I am a collector of many interests and collect various countries and topics.
I also collect various cigarettes of the world, not only stamps.
PROFILE
Author:Wrlz
Action certified using browsers for Macintosh Internet Explorer 5.1 or later: recommended Mozzila or Netscape: almost suitable Opera: almost suitable OS except Mac OS: I did not confirm Font size must be smaller than 100%. Welcome to the world of Philately and Tobaccoes. I can help you with the stamps, FDCs, MCs and booklets of North Korea not listed in Scott if anybody is interested in.
FDCs of "Commemoration of Historic Pyongyang Meeting and Inter-Korean Summit Talks" available. Click to enlarge.
FDC of perf.; $4.00 FDC of imperf.; $10.00 Please add $2.00 postage.
My name "Wrlz" reads"o-wa-las" and it means "It Does Exist" on the other hand "YHWH" in the Bible means "I become (Lord)". The pronuciation is close to the French word "Voila(there is)". mail(please remove the excessive @ to prevent spams)
Favorites Philately(collecting stamps, stationey, cancellations etc.), pipe tobacco and Progressive rock(I like "yes" very much). I also collect various cigarettes of the world, not only stamps.
1976:Removed to Athens. My mother says I was speaking Greek but I don't remember...
1977:Removed to Papua New Guinea.
1978:Returned to Tokyo.
1978:I got my first stamp. It was a stamp of Okinawa with a face value in US$. This stamp very much charmed me and I started collecting stamps.
1980:My mother brought me to a church and I became a Christian but I don't believe in God... My middle name is "Isaac". 1983:Removed to Itabashiku from Mitakaku. Dec.1986:Removed to Ireland and learnt English.
Apr.1989:Removed to Athens.
Dec.1989:Returned to Japan.
Apr.1990:Became a high school student in Saitama, and started oil paintings.
1991: My friend introduced me Hark Rock and Progressive Rock.
Apr.1993:Went to Waseda University and learnt silk screens in the art party.
June 1994:I published my first book. 1994:I started smoking.
1994-1996:Worked for a company of Audio Visual.
1995:Started collecting stamps of PRO China.
1996:Started collecting stamps of DPR Korea.
1997:Printing business.
1998:Bought my first computer and started internet.
Apr.1998:Studied Korean for one year.
Aug.2000:My first entry to a philatelic exhibition-"Let's enjoy Korean stamps"-prize number 4.
2001:I started collecting the stamps of former USSR countries.
1-7 Aug.2001: PHILANIPPON'01, my first entry to an international philatelic exhibition.
2002:Bought a new machine, Macintosh G4 with 1.12GB Ram.
2003:Removed to Itabashiku from Nerimaku.
2004:I met a ferret and brought him home. His name is "Regle".
2008:- I think I have to improve and perfect of equipment with Macintosh G5 in the future. Colour laser printer is one of the thing I want with my job.
The collector whom I met at CigarettesPedia sent I 50 empty boxes of Brazil and some of Paraguay. Special thanks to Mr.E.R.
I also liked the beautiful stamps of Brazil.
This maybe "Marlboro" sold in Brazil.
Another Marlboro.
"Yes RED" and "Yes BLUE".
This maybe a popular brand in Brazil,
"DERBY".
The only languages I can read is English and Korean but I think the word "VERMELHO" means "red", and so lot!
I have to obtain empty boxes of Japan very quickly and send back to him. I bought "hi-lite RUM MENTHOL" yesterday(this is not empty yet).
First sold in Fukuoka, Saga and Nagasaki, became available in Tokyo from 1 Sep. 2004, sold in all parts of Japan from 25 Oct. 2004. What I have now is "echo", "Peace", "HOPE", "Mine" and "ALPHABET C" only... Well, I'll finish "hi-lite MENTHOL" within 2 or 3 days and buy "GOLDEN BAT" for him. I've just started writing a letter to him.
As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, I have built a poultry farm at hex10:8.
