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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : My Story The Zeppelin That Got Away

 

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25 Sep 2011
07:16:48pm
My wife and I are a big fans of auctions, we go to auctions at least once a month, I look for postal items, revenues, tools, old magazines and pictures and she looks for old advertising items, post cards and glassware. Auctions are our date night. Yesterday we went to a local auction in Adrian Michigan. It is one of those places that for the most part sell left over garage sale items or items people are too lazy to sell at garage sales, and occasionally an estate. I have won a few stamp albums in the past; mostly low value kids type albums, post cards, covers etc.

While I was sorting through an old pile of magazines I ran across one of those 40 page paper back 1941 Atlas Albums with stamps sloppily hinged to the pages. So as not to draw attention that I was particularly interested in the pile of magazines I quickly flipped through the album pages and to my surprise there was a Zeppelin C14 in the US section. The perforations were cut off on one end and it was glued directly to the page, it had a heavy cancel but I didn't care. It was just the idea that I actually found one. I quickly put the album back in the pile and started looking at other items.

When the bidding started I couldn't believe I was the only one bidding on the pile of old Hot Rod magazines. When I won the pile for $1.00 I was grinning from ear to ear, my wife thought I was nuts. Immediately I dug through the magazines to retrieve the album. I flipped to the US section and to my disappointment somebody had ripped out the whole section of the album! My grin quickly left.

Well I sold the 1960’s and 1970’s Hot Rod magazines to my neighbor for a .50 cents each. He thought they were perfect for garage reading. I am left with a bunch of non US stamps. Maybe I will find the equivalent of a Zeppelin in what is left over.

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25 Sep 2011
11:12:13pm
re: My Story The Zeppelin That Got Away

Michael,
What a disappointment the story about the C14 turned out to be, I'm sure you were hot under the collar after it happened. Maybe you should have kept a closer eye on that box, but who would have thought someone would be that gutsy in the first place. We had a fellow do that type of lowly trick at one of our local stamp club auctions. The officers discussed it early at the next meeting and were going to brace him about his actions, but he announced that he was moving to another state to be closer to the kids and grandkids, which gave all of us some relief from having to call him a thief and banish him from our midst.

Better luck next time.

Mike

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26 Sep 2011
11:12:48pm
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I wasn't hot I was more disappointed then anything. Had I got in a bidding war and bought the pile of magazines for some outrageous amount then I would have been hot. I felt like the kid at Christmas opening a box of new underwear instead of the toy he thought he was getting.

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27 Sep 2011
03:25:09pm
re: My Story The Zeppelin That Got Away

ROTF !!!
" .... I felt like the kid at Christmas opening a box of new underwear instead of the toy he thought he was getting. .... "

I do know that feeling and precisely when I felt it most keenly. November22,1949, my tenth birthday. I don't recall what I was expecting, but a new bathrobe was not it. I remember choking back tears as I performed what has to be an acquired courtesy of looking pleased and thankful.
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25 Sep 2011
07:16:48pm

My wife and I are a big fans of auctions, we go to auctions at least once a month, I look for postal items, revenues, tools, old magazines and pictures and she looks for old advertising items, post cards and glassware. Auctions are our date night. Yesterday we went to a local auction in Adrian Michigan. It is one of those places that for the most part sell left over garage sale items or items people are too lazy to sell at garage sales, and occasionally an estate. I have won a few stamp albums in the past; mostly low value kids type albums, post cards, covers etc.

While I was sorting through an old pile of magazines I ran across one of those 40 page paper back 1941 Atlas Albums with stamps sloppily hinged to the pages. So as not to draw attention that I was particularly interested in the pile of magazines I quickly flipped through the album pages and to my surprise there was a Zeppelin C14 in the US section. The perforations were cut off on one end and it was glued directly to the page, it had a heavy cancel but I didn't care. It was just the idea that I actually found one. I quickly put the album back in the pile and started looking at other items.

When the bidding started I couldn't believe I was the only one bidding on the pile of old Hot Rod magazines. When I won the pile for $1.00 I was grinning from ear to ear, my wife thought I was nuts. Immediately I dug through the magazines to retrieve the album. I flipped to the US section and to my disappointment somebody had ripped out the whole section of the album! My grin quickly left.

Well I sold the 1960’s and 1970’s Hot Rod magazines to my neighbor for a .50 cents each. He thought they were perfect for garage reading. I am left with a bunch of non US stamps. Maybe I will find the equivalent of a Zeppelin in what is left over.

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25 Sep 2011
11:12:13pm

re: My Story The Zeppelin That Got Away

Michael,
What a disappointment the story about the C14 turned out to be, I'm sure you were hot under the collar after it happened. Maybe you should have kept a closer eye on that box, but who would have thought someone would be that gutsy in the first place. We had a fellow do that type of lowly trick at one of our local stamp club auctions. The officers discussed it early at the next meeting and were going to brace him about his actions, but he announced that he was moving to another state to be closer to the kids and grandkids, which gave all of us some relief from having to call him a thief and banish him from our midst.

Better luck next time.

Mike

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26 Sep 2011
11:12:48pm

re: My Story The Zeppelin That Got Away

I wasn't hot I was more disappointed then anything. Had I got in a bidding war and bought the pile of magazines for some outrageous amount then I would have been hot. I felt like the kid at Christmas opening a box of new underwear instead of the toy he thought he was getting.

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27 Sep 2011
03:25:09pm

re: My Story The Zeppelin That Got Away

ROTF !!!
" .... I felt like the kid at Christmas opening a box of new underwear instead of the toy he thought he was getting. .... "

I do know that feeling and precisely when I felt it most keenly. November22,1949, my tenth birthday. I don't recall what I was expecting, but a new bathrobe was not it. I remember choking back tears as I performed what has to be an acquired courtesy of looking pleased and thankful.
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Pretending to be thrilled.


(Modified by Moderator on 2011-09-27 21:42:09)

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