I have a few bits and pieces from my exhibit. I may have another grungy one somewhere, bit unlikely. Looking at these, I found an error in my display that I need to correct!
O90 14-XII-16 Early!
The year just looks like it dropped off.
There are many, many cancellations on the 1880 stamps. Most all are cancelled to order and dated around 1897/1898. I have a hundred or so and most with dates so close to each other, or same dates.
There …
Mik,
Check out Cockrell's booklet #25, Appendix C. He lists the Waterlow archive information, dates - values - orders - production. I now have the bulk of all these sheets.
I am amazed that there is so little interest in Liberian history in the …
Interesting.
It's funny to see that so many Liberian stamp issue productions are limited to only 5,000 to 10,000 stamps. When most "normal" collected stamps were produced in the millions...
We are a rare breed. I'm amazed so many stamps su…
Thanks Mik!
This is excellent!!! Lots of good nuggets of information. I really appreciate your effort.
We, as a society, need to do more efforts like this.
Cheers, Bryant (FRPSL)
Regarding chilies, I think all tropical climates, especially around the equator historically used chilies because they had no way of preserving food (pre-electricity). Making food "hot" allowed people to use spoiled food more readily.
Some cultu…
Thanks all. I didn't mention it but I had already checked Rogers book. Usually he has insights to the stamp topics.
FYI, I have a "green" orange tree on the sidewalk in my front yard in Houston. I thought it strange. But most orange trees arou…
I cant tell, but it looks like your pair has no gum. If not, it could be a plate proof. Here is a block of 4, with gum. Also, I had not heard of the name.
Based on Travis' note about the PB engraving book entry of 8 Dec 1913, the above cover cold be a FDC, which is likely why it is over-franked.
Following is another cover to Hayman dated 2 weeks later (28 Jan 1914), and used 16c to pay the 15c regist…
Here is a cover to Henry Hayman dated 16 Jan 1914. Very early.
It has a 48c franking. I dismissed it as philatelic. BUT, given 15c for the single registered rate, the remaining 33c is 11 times the additional 3c rate. Thus the cover is 12 time…
Normally these registration stamps were not cancelled in Liberia, at least in the years 1894-1896 when they were commonly seen used as a proper registration franking, as intended. Liberia only wrote a registration number.
These examples do not a…