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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22447 Location: UK
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Churchill Johnson
Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Not serious started to when at school and got a few album's from boot sales also have a stanley gibbons book handy to check up on stamp's, i think like a lot of old hobbies there is less people doing it, do you know of anyone doing fretwork now, something else i did just before leaving school and of course flying control line model aircraft when i started work even when in the army!. |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:34 am Post subject: |
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I used to collect Green Shield ones once |
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Churchill Johnson
Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Still got some pink one's! |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3815 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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One old chap at my work collects stamps. I didn't believe him at first, he is a welder by trade and is always dirty and grubby and his fingers are permanently blackened! Not the type you would think of collecting small delicate stamps. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1775 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:15 am Post subject: |
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I don't collect stamps (any more, I was a keen collector in my teenage years) but I like to buy the Royal Mail's pictorial issues when I can. The trouble is, they are very difficult to get hold of; this week saw the issue of a set commemorating 100 Years of the RAF - I have tried every Post Office in the area, and non of them has been issued with any copies!
According to the Royal Mail website, April sees the issue of a set of British wild animals, but it's now the 25th March and they still haven't announced the date of issue _________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3815 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Can you not pre-order them from Royal Mail? _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Go to your local post office and make a point of telling them what a good job they do.
Phillatery will get you anything!
I've been waiting ages to try and get that pun in _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1775 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Rootes75 wrote: | Can you not pre-order them from Royal Mail? |
Oh yes, Royal Mail have an online shop from which you can buy many of the old issues ... and then charge nearly £4 postage for a package which costs the general public 65p! _________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 1480 Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Mike,
There is a division of the Post Office that sells new issue stamps located in Edinburgh. The only reason I know is that they used one of our mainframe computers. I think you might have to register for updates.
https://www.royalmail.com/personal/stamps-collectibles-gifts
Art
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 1480 Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Mike,
There is a division of the Post Office that sells new issue stamps located in Edinburgh. The only reason I know is that they used one of our mainframe computers. I think you might have to register for updates.
https://www.royalmail.com/personal/stamps-collectibles-gifts
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:14 am Post subject: |
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Just a word of warning on special issue stamps. Not too long ago I bought some out of print books from a dealer in such things over the 'net. They arrived in a parcel almost covered in special issue stamps - some of them with face values including halfpennies, and all of such low values that they were obviously issued a good few years ago. I can only assume this chap had bought them as an "investment" back in the day, and looked up the prices they were now fetching expecting a big payout - only to find they were worth no more than their original face value. Might as well stick them on these parcels then... |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:39 am Post subject: |
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Hi
The Stanley Gibbons catalogues show what they charge purchasers.
I have occasionally managed to get 50% when selling some of the special edition sets (usually the ones with other than stamp interest such as transport, cuddly animals or book/author related.
Othe than that I reckon 10% or just over face is the best to reckon on.
On a similar theme a lot of the "collectors" stuff that Franklin Mint sold is hardly worth the storage space. _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1735 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Penman wrote: | Hi
The Stanley Gibbons catalogues show what they charge purchasers.
I have occasionally managed to get 50% when selling some of the special edition sets (usually the ones with other than stamp interest such as transport, cuddly animals or book/author related.
Othe than that I reckon 10% or just over face is the best to reckon on.
On a similar theme a lot of the "collectors" stuff that Franklin Mint sold is hardly worth the storage space. |
Straying way off topic here, but I remember one of these firms that makes all sorts of junk advertising in the back of one of the TV guides - must be a good few years ago now if we were bothering with a TV guide. One week they were selling a figurine that was meant to be the late Princess Diana - it looked nothing like her. The next week they were selling one of Shirley Bassey - that looked nothing like her. On retrieving last week's magazine from the recycling box, however, the two figurines bore a remarkable similarity to each other and were obviously the same moulding painted up in different colours. Probably they did multiple others, passing them off as pretty much any famous woman that ever wore a long dress. IMO there must be some real idiots about to be buying rubbish like this, but the firms obviously know their market as they just keep on going. |
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