Luxembourg: Stamps

1942-44 Duchess of Charlotte. Now to go find the rest of the set. Yikes, Scott #234, the 20fr is 35c mint, but 17.50 used.

This lady is $5.50 on Stamps2Go. Two other copies are available at a higher cost.

I was remiss in not adding the link.

There is a fly in the ointment, the 20f only comes as a cancelled pair

www.ebay.com/itm/LUXEMBOURG-SCOTT-219A-223B-7-225-227-3-229-234-6-CHARLOTTE-ISSUE-USED-/221350740928?pt=Stamps_World_Stamps&hash=item33898843c0

Admin /Mods.  Is it possible to meld this with Brian's Luxembourg : Stamps?  
we seem to have two Folders.  Apologies.

Stamps from "The Stamp Forum" Auction    from Ram

1977



1981 Semi Postal



1985  Semi Postal

1916
Steiner Page 6
Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide



1921
Steiner page 7
Grand Duchess Charlotte

BC

Brian,
in reciprocation of the Azerbaijan freebies you sent me,
here are my Luxembourg Duplicates,  take your pick
Offer open for 5 days, then they go on ebay for $1

Oops..except the 50c with the SON Pmk 

1936
Steiner page 12

Nice surprise to find in a group of early Luxembourg I purchased a few years ago. Not bad - 3 relatively good margins.

More pages from early Luxembourg (1882-1893 Official Stamps):

There are some great-looking stamps there, Peter, I congratulate you!

By the way, I just paid a closer bit of attention to your TSF avatar:  is it, in fact, a copy of the elusive Scott #62a, perf 11.5, 20-centime brown?  My old brown-cover Scott International album (published around 1930) shows the brown color variety as an error, but in the 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue, it is simply listed as a color variety.

Anyway, if I have spotted that correctly, it is a beautiful copy that you have, and it makes a great avatar!

Edit:  I found that you had already commented about your avatar in a thread about Classic Canadian stamps below, so I will leave this post in place, since it seems more relevant here in the Luxembourg thread.

thestampforum.boards.net/post/56614/thread

You mentioned that acquiring this stamp was costly.  The 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue listed it as $110 MH, $190 MNH, and $300 Used.  Based on what you paid (no need to state the price if you prefer not to), how do these values from 10 years ago compare to current market value, in your opinion?

Further to the post in Afghanistan by blaamand ... here is my complete collection off pre-Adolphe Luxembourg. I just can't justify spending so much for so little now. I have far too many other things I need (er, ah... want!) besides those stamps. If I come across them, fine, but I am just not actively looking for them. Same goes with post 1983 issues. If I get them in an auction lot, fine, but that's it. But Adolphe-1983 is almost complete. Just a few issues to get.

BTW, Adolphe is a perfin (DL - Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks) that didn't quite fit in on his page. So I just stuck him there.

Wow! Nice report.

And they said computers would cut paper usage & create things quicker! Ha! Paper usage sky-rocketed with computers, and time? I never have enough, and I don't work anymore!

I love that report. I just have a simple basic report for mine, with some manually filled in. I like yours though. Something else to work on when my mind wanders!

Just discovered this thread.

LOVE Luxembourg (the town, the country. the stamps!)

I first visited in 1970 or 1971 (as a newbie 11-year-old stamp collector)  on a field trip from school just for the day.  I remember our bus stopped briefly at the main post office and I bought a few definitives from the automat and mailed my postcards.  The casements, a few local sights, lunch and that was the "tour".

Next time I visited was flying into Luxembourg on Icelandic Air from Nassau, Bahamas (I lived in Florida) in 1974.  My first solo long-distance flight at age 15.  More stamps bought from somewhere in the hilly capital.  Aunt and uncle from nearby Cologne picked me up and again a short stroll through town.

Trip 3 was in the summer of 1982 backpacking (with a two-month EurailPass) for a few days I rented what must have been the cheapest flea-bag room for maybe ten dollars.  More money saved for stamps, again from the main post office.  Tried to learn some Letzeburgesch (local dialect/language) from some friendly natives.  Got lost in the meandering streets, many bridges and gorgeous vistas.  I also picked up the 1930's Princess Charlotte souvenir sheet, one of my all-time favorites which I carefully packed and hauled all over the railways of Europe and eventually brought back home.

Of course I still have my beautiful Princess--sheetlet proudly in my collection!

Fast forward to 2004 when I towed my wife and son (and Linda our travel friend) yet again we visited Luxembourg (my fourth trip there).  Only spent the afternoon as we were enroute to Belgium.  What a change in the city!  Many more handsome modern buildings set among the treelined avenues, blending in well with the older architectural beauties.  No time for stamp acquisitions but by this time I'd discovered stamp auctions--traditional as well as online.  

Last trip (number five for me) to the city was in 2014 or 2015, again with my wife, son, and Linda who also collects stamps, much less emphatically so than me or the TSF gang :-)

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By this time I have purchased, over the years, about eight or nine different Luxembourg collections, in various stages of completion, and various album manufacturers.  Most were picked up in online auction lots and probably cost just pennies per stamp.  One collection I recall spending a couple hundred dollars for, years ago, but the others were less extensive.

Less expensive as well.

Every few weeks I puddle around and consolidate the nine Luxembourg albums I have.  One day I will likely have it done, and since the stamps are relatively inexpensive there are probably only a hundred or so I think I will need for completion.  At the rate I'm going I will be 80 years old before things look even close to completion--I will keep TSF updated on progress....

Ahh, Luxembourg--the city, the country, (and yes, the stamps) reminds me of a beautiful love-interest/girlfriend/elegant (Princess?) who is never quite within reach, alluring and tantalizing....yet I know I likely never will woo her (or complete that collection!).

Talk about a fixation with Luxembourg, I am definitely a candidate......

--Jim Wentzell
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