Article Archive January 2005
Article 54: Selected United States 10 cents Presidential "Prexie" Stamps
Here are a few 10c Prexies. The color of this stamps makes it an ideal background color to showcase some of the postmarks used on the Prexies. I dedicate a page to various dumb cancellers. I also show here a selection of city marks: wavy lines cancellers for Indianapolis, Indiana (1) / New York, New York (31) / New York, New York (40) / New York, New York (184) / Toledo, Ohio (32) / Bellmore, New York (1) / Kenilworth, New Jersey (1) / Norwood, Massachusetts (1) / Minneapolis, Minnesota (18) / oval cancellers for: Bridgeport, Conneticut / New Haven, Connecticut / Newton, Connecticut / [Unidentified] P.P. in center, CONN / Boston, Massachusetts / Chicago [with numeral], Illinois / New York, New York, Grand Central Annex / circular date stamp for New York, New York, Grand Central Annex
Article 53: Selected Germany Women and Sites Postmarks, Mostly from Berlin
All of the images shown here are selections from a small correspondence sent to X-Press Marketing in Berlin. An example of one of these covers (Berlin-Pankow, postal code 13187) is shown below. Except for a cover from Oranienburg-165X5, and one postmarked at Briefenzentrum 13, all of the covers shown here are postmarked in the various offices of Berlin. Quick links to these (implicit for all these numbers is that they correspond to Berlin post offices [postal code in bracket as read from cover]): 126 / 4 [10115] / 10 [10585] / 304 [10779] / 62 [10827] / 443 [12051] / 42 [12099] / [12101] / 427 [12105] / 480 [12279] / 47 [12539] / Berlin-Kopenick [12555] / Berlin-Hohenschonhausen-3 [13051] / Berlin-Hohenschonhausen-2 [13055] / Berlin-Pankow [13187] / 510 [13405] / 26 [13437] / 260 [13439] / 27 [13507] / 271 [13507] / 20 [13581] / 201 [13589] / 301 [13589] / 191 [14039] / 332 [14195] / Potsdam 90 [14482]
Article 52: Saudi Arabia Oil Platform Definitives
I show here the complete series depicting the Al Khafji facility.
Article 51: Cuba 1855 Havana Mails Issue ("I Griega")
The first issue of the local mail of the city of Havana consists of four very rare stamps. I show here the two printed with the taller, thinner Y. The thicker Y issues, also printed in these two colors, are considerably scarcer. The overprint plate consisted of 7 top rows of thin Y stamps, and three bottom rows of thick Y stamps. The plate consists of 10 rows of 17 stamps. Quick links here are for a page showing side-by-side the three carmine red specimens and the single orange specimen I have that I consider genuine. Each of the specimens also has its own page that enables to show the overprint under higher magnification: carmine red specimen 1, pictured below, bears a Habana circular postmark, and there are also carmine red specimen 2, and carmine red specimen 3, as well as a dedicated page for the orange specimen pictured here. I also include a filtered image of the overprint, and a page dedicated to forgeries, one dangerous, and one crude.
Article 50: The 3.40 ZL Poland Aerogramme
Here I show eleven Poland 3.40 ZL Aerogrammes. All of these covers are to a single addressee. Below is a single usage of this aerogramme, including, to the left, a detail of the stamp. Quick links point to pages for each of the aerogrammes, and the images are also thumbnails to these pages: lone usage, with stamps 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
Article 49: India 5 Rupees Sanchi Stupa Definitive
I show here several used multiples of this stamp: a horizontal pair, a vertical pair, a vertical strip of three, a vertical strip of six, and a block of six.