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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3516162, member: 76194&quot;]I&#039;m not going to be able to afford any coins this month...not since I decided to add Cuban stamps to the stamp collection... but it&#039;s been worth it so far. You can say I&#039;ve gone a little stamp mad with how many I&#039;ve acquired in such a short time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far I have a handful of colonial era stamps (all mint, never used), with the earliest two (the top ones) dating back as far as 1862. And check out the stamps from &quot;Ultramar&quot;. Those come from the 1870&#039;s, when Spain briefly tried to combine the postage stamps for Cuba and Puerto Rico, before giving up on the idea and going back to making stamps for each individual island.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]933581[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And the 1899 collection is going well too (also mint, never used stamps). I&#039;ve got the overprints for all except the 2 1/2 cent stamp and the 10 Cent Special Delivery stamp. I&#039;m happy I got both versions of the 2 cent overprint stamp... and I&#039;ve got my first out of several &quot;Postage Due&quot; stamps (the 10 Cent version). I&#039;ve got to work on completing the rest of that set.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the regular 1899 stamps, I&#039;ve also collected them as minty never used examples. Still missing the 2 cent, 5 Cent, 10 Cent Special Delivery, and the error 10 Cent Special Delivery with a spelling mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]933583[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This collection is really a labor of love, considering how hard it is to find Cuban stamps in the US. <b>Something about it being illegal to buy anything Cuban in the US. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banhappy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </b>Yep, that never-ending embargo.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if anyone asks, <u>I didn&#039;t actually buy anything</u>. They were gifts, and I was so elated that money accidentally happened to fall from my pockets without me knowing. Then the&nbsp; persons I got these stamps from decided to keep the cash and didn&#039;t tell me about me accidentally losing the money. Those thieves....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>. Yeah, that&#039;s the official story if anyone asks <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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