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I would love this to be a place where club members share information - all sorts of information. It might not be “pure” philately as collectors defined the hobby in the 19th century, but as long as it is philately adjacent, I think facts and ideas of all kinds could have a home here. 

For anyone who has been in a study group, there is an opportunity to continue sharing information long after the formal sessions have ended.

Have you recently acquired a cool cover or postcard? Show it and share a fact or two. 

If you have found something at the bottom of a box, and want to know more about it, ask the club.

I estimate that our members have at least 12 centuries of combined philatelic experiences!

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Below some postings there is an 'email' icon, and a 'PM' icon, by which someone reading the posting can reply directly to the poster by either email or 'private message' without a new posting appearing in the thread. Without these options, the only way to get in touch with a poster is to reply to the post and add another message to the thread. So, 1) how does one get these option to appear below a posting, and 2) how do they work? They must both send out an email message of some kind? To which address?

I've just tried to attach a pdf file to a posting, but I received the warning that 'this file type is not allowed'. Is there a way to do this which is not obvious?

    I found these Royal Wedding omnibus stamps that has "specimen" overprinted. Anyone know why this was done? Seems to be just on a few countries.
Geoff Hodgetts

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Roy

Yes, First Day Covers are a "manufactured item" and don't necessarily appeal to purists, but the artistic attraction of a good cachet  is hard to deny.

Some collectors like a particular stamp and collect all the available cachets they can find for just that issue (the Iwo Jima stamp of 1945 is a popular one for this). Others collect everything (because that's the way they are!), while still others collect only those FDCs that appeal to them from an artistic, historical or other standpoint -- that's me.

One of my favourite artists for US FDCs is Day Lowry, whose work appeared mostly on Aristocrat Cachets during the 1940s and 1950s

Here are a few samples

   

   

   

(You can click on any of the above images to see a larger version).

Want to see more of this kind of post? Add your comments and give me some feedback.

Have a favourite FDC of your own? Show us!

Roy

I'm playing with the picture upload settings on this Forum, so I thought I'd do it with one of my favourite Machin FDCs.

   

Roy

I came across this cover in a large lot recently. I'm going to let it speak for itself. Take a good look at it for a laugh, a groan, a grimace ... depending on how you are feeling about the world at the time.