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 Post subject: Welcome! The discussion starts here ...
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:13 am 
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Welcome!

Let's see if we can combine the "one room" concept of the earlier StampChat board with the technological advantages of true message-board software!

Here's the idea: Like the other StampChat board, there's just one destination to visit in order to read the latest discussion: this thread, or, technically, "topic". Everybody posts everything here. Follow-up comments are made here. Regular posts, like Jim W's "Today in Postal History" are made here. This is the "one room" concept.

However, several days later, a moderator will come along and "file" certain posts into the "StampChat Archives". Jim's posts will have a separate folder (or "forum", as it's called here). Any follow-up comments pertaining to his posts will be filed there as well. Lavar's posts and related comments would also "filed" into his own folder ("topic") in the archives, too.

Other topics that seem worthy of an archive folder can also get one as well.

The only drawback that the software imposes is that, when the post is filed into an Archive folder, it gets removed from the original thread. We haven't figured out anyway around this, but, if the filing is done a few days after the original discussion takes place, this may not be too much of an imposition.

Moreover, this software offers powerful research capabilities. You can ask it to find posts made by a certain author, using a certain keyword, in one "topic" or in multiple topics.

Thus, hopefully, this arrangement will combine the best of both worlds: the ease of use of a "one room" approach, coupled with some information organization and search capabilities.

Additionally, because of the one-time registration requirement, there is much more capability to prevent mischief by rogue posters. Finally, moderation will be performed in the background by an anonymous team.

I think this looks like a workable solution.

Please let us know what can be done to make it easier to use.


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 Post subject: New Years souvenir sheet
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:44 am 
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OK, so I got the 3/7 issue of Linn's, and they've assigned numbers to the New Years sheet. Get this. The sheet has been designated 3895. Fine. No problem. But only 11 of the 12 singles have been assigned minor numbers 3895a-3895k. The Year of the Monkey single has been assigned 3932a. Why? Because it's the sole stamp which is identical in all respects to the original single, (same design, same perfs, same denomination, same printer) except for the 2005 date. As such, Scott apparently requires it to be assigned a minor number of the original major variant, and not one of the souvenir sheet of which it's a part.

I dunno. There are rules, and then there are times when rules are just silliness. And it seems like one of these times.

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 Post subject: March Party
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:22 pm 
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Hey! I'll be at the March Party (Garfield Perry show in Cleveland) and I'm hoping to meet some of the folks I know via electronic means when I'm there. I don't get to go to this sort of thing often..... :)

Anyway, will any board members be there.. and, if so, anyone willing to meet and talk stamps/postal history for a while? I know Matt L and Ken S will be there. Others?

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 Post subject: 2474a booklet pane
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:58 pm 
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Rob, I got the following note from Vic (whose English isn't the best):
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Yes, I would call large holes coming from an unfolded pane No 1
I checked those few on hand and I found 1 pane with 2 large holes only on the left 1 perf and on the 4th perf but ion the 10th from the bottom.
1 it has large holes on the 5 rows but on the 8th from the top.
I would call a large holes variety and it looks like that would be
repeated in various positions depending on the position of the big uncut sheet due to a deformed punching knife.
Will check the others and will let you know what I find.


For those who want to see what we're talking about, I created an enlarged scan with arrows indicating the row of double-perfs. Warning - image is just under 500K. I also emailed Jim Kloetzel at Amos to see what he says about it.

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 Post subject: Re: 2474a booklet pane
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:35 pm 
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Response from Jim Kloetzel (very quickly too, I might add):
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This is not a new phenomenon in U.S. stamp perfing. At least a couple of other issues have a similar pattern. I believe the cause of this is that these sheets were perforated in stages, with each stroke of the perferator punching one section of the sheet at a time. Each stroke ended not at the top or bottom of the stamps but somewhere in the middle. Then the next stroke would punch the next group of perfs, with one overlapping perf hole. Only when the perfing machne is not calibrated exactly right do you see holes not aligned perfectly (when the perforator is aligned perfectly you would see nothing unusual because the second punch through the single hole would match exactly). We have seen a couple of issues with the "double" holes aligned even more poorly than these are. These other issues have holes farther apart, which has led to them being called "snowman perfs" (with an appearance of one snowball sitting on top of another).

