Whatcha Been Stamping?

Working on 2 Countries presently: Austria and Mauritius........classics !

René

A little break from old album picking today with the arrival of several eBay auction wins. Nothing spectacular but holes filled in 5 countries in British America. 




 Leeward Islands Scott 39, Nevis Scott 22, St. Christopher Scott 10, Tobago Scott 8 and Trinidad Scott 3

'Seedlings' is a wonderful image. I love that.

Having them on a page, so you can see them, allows your interest to sprout more than if they were in an envelope in a box.✨

Thanks for the share angore 
this is probably the best way to grow the seedling into a tree.  I prefer to do it this way.  Envelopes were (are) driving me nuts.  Still have a lot of seedlings to plant.  

Good Morning Stamp Friends 

Times are very busy here as we embark upon a big home improvement project. Hubby and I are at that age where we want to get the house the way we want it as we’ll probably live here until they cart our old bones off to assisted living or whatever the future holds. That means upgrading to hurricane windows and an addition.  My stamp desk sits in from of a big window wall and when we have to hurricane prep, that means shutters and Stygian darkness. Ugh! Hurricane windows would prevent us living in a cave during these storms. Anyways,  We are going to be living in a construction zone for a few months, but it will be great once it’s done. 

I’ve made some awesome progress filling some gaps in my collections thanks to my penny sales on EBay. Those Pennie’s add up! Every month I save up and buy a few of the pricy items I never thought I’d be able to afford. Let me tell you, finding homes for all of the duplicates and trading them for a few toughies is so satisfying, even if it is a lot of work and very time consuming. As my in-laws call it - it’s “sweat equity”,  trading time and labor for funds. The main gems I’ve been able to purchase include an Austrian Dolfuss, Norway London OPs, Greenland “andere farber” OPs, and Finland Zeppelin 1830 error - stamps I never in my wildest dreams I thought I’d be able to afford. I only collect about a dozen countries now.

I’m fairly sure I’ll be able to sell most of my duplicates by the end of the year. Almost all of the UN, Australia and Germany are sold. I have a bit more New Zealand and more GB commemoratives and duplicates from collection purchases. I’m working my way back through all of the USA and just finished 2008. Slowly but surely, eh? I’ll be so happy to wrap up these sales and go back to just collecting. I have ZERO desire to be a stamp dealer. 

My Greenland collection was given some attention yesterday. I am only missing about 10 stamps now, excluding modern confections issued after 2015. I’ve been focusing on Finland mostly, trying to complete a project for Beryllium Guy - thanks for being so patient, Chris!

I finished adding the Hibernian numbers for all of the Ireland commemoratives on Colnect. djcmh has been incredibly patient with me as this project has taken me far longer than expected. I plan to buckle down and wrap up the definitive entries soon and set aside time windows to dedicate to this project. There are quite a few specialty items missing from the Ireland section on Colnect, but the main listings are fairly complete. I’ve been bidding on auctions trying to find some of the missing items so that I can add pictures. 

I also sent a second batch of stamps to Bermuda for cancels last fall and they are just now arriving. I’ll have to document this as an addendum to my newsletter article from a few years ago. Things have changed and not necessarily for the better.

Happy stamping everyone!

Where and when is it held?


I was im Barcelona just over a week ago. I had addresses of two stamp dealers as I was looking for a block of stamps from 1943. It is a cheap stamp, but difficult to find as a block. One dealer offers it on his website, but with €6 P&P I considered popping in. Unfortunately, I had no time on Friday and the shop closed on Sunday. One block is offered on Ebay, but, as many of the seller's offers, not in any good condition. The stamp dealer I found in the old town of Girona did not have the block.

An order from Spain arrived today, I am awaiting some further of the French-Andorran stamps.

Just over a week ago was the successful bidder at a stamp Auction for a collection of Rail related Covers, Around 400 items.
Have started going through the lot sorting out the duplicates within the actual lot ( just a handful), Some non GB covers which will eventually go for sale and checking what I have already got in the collection. Some duplicates put up for sale on ebay and today just added those from 1969 in to the collection and uploaded on to the website.
now to check through 1970. Covers in excellent condition and I think a very good buy. Some shown below.
Geoff (GBCC) www.gbcovercollector.co.uk

Soaking some stamps.

This week is GERMANY !!
Transferring stamps from an old Scott Junior of the 40s to my new pages - Inventory was already done but it is good to re-check.
Now I have more than 1 inch 1/4 of pages - nice - not too many space fillers......that will be done later. I have also.....dups   for the friends - René

After soaking some stamps, I was looking at some from Canada (many from TSF and SOR members) and realized (forgot) that my Canada collection had issues up to 2000 (printed pages and mounted)! It is good to review what you have in addition to what you want. I will need to revisit what I need. I also found I had a lot of spares to get rid off.

Tough weeks and months have meant little stamp activity.

The last three weeks I have been laid up for the most part with a severe Bronchial flu, the worst I have ever experienced. It is the 4th bout of flu I have had this winter. Playing with stamps was far from the agenda. Also, my trusted desk lamp died after 10 years continuous service and I had to wait two weeks for a replacement from my jeweler contact. But all is looking better now and today, a National holiday for local elections, I am surrounded by albums and preparing for the next bourse and continuing with the Philatelic cull of my collections.

With flights starting to come and go, my wish is that I can begin to buy and sell online once again. Nothing much has been added to those collections I hold dear. It would be nice to make some additions.

Londonbus1

Today I have been admiring the latest addition to my French Cinderella Collection.

But I purchased it last summer !!! 

The seller (eBay) would only send to the USA so, having won the item, I had it sent to an address of a friend in New York. Another friend from our village was going to NY and would bring it back with her early September.........except she didn''t !   At the last minute, something happened and it didn't go into her suitcase.
Fast forward 6 months and the NY family had another visit from one of our community and yesterday the beautiful 'Citex' folder was in my hands !

I left feedback long ago and am very impressed by the quality of the item which is near perfect for the age. Showing only the cover as the item in full was posted by anglobob already.


thestampforum.boards.net/thread/6014/philatelic-exhibitions-societies-france.........on Page 1.

I'd been after this folder at a decent price and decent quality for a long time. Here it is.

CITEX 1949, 'Centenaire du Timbre-Poste Francais'.