Stamp exchange lot from Germany (DDR)
January 11th, 2010 admin
Another day, another stamp exchange. This time the mailman brough an exchange cover from Berlin, Germany. Klaus sent me a cover containing 200 different East German (DDR) stamps. To my pleasure a notable proportion of them were real used. Of these I took 127 real used and 12 CTO used: And in return I’m sending
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And here’s another cover / lot I received in todays mail in response to my stamp exchange offer. Jacques-Marie from France sent me 33 stamps, of which I found 14 useful to me. Here are the stamps I took from Jacques-Marie’s sending: And here are the ones I’m sending in return: And here’s a something I
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Today’s mail brought the first results of my public stamp exchange offer. As the Finnish winter is having it’s peak (with temperatures around -20 up to -30 celsius degrees), I’ll be definitely having a blast during the weekend while enjoying the warmth of fireplace The first exchange cover came from fellow blogger Gerd and
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As some know, I was visiting Helsinki, capital of Finland earlier this week. Though I had planned on writing some notes from the road, I didn’t manage to write a single line. Such is life, LOL. Anyway…While updating the summaries for my “open for all” stamp exchange page last night, I came up with
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Last week I received this cover along with my order from US stamp dealer. It’s nice that he used real stamps for the postage, but sadly the postmaster had an artistic moment with blue ink pen. Besides the US lighthouses stamp issue, the cover has several stamps from the 1974 set to commemorate UPU centenary. In
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Lately I’ve been re-organizing my collection of German stamps, and decided to share something not so common with You once again. This is 110 pfennig commemorative stamp from 1998 series displaying German State Parliaments. I’ts a pretty unimpressive looking stamp on the first view with some short perfs and machine cancellation. But if...
This is possibly one of the topics I wish I would never have to experience or write. But here I am typing this… Today’s mail brought me few exchange letters that were way off from my usual stamp exchange. After some digging I managed to find out that somebody had entered my details as
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