angore
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Posts: 5,698
What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Apr 17, 2020 12:20:06 GMT
I had found this in a lot of plate blocks I purchased. These are US Special Delivery Scott E19 (1951 issue) perfins. I have no idea on what to do with them.
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Post by smauggie on Apr 17, 2020 12:21:59 GMT
Send them to me. Edit: These perfins are from the University of Illinois I believe.
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blaamand
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Currently creating custom pages until 1940.
Posts: 1,459
What I collect: Worldwide - Stamps and Postmarks - not enough time...
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Post by blaamand on Apr 17, 2020 13:12:18 GMT
smauggie - that was just my initial train of thought as well - fortunately there are two blocks angore - Very nice blocks!! I recognize the 'problem' - finding "curiosities" and not knowing exactly what to do with it. I've started to always include a few quadrille pages, dedicated for 'Curiosities', and I just stick the odd stuff in there with a little description (if I know what it is). In this case smauggie was kind enough to help on just that.
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Post by spain1850 on Jun 28, 2020 15:13:40 GMT
I'm constantly finding oddball items, such as these, while I am putting my country albums together. I guess the difference with me is that I actively look for these items as well. These are the types of items for which I learned the use of the Album Easy program. It just takes a couple minutes to create a new page for items like this. Sometimes I will integrate them with the page that originally included the single stamps, and sometimes they require a page by themselves, like these blocks would. I would however, include the page I made for these in with the other pages of perfins rather than with the Special Delivery stamps. To me the interest is in them being multiples of perfins. Here is a page I created, for my Belgium collection, with a similar issue. I had The block of Leopold III issues, and didn't have a clue what to do with it. Ideally I would create pages for the advertising labels themselves, but since this is the only example I have I decided to build it in to the set, so I redesigned the Steiner page that had the rest of the set on it, to include the block.
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philatelia
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Captain Jack - my best kiloware find ever!
Posts: 3,655
What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jun 28, 2020 15:34:30 GMT
spain1850 - items like these make a collection MUCH more interesting in my humble opinion! Anyone can follow a catalog like a roadmap and create pages that are exactly just one for each number. BUT to add in varieties, interesting cancels, covers, multiples and so on make a collection UNIQUE and a delight to peruse. Those are the side roads off the main highways on our philatelic journeys that leads to wonderful discoveries down paths less traveled. Your page entices one to turn the pages of your album and see what other goodies are in your collection!
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Post by spain1850 on Jun 28, 2020 21:12:05 GMT
spain1850 - items like these make a collection MUCH more interesting in my humble opinion! Anyone can follow a catalog like a roadmap and create pages that are exactly just one for each number. BUT to add in varieties, interesting cancels, covers, multiples and so on make a collection UNIQUE and a delight to peruse. Those are the side roads off the main highways on our philatelic journeys that leads to wonderful discoveries down paths less traveled. Your page entices one to turn the pages of your album and see what other goodies are in your collection! I wholeheartedly agree. I liken stamp collecting almost to art. Some people enjoy painting by numbers, and others prefer a more individualistic approach. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy looking at everyone's personal effort. Stamp collecting is a very forgiving hobby in my opinion. Absolutely no right or wrong way to do it. Adding in all the oddball items accomplishes a few things. One, like you pointed out, is that it makes a collection uniquely your own. For me, it also allows me to use up and incorporate, items that many collectors would simply discard as duplicates, or items that don't fit. Since starting my worldwide collection I've adopted the philosophy of not allowing the album, or album spaces, define what I collect, but rather letting my collection define what my album, or pages will look like. Even if I come to a point where I might finish a set, I still have the option of creating more spaces in order to expand and use what I have. I applaud others who have limited their collection and can stick with it. I am the opposite, I use to limit myself, and now I feel freer than ever, being able to explore everything, every avenue.
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ameis33
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet
Posts: 546
What I collect: Poland and Italy Republic
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Post by ameis33 on Jun 28, 2020 21:21:06 GMT
Send to me has already been said?
But the true question is another. I have one perfin. Are there others? That's how a collection begin...
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madbaker
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Posts: 802
What I collect: (Mark) General worldwide collector (to 1975 or so) with a soft spot for Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia.
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Post by madbaker on Jun 29, 2020 1:43:44 GMT
spain1850, a hearty Well Done! for the Belgium page. I love how you incorporated the block and gave it the prominence it deserves!
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