No defense for Spanish

 Junes's postcard drawing submission deadline is drawing to a close and so far the interest in it has been weak at best. I've received no entries as of today and with the deadline for entry fast approaching their is still a chance that I will retain my souvenir FDC http://stampsandcovers.blogspot.com/2013/06/nickel-and-dime-giveaway.html?spref=fb.
  On the other front, I had mentioned last week that next month's drawing is to be for a UNESCO site postcard. My choice was fortuitous. I asked a coworker yesterday where he was going on his vacation this week and he responded that he was going to the Cahokia Mounds Heritage site. His wife grew up in the area and neither of them had visited it ever before. He promised to get me three different cards, one of which will be for the drawing. Perhaps a drawing with a different topical will perk interest. Here's an old post showing one such card.  http://stampsandcovers.blogspot.com/2006/02/cahokia-mounds-unesco.html.

 Here's another 200th Anniversary Trafalgar stamp. British India Ocean Territory. It's just another depiction of the complete annihilation of the Spanish fleet. That would be one date to set your time capsule to when we get our first time machine developed.

JimmyB

Sail the seven seas

 This is the 3rd of a set of 5 in the tribute to Armed Forces series.

Go Navy!


JimmyB

Bonnaroo

 I had begun to think my daughter had joined the circus after seeing a photo of her at a carnival. I'm much relieved after receiving this card.

 It's nice to see the U.S.P.S. made a special cancellation for the event.

Thanks Rosie, I love you so much. I think it took a week and a half to get to me because you wrote 602 instead of 902, those postal workers had to do some figuring on this one eh?

JimmyB

Dancing House Prague

 Deb picked this up on her trip last year. It's an insanely long trifolded card. She didn't mail it :(, but it's still nice and no doubt a tad less worn. A scanner the size of a pool table would be nice instead of the standard size one that I have. I had to scan the picture in two parts and at a lower res so that I could turn the picture 90 degrees using my scan program. Hopefully the res is high enough so that clicking on the image will enlarge the left corner enough and be readable, If not I'm going to delete the address side of the card.

  Take a shot at winning this FDC!!!  http://stampsandcovers.blogspot.com/2013/06/nickel-and-dime-giveaway.html?spref=fb
 JimmyB

Army

 This is I believe the second in the series of 5 in honor of the Armed Forces.

I haven't received any entries to the souvenir stamp FDC yet http://stampsandcovers.blogspot.com/2013/06/nickel-and-dime-giveaway.html?spref=fb , so as of the moment, any entries at all have a good chance of winning it. There are still 6 days to enter it. I just got back from Michigan after visiting family the past few days and have been able to make but one blog entry. I didn't run into any stamp, cover or post card collectors but I had a great time never the less. July's raffle is going to be for a Cahokia Mounds U.N.E.S.C.O. site postcard. Details will follow.

JimmyB

Speedy delivery

 This is a back of book special delivery FDC. Motorcycle delivery though? Really?

JimmyB

Semper Fi!!

 This was the first of the set honoring the Armed Forces. Iwo Jima marines is also the highest valued FDC of the set. I've also got a set of four but unfortunately it lacks any selvage.

JimmyB

Nickel and dime stamp cover giveaway

 I've decided to have a raffle and give this cover to the winner of it. Simply send me a postcard to enter it and write "Nickel and dime!" on the back of the postcard. All entries must be postmarked before 2359  hours on June 30th. The winner will be selected out of a bag July 22nd by my wonderful wife. I'm allowing extra time just in case someones postcard takes up to two or three weeks to arrive from someplace. Mail doesn't get out  fast all the time in some regions I've found. Palestine is an example that comes to mind. The odds of winning will be based on both the number of entries made(probably not many) and the number of entries you make. If worse comes to worse and your entry is not selected, you may find your postcard is posted on this blog anyways along with my thanks.  Anyways.......

 On the backside is the stamp shop that mailed this out. It has the same street that I live on, different city though, if it were Belleville, it'd be 6 blocks down the street.  But if you want a chance to win this, send the post card to....          Jimmy B
                                 902 Sycamore St.
                                 Belleville IL    62220
                                                            USA

Merchant Marine

 This was the 5th and last of a series in honor of the Armed Forces.

Here is a press release issued by the U.S. Maritime Commission on this date. http://www.usmm.org/wsa/fdcpr.html



JimmyB

Souvenir Sheet

This TIPEX cancellation quadruples the value over the DC cancellation. I wonder if the doubled mark is from the first one not tying the stamps to the cover and if that would effect the value in any way negatively?

Souvenir Sheets have popped up lately eh? I see a trend here.


JimmyB

Edited.....Big stick and a general I've never heard of

 First day issue on the anniversary of opening the Panama Canal. Postmarked on the U.S.S. Charleston. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Charleston_(PG-51) . I'm curious as to how many days it took the postal crew on the ship to hand stamp all of the FDC's? The general I've never heard of?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Goethals.

  

JimmyB

P.S.  This morning I came across a FDC guide and found this. Single $20 #856   Not a bad value. I ran across an envelope box of covers like this. I'm gonna have to go through this Stuff.

Weather Centenary

100th Anniversary Weather Services postal card. A nickel, postage that is. I think candy bars were 7 cents if I remember right and Hostess Fruit Pies were around 13 cents. It's hard to believe I was amazed back then that my Dad told me stories of spending an afternoon at the theater with treats and a bus ride for a quarter. 

 

JimmyB

Steamships

 100th anniversary of steamship service on the Danube for these Austrian stamps from 1937.  My catalogue has it numbered 382-384.

                                       
                                                                  SS. Maria Anna      

                                      

                                                                      S.S. Uranus

                                                                   S.S. Oesterreich



JimmyB

Sinking below the waves

They celebrated the 200th anniversary of Tuvalu, but they have they're own battle being waged as the sea rises. Tuvalu, a set of islands in the South Pacific, is expected to disappear this century as it sits mere feet above sea level and that level is rising. I can't understand why anyone would design a sheet that looks like the stamps are facing sideways from the selvage art.

JimmyB    

Nelson was brilliant and fearless.

The best damn naval battle EVER!! Nothing compares to the story behind this one. Gibraltar and Isle of Man commemorating the 200th anniversary. Epic is what it was. I happen to have a duplicate of this one if anyone is interested in a trade off some type.

JimmyB

Cheap paper

A Nepali 1 rupee note showing the late king Birendra. There's a watermark of a crown in the little shrine spot. Josh keeps posting Buddhist stuff and I just happened across this and I thought I'd slip in this instead of a philatelic photo.

JimmyB

The Sultan

I got this one from the office of where I worked. A pair of 125th Universal Postal Union anniversaries and a mango and an oil palm stamp. Johor the city is where the stamp originated and the palm stamp has Johor just above Malasia on the stamp, not so the Mango stamp. The Sultan is also depicted in the corner of the stamp.

JimmyB

Is that the sun?

I've been hibernating. Just starting to feel some sun. Here's a nice sheet from the USPS's forever stamp depicting the USS Constitution. MMMM, nice.

JimmyB

 

Bug and bird

A web search for achillides palinurus daedalus brought me to the Bugmaniacs website http://www.thebugmaniac.be/. The have a specimen for sale and I would say that this image of the butterfly, while accurate, really doesn't do it justice. Bugmaniac describes it as "Fantastic !"

Thank you Ray for your cover!

100 years of international yacht racing union

Released in 07 from Macedonia. Seeing as Macedonia is a landlocked country, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia it no doubt helps Macedonian crew members to join international competition!

Thank you Goran