Postmarks & Cancels
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A stamp's journey can provide me with hours of fascination. Let's explore the two key markings that document this journey, from the various types of postmarks and cancels to the ways in which I research and learn from them.
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Great introductory video into the postmark collecting world. Postmarks help the novice stamp collector move into the more advanced philatelist world. Postmark collecting is also the No.1 reason you should join a stamp study circle or stamp philatelic society that specialises in your country. They are invaluable for determining rarity and hard to identify postmarks. If you are unsure of specialists societies for your country, contact the American Philatelic Society. They have a vast network of sister societies to help you! :)
Pinned! Totally agree. Thanks for sharing James :)
Yes, thank you for your video.
I was never a collector who thought too much about the postmarks, until now that I understand what you can learn about the origin of the stamp. Thank you so much for another informative video
Do you have stamps from Yugoslavia,show them,they are beautiful
I prefer canceled stamps by far but since I collect most of them from Thailand, its often a real challenge knowing where they are from. Still, awesome video. Tks
I love SOTN. !:- ) Long time collecting, still learning.
Great video. Nice desk magnifying glass too. Which brand and model is it?
Another amazing, highly informative video! Thank you
Thank you Chris! Appreciate your support 😊
There are several Greek stamps with charity cancels for earthquake victims and other purposes, I'm sure I have seen them in other countries too
Years and years ago when I used to buy stamps regularly I started wondering why (and how it was possible) so many of my used stamps still had the gum on them. Then I found out they were CTOs. I don't like them.
Another excellent video. Thank you, I learned a lot and You have inspired me to look closer into see me of the postmarks and cancelations on my stamps.
Very interesting video! I don't know how common it is, but one niche I like is collecting stamps postmarked in a particular place. The collector might for example collect postmarks from the place where they grew up, or the place their parents are from, or whatever else is significant or interesting to them. I have just barely started a collection like that, and have a very nice SOTN postmark from the place where my mom is from, and where I spent the first 8 years of my life. Now that I think about it, that was where I lived when I first got interested in stamp collecting! It all makes sense now :) I collected stamps for a few years as a kid, lost interest, and got back into the hobby about a year and a half ago. Anyway, I don't know if there's a term for such a collection, but I do appreciate a nice postmark from a place that is important to me!
I really appreciate the hard work you put into these videos, excellent production. My father and I are dealer's who sell through eBay. You touched on fancy cancels and the best cancel that we've had in our possession is the Elephant Fancy Cancel on a single stamp out of Waterbury Connecticut. www.theswedishtiger.com/1861water.html
If you ever have the time it would be interesting to see a video that you produced about the tagging of stamps. Thank you for your hard work, gives me something to do while im sorting postage.
Hey can u tell me some history on some stamps I have like my 2 cents Washington with (Go Military Camps)cancelation
Another great quality video .. Great information ..
I'm ambivalent about SOTNs - they're great if you're just collecting stamps...but if you're into covers and postal history it's often better having the cancellation properly "tie" both stamp and envelope together, proving they actually belong...there have been cases of cancelled stamps being affixed as an addition to previously posted covers to help fabricate a scarce combination or type of cover...
This is a really good point. Someone else pointed out that one of my ‘dumb cancels’ on my WWI postcard is not tied to the card, giving some doubt to whether or not it is genuine... I have to agree, a tied postmark/cancel adds credibility to postal stationary. Thanks for sharing!!
Re: CTOs, I collect them alongside genuinely used examples as well as mint examples. In the early 1980s Belize CTOs constituted a separate orinting on different quakity paper.
After watching your videos, I decided to start collecting Machins. I found a set of Mint Never Hinged 1967 & 1968 stamps on ebay. I was excited to get them relatively inexpensive because the seller did not charge additional shipping to the US from the UK. I also had some anticipation for the products arrival because I was certain the seller would use a new stamp to send them. When it arrived, I was thrilled with the contents and the sellers care. Unfortunately, the post office lazy slashed the cover with a sharpie to cancel it. It is my first letter from the UK and the Royal Mail botched it. 😕 Oh well. There are worse things in life. I love your videos. I am very much a novice but you have helped me in starting my collection more than any other philatelic resource.
I am also a coin collector. My local coin shop carries a collection of philatelic supplies as a service to its numismatists who happen to also be philatelists. A couple of weeks ago, the owner gave me a free first day cover from John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration in Washington, D.C.!
