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VA & ?HH?: Mystery Homemade Stamp Found in Fountainhead Park

2 messages in this thread | Started on 2003-09-10

VA & ?HH?: Mystery Homemade Stamp Found in Fountainhead Park

From: Mike Brooks (qocmike@msn.com) | Date: 2003-09-10 14:32:14 UTC-04:00
But it wasn't in a letterbox. The stamp was found in Ghosts of Occaquan
#2 Geocache that is about 50 feet away from the Creature of Fountainhead
Park #5 (Shaggy) Letterbox. The stamp design is a circle divided in half by
a curved line with the letter "T" in each half of the circle. The stamp
seems well used and has a couple of chips in the design, especially the
letters.

Scenario #1 - Likely and the best case - A letterboxer finds the cache and
trades an old surplus stamp for a geo toy. Cool! I own someone's old stamp.

Scernario #2 - A long shot that I would like disproved - A letterboxer
failed to find the actual letterbox and confused the geocache for the
letterbox, perhaps thinking it was a hybrid box. Said confused letterboxer
leaves a hitchhiker in the geocache. Someone trades out the hitchhiker log
but leaves the stamp.

Ok, #2 is a bit far-fetched. But there are plenty of missing hitchhikers
out there. If the stamp is part of a missing hitchhiker, please let me know.
Otherwise, look for a letterbox called Chip T's (rated ), coming
to a park near you next spring.

The SitRep for the Creature of Fountainhead series. #2, #3, and #5 are
in good shape. #4 was still damp in the box, but the materials were very
well protected in the ziplocs. I missed a turn for #1 and didn't bother to
go back for it. Ghosts #2 (no GPS needed) was also in good condition with a
geo toy collection that was slightly above average, but nothing that would
impress the geo-bashers on this list.

With the cartoon theme in the stamps plus a toy collection near the last
letterbox, this might be a great series for a newer letterboxing family with
young kids to use to move up from drive-by boxes to a moderate hike. This
was a great job by the Knight.

Mike - F76 P3+

Re: [LbNA] VA & ?HH?: Mystery Homemade Stamp Found in Fountainhead Park

From: (Fireflylight@aol.com) | Date: 2003-09-10 23:53:21 UTC-04:00
I can actually answer this question!

Your first guess (scenario #1) is actually right on the money. The stamp you
found was left by my friend Scott in exchange for some random geo trinket.
He had carved a new stamp for himself and decided to get rid of the old one.
He still uses the same design for his signature stamp.

Hope that answers your question!

Coleen


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