Hill, near the common. Cannot recall the name but it was in the early 1960's. Seem to remember that there was a collectors shop down at South Wimbledon who sold stamps and matchbox labels, next to an electrical ( radio ham) store.

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londonbus1

22 Jan 2017
03:02:07pm

re: Recent Acquisition

I was only a wee lad in the early sixties! Wimbledon and stamps were an age away. Found nothing in a search either, sadly.

Here is another item or 2 that have recently landed on my desk.

Image Not Found

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Commemorative label celebrating 75 years of Postmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. Nicely engraved, the building has not changed much since 1906. Issued in booklets of which there are a number of text and printing varieties. A fine souvenir.

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londonbus1

24 Jan 2017
03:31:52pm

re: Recent Acquisition

Here's the 1p War Fund label sheet from the Manchester PS to go with the 2½p sheet shown previously.


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amsd

Editor, Seal News; contributor, JuicyHeads
24 Jan 2017
06:30:47pm

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Tom and Bob,

Christmas Seal and Charity Stamp Society has been tracking tied seals for a while now. We have a census of tied seals, starting with the 1907. There are no comparable censuses for other seals that I'm aware of.

it's quite a treat to see an Elks and Sister Kinney seal on the same cover; those double seal covers are on the rare side; rarer still if tied.

nice

David

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Guthrum

25 Jan 2017
09:31:35am

re: Recent Acquisition

Once, I suppose, it was only Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg. Then, gradually, other stories began to surface: Chiune Sugihara, Aristides des Sousa Mendes, Giorgio Perlasca. They're all on stamps worth looking for, and here's another couple, just arrived:

Image Not FoundImage Not Found

Gilberto Bosques Saldivar - well, check out his story... what a man!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto_Bosques_Sald%C3%ADvar

These are the heroes of the twentieth century, I'd say. That was a long life, well lived.


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Bobstamp

25 Jan 2017
01:40:09pm

re: Recent Acquisition

This cover is a recent virtual acquisition:

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It is a survivor of the 1954 collision of a Trans-Canada Airlines North Star airliner with an RCAF Harvard trainer over the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. There were no survivors, and one woman on the ground was killed by falling debris. My web page, North Star Falling, provides extensive details about the circumstances of the collision and the aftermath; at the time, it was the worst airline disaster in Canadian history. The web page includes a lot of philatelic information about the handling of the mail that the North Star was carrying when it crashed.

A Vancouver resident, Chuck Hamilton, found my web page and sent images of his crash cover to me, thinking, correctly, I would be interested. He wasn't interested in selling it to me for obvious reasons: His mother had posted it to his aunt, and it contained photographs of his sister, who died a few years ago from brain cancer. He hadn't known about the photographs until last year when his mother sent them and the cover and letter to him.

Image Not Found

The inclusion of the multiple polio labels is interesting. Mr. Hamilton didn't mention whether anyone in his family had polio, but his mother might have, hence the heavy use of the labels. At the time, thousands of people were contracting polio. I'm sure that many Stamporama members remember getting the first vaccine in cubes of sugar.

The North Star was a Canadian variant of the Douglas DC-6. It used the same engines — Rolls-Royce Merlins that were used on the Lancaster bomber and Spitfire fighter of the Second World War. I recently purchased this 1/400 scale diecast model of TCA Northstar, registered as CF-TFB:

Image Not Found

The same North Star, CF-TFB, is pictured on Canada Scott #313, issued in the Stamp Centenary set in 1951:

Image Not Found


Here's a detail image, showing the registration, TFB:

Image Not Found

I know of philatelists whose collections are entirely virtual, which allows them to "own" almost any stamp they can find an image of. But I get a lot of pleasure out having stamps and covers and collateral items in my hands (or grasped by my tongs, so nearly all of the philatelic items illustrated in my web pages are also in my albums and stock books. Nevertheless, I was pleased to add Mr. Hamilton's cover and its contents to my North Star Falling web page, partly because of that green postal inspector's stamp (I have several Moose Jaw crash covers, but I'd never seen one in green ink) but also because of the interesting back story that Mr. Hamilton provided.

Bob



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londonbus1

27 Jan 2017
07:19:16am

re: Recent Acquisition

FIRST HUNGARIAN MEDITTERANEAN CIRCULAR FLIGHT.

During February and March 1933, Hungarian Pilots Antal Banhidi and Tibor Bisits made the first circular flight around the Meditteranean Sea. It took just over 100 hours of flying time to complete which included an 'illegal' tour over the Pyramids of Giza ! The Gerle.13 Bi-plane was designed by Banhidi himself and was one of 15 Gerle light aircraft designed by him.
Shown below are some items won at auction, at least the ones I managed to win. A couple did get away !
Commemorative label produced for the occasion Perforated; Imperf Tete-Beche pair; Imperf Vertically and Progressive Proof in Black only. Designer/Printer not found up to now but research is marked down as ongoing.


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londonbus1

04 Feb 2017
12:29:35pm

re: Recent Acquisition

Slovak Rising 1944. Was part of my Flags on Cinderella Topical but since I learned the labels were valid for postage, the sheet moved albums !! Blushing


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Cursus

10 Feb 2018
03:13:13am

re: Recent Acquisition

Not the latests (they're already on the post), but some recent adquisitions. My cinderella's main interest are Catalan ones.

These were issued at the begining of XXth century and are "souvenir stamps" of Montserrat, Catalan's holy mountain.

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10 Feb 2018
03:22:29am

re: Recent Acquisition

By contrast, some very modern ones, issued on December 2017, showing was has happened since last autumn in Catalonia. I was there.

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The text says: "Catalan Republic" "We will be, what we will want to be" "Catalans, be worth of Catalonia"

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