My name is Luciano and...greetings from Italy!
May 17, 2020 13:43:00 GMT
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Post by luciano on May 17, 2020 13:43:00 GMT
Good morning to all the participants of the Forum, and thanks to Steve Tomisek (Forum Admin) for accepting my registration.
I read that a presentation must be made...of myself (I would have done it anyway) and I sincerely hope that this is the right section.
I immediately apologize for my English.
It is very rusty (but it never shone! Ha ha ha!) and certainly Google Translation does not help...to make a good impression.
My name is Luciano, I write from Northern Italy, between Milan, Varese and Como: one of the areas most hard hit by Covid-19.
I am almost 60 years old.
I started collecting as a child, but only for a year, then I immediately abandoned the philately: too boring! Ha ha ha.
A decade ago I started again ... and it doesn't bore me anymore.
I am the collector with the worst methods: I don't know how to limit myself, I collect everything that comes into my hands.
I use the precious information of the Stanley Gibbons, Michel, Unificato and Scott catalogs (in addition to web resources such as Colnect, Stampworld etc.) for my collections.
I collect around twenty nations for MNH stamps [Italy, Vatican, San Marino, Malta, Jersey, Guernsey, Germany, Greece, Azores, Faroe Islands, Austria, UN (three Offices), Greenland, Cambodia, Iran, Algeria and...something else that I forget: all very advanced] and practically all nations for used and/or CTO (at least fifty, always very advanced).
I do this: if I think I have at least 30% of the stamps issued by a nation, the collection starts!
If I don't reach at least 30% ... I leave everything to "sleep for a few years" in envelopes.
I collect stamps, souvenir sheets but also miniature sheets and booklets.
I collect also regularly traveled envelopes (I try to do "Postal History", but I will not succeed ha ha ha) and FDC – First Day Cover.
Too much stuff!
I have a house full of albums, stock books and...huge boxes full of stamps.
...until my wife throws me out of the house…
An authentic...paper disaster!
Luckily I have the opportunity to independently produce the albums: I am an adv and I work with graphics, and I have printing machines, I am also a typographer.
I know I'm wrong, but I enjoy it!
I have always bought from professional auction houses.
I prefer large lots at very low prices.
In addition, I have the possibility to do swap very, very large and...I also receive thousands of stamps a month.
Now enough: I think I have bored you enough already!
And I apologize if I didn't write in the right section.
Greetings from Italy.
Luciano
I read that a presentation must be made...of myself (I would have done it anyway) and I sincerely hope that this is the right section.
I immediately apologize for my English.
It is very rusty (but it never shone! Ha ha ha!) and certainly Google Translation does not help...to make a good impression.
My name is Luciano, I write from Northern Italy, between Milan, Varese and Como: one of the areas most hard hit by Covid-19.
I am almost 60 years old.
I started collecting as a child, but only for a year, then I immediately abandoned the philately: too boring! Ha ha ha.
A decade ago I started again ... and it doesn't bore me anymore.
I am the collector with the worst methods: I don't know how to limit myself, I collect everything that comes into my hands.
I use the precious information of the Stanley Gibbons, Michel, Unificato and Scott catalogs (in addition to web resources such as Colnect, Stampworld etc.) for my collections.
I collect around twenty nations for MNH stamps [Italy, Vatican, San Marino, Malta, Jersey, Guernsey, Germany, Greece, Azores, Faroe Islands, Austria, UN (three Offices), Greenland, Cambodia, Iran, Algeria and...something else that I forget: all very advanced] and practically all nations for used and/or CTO (at least fifty, always very advanced).
I do this: if I think I have at least 30% of the stamps issued by a nation, the collection starts!
If I don't reach at least 30% ... I leave everything to "sleep for a few years" in envelopes.
I collect stamps, souvenir sheets but also miniature sheets and booklets.
I collect also regularly traveled envelopes (I try to do "Postal History", but I will not succeed ha ha ha) and FDC – First Day Cover.
Too much stuff!
I have a house full of albums, stock books and...huge boxes full of stamps.
...until my wife throws me out of the house…
An authentic...paper disaster!
Luckily I have the opportunity to independently produce the albums: I am an adv and I work with graphics, and I have printing machines, I am also a typographer.
I know I'm wrong, but I enjoy it!
I have always bought from professional auction houses.
I prefer large lots at very low prices.
In addition, I have the possibility to do swap very, very large and...I also receive thousands of stamps a month.
Now enough: I think I have bored you enough already!
And I apologize if I didn't write in the right section.
Greetings from Italy.
Luciano
.. Ludovico
