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Author: rodneyrodney
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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Author: Toke NørbyToke 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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Author: DOUCEDOUCE
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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Author: rodneyrodney
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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Author: Nick KnightNick 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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Author: rodneyrodney
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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Author: rodneyrodney
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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