tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post7458849401172121201..comments2024-03-23T04:12:08.762-07:00Comments on Big Blue 1840-1940: IniniJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-89283703526649097512018-02-15T09:16:35.938-08:002018-02-15T09:16:35.938-08:00I notice the jungle has reclaimed the settlement. ...I notice the jungle has reclaimed the settlement. ;-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-21986186508661419592018-02-15T08:25:35.013-08:002018-02-15T08:25:35.013-08:00https://www.raoul-kieffer.net/Annamite-Prison
&quo...https://www.raoul-kieffer.net/Annamite-Prison<br />"The Bagne des Annamites was established in June 1930 and consisted of seven wood buildings with the house of the camp leaders, dungeons and a dining hall. The purpose of this camp was to develop the region of the Inini, and then completely covered with forests. The first roads were traced in 1934. From 1939 on, the prisoners were gradually released at the end of their sentence. At the end of the war in 1940, the Senegalese riflemen who officiate as guards were replaced by militaries of French Guiana. The camp was finally closed in 1945. The Indo-Chinese still in prison were pardoned and settled in the city of Cayenne where they founded what is known today as ChinatownDavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-33300674940460983732013-05-14T17:31:17.317-07:002013-05-14T17:31:17.317-07:00Good question. :-)
I assume now there are some ro...Good question. :-)<br /><br />I assume now there are some roads and services...Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-29588999546706112722013-05-14T15:22:07.897-07:002013-05-14T15:22:07.897-07:00how do these people live in the inini part how do these people live in the inini part Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08452553419319398721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-82984404872803087722013-01-07T07:31:26.002-08:002013-01-07T07:31:26.002-08:00Interesting comment James.
I hadn't though ab...Interesting comment James.<br /><br />I hadn't though about it, but the albums that would selectively cover the world (i.e. Harris) may very well have more selectively provided spaces for the "packet" stamp sets they sold on approval. ;-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-10825238929289740562013-01-07T04:04:03.170-08:002013-01-07T04:04:03.170-08:00Even as a kid in the 1960s, I remember thinking th...Even as a kid in the 1960s, I remember thinking that the Harris albums were designed around the stamp sets they sold on approval: eg one or lines for Afghanistan pre-1962, with several pages for the mint sets that came through the advertisements in the magazines. I don't know when Scott stopped selling stamps themselves, but I'm sure they recognized the virtues of providing spaces for what young collectors actually were likely to get--nothing worse than getting a nice new item and finding that it didn't fit in the album. More generally, one of the pleasures of using these old albums (Scott, Minkus, Stanley Gibbons etc) is that it makes collecting today partly about appreciating the history of collecting in the past. I actually like at least some of the signs of previous ownership...and not just because hinge-marks make many otherwise expensive items more affordable.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02867216696820987960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-13918355408746003622012-12-28T07:04:21.655-08:002012-12-28T07:04:21.655-08:00Dennis- I think you are on to something. ;-)
I re...Dennis- I think you are on to something. ;-)<br /><br />I remember reading (It might have been Bob's "Filling Spaces" blog) that Scott initially based the stamp spaces by what stamps were commonly found in collections.<br /><br />That would indeed explain why easily obtained packet countries had a larger proportion of spaces allocated to them.<br /><br /><br />Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-16396315678402614392012-12-28T02:36:26.389-08:002012-12-28T02:36:26.389-08:00If BB gives unusually high coverage, could it be a...If BB gives unusually high coverage, could it be an indicator that the editors paid attention to the "little guy" stamp market? Inini stamps were primarily issued for collectors, were a staple of the packet trade, you note. They were pretty/exotic.<br /><br />What's not to like when marketing an album to the general, "little guy," collector?<br /><br />It'd be interesting to develop some kind of metric to identify similar "packet-trade driven" countries, then see whether BB disproportionately "made space" for them????<br /><br />Not that you are looking for things to occupy your time or anything like that. . . .<br /><br />DennisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com