Post by tobben63 on Nov 14, 2018 18:03:22 GMT
On an auction in my local stamp club (Bergens Filatelistklubb) I bought two cigar boxes with stamps. In one there was a accumulation of stamps from all over the places, in very various conditions. I did't pay more than ca $6 for the two.
When I got home my thought was; why did you bay this, it's only old defect and very common stamps here, waste of money.
But some days later I came up with an idea. I challenge myself to really see what it contained. And sort them. First step was to “clean” them from old hinges and paperbits. It went in three turns. There was some unused stamps, but most of them had glued together with other stamps so I decided to wash them all.
Then the sorting started. And I started to learn small things about stamps I thought I knew, but there was more to learn. More of that later.
I now give myself a new challenge. I have not been as active as I hoped for here at TSF so I challenge myself to do several posts in this tread, describing a stamp or stamps that was in the cigar box.
(The other box will maybe get a own tread, have not looked trough it properly yet)
When I got home my thought was; why did you bay this, it's only old defect and very common stamps here, waste of money.
But some days later I came up with an idea. I challenge myself to really see what it contained. And sort them. First step was to “clean” them from old hinges and paperbits. It went in three turns. There was some unused stamps, but most of them had glued together with other stamps so I decided to wash them all.
Then the sorting started. And I started to learn small things about stamps I thought I knew, but there was more to learn. More of that later.
I now give myself a new challenge. I have not been as active as I hoped for here at TSF so I challenge myself to do several posts in this tread, describing a stamp or stamps that was in the cigar box.
(The other box will maybe get a own tread, have not looked trough it properly yet)
