Welcome!
If you want to take part in the discussions, sign in or apply for membership!
mikwizzy
About
- Username
- mikwizzy
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,238
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member, LPS member
Comments
-
Travis thanks. That makes some sense The 49 stamps were clearly in Szyk's "cartoonish" style if you look at his other works whereas the 52 stamps are much more "traditional" in design I've come across a reference that links Bileski to Szyk so that…
-
Thanks Travis Seems they started out as booksellers/stationers and branched out into engraving and then lithography. As far as I know in terms of stamps they only ever produced the first few sets of Liberia Wonder how they got the contract given th…
-
Well, not many takers on Feldwick How about Dando Todhunter & Smith who produced the first Liberia stamps? Someone must be able to add to what we know Thomas F. Todhunter, Richard J. Dando and John Henry Smith as partners in a business as boo…
-
Martin thanks anyway
-
Hi Martin thanks. I'm familiar with both of these. I've been able to confirm Feldwick's address using London trade directories Does Hessler cite any source or any more information? Cockrill speculates that given Feldwick's name appears on the 1c a…
-
Martin in case you can squeeze this into your Encyclopedia here's a connection between Scottish haggis (recently consumed in great quantities here for Burns night celebrations) and the pygmy hippo (which DOESN'T feature in the ingredients I'd bette…
-
Martin , brilliant and well done
-
Bryant - it would be good to have more on the Forum!
-
I've almost answer my own question The Zeitung has been digitised and can be searched https://zeitpunkt.nrw/ulbbn/periodical/search/9715711?query=Liberia&offset=361 Found a few articles (all in ornate German) for 1884 and 1885 from "our specia…
-
Martin, many thanks. Wonder what the articles were? Presumably written for the Kolnischer Zeitung
-
Martin Rogers states the LPS was founded in 1955 http://philib.org/data/LPS_Journal/LPS_1990_07-09.pdf
-
It had me fooled!
-
I did wonder what the "Dutch factory" was and what the factory actually made I wasn't aware the Dutch had a presence in Liberia at that time but apparently the "factory" word was used to indicate a trading post or warehouse rather than in the Weste…
-
I'm looking at the first Postal Treaty between Bryant & Liberia and trying to get my head around exactly how packet mail would have worked prior to 1860 Suppose I had mail in Monrovia to go to GB or USA on a GB packet ship before 1860 How would…
-
Hi Gilldad There are others on the Forum with more expertise than me on this However I started doing the same thing a short while ago First, I used Mackal’s revised list of forgers (Mackal, R. P. First Issue Liberian Forgeries Revisited. Journal o…
-
I couldn't make it out
-
Hi do you actually want info on the forgers themselves or the forgeries and how to identify them? Manfred Beier's website has a great side by side visual comparison of the 1860-1880 forgeries. Cockrill details specifically what to look for each is…
-
Marty, I'd appreciate a copy Thanks
-
Martin I was about to post about my experience also having heard a lot of AI but not having used it before I'm looking into the background of the early forgers of Liberia so I asked for information about "Francois Fournier, the well-known stamp for…
-
Given the first postage stamps appeared in 1840 in Britain and 1847 in the US you wonder how much mail they actually dealt with!
-
My fees are very reasonable!
-
Bryant I've found in some of my own notes that I've written " Mackal - Fournier forgeries are 0.5/0.75 mm smaller"
-
"slight" = be interesting to see the original Swedish. This could be seen as a light cancel or a partial cancel The stamp I have in this series are virtually all CTO with a partial cancel - Marshall, Harper, etc and a (19)24 date when it can be seen
-
Bryant Thanks I also seem to remember reading something about the overall size from Mackal. I'll see if I can dig it out
-
thanks to both for the comments
-
Bryant/Manfred thanks for both comments
-
Has anyone any information about the France and Germany treaties? (or any others) Apparently the US didn'ty have one in spite of the links with Liberia until the UPU Perhaps because there was no regular direct shipping between the US and LIberia at…
-
Might be a date?
-
I don't see the attachment
-
Martin consensus seems to be "vertical" and "horizontal" https://golowesstamps.com/reference/formatprinters/Gutter Pairs/gutter_pairs.htm