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 Post subject: Japanese
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:45 pm 
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Jaume, Jaume's friend, Dave F - many thanks! Help much appreciated!


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 Post subject: Chinese New Year sheet
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:03 pm 
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They're going to print my question in Linn's "Collector's Forum" in 4-8 weeks. But for those who can't wait, the answer is that Scott considers the "front" to have calligraphy on the left, stamps on the right.

I'm just Mr. Answer Guy today.

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 Post subject: Chinese New Year sheet
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:48 pm 
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Jim G: Thanks for sharing all the info here. I learn something new every day.

re: Chinese New Year, I don't recall what your take was on this: do you agree with this decision about what's front and what's back, and/or would a reasonable person, without any background information, be able to make a reasonable decision about this? (And do you still have a link you can post to the front and back?)

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 Post subject: Japan seal
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:50 pm 
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Richard W: I'm relieved that Jaume found someone who knew what they were talking about! Glad at least the board could be of help.


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 Post subject: Re: Chinese New Year sheet
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:07 pm 
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Dave F. wrote:
re: Chinese New Year, I don't recall what your take was on this: do you agree with this decision about what's front and what's back, and/or would a reasonable person, without any background information, be able to make a reasonable decision about this? (And do you still have a link you can post to the front and back?)

Dave, there is absolutely nothing on the sheet itself to indicate which is which, so any factors are strictly "external". I always believed that the front really was the front, because all of USPS's promotional literature displays the sheet with calligraphy on the left and stamps on the right. Clark (I think) disagreed, because the pane he ordered from the Cave arrived pre-packaged with the front showing calligraphy on the right and stamps on the left. So we had two "official" outside references with different conclusions - mine being "here's what they intended", and Clark's being "but here's what happened in production". I don't know what formed the basis of Scott's decision, but my guess would be that they know more about the proposal and design history of the issue than is immediately obvious.

I *do* disagree with their "Year of the Monkey" minor numbering - it's just silly to say that a stamp isn't a minor variant of the sheet from whence it came. I don't know of another such instance where a sheet got a major number and a stamp from that sheet got a minor number of a different issue. The very fact that the backing paper for the two singles is different should prevent them from being considered "the same". But backing paper doesn't carry much weight when it comes to Scott numbering - else there would be a lot more minor variants. This is probably because it's too easy to remove a stamp from its paper and stick it on different paper. Ah well.

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 Post subject: Happy Anniversary
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:13 pm 
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As "Stamptrader" and "Blame Canada" both are listed with February 29, 2004 registration dates, I guess that today is the 1 year anniversary of Stampchat+.

Congrats.

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 Post subject: perf oddity
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:21 am 
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jokeboy Thanks. I'll try to scan my copy as well. Very interesting information.

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 Post subject: StampChat+ Aniversary
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:22 am 
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Hi Chip, officially the StampChat+ forum opened to the public on March 17th i think, so we're pretty close to the aniv. date ;)

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:51 am 
According to my memory the StampChat+ officially opened April 1 last year. When you look at the home page you will see the text: "Most users ever online was 17 on Mon Mar 08, 2004", the day a group of specially invited people took a first glance of the new chatboard. The day mauro mentions must be the day this chatboard was mentioned the first time on the other stamp chatboards.


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 Post subject: Need help identifying three items
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:54 pm 
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The following link is to the ebay stamps forum where I have posted my question in post #862, responses so far span to #876.

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=5862&start=840


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 Post subject: Latin American mystery items
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:41 pm 
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Bud: Welcome!

To elaborate on his question, the mystery items concern Mexico, Ecuador, and another country I can't identify right off.

And Prometheus: Thanks for the recommendation over there on the other eBay board. This kind of word-of-mouth recommendation will help this board in a way that just posting an announcement in a newsgroup would not. Thanks!

Chip G., Mauro & Paul: Thanks for the reminder about the anniversary. It would have totally slipped my mind.


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 Post subject: Stamp ID
PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:50 pm 
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Budkeeton, Hi and welcome aboard!
Regarding your items, i haven't read the follow-ups to your post so please apologize if im repeating info.