Machins can make for an amazing collection! So glad to see that you have started one. Sorry to hear about the pen cancelled stamps :( I guess it's the Royal Mail's way of welcoming you to the hobby :P
Wish more people would collect postmarks. Found some amazing (not anymore) torn off the whole envelope recently by a stamp shop to make grab bags. I don't have Smith Flat cancel. :)
Oh oh another awesome video from my favorite youtuber. I also love to collect postmarks as well. I even try to make my own postmark lol. I once made birthday cards and then add a stamp with a fantasy cancellation too...
Hi, I just found your channel and I have been collecting stamps since I was a child. I look at them, put them back in a box and back in a drawer. Those books you have are very nice, do you use a certain brand? Also where do you get them from? Thanks for your time and I am checking out most of your previous videos as well , take care.
Hello Chris and welcome to the channel. I use various stockbook brands, primarily lighthouse. I also am using the Vario system from lighthouse with a binder to hold the pages. Thanks for watching 🙂
exploring stamps showed his own PO box time to send mail for philatelic purpose because that my new corona hobby.
Another excellent and informative episode!
Thank you Louis :)
15:20 I have that Romanian Stamp....Great know alot of my Eastern Europe stamps are CTOs 😅😅.....Awkward this is
I’m right there with you 😅😅😅
I have been colecting these ctn stamps for years
As allways extremelly interesting and educational episode. I learn something new with each of your video. i have a suggestion for the next video: You could talk about the importance of the postage and stamps and than visiti BURMA. Why? Because they do not use mail at all. If you want to send something, in 99% of cases you bring your letter to the bus and the bus driver will carry your letter to the next city. The recipient of the letter will be informed and he will wait for the bus driver. Its same if you want to send letters, postcards or even a potato. its 99% cases, its by bus or train. It looks incredible but its working. The only postal office is in the capital Rangoon and several other big cities. Since Burma do not have street names and numbers, they use a different way. Let's say, you are in Rangoon and you want to send a letter to a friend in Mandalay. You go to British post and send it to Mandalay. Of course, you need to write a phone number of the recipient. Once the letter reaches the Mandalay post office, they will call your friend to come and to pick it up. I love stamp and postcard collecting, and if I told them that, they laugh at me because they do not have this culture :)
That’s fascinating Zoran, I didn’t know any of this and will have to look it up. Perhaps this could be a video at some point, I will have to Mandalay!! 😉. Thanks for sharing and for watching the video!
Zambia hasn't issued a postage stamp since 2011!
I collected stamps in my childhood. I remember once a time a cousin of mine went back from the US, brought me lots of stamps since she knew I collected those.
But as a noobs and lack of information at the time, I was saddened and threw away all those gift stamps. It was because my friend who introduced me to stamp collecting said those were fake.
It's because the cancelations were obviously printed alongside the stamps.
I just knew the CTO thing after I watched this video, 25 years later.
A great video! I always save different cancelations. I usually put them on the opposite page in my album where the stamp goes. Likewise, if I use a mint stamp such as the new dinosaur T-Rex 🦖 , ( so you can see the special effect) I always try to have a canceled one too.
CTO’s are not my favorite, but you can see the stamp nicely, I always combine with a stamp that was used by mail if I can find one.
Does anyone know where you can find pen pals that will exchange stamps with you every month? I used to have some really nice pen pals but due circumstances I was not able to continue for a few yrs. now I have time and would like to find pen pals again. 😁
you need too do the Graf zeppelin postmarks :)
My favorite cancellation is the duplex or "shoeprint" I guess it's sometimes called. I know a lot of people don't like it because it obliterates the stamp, but I like the dark ink and the striking form of the "print", perfectly recognizable amid all the other line or slogan cancels that I'm sorting through. I think they're pretty, is what I'm saying. I'm tempted to try to make a mid 20th century album that is entirely duplex cancels. I also like machine slogan cancels. I'm not really at all interested in mint or unused stamps, because to me the interest is the history, the fact that the stamp was used as currency for transport and that the stamp bears a proof of that journey. I know you talked about CTOs in this video, but I would love to see you do a video about Dunes in particular, even if it might lead to some tomato throwing from the audience. I think there's interesting history there.
Absolutely! The used stamps tell a story 🙌. I like your idea with the duplex cancels, I hope you do it!!
I don't research postmarks, but when I write a blog post about my stamp collection, I obviously look up information about the stamp image. I don't always include the info that I find, but it can be so satisfying to finally get results after struggling to find anything. That being said, I did share a cancellation on a Marianne stamp from France which happened to give her a very nice beard.
