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billsey · 10-31-2019

I'm just starting to consolidate my various collections of Sweden, so it'll be ready when I start working on it seriously. I'm using the latest Facit catalog (Special Classic 2020) and have questions about the 1855 Skilling Banco issues. Here are two...

billsey · 06-17-2019

So I believe I know that Pensionnat du Père Girard is a Catholic boarding school and that this letter made the rounds, it looks like to three different locales before being returned to the sender. Can anyone explain the markings and sequence for me?

billsey · 04-03-2019

I've been corresponding with a gentleman who is interested in selling some of his stuff, and so far the most interesting of what he has are some Central Albania revenue stamps. When I told him I didn't know them well enough to decide if they were goo...

billsey · 08-31-2016

I'm having troubles understanding Google's translation. On the ASOFILCA site they have some wonderful articles helping to identify forgeries on the early Venezuela issues. They helpfully provide a pulldown menu at the top of the page that lets the us...

billsey · 03-12-2024

Yes, eBay decided many years ago to just block everything that matches the word "Cuba" or "Iran" or "North Korea", etc.. It's easy to automate that, so that's what they decided to do in order to remove any chance they will get dinged for allowing the...

billsey · 02-13-2024

he seller needed to mark them on the back as counterfeit in order to sell them based on eBay's policies. It doesn't look like they did that, so you would have been better served to have reported them. You also paid a bit too much, IMO for those in th...

billsey · 12-06-2023

Typically in boards like this editing and deleting aren't allowed after a short time...

billsey · 10-09-2023

I used to have bookmarks pointing to the excellent pages Rolly Runciman (?) did on the Penny Universal and Penny Dominion issues. I can't find them now, and since it's been many years since I last worked on NZ I'm not surprised. Note that the Penny D...

billsey · 07-29-2023

It used to be that a seller had to pay a fee based on the starting price, so it got expensive for them to do that behavior. These days they aren't charged, and who knows maybe some sucker will fall for it.

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