Vatican City: Stamps

Folks,

Here's a couple of Vatican airmail stamps for the thread.

I was thinking that scans would be a better display. Scan the pages, then make a video of them, or in my case a local website with the pages display in a browser. When one moves the cursor, a pop-up window could appear with the stamp info. Of course doing that takes away from the making of album pages and just plain toying with the stamps! Everything takes time and the video is good to do for insurance purposes. I have done none of the above. They are all good ideas though!

Thanks so much, dgdecker ! That is exactly what I was trying to accomplish - just present a quick peek at another member’s collection.

Yes, I do realize that there are no high resolution scans - that would eat up a LOT of photo hosting and would take a colossal amount of time to accomplish. These are mostly common stamps and IMHO scans of that caliber would be treating hamburger like prime rib. 

There are plenty of options for flip book software to assemble images or pdf.

I have scanned my entire worldwide collection and one intent was to create a flip book of countries. One goal was to be able to check collections for missing issues without having to drag out the album (plus less wear and tear on pages).

I had been tempted to upload all of them to the tsfimage host but the host does not appear to have a flipbook like option or ability to scroll through an image. This is why I asked questions about file quantity and size limits for the image host.   I did discover that Win 10's Photo software actually gets close. If you have the scans with order to naming and you select the first one you can page through each scan by just using the mouse wheel or arrow key.

Does the tsfimage host have the abilty to create something similar such as a slide show based upon an album.

The most complete collection is Rod222's collection on Steiner pages but he does not post here any more and he just posts in threads so not organized.

I am sure there is someone here like PostmasterGS that knows what would be needed.

I have also been collecting the Vatican stamps. I think Vatican stamps are very beautiful and I like them.

thought I'd  post pix of the very few issues  I  have for  'Poste Vaticane'  -  was sure I  had more, but suspect they were modern and may have gone into the  bin.     These few span 1933 to  1945, I think, and as with any country I've kept them simply because they aren't modern  -  it's always worth keeping 'old' stamps from any country - all too easy to dispose of unappealing pieces then regret it later.
So, in no particular order ..................

SG 88  -  the rather large  bluey-green 25 cent value is 'The  Consecration of Archbishop Pacelli' - seems to be an issue  from  'The Popes Episcopal Silver Jubilee' series from 1943.

Two items from 'The Arms of Pope Pius XII (12th):
SG   80 (1940) - the 5 cent lake  .............   IMHO this has the appearance of carmine more than lake - the  latter, according to SG is darker than this stamp.
SG 100 (1945) - the 30 cent brown.

SG 93 (Second Series) - 80 cent chestnut-brown - 1944 - 'Flagrante Bello Misereor Super Turbam'  -  which may translate as  Prisoners of War Relief Fund.    This is the standing group with a spectral vision overhead.

SG 20 from May 1933 - black and sepia - 10 cents title is 'Wing of Vatican Palace'.

SG 26 from May 1933 - chocolate and lake - 75 cents -  'Vatican  Gardens and Dome of St. Peter's - this is an appealing image, has perspective/depth to the view.

SG E4 from May 1933 - blue and brown - Lire 2.50 - a detailed and  sumptuous view of the Vatican City  -  One of the Express Letter Stamps (SG E1 to E14 - 1929 through 1953).

Since 1929, Vatican City has produced some v.  attractive and gorgeous stamps: views/panorama/religious flavoured themes and historical characters - though no idea if later issues continued the same quality.     As Terri (philatelia) has commented, the start date means there aren't acres of C19 issues to  collect, and you should be  able to put together a  reasonable  collection without breaking the bank (aside from just one  or two items), though probably not my scene.    Perhaps a tendency for the issuer to overdo  it  as with San Marino and one or two  other stamp tourist countries. 

Any and all errors are mine, so comments corrections welcome.  thanks. 

paul1
renden

Paul and Rene, I moved your posts specifically about Vatican City stamps to this thread.  Terri's (philatelia) thread is about making these "Tips for Collecting...." and her post about Vatican City was just an example of what one could write for those posts.

Thanks for your posts, guys.  Always happy to see posts showing stamps with good descriptions in them.

thanks Beryllium Guy, for moving to appropriate location - I was getting carried away with linking to Terri's earlier words.

I have a fairly extensive collection of Vatican stamps. I enjoy the beauty of many of the stamps and to learn more about the religion I profess. I always thought I knew everything I needed to know about almost any country I collect but I must admit I have learned a great deal from my Vatican collection. My bulging binders of Vatican issues hold a lot of history and stamps that demonstrate the history of the religion. Truly a rewarding exercise for me.