Another new member from NZ

Hi there,

I'm Jim from Wellington NZ. I started collecting as a teenager some 40 years ago, and used to love visiting the stamp fairs with my Dad and delving through the bargain boxes. I well remember scoring some classic early french imperf material for 1c each...

Some time around my late teens, I found music, beer and other diversions so my stamp collecting took a hiatus of 20 years or so. In about 2001 I discovered eBay and started selling about 1000 CDs I'd bought at a police auction just for fun... it was a few years later that I started buying stamps again, and I've been buying and selling on eBay ever since (my handle is great_sounds_great and maybe I've been fortunate to trade with some of you over time).

I spent a long time in Australia but a couple of years moved back home to Wellington and feel so lucky to be home again, especially in these times of the virus.

My initial collecting interest was all of NZ, but after I got pretty much all of the simplified collection sorted (and bought a few too many mint collections) I started specialising in Chalon heads. I'm now struggling to fill the last few SG numbers (way too expensive) so have been dabbling in other things like cancellations, manuscripts, overlaps, preprint creases, re-entries on chalons and QV long type fiscals - particularly the postal usage thereof. Plus general cinderellas, revenues and special post stamps.

One day I may have to start building on the various country collections I have which are in a far less advanced state. But full time work and young children make that something of a longer term project.

Look forward to spending time on here.

Cheers,
Jim

PS here is an example of a horizontal overlap on a Richardson 6d - you can just make out a bit of the frame line at the top of the stamp where it wasn't covered by the top sheet of paper... (the sheets of paper weren't big enough to cover the entire plate so two sheets were used and overlapped, trying to align the paper join between the rows of the design)