Tom Gates
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I have a couple sets of US States albums from Collectors Supply House out of Canada. Was going to use this series to create two sets of Mint stamp albums from 1970 or 1980 to present. One for each of our daughters to give them sometime down the ro…
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All the Walgreens stores around here carry a Cannon MG series inkjet printer/flatbed scanner/copier for under $55. Can be hooked up USB or WiFi. As others noted, has it's own scanning software. I use black stock page, insert stamps scattered in the…
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A couple of the sites I use for purchasing mounts and other supplies do have these pens. Just never looked for them before. Both had for a reasonable $5 - $6
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Thanks George, I believe I've seen those when browsing various places. I'll check out the sticks. And you reminded me that one of my stamp albums as a kid (way back) I must have run out of hinges and my brother and I turned to clear tape. Long be…
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Thanks Clifford and George. Makes sense. Actually as I was typing out the question (like hearing yourself repeat it out loud) I got to thinking the same thing, the extra friction the length of thee strip should work. The thought of 5 or 6 inches …
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Related to the C3a story link - I see this past Sept (last month) C3a #49 was discovered and positively identified. Leaving only #66 still missing of the sheet of 100. NY Times article - Sept 6, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/nyregion/…
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For chuckles, I emailed the USPS stamp store about the lack of the Blue Air Mail stamp on the website. Response: "Thank you for contacting us about ordering stamps. The item#477904 Air mail blue ,is no longer on the postal store website you can …
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I don't mind if it's a light marking on a used stamp. But for MNH, no - wouldn't like any intentional man-made markings.
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Yes, interesting. The blue Air Mail collectables show up as well as the 6-pane press sheet. But the individual sheets or blocks of the blue stamps are no where to be found. Went back to my purchase history and entered the SKU for the blue stamps …
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I have several sheets of both the blue and brown/red stamps. Seems to be a lot of inconsistency between the stamps on the sheets. May be something that is similar to sheets from the same plate position. Bottom of the left hand scroll varies on the…