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  (RCSD) Spot the error.         


Author: rodney
Date: Mar 23, 2008 23:56

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  (RCSD) Seeking a person to read Morse Code.         


Author: rodney
Date: Mar 23, 2008 23:50

Can anybody read morse code here?
or know of a link where I may have something read?

Thanks.
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  Danish Perfin sold for 9,000 DKKr.         


Author: Toke Nørby
Date: Mar 23, 2008 06:28

Here is a fine perfin:

http://www.qxl.dk/accdb/viewItem.asp?IDI=532259948

I don't know if the price is the highest ever paid for a perfin?

What does

CCB
x Co

stand for? and in the Danish catalogue the text is just "Kontaktaftryk
af GB mærke"? which means that the catalogue has used a GB stamp as
illustration. But I can't find it in the Tomkin's catalogue?
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  CHEAP COUNTRY & CUSTOM PAGES AS WELL AS STAMPS FOR SALE!!!         


Author: DOUCE
Date: Mar 22, 2008 20:40

Hi my name is Steve and I am offering custom made album pages! I have
albums for all the countries of the world plus over 185 extinct
countries, totaling over 40,000 pages!

Pages can be printed on 20 lb paper for $0.11 CDN or heavy 70 lb card
stock for $0.20 CDN per page! I can also print blank or quadrilled
pages for $0.25 per page with any heading you like up to 8 lines deep
to make stock books or topical albums or anything else you want!

Mail me and tell me what you need!!
rockeyenewfoundland@yahoo.ca
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  (RCSD) Europes first self adhesives ~ still sticking.         


Author: rodney
Date: Mar 22, 2008 18:40

After 34 years, I can tell you, the self adhesives
produced by Walsall are still sticking, no toning,
as good as new.
http://cjoint.com/data/dxcJo3xAap.htm

GIBRALTAR

INTRODUCTION OF SELF-ADHESIVE STAMPS

On May 2, Gibraltar will make philatelic history by issuing the first
self-adhesive postage stamps in Europe and the first in the world to be
supplied in the form of a new style of stamp book. The book is also unique
in that it will contain a special souvenir page containing one stamp of each
value
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  Where is this "(RCSD)" crap coming from?         


Author: Nick Knight
Date: Mar 22, 2008 06:07

When I first saw subjects with the RCSD letters in them, I didn't stop to
analyze, I simply assumed it was some type of spam. In believe I had it
kill-filed for some time, then the kill entry expired. And when it did, the
threads with these chars in them disappeared. yes!

But now they're back with avengence, and (duh!) I realize that SOMEONE is
labeling their posts with the abbreviation of this group.

The big question is WHY? Don't you KNOW you're posting in this particular
group? Doesn't everyone's newsreader TELL THEM that they are reading and
posting in this particular group? All of these questions, are of course,
rhetorical.

Wouldn't it be nice if whoever is doing this would figure out that it is
unnecessary, a complete waste of time, and interferes with various
universally helpful things like basic sorting, threading and watches by
subject. Some posts end up perpetuating the silliness, while other chop it.
Or the thread starts and runs for a long time without these obnoxious
labels, then someone adds them and we're got a mess.
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  (RCSD) Arrrr!...Arrrr! .....pieces of eight (part 1)         


Author: rodney
Date: Mar 22, 2008 05:06

To the Caribbean, great centre of piracy, came men from many European
countries. Among the first, as early as 1530, French Huguenots, driven out
by religious wars at home.

Pirates used small light craft, faster than the bigger Spanish ships they
attacked. They were tough and desperate, expecting no mercy if they lost.
And when they won, the ship's quartermaster controlled the share-out of the
captured loot at once. But most of what the men gained from their daring
exploits was lost immediately ships entered port.

Contrary to popular fiction, pirates, with one particular exception, never
made a prisoner walk the plank. The skull and crossbones flag usually
associated with pirates was rarely flown. And if it was necessary to maroon
a man they gave him a loaded pistol to allow him to put an end to his
misery. Pirates were, in fact, amazingly humane towards the majority of
their prisoners.

Columbus named the small island of Tortuga, about twenty miles long and four
miles wide. To him it resembled a sea-turtle, so he called it La Tortuga
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  www.internationalstamps.com?         


Author: Jan Doggen
Date: Mar 22, 2008 01:15

Hello

Has anyone bought from these people (especially outside the US)?
Experiences?

Thanks in advance
Jan

========================================================================================
http://www.jandoggen.org http://www.beautyofpeople.com
http://www.puddingclub.nl
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  SNA. Easter 2008 Issue: Our Dark Side         


Author: Victor Manta
Date: Mar 21, 2008 05:47

On March 21st, 2008, the Spanish North Africa Post Office (SNAPO) issued a
souvenir sheet dedicated to all amateurs of dark chocolate.

http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/rcsd/our-dark-side.htm
The S/S could be bought in all SNA postal offices, at a nominal price of
?$1. It was printed by the security printing company Courvoisier SNA,
located in Ciudad de Leon. The print run was of 10,000 pieces. The
subscription period is unfortunately over, all of S/S being actually
reserved.

--
Victor Manta

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  (RCSD) Machins-was Denmark         


Author: rodney
Date: Mar 21, 2008 03:03

>The GB Machins are printed on a bewildering array of
>flourescent,phosphorescent and even phosphorescent bands on
>flourescent paper. However these are very well described and are
>collected varieties - probably as a result of the huge population of
>machin specialists.

Well, we newbies still have problems with them, Malcolm.
Take for instance these two
http://cjoint.com/data/dvk1vcESKa.htm

The LHS is assumably SGX849 myrtle green 2 bands
If the right hand is then the "skinny numerals" as I refer to
them, (type 367a) then it must be SGX927 or SGX928
How do you tell the difference? (photo harrison)

Have you ever come across a machin printed on the gum ?,
I just soaked some in cold water for 8 minutes and the face printing
came adrift. (SGX872)
Rodney.
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