Population: 527,000 Balance: 34,600,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 312,000 are working Factories: 254,000 can work Stope: 10,000 can work unemployed: -9.30% poultry farm: 680,000 cattle What I smoked today Cigarette Peace: 1cig
The medal, award and the judging evaluation arrived from Swan River Stamp Show 2006. The Emerald's medal was splendid than that of 2005's
but the judgment was unsparing.
-Basic study covering a wide field without too much detail. -The personal study shown was good but in patches. Not consistent across the material. -Good condition for relativity common material. -The logo on the top of the pages is distracting. This should be removed. Total:100/my award: 61. If I'd missed 2 points, I could not have won Emerald... The comment "Good start into this complex area." by Brian Austin Chairman is an encouragement!
Swan River Stamp Show 2006. What I won was Emerald again...(I expected Ruby this year). I don't know the distributions of marks as I haven't received a details of jury yet.
He said he cannot break the barrier of 2 more points to win Gold and the reason is he does not have very rich materials of the forerunner.
Dr.Maeda's
My poor one
Dr.Maeda's
My poor one
Dr.Maeda's
My poor one
Dear me! I don't even possess mints of them.
This is a plate identifier handbook issued by Dr. Maeda. I'm using it for early DPRK's stamps(originals and reprints) as this one is much better than MICHEL.
As for the CigarettesPedia, I received a mail from a collector in Brazil and he said he is going to send I 50 empty boxes! 50 boxes! The only duplicates I have now is "echo", "Mine" and "ALPHABET C". I went to my local tobacco store and bought "Peace" and "HOPE"
I'm going to buy "CHERRY" tomorrow. I have to smoke them very quickly to make empty boxes As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, there was a volcano eruption at hex17:2.
Let I build an hydroelectric power plant nearby this new mountain this time. What I smoked today Cigarette Peace: 2cig
I have to start from a very sad story that BAT(British American Tobacco) is going to abolish all Dunhill brands... I have to buy "Dunhill MyMixture965" in kilograms.
My name was listed on the "Cigarettes pack exchange" of CigarettesPedia. I can offer all JT brands and looking for former USSR countries.
I've received a mail from a collector in Brazil. I never had a friend in Brazil. Looking forward to exchanging cigarette packs Line 5 updated on 8:32am.
I received 1 mint sheet of mixiSNS's P-stamp, template C for free as a right of the one whose image was accepted. I kept a mint sheet
but they look better when used for sending mails
I also received a cover with a stamp of "Godzilla".
Here is the original 360dpi image I designed for the event in mixiSNS. Some people asked how to draw it and this is the detail. All operation done in RGB area of Adobe Photoshop. You can draw the precious stone using "Chrome" and "3D transform" filters.
The stone is moved to the top of the layers partially in "Screen" mode. That is, when you multiply 0(black) to the keynote pixel, it all changes to black whatever the lower colour is, but the colour does not change when you multiply 0 but turns to white when you multiply 255(white). Asso, it turns out brighter than the original image.
As for the "levels", you can save the numerals once you've used. I have saved "explosion", "cloud", "thunderstorm", etc.
The graph shows how many pixels there are currently in the range 0(black) to 255(white). The values of shadow/gamma/highlight maybe 0/1.00/2.55 in the incipient.
You can make it clear moving the shadow and highlight slider to the centre. I did not change the output level but the input level only.
You can also save the values of tonecurve This is when I chanced the R channel.
A friend whom I met at mixiSNS told I he wants to buy the 2 varieties; colour marks on the top and bottom of the sheets. He told I that the catalogue value is 680Yen but face value(400Yen) will do. As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, I were to build a new hydroelectric power plant at hex 14:13 but I did not know I need a "mountain" at adjoin hex.
Population: 463,800 Balance: 140,400,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 242,000 are working Factories: 250,000 can work Stope: 5,000 can work unemployed: -7.16% What I smoked today Cigarette echo: 1cig
You maybe at a loss for a reply but I really like this sweet. It looks like a custard pudding but a cheesecake. Mrs.aquamoon who is suffering an enormous of smoking-harassment sent I one of the what's called "Johnny's hane towel". (she has remonstrated the smoke-harassment company where she worked accompanied with an expert on labour protection)
They are the premiums of bean cheese sold in Japan but as she had told I, was flurried with its design. What the *** is it??
