angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Jan 4, 2024 11:33:31 GMT
I mounted some Laos and thanks to my poor inventory I ended with 12 dupes and only one was better than what I had. I had already cut the mounts so now will try to populate empty spaces.
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 4, 2024 14:17:26 GMT
Good Morning Forum Friends! Yesterday I mailed a big trade using two of the 2000 $11.75 hologram issues which delighted the postal clerks who had never seen them before. They were oooooing and aaahhhing, tilting the box to see the holographic effects. Just in case the clerks questioned that the stamps were valid postage, I copied the catalog page for those. After they were nicely canceled, a piece of plastic was placed over them, so they should arrive undamaged. Fingers crossed!  Today I’m the washer wench doing mending, ironing, etc. but in between loads I’m going through bags of Denmark that were part of my Christmas surprise box lot. A large percentage of the duplicates are going into the donate box, but I found many better CDS cancels - nicer than what I had, and a few of each will make up some penny lots, too. Here’s a pic of the sort in progress. FYI - That large piece of black matting cardboard on my desk is a must have - so much easier to see the perfs and even watermarks. You can buy sheets at any store that sells picture framing supplies. I highly recommend getting a piece.  Once I get this pile of Denmark sorted I’m off to Finland to do some organizing and research for something I promised Chris, Beryllium Guy . Finland is one of my favorites so looking forward to opening those albums. Happy stamping! |
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cjoprey
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Scanning stamps for my website...
Posts: 1,504
What I collect: Belgium (predominantly), British Commonwealth (older ones), WW (whatever comes my way...)
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Post by cjoprey on Jan 4, 2024 15:10:25 GMT
Was able to visit one of my local(ish) brick-and-mortar stamp shops today; "Stamps at Bagleys" in Norwich, Norfolk. The lady who runs it (Anna) is lovely, and very helpful. A space stacked to the top with books and boxes containing stamps, postcards, cigarette cards and tins, coins, medals, etc... I spent some time browsing and looking throught the books Anna dug out for me, and came away with a few lovely MNH hole-fillers for my Belgium collection, and some used early Lourenço Marques and India stamps. And then I get home to find the stamps from Xavier's giveaway have also arrived.  |
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anilkhemlani
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collect worldwide stamps
Posts: 623
What I collect: Stamps from all over the world + FDC
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Post by anilkhemlani on Jan 5, 2024 3:28:56 GMT
Picked up the year of the dragon stamps that released today in hong kong. got these prepaid greeting cards that are like post cards. first time I have seen anything like this.    |
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drblade
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Posts: 848
What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Jan 5, 2024 13:38:12 GMT
I've been taking things easy lately with philatelic activity but got a nice surprise for Christmas (as scanned).   |
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TimG
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Posts: 230
What I collect: Worldwide
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Post by TimG on Jan 5, 2024 14:33:54 GMT
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Londonbus1
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Cinderella Stamp Club Member 3059
Posts: 5,064
What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jan 7, 2024 12:56:03 GMT
Stamp time has been limited for a while now as those babysitting duties took over. But I have found some time over the last few days to get ready for the Tel Aviv Monthly Bourse, my only sales outlet at present. So, with most of my collections in the disposal mode, I have been preparing pages and collections ready for Tuesday. Some classic Cinderellas, small lots of various countries, remainders of a France album I broke down and a load of revenues. And more besides. I'll admit it's been fun given the lack of activity for much of the last year ! Still no buying or selling online due to the War, so purchases have been made through the Stamp Shop and Auction in Tel Aviv run by a friend of mine. I will be bidding on his live auctions tonight and tomorrow ready for collection on Tuesday (he says, hopefully !). It's good to be working with stamps again. After babysitting, which is coming up now, I will be back pricing pages of sets and small lots and making up some packets for the schoolkids. (Free for them). All good fun. I just wish the aches and pains would ease, just for a day !!  Londonbus1 |
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Post by greaden on Jan 7, 2024 22:18:23 GMT
Today, processing odds and ends in the Pile. I got through Schleswig (Plebiscite edition), Austrian and Italian offices in Levant/Turkey/Crete, and (French) Indochinese offices in China.
