Thursday, March 19, 2020

Monday, March 16, 2020

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Friday, March 13, 2020

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Thursday, March 5, 2020

OB handstamps 7

 
OB handstamps on the 6c and 4c pair of UPU cut up souvenir sheet of 1949.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Friday, February 28, 2020

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Marinduque cover

New slogan cancel for commemorative cover marking the centenary of Marinduque province.

Friday, February 21, 2020

EFO 1981 surcharge

On the upper right stamp, the s of 40s touches the D of CHILD.

40-sentimo surcharge of 1981 on P1.35 Decade of the Filipino Child stamp of 1978.

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Monday, February 17, 2020

EFO 1942 JapOcc 5c surcharge


Bottom stamps have the two-line COMMONWEALTH overprint completely covered by deleting bars, top stamps not, in this block of four provisional issued on September 1, 1942.

Sunday, February 16, 2020

FSCC auction February 2020

Bidders view the lots offered in today's auction sale of the Filipinas Stamp Collectors' Club held at Manila.

About 30 collectors participated and about 520 lots were offered.

Saturday, February 15, 2020

EFO 1943 JapOcc regular 2c

Short diagonal line jutting from the upper right corner where the top and right frame lines meet.

Friday, February 14, 2020

Session Road PO

Cancellations of the Session Road Post Office in Baguio City during June and July 1992.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

shades 6


Two distinct color shades of the ₱1 Scuba Diving stamp of 1988.

Sunday, February 2, 2020

APO auction February 2020

Some 20 bidders participated in today's auction sale of the APO Philatelic Society held at Manila.

Shown is my haul of several lots consisting of covers, FDCs, maximum cards, Philippine and foreign stamps, mint and used.

Sunday, January 19, 2020

FSCC auction January 2020

There were 30 registered floor bidders and a few absentee bidders in today's auction of the Filipinas Stamp Collectors' Club held at Manila.

Shown above is one of three lots I won...50 bundles of Philippine stamps: 4 Commonwealth, 10 Japanese occupation, 36 Republic.

Saturday, January 18, 2020

EFO 1987 Asean Summit

Pale blue background color shifted upward causing white lines to appear on top of the flags.
With normal for comparison.
₱4 Third Asean Summit Meeting stamp of 1987.

Friday, January 17, 2020

ring flaw 138

Three ring flaws, leg area of upper right stamp.
Block of four 30-sentimo Fight Drug Abuse stamps of 1979.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

EFO 1979 Philatelic Week

Overinking of the red overprint is indicated by streaks of lines and a dot. Also, the stamps at right in this vertical block of six have larger paper sizes than the ones at left due to boardwalk margins at right side.

90-sentimo Philatelic Week overprint of 1979 on ₱1.60 Felipe Agoncillo stamp of 1976.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Manila-Legaspi 8

A railway post office cancel of the Manila-Legaspi line.

It says SOUTH so this must have been on mail from Manila to Legaspi, or a way station in between. (If NORTH then it would have been on the train from Legaspi to Manila.)

6-centavo Ateneo de Manila stamp of 1959.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

EFO 2002 Mallat Drawing

Brown shifted downward, causing white line at top and blurred horses and riders. 

₱5 Mallat Drawing stamp of 2002.