Where in the philatelic world are you today?

I’ve been working through a 3kg German charity kiloware sack I recently purchased from Nordfrim. It’s pleasantly turned out to have more off paper than on. It’s going to fill plenty of holes, especially German areas and Switzerland.

Dale

Good work everyone! I’ll update the map every few days.

The map is anachronistic for my latest project: postmarks from the forerunners of French African colonies. GAB and ASI are marks for outposts that later became Gabon and Ivory Coast (Assinie). They were combined into the colony of "Cote D'Or et Gabon".

Rivieres du Sud is a postmark I have been seeking for a long time. It was a dependency of Senegal that later, after the conquest of interior kingdoms, became French Guinea.

I’ve been working on Norway.

WOW - Look at our map!  The Falkland Islands tag is there as it was the last country added…. 

I am stuck in Great Britain

Today, Mauritania.

A circuit book included the rare, unissued 99A, forcing me to convert my 1938-40 pages from Scott ordering (geared to my wantlist) to Maury. Completion of the set allows me to split it up by year of printing.

Gold Coast, and Togo occupation overprints.

Today I’m organizing Argentina.

I'm in Ghana, looking for places where people live.

Here's what I got for postmarks so far; I'm about ⅔ of the way through the Ghanaian hoard I extracted from the African Megamix a week or two ago.

Just a note about that city up on its own in the north: yeah, it's spelled Tamale. It's pronounced Tamale, too, except the accent's on the first syllable. Or that's what I think, anyway; IPA is brain science. Tamale is actually the core of the third largest metropolitan area in Ghana. It looks isolated now, but it was on several trading routes and was an important town in the Kingdom of Dagbon, which was there from maybe the 13th or 14th century up to the 20th. Even now, the hereditary rulers of Dagbon have important roles in society in the northern regions of Ghana and Togo.

As for the stamps themselves? I don't know yet. The mixture has given me a decent start on some nice definitive series that shouldn't be too hard to fill in with good used copies.

(Oh yeah. If you think my printing is bad - and if you do, you're right - you should see the damage I can do to script and handwriting of all kinds. Some day in the future, I'll typeset the place-names and locate them more precisely on the map. I ran this copy off as a first draft and didn't put a grid on it.)

Tonight will be going through Australia and Norfolk Island that I picked up yesterday, at least as long as the mounts I have left will last me. My wife is going to be doing Japan and Ireland.

France (where else?) made Vario labels for postage due issues 1943-46 and 1946-55. Onl;y missing one...

i was going to mount a page of Semeuse 25c blue.... but got side-tracked. (maybe tomorrow)

I’m starting to breakdown Greenland and Norway collections, and still doing oodles of USA.

Yesterday I acquired a cheap 5c Madagascar … not that I collect that country but it had a fine Railway TPO cancel. Lac - Alaotra to Moramanga  No 1.  I also bought a 1933 centenary of abolition of slavery in British Colonies from Sierra Leone 

However my focus has been back again in the Cape of Good Hope.

I am preparing my giveaway for tomorrow - Newfoundland

No real stamping as I have spent the night at the ER (emergency room) with Denise for "belly aches" - She has now returned at home and when she was discharged, the ER forgot to Fax the M.D.'s prescription (or simply did not do it !) at our Pharmacy - A problem I was happy to solve - not happy with them 
René