Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 17, 2020 13:44:20 GMT
To add, I learned mailing the catalog pages to the UK is slightly higher than sending them to India!!!!! Sorry, Al! If I had realized that, I would have said just send them to California and I will pick them up in April.... I just thought it would be nice to have them here sooner. Well, I owe you one for that!
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angore
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Post by angore on Feb 17, 2020 16:19:28 GMT
@beryllium Guy
(that did not work)
The difference was not that much higher (less than 50 cents). I had checked mailing costs BEFORE I made the offer so I was prepared. I had thought India would be worst case scenario.
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Feb 17, 2020 20:03:54 GMT
I have been sorting out boxes and folders while waiting for recent purchases.I came across the following cancellations. Les Etoiles de Paris. Numbered stars were used at the 39 Paris district offices...each was given its own number.The Central Bureau also had its own star cancel but without a number. I purchased these a couple of years ago and forgot about them,getting more interested in French Colonies.
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renden
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What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Feb 17, 2020 20:24:17 GMT
Very nice anglobob have some of those but do not go into a specialized collection -Thanks
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renden
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Post by renden on Feb 17, 2020 20:26:43 GMT
Just printed some 24 pages of Steiner's for Finland as I discovered (by looking at my inventory) that I had stamps in 4 albums (all Scott) so will merge everything in uno (1) album - What can I say.......inventory was a bit old !! p.s. and I still use the ABC..... system as I am too old to start again and do it the blaamand way !! (for all my stamps) René
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Feb 17, 2020 20:45:57 GMT
I have been sorting out boxes and folders while waiting for recent purchases.I came across the following cancellations. Les Etoiles de Paris. Numbered stars were used at the 39 Paris district offices...each was given its own number.The Central Bureau also had its own star cancel but without a number. I purchased these a couple of years ago and forgot about them,getting more interested in French Colonies. That was a nice (Lovely) collection of stamps/cancels anglobob
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Feb 17, 2020 20:50:42 GMT
I have been cleaning out a Deutsche Reich stock book, moving the best to my main duplicate book. The rest is put out for sale on facebook (Norwegian stamp sale group). The empty stock book (64 pages) is put on top of the shelf for later use or sale. Good feeling to get things out of the way.
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 17, 2020 21:43:10 GMT
@beryllium Guy
(that did not work) Thanks again, Al, for agreeing to ship to me here in the UK. I really do appreciate that. Sorry about my TSF site name tagging function anomaly. To do mine by typing it in, you need the @-sign followed by berylliumguy all lower case with no spaces. Then when you make the post, it will show as Beryllium Guy as it normally appears. As I recall, the reason I ended up with the anomaly is because I wanted my site name to appear as two words each starting with a capital letter, but the underlying function would not allow the space. Tagging is a nice feature of the site, but becomes a bit troublesome when the @+name is not the same as the site name that appears afterward....
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renden
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Post by renden on Feb 17, 2020 22:25:54 GMT
I have been cleaning out a Deutsche Reich stock book, moving the best to my main duplicate book. The rest is put out for sale on facebook (Norwegian stamp sale group). The empty stock book (64 pages) is put on top of the shelf for later use or sale. Good feeling to get things out of the way. I do agree we keep too much duplicates - Myself - I give them away since I am not in the "selling arena" LOL René
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philatelia
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Post by philatelia on Feb 18, 2020 1:28:39 GMT
Not much stamping time lately with all the house projects, but I have roughed out my little article for the next newsletter and I’ve made a bit more progress with my huge USA collection.
I’m reducing USA to just one used single of each type. I sold off a big chunk of the mint USA a few years ago, the rest I’m trading or using for postage. I’ve compressed the physical size of the collection by about two thirds and emptied two entire shelves - wow.
You know, I never actively pursued USA before 1930. I’ve found that I mostly enjoy hunting for all the modern definitive varieties - it is cheap fun and much more challenging than you’d think! Those liberty bells have dozens of types for example. With all the booklet varieties the number of different USA is staggering. But, I may try to trade for some of the earlier issues that I’m missing. USA has never been a priority to me though. I don’t remember ever actively buying very much USA except for mint new issues for Philatelic mail. In the past I bought all that kiloware mostly because so many of my trading friends overseas wanted help with newer issues. I still do that.
When I pick the one used copy to keep, I’ve been trying to find cancels that are from the same year as when the stamp was issued. That’s a challenge as so many have the ubiquitous wavy lines. But even the wavy lines have changed over the years.
