Whatcha Been Stamping?

scub ,those are elegant pages for your Canada album. Did you make them yourself?

I'm glad you were able to make some additions. 💖

Still trying to identify & mount stamps from the auction lot I won earlier this month. Quite a few have been put into envelopes for later identification by the Deegam system when I have more time. I've come across quite a few "errors" not listed by SG or Deegam (unless I've missed the Deegam profiles). Quite a few broad bands in the lot and a few with odd phosphor bands which I don't already have. I'm working on the booklets today with the emphasis on getting the cylinder numbers mounted. This is the difficult bit in my estimation, as a high percentage of booklets are/were printed in more than 1 column, so lots of different checks to identify which column the same booklets are from, can't get my head round this one.

My work table at the moment.

Lots of jigsaw puzzles on the internet/computer. Just a thought!!  madbaker

My stamp time has been severely curtailed due to the problems here with electricity supplies.Since my last post a month ago,the situation has deteriorated.New blackouts have just been announced.Three sessions without power 4am to 8am 11am to 4pm and 7pm to midnight.Luckily,internet connection is available but little time to recharge batteries !!!
Malls and shopping centres have generators so these are usually busy.However,during these blackouts there are no traffic lights working and driving is a problem.Even in normal times this is challenging...now,even more so....
Anglobob

Haven't had a lot of time for stamping this week ... too many chores getting ready for the colder weather and doing yardwork. So, I was looking forward to my local club meeting last night - the last one before our Fall Show and Sale this weekend. Typical of such things, people were holding off buying stuff ... saving their money for the big sale on Saturday. So, I'm a bit overwhelmed this morning with all the stuff I was able to get for next to nothing at the auction last night. I mean seriously .. less than pennies a stamp.  They weren't the best items we've ever had on auction but they were interesting ... and nobody was bidding. 

And, on the way to the meeting, I got my latest COVID shot and the annual flu shot - one in each arm. So, I'm using that to get out of yardwork today (smile) so I can have a closer look at last night's acquisitions and make a want list for tomorrow's big sale. 

Keep stampin' ... Cheers, 

PS - From last night, I ended up with 150 pages, absolutely jammed, of Romanian stamps from 1940 to 1970. 



And, an old KABE stock-book full of interesting Hungarian Stamps. If I'm lucky some of the occupation stamps will be real (smile).



And, an old handmade, handwritten Czechoslovakian album that was obviously a labour of love for some collector who made copius notes in pencil, and sometimes using a typewriter, under each stamp. It must have taken him years. I would like to have known that guy. 

stainlessb

Fairly common, I think that is referred to as a "moire line"
Thanks for the removal solution

Spent some time yesterday and today sorting a world mix. The highlight so far, a few early St. Lucia. It’s always a good day when some new QV issues land on my desk.

Also picked up a couple mixtures of Malaysia and Thailand. Both should grow my collection of those areas nicely.

Dale

A friend for some 30 years has run a Circulating club packet which runs round UK members with 8-10 members booklets on approval. Buyers take what you need and pay the organiser who then pays out to the sellers .

there are 4 circuits  GB, Commonwealth Modern , Empire to Geo Vi and foreign. A new packet is launched each month for each circuit and will usually take 6-8 months to go the rounds.

It has been such a useful outlet for selling surplus individual stamps, my own or on behalf of folks inherited collections being disposed of, over a year I have had 35-40 booklets circulated this way with regular cheque payments bringing in ££ or £££ monthly.

Now the disturbing news arrives he is retiring his packet operation at the end of the year and that selling outlet will shut down.

i have just mailed him my last 4 booklets for circulation during the first part of 2025.  I am gutted! 😞 

Alex (vikingeck), I had a similar experience when I first came to live here in Israel. I joined a local packet circuit club for both exchanges and sales and it was a great source of material for my first few years in a new place.
Then it stopped. And boy, did I miss it. So I feel your pain.

Lately I have been pricing most of my collections ready for listing and/or taking to the bourse in Tel Aviv next week. It has been quite a task.
I have also attended (online) a few local auctions where the strength in Middle East/Judaica/Israel items is so strong I won only one lot !! 
Even my over-the-top $100 bids were blown away.

My palms are empty, but there is still a bit of cash in my wallet. Who said that ?

Londonbus1

The past 2 weeks I have been working my way through the old collection I was given while home in Nova Scotia. The stamps mounted in the albums were pretty well all from the 1940-50's era. I filled a few dozen holes in my world wide collection. There was nothing of any great value but still a nice project. The interesting and frustrating thing was the way my friend had mounted each and every stamp. I will ask him the next time we chat who taught him to double hinge them. Used stamps could be removed quite successfully by sliding tongs through the middle on the side. Sadly many mint did not survive due to excessive wetting resulting in them getting stuck to the album pages. I have now worked myself out of a job and will try to sell the balance and pass the proceeds along to him. I will top it up with a fair amount for items I have kept. 

A Little Stamping When I Can

Greetings, stampers everywhere!  I hope this post finds you all as well as you can be these days.  I have been feeling a bit off recently, which has not been helped by getting a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot yesterday.  This weekend has some family activities for me, so I am not sure how much stamping there will be.  I am hoping to do a little bit today:

• Sort and put away stamps from press-flattening after soaking
• Go through trading material (multiple tasks for different people)
• Catch up on stamp-related correspondence
  
• Organize a new country collection if I have time

The pending onset of winter means much nicer weather here in So Cal, so I should also probably try to get out in the sunshine for a walk.  Some exercise might do me good.  Below is a photo of stamps initially sorted from the huge hoard lot I received, some of which have now been soaked.  Lots of hinge remnants and adherent paper, but still, some very nice stamps to go through.  Much nicer than the average mixed lot.

Stay stampy, all!

Just set up ready for the bourse.
Pics in the evening !!

Londonbus1…….live from the Israel Philatelic Foundation

With Canada Post going on strike, I won't be getting anything in the mail for a bit ... no point in using eBay or bidding on the current China Stamp Society auction. So, even though I have more than enough projects to work on and more than enough stampy stuff to play with, I went to my local club meeting last night and ... went overboard. It was so easy to use the strike as an excuse to bend (break) the budget.

It just so happened that one of the dealers brought me a 3" thick binder full of Post WW2 covers ... a wide range of censor marks, censor stamp varieties, a typology of censor tapes, postmarks from the various occupation zones. So, I bought it. 

In my defense, it has some cool things to study. This morning, for example, I've been looking at this December 13, 1948 Dresden (Russian Zone) cover to C. G. Campbell at the Men's Residence at Doane College (now University) in Crete, Nebraska. Cool cover, nice stamps ... but it's the purple Russian Censor stamp on the back that is its most interesting feature. 



The Russian's were experimenting with censor markings. I understand that this particular stamp was used between January 1, 1947 and November 14, 1949. Around the edge of the circular mark it reads, 'Soviet Zone Military Censor'. In the middle, the number 5327 is interesting. The first and last numbers, '57' was assigned to Saxony. The middle two numbers are apparently the ID number of the censor who examined the mail. 

I have 100+ more to study, cool. 

I won't be buying anything anytime soon. O wait, I can't, the mail is not working.