Canada's Newest Full Time Dealer and Blogger

Welcome brixtonchrome,
I look forward to read your articles and other posts although your specialized area is far from my main collecting interest's.

Yes, indeed, welcome to TSF, brixtonchrome ! Interesting site name.... anything on that which you can share?

I admire your courage in giving up your conventional job and becoming a full-time professional philatelist. It is something I dreamed of doing, but never had the courage to leave science and engineering behind. Now retirement is catching up to me!

Anyway, welcome, and I look forward to seeing some posts related to your blog!

-Chris (aka Beryllium Guy )

Welcome   to TSF. Am sure we will see your contributions and knowledge. Already have bought from you and it was 1st class !!

René

Welcome to TSF. Looking forward to reading your articles.

Hi BC, and welcome to the forum. I would love to see a few British West Africa covers, if you are taking requests.

Welcome to the World's Greatest stamp forum.

Wow, just wow! I am touched by the warm welcome that has been extended here. I guess I'd better get to work. I'm thinking I will probably share my first post next week. I've got it written, but I'm tied up this week trying to get my business plan ready for presentation to Business Developement Bank of Canada.

To answer a few of your questions:

1. I came up with the name Brixton Chrome about 15 years ago - long before I left my job. I wanted a catchy sounding name that didn't have the word stamp in it, or philatelics, or my own name, as I wanted to develop a marketable brand. I liked the fact that Warren Buffet's company was called Berkshire-Hathaway and was influenced by that. I know, I know, that sounds horribly pretentious, but I actually do have a long term vision, which is to become one of the larger dealers out there and to really promote the hobby by writing as much as I can and getting it in front of as many non-collectors and collectors as possible. The detailed stuff is for you folks, but plenty of people out there could become stamp collectors if it presented properly. I've heard a lot of complaints over the years about the younger generations only being interested in their phones. But to me this just means that the key is to get beautiful stamps (early and modern) into scrollable, picture rich websites that kids can scroll through when they are bored and looking at their phones. That's all.

2. That brings me to my second point, which is that to execute my vision that I've had in my head for 40+ years, I cannot be part time. It just doesn't work, because there is so much that has to be done to achieve it. I've been at it for 3 years now and living in poverty, but now I know how the business works, and I know what I need to do going forward, which is why I have prepared a new business plan.

3. I'd be happy to show some British West Africa covers. I have over 50,000 covers from Nigeria, so if you tell me what areas or time periods you want to see, I will be happy to post either to this forum or in an e-mail (I believe I gave permission for the admin to share my e-mail).

4. My writing schedule has been pretty consistent for the past 3 years, except for the past few months, because I have been building my website, which is now finished, so it should be more consistent from February on. At the moment, I am writing one Canada post each week and I will resume Nigeria in a few weeks or so. I'm also going to be writing for the Canadian Philatelist starting next month. So I have a pretty full schedule.

My first article, which I will share next week will be my overview of the 1972-1978 Caricature Issue of Canada. I expect to be writing for about 6 months or so on this issue to cover all the detailed aspects. I just finished my year long series on the 1967-73 Centennial Issue, which numbered 59 posts and then just finished the commemoratives from 1967-1972, which has been about 12 posts or so.

So, thanks again!!

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