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Thanks for illustrating [1].--Vilensija (talk) 11:12, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it's a stub article about the shipbuilding company, so far. I just wondered of that IMO code's transition through Litva, Boguchar, Fu Jian, Green Coast... --Vilensija (talk) 19:56, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Arno, (may I call you by this name?) I am really surprised with your fantastic and outstanding contribution. Do you own that book by Dobin? I created a Commons category for him. Were all these postmarks scanned by you from the Dobin's book? Very, very special contribution of yours. Thank you so much! --Michael Romanov (talk) 08:52, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Arno! I am stunned. Where did you get this envelope? It's very unique and very special! Do you know that it was sent by the prominent Russian and Soviet scientist Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (see also Andrej Petrovitsj Semjonov-Tjan-Sjanski as well as his photo)? I have no idea who is the letter's addressee, Vera Mikhaylovna Muromtseva, and what she did in 1938 in Moscow. But at least, you can add this envelope file to the appropriate Wikipedia articles about Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky. Thank you. Best regards, --Michael Romanov (talk) 11:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for adding Russian description texts to few files. I will probably use more files you uploaded to illustrate Wikipedia articles. But how did you find that your incredible Commons uploadings are now used in Russian Wikipedia? Do you use any special tool for that? :) --Michael Romanov (talk) 13:16, 12 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Arno! Do you have images of various local stamps issued in Peru in 1870s to 1890s from your collection or somewhere else? They are needed to illustrate this Russian article. Thank you. --Michael Romanov (talk) 08:18, 23 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Two more questions, Arno. In Spanish Wikipedia, there is a table for stamps: Serie «Sol y escudo del Perú» (1874-1894). It would be wonderful to populate the table with the appropriate stamps. Do you have any images for that? Thank you.
Also, the first column is Nº Scott. But what means the combined numbers like 23 - A19, 24 - A19, etc.? What is this A19? Thanks. --Michael Romanov (talk) 17:13, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Found an interesting webpage on Peru stamps. And the whole blog is very interesting! :) --Michael Romanov (talk) 17:56, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Arno! Do you know who was designer and/or engraver of these stamps? I cannot find this information. Thanks. --Michael Romanov (talk) 22:32, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a Tokelau stamp (postal cover, card)? Thanks. --Michael Romanov (talk) 00:30, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for all the information, which was a new book to me.
I am collecting a rather specialised subject of Austrian Post Offices at Preveza. For your own interest only, you could see an article that I am currently working at here. I have no idea about Ottoman revenue stamps. If you have some relevant articles which are on line or digitised I would be much obliged to you, if you could spare them with me.
I added another 20 para fiscal stamp on commons a while ago. The postmark seems to be a forgery, as the PREVESA is written with larger characters. AS for the rest three examples, if they forged they are really good work. The price of them is not that high to make forgeries attractive.
Please, keep in touch. Feel free to correct the new file Actia Nicopolis (talk) 17:19, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Supplement (p. 249)
In Muellers handbook of the pre-stamp postmarks of Austria (p. 190) there is a 1858 Prevesa postmark catalogued, #2048a type RS-f (roman font, single circle with date) also quite uncommon, points vary from 60x2 for black and 70x3 for blue. But this one is also different. The combination Lloyd and Prevesa is also not known in this book of Mueller. There are more Lloyd postmarks listed in this edition then above, some of which are very very scarce and attractive. (eg. Lloyd Corfu 150x5, Lloyd Ponte Lagoscuro, 175x6 / Alessandretta 150x5 / Lloyd Rettimo type RQz 175x6.
Based upon being unknown in both books of Mueller and the high valuation of Lloyd postmarks it may be safe to assume these are fake cancellations. Besides, in what case would these revenue stamps have been used/postmarked by a Lloyd agency? Arno-nl (talk) 18:31, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Arno,
From home, tonight, I saw from Nicolas & Galinos catalogue that there were the following Austrian Lloyd postmarks in the region of today's Greece:
I will send you the Preveza page scanned tommorow from my office. If you would like more pages I could do them for you.
Good night Nikos Actia Nicopolis (talk) 20:47, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Arno! I created Category:Post of São Tomé and Príncipe. Do you have any relevant philatelic/postal materials to add there? Thanks. --Michael Romanov (talk) 13:46, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to have been doing a lot of work uploading stamp images and creating some pages, such as c:Revenue stamps of Bern and c:Revenue stamps of Switzerland and I appreciate your dedication. These pages (I have not looked from more) are more like a catalog. With all the detail you've put in, the content is better suited to a new page in the World Stamp Catalogue. There are already redlink pages for some Swiss pages at the bottom of this page. Would you consider moving it there and leaving a link back to the current commons pages? I also see that you make extensive use of stamp catalogue numbers. Most of such numbering systems are copyright to their catalogue publishers and this topic was discussed several years ago when it was determined that extensive use was a copyright violation while occasional or minimal use would be allowable. Ww2censor (talk) 10:27, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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