Whatcha Been Stamping?

Poodle Mum The 6p is on a white limp paper.I'm totally not qualified to judge if its a reprint.After looking at your holdings I went and found this one as a BIN.Was feeling guilty neglecting poor old Nova Scotia. I'm really hoping to move on from the Large Queens soon.Thre are a couple more Pence issues in transit.

If the paper is hard, it's a reprint. It's definitely not an original - I looked for any bluish tinge in the scan before asking and I didn't see any.

If the paper is not hard (as you mentioned), it's a very nice forgery but I'm inclined to believe it's a reprint. The "hard paper" would not be sturdy - think more in terms of the cent issues. If it's really limp like an original on bluish paper, it's a forgery. Still quite a nice addition. The bright colour of the dark green leans towards a forgery. Not a bad thing thing though - forgeries fetch high numbers nowadays. There are some that can easily fetch $200, depending on the forger, quality and which stamp. Can you post it in the NS section? I'm intrigued to find out if it's a forgery and if so, who it may be. My collection took a lot of patience and years. There is another shade variety of #6 that I've never seen and I don't think I'll ever see a #7 available.

The one part of my Canada collection that is in sad condition are the large and small queens. I've very few of them. The rest is coming along quite nicely albeit my 3 pence beaver would be considered a space filler by some, I'd consider it a step up from a space filler - simply good condition. Definitely not the best.

I'm having difficulty with my early Baden rouletted. There are some that are in relatively good condition but Baden roulette issues are hard to find in anything more than space filler/ reasonably good. They'll have a place in my album regardless but it would be nice to have some copies that look more decent. Oh well, it's a start.

I started on creating an inventory file for KGVI issues.

Aden
Antigua
Ascension
Australia
Bahamas
Bahawalpur (see Pakistan)
Bahrain
Barbados
Barwani (see Indian States)
Basutoland
B.C.O.F. (Japan)
Bechuanaland
Bermuda
Bhopal (see Indian States)
Bijawar (see Indian States)
B. M. A. (Malaya)
B. M. A. (North Borneo)
British Commonwealth Occupation Force
British Guiana
British Honduras
British Occupation of Former Italian
British P.O.'s In Morocco
British Solomon Islands
British Somaliland
Brunei
Brunei (Japanese Occupation)
Bundi (see Indian States)
Burma
Burma (Japanese Occupation)
Canada
Cayman Islands
Ceylon
Cbamba (see Indian States)
Channel Islands
Charkhari (see Indian States)
Cochin (see Indian SUtes)
Cook Islands
Cyprus
Cyrenaica (tee M.B.F.)
Dodecanese Islands (see M.E.F.)
Dominica
Dubai (see Muscat)
B. A. F. (East Africa Forces)
Egypt. Now transferred to Part VIII of
the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue
Eire
Eritrea (B.M.A.)
Eritrea (M.B.F.)
Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands Dependencies
Fiji
Gambia
Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Gold Coast
Graham Land
Great Britain
Great Britain (Control Letters)
Grenada
Guernsey
Gwalior (see Indian States)
Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Japanese Occupation)
Hyderabad (see Indian State*)
Idar
India
Indian Convention States
Indian States
Indore (see Indian States)
Iraq. Now transferred to Part VIII of the
Stanley Gibbons Catalogue
Ireland (see Eire)
Italian Somaliland (see M.B.F.)
Jaipur (see Indian States)
Jamaica
Japan, British Commonwealth Occupation Force
Japanese Occupation of Brunei
Japanese Occupation of Burma
Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong
Japanese Occupation of Kelantan
Japanese Occupation of Malaya
Japanese Occupation of North Borneo
Japanese Occupation of Sarawak
Jasdan
Jersey
Jind (see Indian States)
Jobore (see Malaya)
Jordan
Kathiri State of Seiyun
Kedah (see Malaya)
Kelantan [see Malaya)
Kelantan (Japanese Occupation)
Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika
Kishangarh
Kuwait
Leeward Islands
Malacca (see Malaya)
Malaya (Federation)
Malaya (Japanese Occupation)
Maldive Islands
Malta
Mauritius
M. E. F. (Middle East Forces)
Montserrat
Morocco (British Poet Offices)
Morvi
Mukalla
Muscat
Nabha (see Indian SUtes)
Nauru
Negri Sembilan (set Malaya)
Nepal. Now transferred to Part VIII of the
Stanley Gibbons Catalogue
Newfoundland
New Guinea
New Hebrides
New Zealand
Nigeria
Niue (see New Zealand)
NorfolK Island
North Borneo
North Borneo (Japanese Occupation)
Northern Rhodesia
Nyasaland Protectorate
Orchha (see Indian States)
Pahang (see Malaya)
Pakistan
Palestine
Papua
Patlala (fee Indian SUtes)
Penang (tee Malaya)
Petak (see Malaya)
Perils (see Malaya)
Pitcairn Iilands
Qu'alti State of Shlhr and Mnkalla
St. Helena
St. KitU-Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Samoa
Sarawak
Sarawak (Japanese Occupation)
Seiyun
Selangor (tee Malaya)
Seychelles
Shihr and Mukalla
Sierra Leone
Singapore (fee Malaya)
Somalia (British Occupation)
Somaliland Protectorate
Soruth (fee Indian States)
South Africa
Southern Rhodesia
South Georgia
South Orkneys
South Shetlands
South West Africa
Straits Settlements (fee Malaya)
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanganyika-Kenya-Uganda
Tangier (fee Morocco)
Tokelau Islands
Tonga
Transjordan (see Jordan)
Travancore (tee Indian States)
Trengganu (fee Malaya)
Trinidad and Tobago
Tripolitania (B.M.A.)
Tripolitania (M.E.F.)
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda-Kenya-Tanganyika
Union of South Africa
Virgin Islands
Western Samoa (fee Samoa)
Zanzibar

