stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 30, 2020 15:45:29 GMT
looks like another day of stamping- the smoke has returned and just opening the door this morning to let our cat out was enough to know no golf today. No new fires and the two largest are now both 50% or more contained.... so must be just the way the wind is blowing. So more putting France into the binder, and move post WWII into a new binder as the 4" binder isn't going to take many more Varios who knows what I may find today!
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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 Aug 30, 2020 17:27:48 GMT
While the new dog was sleeping, I spent some time catching up on my hometown collection. Scanned and filed 5 recently acquired covers and renamed my image files so they displayed chronologically by postmark date. I've added a fair amount of material since I wrote about my (then) newest project in Volume 2.4 of the Forum's Newsletter.
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Aug 31, 2020 12:02:08 GMT
I am almost done scanning my worldwide collection on Steiner pages. I just need to finish Great Britain.
In the process, I had a quick peek at all pages and noticed Zimbabwe's stamps were a refreshing change. It looked like they did not sell out to the postal agencies topical issues (all those omnibus issues). I will images later as I know have everything. Subjects had more a local focus although topical. I will not try to upload all to tsfimage host.
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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 Aug 31, 2020 14:21:39 GMT
I see from my USPS Informed Delivery email that I will have 7 envelopes in my box today. A pleasant thought while I am hand digging holes in hard ground for trees and bushes this morning before it gets hot (hotter.) Project involves a post hole digger, T-post and driver and a high pressure water nozzle. I feel like a hydraulic miner looking for paydirt but finding only rock And more rock.
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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 Aug 31, 2020 15:49:19 GMT
While JeffS is digging holes in Texas and eating "oranges" This has been a strange month of "stamping", mixing some Ivory Coast stamps (the finale of classics on my pages, minus the semi-postals ((later)) with Jon's blaamand nice Findland stamps received and now inventoried and put in proper holes, I spent much of the time researching french history for my "French Colonies - Protectorates" on Africa and relevant stamps to document (I have 25 at this point). Since text is in "french" and do not intend to translate, it will stay my own project (for now). Editing is quite long since I do not master WORD !!...and making pages with relevant stamps for each Colony/Proctectorate/others Failure to communicate with my friends is my fault - too busy - too nice weather etc etc. all bad reasons !! Trying to keep up with TSF posts is another matter.......so many new folks !! René
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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 Aug 31, 2020 16:35:40 GMT
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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 Sept 1, 2020 17:37:51 GMT
Today I received a message from eBay giving me a $25 coupon for being one of the first eBay members. I remember eBay began in 1996 (I believe) and I didn't get on board until July 1997. Now to go shopping, looking at those items in my "watching" file.
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angore
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Post by angore on Sept 1, 2020 22:18:14 GMT
Earlier this year had been sending me coupons occasionally ($10 off, etc) that usually could be applied to stamp purchases but have not seen anything as of late.
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Post by clivel on Sept 1, 2020 22:57:29 GMT
Today I received a message from eBay giving me a $25 coupon for being one of the first eBay members. I remember eBay began in 1996 (I believe) and I didn't get on board until July 1997. Now to go shopping, looking at those items in my "watching" file. I am also a happy recipient of the $25 coupon, I joined eBay in 1998 to buy electronics test equipment and tools. Ironically it was eBay that got me into stamp collecting after I accidentally stumbled across the eBay stamps category. This prompted me to unearth my childhood collection of mainly South African stamps to see if any were worth selling. Instead, as I browsed the listings, I found myself drawn to the familiarity of many of the stamps that I had grown up with and soon found myself bidding rather than selling - and I haven't looked back since Clive
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Sept 1, 2020 23:55:58 GMT
Only started using E-Bay in 2000....no coupon here..... oh well.... maybe something to look forward to!?! clivel I have a bench full of test equipment and lots of components which now mainly gathers dust.... I say "I should sell this"... walk out look at it... get overwhelmed, come back into the house (I built and modified tube amps and guitar related gear, plus a few pieces for recording, even a couple of ribbon microphones)
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gatodiablo
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What I collect: Places I've been, and places I want to go.
