Introduction new forum member from Sweden
Jun 10, 2024 14:18:30 GMT
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Post by banditpeter on Jun 10, 2024 14:18:30 GMT
Hello all,
My name is Peter, I'm 58 years old and living in Stockholm, Sweden. I was collecting stamps as a child, but those days almost all the kids was, certainly the boys at least. When I was in my teens I caught other interests and found my way back in my twenties. I have also been collecting coins and bank notes now and then also but now it's all stamp collecting.
Anyway, I collect the whole world and aim to have as many different stamps as possible, now at about 120,000. Sure, some areas I find more interesting than others, I enjoy engraved stamps more and British and French colonies, especially in Africa. I am a member of the Swedish Philatelic Society and a local club "Solna Frimärks samlare förening".
I guess I'm a bit unorthodox as a stamp collector. I'm not in it to sell or make money. When I go through boxes with stamps for sale I don't look for value in money but in hours. I try to gather "How many hours of sorting and "cataloging" do I get out of it. So I want the boxes to be complete chaos, that way more sorting out for me to do. But of course I also want new stamps to my collection, which is still pretty easy and cheap to find. I do however find it hard to find stamps from, say, the new millennium, I guess the number of each stamp printed are decreasing. But the number of different stamps released is increasing.
Lately I've started buying the Leuchtturm (Lighthouse) pre-printed albums and find myself hooked to have all of those, which is both extremely expensive and taking up a whole lot of shelves. I'm almost more hooked on collecting those albums than the stamps that are supposed to fill them.
A question for all interested is: Do anyone know if someone else is collecting the Leuchtturm album pages and have already put together information on which areas exists and for which years. They discontinue collecting areas every year, back in the day when the hobby was much more widespread there were many more albums produced each year. I am in the process of listing what has been produced and am thinking of trying to get access to their archives but if someone has done that already there's no need for me to do it...
I am looking forward to many interesting discussions in the forum, please feel free to reply, especially about the Leuchtturm album pages!
Best regards,
Peter
My name is Peter, I'm 58 years old and living in Stockholm, Sweden. I was collecting stamps as a child, but those days almost all the kids was, certainly the boys at least. When I was in my teens I caught other interests and found my way back in my twenties. I have also been collecting coins and bank notes now and then also but now it's all stamp collecting.
Anyway, I collect the whole world and aim to have as many different stamps as possible, now at about 120,000. Sure, some areas I find more interesting than others, I enjoy engraved stamps more and British and French colonies, especially in Africa. I am a member of the Swedish Philatelic Society and a local club "Solna Frimärks samlare förening".
I guess I'm a bit unorthodox as a stamp collector. I'm not in it to sell or make money. When I go through boxes with stamps for sale I don't look for value in money but in hours. I try to gather "How many hours of sorting and "cataloging" do I get out of it. So I want the boxes to be complete chaos, that way more sorting out for me to do. But of course I also want new stamps to my collection, which is still pretty easy and cheap to find. I do however find it hard to find stamps from, say, the new millennium, I guess the number of each stamp printed are decreasing. But the number of different stamps released is increasing.
Lately I've started buying the Leuchtturm (Lighthouse) pre-printed albums and find myself hooked to have all of those, which is both extremely expensive and taking up a whole lot of shelves. I'm almost more hooked on collecting those albums than the stamps that are supposed to fill them.
A question for all interested is: Do anyone know if someone else is collecting the Leuchtturm album pages and have already put together information on which areas exists and for which years. They discontinue collecting areas every year, back in the day when the hobby was much more widespread there were many more albums produced each year. I am in the process of listing what has been produced and am thinking of trying to get access to their archives but if someone has done that already there's no need for me to do it...
I am looking forward to many interesting discussions in the forum, please feel free to reply, especially about the Leuchtturm album pages!
Best regards,
Peter
to TSF! Thanks for the nice introduction.