Steve Levine
P.O. Box 951
Linden Hill Station
Flushing, NY 11354
Phone: 718-939-5788
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HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER:
And that's my workload for the next several months -- or longer -- when
I'm not putting together auctions. This would drive me crazy, if I
didn't love it.
1. ONLINE (BEST METHOD)
Items for sale on this page contain links to a page on my website,
www.stevelevinestamps-plus.com. That page has brief descriptions of these items, and is connected to my SHOPPING CART which can accept online payments by PAY PAL or CREDIT CARD (VISA, MASTER
CARD. or AMERICAN EXPRESS)....or you can PLACE the order, and indicate that you
will be mailing a check.
2. DINOSAUR STYLE (MAIL)
If ordering Dinosaur Style, you
can print out this sheet, then circle the price of what you want and mail it in
with your payment (a check or money order). This is NOT recommended; SOME of
the items I sell ON THIS MONTHLY LIST are in short supply, and while your order is moving slowly thru
the mail, someone else may be grabbing what you want thru direct purchase on my
website.
3. PHONE
IF your order is relatively simple or if you have a few questions, you can
phone me at 718-939-5788.
For me, "business hours" are flexible. I'm usually in, and if I'm not, you get the answering machine. Leave your Phone#; I'll get back to you.
I NO LONGER ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS OVER THE PHONE, but I can set up a special "lot" for you on my website and you can enter your CC Information on my shopping cart.
TERMS OF PURCHASE:
Items from this offering may be
combined with items from other offerings on my
website for a
MINIMUM ORDER
of $15. In order to give you the buying
experience and security you deserve, I ship ALL ORDERS as First Class
Packages, with TRACKING and INSURANCE included FREE.
U.S. orders will cost $3 for
shipping. There's no "handling" fee; just actual
postage expenses. For "Special Situations" -- very large orders or orders
which include items which can't be replaced -- REGISTERED MAIL is
recommended.
Overseas shipments will cost somewhere between
$11 and $14...for STAMPS, CUT SQUARES, and CINDERLLA items (Seals, Labels,
Poster Stamps). Heavier items (Postal Cards, Envelopes, First Day Covers,
Souvenir Cards) may require a surcharge,
depending on just how heavy the shipment is.
ONLY New York State
Residents will be billed the appropriate Sales Tax by my website "Shopping
Cart". At this time, I'm not required to collect Sales Taxes on orders
from any other State.
SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED ON
ALL ORDERS
Dear Friends & Collectors,
The year continues to be an intersting and busy
one.
Tech-wise, it's a mess. I'm now
on my 4th e-mail program, and I apologize if you missed my last e-mail,
ragarding my last eBay auction (sent via program #3). Program #3
didn't work out well, at all. Some day, when I calm down, I'll tell
you about it.
Good Postal
Stationery crossed my path at an unprecented rate. Maybe it's the
COVID virus, or maybe a bunch of collectors and dealers just got old and
decided to cash in their chips at more or les the same time. Whatever
the reason, it's keeping me busy.
So I'm
going to keep this Monthly Posting short, just a few odds & ends, so I can get on with the REAL business of putting
together an eBay auction. More about this later.
UX25/S35B
PLATE VARIETIES
Long promised, it's
finally ready. After working my way through well over 2,000 cards, I
managed to separate out the Plate Varieties of the RED shade.
The Pale Red varieties must wait. Unfortunately, their
paleness
makes identification difficult, even when the strikes are
strong. Some characteristics, such as the color blob in
the left frame as seen in the scan at the left, are easy to
locate, but some, like the "dot" over the right ribbon, are
difficult. In fact, it's not really a dot of any sort;
it's a break in a horizontal shading line.
I need to buy a better magnifier...
These are listed on my website. Prices haven't changed
since I last listed these... but the scans have. They're
larger and with higher resolution. I think we ALL need
that now...
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THESE LISTINGS ON MY WEBSITE
I need to mention
this. I have more varieties listed than you'll find in the
1990 UPSS Postal Card Catalog, but S35Be isn't one of them.
I have NO old scans, or old listings, or indication that I ever
owned one. SO, I have to formally question its existence.