Lol Marianne with a beard! :D Love it!
Very educational and informative.......never knew there were so many types of cancellations.
Thanks Gary! And believe it or not, this is still a high level summary, there is a lot more to explore when it comes to postmarks and cancels 🤓
I loved this video it is great !! I have learned so much and have been a collector for 50 years look forward to watching more of your videos
Thank you Dawn! Glad you enjoyed it, more videos to come :)
I bought a pack of 100 envelope corners at the last show. There were so many different types and they were interesting. Could you do a video about different types of envelope corners?
The UK postal service had a 'Collect stamps' picture cancel which was very fat, essentially turning the stamps into blackened pieces of paper, uninteresting for collecting ;-) I reget that I no longer have a sample, this must have been in the 70's.
Oh the irony! 🤣. Cancels promoting the hobby and destroying the stamps! Thanks for sharing.
This is such an informative episode, thank you! I also loved your choice for the mint stamp example. The bluenose is, in my opinion, the most beautiful stamp ever produced.
I cannot disagree with you there, I love admiring the details of the Bluenose, a real beauty :)
Even though I have been collecting for a while I always, and I mean always, learn at least one new thing from your videos. Personally, I much prefer stamps which have shown their journey. I just purchased a cover at auction from 1856 that was mailed from London and sent to Bombay, but then bounced to Aden in pursuit of the person to which it was addressed. Now that's a cool voyage for a simple envelope to take.
I collect both used and mint stamps and I have a lot of very interesting postmarks and covers, in addition to things like unused booklets, presentation packs, miniature sheets, etc.
For example, I have literally hundreds of Great Britain Queen Victoria low values (1/2d, 1d, 2d, 3d, etc) from all over the UK.
In particular I like to collect the many different districts of London, there are dozens and dozens of different places in London and most have there own postmarks (everything from the District, the particular post office and the postal area had their own cancels).
I also have several covers from the 1850's sent to and from my home city and some of the post office buildings and the addresses that the covers were sent to still exist even today.
Socked on the nose, I love that term! I only have a few myself....
I love it too! Philately has some strange terms, but this might be one of the funnest :D
My first serious delve into philately was through FDC collecting and self servicing hand illustrated cacheted FDCs.
Ive heard similar from others. FDCs must have introduced a lot of collectors into the philatelic world. Thanks for sharing!
Hey.. I was eagerly waiting for a video from you for quite some time. Happy to learn about marcophilately.. This is indeed a new term in my philatelic vocabulary. Also i would rather prefer to collect mint postage stamps than used one since they somehow destroy the stamp art that the postage stamp tries to showcase. Also about CTO stamps i seldom collect them except when they are truly pieces of art and irresistible. Thanks again for the wonderful video.
Thank you for sharing Saurav! There seems to be a good mix of comments here of collectors preferring mint or used stamps, and even collectors who enjoy or dislike CTOs. It is interesting! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching. :)
It's really challenging and fun to identify the history and travel of a stamp. Thank you for this informative video on postmarks. Great video as usual
Thank you! It is very satisfying when you are able to identify parts of that journey when the postmark is a little challenging. Thanks for watching :)
Question please... What are the stamps made of red mercury?
Thank you!.. Do you mean stamp ink or stamp?
Another great video, very informative. I'll certainly be paying a bit more attention to post marks going forwards!
Great!! Glad you enjoyed it :)
After listening to your advice...yes! Is my answer.
good episode, my France and Swiss collections are predominantly used. Its great fun with low value stamps replacing unclear postmark ones you already have with clearer post marks or SOTN examples. I also want to avoid stamps where boxed or slogan cancels encroach onto the stamp.
Very informative episode, as always!
One area of postmark collecting that I'm particularly interested in is Dead Post Office (or DPO) postmarks, stamps or covers that have been cancelled in post offices that no longer exist, usually from ghost towns or consolidated rural post offices. I only have two in my collection from the ghost town of El Dorado, Saskatchewan, but I hope to find more in the future!
THAT’S an interesting area of postmarks to collect! I’ve heard of some collectors that also look out for dead post office cancellations. Thanks for bringing it up 😃
I have quite a few Arizona DPO postmarks. I collect them as well :)
I have one from a post office in Fukushima
Hehehe SOTN something new term for me, you’re a great stamps educator Graham ❤️! Thank you for sharing!
