Kent Philatelic Society Stamp Show, Saturday, June 19, 2021

I spent about 1.5 hours at the bourse and spent my whole budget of $100.00 cash. My favorite seller was there and I spent my money all in one place.

I did try to focus on my current collecting interests including Nigeria, which, as I suspected, finding post-colonial or more modern issues from Nigeria was a challenge and there was not much available. I like buying old collections or parts of collections as I feel I get a lot of stamps for my money and there is always the challenge or excitement of occasionally finding some treasure among the common stuff that one gets with some of these collections.

Most of the Nigeria I could find were pages from old collections, stapled together with other country pages like this in manila folders:



The dealer also has individual sets in dealer boxes at Scott Catalogue prices but I find that I usually end up paying a lot less by buying these old collections or pages from collections and completing my sets and pages that way.

In the same format I also bought country pages from a number of different countries I am either currently working, have worked on recently or have plans to work on soon. Yugoslavia is a country I am working on currently and I found a number of folders with stamps up to the 1960s which is my focus right now. 



I also found Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand.





Finally, I bought two old HE Harris Ambassador Worldwide albums stuffed with stamps.



Like I said, I only brought $100.00 cash. The dealer gave me a huge discount. If you tally up the prices on the stickers on the folders and the albums, it comes to $239.00 and I ended up paying $95.00.  I also paid into a $5.00 raffle drawing when I arrived.

All in all a good day and I have been greedily looking through my purchases since I came home from work last night and today.