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stainlessb
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What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Feb 18, 2020 1:46:20 GMT
I spent much of the stamping hours portion of the day setting up and new binder just for Belgium Rail, newspaper, taxe, official, etc, as II've accumulated a rather surprising amount. Tedious moving from Vario to Vario, but rather than stack duplicates, I've tried to at least lay out in an overlapping way so i can see how many I have and the color/shade nuances
and I spent a couple of hours examining Sower 15c (with ground) for Types... I still have 140 + to go, and then I'll need to go through again and get into Vario pages for shades. I have been setting aside good examples I can focus in on and get an image I can use as a 'legends' on the page(s). I am finding that some interpretation is needed with what is in Maury, Ceres, & Dalay- there's not rwal clarity (or at least as much as there was with the 10 centimes). They use the designer/engravers names at the bottoms but I'm beginning to think the examples are not consistent. A clear cancellation date helps to some extent, but there's definite overlap to release and end dates for each Type
i laugh 9at myself0 for thinking a year ago I'd sort the worldwide, s move them on, and dive into US..... Me thinks I'll be in Western Europe for some time to come
it may be the US that gets sorted and moved on
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Feb 18, 2020 6:58:40 GMT
I have been cleaning out a Deutsche Reich stock book, moving the best to my main duplicate book. The rest is put out for sale on facebook (Norwegian stamp sale group). The empty stock book (64 pages) is put on top of the shelf for later use or sale. Good feeling to get things out of the way. I do agree we keep too much duplicates - Myself - I give them away since I am not in the "selling arena" LOL René I have duplicates stock book for all the European countries that I have a collection of. The dup stock book's have a half row for each main catalogue number. I try to limit my dups to max10 pr cat-number. When I do a clean out as this I a-trow away the rest, b-sell it or c-make a give away here at STF. As I du use a lot of nok-£-$-€ on stamps I try to sell what i can. But the postage from Norway to abroard is high so selling on e-bay or Delcampe is nearly not an option. But selling on small Norwegian Facebook groups goes well. sold for ca $250 in January. But I will try to make a giveaway every one or two month.
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mikeclevenger
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What I collect: Ohio Tax Stamps, Ohio & Georgia Revenues, US Revenues, US FDC's, & Germany Classics
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Post by mikeclevenger on Feb 18, 2020 10:14:57 GMT
I got in some new Saar stamps, now I just have to put them in the book, maybe this week? warning gif
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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 Feb 18, 2020 23:17:43 GMT
In this thread, I previously wrote of my disappointment in having a cover for my hometown collection apparently lost in the mail. The cover had been an ebay purchase made on December 28th from a seller located in Wisconsin. When it had not been received by mid-January, I asked the seller to verify it had been shipped and she promptly refunded my purchase. Today, the cover arrived. It was postmarked in Milwaukee on December 30th. The envelope that carried the purchase gave no indication of any reason for the delay. Tomorrow, a check will be on its way to the seller.
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mikeclevenger
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What I collect: Ohio Tax Stamps, Ohio & Georgia Revenues, US Revenues, US FDC's, & Germany Classics
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Post by mikeclevenger on Feb 19, 2020 10:03:17 GMT
Glad to here it Steve. Maybe there is still hope for the one of mine that was lost 3 years ago? Today, the cover arrived. It was postmarked in Milwaukee on December 30th. The envelope that carried the purchase gave no indication of any reason for the delay. Tomorrow, a check will be on its way to the seller. Glad to here it Steve. I know how hard it is to find small town cancels.
Maybe this means they will find the one of mine that got lost too. It has only been 2 years or so now.
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mikeclevenger
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What I collect: Ohio Tax Stamps, Ohio & Georgia Revenues, US Revenues, US FDC's, & Germany Classics
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Post by mikeclevenger on Feb 19, 2020 10:08:41 GMT
I received a few more Very Old Bavaria stamps today. I just bought them for the numeral cancellations on them. I know it will take years for me to get them all, if ever but it isn't the destination, but the journey that matters.
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gatodiablo
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Post by gatodiablo on Feb 19, 2020 10:14:03 GMT
A quick update. Spent some time a couple days ago entering my pre-decimal Australian collection into both StampWorld and Colnect/StampMate, sort of to see which I like better. As a novice to all of this, I am coming to the conclusion that each serves a different purpose.
Also, I am leaving Perth in less than two weeks, with a layover of a couple days in Sydney and ten days in Tasmania before heading home, and so am packing up my stamp accumulations to ship stateside ahead of time. I've consolidated into a Lighthouse Pre-decimal album (also stashing a number of Prinz stock sheets with other stamps therein), four mini-sized stockbooks, and a take-out container full of dupes. Five older albums/stock books of little value have been stripped of stamps and will be left behind.
