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Post by brightonpete on Oct 22, 2018 12:51:15 GMT
Since I never set myself a budget I cannot bust it  I am the same way. I have to be careful now with Christmas fast approaching! |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 22, 2018 13:42:10 GMT
I just started reading Linn's and on the front page is a story of Trump withdrawing from yet another international accord - the UPU!
hat else? They've been a member since the inception in 1874. How will this affect mailings to/from them?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2018 16:27:21 GMT
I just started reading Linn's and on the front page is a story of Trump withdrawing from yet another international accord - the UPU! hat else? They've been a member since the inception in 1874. How will this affect mailings to/from them? Withdrawing from the UPU is not an immediate situation. It takes 1 year from notice of intent. During that time negotiations can continue to rescind the withdrawal
Certain countries with emerging economies have heavily discounted postal rates. In particular China rates to the US were discounted. Although Trump is not on my top 10, 100 list, China and some others no longer need these discounts which may give them certain advantages. Of course, these countries might get into a "postal war" with no winners.
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Post by blaamand on Oct 22, 2018 18:41:03 GMT
well the indirect route today.I am helping wife redo the pantry and she has passed off the shelving units that previously held our canned and boxed food stuffs.Unfortuinately it means replacing the unit holding my main BNA collection and my mount storage.In short a real major redo of my stamp room and not much actual stamp time for a couple days.The end result will be worth it and give me 50% more shelf room. In the meantime the poor admirals sit in the middle of it all. Bon courage! Haha, good story. I've just been through something similar. My wife lost her job-office, so she occupied the office in our home and packed up all my stuff before I even knew. I came home to find all my stamp-stuff in boxes and all my hundreds of album's piled up in our living room... Fortunately we had just got a available room as my oldest daughter just moved out, so I've been refurbishing her small room into my own stamp room. And made some shelfes to house all those album's... |
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Post by blaamand on Oct 22, 2018 20:02:53 GMT
...and here is the result of the girls room 're-engraved' into a stamp-cave... I'm by no means any carpenter, but had a pretty good motivation to make some custom made shelves that will eventually house 180 x Lighthouse Classic Grande albums. Here's how the newly painted shelves looked like last night around 20:00 hrs...  And here's the shelves (and room) a couple of hours later....my two small boys were payed for 2 hrs work each, to carry all the albums (and a ton of boxes) from the basement    My new office is quite tiny, but at least it is my room and my room only! Can't wait to get back home and remove that tiny desk and replace with a custom made XXXL working desk, will probably fill most of the available space  |
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Post by renden on Oct 22, 2018 20:27:59 GMT
blaamand - now I understand why you need a special room !!!  Cheers ! René
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Post by blaamand on Oct 22, 2018 20:36:19 GMT
Hehehe, my little 'quiet room' If I dare to lift the UV-blocking curtains, I can chill-out with a nice view off the sea - but I guess I will be too focused on my stamps anyway to enjoy the scenery outside |
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Post by jimwentzell on Oct 22, 2018 20:38:20 GMT
Quite impressive, Blaamand! Your shelves are so much neater and more organized than mine!!!
I have not been doing much with stamps, as my son and wife and I are continuing vacationing in France and, after tomorrow, Germany. But it was less than three days ago that I met Beryllium Guy in Aix-en-Provence where we both visited his stamp dealer friend who supplied us both with some very nice philatelic finds from the weekly Saturday market!
Soon I will scan and post some of the treasures. They include many older French postcards, some Cinderella type items, several nice pre-WWI French covers, and even a nearly pristine folded letter from the 1700's! I packed them away very tightly so as not to have them damaged by our frequent luggage rummaging. We return home October 29th so I should be posting images shortly thereafter.
Thanks again to another great friend (Chris, aka Beryllium Guy) from the greatest stamp meeting place, The Stamp Forum! Without Chris and this forum I would not have made it to Aix and the great stamp dealer there!
(cross-posted this message to Meeting TSF Members in Person!)
