User talk:Ecphora/sandbox2
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Mauritius, Ubangi-Shari, Upper Senegal and Niger, Oltre Giuba, Obock, West Ukranian National Republic, East Africa and Uganda Protectorates Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Senegambia and Niger
Pages to incorporate
[edit]http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leeward_Islands&oldid=154637276#Postage_stamps
Talk:Postal authority
[edit]This article currently states;
- the sender buys a small label (i.e., a postage stamp) that he affixes to the letter or package. The label is "stamped" with the postmark of the local post office and, after sorting, the letter is taken to its destination and delivered to the recipient. ... The practice of "stamping" letters with a postmark was established at the outset to check on speed and reliability of delivery. Each letter handed to the Post Office at one of its many branches would be "stamped" with the date that the letter was handed in. In due course, the postmarks included the name of the receiving post office.
This is incorrect and misleading. It suggests that postage stamps are so called because they are "stamped" with a cancellation. It also incorrectly states that the first cancellations (1840) bore the date of mailing; they were "mute" cancellations in fact. Finally, is it correct that date/location cancellations were created "to check on speed and reliability of delivery"?
Cut to shape
[edit]Although some of the the cut-to-shape Four Annas octagonals were trimmed by collectors, they were issued in sheets without perforation, and very widely spaced in the first three printings. Because they were so large they were routinely trimmed by postage users before they were applied to covers. Most of them are found cut close or cts. Cut square examples with wide margins are very hard to find and command premium prices, especially on cover. I will upload a nice cts example, used on cover (Amherst, Burma to Calcutta, 1857) which you might be able to use, here: 
.Fconaway (talk) 20:51, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the great photo, I'll add it to the article. Regards. Ecphora (talk) 20:59, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- That was a cover I bid on unsuccessfully; I bid very high but was outbid! Many of the imperforate Victorian octagonal stamps are often found cut to shape. The frequency with which these were cut to shape by the original users (rather than by collectors) can be illustrated by this fact from the article about the Inverted Head 4 Annas: "Only two (or three) are known cut square; another 20 or so are cut to shape (that is, in an octagonal shape)." This is one of the few statistics which are available about the trimming of imperforate stamps.Fconaway (talk) 21:53, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
I was doing some research and I ran into a draft page in your sandbox on the Glen Rose formation.
I'm volunteering with a project that is trying to model an interactive Albian/Aptian stage ecosystem on computers. The Glen Rose formation is one of a handful of marine deposits containing invertebrates that would be appropriate for use in our ecosystem.
If you could suggest references it would be appreciated. Also, if you want to provide input on the reconstructions of these animals your help would be welcome.
You can contact us at our website: http://lostworldreturns.co.uk using our forum http://www.forums.lostworldreturns.co.uk/ Or you can contact me at jwese081@uottawa.ca
Thanks,