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Post by gatodiablo on Sept 2, 2020 0:34:54 GMT
(I built and modified tube amps and guitar related gear, plus a few pieces for recording, even a couple of ribbon microphones) Funny how hobbies collide - I've built a handful of tube amps, and have a (stalled) Princeton Reverb project currently on the electronics bench. Alongside a number of guitar builds-in-progress. Ebay member since 1998. No coupon for me.
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Sept 2, 2020 10:08:20 GMT
The eBay coupons must be a US thing . I have both eBay.com $Us and eBay.co.uk. £GB accounts .never had one , though selected products which I don’t want or need are offered at discount.
Frequently my GB account offers reduced commission sales over a holiday weekend or just from time to time . “Max selling Fee £1 “ which is great when I have an expensive sale Eg £50 + instead of the usual 10% fee, However I have never in 15 years been offered this concession on my US. eBay.com account. Does this happen at all in US?
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Sept 4, 2020 14:47:46 GMT
So I pulled out some stamps from envelopes and they all have a strong musty scent to them. They are used, so will a quick wash help to remove that scent? Or will I be stuck with this? Just wondering the best way to alleviate this problem.
TIA...
Peter
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angore
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Post by angore on Sept 4, 2020 15:18:20 GMT
Some purchases off Stamporama arrived and in the process of adding them to my collection.
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rex
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Post by rex on Sept 4, 2020 16:23:19 GMT
So I pulled out some stamps from envelopes and they all have a strong musty scent to them. They are used, so will a quick wash help to remove that scent? Or will I be stuck with this? Just wondering the best way to alleviate this problem. TIA... Try a little bath with warm water with a half teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda or salt, well mixed in the water. Rinse well in clean, warm water multiple times before drying.
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Post by spain1850 on Sept 4, 2020 17:12:16 GMT
FINALLY finished Bulgaria, at least for now. I chose an arbitrary cutoff date of 1959 since that is where the Steiner file ends. I still have many more, from 1960 on, to make pages for and mount. Maybe at another time. I also abandoned my normal approach, which is hinges for everything used, with a CV of less than $10, and mounts for everything unused and all 19th century. This is the first country I've worked on, so far, with a large percentage of CTO's. I know many others simply don't like them or avoid them, but I decided early on to include them if that's what I have. I noticed many Bulgarian stamps have the same minimal CV for both used and unused, so I decided I was onloy going to use mounts for MNH NON-CTO stamps, which I don't have many of since I pull most of mine from albums. Everything else just gets a hinge, including CTO stamps with full gum. However, given a choice, I picked postally used copies over MNH CTO. I also chose CTO, with no gum, over CTO with gum, if that's all I had. My reasoning is that gummed stamps tend to stick to pages more often than not, especially if you aren't very accurate with the tongue.
So, how did I do with my pre--1960 Bulgarian collection? I wound up with 686 stamps mounted, with only a few needed custom, or altered, pages.
Now, I get to figure out where I want to go from here.
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Sept 4, 2020 18:36:19 GMT
Bicarb of soda or salt? I used dish soap, a rinse, and a bath in warm fresh water. I don't think that worked! Maybe I try your solution (pun intended) rex!
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Post by spain1850 on Sept 4, 2020 19:54:53 GMT
Decided my next project will be a remounting of a Seychelles collection.
A while back I won some country collections from an online auction, all on Steiner pages. I thought that was great, until I got them and found that the pages didn't fit in with what I was building. The paper was thicker than what I use, the wrong color and the printing was a tad bit small. Also, everything was hinged, so I've been slowly taking each country and printing new pages, removing stamps and remounting them to fit my system.
There aren't many stamps in this Seychelles collection, so it should be a fairly quick change over, even adding to it from my own stock.