Exploring stamps is great and just recently found your site. You are extremely knowledgeable and entertaining for this Old Stamper. I know the world stamp professionals don't like CTOs, but I think they are be rather snobbish. Gone are the days when you can just buy -1- stamp and buying Mint stamps. It is a draw down on my pocketbook & therefore I have so much more Used and CTOs in my collection out of necessity. Too, CTOs are minimally cancelled leaving Today's marvelous face photos nearly completely intact. I find them more pleasureable to view, review & appreciate. True CTOs are way over mass produced in volume (for revenue( & thereby detract in collection value. Yet, if you are interestd in learning a country's history or what that country considers of value to print; it can be very enjoyable
Very well said, there is a lot to be gained from studying and enjoying CTOs. Glad you found the channel, Bob. Thanks for watching :)
Excellent video. I learned a lot. Greetings from England.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching in England :)
Thanks for this, it was so well produced and so educational. Just learned so much!
I love being a detective! This goes way back to when I was 7 or 8 and could not find a country named HRVATSKA in my album. This process also made me a believer in an index and a glossary. I can’t wait to try out retroReveal! Thanks very much for the link.
Julia Ross Croatia
Croatia
I watched many of your videos and this is most interesting. I like all kinds of stamps - CTOs included.
Thank you Joe, glad you found this interesting :)
Two of my all-time favourite stamps right off the bat! Bluenose and Canada's first. Another excellent and very informative video. Thanks mate!
Thanks a lot, amazing content. Particularly grateful for the CTO bit, up until now I had just assumed they were errors or fakes.
You should do one on stampless covers... where that cover's journey is similarly documented via the cancellation(s) and (multiple) tax(es). Thanks, for another great video!
Now postmarks too :0 I just found a perfect sock on the nose while you were talking. I'm ready to cry, I haven't even scratched the surface of my completely random tightly stacked stamps. Thank you for making it about history instead of money, I would have stopped already ♥
I applied caches to envelopes while on a ship. My next job was being a letter carrier and we had a rubber stamp on our sorting cases to cancel unused stamps. Postcrossing is now a hobby of mine and I receive stamp and postmarked from all over the world.
Really interesting video, I love cancelled stamps, even that I collect both mint and used.
The used ones show the history of the stamp, but some times is difficult to get a really nice cancellation.
I collect Germany GERMANIA stamps, and I am trying to collect all of the cancellations from that period, very difficult 1900 - 1920.
I love stamps, its my life
👍👍
I want to sell my collected stamp
Just discovered your channel and absolutely love your videos! As if to prove a point about the stories postmarks can tell, the one you showed tells me that I used to live in the same town as you do during grad school 😊 brings back great memories 😍
Suggestion follow up episode: people de-inking canceled stamps, then reselling them. IIRC we had a recent court case about this.
It’s an interesting case and there are several others out there. I show a few of those articles and discuss them in the video about Pen Cancels. 🖊
Congratulations of the continuing development of interesting and varied stories about stamps and stamp collecting. This is a great initiative.
Are you happy for me to add more links to some of these from the Stamp Active (UK Youth Philately) website?
See www.stampactive.co.uk
Hi John. Absolutely, feel free to link any of the videos on the stamp active site. Always been a supporter of the stamp active group 🙂👍
I have making FDCs and getting the USPS pictorial cancellation which I find to be quite large that it encroaches in my cachet design. Several other cachet makers have also commented that the USPS pictorial cancellation are very wide. I noticed you show a Wonder Woman pictorial cancellation without a cachet.
Nice! I really like your videos and like you🙂 there is not too much people talking about stamps on UA-cam thank you. I Have a question to ask you please reply if you can, how can I know when there is stamp shows?
Sims Art: the best way to find stamp shows in the US is to join the American Philatelic Society and receive their monthly magazine, "The American Philatlist." (You can subscribe to the online version as well.) The society publishes nearly all the major stamp shows in the US chronologically in the monthly "Show Time" department. You can also contact them with this email link. Stampshow@stamp.org
I'm attending ARIPEX in Mesa, Arizona, Feb. 13-15. Can't wait!
Thanks for watching! Yes as Dr. Dave's reply to your message states, check out the APS (stamps.org) site, they list the events by city or state. If you are outside the US, check with whatever major philatelic society or organization is present and they may list upcoming shows.
Where in the world are you?
@@DrDaveInN-Az oh! Thank you for replying!
@@ExploringStampsah okay I'll check it thank you for replying ! I really love your videos
When he almost spilt his coffee
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Thanks for the great video!
