brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Mar 31, 2020 1:44:07 GMT
I didn't do too much today, but I did pull out a around 60 stamps for the postmark of the day thread. Now to just scan or photograph them & research them. One month (or week) at a time!
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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 Mar 31, 2020 3:16:48 GMT
working from home is taxing....
but I did rec eice a France collection/accumulation, and some early Hungary
Will try to find time to scan and post some
Working from home has shown me my chair at my desk is woefully lacking....
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 1, 2020 0:02:37 GMT
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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 Apr 1, 2020 11:13:06 GMT
WOW, looks like some really nice stamps.
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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 Apr 1, 2020 11:25:23 GMT
I have finally finished filling the Germany want lists for several members, so now, all that is left is to mail them. Been trying to do this for 3 months now, but life and work has interfered too much lately. Plus the short term memory loss isn't helping. Now, if I can only finish the Ohio Tax stamps to give away. I am off the rest of the week, so I must finish by the end of the week. So, any new stamps coming in the mail will have to wait to join their friends, in my albums, until I finish my giveaways this week. LOL.
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 1, 2020 23:56:27 GMT
Today's delivery. A collection of German states was offered to me, but I wasn't really sure what I was getting as the photos all pixelated when I blew them up, but he threw out a number that caused me to reply "OK, I'll bite" Here's a very small sampling. i have stamps now from places I didn't know existed.... or had never thought about on pages, on Varios, stock cards... good lord what have I done!?!
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Post by jimwentzell on Apr 2, 2020 4:36:20 GMT
A quick shout out to all my friends I’ve just been busy work wise and haven’t had a moment to look at my stamps or this board very often stay safe like The Arnold says “I’ll be back”
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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 Apr 2, 2020 16:16:37 GMT
Today's delivery. A collection of German states was offered to me, but I wasn't really sure what I was getting as the photos all pixelated when I blew them up, but he threw out a number that caused me to reply "OK, I'll bite" Here's a very small sampling. i have stamps now from places I didn't know existed.... or had never thought about on pages, on Varios, stock cards... good lord what have I done!?! Nice, Stan Danzig was a "free state" under the League of Nations' protection in 1920, seized in 1939 by Germany and became a Province of Poland in 1945 Very interesting !! I have 64 stamps in my small collection of Danzig René
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 2, 2020 16:33:48 GMT
Am always in wonders on Stan's new stamps ( stainlessb) !! As for my Belgium Steiner Page transfers, from Scott Int "1", it is done for now. Since the Revenues, Officials etc. are well in Scott - no need to print another 20 pages and re-mount these....they shall stay there for now, and these include the 1940 or earlier. However I had to do some Custom pages of my own to adapt some Souvenir Sheets not well covered by Steiner. example: I am in thinking..... of what to do next until my Grand Liban purchase arrives and these and the ones I have will go into a Custom Album also....René
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 2, 2020 16:51:03 GMT
mine has holes in it....
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 2, 2020 17:10:50 GMT
Stan this sheet exists Imperf and Perf 14 X 13 1/2 - I have both - now both have been shown LOL !
René
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 2, 2020 18:51:54 GMT
Nothing like a stamp collection to get your mind off other things.
I've now completed up to 2011 for Canada. Now on to 2012 with the 6 QEII Diamond Jubilee packs to open up & one complete booklet for good measure. So 6 mini-sheets and 6 postcards. The other stamps I'll include in this year: the Titanic, the $2 Jubilee mini-sheet and the War of 1812, and just two issues for 2013. Canada Post just issues far too many each year now, some of which are not that pretty! I didn't add any from 2008.
It's what I like that counts!
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madbaker
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What I collect: (Mark) General worldwide collector (to 1975 or so) with a soft spot for Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia.
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Post by madbaker on Apr 2, 2020 19:49:22 GMT
Nothing like a stamp collection to get your mind off other things. I've now completed up to 2011 for Canada. Now on to 2012 with the 6 QEII Diamond Jubilee packs to open up & one complete booklet for good measure.
I just found my Diamond Jubliee packs yesterday, Pete. How are you planning to display them?
