tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post9196317435439763888..comments2024-03-27T15:49:28.147+00:00Comments on Commonwealth Stamps Opinion: 712. IGPC Releases Banal "Klingon Khristmas" Stamps In The Name of
Antigua And Barbuda.White Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-60441873286484936672016-03-03T21:36:48.583+00:002016-03-03T21:36:48.583+00:00Thank you. Your observations don't surprise me...Thank you. Your observations don't surprise me. Researching a subject was never one of the strong points of the philatelic agency involved in producing this stuff.White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-68286189096544663872016-02-27T13:33:30.051+00:002016-02-27T13:33:30.051+00:00I checked those 'First stamp' stamps of Gr...I checked those 'First stamp' stamps of Grenada, Guyana and also Liberia and Micronesia and there are so many errors! Most errors: NOT the first stamp!Stewie1980https://www.blogger.com/profile/17215449288925099410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-71089167776082093092016-02-21T15:45:19.077+00:002016-02-21T15:45:19.077+00:00Dear Richard. Thank you. I'm glad to read that...Dear Richard. Thank you. I'm glad to read that the show had better days than when I visited it. I left it feeling that it needed a good injection of vitality into it - I suppose it's possible to make it much livelier and exciting without costing the earth. It all looked so forlorn outside of the Royal Mail stand - some of the stands that you mentioned which were selling second hand albums and material contained in them made some parts of the exhibition look like a collection of junk shops manned by scruffy old men on their uppers. Do national exhibitions of other hobbies/activities/businesses etc look so unprofessional? Some clever fellow, or lady, must have some ideas on how to make stamp collecting more in line with the second decade of the 21st century and I don't mean the sort who think that printing thematic "stamps" for impoverished, exotic-sounding countries which will never get used there but can be sold by the producer for enormous prices.<br />Best wishes.White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-43170216546408887352016-02-20T22:00:25.145+00:002016-02-20T22:00:25.145+00:00Had you gone on Thursday, you would have seen the ...Had you gone on Thursday, you would have seen the show in a much busier state (and I'm told it was even busier on the first day). RM new issues bring the punters out. I went on both Thursday & Friday and estimate the show was about 4 times busier on the Thursday than the Friday.<br /><br />I have to agree with you about the reduction in the sellers of modern material and the increase in those selling second hand album-fulls of doubtless picked over material. I wasn't that impressed by the exhibits this time around either.<br /><br />Most of my money went to the same dealers as usual, BB, Vincennes, Arun Stamps etc, and doubtless I'll be back again in September<br />Richard Rundlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491833542174296457noreply@blogger.com