Thomas Keesling
My HipStamp store is at https://www.hipstamp.com/store/stamps-from-keesindy
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This article is from March 23rd. That is now ancient history when we're talking about this virus.
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So much that I never knew about printing processes! Well done again, Ted. Thank you!
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Or, if you don't want to scan the reverse sides, give the post office names, dates of the cancellations and identify them as machine cancels.
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Another amazing episode, Ted. I didn't collect US. So this was mostly new information for me. Very well researched and presented—as usual! Thanks for sharing.
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Amazing work yet again, Ted! Great images and very informative. Thanks! Tom
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Like Brian, I had a strong interest in maps. That interest developed around the same time I started collecting stamps around ten years of age. Of course, I had a world map on my bedroom wall. But, unlike anyone else I knew, I had two USGS topographi…
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Amazing story and a good choice! I had a college roommate who had created a radio voice. It was like having a second personality he could turn on and off at will.
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Thanks for the heads up, Dave! Great work, Ted! The content, production, presentation — everything was very nicely done. Of course, I especially like your album pages! But who was that good-looking professional you found to impersonate you?!?
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Maybe it's a new HipStamp marketing ploy?
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The following represent the last of these mini stamp prints that I'm posting here. I may have missed one or two, but I have shared most, if not all, of them here. Tom
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as an occasional author and artist, I'm a strong supporter of intellectual property rights. However, I've never had an interest in worrying about the stamp images associated with my store sales. In fact, I've tried to produce high quality images tha…
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I should have pointed out when I first started posting these mini stamp prints that I made no effort to standardize the print sizes or dimensions. I simply started with the stamp's size and shape, enlarged it in most cases, and then worked on backgr…
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Leona, posting your question here in this particular thread probably won't bring many replies. Tere are six different sections here in the forums for posting questions and comments. Most of the requests like yours are in the "Stamp Reviews" section …
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Thanks, Phil, for your kind comments. Here are a few more that I produced from 2013 to 2016.
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Most of my mini prints were based on single stamps. In 2010, I also created small prints of three interesting postal cards. The print shown here measures about 5½ inches by 4 inches. This was the only block of four I ever used to create one of th…
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The system wouldn't let me delete the duplicate post. I produced this Falklands Islands mini print shortly after I listed my very small collection (mostly Scott 65-73, Stanley Gibbons 127-135) at BidStart in 2010. This is Scott 70/Stanley Gibbons 1…
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This was another early example of a stamp print, probably also from 2010. It is also another of my favorite stamp designs. This print was probably the first design where I experimented with the gradient shading technique in the background. It was 7 …
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Here is another quick example. Belgian Congo Scott 10. This was another early example of a stamp print, probably also from 2010. It is also another of my favorite stamp designs. This print was probably the first design where I experimented with the…
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How about a change of pace? Back in the 1980s, I bought a Gambia collection. The collection included a horizontal strip of three Queen Victoria embossed head stamps (Scott 6 and Stanley Gibbons 128). This design quickly became a favorite design of…
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At least one large online photography site changed the way views were tallied when they began accepting advertising a few years ago. Our daily views skyrocketed and became meaningless. I assume the increase was a means of maximizing the site's adver…
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Doug Noernberg said: "I had the new catalogue numbers, he was searching by old catalogue numbers. Can't please them all." I know you provide good images with your listings, Doug, but this is another good reason for all sellers to include an image w…
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Harry, the postmark was created in Photoshop after scanning the stamp or cover. I've been using Photoshop for many years for various projects and I pulled maybe 15 to 20 postmarks from stamps and covers several years ago. It has been so long that I …
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Those older Gambia album page examples in my previous post were designed for 3-ring binders, but I was also beginning to work on Lindner T-blank page designs. This was still in the late 1990s. For Gambia, I created a set of 12 pages in CorelDraw tha…
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Like Luree, I also scan at 600. However, I do so because I may be interested in enlarging the images in the future for research or artistic endeavors or whatever. If I were scanning my stamps simply for sale, I would scan at 300. Tom https://www.hi…
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I do as Carol does. Take the stamps to the post office and take them to the inside mail slot.
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Political humor, Ted?
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I intended to mention the rounded corners on those first two Gambia images. I don't remember what prompted me to buy a hand-held tool for cutting the page corners, but it may have been the fact that my old Leuchtturm plastic stock pages had rounded …
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Stay safe, Luree!
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I decided to focus on Gambia for this next installment, but had forgotten how much experimentation I did with these pages. So this will be the first of two installments showing the progression of the Gambia page designs. The Gambia album pages were…
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Yes! That's it, Ted. I went to bed last night thinking about that and wasn't able to get beyond Philatelic and Group. Thanks for the assist!