DARTMOOR EXCHANGE new info 12/1/03

From: catbead1 (libby@twcny.rr.com) | Date: 2003-12-02 03:42:42 UTC

Greetings all Dartmoor Exchangees:

I've been going over a nice email from Graham Howard "The Moorland
Wizard" tonight, and am posting some of his thoughts here about our
Dartmoor Exchange for the Spring 2004. This is what he and his son
"Dancing Dragon" are thinking of doing for the boxes their sending to
us. All I have to say WOW!

So here are some snippets from his letter:

> We "would like to set out a (say) one-for-one box for your
> contributors...and we thought a series to commemorate 400 years of
> Letterboxing and the mutuality of the US and British boxing spirit...."

> "....but the idea would be to ask each one of them to place
> and look after one of our boxes as a loose series which if all found
> made up a complete set.....and ask you / and them to promote them
> using LBNA and/or NewAge....database is OK !!.......or their own web
> sites etc....and just see how they went...."

> "...might even draw up a collectors booklet for the (say) half dozen
> stamps explaining what they depict and why.....These can be posted
> as a printable file on any website..."

> "Does that sound OK ?"

*
catbead here: OK? It's FANTASTIC!!!

*

> "Each image would be unique but say within an ornate frame which
> had the same border style to link the series... (a brand or similar
style)
> ...The wording and design of the border would define and describe the
> series idea....(EG 400th Anniversary...US and UK boxing traditions..or
> similar idea) and also say "box 1 of 6" on the first ...and then ..
"2 of 6"
> etc....etc."

> "We thought of twin images on each stamp...crossed diagonally so
there is
> one image top left and a second bottom right...linking the two global
> worlds of Letterboxing..."

>"Stamps would be hand drawn / computer aided maybe and made by
>commercial stamp makers ..(The British way )
>
>About 4 inches by "2 and a half inches" roughly rectangular ...landscape"

This is the end of Graham's letter.
* * *

I have a question here, is 4" x 2 1/2" to big for a stamp? Without
losing the Dartmoor essence of the box, would a stamp this size fit in
most people's log book?

Cheers,
catbead 1

RE: [LbNA] DARTMOOR EXCHANGE new info 12/1/03

From: Mark Pepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) | Date: 2003-12-01 23:07:43 UTC-05:00

Catbead:

I say let's go for it. Sign Sue & I up to host a box - in fact, we will
take 1 for VT and 1 for CT if there are some left over!!

Thanks for spearheading this project!

Relative to the size of the stamp - it seems as most logbooks I have
seen over the years are roughly 4" x 6" although there may be some
exceptions.

Sue & I still want to take a trip to the Moor, possibly in the fall of
2004.

Mark Pepe

http://pepeanddavidow.blogspot.com/

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Re: DARTMOOR EXCHANGE new info 12/1/03

From: Bob LaBelle (r.labelle@verizon.net) | Date: 2003-12-02 04:27:45 UTC

Libby: Graham's ideas sound great to me. And I think we should
respond by doing something similarly structured, if we can. That
will take somebody's leadership, perhaps setting limits on the
geometry of the package - log and stamp, and establishing, however
loosely, some common, connecting theme. I'm concerned, tho, about
the geography involved; if contributions come from all over the
U.S., and their boxes are distributed among us, it will be a large
task for any - certainly many - to complete the series. They won't
have a like problem, if all our boxes are placed as a series in the
relatively narrow confines of Dartmoor.
I use the Strathmore 3 x 5 sketch pad for a log, so their proposed
stamp will fit on mine, tho larger than most stamps encountered here.

Bob / 'Cock o' the Trail'

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "catbead1" wrote:
> Greetings all Dartmoor Exchangees:
>
> I've been going over a nice email from Graham Howard "The Moorland
> Wizard" tonight, and am posting some of his thoughts here about our
> Dartmoor Exchange for the Spring 2004. This is what he and his son
> "Dancing Dragon" are thinking of doing for the boxes their sending
to
> us. All I have to say WOW!
>
>>>snip>>>

> >"Stamps would be hand drawn / computer aided maybe and made by
> >commercial stamp makers ..(The British way )
> >
> >About 4 inches by "2 and a half inches" roughly
rectangular ...landscape"
>
>
> This is the end of Graham's letter.
> * * *
>
>
>
> I have a question here, is 4" x 2 1/2" to big for a stamp? Without
> losing the Dartmoor essence of the box, would a stamp this size fit
in
> most people's log book?
>
> Cheers,
> catbead 1

Re: [LbNA] DARTMOOR EXCHANGE new info 12/1/03

From: catbead1 (libby@twcny.rr.com) | Date: 2003-12-02 04:47:02 UTC

All right! I'll be sending you an email soon with more info.

Cheers,
catbead 1

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Pepe" wrote:
> Catbead:
>
> I say let's go for it. Sign Sue & I up to host a box - in fact, we will
> take 1 for VT and 1 for CT if there are some left over!!
>
> Thanks for spearheading this project!
>
> Relative to the size of the stamp - it seems as most logbooks I have
> seen over the years are roughly 4" x 6" although there may be some
> exceptions.
>
> Sue & I still want to take a trip to the Moor, possibly in the fall of
> 2004.
>
>
>
> Mark Pepe
>
> http://pepeanddavidow.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: DARTMOOR EXCHANGE new info 12/1/03

From: catbead1 (libby@twcny.rr.com) | Date: 2003-12-02 04:48:59 UTC

I agree and will email you off line with more info.

cheers,
catbead 1

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Bob LaBelle"
wrote:
> Libby: Graham's ideas sound great to me. And I think we should
> respond by doing something similarly structured, if we can. That
> will take somebody's leadership, perhaps setting limits on the
> geometry of the package - log and stamp, and establishing, however
> loosely, some common, connecting theme. I'm concerned, tho, about
> the geography involved; if contributions come from all over the
> U.S., and their boxes are distributed among us, it will be a large
> task for any - certainly many - to complete the series. They won't
> have a like problem, if all our boxes are placed as a series in the
> relatively narrow confines of Dartmoor.
> I use the Strathmore 3 x 5 sketch pad for a log, so their proposed
> stamp will fit on mine, tho larger than most stamps encountered here.
>
> Bob / 'Cock o' the Trail'
>

Re: DARTMOOR EXCHANGE new info 12/1/03

From: mothermoo2001 (cstearns07@hotmail.com) | Date: 2003-12-02 12:23:41 UTC

>
> > We "would like to set out a (say) one-for-one box for your
> > contributors...and we thought a series to commemorate 400 years of
> > Letterboxing and the mutuality of the US and British boxing
spirit...."

I would love to take part in this exchange! Leader of the Pack