Greetings from Lawrence kansas

Mitchell - Nice to see another longtime ebay board poster. Always love looking at your collection site.

Welcome to the forum, Mitchell!

Welcome, Mitchell.

Very welcome on board, Mitchell...your site is awesome!

That is one excellent effort.

Mitchell

Your on-line classical WW collection is pretty much the gold standard for us WW collectors. 

Welcome, and hope you will feel at home here. 

Thank you all much for the warm welcome!

PuzzleMan Good to see you here I'd wondered where you had run off to. It appears this board is quite new? Hopefully it will not tolerate any nasty trolls and we can have many a well rounded and fruitfull discussion. My Spain is kind of in a rut. I completed the first set of airs lately but other than that I'm not coming up with anything. I still think it is the most difficult European country to collect by far. Most of my Euros are at the 98-99% completion level. Spain on the other hand I 'm not sure if I could ever get it above 90% and that if I went to 2000. Probably have a couple pounds of dupes looking for a trading partner?

Hiya Dave Great to see you here. That seemed to be a pretty lonely outpost you held down for a long time in Uruguay. I'd look in every once in awhile but nothing was happening. I caanot remeber if you were collecting anything besides Japan and area?

Hi Jack, Thanks for the kind welcome. Note the Red dot above that stamp. It would be best for everyone to read the main page intro
to avoid any confusion. Also not all stamps shown are still in my collection. From time to time I sell off chunks if I have good backups to start over. French colonies and early Scandanavia are two areas where I had done much of that. Still the backups were nearly as good so it wasn't that big a change except for keys. I hate doing that but some times you get an offer you can't refuse and building a decent world wide collection with very limited funds is no "piece of cake"

ZuZu That is an interesting name and one that has considerable meaning to me. It is also related to my web name. You did not happen to pick it up in Egypt did you?

My main computer went dead on me a couple weeks ago and my backup has some very nasty bug that usually makes being on the web nearly impossible so I don't know how much interaction I can have here in the near future.

Mitch - My own Spain collection has kind of languished as well. The economy hasn't been kind to this household. My wife has been out of a regular job for about 3 years now and is only now getting back into the swing of things after taking time to go back to school and get her degree. She is starting a full time job this school year (YAY!), so things are looking up as of now. Haven't bought much in that span of time and actually had to sell a lot of my better items to "get by". It'll be a long way to go to get back to where I was. Been basically keeping busy soaking, sorting and organizing other non-Spanish stamps, and learning a lot along the way

Never could get use to the NEW ebay forum so I started looking for other alternatives. This one seems to have alot going for it that others don't, very user friendly. I think this board will grow into it's own and have a real good vibe.

Mitchell, 

My screen name is also my RL nickname.  It comes from my favorite film, "It's a Wonderful Life," and it's fitting - I found out long after adopting it that it's a diminutive form of Susan, which is my name.

I would love to hear about the Eqyptian connection.

Welcome to the forum Mitchell, your collection and website is very impressive! I hardly have time to keep my collection organized in my books let alone scan it and share it with everyone. A very respectable undertaking indeed!