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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 April 2020 at 00:21 | |
The previously-shown Letter-Writing Week stamps have
a rather unfortunate spelling error that is present in the entire first
printing: an extra T in Lettter. Waikoa Island 2020 Letter-Writing Week, minisheet, with corrected spelling of "letter". In traditional philately, the expression RRR means exceedingly rare, so maybe TTT means exceedingly lettteriferous ? The second printing has corrected the error, but now there is another error: one stamp has become tête-bêche.
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Perky
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 19 April 2020 at 22:46 | |
"Save the Trees"...
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 20 April 2020 at 04:03 | |
All the Raoul stamps are shown on their website:
http://www.angelfire.com/country/raoul/ Here are some of them. And rumours persist that Madam President recently died without an heir. So anyone keen to take over this small stamp-issuing country could apply now! |
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 20 April 2020 at 05:09 | |
The Raoul website also reveals the surprising information that the country has issued just one banknote: a 50 billion dollar:
It is believed that this note was printed so that they could use one to purchase their battleship (shown on the note.) |
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 29 April 2020 at 19:06 | |
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 May 2020 at 14:35 | |
AMAZING ERROR ! MAGGIE MAILBOX JAILBIRD ! This the first recorded copy of the Maggie Mailbox jailbird stamp. Found today on a sheetlet of ten. I visited the Minaue Post Office during my trip to Waikoa Island today, and examined their counter-book of stamps. There are several other Letter-Writing Week minisheets with that error in stock. I asked the Postmaster if he plans to sell these errors, and he says "Yes, they are just 35 tanos stamps, so are acceptable on mail." So the first few applicants for a minisheet will probably end up with one! (And I bought one sheet for my collection, since I was there. But resisted the temptation to buy up the lot, to give other collectors a fair chance.) Both the first printing (with the Lettter error) and the second printing (with the tête-bêche) sheets are on sale. |
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 May 2020 at 19:37 | |
The change from the Raoul $50 billion banknote reminds me of a scene in the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie Catch me if you can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. A prostitute is negotiating with Frank Abagnale [Leonardo DiCaprio] how much he would be willing to pay her if she spends the whole night with him. She finally gets him to offer $1000. But he needs to get the money. No worry, he will take a cheque down to the lobby and get it changed. Don't be crazy, it's 2am, they won't change a cheque at this time of night. But this is a Federal Reserve cheque, it's as good as cash. Oh
well, in that case she will accept his cheque. Ah, but it's made out
for $1400, not $1000. Never mind, she'll accept it, and peels off four
$100 dollar notes from her hidden stash as his correct change... The
scene closes, but only Frank Abagnale and we the audience know that his
$1400 cheque was yet one more of his high quality forgeries...
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 2020 at 01:36 | |
Here is a map of Waikoa Island, from their tourist brochure, for those wondering where it is:
Northwest Beach, near Kakariki, Waikoa Island. Plastic pollution, near Takavau, Waikoa Island.
Waikoa Island 2014 pictorial, Rs 2.35 featuring horses on the island. |
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 2020 at 23:51 | |
A colleague today asked why the map of Waikoa Island reminded him of a Rorschach test ‽
Waikoa Island, a pleasant place to vacation in, and an even more pleasant place to collect the stamps of.
Despite the Rorschach test "blobs" sometimes looking like maps, the chart of Waikoa Island (which includes the carefully sculpted port area of Minaue) is unique, and accurately presents the physical shape of the island. Waikoa Island 2014 pictorial, 35 tanos, showing a huge Prickly Pear cactus bush, inexplicably cultivated near Takavau, in northern Waikoa Island. .·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·. .·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·. |
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Panterra
First Class Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 May 2020 at 22:05 | |
I see with all this discussion about Waikoa Island and its location and stamps, I somehow overlooked showing its miniature sheet celebrating the Mevu half-century. So here it is: Waikoa Island 2020 50th anniversary of Mevu's Independence, minisheet. The stamps are printed in these small minisheets to make it easy to fit the sheet on an album page, and on covers. Hard to do that with a sheet of 100! .·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·. .·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·. |
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