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Purpose Of This Section

I am looking for additional items for my collections and I may be interested in selling or trading periodicals like Arizona and the West, Arizona Highways, Journal of Arizona History; DeGazia items; and Chrome and Modern postcards.� I would love to communicate with others about these collections as well as your collections.

Arizona and the West:

We have a complete collection of the journal, Arizona and the West.� These are in very good condition and run from 1959 to 1986.

Arizona Highways:

We have a collection of the magazine Arizona Highways, which include the following hard-to-find issues: September 1934; February, April, May, July, September, October, November and December 1936; March, April, May, September, October and December 1937; May, June, July, August, September, October and November 1938; and 1939 to the present, except for February 1940.� Most of these are in real good condition, many in bound volumes.

DeGrazia Items:

We have a large collection of DeGrazia figurines, plates, books, magnets, videos & tapes, calendars and many miscellaneous items, including a two-of-a kind mold set showing how Goebel makes a DeGrazia figurine. Many of these items we are considering selling or trading in the future.

Journal of Arizona History:

We have a collection of the, Journal of Arizona History which started in 1960.� We have all volumes except the four volumes of 1960 and volume, 1 and 3, 1961.

Postage Stamps:

I have been collecting stamps since I was quite young.� I got interested when my Dad gave me a collection of stamps that his father, Ambrose Ely Ring had collected.� He had many letters and stamps from all over the world because he was in the mining business with ASARCO, and traveled quite a bit with the company.� While young I collected United States and World stamps.� In the 1990s I decided to trade all my world stamps and started concentrating on just United States stamps and related covers, converting as many as I could from used stamps to "mint," unused stamps.

In 2006 I completely redid all the collections and created my own album pages and presentations for my various collections.

Below are the stamp collections that I will share with you.

Arizona Covers
The History Of Arizona Through United States Postage Stamps

Postcards, Arizona:

I have been collecting Arizona postcards since the early 1990s.� I stopped for about six years, but have recently started collecting again after organizing and updating my collection.� The collection consists of over 19,316 different Arizona postcards including over 4,456 pre-1930 and white border, 2,551 real photo, 1,716 linen, 7,460 chrome and 3,113 modern postcards.� I now collect only the pre 1930, white border, real photo and linen Arizona postcards.

Below are the postcards that I will share with you.

Real Photo, Section 1, A to F
Real Photo, Section 2, G to Q
Real Photo, Section 3, R to Z
Linen, Section 1, A to F
Linen, Section 2, G to Indians
Linen, Section 3, Indian Apache to Petrified Forest
Linen, Section 4, Phoenix to Superstition Mountain
Linen, Section 5, Tempe to Z
Pre 1930, Section 1, A to C
Pre 1930, Section 2,� Bisbee, Lowell, Warren
Pre 1930, Section 3, D to F
Pre 1930, Section 4, G to part Grand Canyon
Pre 1930, Section 5, part Grand Canyon to H
Pre 1930, Section 6, I to M
Pre 1930, Section 7,� N to part Phoenix
Pre 1930, Section 8, part Phoenix to P
Pre 1930, Section 9, R to S
Pre 1930, Section 10, T to V
Pre 1930, Section 11, W to Z

Postmarks, Arizona:

I have been collecting Arizona State and Territorial postmarks since the early 1990s.� In 2006 I redid all the collections and created my own album pages and presentations for these collections.� I also traded all my State postmarks except those from Cochise and Santa Cruz Counties and a town called Arivaca.� I kept all my Territorial postmarks, but now only collect from Cochise, Santa Cruz and the original Pima County in Arizona.� I also have an Arizona Railway postmark collection.

Below are the postmark collections that I will share with you.

Arizona Railway Postmarks
State Postmarks, Volume 1
State Postmarks, Volume 2
Territorial Postmarks, Volume 1, Indexes, Information, A to G
Territorial Postmarks, Volume 2, H to K
Territorial Postmarks, Volume 2A, L to O
Territorial Postmarks, Volume 3, P to End
Territorial Postmarks, Volume 4, Cochise & Original Pima - A to E
Territorial Postmarks, Volume 5, Original Pima� - F to Z & Santa Cruz


 

Do you have any related documents, photos, or personal histories that you could share with us? If so, please contact:
Al Ring ringal@comcast.net

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