Category: Musings

Ajman – A Country to Collect?

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British Aircraft Designers

Roger B West  is a well known philatelist and an acknowledged expert in the stamps of St Helena. In 1994 he edited the handbook “Madame Joseph Forged Postmarks” which has been widely acclaimed as one of the most important philatelic reference works.  He is also the owner of a long established stamp business Avion Stamps. Roger has generously provided a number of articles (Tag: RBW) for publication in The Philatelic Register.

As each these Musings and Observations are published I will leave the reader to make their own judgment as to where on the spectrum between humourous and thought provoking each article sits.

British Aircraft Designers

Ceylon 1851 5d Chestnut

Roger B West  is a well known philatelist and an acknowledged expert in the stamps of St Helena. In 1994 he edited the handbook “Madame Joseph Forged Postmarks” which has been widely acclaimed as one of the most important philatelic reference works.  He is also the owner of a long established stamp business Avion Stamps. Roger has generously provided a number of articles (Tag: RBW) for publication in The Philatelic Register.

As each these Musings and Observations are published I will leave the reader to make their own judgment as to where on the spectrum between humourous and thought provoking each article sits.

Ceylon 1851 5d Chestnut

“Legals Versus Illegals”. Musings and Observations from a Lifetime in Philately.

Roger B West  is a well known philatelist and an acknowledged expert in the stamps of St Helena. In 1994 he edited the handbook “Madame Joseph Forged Postmarks” which has been widely acclaimed as one of the most important philatelic reference works.  He is also the owner of a long established stamp business Avion Stamps. Roger has generously provided a number of articles (Tag: RBW) for publication in The Philatelic Register.

As each these Musings and Observations are published I will leave the reader to make their own judgment as to where on the spectrum between humourous and thought provoking each article sits.

Legals versus Illegals. Part 1.

Legals versus Illegals. Part 2..

 

NOSTALGIA- from an old stamp album

Michael Dodd is a member of the American Philatelic Society (APS), the Great Britain Philatelic Society (GBPS) and the Internet Philatelic Dealers Association (IPDA)  as well as a number of  specialist philatelic groups.  He writes for a number of USA and UK philatelic journals as well as his own blogs on stamp collecting and aerophilately.

In this article Michael is taken back to his formative stamp collecting years while contemplating an old stamp album and its contents, and in doing so defines the the essence of “stamp collecting”.

Nostalgia-from an old stamp album

Very likely to be possibly almost “unique…”

Part musing, part cautionary tale……..

When selling items I am wary of using the term “unique” and  exhibit a degree of caution by usually preceding it with a “possibly” and inviting any would be buyer to make their own decision.

Being a collector at heart I was recently tempted in to making a purchase of an item that referenced a footnote in Gibbons Specialised Volume 3 (Predecimal Elizabeth II).  Fortunately it was not the reference to the footnote that reeled me in but the fact that it was an item I had always wanted to have and this was a pristine example.

The item in question illustrated above is the 1969 Christmas issue 5d with reversed perforation. The left margin of the sheet is imperforate. It should be perforated. Presumably if this is to be taken at face value my cylinder block above is “unique.”

This variety is listed as a single in the Spec. Vol 3 as item Spec. W176h “imperf through left margin”. See close up of listing below

There is further explanation in the footnote to the Christmas issue previously mentioned. See close up below and reference to “….single sheet which was fed in to the perforator upside down”.

Some time after the purchase, with which I was very pleased and remain so, I was whiling away  some time as I am frequently prone to do,  browsing through one of the many hundreds of old stamp magazines and journals that surround me in my office.  I was looking through the March 13th issue of “Philatelic Magazine” from 1970 when I happened across the advertisment illustrated below from  B. Alan one of the foremost dealers of modern errors at the time. I will leave the reader to draw his own conclusions but will end by saying that my well thumbed copy of SG Spec. Vol. 3 from which the captions above have been taken is the 13th edition published in 2019.