tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,874 
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 2, 2023 11:28:06 GMT
As written in the 'Happy New year' tread I have started a big project. And I make this tread as a follow up to that project. I'm thinking of downsizing my collection and get control over everything I have. To give a picture of the size of it, I have about 17meters of shelfs with stock book, 3/4 unorganized. I have 4 big moving boxes with 'unknown' material. This is the result of 5 years hoarding. The plan is to go trough everything, collect each country separately in envelopes before I organize county by country in suitable stock books. Then list them for sale at Colnect. There will be redundant stamps in this process and some of that I will have giveaway's here at the forum. I also plan to sell my main collection from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. They are nearly complete up to year 2000, only missing most the expensive stamps + some new stamps. I have no pleasure in these collections any longer, the hunt is over. These I will sell in a Norwegian action company (Skanfil.no) I will find (and have found) some classical areas that I will collect and go deep into. The time as world wide collector is over. But the main focus the next year will be to get control. I will try to post regularly (with images) in this tread for those who are interested in this for some familiar madness that we love.  |
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cjoprey
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Scanning stamps for my website...
Posts: 1,504
What I collect: Belgium (predominantly), British Commonwealth (older ones), WW (whatever comes my way...)
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Post by cjoprey on Jan 2, 2023 18:48:00 GMT
Best of luck with all of this Torbjorn tobben63 - sounds like quite a challenge!  |
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Cephus
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Posts: 169
What I collect: U.S. 1847-1993, Australia, China, New Zealand
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Post by Cephus on Jan 2, 2023 19:05:30 GMT
I did that a couple of years ago. Last time we moved, I had to go through the entire house and decide what needed to go and what could be gotten rid of and there was a shocking amount of stuff that we had no interest in and didn't need. Among that was tons and tons and tons of random stamps, just a vast accumulation of things we didn't collect, things that were extras, things that were going to live in boxes forever and we'd never look at ever again. Those things didn't make the move. They were all given away to younger collectors, clubs, etc. The same went for books (thousands donated to the local library), etc. It was a mass decluttering and now, I refuse to go back. I collect only what I want, I don't buy random crap off eBay, etc. My collection still grows but the mess associated with it doesn't. Anything that I buy, it gets put away as soon as possible. Nothing piles up. I know what I have and where it is.
I'd never, ever go back.
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gbcc
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Posts: 1,067
What I collect: GB First day covers, event covers and postmarks, GB Slogans
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Post by gbcc on Jan 2, 2023 19:18:59 GMT
tobben63 - Wishing you the best for your 2023 project Geoff (GBCC)
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stanley64
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Posts: 1,979
What I collect: Canada, USA, Netherlands, Portugal & Colonies, Antarctic Territories and anything that catches my eye...
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Post by stanley64 on Jan 3, 2023 10:37:50 GMT
I will find (and have found) some classical areas that I will collect and go deep into. The time as world wide collector is over.
Welcome to the wonderful world of philately tobben63 :-)
Care to share? What as some of those classics that have sparked an interest in their study? What are some of those others that you might be considering?
Curious minds are interested...
Have fun and happy collecting!
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,874
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 3, 2023 11:05:42 GMT
stanley64 I will come back to that later when I have taken some pictures. But I can say that I have found stuff that I didn't know I had purchased.
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
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What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 3, 2023 17:59:56 GMT
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,874
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 3, 2023 18:29:30 GMT
Next on the bench, Norway with some nice old Posthorn stamps. Skilling and Øre.   A good bunch of duplicates.  Some nice postmarks  And an entry ticket to Interjunex 1972  |
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Post by dgdecker on Jan 4, 2023 4:31:34 GMT
Making progress so far.
i have not even look at my stamp “hoard “ yet.
too Many other things I must do.
David
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
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What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 7, 2023 22:03:49 GMT
I did some heavy sorting today. 238 gram stamps.  Sorted in country piles. 
And then into envelopes.  |
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
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What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 9, 2023 7:34:22 GMT
I need more of those boxes to have envelopes in. I wonder where this should end. I have not started on those stock books I have yet.
But it is working. Yesterday a friend visited me and we where talking about a Irish stamp he was struggling with (phosphor or not). Then I reached out for the four envelopes with Irish stamps I had and in one of them we found the stamp he was talking about. I had o idea that I had it, but as I now have my stamps in envelopes in one place, it is possible to find what I'm looking for. This will of course be better when they are back and organized in stock books.
Work in progress!
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
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What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 15, 2023 17:18:28 GMT
I have done good progress during the weekend. Now I have emptied two stock books with Machin's! I don't collect Machin so I will give them away. Someone on this forum will get a big free bunch of machin some day soon.  Edit I split it in two (because of weight and postage), so there will be two members getting a suprice. just below 100gram in each package. |
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
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What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 29, 2023 4:41:56 GMT
The status so far (January 29-2023). I think I have managed to find 80-90% of my stamps that not yet have been organized by me. I have emptied a large amount of small stamp envelopes in various old archives, a lot of stamp cards and some stables of stack books. Empty stock books  Empty stamp cards.  Now all the stamps are sorted in C6 envelopes with country name. Some countries have several envelopes. This has taken me approximately 135 hours to do, working several hours every day.   |
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renden
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What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Jan 29, 2023 14:02:53 GMT
Great work, tobben63 - I also do not collect Machins  René |
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hdm1950
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Posts: 1,886
What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Jan 29, 2023 14:34:41 GMT
tobben63 When I see your project I do not feel I have too many stamps after all. I cannot help but think that one day someone will acquire all those envelopes and think ‘I must put all these stamps in stock books to see them better.’
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
Posts: 1,874
What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 29, 2023 14:56:02 GMT
tobben63 When I see your project I do not feel I have too many stamps after all. I cannot help but think that one day someone will acquire all those envelopes and think ‘I must put all these stamps in stock books to see them better.’ He he, next step is the project is to get them organised into stock books. It has already started. |
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stainlessb
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What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 29, 2023 15:18:47 GMT
nice bit of progress and I see a sale on stockbooks LOL
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