It's time for another World Famous "MYSTERY STAMP QUIZ". Yes, it's been way too long since the last one, so let's get this year off to a good start. Teresa has given away her counterfeit stamp tonight, so what better time to have an MSQ.
For all of you newbies that are not familiar with the MSQ, this is what it's all about. I've selected a stamp from among the billions (yeah, right) that I have here in the stamp room, and it could be any stamp that was ever issued, anywhere in the world. I have made 10 different scans of small portions of that stamp and will be showing them at different parts of the day, or night, just to give folks on the other side of the world a fair chance. There may also be some silly little clues, to help you figure out just what the heck this stamp is,(yeah, right again) and where it might have been issued. The only rule is the winner will have to either identify the Scott catalog number or the year, date or something very significant about the stamp, to make it easily identifiable to the rest of the world and also the crotchety old judge, (that would be moi). To help make it even more interesting, the prize will be credit towards any of my future auction lots, since I don't have any live auctions at this moment, but will in the near future. You can guess all you want to and will probably receive a clue with the response to the guess, but then again maybe not. HA HA HA
OK, here is the first clue:
OH, that's a great clue Mike, everyone will be guessing that is from ...........!
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE.
Mike
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Lump on a bog? I thought it was a bump on a log or a lump on a stump. As a fan of both rhyme and onomatopoeia I find "lump on a stump" most attractive.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Onassis 14 Jan 2016 09:48:53am
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Hmmm...I always heard lump on a log...
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou"
Yes, those were wonderful examples of what this actually might be, but there is no reasonable rhyme for this stamp. I think someone, don't know who, just switched some first letters around and instead of bump on a log, there is now lump on the bog. Some people just ain't got right proper English at'all. So now maybe you could hump your stump and identify this here little beauty.
Still a little early for another visual clue, but maybe a slight verbal clue will help. "This stamp is a foreign stamp - - - - unless you happen to live wherever this stamp is from."
More good luck to y'all,
Mike
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Ummmmmm Is this from a classical painting? Looks like a dude with a 'stache and a Michaelangelo type leg. Hmmmmmm I'm guessing Europe - maybe from the French art series?
Am I warm or ice cold???
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I don't want to come out and name a country, so I'll just say anywhere south from France would probably be warmer. That is until you get so far south that the weather is very similar.
Maybe there should be another clue here, as a bonus for asking the question. Just don't share it with everyone, it's just for you.
Mike
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Alright, I guess we've all waited long enough to see if there would be any responses to that last wonderful party scene clue. Golly I would have thought there would at least be at least one guess, that's what I get for thinking.
OK here comes another winner of a clue:
No ifs, hands or butts about it, this ought to attract some comments, at the least.
Mike
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I just can't seem to get to the bottom of this. The pantaloons look a tad like riding gear of an equestrian type, that is just a weak guess. Then again there is a person with bare feet, which are not good to have around shoed horses.
Very good guess, Smauggie, but guess what? WRONG! The horses have left the scene, if they were even there. This theme is taken for an old event and back in them thar days a lot of people didn't even own shoes, while today there are still a lot of people that don't wear shoes, especially at some environs.
Since that last clue was posted just over an hour ago, let's see if we can get more responses before another clue is shown.
Mike
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No horses, no bulls, no four legged animals here. Oh, wait, they could have been there, but then again they aren't showing, so I guess they wouldn't count.
350 hits on this subject and not the faintest hint of what this little lovely is, or where it's from, just something to be discovered, eh!!!!!
Next clue in a couple of hours, maybe, could be more, or even less, just wait for it.
Mike
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Ha, ha, ha, must be a big catalog, eh. I hope he finds the right one to look through.
OH, what is it the duffers sometimes say. Shoot I can't remember, sorry must have been a senior moment.
Mike
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OMG, has everyone gone to bed or what? All of these wonderful clues and not a remark to be made, concerning nary a one of them, ya hear? The silence is deafening!!!!
Just for that I'm going to change my avatar!!
M
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Wow, I had some Gray hair in that picture, but look at the color of "you know who's hair". See what can happen to us guys after only 50 years.....doesn't seem to effect the young chick at all, does it?