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Sept 4, 2020 20:33:45 GMT
Still downsizing and clearing old redundant parts of my latent collection a.Dictionary A-Z of philatelic terms. Not the kind of accumulation that would ever be able to sell as an entity because of its piecemeal accumulation. I have shown it to several clubs and exhibited it on 5 occasions Nationally and the costs and opportunities for future display means I have come to a standstill and begun dismantling years of accumulation.
Today I assembled 3 club circuit booklets for circulating packets . I embark on volume III having now disposed of parts I and II .
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Sept 4, 2020 22:18:49 GMT
Today is a day off for me to make a 3 day week-end longer. Started with a trip to the grocery store for the weekly re-stock, then hit some golf balls at the driving range, then started tearing out the summer garden to get ready for fall/winter planting (air quality is much better, fires are currently under control), though predicting 110F for Sunday..... picked beets (and put up 4 jars of pickled beets (Mediterranean style), and now organizing stamps for a trade with Beryllium Guy , and then back to sorting out France- tomorrow, going into the bee hive, the colony appears to have swarmed, so I'll see if there's any honey remaining...... this has happened before...a bit maddening, but only the bees know for sure!
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gatodiablo
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Post by gatodiablo on Sept 5, 2020 0:12:34 GMT
Apparently it has been a year since my interest in stamp collecting was rekindled - my subscription to the Steiner pages just expired. Have renewed, and awaiting access to be restored.
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angore
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Post by angore on Sept 5, 2020 10:47:44 GMT
I added some some stamps from Pitcairn Island, Southern Rhodesia, St Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, and Malawi. Malawi is a new country in the collection,
I also started adding page numbers to my album pages when I print a new Steiner page. Steiner breaks up countries into multiple files so I started combining into one PDF. I will resort so back of book pages are at end to keep Scott organization (not because it is the best way but consistent).
The page number matches the PDF number. If I add a new page I will use a suffix like 23.1. This number will also help me sort my page scans but that is another activity to add numbers to already printed pages).
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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 Sept 5, 2020 17:24:51 GMT
I have been struggling with a number of issues here including the weather and time for stamps has been extremely limited. My apologies to vikingeck and madbaker for the late departure of their 'Zoom Giveaway' prizes. This was due in large part because of the erratic postal services but also because of the aforementioned limited time. I have made those packets up for completion tomorrow and posting Monday. All packets won on my sales list are on their way to other parts of the world. Please be patient in these Corona-infested months, the mails are slow but hopefully all will arrive safely in the end. A few, albeit very few, joyous moments have taken place with the arrival of some almost-forgotten auction winnings that have taken between weeks and months to arrive. So scanning is next on the agenda to bore you all with those Cinderellas !! Then it's onto the completion of the Newsletter article which was started during the early Covid times ! All I need is cooler weather, less work and shorter visits from the Grandchildren ! It will come. Londonbus1
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Post by brightonpete on Sept 5, 2020 19:22:18 GMT
I'm trying now to sort out what I have of the DDR (East Germany.) I have a few now, thanks to katie333 who has added to it. I've also bid on a pile on another web site. So going through Scott catalogue, I see semi-postals, but they are not listed in the semi-postals, they are mixed in with the regular stamps. Why is that? Is it because the added cost is going to some agency rather than a charity? I don't get it. If you are paying for something extra above the cost of a stamp, it should be listed in the semi-postals. Scott - sheesh! Now on to Steiner... I looked at his mess of pages. I hate that he put 1980 on a page with 1979, then next page 1979, then a mix of 1980 & 1979. I was just going to print out the pages as is, but... what a mess! I guess I'll be making up my own for the DDR, just copying the frames for the stamps. Besides, his pages are meant to to be printed single sided & my cardstock can handle double sided. I like chronologically presented pages, not years mixed up, plus extra info on what I am looking at. This will take some time!
