Strange person?? - Dartmoor Letterboxing Archive

Mad moorland muppet

2006-06-03 19:06:55

Been out today around Feather tor and Barnhill - met a fellow boxer out there who would not take copies of some of the stamps as they were WOM. Would only take 'proper boxes from the catalogue'!!
Strange but true.
Lovely day out there though - got 20 boxes and didn't even get as far as Heckwood or Pew tor.

fabled Ferrit

2006-06-03 19:22:28

There's no accounting for taste. I'm always glad to find any!

Up on Yar Tor today very warm. Lots of stones moved about as if there had been boxes behind them but nothing was there. Still found a few. and a yellow stamp pad that someone had dropped.

Anonymous

2006-06-03 19:33:17

i strugle to find any boxes that are registered. been out today looking for boxed in the catalogue and could not get any ..........

Nik - KOTM

2006-06-03 19:36:48

Well there are all sorts of characters out there - some eccentric some "normal"

I take what I can get - usually I can sort of recognise the WOM boxes so I know what they are - but saying that - I cant recognise all of them

NUMBER 70

2006-06-04 16:33:06

As I have mentioned in a previous post we found a few people at the meet who did not want our stamp if it did not have a number to it.

One interesting question when did boxes start getting numbered?,
what did these people do before they where numbered?

may be the older boxers amongst us could expand

wooiee

2006-06-04 21:59:06

good question i'd like to know when the first number was issued ???
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cranmere

2006-06-04 23:59:07

If I find a box I collect the stamp whether or not it's listed officially.

ghostbusters&mountain

2006-06-05 22:02:04

Just been looking back through old catalogues and first box in book with number was Watern Tor and book was published may 1983. hope this helps

NUMBER 70

2006-06-06 17:27:00

Cheers thanks for that

wooiee

2006-06-09 23:54:18

what number was first "1" ???
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Nik - KOTM

2006-06-10 07:32:07

Well when I went to school the number 1 came first... before any other number... unless the government has changed education again and I missed it....

NUMBER 70

2006-06-11 15:38:52

err I thought it would be 0 zero 0 1 2 3 .....n

Does that mean Cranmere pool is 0

wooiee

2006-06-11 19:41:13

i was always taught first was number 1. i thought cranmere pool was first

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Nik - KOTM

2006-06-12 07:08:11

Cranmere Pool is supposed to be the first box - and you would have thought that it would have been first in the catalogue too.
But it seems whoever produced the first catalogue decided something else would be number one

Ki Adi Mundi

2006-09-13 07:47:37

Cranmere Pool is No.11 I think, i thought the other original boxes were blown up or something like that anywho - could do with finding the truth about this...

Nik - KOTM

2006-09-15 19:23:16

Did you know there isn't a number for 0 in the roman numbers system

The Lost Legionnaire

2006-09-15 20:33:19

In the 1990 catalogue, Cranmere Pool was No12.

Fulchet

2007-01-20 21:19:39

Hi Ellis-Missin

Was that your box I found on Pew Tor today?

I'm useless with clues as well. I've managed bits of charity walks over the years (completed two in full I think) but otherwise I just scavange and then look in the book afterwards to see if any names match. I do try, but just seem to get lost when I come across other stamps ... lol.