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May. 19th, 2017 06:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI was so tired last night, I only dimly recall it was around 9:45 pm when I hit the rack, which means that my getting up at 5:15 am does not really stress the envelope, if you get my meaning.
I've managed to send off the outstanding translation, but I won't know anything about two potential over-the-weekend jobs until later today. Meanwhile, there are "garage sale" signs to be, um, personalized, and a price list to be created and printed.
And it occurred to me—somewhere in the middle of the night—that, in a pinch, nobody really needs to be here for the PODS pickup (except to possibly make sure no damage is inflicted on, say, the garage).
In other news, I was pleased to see a couple of offerings on eBay for what are described as "plating collections," which consist of some number of the same stamp (in both cases, 19th century French definitives), along with diagrams of the often very subtle image differences that would enable a collector (who has access to the right literature) to determine the position of a given image in the plate used to print the stamps. Here's an image from one of the auctions, to give a better idea of what I mean:
That said, I did not bid on the auctions, as I do not have access to said literature (although my 2009 Maury catalog does contain rather simple plating diagrams for selected stamps). It was educational to review the offerings, though.
Enough lolligagging... to work!
Cheers...
I've managed to send off the outstanding translation, but I won't know anything about two potential over-the-weekend jobs until later today. Meanwhile, there are "garage sale" signs to be, um, personalized, and a price list to be created and printed.
And it occurred to me—somewhere in the middle of the night—that, in a pinch, nobody really needs to be here for the PODS pickup (except to possibly make sure no damage is inflicted on, say, the garage).
In other news, I was pleased to see a couple of offerings on eBay for what are described as "plating collections," which consist of some number of the same stamp (in both cases, 19th century French definitives), along with diagrams of the often very subtle image differences that would enable a collector (who has access to the right literature) to determine the position of a given image in the plate used to print the stamps. Here's an image from one of the auctions, to give a better idea of what I mean:
That said, I did not bid on the auctions, as I do not have access to said literature (although my 2009 Maury catalog does contain rather simple plating diagrams for selected stamps). It was educational to review the offerings, though.
Enough lolligagging... to work!
Cheers...
