Post by khj on Mar 14, 2020 21:58:47 GMT -5
First of all, I want to make it clear: I don’t collect cinderellas.
What are cinderellas? Supposedly, something that looks like a postage stamp but isn’t a postage stamp. But if you ask 10 different cinderella collectors what they consider to be cinderellas, you might get 5 varying answers. Some consider revenue stamps to be cinderellas. But some revenue stamp collectors might be insulted to be grouped together with “those fake stamps”. Some cinderella collectors feel including revenue stamps defiles the purity of the cinderella concept since revenue stamps have legal value. I wouldn’t consider selvedge to be a cinderella (I mean seriously, we’re talking selvedge, which towers stories above the level of even Graf Zeppelin stamps; how can you consider selvedge to be cinderellas?).
Rather than argue about what constitutes a cinderella, I find it easier to acquire them and then tell people these are examples of cinderellas that I don’t collect! Pretty smart, huh?
So, this thread is dedicated to showing examples of things I don’t collect that some may consider “cinderellas”. And remember, k doesn’t collect cinderellas.
Most cinderella collectors consider local post stamps to be cinderellas. But ask a bunch of local posts collectors, and a handful will say “sheesh, my stamps can actually be used to deliver things!”. If we’re going to show examples of local posts that I don’t collect, then of course, I have to start locally.
k doesn’t collect NASA Local Post. Here is an example:
SCCS FD-1-NLP(29Sep1967) 5¢ Edward H. White II, First Day - Mercury Series
For more examples of NASA Local Post that k doesn’t collect, please see k doesn’t collect NASA Local Post.
And remember: k doesn’t collect NASA Local Post, because they can send a man to the moon, but they can’t make k collect NASA Local Post.
What are cinderellas? Supposedly, something that looks like a postage stamp but isn’t a postage stamp. But if you ask 10 different cinderella collectors what they consider to be cinderellas, you might get 5 varying answers. Some consider revenue stamps to be cinderellas. But some revenue stamp collectors might be insulted to be grouped together with “those fake stamps”. Some cinderella collectors feel including revenue stamps defiles the purity of the cinderella concept since revenue stamps have legal value. I wouldn’t consider selvedge to be a cinderella (I mean seriously, we’re talking selvedge, which towers stories above the level of even Graf Zeppelin stamps; how can you consider selvedge to be cinderellas?).
Rather than argue about what constitutes a cinderella, I find it easier to acquire them and then tell people these are examples of cinderellas that I don’t collect! Pretty smart, huh?
So, this thread is dedicated to showing examples of things I don’t collect that some may consider “cinderellas”. And remember, k doesn’t collect cinderellas.
Most cinderella collectors consider local post stamps to be cinderellas. But ask a bunch of local posts collectors, and a handful will say “sheesh, my stamps can actually be used to deliver things!”. If we’re going to show examples of local posts that I don’t collect, then of course, I have to start locally.
k doesn’t collect NASA Local Post. Here is an example:
SCCS FD-1-NLP(29Sep1967) 5¢ Edward H. White II, First Day - Mercury Series
For more examples of NASA Local Post that k doesn’t collect, please see k doesn’t collect NASA Local Post.
And remember: k doesn’t collect NASA Local Post, because they can send a man to the moon, but they can’t make k collect NASA Local Post.
Stamps - the bear necessities of life.
