HEY MARY!!!!!

This cover ties with Mary going to Ireland to visit Jen and Steph.

If she thinks of it I'd love letters and or postcards with commemoratives probably definitives on postcards.

Be sure to stop back in Amsterdam where you and Rosie got me back into stamps.

Also be sure to go to one of those coffee houses for me.

Thanks!!





JimmyB

Iran

Click to enlarge.

Mohammed Riza Pahlavi

As usual, I've got gaps. Still nice to have a few. Mint I add.

JimmyB

Snowflakes

No snow on the ground here. It's more like spring now this week.

Do I hear global warming?

More winter design stamps tonight. Made to be foldable like yesterdays.

Click the image for detail.

I thought no two flakes were exactly alike?

JimmyB

Christmas stamp

A well done Madonna stamp I think. Click for hirez

JimmyB

Florida wetlands

If you got enough broadband click on the images for hirez

I lived in Florida for about 9 years, the wildlife and fishing is the best.

Just get ready to board up the house every year.

This clocked in at the limit of my upload limit. Nice sheet. Got 3 plan on sending some mail out contributors and breaking them up for postage. Of course if there is anyone who is nuts on fauna topical and wants a sheet, let me know in the next couple days.

Maybe I should buy a couple more sheets?

JimmyB

U.S.S. Argonaut

Being the ex navy man that I am and also an ex submarine builder I really like this cover.





I find the year cancel a bit odd being out of the circle.

Obviously stamp collecting was much more popular back in the thirties.

I wonder how many cachet covers the fleet puts out now?

Maybe I shouldn't have thought of that.

It's hard to imagine that we built the largest submarine to lay mines.

Todays largest submarine is made to lay waste to the world.

Who's worried about global warming?

JimmyB

Iran

For some reason that I cannot fathom. I find this 1912 Shah, to be my favorite stamp.

As common as they are, I don't fall on them everyday. If you've got a couple, overprints included, please let me know.

I apologize to several folks I've recieved stuff from the past several months. I'm behind on return covers, not from lack of funds but pure being busy and laziness. I've been meaning to make a 15 mile trip for thank you's but just need to get it done this week.

Basically, If I posted a cover from you and haven't responded, I got something coming your way shortly.

In the meantime, all I can say is that.......

Let's hope that Bush opens talks with Iran and Syria, whether he likes it or not.

James Baker? Tell stupid GWB and DC to step down or go to jail for what they've done bringing down the US and the Constitution of the US for their own vain purposes.

JimmyB



JimmyB

Coat of Arms

As is not uncommon. I'm missing the last stamp in this set of 4.

#166 thru 169 in Scott. The 50 center and 1 dollar are still valued $4.50 apiece in the 2003 catalogue.

The first two easily fluffed off the old album page. The 50 cent plate corner was not as cooperative. Being not hinged and directly applied, it began to thin the stamp. I need to soak it of the page.

Where can I find more time? Does anyone have extra time they could send me?

Coincidence? Yesterdays post turned out to be just that. Read my daughters comments.

I truly had no idea when they had planned on travelling.

JimmyB

Personalized stamps

According to the USPS, these are metered stamps and not postage stamps.





I was ruined not being able to go to Jenny's wedding. Getting this personalized stamp has really made up for my not having been able to go.

It's a shame the post office ruins stamps with visible cancellations. Can't they come up with a phospher tag cancellation? At least just where the stamps are usually placed?

I asked Jen if she has any mint ones I could have. She's probably getting ready for a move overseas. I really need to hook up with her on getting covers from wherever she goes.

Hi Jen, hi Stephen.


JimmyB

U.N.

Still no power here, several hundred thousand without still.

I mostly have official FDC's in the U.N. catagory.

This is a clipping from a large envelope on first day.

The black stamp is not one of the FDC stamps, just the stamps with the torch flame and 25th anniversary are.

I had been awaiting a stamp auction last weekend anxiously.

Instead of attending I had to spend my saved money(plus some) on a new generator.

JimmyB

Israel and ice storm

It rained all night last Thursday while the temperature was below freezing. The ice that formed around power lines and tree branches was over 1 inch in thickness in many places.

As you can see from a photo along the side of my house, everything has been pulled down. Power lines and trees. Power poles down my street are bowing to the ground.

Temps were 10's and single digits this morning(That's -10's Celsius)

I've reattached my electric service lines to the house and now await electricity.

I managed to get a generator to run my furnace, turn on my two fishtanks and post a blog.




I recieved this dynamite cover from LondonBus. Many many thanks.

If you have an interest in GB anywhere from beginner to high experience check out MSN's Great Britain Stamp Club. The Bus is not long to arrive.

Telefilia '93 Israel-Romania.... A highly prized stamp in my quest.

JimmyB

Margaret

Of all the items you've sent me, this has to be my favorite.

Great post card. Nice chatting with you tonight.


Click on image to enlarge.

JimmyB

Japan

I feel neglectful. The holidays are past now and perhaps I can continue persuing my quest!!!





Thanks Flo, again. You are a great traveller for sure!!!

These stamps of Japan are a fantastic variety. All too recent to appear in my dated catalogue!~!

JimmyB

Playing cards

The law passed in 1894 to tax playing cards in the U.S. and continued in some form until 1965.

Playing card tax stamps are called "RF's"

JimmyB

Trafalgar

And this is what stamp collecting is all about. Beats chickens even....hehe.

The greatest naval battle in history. Also the greatest leader/tactician...Nelson.

No better stamp then the GB one. This is last years anniversary issue.

Thank you Londonbus
JimmyB

He deserved it(in a way)

The people thought he was a God, truly. But when he started lopping off hands of people that stole stuff(albeit Hawaiian's at the time didn't comprehend ownership in a sharing socity). That drops you from the God category down to the enemy catagory.

As always I remind you to click on the image for greater detail.

Oh to have been able to explore the unknown like that. Let it be known, that the best part of Cook was his map drawing abilities.

For those of you that know what I'm talking about.......GO PACKERS!!!!


JimmyB

Three races

Oval stamps, how many different shape catagories can there be?

Thanks Eric!!!!

I gotta pick the NASCAR series as my favorite venue.

All my time sorting thru stamps covers and on the internet has caught up with me. My gutters are clogged with leaves and stuff needs doing inside.

I put gutter guards on this weekend to keep leaves(and gumballs from a gumball tree) out of them from now on.

I wonder if there is a stamp with a gumball tree on it? HMMM......

JimmyB