Ahh - a 3p genuine - not too shabby. Good stuff Mr. Frog ❤

While today was only a boring day mounting those couple stamps posted, it was a banner day for bidding.To my surprise I actually finally won a #63 as well as a couple other lots that looked hopeful.The wallet took a hit but I'm happy.Scan on arrival.

So today's trip to the P.O. yielded these minor additions 

 I'll get around to scans of the Nova Scotia fronts and backs for Poodle Mum

Before leaving on my current trip to California, I received a nice lot of stamps of classic Italy from a good friend and trading partner, so I spent a couple of days going through them and returning what I didn't need.  Here is a photo of what the desktop looked like while I was going through all of those.

It was this project that also led me to look through my Dad's accumulation, where I found the CLN Ponte Chiasso & Cuvio overprints that I have posted in their own thread.

Thanks for your posts showing your album pages, Al.  I have been reading them with great interest.

I think that I am really starting to like the look of your pages with the clear mounts.  In the past, when I used mounts, I only used the black ones, but I am liking the look of the clear ones more and more.

Is it very laborious cutting them down from larger size as you do?  Do you just use scissors or do you have a mount cutter?  Just curious.  

I'd like to report the status of my soon to end winter session of serious collecting.I try to get as much work as possible done every winter before the work season begins and this year was actually disappointing.Not much actual consolidation was done as far as moving revenues into proper years.I blame the late acquisition of Vam Dam's early two volume album which still needs to be broken down to years into collection.I did make it through about six albums mounting scattered singles and used blocks that were stuck into page protectors awaiting me, covering stamps til about 1962.No work done on new releases or checking other albums.The new U.S. collection was left untouched although Mom had it pretty well under control.(thanks Mom)There are still thousands of stamps to sort that I soaked off paper, mostly from new purchases and neighbors coin shipments.
My purchases were mostly improvements to Large Queen holdings but of note a couple Nova Scotia and the #63 along with 2 of my missing Newfie Airs.Work was continued on missing issues from both SSJB and of course my excise tax collections both moving along with completion predicated within two years.
As far as my usual give aways sadly not up to par, something I really enjoy was a little short this season.This I blame on my new computer which gave me fits getting it up to par. My friends here supplied me with a couple nice additions to my reference works for that I say thanks.
Although I still have couple weeks I must start putting loose ends away and get ready for a long season of hard work.I'll still check in when I feed the cat but computer time will be short.With luck maybe another snow storm will give me another couple weeks to finish what I can here.

So, Frog, does this latest snowfall qualify as sufficient to give you those couple of weeks?  I hope so!

As for me, not much time for stamping due to the upcoming relocation, but I did manage a little time last week to sort through my Lebanon holdings.  I was inspired to do it when I read Bombadil's excellent post about his hometown in which he pointed out that posts on Lebanon's issues were non-existent.  I have now made one post of my Lebanon French Mandate Issues (1924-1927), and there will be more posts to come on the Issues of the Republic under French Mandate (1927-1942).

I will also post some early Issues of the Independent Republic (1942-present), as it turns out that my Dad had a few interesting sets from the late 1940s and early 1950s which I also came across recently.  After sorting and organizing, I put the duplicates into a glassine and shipped off to Bombadil, hopefully to arrive before his departure for Africa.

Bombadil recently sent me a package of stamps (thank you very much, my friend!), but I had him send the material to my in-laws address in California as a precaution, and now I am regretting that decision, as it will be another week before I will have those stamps in my hands.  I promise a post on the Stamps Received thread once I am able to open that package.  That's about it for now....

I need to be more careful what I pray for! Well, I hope it won't be too bad for you, Frog.

Guess we have not been doing anything over the last month!

I won a used 2018 Scott Classic album on ebay so should be getting that soon.  I decided to upgrade from a 2005 as I inventoried by British Commonwealth (mostly pre-QEII) in Stamp Manage.

Plastic storage sure is an essential tool for collectors.

I created some country title pages for my collection. They are simple - just country name - but match the Steiner design (same border). I also ended up ordering another 5 Lighthouse Vario-G binders since my page count (not all have stamps) is expanding and now plan to organize them more in alphabetical country order. The advantage of Steiner pages is you can print as you need them.

I discovered that he has provided specialty pages that are not part of master set like I saw a few GB KVI variety (colors, watermarks) not found in his regular page set.  The only clue is the file name: Great Britain KGVI Varieties.

Also, the CD has a folder call classic and worldwide. The classic section has pages up to 1952 or so but I noticed they do not always match the worldwide pages for the same range. For example, I saw an space error (frame too small) in a Classic page but fixed in the Worldwide section. I reported these to him but no response.