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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.

An important point to understand is that pictures that are only uploaded as "Attachments" can not be viewed by non-registered guests. It makes things frustrating for any visitors! And for registered members, they're all stuck at the end of your post.

So it's good to learn how to "Insert" your pictures into your post. You can then caption them properly and write text above and below - make it more like a little magazine article. Much more enjoyable for your fellow club members too.

Here's how you do it: (Click on any of these pictures to see a larger version)

Step 1: upload the picture as an "Attachment". Click on "Choose Files". A browse box will open.  Find your picture(s) on your computer and click on it (them). Then click "Open". (Hint: you can highlight multiple files at once by holding down the Ctrl key while you left click with your mouse. They will all be uploaded together.)

   

Step 2: "Choose Files" will now be followed by the number of files you chose i.e. "4 files", or the file name if it is only one file. Click on "Add Attachment"

Step 3: Place your cursor where you would like the picture to appear. 

   

Step 4: Click on "Insert into Post" . A placeholder will appear where your cursor was located. If it ends up in the wrong place, or you want to rearrange the layout, cut and paste the placeholder (including the [ ] ) to where you want it to go.

   

Then just "Preview" your post, rearrange things to look nice, then make sure to "Save" the post, and you're done.

   

Another hint: Text immediately following a picture on the same line is annoying. Please insert your pictures on their own line and place your text either above or below.

BTW: There is a size limit on pictures. They must be smaller than 1MB (1024 KB). If you are posting pictures from you camera, you will likely have to resize them smaller. 1 MB is still a very large picture on a computer monitor!

If you have any questions, feel free to post replies here, then everybody can learn.

Roy

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.

My covers like this are always for sale on Hip stamps via my link. I have some fellows that collect my covers like this mostly fellows in Florida for some reason. I keep them cheep there modern.Now how many covers were sent today from Australia to Kingston Canada lol Id say just this one. So who sends anything from arizona to Kingston? lol My covers are rare them selfs The first cover i ever sold was a U.S. scot number one Richard Frajola expert web page. I did not plan to sell it but the fellow from Florida wanted it for his home town name was on it. So i sold it for twice the money I bought it for.Richard kicked me from the expert page but after i found a 1702 ship records put me back on the board of experts. Now its the 279A i found only one on cover. The ship records of 1702 had never been found untill i found them whoops experts. I find the stuff experts cant find.I think maybe im an expert now dam I dont want it lol just kidding. What do you flocks want to know?

Ted Luhtala spoke to the group about collecting stamps by country, in this case, Germany. He brought examples of his albums and custom pages he created for stamp studies. The group continues to be very interested in the story of German hyperinflation after WWI. It had been discussed by several presenters. Ted was able to spend more time telling stories about hyperinflation and German life during that period. The consensus of the group was we didn’t learn about this in school. 

This is why these sessions we do for the Kingston Seniors Association are called Stamps and Their Stories. In many cases, participants start by saying they don’t care about stamps, but they like to hear a good story. They are often surprised at the end of the session to find that they are interested in stamps!

Fort Orange Stamp Club Albany New York. UX,80 post card Milwaukee Wisconsin. I sent Fort Orange Stamp Club a message on there web page to say hello from our Kingston Stamp Club. And yes I asked if they had any Scott 231 Broken hat types to sell me. Click this link to there web page>> Home I see at the bottom of there page they have a link to Rob Faux Postal History Sunday.

I Won this box of U.S. covers from a auction house in Europe over a thousand covers dated before 1920. Whish me luck if they will send to Canada some times they do not.

A interesting scarce post card sent from Bagdad to Toronto , With the purpose to save and  show the stamp and the two cancels to British & American Motors LTD sent Dec 12 1937 and arrived 26 Jan 1938

I would think the New York cancel on this Scott 379 perf 12 single line watermark, is from A Street Car Station. This was found at the Kingston last show.