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madbaker
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Posts: 803
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 Jan 8, 2024 6:45:36 GMT
I got my stamping mojo back this weekend and finally finished a detailed sort of my Japan stamps. Sorted definitives by series, then commems / special stamps by year. I think I'll put together pages of the Philatelic week stamps and New Years greeting stamps, at minimum. The New Years stamps were fun because I have several of the annual greetings stamps, plus one of the 'lottery prize' souvenir sheets. So I can put a page together that tells the story of this annual Japanese tradition. That sort of thing really makes my day. It's my favourite part of collecting worldwide stamps. I can learn a cultural fun fact, write it up in my collection, then move on without stressing that I only have 6-7 of the 50+ stamps in the decades long series. It's always so interesting to see the stamps sorted by year, to see where they land on my (recently re-discovered) sorting grid. The definitives are predominantly from the 1950's and 60's, as expected. But the commemoratives tend to cluster in either 1958-61, or 1994 - 1999! I must have purchased two very different collections / packets over the years. PS - this session was longer than normal because I was fascinated by the series of paintings illustrating the poems of Matsuo Basho. The beauty of the paintings had me Googling the poet, then walking over to the bookstore to see if they had a translation of "Narrow Road to the Interior", which the stamps portrayed. No luck, but we have many bookstores.
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angore
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Posts: 5,700
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Jan 8, 2024 12:08:21 GMT
I started identifying stamps from Germany spread out on multi Vario pages  |
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,909
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 Jan 9, 2024 15:14:31 GMT
Our houseguest have returned to Phillie and a calm has returned to our house. Maybe I can get some actual stamping in today!
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anglobob
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Posts: 2,602
What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Jan 9, 2024 20:44:46 GMT
Possibly not totally stamp-related but events here in Guayaquil and Ecuador have seriously taken a turn for the worse.A nation wide state of emergency has been declared and a curfew from 11p to 5am.This has happened after the escape from prison of one of the leaders of a drug cartel.The local Tv station was taken over by hooded delinquents and there are numerous incidents of hostage-taking and armed revolts against the police and military.All of this is connected to drug gangs who seem to be impossible to capture. Most of the stores here are now closed and every one has been told to go home and stay there. Possibly lots of time in the house,similar to the pandemia but I seem to have lost a little interest in stamping..... I have just seen this on the BBC site... www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67930452 |
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
Posts: 4,909
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 Jan 9, 2024 20:50:05 GMT
Do stay safe Bob!
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 9, 2024 20:55:34 GMT
That’s scary, Bob. Please be safe!
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,551
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 9, 2024 21:45:34 GMT
With a big Annual show just 12 weeks away, our club has to fill 60 exhibit Frames, each of 16 sheets. I have promised 3 .So over the weekend I have been arranging coherent displays from different collections. I have completed 16 sheets of Cape triangles, 16 sheets on the theme of Lifeboats and need to check my small exhibit of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific. It was on display a couple of months ago so it should be an easy fix.
These are display not competitive exhibits but I may also enter 32 sheets that I wrote up for the TSFNewsletter in 2021 “ Samoa, a transition from Kingdom to Colony to Independence” if I get time.
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angore
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Posts: 5,700
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Jan 10, 2024 11:07:21 GMT
Still more Germany. Using Colnect and identifying by viewing by denomination, it is taking me about 45 minutes to do a Vario page (50+ plus stamps). It is harder because I know nothing about German issues. The Colnect variant feature seems to work fairly well but does not look fully implemented (not a criticism).
I downloaded the latest Steiner pages for German empire (spaces up to 1949), Germany classic (up to 1937), and the FDR (1949 - ). I did not see any differences between the classic and regular. I have seen differences in the past.
