This was supposed to be about stamps. STAMPS! So let me try to get back into step, here's some stamps.
Remember I said I had a thing for imperfs? Back when I was very young I lusted for the Farleys, but back then they were so hard for a kid to get. Things are easier now. US 771 center line block. Back then everything was hard to find for a kid in middle Tennessee, and until I found hipstamp and began collecting again, I had never even seen any of the French community imperfs. That's changing now. French Polynesia C121 from 1975.
New Caledonia C201 from 1984. And here's France 624, not really imperf but cool nevertheless .
That France 624 is a really unusual stamp. I have one listed myself and thought it was quite different from most everything else out there. I wonder what the thought process was for creating it. An awful lot of blank paper to print them (costing $$$ in paper costs I would guess).
The cost, it is nothing! We know already how much the French loved their margins. I don't think they spend so much effort anymore, except perhaps for the Le Poste special issues. I know they stopped the imperfs, trials, and presentation sheets back in 1992 or 1996.
I found this in my parents' collection years ago. NASA Local Post for the Apollo 7 launch, 1967.
Brazil 908, the largest real stamp that I know of. Part of the Brasila set and issued specifically for President Kubischek's birthday. This is a pair with gutter, Scott measures the single at 105x46.5mm.
Japan 423 Beauty Looking Back, 1948. Issued for some exhibition or other and one of that handful of essential postwar souvenir sheets. And another, 402, the Nagoya fishes sheet of 1948, with show cancel.
Beautiful items Cappy! Back in the heyday of the space race, The SSCS was a big deal around these parts. Lots of cool space material they produced...(Hmm kind of Yoda'd that one I did.)
Phil, ok, you win the award already for 2022 discovery of "I had no idea that existed". I've been collecting rocket mail, missile mail and space ephemera for quite a long while, and I've never encountered NASA local post before. A quick sweep on Hip turned up a few covers, but no sheets, I just raided eBay of every sheet that was available of the various varieties, of which I now see there are about a dozen, but they didn't have the one you have. If you (or anyone) knows where I can turn up other full sheets of these, I'll buy them.
Morning...afternoon...evening...it all bleeds together after a few decades. But....it's five o'clock somewhere...so...yeah.
Phil had to go fight off a bunch of marauding, rogue gang of Maloney beavers coming up from the creek bottom with intentions to eat his house. "THERE ARE TOO MANY!!!!! I CAN'T FEND THEM ALL OFF! aghhhh!!!!"
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But that is a very nice #15, Greg.
How many stamps do platypi have?
Mine, all mine.
Remember I said I had a thing for imperfs? Back when I was very young I lusted for the Farleys, but back then they were so hard for a kid to get. Things are easier now.
US 771 center line block.
Back then everything was hard to find for a kid in middle Tennessee, and until I found hipstamp and began collecting again, I had never even seen any of the French community imperfs. That's changing now.
French Polynesia C121 from 1975.
New Caledonia C201 from 1984.
And here's France 624, not really imperf but cool nevertheless .
Unitrade has it listed as a Yukon Airways and Explorations Co LTD. Cat # CL42 with a CV of $65 on cover. (2020 cat.)
I found this in my parents' collection years ago. NASA Local Post for the Apollo 7 launch, 1967.
Brazil 908, the largest real stamp that I know of. Part of the Brasila set and issued specifically for President Kubischek's birthday. This is a pair with gutter, Scott measures the single at 105x46.5mm.
Japan 423 Beauty Looking Back, 1948. Issued for some exhibition or other and one of that handful of essential postwar souvenir sheets.
And another, 402, the Nagoya fishes sheet of 1948, with show cancel.
I've been collecting rocket mail, missile mail and space ephemera for quite a long while, and I've never encountered NASA local post before. A quick sweep on Hip turned up a few covers, but no sheets, I just raided eBay of every sheet that was available of the various varieties, of which I now see there are about a dozen, but they didn't have the one you have. If you (or anyone) knows where I can turn up other full sheets of these, I'll buy them.
Phil had to go fight off a bunch of marauding, rogue gang of Maloney beavers coming up from the creek bottom with intentions to eat his house. "THERE ARE TOO MANY!!!!! I CAN'T FEND THEM ALL OFF! aghhhh!!!!"