We should compare our results after, either in the Canada thread or the 'diy' thread. I find the modern stuff to be challenging to make look attractive in albums.
I'm like you - I stopped buying the quarterly packs soon after the Jubilee. I'm still upset over the poor engraving of the purple jubilee stamp. That's one area where things have gone backwards since they got computerized.
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 2, 2020 19:51:04 GMT
Would you scan and show me your Jubilees (Diamond) ? Thanks René
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 2, 2020 21:01:59 GMT
I haven't decided how just yet. I want the mini-sheet of four and the postcard displayed on the one page. Whether that be a made by me album page, or possibly Vario. Both items are a bit large, so I'd have the mini-sheet up top & the postcard below. They would have to be in clear pockets due to the backside of the postcard. So I guess that would be the way for me to go. Easy-peasy, just need to get those sheets! The stamp on the postcard is what the mini-sheet of 4 consists of. I somehow managed to get 4 #4 postcards, and no #5 - loose ones that is. I still have 3 unopened packs. I'll have a give-away for these postcards, with one of them including the others, missing #5 though. So there would be 4 winners - one with 5 postcards & 3 of just one sorry #4 postcard, as shown above! I'll set this up later.
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 2, 2020 21:12:04 GMT
I should have looked a bit closer. I also have FDC's of the single of #1-4 & 6. I'm not sure why 5 is missing. Here is #1... I wanted to scan this, but my scanner has disconnected from my network again. I'll fix that later!
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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 Apr 4, 2020 12:55:49 GMT
Today's delivery. A collection of German states was offered to me, but I wasn't really sure what I was getting as the photos all pixelated when I blew them up, but he threw out a number that caused me to reply "OK, I'll bite" Here's a very small sampling. i have stamps now from places I didn't know existed.... or had never thought about on pages, on Varios, stock cards... good lord what have I done!?! Well, if you wind up with some of this page as extras, I could use a few of these. Thanks, Mike,
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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 Apr 4, 2020 12:58:26 GMT
OK, is mail not going through to other countries from the United states? I have heard several people talking about mail being returned lately. I have finally finished all my stamps to send out to everyone, that was supposed to be 3 months ago, but I don;'t want to send them if they are only going to be returned to me by the USPS. Have a great day, Mike.
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renden
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Post by renden on Apr 4, 2020 13:07:27 GMT
1 return from Norway March 14 but it is back in the system and the clerk at Canada Post was consulted - he said no problem. USA-Canada....no problem anticipated right now. We will know this week as each days there are changes, - René
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Apr 4, 2020 15:56:58 GMT
Today I finished Luxembourg pages 1852-1941. Printing them now and will start mounting.
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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 Apr 4, 2020 19:02:41 GMT
OK, is mail not going through to other countries from the United states? ... The USPS website has a page that lists international service disruptions -- you can view it here.
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Londonbus1
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What I collect: Cinderellas and some Ephemera from Great Britain, France and Israel plus a few beautiful bits from elsewhere !! Topical interests include Flags & Judaica, the latter with an emphasis on the Jewish National Fund.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Apr 4, 2020 19:53:53 GMT
Yes, it's been impacting on my selling. Two items to the USA lost or somewhere unknown. I am not posting anything else until such a time that near-normality is restored. Giveaways will be posted at that time too........something to look forward to when it's all back to normal ! Londonbus1
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darkormex
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Swinging through Switzerland and getting tied up in Thailand
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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 Apr 4, 2020 23:48:54 GMT
Worked on Guatemala over the past couple of days as you all had probably seen but also going to look for another country to work on.