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 10, 2024 13:03:15 GMT
Good Morning Fellow Stampers! Yesterday I sorted through a huge pile of Seals and Cinderellas from Scandinavia, USA and Canada. Some of you may not know this but collecting Christmas seals is really popular in Denmark. I collect Scandy, so I often get those included with collections and lots. I’ve never really had much interest in these, but the Danish ones piqued my interest so I decided to give them a go. I prefer to hunt for copies with cancels though. Anyways they often issue sheets where every stamp is different and trying to find one of each is actually rather fun! They even have booklet varieties. Here’s a pic of some of my duplicates;  And here is a page from my collection - a work in progress. It will take time to find one of each!  happy stamping everyone! |
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madbaker
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Posts: 803
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 Jan 10, 2024 18:05:03 GMT
With a big Annual show just 12 weeks away, our club has to fill 60 exhibit Frames, each of 16 sheets. I have promised 3 .So over the weekend I have been arranging coherent displays from different collections. I have completed 16 sheets of Cape triangles, 16 sheets on the theme of Lifeboats and need to check my small exhibit of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific. It was on display a couple of months ago so it should be an easy fix. These are display not competitive exhibits but I may also enter 32 sheets that I wrote up for the TSFNewsletter in 2021 “ Samoa, a transition from Kingdom to Colony to Independence” if I get time. Wow, I'm impressed vikingeck. One of my goals is to get my collections into a state where I might arrange a non-competitive display or tell a story with extracts from my collection.
I'm curious, are you writing up pages specifically for your displays and remounting stamps, or is it more a case of pulling completed sheets from your existing collection?
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,551
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 10, 2024 21:56:33 GMT
Wow, I'm impressed vikingeck . One of my goals is to get my collections into a state where I might arrange a non-competitive display or tell a story with extracts from my collection.
I'm curious, are you writing up pages specifically for your displays and remounting stamps, or is it more a case of pulling completed sheets from your existing collection?
Well Rob , a bit of both…….. the Cape triangles 16 sheet is more or less a complete collection already written up. The “RLS in the Pacific“ is a stand alone sub section of my Samoa collection which I have already exhibited several years ago, and does not need a re-write . over the past 20 years I have frequently displayed and talked to a number of clubs and societies ( 6 in 2023 !) so can usually put something ready made together fairly quickly . the Lifeboat story is new and purpose built … not a lot of stamp material it is mostly the Art work involved in creating the commemorative cover the club presents at the Congress which I have been developing over the past 12- 18 months. The history of Samoa from “Kingdom to colony to independence” uses pages from my collection but needs about half a dozen re-writes to knit them together coherently and as a 2 frame exhibit does require a bit of rearranging and plundering the main collection. |
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vikingeck
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Posts: 3,551
What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 10, 2024 22:10:04 GMT
Good Morning Fellow Stampers! Some of you may not know this but collecting Christmas seals is really popular in Denmark. I collect Scandy, And here is a page from my collection - a work in progress. It will take time to find one of each! happy stamping everyone! Historically Denmark prides itself on producing the world’s first Christmas seal. In 1904 a postmaster Einar Holboll had the idea and they are sold via the Danish Post Office . Within 2 years enough money was raised to build a children’s TB sanatorium. Holboll himself is depicted on philatelia’s 1927 issue in the lot above initially a single design appeared each year , even during WW2 , but from the 1950s sheets of up to 50 with multi images have been produced |
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kasvik
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Posts: 607
What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jan 10, 2024 23:56:38 GMT
Possibly not totally stamp-related but events here in Guayaquil and Ecuador have seriously taken a turn for the worse.A nation wide state of emergency has been declared and a curfew from 11p to 5am.This has happened after the escape from prison of one of the leaders of a drug cartel.The local Tv station was taken over by hooded delinquents and there are numerous incidents of hostage-taking and armed revolts against the police and military.All of this is connected to drug gangs who seem to be impossible to capture. Most of the stores here are now closed and every one has been told to go home and stay there. Possibly lots of time in the house,similar to the pandemia but I seem to have lost a little interest in stamping..... I have just seen this on the BBC site... www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67930452 |
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renden
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Posts: 9,163
What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Jan 11, 2024 0:25:13 GMT
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Londonbus1
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Cinderella Stamp Club Member 3059
Posts: 5,064
What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jan 11, 2024 10:14:34 GMT
