Andy Pastuszak
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What I collect: United States, Ukraine, Ireland
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Sept 25, 2014 23:57:29 GMT
In 2012, Ukraine issued this set of stamps for the 2012 London Olympics:  Since I am adding MICHEL numbers to my sheets, I'm getting ready to redo 2012. Quesiton I have in my head is, do I just have a spot for the se-tenant, or should there be a spot for the whole miniature sheet? |
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Ryan
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What I collect: If I have a catalogue for it, I collect it. And I have many catalogues ....
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Post by Ryan on Sept 26, 2014 0:56:42 GMT
I've often wondered if we collect what we do simply because there's a catalogue listing (or a stamp album) for it. I know I eagerly search out more detailed catalogues and I'm thrilled then to find stuff that's listed in my new book.
For example, Michel Specialized Germany has all kinds of weird stuff listed that leads to Germany collectors looking for this stuff. Every possible example of booklet stamp combinations is listed - stamp A next to stamp B, stamp A on top of stamp B, stamps A and B on top of stamps A and C, etc etc etc. And then they have their horizontal pairs of definitives. Some of the old Heuss stamps are outrageously expensive if you get two of them side by side in a pair, but are worth slightly more than nothing if they're one on top of the other. Who knows why they do it that way, but because that's the way they're listed in the catalogue, that's the way people collect them!
If Michel lists your Ukrainian stamps both as a complete sheet and as a block of 4, then I bet there's somebody who collects both (in both mint & used, at that ....). "If you build it, they will come ...." - if they list it, somebody will collect it! ha ha
To specifically deal with the matter of your issue shown here, I would bet that the entire minisheet would be collected by at least as many people as the block of 4, if not by more. If it were me, I'd be showing both on my album page.
Ryan
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rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues
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Post by rod222 on Sept 26, 2014 1:51:32 GMT
About 10 years ago, I bought a used part Hungarian collection, from a German fellow in an adjacent suburb, who collected Switzerland.
He showed me a Newspaper style sales catalogue that he regularly had mailed from Switzerland,
offering Swiss stamps of every conceivable fly speck. There were thousands and thousands of them.
If one is a 1 country collector, the depths one can go is mind boggling.
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firstfrog2013
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Sept 26, 2014 4:19:30 GMT
I may have gone a bit beyond I look for stuff not even listed, in anything I own at least.I dream about an automated system that would scan all my stamps and allow me to look at them magnified on my monitor without a lot of handling on my part.Maybe even putting them back into their mounts and back on the proper pages.I do enjoy flyspecking.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Sept 26, 2014 8:17:32 GMT
I may have gone a bit beyond I look for stuff not even listed, in anything I own at least.I dream about an automated system that would scan all my stamps and allow me to look at them magnified on my monitor without a lot of handling on my part.Maybe even putting them back into their mounts and back on the proper pages.I do enjoy flyspecking. Froggie, Canada is a VERY popular collecting discipline, have a hunt around, I am sure there will be privately produced fly specking Journals There are lots of collectors as you. Look for auctions that include "study" you often find pages of collectors that have done the work beforehand. Good Luck. Philately is an amazing Universe. Here is an example of one form of Australian specking......... there are other journal and stamp club specialists.  |
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Sept 27, 2014 3:48:49 GMT
So, here is the decision I have come to: If MICHEL designates the sheet with BLOCK number, whole thing gets mounted. If they don't, then just the se-tenant or individual stamp gets mounted, unless there are just too many varieties of se-tenants to do that with, as is the case with this sheet:  |
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tomiseksj
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What I collect: Worldwide stamps/covers, Cinderellas, Ohio Prepaid Sales Tax Receipts, U.S. WWII Ration ephemera
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 27, 2014 13:12:29 GMT
Personally, no matter what Michel or any other catalog editor decided, I wouldn't break the sheet.
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Sept 28, 2014 22:13:09 GMT
I decided to break the set. But I did it, because I wanted to, not because some catalogue publisher told me to.
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