I collect First Day Covers, Pre Stamped Envelopes, and Souvenir Covers, and I love how a cancellation (my wife and I call them “chops” because of the action and sound of applying them) can really add to a stamp on cover.
My other collecting area is Australian Colonial Stamps, and I get much joy in researching all the numeral cancels, and finding the towns and cities they come from!
Also i have never seen that clip of the postal worker in 1903 ever. Can you provide me the link to the clip ? I need to show this to my philately friends lol
www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/120024993-1903-us-postal-worker-uses-cancelling-machine
Thanks a lot. They are as interested in philately as i am so this will be a nice addition to our collection. Dont worry i have already dragged them into your channel lol
Don’t bring coffee in that room
Great show and explanation!
Thanks David!! 🙂
I love Postmarks more than the stamps! Abit like passport stamps, it shows the journey a postage stamp and an item mail has taken.
Like yourself, I don't have any Postmarks from any in-transport offices like trains, in the UK up until the mid 2000s each Travelling Post Office (TPOs) on the railways had its own postmark, which displayed the name of the train, direction of travel (to or from the Capital, London) and date within a double-ring handstamp, every now and then a cover will pop up on ebay.
First, omg! Thanks for telling me about keyboard translators for non-Roman letters! I always have a booger of a time with Cyrillic and East Asian printed stamps. I never thought to search for a translator. When I was sorting my coins. I guessed at which country and coins. It worked but was laborious.
Are you South African? I love your accent!
I just discovered your channel yesterday and I am now obsessed! Great content and I’ve learned a lot!
Thank you for watching, Gene. Glad you found the channel and enjoying the content 😊. Yes I’m originally from South Africa and live in the US now. The keyboard translators and the camera feature on the translator app have been complete game changers for me, they also add to the fun experience. Happy exploring!!
Very Interesting topic!
It is! Thank you for watching, Gary.
Another great episode. You mentioned mute cancellations but how wars affected mail could be an episode itself. Patriotic covers, censored mail, the ragged perforations on some WWII era stamps, etc.
Great save on the coffee cup! Awesome video, as always.
I only collect CTOs when they are from the 60s and 70s in North Vietnam. I like the crudeness of them applying on the stamps of that time. I really really hate the modern postmark on old pre-unification stamps of Vietnam
Interesting, I will have to look those up. Thanks for sharing :)
Please make more videos. You are the coolest person in stamps. Cheers from Australia. J//
Will do! More videos are on their way. And I think you are pretty cool as well, Jason :)
Excellent job, I learned a lot more and I was happy to see the Lyon envelope that I sent you in this video. Thank you. Michael.
Thank you Michael. YES.... you noticed ;) I was wondering if you would recognize it. Thanks again!!
I love those Indiana precancels! How does one find those?
I got those ones from a seller on eBay, keep a look out for them 👀
There is a society devoted to these, the Precancel Stamp Society. Check out their web site at precancels.com where you can find a dealer list, and free collecting information and even album pages. I've found many dealer don't like to carry precancels, so the dealers listed on their site can help you find more for the towns you are interested in.
I have Indiana cancelation
Which are the best albums?
Which are the best catalogues?
Should one remove hinges with water?
When soaking should stamps be face down?
Should we keep stamps on paper with postmarks in albums?
Should do they need to be seperate from normal stamps?
Does soaking stamps make the colours fade?
Health and Tax OVERPRINTS as in some 1930-40's Greek stamps
Great video as always. CTOs - I have very mixed feelings about CTOs. I used to hate them as a child (we used to call them "wallpaper") because they seemed false. But later I mellowed, especially when the topic of the stamps was regional (local flora & fauna, for example). I have read that some countries have their CTOs printed elsewhere - so these stamps never even enter the country that is supposedly issuing them! Still, some are so nice I cannot resist. The only ones I still hate are ones celebrating something that has nothing to do with the country - like stamps from African nations celebrating US TV shows - UGH.
Hello! I enjoy watching your videos and good to see that You have new episodes or just basics about stamp collecting, when I was in Bath in Somerset I visited Bath postal museum . really advice to visit . there is nice Art gallery as well
Your videos are helping me to understand these stamps I’ve recently been given. I’m not a collector and I don’t know much about stamps so thank you for your content.
You are very welcome, glad you are enjoying the videos!
Great video!
Thank you :)
Seems the retroreveal url not functioning anymore. Any alternative to it? Thanks.