- The mexican item is a Revenue not a postal stamp
- Ecuador set, don't have any info yet ... can´t remember it :shock:
- Black proof, looks like a Spanish Guinea aerogramme, but i don't have any spanish colonies catalogue here so can't help much now, probably any of the regular users of the EDIFIL catalogue will jump in and help with the ID
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 Post subject: Flat Stanley!
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/03/02 ... index.html

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 Post subject: Bud's question
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The proof is of an Equatorial Guinea 200Ptas souvenir sheet titled "Conquista Del Oeste" (possible a very neatly cut aerogramme). I have a copy of the regular issue (about 2.5" x 4", about), but was looking for some info & valuation of the proof. I noted years ago what I paid for it, but failed to note any identification.
Similar with other two items. I got the blocks from Mr. Columbus, who you are probably familiar with, but even the invoice didn't identify the Scott number. These are not standard catalog fare.
I will appreciate any information.


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 Post subject: Flat Stanley!
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Hey! there he is! I don't think it's the same one we tried to send around. I never did hear if he got sent back to my nephew. :(

On the GOOD NEWS front: this same nephew gave me a call a few weeks ago (he is 9 year old) and said "I just got a new box of stamps...." And, away he went. Evidently the Christmas present found some fertile soil for a time. :)

It's fun knowing that I can send him practically anything stamp related and he'll like it.

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I think not, Rob, as I was on the list and it never got to me.


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 Post subject: Flat Stanley
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Hmmm...

Just trying to remember exactly, when Flat Stanley made his rounds, didn't those of us who received him send post cards or some such to the classroom teacher as well as forwarding Stanley on his mission, or am I thinking of a different project?

So there must have been SOME response to his travels.

Flat Stanley made it to our house, as did a similar project from my own grandson. I've got a scan or two around here someplace as a reminder of Stanley's visit.

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 Post subject: Canadian postal rate
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Hi,
Although I've been a constant reader from the beginning, I just checked and it seems that I am about make my first post here. So here goes.
Does anyone know what the rate for a single sheet folded letter from Prescott, UC to Toronto, UC would have been in December 1854?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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 Post subject: For the information of honourable members :)
PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:11 pm 
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This information is from the third-reich stamps mailing list.

There appears to be a number of forgeries of the BPP signature of Mr Jäschke-Lantelme on Ebay.

Further details may be found on :-

http://www.forum.phila-studio.de/viewtopic.php?t=35
(this is in german)


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 Post subject: Canada Rate
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Terry, Rate was 3d in 1854 (the standard domestic rate at the time).


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 Post subject: Canadian postal rate
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Blame Canada,
Thank you.
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 Post subject: Slow weekend
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hey Duncan
Thansk for your post on the other board about holey stamps
I might have found something good because of the info you provided :D

Decided to get a taste of a different religion this weekend :lol:



Gonna lick a witch :shock:

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 Post subject: Holey Stamps, Batman!
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Well Prometheus, I hope you post pictures of your find.

The "holey stamps" Pro mentions were discussed at Richard Frajola's board; "Douglas Patent" security stamp paper was discussed, and a couple different images of "holed" papers were posted. Here's one example, if you look closely you will see that the stamp surface has a thin top layer of paper with holes in it, so that two separate layers of paper were inked forming the complete stamp image.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/2 ... egreen.jpg

The stamp is a variety of US Scott #207.

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 Post subject: Uruguay stamps
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Hi Mauro. Can you tell from this scan if these overprints are OK? TIA Mike in NYC / meostamps

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 Post subject: Mike in NYC
PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 2:06 pm 
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Hi Mike!
They look fine =)

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 Post subject: Uruguay stamps
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Thanks Mauro. Had not seen them before so wanted your opinion. Will list them for auction on Stamphead if anyone needs them. Best regards & THANKS again. Mike in NYC / meostamps. PS Stopped at the Mega Show in NYC last night. Had the opportunity to meet Richard Frajola. A wonderful experience with an outstanding gentleman.


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Good morning/afternoon/evening to you all.

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