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 22, 2018 21:21:03 GMT
Well, I could fill a couple of niches in that! That's quite the collection you have, blaamand! It looks like a great stamp room! Does anyone have anything on the order of his? |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 22, 2018 21:24:37 GMT
I stopped in at the post office late to find my Iceland stamps had arrived from Vancouver and my latest ASP StampStore order. OMG... there is over $30 in stamps on the package! Good grief! They didn't charge me anything to mail it either! Canada, Germany, Faroes, Greenland and the USA is represented in this order. As if I don't have enough to do. But looking at blaamand's stamp room, I'd never be out of there! |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 22, 2018 21:46:08 GMT
On checking over all the stamps that arrived from the APS StampStore, I found two sets of the National Parks issue of 1934 (740-749). Wouldn't have been so bad if one was imperf, but none are! Maybe a give-away is in order again. Or the Trenton Stamp Club show auction.
What do you think?
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Post by renden on Oct 22, 2018 21:48:00 GMT
On checking over all the stamps that arrived from the APS StampStore, I found two sets of the National Parks issue of 1934 (740-749). Wouldn't have been so bad if one was imperf, but none are! Maybe a give-away is in order again. Or the Trenton Stamp Club show auction. What do you think? I vote for a give-away to a poor stamp collector LOL LOL !! René |
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Oct 22, 2018 21:57:09 GMT
I don't compare to Blaamand's class act but then I concentrate on a much narrower scope of collecting.My binders are mismatched d-rings bargain bought.The contents however...…
p.s. I just won a New Brunswick #2 for less than 1/10 catalog.
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Post by renden on Oct 22, 2018 22:10:12 GMT
I don't compare to Blaamand's class act but then I concentrate on a much narrower scope of collecting.My binders are mismatched d-rings bargain bought.The contents however...… p.s. I just won a New Brunswick #2 for less than 1/10 catalog. Congrats......help me get the series (2 stamps missing) - Enjoy !! René |
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Post by blaamand on Oct 22, 2018 22:17:46 GMT
Thank you for your kind words jimwentzell and brightonpete , appreciate it a lot. At the end of the day firstfrog2013 is absolutely right, it's not so much either volume or housing/wrapping that matters, but the contents And I would really like a NB #2 in my albums, like e.g. firstfrog2013 and renden have in their collections. Great! As any other general collectors collections, the vast majority of the stamps in my albums are low value/no value stamps (and a couple of key value stamps here and there  ) - but that's ok with me. I just love collecting them - and my OCD loves getting them in proper, uniform order! Can't wait to shift all my stamps out of those ugly magenta Lighthouse stockbooks and get the entire shelves filled with identical black Vario Classic albums. But that makes no difference whatsoever for the contents, that's only me (and my OCD ..) |
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Oct 23, 2018 14:00:12 GMT
Continuing mounting Bolivia from three different collections I bought.When I mention the large amounts of mounts I keep on hand,consider this I've already mounted well over 300 stamps and haven't had to stop because I ran out of mounts.I still have the reserve small tote I had given Mom that was returned to me.I'm up to 1950 right now I'll see how far I get today.I had forgotten how much fun it is to just collect a relatively "cheaper" country.I bought the Stiener disk so maybe after this one I'll move on to something else.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Oct 23, 2018 14:07:08 GMT
Thank you for your kind words jimwentzell and brightonpete , appreciate it a lot. At the end of the day firstfrog2013 is absolutely right, it's not so much either volume or housing/wrapping that matters, but the contents And I would really like a NB #2 in my albums, like e.g. firstfrog2013 and renden have in their collections. Great! As any other general collectors collections, the vast majority of the stamps in my albums are low value/no value stamps (and a couple of key value stamps here and there ) - but that's ok with me. I just love collecting them - and my OCD loves getting them in proper, uniform order! Can't wait to shift all my stamps out of those ugly magenta Lighthouse stockbooks and get the entire shelves filled with identical black Vario Classic albums. But that makes no difference whatsoever for the contents, that's only me (and my OCD ..) Well, Jon, I can't really add that much to the comments already except to say that your stamp room looks great, and I am totally jealous! Ok, maybe we should have the first meeting of the French Postmarks Club at your place!!! |
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Post by blaamand on Oct 23, 2018 14:27:49 GMT
Good idea, I would be delighted to have any new stamp buddies visiting my stamp cave Would need to facilitate a proper king-size desk first, though - and get the wife and kids away  |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 23, 2018 14:42:10 GMT
When should I book my flight?