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 4, 2020 23:54:04 GMT
A rainy day here. Expecting up to 2 " by Monday morning. Makes isolating in place much easier, A couple of deliveries and we had to go through decontamination routine. We got pretty much everything we ordered this time! Spent the morning finalizing ( I think) a page for France Sower (Semeuse lignée) 15c legend portion of Types, and went through 60 - 80 15c trying to identify About half aren't identifiable, whether because cancellation blocks out those areas where it is determined which type, ,contradictory identifiers; a detail indicating one type, but then another one indicating another, or enough of the date stamp before the issue date of the Type it has the characteristics of.... it seems somewhat subjective, but I am trying to use Maury, Ceres, & Dallay, even though there are some others that would certainly make things easier (but what fun is that?) so I changed gears for a while and started trying to organize the pile of Germany i received, which led me to these: Hamburg 1/2 looks too clean and makes me thinkit's a forgery/facsimile, Some I have a general idea (and that one is sideways....) and bottom right - a private courier? But time to put a log on the fire and put my feet up after a hard of stamping LOL
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darkormex
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Swinging through Switzerland and getting tied up in Thailand
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Post by darkormex on Apr 5, 2020 2:22:41 GMT
I settled on the Netherlands. I have a Scott Specialty album that has pages to 1948 and then I have Steiner pages after that. I am taking stamps from the old album and filling in empty spaces in my album.
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madbaker
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What I collect: (Mark) General worldwide collector (to 1975 or so) with a soft spot for Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia.
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Post by madbaker on Apr 5, 2020 4:20:05 GMT
I spent the day sorting through a massive envelope of Poland that haven't seen the light of day since 1973, when the original owner passed away. The centre of the packet was a solid mass of stamps and hinges. I filled my drying book with stamps after soaking the 'brick'
He had a way of stacking stamps with full hinges on the back (ah, the days of peelable hinges, but with all the hinges overlapping, like >>>>>>> , so I tore a few stamps while removing the hinge. I thought I had 1 stamp but really had two, and was trying to remove the hinge from the 'outer' stamp, tearing the 'inner'. Rats.
Almost all the stamps are from around 1946 - 1960, so lots of soviet style art, sputnick, etc. But there are some amazing engravings in there. Not rare, not expensive, but gorgeous.
I was impressed with how stamps in the brick brightened up after a short bath. Makes me want to wash all the stamps that I'm keeping, before mounting them in my album.
Does anyone here clean (in water!) all their new acquisitions before adding them to their collections?
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salentin
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collecting Germany,where I live and about 20 more countries,half of them in Asia east of the Indus
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Post by salentin on Apr 5, 2020 5:42:00 GMT
Hamburg 1/2 looks too clean and makes me thinkit's a forgery/facsimile, Some I have a general idea (and that one is sideways....) and bottom right - a private courier? The Hamburg 1/2 Schilling is a cut-out from an envelope.Exits in different varieties (1866/1867).Mint the full envelopes are not expensive,cut-outs are of little value.Reprints (1871) exist.
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Apr 5, 2020 6:15:11 GMT
I spent the day sorting through a massive envelope of Poland that haven't seen the light of day since 1973, when the original owner passed away. The centre of the packet was a solid mass of stamps and hinges. I filled my drying book with stamps after soaking the 'brick' He had a way of stacking stamps with full hinges on the back (ah, the days of peelable hinges, but with all the hinges overlapping, like >>>>>>> , so I tore a few stamps while removing the hinge. I thought I had 1 stamp but really had two, and was trying to remove the hinge from the 'outer' stamp, tearing the 'inner'. Rats.
Almost all the stamps are from around 1946 - 1960, so lots of soviet style art, sputnick, etc. But there are some amazing engravings in there. Not rare, not expensive, but gorgeous.
I was impressed with how stamps in the brick brightened up after a short bath. Makes me want to wash all the stamps that I'm keeping, before mounting them in my album.
Does anyone here clean (in water!) all their new acquisitions before adding them to their collections?
I very much do that, clean stamps I get in water. But I should do it more. Right now I pick stamps from an old Luxembourg album and put them into my ovn designed pages. I had for some mont's ago taken out and cleaned the 5 first pages (the stamps) but not the rest. I will clean the rest later today.
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coastwatcher
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Post by coastwatcher on Apr 5, 2020 9:09:38 GMT
Does anyone here clean (in water!) all their new acquisitions before adding them to their collections?
I started doing this with all of my used stamps about a year ago and feel that it sometimes makes a huge difference. Once, after soaking an older accumulation, I poured out the water and it was so brown that it made me think of coffee with creamer in it!
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angore
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Post by angore on Apr 5, 2020 11:19:58 GMT
I have been identifying some of the Great Britain regionals and adding them to my spreadsheet.
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