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Plating scott 231
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Scott 424 offset partial transfer on reverse side.
NAMW National Air Mail Week - Index.. Here is a flown cover and autographed by the Postmaster and the crew members.
RMS Republic (1903) - Wikipedia......Recovery efforts planned for cargo lost in RMS 'Republic' wreckage An interesting modern cover.
Let's Talk Scott Catalog with Jay Bigalke Thursday, November 13, 6PM ET (11PM GMT)
I dont know much about these and dont even know were I got them from But more information please Thank you
Val Mayers spoke to the group about Varieties this week. She brought lots of examples of varieties, as well as the tools she uses. She passed around stamps and UV lights and participants were actively searching for missing colours and irregular perforations. Val’s enthusiasm for the topic was contagious. At one point someone called out « Doughnuts! Please show us doughnuts! »
Val also provided a brief overview of the club’s youth program. Guest speakers like Val certainly do a great job promoting the club, making it sound like a fun place to spend a few hours with friendly people.
There is just one week left in the program. For the first time, we are having a panel of five members sharing the story of their collecting journey.
Adding pictures to your posts livens things up and makes the Forum so much more interesting.
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Another wonderful damaged item I picked up at a club meeting.
On the front of the cover, we can see that the original postage stamp is missing. It was roughly torn off ... removing both the stamp and the original CDS. To a stamp collector that is a tragedy. For a postal historian, it is part of the fun. Let's see if we can reason it out ... what stamp used to be on this cover? Where did it the cover originate? Where was it going? When? What would the postal rate have been?
The large violet boxed hand-stamp CENSURA MILITAR / PONTEVEDRA suggests that the origin was the Nationalist zone of Spain, specifically the province of Pontevedra (Galicia). This is further suggested by one of the cinderellas on the back - also from Ponteverda.
The typed address Diego José Pazos Feijóo, Rivadavia 1235, Casa Mignaquy y Compañía – with BUENOS AIRES added in black at the bottom gives us the destination: REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA - which is also typed and underlined at the top of the cover.
There is no airmail etiquette, no indication of registration or other kind of special handling. So, it would appear to have travelled by surface mail. In 1937 Spain joined the Unión Postal de las Américas y España (UPAE). Outbound letters from the Nationalist Zone to UPAE countries would have been sent at the same rate as domestic mail. After March 17, 1937 that rate would have been 30 céntimos. Assuming there was only one stamp on the original cover (suggested by the size of the torn corner, IMO) we are, therefore, looking for a 30 cts stamp which would have been used in Pontevedra under Nationalist control. The date window of the cinderella stamps on the back suggest that it was mailed in 1937 or possibly 1938.
So, based on those assumptions, and given that someone thought the stamp was interesting enough to remove from the cover, it might be one of the following:
Pontevedra SG 36 (issued July 18, 1937). This was a local overprint of ¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA! / PONTEVEDRA / 18 Julio 1937 / II Another Triunfal on a 30 cts carmine SG755.
Spain SG 866 (issued September 1936) of Xavier Castle. Used throughout Nationalist Spain, the stamps in this series included the text Junta de Defensa Nacional.
There are also a number of hand-stamps on the front of the cover.
A Franco portrait cachet (bottom left) a purple hand-stamp with Franco’s head and the legend Saludo a Franco – ¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA!.
It is a propaganda cachet from the Nationalist side; not postal, but it loudly advertises the sender’s political allegiance and was commonly used on patriotic mail and fundraising correspondence.
A diagonal ¡VIVA ESPAÑA! (top right)
Another purple slogan hand-stamp reinforcing the Nationalist tone of the cover.
A CENSURA MILITAR / PONTEVEDRA boxed hand-stamp, in purple.
This is a Spanish military censor marking applied in the Nationalist-held city of Pontevedra. It would seem to confirm that the cover was examined by a military censor at that city which, in the absence of the CDS suggests the origin of the letter.
On the back of the cover are a number of Nationalist cinderella stamps.
Pontevedra (1937)
Frentes y hospitales (1936-39)
Auxilio de invierno (1936)
Santiago (St James Apostle -- patron of Spain and Galicia) La Coruña (1936-37)
In short, this appears to be a cover sent in or about 1937 during the Spanish Civil War by surface mail, using a security envelope, from a Nationalist sender in Pontevedra (Galicia) to a correspond in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Before dispatch, a number of Nationalist cachets / hand-stamps, and cinderellas were appliled. It then passed through military censorship at Pontevedra.
That was fun! If you have a different opinion about the missing stamp, corrections and comments are welcome.
Cheers, Hugh
Hello everyone! I'm Carmen, and just recently (at the October stamp show, finally) got around to joining Kingston Stamp Club, although I am currently unable to attend your meetings due to a scheduling conflict. I do hope to make it out to meetings in January when they move to the afternoons for a while.
Like many of you, no doubt, I have collected stamps my whole life, starting in my teens, although that was interrupted for many years by life, until my forties when I had more time and money to dedicate to the hobby. My main interests are Canada, Cats and Animals, Number Ones, Christianity and Religion, Royalty, Soccer and Sports (that's the meeting conflict - I'm soccer obsessed to this day and play on Thursday nights 
), Stamps on Stamps and Titanic. That having been said, I am a Hoarder of Small Bits of Paper, so I don't turn down free stamps, LOL! But being now in my fifties, I do realize that it's perfectly okay to start downsizing my collection and focus more on only my areas of interest.
I'm a member of RPSC and the American Topical Association, and an enthusiastic new subscriber to Canadian Stamp News since the demise of my particular favourite mag, Stamp Magazine, back in September, may it rest in peace. 
My favourite part of the mag was Strange but True, on the back page! I will also try to see if I can get a copy of the stamps spoken about there, if they're reasonably priced.
And I've been on approvals with Arpin Philately of Montreal for many years now. Anyone else use an approval service?
Thanks all! I look forward to getting to know you all, at least virtually for now.
PS. I do however, live about 8 houses away from another KSC member, Leon!
From Tempe Arizona Oct 24 2025, arrived Nov 6 2025,to Kingston Ontario what a beautiful Columbus cover with all new reprints, 1991. way over franked Air mail.
