Alright. Happy Monday! Ya'll know it's always a big show on Monday, so let's get started.
First, thanks to everyone that's contributed photos and comments. This is as good a place as any to just talk about the hobby.
Next, Scott Payton mentioned in another topic that he enjoyed rocket philately. Last week while sorting through a box in storage (Herself is having a yard sale and she's on a broom about clearing out boxes) I rediscovered my own small clutch of rocket stuff. Here they are, and I know little about them.
A pair of mini sheets from the Dutch national rocket society from 1947. These are imperf, there are also perf varieties.
A little club sheet from 1954 Cuba, honoring the first Cuban rocket experiment in 1939.
A flown cover from the Rocket Research Institute, Inc., Glendale, California. Rocket 5, flown on Dec 31, 1958.
And now a bonus for the money hungry, a banknote from Tunisia. Fifty francs, Bank of Algeria, March 1941, Pick catalog number 12a.
This was during the Vichy period. The first German tanks arrived in Libya during March, and Rommel retook Benghazi and drove the British back into Egypt by the end of the month.
Ted I want to add those Postage Revenues to my Revenue collection I do have some that are close to this what I mean same King face! But Revenue with ships,planes,kings,queens,presidents I'm all hands in!
Hey Phil, I missed your post (I was blinded by the Ascensions). I have seen that Cuba sheet before, but don't have it. I've never seen the first two (I have several from the Netherlands), and your flown cover is awesome. I think I'm going to have to dust off this group and decide what to do with it. If you're interested in selling any of those, just let me know, I'd buy all of them.
Following up on Ted's post of the Ascension stamps...... I played around with producing art prints from stamps and this second set of Ascension was one of my favorite subjects.
The first item's frame size is 18 inches by 23½ inches. The second print size is 8½ inches by 6¼ inches.
Is it just me or did the items in this thread get strangely reordered? There messages now about "Ascension" before the Ascension photos... weird. And I know I saw all that, and suddenly Alan Jackson's rocket mails appear before the Tonga Banana? Maybe I'm just losing it. My brain is still sloshing around after last night's earthquake.
Dave, indeed, my reference was to the "scientific name" that they used for him. It wasn't much a fly specking at all. By funny coincidence, we had a pretty big quake here last night just before 11pm, and one of the few things that fell off the shelf was my hefty nosed penguin, face down, nose first, into the floor. I had picked him up about 20 minutes before seeing your image.
On another note, here's a photo of a feeding penguin I took in Antarctica a few years ago.
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First, thanks to everyone that's contributed photos and comments. This is as good a place as any to just talk about the hobby.
Next, Scott Payton mentioned in another topic that he enjoyed rocket philately. Last week while sorting through a box in storage (Herself is having a yard sale and she's on a broom about clearing out boxes) I rediscovered my own small clutch of rocket stuff. Here they are, and I know little about them.
A pair of mini sheets from the Dutch national rocket society from 1947. These are imperf, there are also perf varieties.
A little club sheet from 1954 Cuba, honoring the first Cuban rocket experiment in 1939.
A flown cover from the Rocket Research Institute, Inc., Glendale, California. Rocket 5, flown on Dec 31, 1958.
And now a bonus for the money hungry, a banknote from Tunisia. Fifty francs, Bank of Algeria, March 1941, Pick catalog number 12a.
This was during the Vichy period. The first German tanks arrived in Libya during March, and Rommel retook Benghazi and drove the British back into Egypt by the end of the month.
and 4 from the first set inscribed "Ascension," from 1924
Stop it, stop it! I'm starting to like foreign material!!!
By the way, Mr. Moulton, that King face was George the Fifth, or KGV. Learn the British kings and queens. It will save you lots of time...
I think I'm going to have to dust off this group and decide what to do with it.
If you're interested in selling any of those, just let me know, I'd buy all of them.
I played around with producing art prints from stamps and this second set of Ascension was one of my favorite subjects.
The first item's frame size is 18 inches by 23½ inches. The second print size is 8½ inches by 6¼ inches.
On the regular 111, the gutter was between two vertical panes of stamps. With the booklet pane printing, the gutter was to the side.
I've got a new video up, with 3 top-10 lists of favorite stamps:
It's incredibly similar to mine!
"A place for everything . . .
and everything all over the place!"
There messages now about "Ascension" before the Ascension photos... weird.
And I know I saw all that, and suddenly Alan Jackson's rocket mails appear before the Tonga Banana?
Maybe I'm just losing it. My brain is still sloshing around after last night's earthquake.
You have good taste, Scott! As you probably know, that's Opus, from the Bloom County comic strip!
You really 'flyspecked' that photo in order to see him!
On another note, here's a photo of a feeding penguin I took in Antarctica a few years ago.