New Member

Good evening all from Ottawa, Canada.

My name is David Giles, and I was encouraged to come to this website by Meostamps and PhilB.

I am a four-year member of the APS, a member of the ATA, a member of the Board-of-Directors of SOCORICO (The Society of Costa Rica Collectors), and Vice-President of the Ottawa Philatelic Society.

The Ottawa Philatelic Society is Canada's oldest local stamp club (Established in 1891). We have over ninety members and we meet weekly, eleven months of the year. We usually have between 35 and 50 members at each weekly meeting.

Each year in Ottawa (the nation's capital) we hold a national-level philatelic exhibition called ORAPEX. I have been a member of the ORAPEX Committee for the past two years, and I am responsible for the Youth Booth.

I collect the following...

1. British Commonwealth of the reign of King George VI (1937-1952), used. I collect plate, colour, and printing varieties; and marginal markings. I also collect revenues of the reign.
2. Costa Rica: including revenues, covers, aerogrammes, FDC's, interesting postal markings, city and town postmarks, covers with ancillary markings, covers showing rates, registered mail, and multiples, used.
3. Stamps and covers related to cardiology, used. Cardiology is the study of diseases and disorders of the heart. Look for the 1972 issues honouring World Health Day with the theme "Your Heart Is Your Health". As well, any slogan cancellations, etc.
4. United States Air Mail stamps, plate number singles, marginal markings, blocks of four, used; and covers and air postal history related to the State of Texas. I collect Texas city and town postmarks, and fancy cancels on United States Air Mail stamps.

5. United States Americana Series (1975-1983), mint, used, covers showing usages, FDC's, marginal markings, plate blocks, covers with ancillary markings, interesting postmarks, covers with purple machine cancels, multiples, etc. I collect the plate blocks and the singles, mint and used.
6. Netherlands Indies / Indonesia, mint, used, postal stationary, revenues, and multiples.

For those of you who are Scouts and Scouters, I collect BSA CSP's. I am also a Rover Knight Scout, and a former Rover Knight Scout Chancellor.

I look forward to meeting other collectors and learning a thing or two from them.

Big Deal

Sir David.... Master of Costa Rica fine used

Hey David, you made it! Just tried to call you and got a busy
signal, now I understand why. Sorting some more KGVI for you.
about 100 done so far, maybe several 100 more to go. Will sent
them along when done.

Welcome again!! I am certain Philb will be happy... And the rest
of us also!

Mike:

I'm still getting used to this format.

I need to know how to modify my user profile (my ages is wrong) and add an Avatar.

David

David... If you want to create your own avatar
lets say KGVI stamp

Scan a stamp that you like, and post it to
this link, and Bobby will create it for you

https://goscf.com/f/13

to edit your birthday

Click on the profile link at the top of the page.

Log in again if required.

Click on the birthday icon.

Clear your date of birth

Click on the month

Click on the year

Click Go

Now click on the day

Window should close and you're done.

Thanks, Bob!

David

Mike in New York..now this is a surprise..well we all know a little bit about Leftenent Giles now...sorry I was not home when you rang today !!

Welcome to the stamp community, David!



It's great to have you here!
Your collections sound very interesting!
We are looking forward to seeing some of your stamps!

G'day, David.

Great to have you on board.

Steve

Don't tell the Father of the Forum, but there are several people
whose profiles say age 13, etc. I like being 13 again! ha
Welcome to the forum and I look forward to seeing some of your collection here!
Gussyboy1

David. I just have one suggestion. You might want to broaden your collecting interests just a little bit. You might find you're too confined just collecting "about everything!"

Nice to have you here David,

Hi David. Put another pack of appox 200 KGVI in the mail to
you today. Best guess is that I still have appox 500 or so
to work on so those over the next few weeks. See you later.

Bandicoot: Are you a Scout? I saw your Scout image below your name. I am a Rover Knight Scout with the B-P Scouts, in Canada.

Welcome David

Nice to have another cannuck amongst us I was starting to feel lonely. I'm crazy busy at work these days and to have much time to hang out in the forum but I'll be back this fall when landscapers and avid gardeners hibernate for the winter.

Dianne

Welcome David. It's nice to see another that can help us newbies out with info we may have.