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Setanta
 
Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 03:41 pm
No, this ain't nothin' about sex, so all you wankers clear out . . .

For our esteemed colleague, Hamburger, i initiate this thread.

As a child, i was obliged to write to my grandparents (the ones with whom i did not reside) each month, at the least. It griped me, because empty pop bottles were 2 cents each, and a postage stamp was three cents, so finding two bottles to turn in and then buying a stamp left me one cent change, which was sufficient to buy enough candy to make me want more.

If that made sense to you, you belong in this thread.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 03:45 pm
Here's a little something to brighten up the decor . . .


http://www.namibstamps.com/swapicsa/swasacc68mintb4marg.jpg
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hamburger
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 03:48 pm
thanks setanta : now if only you had "invested" your candy money in stamps, you would be rolling in dough today! i know that wouldn't appeal to you.

btw if any of you have old letters, boxes of grandma's love letters, an attic in an old house, old trunks ... see if perhaps any treasures have been left behind. if you find any old letters or postcards, DO NOT REMOVE the stamps. a letter envelope or postcard is always worth much more than a lonely stamp. hbg
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 03:50 pm
Hamburger, youu mean, he could have shown his stamp collection to the girls? Wink
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 03:52 pm
I'll keep that in mind, Boss . . .

Some friends and i were wandering through some wood lots near Williamsburg, Virginia once in 1972, and came upon an old house which we hadn't known was there. We went inside and looked around, and i found lying on the floor an old envelope, with a return address in New Hampshire, and changing the name of the addressee, it read:

Mr. John Doe
Williamsburg, Virginia


I think one is justified in assuming it had been correctly delivered with no more direction than that.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 03:57 pm
At one place at which i was employed, one of the secretaries asked me to look at an old portable typewriter to know if it could be made operable (it could) and then we speculated upon its age. I was then nearing forty and the secretary was roughly of an age with me. I opened the top cover and found a manufacturers decal with the address. I remarked that it had to be older than 1959, because there was no zip code with the address.

Looking up, i saw a look of shock on the face of the student worker who worked for the secretary, so i asked her what was wrong. She replied that it had never occured to her that there was a time when there weren't zip codes, much less that she knew anyone who would have remembered that. I thanked her inwardly for making me feel so youthful.


CJ, you are a very naughty lady, and as punishment, you are required to PM me your address and a private phone number. I happen to have an extensive coin collection . . .
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 03:59 pm
I still have an envlope with a Japanese stamp that was sent before WWII to my mother from her brother in Japan. I inquired about the "value" about this particular stamp about thirty years ago, and was told it had practically no value. The only value was the fact that the letter revealed my mother had a brother. Wink
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hamburger
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 04:05 pm
setanta wrote : "the secretary was roughly of an age with me. I opened the top cover ".

please, this is a thread about P-H-I-L-A-T-E-L-Y ! hbg
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 04:06 pm
I did leave that one wide open, didn't i, BOSS . . . i certainly did laugh aloud at that one, Hbg
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 04:09 pm
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/9362/cat/pos/1863_3k.jpg


More wallpaper
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 04:10 pm
Damn, thrupence for a stamp when Victoria was Queen ? ? ?

We paid three cents when Eisenhower was President . . .

http://www.chemainusmarketing.com/4.jpg
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 04:17 pm
I assume, then, Hbg, that this is more valuable than simply the stamp itself?

http://www.siegelauctions.com/2003/869/3081.jpg
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 04:21 pm
hamburger wrote:
setanta wrote : "the secretary was roughly of an age with me. I opened the top cover ".

please, this is a thread about P-H-I-L-A-T-E-L-Y ! hbg


Don't you realize, he's got coins only Wink


Sentanta wrote:
CJ, you are a very naughty lady, and as punishment, you are required to PM me your address and a private phone number. I happen to have an extensive coin collection . . .


As every other decent German lady, I'm only interested in stamp collections <ph>
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hamburger
 
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Reply Mon 23 May, 2005 04:44 pm
philately
set : re the three pence stamp ; i think they threw the beaver in if you bought the stamp !

this stamp shows you what the mail-transport was like in germany in 1950 (we left in 1956 !) :

http://www.sammler.com/bm/images/pferde_kutsche_saarland.jpg

who would have thought we could have so much fun with philately. hbg
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