Post by paul1 on Apr 15, 2020 21:06:29 GMT
so this is why I need to form proper albums - I started by collecting almost everything - and 'everything' equates to too much, so I have stamps coming out of my pores 
- and currently they all live in stock books, so apologies that the pix show simply a jumble of issues, and are at the wrong scale to see much detail. If anyone did want to comment on anything in particular, do shout, and I'll do best to provide a blown up image.
These pix are just a few of my bits and pieces that may be of interest.
the early Oz issues are of course low values, and almost all are used, but I like these things - again it's the 'history' aspect that appeals - a world long gone, but not forgotten - plus possible link might be that the U.K. sent many of her miscreants there.
the U.K. George V definitive blocks are unused - I could get a real passion for blocks of four - but the older high values consume money like blotting paper, so as usual I can afford only the lower values - I'm a fan of definitives, perhaps more so than commemoratives.
With the Maltese issues, it's back to the blocks of four - I love the colour, and somehow Malta sounds romantic - perhaps I was thinking of Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
The U.K. early 1950s Dorothy Wilding portrait definitives, are popular with collectors - the black graphite lines on the reverse of some lower values were apparently the precursor to phosphor lines, and I think the first attempt at mechanical separation of 1st and 2nd class. In addition to Wilding's central portrait of E.R. II, there are miniature floral additions around the head, and I was surprised to see that these floral bits on 1/- and 1/3d. values were designed by Edmund Dulac - famous earlier in the C20 for illustrating coffee table books with fantasy tales in the style of Arabian Nights - the golden age of book illustration. Much later the U.K. definitives became the well known Machin portrait, with vast numbers of varieties and collected avidly, though not something that grabs me in the same way as earlier definitives.
Finally, the V. 1d. reds and 2d. blues are a must if you collect G.B. Both stamps have values dependent on their margins and plate Nos., and sometimes their cancellations, and I see that there are members here who are vastly well informed on such things. Cancellations often incorporate a 1, 2 or three digit No., for which there are listings where the origin of posting can be deciphered. Stamps are perhaps at a low currently, and reds can often be bought for little cost, and make for an interesting subject.
Anyway, presumably everyone knows all this, so apologies if boring, but I'm trying to rack up my postings:-)
cheers
Paul1
- and currently they all live in stock books, so apologies that the pix show simply a jumble of issues, and are at the wrong scale to see much detail. If anyone did want to comment on anything in particular, do shout, and I'll do best to provide a blown up image.These pix are just a few of my bits and pieces that may be of interest.
the early Oz issues are of course low values, and almost all are used, but I like these things - again it's the 'history' aspect that appeals - a world long gone, but not forgotten - plus possible link might be that the U.K. sent many of her miscreants there.
the U.K. George V definitive blocks are unused - I could get a real passion for blocks of four - but the older high values consume money like blotting paper, so as usual I can afford only the lower values - I'm a fan of definitives, perhaps more so than commemoratives.
With the Maltese issues, it's back to the blocks of four - I love the colour, and somehow Malta sounds romantic - perhaps I was thinking of Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
The U.K. early 1950s Dorothy Wilding portrait definitives, are popular with collectors - the black graphite lines on the reverse of some lower values were apparently the precursor to phosphor lines, and I think the first attempt at mechanical separation of 1st and 2nd class. In addition to Wilding's central portrait of E.R. II, there are miniature floral additions around the head, and I was surprised to see that these floral bits on 1/- and 1/3d. values were designed by Edmund Dulac - famous earlier in the C20 for illustrating coffee table books with fantasy tales in the style of Arabian Nights - the golden age of book illustration. Much later the U.K. definitives became the well known Machin portrait, with vast numbers of varieties and collected avidly, though not something that grabs me in the same way as earlier definitives.
Finally, the V. 1d. reds and 2d. blues are a must if you collect G.B. Both stamps have values dependent on their margins and plate Nos., and sometimes their cancellations, and I see that there are members here who are vastly well informed on such things. Cancellations often incorporate a 1, 2 or three digit No., for which there are listings where the origin of posting can be deciphered. Stamps are perhaps at a low currently, and reds can often be bought for little cost, and make for an interesting subject.
Anyway, presumably everyone knows all this, so apologies if boring, but I'm trying to rack up my postings:-)
cheers
Paul1
I for one enjoyed reading your thoughts and that's whats makes this forum a great place - to share thoughts and find inspiration from others. Lovely stamps and blocks-of-4. I also collect blocks, but I just keep what comes to me at random, don't actively purchase them. Well, there's always an exception from the rule now and then, some blocks are so nice I cannot resist.