Recovering from a tiring day out in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, at the local bourse/Fair. A good day was had by all, I took almost $700 in 2½ hours so I got some sales in at last. Pics and more in the appropriate category later. Yesterday I received only my 3rd item of mail since the outbreak of War on October 7th. Two Christmas cards from the UK arrived earlier in January and yesterday from the USA, the Poster Stamp Bulletin (PSCC) ! What a surprise. It must have wiggled it's way onto an Israel Plane at JFK !! But it was nice to get an item of mail in the post. It seems like a thing of the past these days. Now to get ready for the next Fair in February. Londonbus1 |
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djcmh
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Posts: 794
What I collect: Worldwide
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Post by djcmh on Jan 11, 2024 16:52:37 GMT
Still more Germany. Using Colnect and identifying by viewing by denomination, it is taking me about 45 minutes to do a Vario page (50+ plus stamps). It is harder because I know nothing about German issues. The Colnect variant feature seems to work fairly well but does not look fully implemented (not a criticism). I downloaded the latest Steiner pages for German empire (spaces up to 1949), Germany classic (up to 1937), and the FDR (1949 - ). I did not see any differences between the classic and regular. I have seen differences in the past. The project at Colnect to transfer from the old Special Variant system to the new minor variant system is about 70% complete. Because of the complexities of variants, all the changeover has to be done by hand, so it is being done as quickly as the volunteer editors have time to get it accomplished. Last night I finished up the transfer work for the main Germany pre-1945 listings, so now navigating things like booklets and se-tenants for the Reich era should be much easier. |
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 11, 2024 18:43:13 GMT
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Cephus
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Posts: 169
What I collect: U.S. 1847-1993, Australia, China, New Zealand
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Post by Cephus on Jan 11, 2024 19:11:50 GMT
Going to Orcoexpo this weekend, still haven't had a chance to pull any albums out to figure out what I want to focus on. I keep saying I will, but I never get around to it. Last night, I had planned to, then about 11pm, my wife said "weren't you going to look at stamps?" Too late now! Hopefully tonight I can get it done and make a plan.
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jan 11, 2024 20:22:26 GMT
Going to Orcoexpo this weekend, still haven't had a chance to pull any albums out to figure out what I want to focus on. I keep saying I will, but I never get around to it. Last night, I had planned to, then about 11pm, my wife said "weren't you going to look at stamps?" Too late now! Hopefully tonight I can get it done and make a plan. That sounds like a fun weekend - have a great time! Your post made me remember how nice it is having my wishlists on Colnect. If I go to a show, as long as I have my phone, I have all my info available. So much nicer than the old days when I carried all those paper lists. |
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Cephus
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Posts: 169
What I collect: U.S. 1847-1993, Australia, China, New Zealand
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Post by Cephus on Jan 12, 2024 2:31:01 GMT
Going to Orcoexpo this weekend, still haven't had a chance to pull any albums out to figure out what I want to focus on. I keep saying I will, but I never get around to it. Last night, I had planned to, then about 11pm, my wife said "weren't you going to look at stamps?" Too late now! Hopefully tonight I can get it done and make a plan. That sounds like a fun weekend - have a great time! Your post made me remember how nice it is having my wishlists on Colnect. If I go to a show, as long as I have my phone, I have all my info available. So much nicer than the old days when I carried all those paper lists. Agreed, I'd never go back, but I still want to have a plan in mind so I don't sit at a dealer's table and go "duh... what do I want to see?" |
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anilkhemlani
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collect worldwide stamps
Posts: 623
What I collect: Stamps from all over the world + FDC
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Post by anilkhemlani on Jan 12, 2024 3:55:52 GMT
Well I feel like I won the lottery. My lost shipment FINALLY arrived two months after being shipped. But - it was worth the wait! I bought the lot for the Austrian stamps overprinted “Venetia-Guilia”, but inside was an unexpected bunch of Italian states and other goodies. I just had a hunch, you know what I mean? I’m fairly certain there are many forgeries, but for the price I paid, this is still a bargain and a lot of fun. There are a few I can’t identify, but I’ll save those for the Sherlock’s. Here are some pics - a tiny portion of this stockbook of Italian back of book goodies. wow , nice stamps Terry. thank you for sharing. |
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Philatarium
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Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 1,032
What I collect: Primarily focused on Japan, but lots of other material catches my eye as well ...
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Post by Philatarium on Jan 12, 2024 5:50:34 GMT
Going to Orcoexpo this weekend, still haven't had a chance to pull any albums out to figure out what I want to focus on. I keep saying I will, but I never get around to it. Last night, I had planned to, then about 11pm, my wife said "weren't you going to look at stamps?" Too late now! Hopefully tonight I can get it done and make a plan. Unfortunately, it has been cancelled. I don't know why: www.stampshowsteve.com/Are you on their email mailing list? I did get an email about it a few days ago. |
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