A couple of Argentina blocks of four with first-day cancels I pulled out of a recent stamp sales circuit. The first is Sc. 1027, a stamp commemorating the Argentina Air Force, and honoring Alberto Mascias, aviation pioneer. The airplane is a Bleriot monoplane. The second block is Sc.1184, the high value in a set of five commemorating the sites of the 11th World Cup soccer championship. The stamp depicts a view of Buenos Aires. These blocks are headed for my Cancels on Stamps collection. Don
A couple of first-day cancels out of an APS circuit sales book. The first from the Isle of Man, Sc. 134-136, a strip of three from the 1978 Europa gravestones issue; and the second a 2006 mini-sheet from Fiji with a pictorial first-day cancel. I don't have a catalog new enough to provide the Scott number for the Fiji issue. Don
Don....thanks. This is part of a series of stamps first issued in 1914 and continued in many different issues until 1930.There are over 60 stamps,lots of varieties and colour shades.I have been trying to collect these.They are not particularly expensive either.Lots of overprints ,too Have also been concentrating on finding good cancellations. Bob
You can sell your Nassau Street covers to me and have enough to purchase two or three nice Newspaper Stamps!
Here is a nice clear bullseye from my home town, dated 1907. The stamp from the State of Victoria before Federation in Australia, 1901.
A first day cancel on Liechtenstein Sc. 505, the souvenir sheet issued for the 8th Philatelic Exhibition held in Vaduz, August 17-27. First-day of issue was June 8, 1972. Bendern, 1 franc and Vaduz Castle, 2 francs are depicted on the stamps. Don
Due to our years in Paraguay I missed out on new issues of Germany from about 2006 till today.Slightly more than 1000 stamps ! No way to get these by exchange or just from the mail,so I had to buy.Two collections let me become complete till 2016. However it is not easy to find stamps postally used.This,of course is and always was the case with semi-postals.But nowadays the only postally used one may find in numbers are self-adhesives. So stamps with First-Day-cancels,or with cancellations of the Philatelic Service are quite common in collections. If such First-Day-cancels are "lightly" drawn,I can tolerate them. But if they look like the following two,they are just a pest !
I agree....similar to the situation with recent UK stamps.Often the only way to get a used stamp is of a FDC.Sellers also adverise stamps taken from FDC as fine used,something i tend to dislike and disagree with.
Here's a Scott #J03 Postage Due stamp. It appears that I don't have as many bullseye cancels as I thought.
A couple of stamps that I ordered last week came in and one of them has a bullseye cancel. That gives me a total of 4. This is a US Scott #63, PSE XF 90.