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philatelia
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What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Sept 5, 2020 21:03:27 GMT
Yay! I have access to my stamp den today - the contractors were here all day yesterday. I added 3 auctions to the forum - one is a 50/50 fundraiser, all have super low starts. I’m like Londonbus1, vikingeck and others here - I have so many duplicates that I thought I’d start putting a few big lots up here on the forum at minimum prices or do giveaways. Anyways, I’d much rather sell for a few bucks here and send to friends rather than deal with the headaches of selling on EBay just to make a few $$$ more - just not worth the aggravation. I’ve decided to phase out my bulk and packet trading in order to have more time for Colnect trades. Those are awesome! Getting 100 stamps from your wishlist is just the best! To save me from dealing with catalog values, I’m dividing my trading stock into two Colnect lists - under $2 for 1:1 trades, and the rest I’m saving for catalog trading for down the road. I now have 15,000 on my 1:1 trades list. Those trades are fast, easy and fun! I actually started working on my Canada collection this week. My classic Canada is weak - very weak! After reading about the imperf sides issues, I now collect those, plus I added all the booklet panes positions to my wishlist a while back. For some reason, I’m not making any progress with those. I’ll have to start hunting for Canada collectors who have stocks of those issues, too. For the precancels I’m only going collect one of each major type - plain bars, city, etc - but not all the cities. Haven’t decided if I’m going to keep the revenues. Decisions decisions! Happy stamping friends!
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Post by spain1850 on Sept 6, 2020 1:01:36 GMT
Now that Seychelles is in the books I decided to stay with the theme of small countries. Next up for me is British Guiana. Steiner only includes 22 pages for the entire country, but I'm betting I'll be hard pressed to have stamps on even half those pages. This will definitely go in the "nothing to see here" portion of my collection.
I will have a page or 2 of nicely cancelled stamps however, so all is not lost.
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Sept 6, 2020 2:09:37 GMT
after some morning garden chores (getting ready for fall/winter planting) I spent much of the afternoon sorting France and have managed to get through a large "bag" of stamps from ~1945 - 1970+. I had to expand some Varios to mak eroom , butI am starting to see daylight at the end of this tunnel.
Also received some nice German states (see in th eappropriate thread)
woohoo, only reached 107 today!!!! yeah, big whoop.....
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Sept 6, 2020 4:09:39 GMT
Yesterday I finished my search for US pre 1960 stamps in my 'Stamp Cave'. There were 368 different stamps. Happy with that. But I have set aside a bunch of stamps with presidents and so on to look for watermark, perforation ans other tings later. Then I wen trough a box with Switzerland ( I thought I had been trough all Swiss material but no). I did find 5 mor stamps for my Swiss collection (1677) and a lot to go to my duplicate book. Added a new surprise lot to with the 50/50 Swiss auction lot witch Allan did win. Now I will start to inventory my India stamps. I guess it will take some hour's - days before i'm done with that. The summer is definitively over here, lot of cold rain now, nice weather for stamping.
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cjoprey
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What I collect: Belgium (predominantly), British Commonwealth (older ones), WW (whatever comes my way...)
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Post by cjoprey on Sept 6, 2020 8:11:35 GMT
Spent an enjoyable day yesterday sorting through a new Schaubek book collection of Belgian stamps I won on eBay - added another 150 or so stamps to my collection from that! Also sorted out and sent off a 145 stamp trade from Colnect, and ordered another Lighthouse Grande book from Nordfrim as I'm running low on space...
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Sept 6, 2020 12:08:22 GMT
Today, I went to Barcelona's Sunday Stamp Market, at Plaça Reial, for the first time since June. It was a nice cycling through a tourism-freed Barcelona, to Barelona's old town (that, we, old-time barcelonians call just "Barcelona"). I managed to find a pair of cinderellas, missing on my collection for a fair price. Then, I took another bycicle and went to Mercat de Sant Antoni (Saint Anthony's Market), about 15 minutes cycling through another (not too nice) district of old Barcelona. There, you can buy second hand books and magazines, plus some stamps and cinderellas. No luck there. So, I went back home by cycling (we've a quite good públic bycicles service) and walking through the old town of Gràcia. A funny morning. I'm waiting for my favourite thrift shop to open on the forthcoming days after about 6 months closed. Despite covid, life strives to go back to normality!
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