Darrin, Santa brought me some Stamps from Germany and there is another package for me at the neighbourhood post office. Canada Post came to the house yesterday with another registered package of Germany stamps but didn't wait long enough for me to answer the door. I think he/she only waited 20 seconds after he/she knocked and then took off. This time at least he/she left a card telling me it was available at the local post office the next work day. Mike
Collecting Canada, US, UK, Ireland, Germany, France & Austria. Also collecting some classic era stamps of some British Commonwealth Island countries and topicals like WW2, Capt. Cook, Horatio Nelson.
Gordon Lee
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Post by Gordon Lee on Dec 25, 2013 19:56:29 GMT -5
Greetings Fellow SB Boarders . My darling young bride and I just got home from a Christmas Eve and Christmas Day visit with our youngest daughter, Ugh, and her family in McKinney, Texass. I can happily report that a pretty nice present I opened while there surprised my quite nicely. It was a lifetime supply of Ronsonol Lighter Fluid. Well, most likely a lifetime supply. It was forty fluid ounces (five 8-ounce cans). For some strange reason I find it difficult to locate a supplier of this stuff around where I live. The local walmart, kmart, target, seven-eleven, cvs pharmacy, and gas stations around here have stopped stocking lighter fluid. Now I don't need to be so timid looking for watermarks. . And, to top it off, I got a clever little lighted pendant magnifier (Might Bright brand). Just the thing for my feeble old eyeballs. Since it is only a 3X magnification I don't expect to do much fly specking, but it sure will help checking the date imprints (which seem to have shrunk drastically these last couple of years even though they are mostly the same size as they ever have been). . Yup, I got a couple a stampy gifts this Christmas. . Respectfully,
Gordon Lee
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Post by Admin Bear on Dec 25, 2013 20:45:14 GMT -5
well nothing stampy this year... but i had not asked for anything either.. on the other side of things i got one of the tools i have been asking for over the last 4 years - a table saw!!
i assembled it today and once a few things around the house are done tomorrow i am going to give it a work out..
Well got a few stampy things in my stocking and under the tree. 2014 Unitrade catalogue, grande Lighthouse binder, some black stamp mounts and some watermark fluid so can finally start looking at those hard to see watermarks... just need a black tray (dollarstore later this week).
Santa didn't bring me the Ryukyu Scott #17 that I have been pining for (so, I guess I will have to wait until my birthday). But, he did leave me a Leuchtturm digital microscope/camera to play with, and also a copy of the book "On The Road: The Quest for Stamps" by Setphen R. Datz.
My better half bought me some stamp mounts so now I can continue my US collection into the Mystic albums. My son gave me a gift certificate to my local stamp shop, and my dad and stepmom sent me money so I bought some US stamps that I didn't have with it. Over all it was a stampy christmas for me.
I got a set of Czech stamps overprinted with a swastika and the phrase, "Wir sind frei". I understand that they were issued in the village of Rumburk in Sudetenland.
I collect each country, dead or alive, but focus on France, French African colonies, older German area, allegorical men, carnivorous plants, Vikings, rock art, engraved pictorials.
Gordon Lee
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I like stamps for the thrills, chills, screams, and laughs.
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I got a set of Czech stamps overprinted with a swastika and the phrase, "Wir sind frei". I understand that they were issued in the village of Rumburk in Sudetenland.
Greetings greaden . Stamps of Czechoslovakia, 1918-1937, overprinted with a swastika in black or red and "Wir sind frei!" (We are free!) were issued locally and unofficially in 1938 as Czech authorities were evacuating and German authorities arriving. They appeared in the towns of Asch, Karisbad, Reichenberg-Maffersdorf, Rumberg, etc. The overprint sometimes including a surcharge or the town name (as in Karisbad), exists on many values of postage, air post, semi-postal, postage due and newspaper stamps.* . Respectfully,
Gordon Lee
* Note in 2014 Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue Volume 2 Countries of the World C-F
Post by ChickasawStampMan on Dec 26, 2013 20:51:12 GMT -5
We received a broken central heater on Christmas Eve during our party.... Repair people arrived here today but too late to order parts. I hope they have parts tomorrow or it will be Monday before the central heater is fixed. We do have a gas stove, (I know, I know) and 2 electric heaters.... Thank goodness we live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.. But It is still between 35 and 39 degrees (F) at night. It's okay....We are toasty hugging each other and the grandbaby while watching movies and kids stuff!!!!
I gave my son a stockbook (he didn't like licking hinges so only about 100 stamps made it into his worldbuilder albums). I treated myself to some stamps from a charity shop (for a hospice charity a friend of mine stayed in, sadly..)
I am a letter writer, snailmail addict. I send therefore I receive. I also manage a letter writing/correspondence forum called A World of Snail Mail. I sometimes post pictures on Instagram (username morgaine_does_snail_mail) Stamp themes - science, nature, postal history, maps, nice stamps.
It's to late to say this but I received a part of stamps collection like heritage from my father in law. It make me to excited because I have a lot of fun stuff to sort. This material is like my huge Christmas present. Actually it came a sunday before Christmas. So happy.
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