Whatcha Been Stamping?

Gentlemen, I'm back after 4 weeks hibernation from stamps. My father (83) had a serious stroke, so sometimes life in general just have to get priority before stamping.
Thank you all for those marvelous posts in this thread the past weeks, it's been a pleasure to update myself on what you all are doing these days. All I have done is working on getting my new stamp-room in order. Ok, this is not all entirly true, me and my brother barbu squeezed in a session on Cape of Good Hope last week...  Still I consider the last weeks as hibernation, as November and December  normally are the most active months stamp-wise, so it's been a very disappointing progress compared to what I had hoped for.

This evening I'm working on Brazil, mounting stamps on my custom-made pages. What a great feeling to have tongs in hand again 

Haha, yes Rene you're right. I have time for stamps again now simply because I am away from home.

btw - a very nice Ottawa duplex on that Canadian you gave me earlier!

Hi, 
I have been working on BosniaHerzegovina lately. A very nice area indeed. Lovely stamps - and the hunt for type/perforation/wmk´s  on the early eagle series are awesome. Not to forget those crazy perf combos on the lovely 1906 landscapes. It has been estimated that more than 2500 different stamps exist on that issue alone!! Hehe - quite something else than the "machines"
The most interesting part for me is always the postmarks. Marvelous Bosnia! A really good area for postmarks guys - as for all the Aust/Hungarian areas.

Anyhow - I now want to try something new - to ask for help from you fellow brothers (and sisters also hopefully):

Initially I found two probably non-bosnian postmarks on the stamps I  could not figure out. After quite some google work the first one was sorted out: Komarom, Hungary : 




The second is more of a challenge: It has a nice look with that curved shape in the middle, and I know I have seen that type of cancel before - but can not remember from which country, ARGGH!!. As I am away I can´t search through my collection either . Therefore: do anyone have a hint on this cancellation:



Off course - the small section of the postmark on the left is a normal Bosnian type cancel - but it is the postmark on the right side that interest me.
"Krist.." could maybe Krištići
(Prisoje) - and "Tu..." could clearly be the big town of Tuzla - bothe towns in Bosnia. However - I am pretty sure this is not a Bosnian postmark.

Anyone?
Have a stampy day, folks!

Congratulations Pete, must be a funny feeling to say 'check' for a complete national collection 😊
...and maybe also a bit sad, as that journey has come to its end?

Thanks barbu - your second Postmark........Krist.....I will look it up in my Bosnian collection. BTW a bunch of nice Postmarks left for Norway to Jon this morning
René

 

Much appreciated renden! This "Krist..." postmark is a puzzle I would love to get right.

Regarding that bunch of postmarks you sent to my brother blaamand: Excellent, you are what I would like to say a true nobleman! 

I have been spending more time getting organized. I have run out of bookshelf space so have other options in process and created a list of to do's. I have made a lot of progress this year getting my collections in pages.   I now use OneNote for storing digital information (not just philatelic) and migrated everything from Evernote but not all resorted.  

Quite rare, unpicked hoard, substantial, high catalog value, not often seen, investment grade....

My Dad gives me all the US issues for Christmas each year.  The sheets will all go into protective sleeves with a blank page inserted to have two sided. I may hold in place with (hold your breath) archival (ha) photo corners.

Today I am at 858 inventoried Hungary stamps and all remaining dups (a lot !!) are in an Envelope to be mailed Monday as brightonpete Pete's second shipment. Have not heard about his 1st shipment sent beginning of the week - normal for Canada Post at this time since they were forced back to work by Government.

I still have a little bit of work to do to complete Hungary. René

Back to Turkey and if not already over whelmed more Turkey was waiting at the post office AND I won eight more lots yesterday.I'll be somewhere over the 1000 mark with these.

Very nice stamps, Peter, thanks for sharing!  I have not checked the Germany board and its threads, but if these have not already been posted there, they would make a very nice addition.

As for why the big difference in CV between MH and MNH, well, you have hit upon quite a subject, and one for which there may already be a thread someplace (I have not checked right now).  The thread may have been titled as being about graded versus non-graded stamps and the huge price differences there.  I recall that Nelson (@falshung) had done quite a bit of research on these subjects and made some very interesting points.

I am a bit preoccupied with a project just now, but I will have a look later to see if I can find the thread, and perhaps we can get that discussion going again.

I like this  "Whatcha Been Stamping?" thread, as it has become sort of a glorified version of the Shoutbox, but one of the downsides of it is that people post interesting scans of material that never get re-posted in a thread on a relevant subject (location, topical, or otherwise) where someone else would ever be able to find them.  That's a shame, as some very interesting items effectively become lost, almost impossible to locate without spending lots of time searching through the entire thread, which in the case of this one, would be a lot of searching....

No, I noted one set of stamps in the same period is 10 times more expensive never hinged than hinged! I've see premiums of double or triple, but 10 times? I suppose almost all of the mint examples were hinged, so never hinged are a rarity.

I agree with you, René, and Peter (brightonpete), too.  If one is a collector of classic stamps, trying to find MNH can become very difficult pretty quickly, which is why I decided a while back that used or mint-hinged or even mint-no-gum were OK with me.  I just want nice-looking, sound, genuine stamps from the classic period at prices I can afford.  Clearly 10x premiums, but even 3x premiums for that matter, will put many items out of reach for me.

In terms of eventual resale potential, it would most probably be better for me to be collecting MNH stamps and have a much smaller collection of more valuable individual items, but in the end, I collect for the enjoyment and not for any potential eventual resale value, so I have not thought about it much since making that choice.... just my perspective on the whole thing.  One of the great things about stamp collecting is that each collector can decide what is important to him/her and proceed along those lines....

I purchased these French Cinderellas a couple of weeks ago, I forgot about them as they were tucked inside a book for safekeeping.  They were a bit pricier than I expected but I hadn't seen them before.  World War two issues from Vichy France, surcharge for the "volunteer French legion against Bolshevism" in the eastern front.

Besides, they are also never hinged (NH) and had decorative bottom selvage, which probably doesn't mean a lot.  I will likely post them in the French Cinderella section when I get a chance.   Sure wish I had these on a cover or postcard!