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Whatever! Don't be bashful, guess as many times as you want to. Certainly not going to hurt anything by taking a chance. This is like the Lotto, you can't win it, if you ain't in it. Someone mentioned Columbus earlier, now if he wasn't in it, he would not have discovered America, even though there were already 10 million people living here at the time. On top of that, they didn't even know they were lost.
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Antigua is a very nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there and neither did this stamp, even though you are in the ball park, just which one is the question, eh?
How about another clue to help to muddy the water:
... and before you ask, that is not someone carrying something on there head, down by the "old mill stream".
Mike
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British colonial (red coat)- scene of historic significance (multiple figures). Probably too new for my reference as I only collect through 1968, and do not have the inclination to scan new color catalogs for a match.
Taking all things into consideration, you've made some wise choices, but giving up is not one of them and those "new" color catalogs are such an improvement over the old black and white.
This event transpired many years ago and this stamp was made from a picture painted about the event. As for the year of either I can't comment any farther or I will have to claim this fabulous prize for myownself.
Mike
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Lots of Lookie Loo's, but not a guess. I am stunned beyond belief here. I really figured this was going to be fairly easy, but that what I get for thinking. I may have to make up more clues since eight have already been shown and I only made up ten to start with. Here is a REALLY BIG CLUE that will probably give the answer away, but here goes. The Scott's number is almost equal to the same number of years since this event took place, in fact there is only a difference of five. So, how is that for a clue, SUPER eh? OK, OK, here is another visual clue, just in case that wasn't to your liking, or even hard to comprehend.
If I didn't know better I would think those were horse feet, but that has been explained earlier.
Mike
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Colonial clothing and bare feet still makes me think it's an island country. Although, most of the verbal clues don't seem to lend credence to that. Great challenge, sir!
I've heard that "no man is an island", but this country is one in a million of what we commonly refer as islands, even though the word island is not part of it's name on this stamp. Plus I will concede that is colonial, that should narrow it down to several hundred anyway.
Oh, I went ahead and put together 5 more clues, so we can prolong everyone's misery for at least another day. I'll show another clue in a little while, shucks we might just stay up until midnight, really living on the edge down here, we are!
Mike
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"It's been three years now, since I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet..."
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Onassis 17 Jan 2016 07:59:24am
re: I don't believe it.......
Nice job, Kim!
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou"
Congratulations Kim,
You have solved the Mystery Stamp Quiz. I was beginning to wonder if anyone was ever going to get this one right. I see that you must have been working late into the night, or was it morning, just to solve this one. Such perseverance does have it's rewards though and I will contact you later about the prize. Now the birthday girl, Peaches, wants to go for her morning bike ride.
To everyone, coincidentally this stamp was the one shown for this set in Scott, which did not seem to make it any easier to solve.
Mike
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When looking through the catalog for Niue Scott numbers 200-400 last night at 10:00, my bleary eyes went right over this stamp! Yikes. Were there any tricky verbal clues you gave that tied into this, like the capital OH or the golf reference, other than the obvious pointers like "island" or "discovery" or south of France?
Good job Kim!
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Congrats Kim - I've only won once and that was just a by accident that I happened to see one clue that matched a Japan stamp I had seen the day before while sorting.
"So now maybe you could hump your stump and identify this here little beauty."
Oh Mike - what are we going to do with you? Sheesh!
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I wondered if that phrase would offend anyone, but knowing there are several ways it could be taken and everyone here knows I would never say anything to fold, staple, mutilate, hurt, slander or offend anyone's feeling.
Mike
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"It's been three years now, since I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet..."
A Service Dog gives a person with a disability independence. Never approach, distract or pet a working dog, especially when (s)he is in harness. Never be afraid to ask questions to the handler (parent). 18 Jan 2016 11:20:06pm
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Mike - you always keep me laughing - don't ever change, my friend! â¤
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"Let's find a cure for Still's Disease, Breast Cancer and Canine Addison's Disease. We CAN find a cure and save lives!!"
Thanks lisagrant87, CapeStampMan, David13617, Madbaker, philatelia, rwillis29, and Poodle_Mum! And of course, special thanks to CapeStampMan for the interesting and challenging Mystery Stamp Quiz to start off the year! What a great prize! (in addition to the great fun)
Being a worldwide collector helps a lot. Hope more of you jump into worldwide collecting!
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