Nick,
Many of your questions can be answered by going to the FAQS pages.
Don
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From: nick919
To: LbCA@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:50 PM
Subject: RE: [LbCA] new member


Hi this is nick morgan and I am a new member never been on one but seen
the link on geocaching.com and I was wondering can you explain to my
what you need stamps for

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From: Joseph [mailto:letterboxspector@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:19 PM
To: LbCA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbCA] Stamp carving

Hi all!

We are new to letterboxing (six months) and we will be placing our
first box soon. I would like to carve the stamp, but dont know where
to get the stuff. Can it be as simple as cutting up a pink pearl
eraser? If someone knows where to get the stuff please let me know. I
dont like to shop on line much... I need the personal interaction. For
my first box I would like everything just so. Not that I'm anal or
anything.






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Nick,
Letterboxing is very different from geocaching. There are no trade
items in letterboxing; a letterbox generally just contains a carved
rubber stamp and a stampbook. The finder brings their own rubber
stamp and stampbook on the hunt, stamps into the letterbox stampbook
in order to indicate they found the box, then stamps their book with
the letterbox stamp (letterbox has stamp and book, and finder has
their own stamp and book). The finder then re-hides the letterbox
in the spot they found it for the next hunter to find. Also,
letterboxes are not normally buried in the ground, but hidden in
naturally-occurring niches, or inside tree stumps, etc.
--Buzzard

--- In LbCA@yahoogroups.com, "nick919" wrote:
> Hi this is nick morgan and I am a new member never been on one but
seen
> the link on geocaching.com and I was wondering can you explain to
my
> what you need stamps for
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph [mailto:letterboxspector@h...]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:19 PM
> To: LbCA@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [LbCA] Stamp carving
>
> Hi all!
>
> We are new to letterboxing (six months) and we will be placing our
> first box soon. I would like to carve the stamp, but dont know
where
> to get the stuff. Can it be as simple as cutting up a pink pearl
> eraser? If someone knows where to get the stuff please let me
know. I
> dont like to shop on line much... I need the personal interaction.
For
> my first box I would like everything just so. Not that I'm anal or
> anything.
>
>
>
>
>
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So basically a rubberstamp is actually just a calling card for you to
Stamp a logbook with then the box has one you stamp your logbook with
the one in the box

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From: trentlaudes [mailto:trentlaudes@excite.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:03 PM
To: LbCA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbCA] Re: new member


Nick,
Letterboxing is very different from geocaching. There are no trade
items in letterboxing; a letterbox generally just contains a carved
rubber stamp and a stampbook. The finder brings their own rubber
stamp and stampbook on the hunt, stamps into the letterbox stampbook
in order to indicate they found the box, then stamps their book with
the letterbox stamp (letterbox has stamp and book, and finder has
their own stamp and book). The finder then re-hides the letterbox
in the spot they found it for the next hunter to find. Also,
letterboxes are not normally buried in the ground, but hidden in
naturally-occurring niches, or inside tree stumps, etc.
--Buzzard




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Nick,
Exactly! So I have a stampbook filled with colorful stamp images
from all the letterboxes I've found. Letterboxes are usually hidden
in interesting or unusual places that letterboxers have discovered;
often secret little places that the average person wouldn't have
normally known about, so travelling to the location to look for the
boxes is an adventure in itself, and having the beautiful stamped
image in your stampbook is like a holiday photo--it recalls in your
mind the adventure you had in finding the box.
--Buzzard P15 F87 X15 E2


--- In LbCA@yahoogroups.com, "nick919" wrote:
> So basically a rubberstamp is actually just a calling card for you
to
> Stamp a logbook with then the box has one you stamp your logbook
with
> the one in the box
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trentlaudes [mailto:trentlaudes@e...]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:03 PM
> To: LbCA@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [LbCA] Re: new member
>
>
> Nick,
> Letterboxing is very different from geocaching. There are no trade
> items in letterboxing; a letterbox generally just contains a carved
> rubber stamp and a stampbook. The finder brings their own rubber
> stamp and stampbook on the hunt, stamps into the letterbox
stampbook
> in order to indicate they found the box, then stamps their book
with
> the letterbox stamp (letterbox has stamp and book, and finder has
> their own stamp and book). The finder then re-hides the letterbox
> in the spot they found it for the next hunter to find. Also,
> letterboxes are not normally buried in the ground, but hidden in
> naturally-occurring niches, or inside tree stumps, etc.
> --Buzzard
>
>
>
>
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