There seems to be more than 6 varieties from otokomae.jp.
At least, I have no idea how to use it. It says "age 6 or later". As for I, who cannot understand how to use it is less than 6?? I cannot but laugh...
As for the smoke harassment, please remember that there are people who have an allergic disease sometime causes death. Please just bethink of before little before alighting your cigarette and don't smoke at open areas. There was an open prize of the images for P-stamps at mixiSNS and my design was adopted.
Template C
Template E
Template F-1
Template F-2
I'm going to receive 1 sheet of template C for free. The 360dpi original image is here. I received a mail from Aoyama Stamp dealer who forgot to include No.1114(white leaved) but 1111(with 3mm squares) that I don't need to pay the extra postage. I sent him my 2 own Frame Stamps for thanks.
Thanks to him, I can finally arrange the FDCs of the bats' FDCs of South Africa.
I expressly needed the fastenings to fix the 4 corners.
I remember the FDCs were only 900Yen in set of 2.
He is indeed an extrafine dealer.
This is only a comic art and I cannot distinguish the species but I bought it for the present. 2,100Yen.
The species of the bats drawn on the stamps of South Africa are written on the back of the sheet. Somehow, I possessed 2 same sheets.
As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, I finished afforesting hex4:12 I'm going to set a fortress at the small island at the Southern-West, The fisherboat will harvest 50,000tons+ foodstuff per turn.
Population: 415,300 Balance: 53,900,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 242,000 are working Factories: 220,000 can work Stope: 5,000 can work unemployed: -12.45% What I smoked today Cigarette KOOL NIGHTS: 2cig
My friend who sent this to I called it "the ultimate of entire".
The red caution written in Japanese says" Do not open" but I have no idea how to open it. He just cut out the corrugated cardboard and sent it as a standard mail(80Yen/25g). Frame stamps of my own oil painting arrived. I waited for more than 3 weeks. Is Japan Post divided vertically into divisions no contact each other??
As I have 2 friends to exchange P-stamps, I immediately went to the post office and enclosed 1 mint each and sent them by registered mail so that they will be cancelled beautifully before my eyes.
As I am sending 2 registered mails together, I can trace them in consecutive numbers.
I received a bulky mail from Koie Stamp dealer and it was a set of 6 catalogues listing all of the Japanese stamps.
Nothing special on the auction. I'm not interested in banknotes. I already have a set of Kiku's used. As for the originals and reprints of PRO China's Scott#105-107, I think it is possible to distinguish by comparing both types.
I donot have reprints of Scott#122-123, but the reprints have a dot inside the red circle. As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, I have a plan to make a small island on the South.
Population: 389,900 Balance: 126,100,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 202,000 are working Factories: 190,000 can work Stope: 5,000 can work unemployed: -1.82% What I smoked today Cigarette HOPE: 1cig
I sometimes feel very difficult to make a complete collection of reprints of People's Republic of China. In fact, I donot possess the reprints of the first 4 stamps of PRO China.
The catalogue value of the set of 4 reprints is only 240Yen but I only have the originals. As for the reprints, I only have 100Yuan and not in a set of 4.
It maybe only natural that originals are easier to obtain than reprints. The dealers, Sellers will emphasise "this is original, have a look at here, this is not a reprint!"
I don't think a collector will seldom say "I am looking for the mint of the reprint of this stamp"...(?)
I bought two vol.1 of illustrated albums-one for originals and one for reprints & used(>B>Not CTO) but there are so many blanks in my reprints' album.
This is the 4th page of vol.1 and I have the all of the originals,
but only 2 reprints...
As for the saparetely issued(in same designs) for use in nnortheastern section, I haven't filled in the blanks at all... These 2 are the only originals I have.
BTW, I took a dead stock of the stamps of DPR Korea(North Korea) from my friend dealer.
