Duelling Monitors :

Using 3.

This gal is using two 22" 1920x1080 monitors, one set portrait and one landscape, at work. 

That would be a great idea Rod!

I've been using two computers/monitors for years working on my collection, There are all kinds of combinations to use and I'm sure you will figure out what works for you. I am actually going to three now using one for a dedicated scanner pc. I use Playstation and a 40'' flatscreen at the other end of desk to watch Netflix, Utube etc and of course to play games. Below are some pictures of the stamp side room of my office. I could not find any of the tidy pictures I have, someone once asked me if I had any albums in those 3 fire file safes. To oblige the jerk and hopefully shut him up I took most of these pics.  Some people think bookshelves are the answer,  I disagree.  I've been using fire file safes for about 25 years.  In the last picture the funky looking one on the left is the first one I bought for $125.  The two bigger ones I got free from an office that was required to get rid of them because of the asbestos.  This picture is right after I  painted them with some leftover paint, I thought looked nice (I've been painting cars professionally for over 40 years).  Someday I need to paint little brother.

Hi antoniusra

Just a hint.

I would find a way to store those binders in a vertical position.  Laying flat puts a lot of weight on the stamp pages and any mint stamps may become stuck to the album page and/or mount.

Jerry B

Steve, When I was sorting out the External Hard drive to TV, using the TV remote,
not the HDMI cable, late in the evening.

BC Your welcome to come over and do some picking any time you are in the neighborhood

Rod Being normal is something I would not like to be called. My desk does not look like that except for the time I took that picture. Everything has it's own place to reside and the desk is kept quite tidy unless I am working on stamps. All of the albums fit into the Fire safes.

Jerry I am well aware that it would be better to store books upright but the fire file safes are not tall enough. I have never had any problem with stamps sticking as they are in a dry room. However, I do go thru and check them every once in a while to make sure there are no problems.

I.L.S. I'll go you a couple better than just the display card. The set in the frame you spotted are from the 1972 Educard series. It shows my favorite set of stamps in the whole world.#122 being my favorite stamp of all.The second pic is of my Pictoral Proofs. Third pic is my set of the actual stamps. Note my pages for 19th century US are Scott Platinum hingeless. Very hard to come by pages but the best.

Happened again.....

If you ever decide that you want to part with that #115P4 and #117P4 by all means contact me!! Great stuff Thank you for sharing those it made my whole day!

I.L.S.   The page the proofs are on is the Platinum page for the reprints.  I don't have any of the reprints but as there are not pages for the proofs it worked nicely.  Not much of a way for me to change the heading without trashing the page.
I just rescanned that page and did not bother to erase the heading like I did for the one on my site.  Of course I uploaded the better scan to the site so I guess I'll have to correct it for "Public Viewing"  You were supposed to ask if the 122 at the bottom of the proof page was real.  The answer is yes and no, hint it belongs on the page it's on.  It was so pretty that I could not resist laying down $25 for it.

Nothing really fantastic there as the proofs can be had rather reasonably, although they have been going up in recent years.  There is a lot of room for improvement with the stamps, at least they are all sound.  They're just what I could get my hands on never been able to afford any better.   I picked up a mint #118 about ten years
ago hidden in an Ebay lot of 19th century U.S.  Ithink the lot was around $150 and it had lots of other decent stamps.  I could not afford to keep the #118 and sold it on Ebay for 1,500 but it did help pay the bills for a few months.  Gave up looking for lots like that on Ebay or anything else for that matter.    

The U.S. proofs will be the last thing I would ever sell.

I think I'll start a thread showing my U.S Proofs but I need to rescan them.  I'm still missing many of them but they sure are pretty to look at.

I've never found any of them to not typically have bad centering.  Besides the 118, 120 and 122 I have had many multiples of the others but that is as good as I could come up with.  I've always thought the 1 center was the worst for centering.  I had to suffer a killer cancel just to get one that was barely clear on all 4 sides.

It is perfed and gummed proof.  Sadly that is where many of the proofs are going.  Crooks trying to fool an unwary collector.
This one would fool most but the more advanced collector

The 9X1TC below is perhaps my favorite, still need the atamp Found it hiding in another lot from Germany Ebay

I'm working on several other countries now so I don't really have time to rescan them all but you can see them at the links below

mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/us/usproofs.html
or here Newspaper in 12th frame  mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/us/usbob.html
and here last for frames of Officials   mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/us/usofficial.html

GASP!!

I must give credit where credit is due...YOU have an absolutely AMAZING collection..I mean I'm just totally dumbstruck by it. (That explains a lot huh?)

You obviously have a world class collection and seem to share a lot of my collecting interests as well, so don't be too offended if I ask you a billion and 1 questions OK?

Rod, I use two 22' at work.

So does your computer have 2 DVIs, HDMIs or VGAs or a combination of these?

Ram

Hi Ram,
I have 1 x HDMI and 1 x DVI if I recall correctly, not going under the desk right now, too dusty.

I have gotten over the problem by splitting the screen with two windows,
I thought it may have been too small for Scott, but I can read it OK
(that also prevents desk being overcrowded, or constant neck turning)

Next route, finding a cheap 30 inch computer screen at auction, last one I saw was around $200