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Post by blaamand on Oct 23, 2018 14:59:51 GMT
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 23, 2018 16:28:22 GMT
i'm just sorting through the Iceland stamps that came the other day. I sorted them as her Scott's but now SG. I don't have enough room in the stock book, so I'm shifting everything around to make room for the new additions.
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Post by dgdecker on Oct 23, 2018 19:28:08 GMT
I don't compare to Blaamand's class act but then I concentrate on a much narrower scope of collecting.My binders are mismatched d-rings bargain bought.The contents however...… p.s. I just won a New Brunswick #2 for less than 1/10 catalog. Congratulations on the great buy! david |
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Post by dgdecker on Oct 23, 2018 19:29:13 GMT
i'm just sorting through the Iceland stamps that came the other day. I sorted them as her Scott's but now SG. I don't have enough room in the stock book, so I'm shifting everything around to make room for the new additions. Ah, but it is the never ending job. Someone has to do it. david |
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Post by dgdecker on Oct 23, 2018 19:33:12 GMT
Well, I could fill a couple of niches in that! That's quite the collection you have, blaamand ! It looks like a great stamp room! Does anyone have anything on the order of his? What a great space he has. I have a few shelves in my library/office/stamp room but nothing like that. I should take over the guest room. Not sure how well that will work out. david |
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Post by blaamand on Oct 23, 2018 20:55:55 GMT
dgdecker - Go for it !!! (...and if the woman complaints, you can always use the female phrase "Because I deserve it !" )
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Post by Londonbus1 on Oct 23, 2018 21:04:28 GMT
Well well, I won another lot in AllNations auction. A lot of 97 different Machin's with a CV of $120US for $14 Cdn! What a bargain! Part of it in the image below.
You could have saved yourself $14 ! But I never got your address !  I put these together having avoided the Elliptical Perf types as you seem to have a start on those. Just added a few.    |
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Post by blaamand on Oct 23, 2018 21:08:49 GMT
Thanks again brightonpete. I forgot to answer your question earlier: Yes someone do "have anything on the order of this" - my brother barbu has just an identical kind of album set-up / madness in his house as myself. (Needless to say; we also have that in common that our wifes are not excactly excited about it...  ) |
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Post by brightonpete on Oct 23, 2018 23:41:09 GMT
You could have saved yourself $14 ! But I never got your address ! I put these together having avoided the Elliptical Perf types as you seem to have a start on those. Just added a few. Wow, that is quite the collection! I don’t have much to spare on hand here. I guess that’s the life of a specialist & not a general WW collector! |
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Post by angore on Oct 25, 2018 15:42:38 GMT
I finished transferring most stamps from a purchased collection. My last action was to mount my first Machins.
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Post by blaamand on Oct 25, 2018 16:10:15 GMT
I made custom album pages for Batum yesterday Took the liberty of including some info about genuine versus forgeries from some very useful reference sites LINK - Batum Surcharged Stamps - by @falshung LINK - Batum and the "Aloe Tree" Forgeries - by jkjblueJim and Nelson - You have some absolutely excellent sites, thank you gentlemen |
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) - but that's ok with me. I just love collecting them - and my OCD loves getting them in proper, uniform order! Can't wait to shift all my stamps out of those ugly magenta Lighthouse stockbooks and get the entire shelves filled with identical black Vario Classic albums. But that makes no difference whatsoever for the contents, that's only me (and my OCD 
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