I can offer them in face value so please send I a mail(please remove the excessive @ to prevent spams).
3892B-C: "Grand Festival of Victors", set of 2 s/s: $1.40 3906B: "Zu Zuwei"s/s: $1.00 3945: "Worker-Peasants Red Guards": $0.05 3946: "Birthday of Kim Jong Il" $0.20 3947: "Theses on the Socialist Rural Question": $0.05 3949: "Australia'99"s/s: $1.00 3950-51: "The Day of the Sun", set of 1 stamp & 1 s/s: $1.05 3958-64: "Central Botanical Garden", set of 4 & s/s: $2.00 3978A-E: "Sightseeing on Mt. Kumgang", set of 5: perf.$1.50, imperf.$3.00 3890F: "Kim Jong Il as Chairman of the National Defence Commission"s/s: $1.00 4007A-B: "Women's Marathon Title-Holder", set of 1 stamp & s/s: perf.$1.20, imperf. $2.40 4079: "Inter-Korean Summit"s/s: $1.00 4225-6: "DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration", set of 2 imperf.s/s: $3.60 B38: "Flowers and Butterfly" booklet: $4.00 B44-45: "Fossiles of Korea" booklet(set of 2): $6.95 B46: "Fold Tales" booklet: $4.30 B50: "Air Koryo" booklet(set of 2): $8.05 B51: "Mt.Chilbo" booklet: $4.00 B52-53: "Mt.Kumgang" booklet(set of 2): $8.00 B108: "Red Cross" booklet: perf. $3.94, imperf. $7.86 I am too lazy to scan each stamp. The numbering is based on KOREAN STAMP CATALOGUE issued by Korea Stamp Corporation, Pyongyang.
I ordered 7,000Yen's approx. worth of albumleaves and mounts. This is the loupe I am using. 1,300Yen(mine is red). As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, the city at hex 4:12 was lost by fire but going well. I'm going to build an ice rink at hex 14:13.
Population: 363,100 Balance: 46,500,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 202,000 are working Factories: 190,000 can work Stope: 5,000 can work unemployed: -9.34% The images of "isit? REGULAR", "isit? MENTHOL" and "VIRGINIA SLIMS DUO" are inserted on CigarettesPedia.
"DUO" is sold in a pair of 2 boxes(10 cigarettes in a box. What I smoked today Cigarette hi-lite: 1cig
(I was writing about India first, but ultimately today's blog is about China...)
Though I donot collect India(but I collect Hyderabad a little), I found 3 official FDCs in my album. I don't remember how much they were. I think I didn't pay...
14 Nov. 1961/Scott#346/Indian Industries Fair at New Deli.
25 Mar. 1962/Scott#355/Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, the reformer of community life.
9 May 1966/Scott#434/Cent. of the birth of Gokhale, professor of history and politicaleconomy,
My friend whom I met at mixiSNS asked I about slogan stamps of Taiwan. I donot collect Republic of China after 1949 but the Chinese stamps from Qing dynasty are called "Old-China" to distinguish from PRO China(New China).
I have the sets of unwatermarked heroes' stamps of 1932-34 and 1940-41, I don't have No.376 to 379 and 413.
but haven't completed the same designs of watermarked.
As they are easier to obtain, money can settle it.
This is one of the used I like; issued on 4 July 1936, became no longer available from 31 Mar.1940.
They are the first series of the second period(struggles between Kuomintang and the Red)
These stamps all look the same but different in fact. I need a loupe with a 0.5mm gauge inside to measure the sizes and thickness of the overprints.
This is not a postage stamp but only an equivocal label. The numbering "XYH-11" has no meaning.
Actually, I have no good idea how to enlarge my former Chinese stamps' collection. I only know 1 dealer who offers Qing and Liberation and I looked into the auction magazine of Hong Kong
the estimate of the set of 5 of first Qing was 1,800HK$, CIP definitives(set of 32) was 2,000HK$... Someone owe me something(?)...the first Dragons(set of 3) are availble at only 50,000Yen in Japan.