Hey Exploring Stamps I was wondering where you acquire the postmark stamp shown in time 4:33 in this video. I would appreciate it if you responded thank you.
That one I got on eBay, there were a few to bid on at the time. You may be able to find them by searching for post office hand cancel/ postmark.
Exploring Stamps thank you
Hello, does the SOTN cancelation elevate the value of the stamp ? Thank You !!
They could! Having an SOTN usually makes the stamp more desirable
@@ExploringStamps Thank You !!!!🙂
That 1903 archival footage is so neat
It's about a minute long, you can see the full clip here: www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/120024993-1903-us-postal-worker-uses-cancelling-machine
Please more videos ❤❤❤🚨
Awesome :-)
Thank you 😊
CTOs are truly the worst especially if one is seeking postally used stamps. While one can sift out CTOs with gum easily, once they have no gum it can be much harder to tell apart from postally used. Excessive neatness is usually a clue but not always. For example genuine cancellations from Sao Tome (very hard to find) are often actually remarkably neat and look a bit like CTOs.
It's fascinating when a genuine cancel is hard to find but their CTOs are abundant everywhere!! As a novice starting out, I thought I was finding genuine articles... you can imagine my disappointment when I learned about CTOs..
@@ExploringStamps Yes, there is a whole world of collecting genuinely cancelled stamps. For some countries they can be very hard to find especially commemorative stamps from smaller countries. Also the last 20 years have become very tricky. Try finding postally used stamps from South Africa since 2005 - one never sees some commemorative sets for sale in this condition.
Even more restrictive, there are people who only look for stamps on cover that precisely cover the postage rate and which are mailed within the timespan of when they could be purchased at the post office. This eliminates covers sent from collectors with excess postage, stamps used 30 years later and so on.
@@davidcollins1333 and @Exploring Stamps, I do really hate CTO, but try to find USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, genuine cancellations, almost impossible. So or you collect Mint, that in some cases will increase the cost of what you collect, and second of all if you like the stamps to fulfill its purpose, they have to be canceled,. I is up to every collector to decide what and how they collect. Regards
I like to collect DPO post marks
I feel like DPO post marks deserve their own video...
Love the 'Jumbo Cover' ! 😍
It’s very cool!!
I very much enjoyed your video on Postmarks and cancels, where did you get your maltese cross stamp, I would like to get one. I collect local postmarks/postal history for Somerset and Dorset in the UK. Kind regards, Richard
Thank you! I sent the design to a stamp company. It was rubberstamps.net I have ordered from them a few times now and have been pleased with the result. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching. :)
The next lecture should cover international mail. That topic I think is for specialist. Registered mail covers, returned mail for postage due and the various ways it has been handled over the years. All these type situations are a field for discussion in possible future episodes. Keep these lectures coming. I like them a lot and have become addicted to watching them.
Thank you John, great suggestion! glad you are enjoying the videos :)
I have old Cuban stamps with cancels that have messages such as "Buy Cuban Sugar" or "Smoke Cuban Tobacco" etc.
Epic! Slogan cancels that couldn’t get more representative of their country. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇺
Have not studied the cancellation stamps so this was a nice intro to this subject. Nicely done.
Thank you Christian, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
I don't know if you will still read a comment here. :) Does the possible importance of postmarks mean one should not routinely take stamps off the envelopes before making sure the postmark is not of interest, and if of interest, rather collect the entire envelope / stamp(s) with postmark&cancel, rather than the detached stamp?
Yes absolutely 😊. It often is best to preserve the whole envelope rather than just the stamp. This of course is up to the collector based on their interest in the cover, the journey it went on, and any markings such as the postmark etc…, envelopes can quickly take up space versus a collection of just stamps, so it can be unrealistic to collect EVERY envelope.
Thanks kindly!
@@ExploringStamps I’ve just taken down from the attic my childhood VERY badly stored stamp collection from late 60s & 70s and you have also answered one of my questions here as I have a large volume of stamped envelopes. My father ran a Mail order business & customers would write in from all over the world. If he or his assistant had time they would tear off the corner & save the stamp for me but if rushed I got the whole envelope! I then concentrated on the corners & put the envelopes to one side. I’ll have fun going through them. Can’t wait to watch your other videos 👍🏻
Thank you for asking that question as I too wanted to know!
Scenery is gorgeous. Great video
How do u cancel out a stamp from a sender?
Another great show, with a lot of good information.
Thanks Ted, glad you enjoyed it 🙂