3 Types Of Stamper

I do the same as LaSwabbie.

David

David, I remember many years ago a guy wrote to Linns and he really wanted to cull the gene pool...he wanted people to destroy their multi multi duplicates so as not to cheapen stamps...i say let nature take its course.....look at the Great Britain George V stamps that used to catalog at minimum value..they went up even though there are tons of them around !!

I will keep a damaged stamp, in my collection, and clearly pencil
above the stamp SF, [ space filler ]

However, when I find a suitable stamp to replace it, the stamp
goes into the ashtray, a little Ronson lighter fluid. and then:

A Viking funeral

I remember watching some sort of TV show many years ago - maybe Perry Mason or something like that. There was a guy that had the only two known copies of a particular stamp. He couldn't get the price he wanted for them so he burned one of them in front of other collectors. That made the price of the remaining stamp go WAY up in value. I guess that's the ultimate culling.

BTW - one of the collectors was accused of killing the guy and geting him off was the plot of the story.

I think I'm a combination of 3 & 4. I can't resist a bargain but then I do end up buying something I like deal or no deal! But no damaged stamps - these are usually culled unless they have a high cat value $20 & over.

I don't know exactly where I fall in the spectrum. I will buy a stamp out of my collecting interests if it strikes my fancy. An example is right now I am gearing up to buy the 1898 Christmas Canada stamp showing the British empire. I don't collect Canada, but it is such a fascinating stamp.

Interesting to see my thread is still alive..we all have the common bond of being collectors..whatever our quirks..i think once its in our blood ..thats it..it aint genetic thats for sure..i am the only one from my family that has the bug..my wife picked it up from me and now shes hooked !

I'm not sure what I fall into. When it comes to stamps in general I just save them no matter how many I have. I bet I have at least 50 doubles of most stamps between 1960 and 1985. Some even go into the hundreds.

Yes I keep damaged stamps, I don't know why but I just can't bring my self around to destroying it.

I doubt I will consider buying more than one of the MHN stamps that I am now starting to build though. However if a deal comes by who knows I could have a few extra sitting around too.

I think I hold the record for have thousands of definitive doubles from the 1960s to the present and I can bring me self around to try and sell some or give then away.

Maybe I'm hopeless or a lost cause when it comes to stamps.

OK, it's confession time. I couldn't keep the pointer off the ebay icon and I won most of the lots from that dealer's stockbook. I just finished getting them all into my stock boxes and I now have thousands and thousands of duplicates.

I can no longer hide it. I am now officially an . . . . ACCUMULATOR!

Oh No! That Accumulator thing--is it contaigious?!!

I try to send my duplicates on to better homes so that they don't have to sit in boxes all alone--what good are they to anyone if they cannot be enjoyed? (HINT,HINT)
It would be like me making a quilt and then packing it away and no one could keep warm with it!

Gussyboy1

I agree with you gussy

I like to keep some spares so I have some to trade with but I like sharing also. so any of you new collectors or even older ones once you have required posts shoot me an email. Same goes for anyone who I've alwready promissed stuff and haven't yet sent to them( my memory isn't what it use to be.) I do work on my stamps now a little each evening so I have lots of spares set asside again.

Dianne