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Coyote maxicard with my personalized stamp from Zazzle, and a MPP postmark from Bill Porter.
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very nice on all counts
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The funicular railway and Audrey Hepburn and stunning.
I collected funicular for a time - but never found a maxi.
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Here is a 3 part set (of 4) Russia 1975 Navy Maxicards. (Stamps are from 1974).
4k Landing craft
6k Antisubmarine destroyer
16k Antisubmarine cruiser
Does anyone have the 3k Mine Layer card to swap/sell???????
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France used to do a very nice line in maximum cards - perhaps they still do. I picked up a dozen or so from the Vincennes Philatelie stand at Stampex last year.
Here is one, commemorating Brother Alfred Stanke, a Polish-born German monk whose good deeds during the war are well worth reading about.
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/14998-alfred-stanke-a-german-monk-who-saved-hundreds/
The main illustration is on silk (or similar).
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For anyone on the lookout for an under-appreciated maxicard ...
https://stamporama.com/auction/auction_main.php?action=40&id=RA.4B4ie4MxcA&cnt=15
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/s/ ikeyPikey
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seriesAnd to add to this Maxi card - for me- is the fact that my father's ancestors, the 'van der Veer' tribe, came from Culemborg! In the 1950's my sister back and I went to Culemborg and crossed the river - which was at the foot of the Veer Street- in a hand- rope- pulled ferry boat!
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Years ago someone send me these maxi's as a gift along with stamps we were trading. I just put them away as I don't collect them. Does anyone have a know anything about them, or have an interest in these?
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Nice flowers maxicards!
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Why do YOU think that maximaphily isn't more popular?
Do you have any suggestion to improve it?
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"... Why do YOU think that maximaphily isn't more popular? ..."
Maxicards now suffer from the same perfectionistic conditionism that has driven so much of stamp collecting to MNHOG, and that eventually destroyed so much of the FDC segment of the hobby: the card subject and stamp subject and cancellation must all match, and the most highly-prized items are commercially contrived, unaddressed, and never passed thru the mail (except as cargo).
That, in turn, means that 'collecting' maxicards consists, primarily, of two activities: subscribing to new releases from the postal authorities that publish them, and backfilling from the secondary market.
For myself, I get a lot more enjoyment from the serendipity of finding, for example, a picture postcard of some Alpine mountain bearing the postmark of its own postal substation. Or, similarly, from finding a picture postcard where the subject of the stamp and the subject of the card are closely related. Yes, these are no less contrived, but at least there is the hope that they might be a little unique, and originated from ordinary use, eg, they are a little less 'philatelic'.
Yet another alternative is to collect the output of the small private maxicard publishers.
But I think that sterility & standardization have served to limit the enthusiasm for maxicards.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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" ... That, in turn, means that 'collecting' maxicards
consists, primarily, of two activities:
subscribing to new releases from the postal authorities
that publish them, and back-filling from the secondary market. ..."
I agree and point out that it runs into the often quoted meme;
"What is prepared specifically for the collector,
is not a collectible."
Sooner or later, such contrived items are discovered
to exist in such gigantic quantities that
much of the "seeking and finding" enjoyment of collecting
is diminished to just purchasing from a seller/manufacturer.
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I would agree that commercial mass-produced cards fall into that category, and I don't find them particularly interesting.
However I do think that those people who subscribe to new issues, and then go to a great deal of trouble to look for an appropriate postcard ( new or old ) and enhance the stamp by using it through the post with maximum conformance do produce interesting items that have appeal. Most of such items are in fact unique.
Perhaps they appeal in the same way that advertising envelopes or First Day Covers used commercially as marketing tools do. I don't specifically seek them out, but I do retain the ones that come to me.
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Any new thought, in the past year?
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Many valid points in the answers above.
I strongly believe that the crux of the matter is the set of guidelines ("rules and regulations").
An overhaul could inject new energy and passion for maximaphily.
My proposed non-traditional maximaphily contains the traditional maximaphily as a subset.
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"Navajo jewelry necklace, non-traditional maxicard temporary arrangement", necklace worn here by the beautiful Raquel Welch.
