My Growing World Collection

Just posting what I have cataloged so far, with tons to go. I will keep adding as it grows {after cataloging}. If anyone needs information on any of the stamps that I have posted just ask. And I will give you all the information that I have collected.

Angola, Albania and Anguilla.



Australia

Great start Tom

Thanks for sharing.

Dianne

Thank you Dianne,
I figure what completes the hobby of stamp collection are these 3 steps

1) get stamp
2) learn from information gathered
and most important
3) SHARE.

Nice stamps!





One thing I've learned over the decades. Only stamp collectors really appreciate other stamp collectors. Everybody else just "tolerates" you. I'm just fortunate my wife hasn't thrown me out of the house... yet.

I told her the stamps have to get tossed with me. I guess she doesn't want to move a stuffed roomful of stamps into the yard. My strategy of massive accumulation has worked...

k

Now the fun begins Tom, take the 3 Australian King George V stamps and get a good scanner or magnifying piece and start looking for anything out of the ordinary. Look for weird letters or any type of blemish you can find as some of these can increase the value, it's called Fly-specking and it's mandatory once you enter the KGV realm :)

You'r killing me. I will never get out of Australia.

only kidding. But I will have to do it after I get done logging them in.

OK,
I had to stop and go look at the King George V and so far nothing odd yet

Great to see the rather nice, clean and well kept stamps... just watch those corner perforations which might need careful straightening. well done.

I know scotzm, next is putting them into an album pages.

Good assortment of stamps. Sometimes I find identifying them to be a bit difficult.

It is at times difficult, but that is when I learn the most about the stamp as with King George V ones. They were the most rewarding when It was over, or is it as stallzer added earlier.

more uploads

more uploads to my Australian collection, slow but surely.

more uploads to my Australian collection

TOMD-------Time to start removeing the damaged stamps and folded perforations .......if you want a lesson from a old timer .......start setting a quality standard for yourself and remove the faded,damaged and less than quality examples from your collection ,and always be on the lookout to upgrade what you have in your collection for better cancelations and better centering with the stamps in your collection as you move forward ...good luck

Thanks for the advice floortrader.

This is the best that I have. I am just starting to catalogue what I have after sorting from a few ebay buys and gifts from friends. I still need stock pages to place them in yet. As money is available they will be bought and placed in them. I am going to print my pages for my USA and Russia collection. But as you said as new and better come along I will upgrade my collection. My dad started me with coins. He would fill in a spot in a book with what he had and that was it. He had let better grades pass by because he had that coin. I since have learn from his mistake will up grade, which I am sure would have made him happy.