Off-Topic - Philately

[Ralph Katzenell]

Greetings all,

I crave a moment of your time and patience for an off-topic post, about stamps.

The late, great Arty, the boozers doctor, was a lifelong stamp collector. His special area of interest was British stamps, overprinted for for use in British Post Offices abroad. In terms of postal research, he was rated among the world's top 10 experts, and in the narrower area of British Levant and Morocco Agencies, among the world's top 3.
He collection was eclectic, and included also French and German overprints.

Whilst the top class postal history stuff has been sent off for specialist auction to the benefit of the estate, some (and that means a lot) of the 2nd rate material (and this is on a scale where 1st rate means world class specialist collectable) has been gifted to me.

If there are collectors among you interested in purchasing significant quantities of German or French overprints, or are looking for the odd such stamp here or there to enhance a collection, you are invited to contact me off-list.

For those of you interested in British overprints, I now have huge numbers of givables, swapables and sellables of 3rd class space fillers up to jaw-dropping 1st rate singles. (1st rate standard means exhibited at the Royal Philatellic Society). You are also invited to contact me off-list.

Uncle Ralph
  

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