Hello fellow philatelists! I've been collecting for more than 30 years, but my current interests have wandered into more esoteric material, like this...
Large-size taxpaid revenues
Souvenir cards
Older postcards
Territorial covers
Commemorative panels
Carrier cancels
Exposition items
And well, there's lots of other unusual items I pick up if they catch my interest. Anyone else collect things like this on the far end of the philatelic spectrum?
The truth is within and only you can reveal it 02 Jul 2018 09:38:40pm
re: Greetings! Any other oddballs here?
Greg, Welcome to the SOR. hanks for showing those nifty items. I collect the whole world
including revenues for several countries. There are many here that collect items ike the ones you have shown so I have no doubt you will find some good company here.
You came to the right place. It's full of oddballs! You'll fit right in.
Very nice items, keep on posting. It's fun to see things we haven't been learned about yet. We are fans of all things old and historic!
I have a United States collection that embraces anything I can find that fits into the theme. I love the old Worlds Fair tickets, I have one from the Columbian Expo myself.
My specialty collection is the 1 cent Ben Franklin stamp of 1902 (see my avatar) and anything related to it. I have collected covers from all the territories in that era on "my stamp".
I love covers and postcards, just the feeling of holding them in my hands and knowing that they were actually there at an important point in history. I can go off on collecting tangents with the slightest provocation.
Hey Greg,
You speak to listening ears my friend. Needed: Proofs,Specimens,Essays,Match & Medicine,Carriers,Wines,Liquors,Newspaper issues,Officials,Revenues
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If you have stuff available to swap.sell or just talk about mark me down to be part of that conversation.
Oh, and I neglected to mention bank checks, vignette proofs, stocks and bonds. Though these aren't really philatelic except for the revenue stamped paper aspects. My primary field of interest is intaglio engravings by bank note companies and the Bureau of Eng. & Printing.
Sounds like I found a nice spot to connect with other BOB collectors!
My Bucket List collection... New Jersey postmarks! As a youth in the 1970s I started this collection from a few sources. My uncle worked for the power and gas company and would bring me home huge boxes of the envelopes people sent their bills in. He intended me to clip off the stamps, but I got interested in the postmarks. I started to buy older covers at shows, visiting post offices for their cancel and mailing in to post offices for cancels. I used a paperback zip code directory for this, and actually got all the way through "C" for current offices back then!
As an adult I discovered the shoe box of these, and put them in an album. Then it got out of control. Here's a sample page from my album... we're up to 9 volumes at this point. 750 unique offices, about 35% of the possibilities!
The top Barnegat cover is one from the original collection that I mailed out for postmark. The bottom cover is one bought recently. I try not to include damaged covers, but this town only existed for 10 years, over 100 years ago, so you grab those because you may never see one again! And if I see another, I can always upgrade and give this one back to the mouse.
I love postmarks on different forms. This return receipt is in the collection representing the town of Little Ferry. Can't find a more official cover than this!
I like postal usage. Think that most junk mail was immediately tossed, so I like old examples and precancels on cover.
V-Mail is real history. I have a bunch of historic items like this in my 1940s USA album.
And following V-Mail is actual soldier mail. In my US collection, I try to have a lot of usage. I decided to collect all my postage dues on cover. How unAmerican to charge someone postage due on mail from a soldier at the front!
I like interesting documents like this postage due bill. It's also in my USA collection.
My grandfather's union dues book! Interesting stamps. I saw another one of these in a junk box at a stamp show and passed it by. Now I'm sorry I did that! These could be an interesting collection.
And one of my favorite pastimes, old postcards. This one is actually a reproduction that the restaurant gives out today. I got this one when we were there last summer.
I like to chase them down on Google Street View and capture the images. Here is the Columns Restaurant today. Note that it's pretty much the same, but the flag pole got skinny!
It's interesting to see how places change over time. Sometimes the earlier view is completely gone and replaced with modern structures.
I don't know about oddball collections. My wife thinks that I am odd, period - or queer, peculiar, strange or many more expressions of a similar nature.
She does go on about my "crinkly bits of paper" until I remind her that crinkly bits of paper ( at my level ) cost considerably less than handbags ( purses across the pond ?)
"Oddball" collecting is what keeps philatelic interesting for me. Your Fort Stanton, New Mexico cover is a stand-out for me. I grew up in New Mexico, near Fort Bayard, which became home to the famous "Buffalo Soldiers," free black slaves who volunteered to be in the U.S. Cavalry. The Wikipedia article about Fort Stanton is interesting.
Here's something I picked up in a ebay WW lot of 271 stamps. Top image of Nauru #399 in that lot, below it a normal copy. With it a letter containing the text: ...However if Robson Lowe states the yellow color is missing, it is so."
I think this oddball sheet is a color changeling, however viewing it under a microscope I can see no remnants of yellow on the sheet. Scott does not list a color missing error, so I'm not sure what I have here. The way I prorated the lot out - it cost me a buck. I bought a normal sheet about a week later. The shade of the mail route in green differs a bit, so maybe something (sunlight?) bleached out the yellow and darkened the green.
Steve
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