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My blog Dorincard is currently set to Private. But you can see my other websites, such as http://s289.beta.photobucket.com/user/dorincard/library/
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Coyote maxicard with my personalized stamp from Zazzle, and a MPP postmark from Bill Porter.
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very nice on all counts
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http://s289.photobucket.com/user/dorincard/library/World%20collections/United%20States
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Dorin
The funicular railway and Audrey Hepburn and stunning.
I collected funicular for a time - but never found a maxi.
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Here is a 3 part set (of 4) Russia 1975 Navy Maxicards. (Stamps are from 1974).
4k Landing craft
6k Antisubmarine destroyer
16k Antisubmarine cruiser
Does anyone have the 3k Mine Layer card to swap/sell???????
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France used to do a very nice line in maximum cards - perhaps they still do. I picked up a dozen or so from the Vincennes Philatelie stand at Stampex last year.
Here is one, commemorating Brother Alfred Stanke, a Polish-born German monk whose good deeds during the war are well worth reading about.
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/14998-alfred-stanke-a-german-monk-who-saved-hundreds/
The main illustration is on silk (or similar).
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For anyone on the lookout for an under-appreciated maxicard ...
https://stamporama.com/auction/auction_main.php?action=40&id=RA.4B4ie4MxcA&cnt=15
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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And to add to this Maxi card - for me- is the fact that my father's ancestors, the 'van der Veer' tribe, came from Culemborg! In the 1950's my sister back and I went to Culemborg and crossed the river - which was at the foot of the Veer Street- in a hand- rope- pulled ferry boat!
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Years ago someone send me these maxi's as a gift along with stamps we were trading. I just put them away as I don't collect them. Does anyone have a know anything about them, or have an interest in these?
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Nice flowers maxicards!
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Why do YOU think that maximaphily isn't more popular?
Do you have any suggestion to improve it?
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"... Why do YOU think that maximaphily isn't more popular? ..."
Maxicards now suffer from the same perfectionistic conditionism that has driven so much of stamp collecting to MNHOG, and that eventually destroyed so much of the FDC segment of the hobby: the card subject and stamp subject and cancellation must all match, and the most highly-prized items are commercially contrived, unaddressed, and never passed thru the mail (except as cargo).
That, in turn, means that 'collecting' maxicards consists, primarily, of two activities: subscribing to new releases from the postal authorities that publish them, and backfilling from the secondary market.
For myself, I get a lot more enjoyment from the serendipity of finding, for example, a picture postcard of some Alpine mountain bearing the postmark of its own postal substation. Or, similarly, from finding a picture postcard where the subject of the stamp and the subject of the card are closely related. Yes, these are no less contrived, but at least there is the hope that they might be a little unique, and originated from ordinary use, eg, they are a little less 'philatelic'.
Yet another alternative is to collect the output of the small private maxicard publishers.
But I think that sterility & standardization have served to limit the enthusiasm for maxicards.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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" ... That, in turn, means that 'collecting' maxicards
consists, primarily, of two activities:
subscribing to new releases from the postal authorities
that publish them, and back-filling from the secondary market. ..."
I agree and point out that it runs into the often quoted meme;
"What is prepared specifically for the collector,
is not a collectible."
Sooner or later, such contrived items are discovered
to exist in such gigantic quantities that
much of the "seeking and finding" enjoyment of collecting
is diminished to just purchasing from a seller/manufacturer.
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Charlie
I would agree that commercial mass-produced cards fall into that category, and I don't find them particularly interesting.
However I do think that those people who subscribe to new issues, and then go to a great deal of trouble to look for an appropriate postcard ( new or old ) and enhance the stamp by using it through the post with maximum conformance do produce interesting items that have appeal. Most of such items are in fact unique.
Perhaps they appeal in the same way that advertising envelopes or First Day Covers used commercially as marketing tools do. I don't specifically seek them out, but I do retain the ones that come to me.
Malcolm
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Any new thought, in the past year?
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Many valid points in the answers above.
I strongly believe that the crux of the matter is the set of guidelines ("rules and regulations").
An overhaul could inject new energy and passion for maximaphily.
My proposed non-traditional maximaphily contains the traditional maximaphily as a subset.
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"Navajo jewelry necklace, non-traditional maxicard temporary arrangement", necklace worn here by the beautiful Raquel Welch.
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