But Dick:
If something is missing on a stamp obtained by stamp collectors it is
worth quite a bit more than a 'normal' stamp. Doesn't this also work
for those 'defective' bolsters/trucks with the S scale collectors :-) ???
Hope all on the list have a Happy New Year.
regards from cold and snowy Norway
Rance Velapoldi
On 12/17/2010 11:20 PM, Richard Karnes wrote:
>
> All --
> ......
>
> Kinsman (John Blois) re-ran the Northeastern trucks under the Kinsman
> name when
> the supply of NE trucks ran out. He had to run an equal number of
> Andrews and
> Betts because the die was set up for one Bettendorf sideframe, one
> Andrews
> sideframe, one bolster, and one spring plank. Four shots got you a
> pair of
> each. The Kinsman truck shots were defective in that mold fill was
> incomplete.
> This caused one journal cover, on the Bettendorf sideframe as I
> recall, to be
> mostly missing. Thankfully, I have lots of NE trucks but no defective
> Kinsmans. Got rid of them.
> .....
> Dick Karnes
>
>
>
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