Happy New Year! Share your 2023 Philatelic Resolutions!

I am going to work harder on getting my stamp room organized. I start on it and then find myself working on something else so it's not getting anywhere.

This is me. I have been trying to organize my office for months now and getting nowhere.

I resolve to get all my Cape triangles identified , the best ones mounted and written up on pages as a presentable exhibit, and those of lesser quality sold or disposed of in some way ……. By the end of January.

This year I'd like to get my entire collection digitised... And maybe make a start on clearing out the duplicates.

I have started a big project!

I have for some years tried to gain control over what I have and where it is. (with no big luck). When I have organized all what I have from one country, the next week I find more and so it goes on. 

This year I have a new approach. First I will go trough all boxes I have and find all envelope archives that over the years have come my way. I will move all stamps into bigger envelopes, and sort on Continent/ country. When that is done I will go trough 70-100 stock books with unorganized stamps, empty them and put the stamps in the right country envelope. ( Some countries need several envelopes) When all this is done, I can start sorting one and one country without risking to find a new bunch of stamps from the same country. This will take time, and some countries will never make it in my system, but then I can sell the envelopes as is. 

Here is an image from the start yesterday. Now I will go and find some more in the boxes at the back of the StampCave

I hear you David. My wish is to be more focused onto being focused. Good luck with that. 

One thing I want to do in 2023 is to explore philately from "dead countries".

I purchased a book before Christmas related to these dead countries. I was fascinated by the history of these lost countries and states who tried to become a society of their own!



I have just finished my Biafra collection; the next one, I believe, will be "Thurn und Taxis". This is not a "where" but rather a "who". Thurn and Taxis is in fact a wealthy Italian family that has contributed to the organization of the postal system in Germany and other European countries. I'm still learning about them, but still fascinating!

Ha! Ha! Another side track from my Canadian collection!

classicalstamps, Great presentation page. I really like your work!

Each year, I make the same resolutions: to annotate my collection, write down the stories and historical context for each page, and to start exhibiting.

What I actually accomplish is incremental: a few more finds here and there and before I know it I have almost finished a whole country or era or topic or other category.

So, I have filled out enough collecting areas that full annotation is now possible and not just aspirational. As for possible exhibits, I have gone deep enough into a few areas (Morocco, Ethiopia, Thurn and Taxis) that I can try some small exhibits, especially now that one of the regional bourses (Merchantville, NJ) will set up boards for them.