1st GB #1

It ain't pretty, but it still is for me. My first, and I emphasis first penny black. Nice red maltese cross space filler.

I won't say what I paid for it, though I will add that it wasn't much.

For anybody really really new to collecting, this is regarded as the worlds first postage stamp.

JimmyB

Leopold and Albert

Leopold I




Leopold II




Albert I

218-220 SC Sweet! I'm looking hard for these sets. I need to take a break and eat and get some sleep. Probably should bathe this week.


JimmyB

Writers

I see Romania entered the EU Jan 1st. Congrats!!!

How about some music to celebrate?

This Mozart should go with my Jan. 29th 06 post.

Lucky Streak!!!

Wowsers!! I need to go to the casino with my luck lately.

This series of 15 stamps was mandatory to use on Nov 29-30 and Dec 1 and 2 in order to raise money for a museum.

I've bungled across 4 of the 15 today. The 3 below are the highest values in the set valued at $11.50, 12.00 and 18.00 respectively.

JimmyB

Red Eagle

A nice "find" tonight. Andorra under Spanish Admin. E3 a Special Delivery stamp. $18.00 in my 03 Scott's. The only clue that it was hinged is the missing gum where the hinge was lifted.

JimmyB

More Andorra

More good finds of Andorra. #13 thru 18 all have $2.25 values in 03 except for the 25c which is $5.50

Andorra is between France ans Spain on the southern slopes of the Pyrenees Mountains.

Again these are Spanish admin. My Scott's notes that well centered stamps before 1950 are not the norm.

JimmyB

Balboa

Happy New Year everyone!!!

My perf gauge is presently eluding me so I can't narrow this down between 397 and 401.

Never hinged, but a slight thin on the top right looking at the back.
A very nice find never the less. No doubt.




Another item in the small stash from I.O.

Today I attempted to post an earlier draft and it posted on the date I originally drafted it on, instead of the date I posted it.

So much for my bright idea of writing my blog a day ahead of time.

Wait a minute.... I'll try this!!!

Yes!!! It works!!! Perhaps now I will never have an excuse for not having a daily entry!!

JimmyB

Duplicates, odds and ends

Last week I responded to an ad for seventy years of duplicates, odds and ends being cleaned out.



I was given a very fast response and pleased with a few items that I didn't anticipate,

such as this booklet of 7 stamps.

I wouldn't hesitate responding to another ad from Mr I. Olson.

JimmyB

This is the 150th anniversary of the US Constitution.

A whole set. I'm feeling lucky in my sortings of stamps lately.

These appear to be CTO's.

These stamps were printed by the American Bank Note Co.

JimmyB

Pan America

When do you have a complete set that is incomplete? When you have this set of 4 that has another set issued as air mail stamps(different engraving).

These are the flags of the 21 American Republics and the 50th Anniversary of the Pan American Union.

JimmyB

Junkers

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Don't ask me why I can't lay out a nice webpage.

Anyways, for those of you who regularly read stamps and covers, today another shocker find in my digging.

A complete set!! Even the one high value. C11-20(10) MNH no less!!!

You have to admire the Great Wall of China.

JimmyB

Christmas

It still is the season, every year stamps depicting Mary and Jesus are released.

Here is this years Romanian issue.




JimmyB

China

It looks nice, thank you Mary.




I'm curious if this is the exact postage.

JimmyB

Check

Not checkmate mind you. I need the 5000 for checkmate.

This is North Vietnam.

JimmyB

US Centennial

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I really like this 98 centennial sheet. The used the actual plates for the copies. Not sure of the process(yet).

The holidays have begun in the greater St Louis area. Stay home, the shops and markets are too packed. If you haven't stocked up by now I can feel for you.

JimmyB

Romania

My nice neighbors gave me a gift today. More then several recent mint Romanian stamps. Also this MS. Awesome, thanks Brian and Dorothy.

I played chess a little bit at school and with my father. I was never really good at it.

JimmyB

Ryukyu

Sweet, I like the higher $$

I've seen Ryukyu advertised in stamp catalogues, never really gave them much thought till today.

These airmails look slick.

This piece of a postal card really gets me thinking.

Now I must have an entire Ryukyu postal card.

What don't I want?

I just saw the postal card on sale for $90 online. Maybe I'll hold on to this and wait for the postal card.


I came across these in a generous mixture I recieved for $10 in a Linn's advertisement. His advertisement said his strength was in classics and he was being honest. I really enjoyed sorting through half of it tonight.

Some China, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, Romania, Ireland, Germany, Russia and Poland to name a few.

Ryukyu is a chain of islands that was part of Japan until WW2 when the US occupied it. I hope it rules itself now and doesn't need us there.

JimmyB