tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post8856154783620987561..comments2024-03-23T04:12:08.762-07:00Comments on Big Blue 1840-1940: Liberia 1860-1914Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-45473874720688590582019-09-16T16:54:35.482-07:002019-09-16T16:54:35.482-07:00OK, what a nice surprise David!OK, what a nice surprise David!Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-27629034583026051622019-09-16T16:11:49.006-07:002019-09-16T16:11:49.006-07:00Hello, Talk about karma! I bought a small liberia ...Hello, Talk about karma! I bought a small liberia stamp collection. It arrived on international pages and the last page was officials! Plus a space for one postage due and five regeration stamps on an other page! I'm pleased and will upgrade the pages for my international collection.Chiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17065521326100398355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-19055998585003273732019-09-15T20:44:08.818-07:002019-09-15T20:44:08.818-07:00David - congrats on the nice Liberia collection - ...David - congrats on the nice Liberia collection - one of my favorite countries. Hopefully, you can end up with a nice presentation.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-91529888659530726302019-09-15T17:17:29.416-07:002019-09-15T17:17:29.416-07:00Hello, been a while. However I aquired a nice libe...Hello, been a while. However I aquired a nice liberia collection on scott international pages. The older pages are really flimsy and toned. It's not unusal for me to add a few blank pages to many country's. Libera is a good example.if I had the old official Libera pages (which I don't 😧) I would have them scanned and printed on new better pages. (Likly a copyright issue ) Regards DavidChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17065521326100398355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-43277535465728597112018-04-23T10:04:09.067-07:002018-04-23T10:04:09.067-07:00Thanks Joe on the report for the '97.Thanks Joe on the report for the '97.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-16296417245331760032018-04-23T07:35:08.105-07:002018-04-23T07:35:08.105-07:00The '97 puts 1914-1937 back in: page one - 191...The '97 puts 1914-1937 back in: page one - 1914-1921 (23 spaces), page two - 1923-1940 (19 spaces), and page three - 1928-1937 (18 spaces, adding up to 60 spaces). The layout is exactly the same as the earlier editions. Unlike the earlier edition, Semi-Postals have their own page (7 spaces), as does Air Post (10 spaces). Registration has its own page, but is bumped up from 5 spaces to 15 spaces. The Postage Due slot is gone, as are the Officials. For my own collection I cannibalized the Official pages from an older album, but I don't count them in my tally, of course. It's just nice to have a place to put the stamps!trptjoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05693848945933915289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-45269367118298992982013-08-09T05:52:08.860-07:002013-08-09T05:52:08.860-07:00Cjd- Thanks! I guess I am not colorblind after all...Cjd- Thanks! I guess I am not colorblind after all. ;-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-68128730511498451732013-08-08T21:26:52.365-07:002013-08-08T21:26:52.365-07:00In re O28, the official oil palm that you think mi...In re O28, the official oil palm that you think might have a blue overprint, Yvert says that the 1c, 5c and 50c have blue overprints. I'd go with your gut, and Yvert, over Scott.<br /><br />CjdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-4447398462455948642013-07-28T09:17:04.615-07:002013-07-28T09:17:04.615-07:00Thanks Drew for the comments
If Scott-Amos had th...Thanks Drew for the comments<br /><br />If Scott-Amos had the energy and interest, they would take the presently flawed BB and do a major upgrade for the WW classical era collector. We can all wish... ;-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-32088909765657489472013-07-27T22:11:19.326-07:002013-07-27T22:11:19.326-07:00It almost sounds at times as if taking pages from ...It almost sounds at times as if taking pages from an old earlier edition of the Big Blue or International Junior (used copies available on Ebay) to add to the later edition would solve a few problems. Here, the earlier "Officials" pages in the earlier 1940s editions are back to back and could easily be removed from one and added to the other. Or add a blank page for the Officials and others. But yes, their removal hurts the logic of the Liberia stamps which used so many Officials. It would be like dropping the Air Mail pages from some of the Central American countries which used them so often or the Semi-postals from Belgium. Done to streamline the album and for the sake of keeping it to one volume for as long as possible, I assume.<br /><br />As for Liberia the country, what a strange place. It had foreigners "re" settling a region they had never lived in before and, in turn, ruling over the native population while speaking English and living as much as possible like the Americans they really were. It made little to no sense, but made many American feel better, as you say. DrewMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082601555760640397noreply@blogger.com