Whatcha Been Stamping?

I finished designing & printing the Grand Duchess Charlotte's 2nd definitive series issue, with the high values, along with new value overprints & officials. Now I have to get around to mounting them. It's supposed to be a rainy day tomorrow!

I then headed to the park for lunch, read a book & walk the 7 km loop. Here's the view from the picnic table, looking out over Lake Ontario.


Then I did a mail check & my registered package from Postbeeld was in.  A few stamps from Greenland, which is now pretty much complete to 1997. I'll collect 2 more years & will stop at 1999. Maybe pick up 2000 onwards if they are in an auction lot. And a pile from Expo '67, which I attended as a kid. So that's where the interest in it came from. Thanks to Postbeeld and APS StampStore for getting these to me!

That just means more work in getting them all mounted now!

isn't it great to be able to pick your own birthday present?

Hope the wife is doing well recuperating!

I finally got around to mounting the 2nd series of Charlotte definitives from Luxembourg this morning & then noticed I had forgotten to include the 2 Heraldic Lion stamps of 1930. I'll just stick 'em in at the bottom of Charlotte's 2nd issue.

Then I went out for a mail check & found my 1908 Quebec Tercentenary was in. Yay! My Canada collection is gradually taking shape again. I did have a number of these stamps way back in the 70's, but I guess I sold them off to start something else. It's nice to have them back & then some!

It is a cooler & windy day out here. I am on a step challenge again this week with my Garmin watch/account, so I'll have to head back to the park to walk the loop again. I've been busy so far this week & have fallen way behind in my steps. But then I am busy with stamps, so it doesn't really matter that I'll never win these challenges. The leader won 2 weeks ago with >450,000 steps in ONE week. How is that ever possible?

Hope everyone has a good stamp kind of day today!

 Haha - I recognise that one  -  I often find myself hoping for poor weather or any other legit excuse for spending the day 'indoors' ..

I love CDS stamps & SON as well. It's just too bad that Canadian postmasters were advised to not do SON, which is why there aren't really that many of them. There are some out there, but most are off to the side.

Lots of nice postmarks in there. Really like the duplex '1' + Abergavenny. Never seen one-digit numbers in UK barred numerals before, sweet! Seems like an interesting box as well - enjoy!

Haven't mounted a stamp in at least two months but it doesn't stop me from spending my hard earned dollars.The overprinted Newfoundland is more than likely a fake but then...  The other two are the hard to get five holes officals a weak spot in my collection I'm working to correct.

I've been sorting through a lot I received over the weekend of Canada...lots of plate (inscription?) blocks, BOB, and some varied SINGLE mint stamps to replace used copies in my albums. Fun new stuff, and some stuff I'll probably offer up for trade. I'm in the process of transferring Canada stamps from an old Harris album to a new album of Steiner pages. I came to hate that Harris album. It ended around 2000, and it was disorganized. Stamp images in the wrong place, duplicate stamp locations on different pages due to supplements being added in poorly before it was shipped to me (and I bought it new!).  And the pages are so damn thin.  Ugh.   I printed the new album on card stock.  3 volumes but that's ok.  

I probably ought to get that 2017 supplement into my U.S. album sometime soon.

Copy & Paste strikes again! That $5 Scott #37 should read "watermarked".

At the weekend I finalized  plans for my trip to Europe in August. As some of you may know, I plan all my trips 'home' around Stamp events (as much as possible) and this one was no exception ! 

My second day in the UK will include a visit to the STRAND STAMP FAIR in London, usually full of good dealers and a great Fair.
Two days later the monthly Fair in my local town Chelmsford in Essex. If all the dealers turn up then it is a good one. Sadly with this event, that is not always the case.
Then a new Fair for me not far from Luton Airport where on Sunday 19th I will be returning my hire car. What a coincidence !!   Held in a small village Hall in Slip End.....I hope I don't slip up trying to find it !!
Then 5 days in and around London where I will spend time checking over the Commonwealth Collection I mentioned in the last post of the previous page. This will be quite exciting given the content and value..........and I can always pop around the corner to borrow a Gibbons catalogue.....from Stanley Gibbons !! (OK, maybe not !)  

On the 24th I fly to Barcelona (with the Collection, fingers crossed) and meet up with my friend of many years who I have never met in person. It will be a great moment and I look forward to seeing his amazing collection of Catalonia & Barcelona Cinderellas. On the Sunday, some of the day will be spent at the excellent Barcelona Stamp Market which I have been looking forward to for a long time. On Monday 27th we will go to the Melon Festival & Stamp Meeting in Artesa de Segre, 150kms from Barcelona in the beautiful Catalonian Countryside. I am sure this will one of the highlights of the trip. 

Or maybe not. 
One last little Philatelic meeting will take place in the South of France with one of the good members or our Stamp Forum !! I am sure we will talk about stamps at some point during the short visit..........maybe he will enjoy looking at the stamps I picked up in London. He might even help me in identification !!!! 
A couple of days later I fly back from Marseille.

Now you must agree that was GOOD STAMP PLANNING !!!!! 

Londonbus1

I have been adding to my collection of maps on stamps.

LB1, you sneaked this post into this thread with no tags to alert me....  hey, man!

All right, I finally found it, though, so here goes:  I absolutely agree that it was "good stamp planning".... no, wait, check that, excellent stamp planning, especially because I know the whole story, like how you rearranged your whole itinerary so that the visit to Provence could work out!  Thanks, LB1, many goodies await your arrival, philatelic and otherwise.... wine, anyone?

As for the Barcelona Stamp Market, I have been there twice, the last time being 4-5 years ago.  I found it to be great, and I hope that you will, too!  Your trip sounds wonderful, my friend, and I can't wait to finally meet you!

Currently am waiting for the Post office to open, i have a nice Fat package of stamps heading to our friend nikhil .