PRO China issued stamps commemorating the centenary of Chinese post but this was the 100th year counting from the Qing era.
I think there is no national continuity between Qing and PRO China. Soviet postal bureau is drawn on 50f face value. As for the Hakoniwa R.A. I built a port town and set sail from the sea at hex 5:13. The fisherboat will harvest 50,000tons+ foodstuff per turn.
Population: 340,300 Balance: 43,700,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 202,000 are working Factories: 160,000 can work Stope: 5,000 can work unemployed: -7.85% What I smoked today Cigarette hi-lite: 1cig
JPS: 1cig
Pipe Mellow Breeze Regular: 1B
KENTUCKY BIRD: 1B
Momoyama: 1
I did not know the system of Blog Ranking... I had to put this bannar and send a ping.
The registered mail I sent to a collector of P-stamps arrived safely.
You can trace your registered mails, Mail Delivery-recorded Mails, EMS, etc from YUBIN HOMEPAGE.
I sent some small gifts to the cartoonist to whom I asked for autographs. Though I sent him only return postage, he sent back so many to I. I enclosed the 4 cancellations I designed(adding to my shame signing them as he is a professional)
and some stamps of Chinese Liberation Area as he said he collects China a little.
Not expensive at all; only DB42's catalogue value is 1,000Yen, set of DB133-135 is 1,000Yen,XN21 is 2,600Yen and ZN135 is 2,000Yen.
The reserved price of 3222 was HK$9.600 and 3230 HK$30,000!
6 years ago, I bought a set of temporarily used stamps and FDC of East Timor and tried to make a commercial cover sent to I by Poste Restante but it did not work...
I enclosed the cover with a stamp of airmail rate and waited.
I finally received the cover in 2005, 3 years after her Independence but the provisional stamp of UN was not cancelled and the new stamp was put. This is not even a mixed stamp cover(frankatur)...
These 2 are only illegal labels. To assure myself, I searched "east timor marilyn monroe" but found no relationship between East Timor and Marilyn Monroe.
As for the South Moluccas, I have a set of 54 stamps though Scott saysIt appears that stamps of the so-called republic of South Moluccas were privately issued and had no postal use.
I received a mail from a collector who collects a lot of P-stamps and he said he wants to exchange P-stamps with I.
I immediately made a reply, enclosing 2 stamps I made by registered mail.
As my local post office is not a collect and delivery post office, I sent it by registered mail so that the postman will cancel the stamp beautifully before my eyes.
He sent I 5 but I could only send 2 so I'm going to send another one which will come to my hand within 10days. I liked this one very much.
He said this is a photo when he took a trip to Sado.
I also received 1,500Yen from my friend to whom I sent Block 52 of Michel 638.
I need 4,850Yen to make new stamps; (2 sheets of P-stamps=1,000Yen x 2)+(2 sheets of Frame-stamps=1,200Yen x 2)+postage 350Yen+charge 100Yen=4,850Yen.
I found another cover from Australia. I don't remember the date(and cannot read the cancellation) but as it was a mail to notify that I am welcome to Canberra Stamp Show, I received it in 2006.
I've uploaded about 10 new jpeg files which were not listed on CigarettesPedia. I received a mail from the webmaster as follows. -from here- We thank you kindly for your assistance!
We really even didn't hear about these cigarettes and it is a very useful and interesting information for our site and for our visitors.
You are welcome and we appreciate your contribution! Great deal! Looking forward to getting some new pictures from you!
Best regards, -end-
Today, I sent the new designs of "Mild Seven Lights(soft)" and "Mild Seven Lights
I'm thinking of writing a small article about JT's cigarette in the future. As for the Hakoniwa R.A. netgame, I built an amusement park at hex 5:11.
Population: 390,800 Balance: 131,000,000,000Yen Farmhouses: 182,000 are working Factories: 240,000 can work Stope: 5,000 can work unemployed: -9.26% I'm going to afforest hex4:9 to protect hex 4:10 to where a city will grow in the future. What I smoked today Cigarette Peace: 1cig