If any one of you out there has one, I'd sure like to see a
scan.
Another small point; there
should be another dozen or so Plate Varieties, but where are
they? I suspect the answer lies in the clear area on
Grant's forehead. I list 3 varieties, Bd-1, Bd-2, and
Bd-3. These are basic "large, small, medium" areas, but
just a "general visual impression". In other words, I
didn't count dots. I also didn't check for different
foreheads on the other Plate Varieties.
WORLDWIDE
STAMPS - SAAR
This month, I bulked up my SAAR listings a bit. Nothing
spectacular; just about 40 more items than I had in stock last
month.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THESE LISTINGS ON MY WEBSITE
SOJEX
STAMP SHOW LABELS
They don't have the
"oomph" like the ASDA labels, but the SOJEX shows have
been around since 1936, and from
1936 thru 1973 (and maybe later?) the Clubs which sponsored the
shows produced labels. I recently picked up a nice run of
20 of them, not complete by any means, but a pretty fair grouping.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THESE LISTINGS ON MY WEBSITE
WHAT'S IN THE FUTURE?
Still floating around my
office are many categories of material I mentioned
(in red) in my last
posting.
"a stock of used envelopes, including many of the Die J, some of which
are addressed to Marcus White himself, who "discovered" the existence of
the die. Also, many used U440-445, and U529-31. These issues
are difficult to find used. Also a large bunch of Mercantiles,
including Dayton Dies." The BEST of these, if I can ever find
where it's buried, was sent to someone (unspecified) by White
himself and has an identifying note on the inner back flap!!
"Hundreds of used Air Letter Sheets, many to non -
standard locations (NOT the usual Britain, Germany, France, etc..)."
I spotted a few Communist nations, as well as a few POSTED OVERSEAS
TO THE U.S.. I didn't know you could mail a U.S. Air Letter Sheet
overseas TO the U.S.
"Plenty of advertising on cards and envelopes, including 19th Century
"industrial" ads with those intricate line drawings, as well as a few
quack remedies, early drugs, and "Wanted" notices."
Many more recently added, including some 19th Century COLOR ads, and
Pioneer Post Cards.
"AND OF COURSE, an incredible array of
EFOs, both on cards and envelopes." Even more are
clogging up my shelves now. LOADS of surcharge errors
(1920s & 1950s), both major and minor. Bizarre printing
errors. Many Government miscuts.
"Much used material, including oddball locations, machine cancels, semi-fancy
cancels, colored cancels, and overseas destinations." Even
more now. Many Leavitt Cancels, rate upgrades, overseas
usages, both incoming and outgoing.
The FAR FUTURE?
Once I've recovered
from my last (Red) encounter with the UX25s, I'll take care of the
Pale Red varieties. Then, the UNUSED Varieties of the Postal
Buddy Cards. Then, back to some old friends, the UX39, and
UY14.
The UPSS catalog does a
great job with the MAJOR Positions...but within the major positions,
there are sub-varieties. The UX39, for instance, exists
shifted to the right, left, up, and down. This is a result of
the way the slugs were positioned in the machines, and not due to
any slippage. Such varieties are not, in my opinion, errors or
freaks.
What ARE EFOs.... are the
various FRAME BREAKS, LETTER BREAKS, MISSING PERIODS, and other
flaws in the slugs themselves. Some of this could be due to
mis-production, and some of this could be due to wear.
Then, I'm going to re-visit some old friends...the Surcharge
varieties of UX41 and 42. Back in the mid-1980s I bought a
monstrous hoard of these cards, and was able to offer "matched sets"
of these surcharges.. at least for several years, until I finally
ran out. Now, I'm back in business; it's just a question of
cutting some sheets (which, mercifully, were stored FLAT by their
previous owner), and separating the surcharges.
I don't have to tell you that I also have several large cartons of
envelops waiting to to worked on,do I?
Best Regards,
Steve
Levine
P.O. Box 951
Linden Hill Station
Flushing, NY 11354
Phone: 718-939-5788
email:steve@stevelevinestamps.com
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