I received a delivery from Fiji today and thought these stamps are to good to put in the WPB.
First to send a name and mailing address can have them free,
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Postmark is Pacific Harbour but it looks like the stamp still is set for 2012, whoops! It is a rather small post office.
Jeff
nice colourful stamp
but nah,
don't collect ém
got too much 'collector' junk already!!
They are nice. I mostly collected Aussie stamps, but will put my hand up if nobody else does.
I did have a folder full of world stamps and that went bye bye when my niece and nephew decided to use them as a playbook.. They still have the folder about 2 stamps left I think:dodgy:
Matt
OK. Going to Fulvio.
Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='17241' dateline='1370467890'OK. Going to Fulvio.
Cool. TY. :yahoo:
After my Grandmother passed away, we were clearing up a room in her house and came across about 5 albums of old Aust stamps. Unfortunately, silverfish have had their way with the edges of some of the books, but there are still a truck load of stamps that I'm working through.
One thing I've quickly picked up about stamps, is that the value of old poor condition stamps is less than that of the same condition of coins. Ho hum. I guess I'll categorise them to satisfy my addictive personality.
look for perfins..here http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/sis.html?_kw=AUSTRALIA+PERFIN+STAMPS+ALL+DIFFERENT+inc+KGV+VICTORIA the little holes tell you where it was posted and some collectors only collect from a certain PO :good:
Roger that...will keep an extra eye out for the perfins.
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='17321' dateline='1370565052'the little holes tell you where it was posted
Errrrr... not so, sorry.
Perfins were used by governments to stop people stealing stamps basically.
OS as in Official Stamp,
VG for Victorian Government, etc. I don't think anyone other than governments used them in Oz, though they did overseas.
sorry fulvio, I new that they were the ones to look for but thought it was a PO mark..ya learn something new every day :good:
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='17334' dateline='1370570630'ya learn something new every day
Y'got
THAT right.. hardly a day goes by I don't learn
SOMEthing new. And forget several somethings old as well... *sigh*
this is my one and only, I'll look into them one day..coins are more my go at the moment :winkextra: (http://i43.tinypic.com/2yxpxtu.jpg)
Hmm... that looks suspiciously like a private perfin. No idea whose though...
Meanwhile, a search for the stamp turned up this newspaper article...
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/45975844
Which I couldn't help but correct the electronic version of. ;)
come on fulvio, you've got me interested now :)
Fulvio, any good stamp resource sites you can recommend?
Thanks for that link Fulvio!
Quote from: 'coxspau' pid='17353' dateline='1370575047'Fulvio, any good stamp resource sites you can recommend?
Not really.. I gave up on seriously collecting when Aust. Post turned into a Souvenir Factory
(just like the Mint's doing now), before the interwebz arrived. But Google is, as always, your friend. :)
As for Trove, I've been wandering about in there today, and (re-)discovered a few things. Did you know Churchill's son died the same day as Robert Kennedy, 45 years ago today? They share the front page of The Canberra Times on Jun 7, 1968.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/11662216
Quote from: 'coxspau' pid='17353' dateline='1370575047'Fulvio, any good stamp resource sites you can recommend?
I'm a moderator over at Stamp Community Family forum, the guys over there are very knowledgable. Come on over and ask all the questions you like.
http://www.stampcommunity.org/
Spent a few hours last night looking through the stamp forum- incredibly interesting but could be more frustrating than coins.!! I discovered that early Australian stamps have just as many flaws as coins but seem a lot harder to pinpoint.!! One thing is for sure- when you are a fanatic with your hobby it can be all consuming.:shok: p.s. did I notice a "Unicorn" lurking in there.??
No, Robster, not yet ...... may well have to lurk later though, sounds very interesting. (Don't tell me someone has used the name Unicorn in there.....bugga).
Geez, think of the number of stamps with Australia on them!
Yes, there is a Unicorn over there, I was sure it wasn't you as his Questions and answers were not in the slightest bit humorous.!