Whatcha Been Stamping?

For sure a few of us sell on there. Most are like me just selling duplicates. A few are heavy listers. I think I have only ended up buying twice from members that I was aware of. I have not knowingly sold anything on eBay to members of this forum. I have pulled items I had listed and arranged a direct sale to a member once. That is always an option if someone sees something I am selling that they want. This forum does not have a large active membership but we many different collecting interests. That reduces the chance of matching up.

Digging through an old box, I found my 1977 USPS commemorative set. I remember buying it at the post office behind Port Authority in Manhattan. Today's task is to scan and upload all the stamps to my stamp program.

hi renden , if I understand correctly you don't mind sending the Nicaragua stamps if I agree to paying shipping.  I would love to have them, and they will have a new home
and they will grow my South America collections.  if any others please let me know by pm, and we can arrange the payment to you.

thank you.  cheers.  anil 

Nicaragua was sold to a great member/friend
So there will not be any Giveaway or Auction
I will do other Countries later - Thanks
René

The last few days I have been picking through 2 full stock books of Germany and German Democratic Republic. Today's mail gave me a bit of a change with this group of British America stamps that will fill a few pretty important holes in my collection. 

Today I am attempting to c;ean my desk and put away (in their proper places) all the loose stamps thay have piled up

It's quite the mess.....

and for anyone in the Sacramento CA area, today and tomorrow Sacramento Philatelic Society Spring Show- today till 6:00, tomorrow 10-4, Free admission, ots of parking. Arden Christian Church, 4300 Las Cruces Way, Sacramento 

Too cool hrdoktorx. When I look at various threads for the first time, I'll start from the beginning. It doesn't matter if the posts are ancient, I'll hit the Like button when they grab my attention.

hrdoktorx does deserve it. Still, I hit the Like button for other members as well as those who appear to have departed or are inactive. Being retired allows more time to delve into threads and see what I missed throughout the decades. As it turns out, I've been able to acquire stamps based on the many contributions of members here.  

Today, I received numerous flower stamps/sheets. Also, seaport stamps and I'm due to get aircraft/airline ones.

Not too much stamp time as babysitting still controls the days and the energy. But it is such fun !
Tomorrow I am going on a Railway journey to see some trains and railway stamps !!!

A large collection of Railway stamps has been bequeathed to the Israel Railway Museum and so I am off for a rare day out.
The collection made the news here so hopefully it will be worth seeing.

Some good news regarding the mail. One of my auction lots I won back in late September/early October and which was returned to sender in Krakow, Poland has arrived in Israel. It took one month travel. But at least it arrived and gives hope for the others still missing.
The rumour I had heard about Poland not allowing stamps on International Mail may well be true. The cover only had a registered label and nothing else so I assume that included the postage. I had read the rumour in the Philatelic Press almost a year ago.

Changing times.

Londonbus1

For the past couple months I've been dealing with an injury to my left arm (tennis elbow and sprained ligament in my wrist) that has kept me from being as active in my stamping as I'd like. Being left-handed, it's difficult to hold tongs for very long without dropping them repeatedly. The pain is pretty well gone, but there's still an underlying nerve issue to deal with.

I've always been curious about the Minkus worldwide albums and have considered purchasing the early parts from Amos on a number of occasions. So far I've held off because I'm not sure that's where I want to focus my efforts. I actually enjoy collecting anything and everything, so using an album feels wrong for me. That said, about a month or so ago I picked up a 1965 copy of the Minkus Master. Per the seller it was listed as new, but so far I've run into a hundred or so stamps hinged into it. The seller didn't know if it was complete, so I've been slowly working through it, counting the spaces on each page. I haven't noticed any glaring omissions so far. Once I am finished, I plan to develop a "virtual" Minkus Master collection, using my duplicates as the source material at least initially.

I've also been seriously considering moving to Michel as my main catalogue for my world collection after picking up an older copy of their Southeastern Europe catalogue. I really like the fact that a Michel number follows a system. Scott seems too willy-nilly and I am not a fan of segregating postage issues into the various BOB categories. I can live with some stuff being in the back, such as officials and postage dues, although Michel's numbering coupled with the Gibbons regional chronological style would be my ultimate catalogue.

Michel was running a sale for Easter recently so I placed an order yesterday for several older catalogues. I picked up a two volume set for Caribbean countries (2015/16), South Asia (2016), and 2022/23 editions of Baltics/Finland, Benelux, British Isles, and Iberian Peninsula. These should keep me busy for quite a while.

I also decided to pick up an off paper mixture from a seller in the Netherlands, four kilos of all large/commems. In the past I've found mixtures from sources outside the US can provide a different breakdown, and I'm hoping this one will be similar.

Dale

Been busy with the Easter Holiday and lots of family matters in the last few weeks and haven't been able to do anything. Hope to get back to it today. I'd like to put Japan back on the shelf and move onto something else.

Slowly getting my desk cleaned up and things put aware ... where they belong, as opposed to placing into one of my sorting 'tubs' or an envelope labeled 'Misc'.

Also working on som color analysis and I have managed to introduce something into the colortable which is keeping it from opening for manual edit. Still works for comparison and adding new colors. Tedious as its lines of very similar text data, so today I'm going to remove 10 - 20 line blocks at a time to see if I can isolate where the issue is. It is likely one extra space, or lack of,, or a character that closes a string.

And I have an article for the newsletter I need to compile and finalize before I start anything else

and spring has finally arrived making it harder to concentrate on indoor 'stuff'

Happ stamping all!

very nice