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Nope. How about ... 1897 ?
Not one of those rarities we've been debating lately, but anyone else find this interesting? Happy New Year !
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I can make you one of those any time you want.
How about a "cut square" cut in an oval with pinking shears?
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Well, ya wanna know what's ROY-ally funny???
This attempt someone had at turning a common stamp into a pinking-shear bad cut square !!!
I swear to God - I did not touch or alter this stamp, but literally found it within 5 minutes of posting the first one.
The treasures out there are apparently unlimited. Anyone else want to come in with a funny line for me to try and match with a postmark?
Cheers, Dave.
P.S. I'll send this to you Roy, for your private eponymous collection.
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I found these in an auction lot of loose stamps, and kept them because they so clearly show Jersey's close association with Great Britain. Until the German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1940, and for a few years after the occupation, Jersey and Guernsey both relied on the British postal system for transmission of mail and used British postage stamps.
I have published four web pages about the Channel Islands' wartime history, concentrating on philatelic history and the incarceration of Channel Islanders by the Nazis. See The Channel Islands at War. I need to add the above image to one of those pages.
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Hey Bob. I think you make an interesting point about collecting which shows how diverse and great this hobby can be (especially if you respect diversity!)
The quality of your stamps (like these other finds) is definitely graded F- (ie “Crap”) for stamp “investors” but the postmarks elevate them to A+ for us (we?) stamp “history-nerds”.
I look closely at all donations (mostly damaged/non-collectable stamps) to The Holocaust Stamps Project (Canada) searching for postmarks - especially from Germany/Poland - to find complete names of cities, towns, and shtetls that figure into the history of The Holocaust. Like the New Years Day stamp - the “value” is not in the stamp quality, but in the postmark and revealed history gleaned from it (shout out to New Years Day bundle of joy, generous HSP(C) donor, and beloved friend Mel Bohannon).
DP
Now for the plug to all SOR members ... if you have any Crap stamps you hate the sight of (or even decent ones you don’t need) how about sending them to us? Over the holidays our “Covid Counting Coven” moved past 500,000 stamps counted towards our goal of 1.5M (one for every child’s life “thrown away” in The Holocaust.
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Nope. How about ... 1897 ?
Not one of those rarities we've been debating lately, but anyone else find this interesting? Happy New Year !
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re: Terribly Bad Cut Square - That Makes You Want to Party Like It's...
I can make you one of those any time you want.
How about a "cut square" cut in an oval with pinking shears?
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re: Terribly Bad Cut Square - That Makes You Want to Party Like It's...
Well, ya wanna know what's ROY-ally funny???
This attempt someone had at turning a common stamp into a pinking-shear bad cut square !!!
I swear to God - I did not touch or alter this stamp, but literally found it within 5 minutes of posting the first one.
The treasures out there are apparently unlimited. Anyone else want to come in with a funny line for me to try and match with a postmark?
Cheers, Dave.
P.S. I'll send this to you Roy, for your private eponymous collection.
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re: Terribly Bad Cut Square - That Makes You Want to Party Like It's...
I found these in an auction lot of loose stamps, and kept them because they so clearly show Jersey's close association with Great Britain. Until the German occupation of the Channel Islands in 1940, and for a few years after the occupation, Jersey and Guernsey both relied on the British postal system for transmission of mail and used British postage stamps.
I have published four web pages about the Channel Islands' wartime history, concentrating on philatelic history and the incarceration of Channel Islanders by the Nazis. See The Channel Islands at War. I need to add the above image to one of those pages.
Bob
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re: Terribly Bad Cut Square - That Makes You Want to Party Like It's...
Hey Bob. I think you make an interesting point about collecting which shows how diverse and great this hobby can be (especially if you respect diversity!)
The quality of your stamps (like these other finds) is definitely graded F- (ie “Crap”) for stamp “investors” but the postmarks elevate them to A+ for us (we?) stamp “history-nerds”.
I look closely at all donations (mostly damaged/non-collectable stamps) to The Holocaust Stamps Project (Canada) searching for postmarks - especially from Germany/Poland - to find complete names of cities, towns, and shtetls that figure into the history of The Holocaust. Like the New Years Day stamp - the “value” is not in the stamp quality, but in the postmark and revealed history gleaned from it (shout out to New Years Day bundle of joy, generous HSP(C) donor, and beloved friend Mel Bohannon).
DP
Now for the plug to all SOR members ... if you have any Crap stamps you hate the sight of (or even decent ones you don’t need) how about sending them to us? Over the holidays our “Covid Counting Coven” moved past 500,000 stamps counted towards our goal of 1.5M (one for every child’s life “thrown away” in The Holocaust.
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