Whatcha Been Stamping?

I finished mounting some mid-70's Maldive issues I had purchased from an old stamp packet along with mostly KGVI era pictorials for various British commonwealth countries. I have quite a few countries where I only have 1 or 2 stamps. I print the Steiner pages as I go.

A search of the Forum's Cinderella board using the terms train and railroad revealed 13 pages of posts -- perhaps you can assist in increasing that number. 

This weekend I hope to do some more searching for Lego on stamps.
I know there are about 6 or 7 issues.
I need to look at ATA checklists.
My 11 year old nephew loves Lego and I have bought two issues for him and myself.
He seems to be getting more interested in collecting.

I just made my first purchase on delcampe -- a single item for my hometown collection -- I'm still waiting for an invoice.

So far the experience is much different than that of ebay but I'm withholding judgement until the transaction has concluded.

I should add... I like the contrast in colour for album pages. The entire stamp stands out much better this way. I also colour-code various types. Airmail = blue, semi-postals = orange, postage dues = red, etc etc etc...

As promised in my off-topic thread about my relocation to France, here is a brief update on my stamping activities.  The truth?  There really hasn't been time for very much.  And as we all know, when time is limited, what easier and more satisfying stamping activity is there than.... acquisition, of course!

Shown below is a photo of some very old loose-leaf album pages used by an old-time collector.  I bought these from the stamp dealer here in Aix who comes to the Saturday morning open-air market in the town center here.  And being in France, naturally, my biggest acquisition to date since arriving here is stamps from.... South America & the Caribbean, of course!  So much for my plan of buying local things locally.

Anyway, the dealer had bought an old album and almost everything he showed me was from South America & Caribbean, all 19th Century material, so I bought all of it for one price.  Did I overpay?  Well, that remains to be seen.  I have started to remove the stamps from the pages as carefully as possible, but it has not been easy.  The original collector used paper hinges (oddly mounted upside down from the usual way, essentially virtually pinning the stamp down to the page) with glue, but luckily the glue is water-soluble so I have been able to soak the stamps off their hinges.

Some of the stamps are damaged, as is to be expected with a collection from this era, but I have already managed to salvage some pretty nice ones, but need to do more research, as time permits, to catalogue everything and check for forgeries!  Nelson (@falshung ), I promise to tag you in future posts!

Compiling Souvenir and Block sheetssss for a giveaway  ,  should be ready and posted by tomorrow !!!

Just working through some German:-

I got in an ebay lot of mint Somaliland Protectorate stamps and mounted them. Another new country for the album (meaning I create a country separator page).

I didn't do too much today. Other than pick up auction winnings at the Post Office. Three Admiral coil pairs - catalogue value: $250. Paid: $55.

I noticed Michel has high prices, and Stanley Gibbons even higher prices. Whats the point of catalog values when auctions are a fraction of cat. & some dealers sell for less.


I'm not complaining, but when I kick off, heirs will think they have a goldmine!

Hi David...

    I doubt stamp dealers would sell paper like this! I ended finding a Canadian paper dealer, so shipping is minimal. I don't know where you live, but they only ship to Canada. It is 65 lb cardstock which is ideal for printing double-sided album pages.

Paper Garden  : Canadian, excellent variety, shipping only to Canada

Bazzill Basics  : American, textured, some quite pricey. The local office supply etc store stocks square sheets of Bazzill. Quite nice, but single-sided.

The tip of the iceberg awaiting proper cataloging and mounting.