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renden
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What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Feb 20, 2020 13:50:22 GMT
For the past few days, working on my Classic Findland (Suomi) stamps and re-doing the inventory and from 5 Scott albums (1), merging everything on Steiner pages. Now I realize that I do have more holes to fill Most stamps were in the old Junior Albums - Semi-Postals to do today. René p.s. accepting "dups" anytime LOL
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Feb 20, 2020 13:56:06 GMT
For the past few days, working on my Classic Findland (Suomi) stamps and re-doing the inventory and from 5 Scott albums (1), merging everything on Steiner pages. Now I realize that I do have more holes to fill Most stamps were in the old Junior Albums - Semi-Postals to do today. René p.s. accepting "dups" anytime LOL Send me some pictures of the pages with holes (not the first page) and we will see if I can help you.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Feb 20, 2020 19:19:11 GMT
I'm looking forward to receiving 2 lots of US slogan cancel covers.
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renden
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Post by renden on Feb 20, 2020 22:28:48 GMT
For the past few days, working on my Classic Findland (Suomi) stamps and re-doing the inventory and from 5 Scott albums (1), merging everything on Steiner pages. Now I realize that I do have more holes to fill Most stamps were in the old Junior Albums - Semi-Postals to do today. René p.s. accepting "dups" anytime LOL Send me some pictures of the pages with holes (not the first page) and we will see if I can help you. Done, Tobben and as said, I bought the C1 from Florida, USA - the best price of the whole lot for MVF-LH PM sent also René
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gmot
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What I collect: Canada & French Morocco
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Post by gmot on Feb 21, 2020 12:31:16 GMT
Going to create Albumeasy pages for Guadeloupe and move my stamps over from the old Scott pages. (Was planning to do this in December, but life intervened...). I think that will be the last - excepting a couple like Martinique where I don't have many stamps - of my French colonies transferred to Palo/custom pages. My old Scott album pages (most from 1940) are yellowed and battered, so slowly moving out the better country collections onto my own pages.
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stainlessb
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What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Feb 23, 2020 0:41:55 GMT
a day full of more household chores than stamping, but i did manage to get the last of hinged stamps on pages soaked in drying. Tomorrow is a golf day, so stamping will be limited to late afternoon and evening and my main goal is to get more of the loose stamps onto Vario pages so i haver an uncluttered desk-top to focus on some much needed page building...
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 23, 2020 11:54:58 GMT
Yesterday I received the giveaway from renden again! I'll be paying it forward and preparing a giveaway of my own. Also received an order from Yvert&Tellier order I had been waiting for for several weeks. I'll post some of these later today.
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renden
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What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Feb 23, 2020 14:37:21 GMT
hrdoktorx - as you already know, I have another giveaway on my wife's birthday, March 8th - Put some "dups" due for departure and I have more (as most of you have) - This makes room and hopes that other members will find some holes filled - I have not touched my Canada "dups" for some time as I am waiting for that - Many classics MNH or MH (+50 in all) are available but I will use them for special trades.....now I am trying to fill some Finland holes
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darkormex
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What I collect: The World...just printing and mounting as I go...call me crazy!
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Post by darkormex on Feb 23, 2020 15:19:09 GMT
Last night I cleared my desk and started sorting through the pile of stamps I received from Tobben's recent giveaway. I decided to focus on Denmark since I already had pages printed. I am already filling spaces and may print some additional pages to accommodate more.
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Feb 24, 2020 13:31:37 GMT
Between blowing my nose and drinking coffee, I'm slowly working through the stamps I received on Friday. Most are mounted, some are in stock books waiting for the album pages to be printed out. The replacements are piled to the side waiting for a give away.
Then I thought about my spreadsheet. Just Canada so far, I haven't entered anything for some time. Lots of additions to that. It's funny how my brain works - out of sight, out of mind. I need to keep the spreadsheet open in its window all the time. That way I'll see it all the time.
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renden
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Post by renden on Feb 24, 2020 14:20:12 GMT
brightonpetePete, have another coffee, you are not awakened yet René p.s. and you have never responded to my PM on "machins" (it could have never reached you, in Ontario) !
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angore
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Post by angore on Feb 24, 2020 16:33:05 GMT
I spent more time with StampManage again by adding missing listings for the Malaya / Malaysia and on the prowl for some collections.
I did mail the Scott pages to Chris in UK. I had calculated the price correctly and had applied stamps. The clerk miscalculated the total since they were not aware Global Forever stamps cost $1.40 now. I had a customs forum ready but she said if she used it it would increase the price (from a letter to package?) but she did compliment me on the nicely done custom forms. And, I learned they do not open until 10am on Saturday....
Al
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Feb 24, 2020 23:39:55 GMT
Today I purchased the Yugoslavia section pages from Scott 2020. I've had this Yugo collection in a Specialty binder untouched for 20 years or so. It should be interesting getting up to date. Collection ends at 1955. 2001 SCV was $546.
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