Hello To The Stamp Community From France

Hello Everybody,

As a new member on this forum, I would like to introduce myself.

I live in south west of France, near Spain and on ocean shore.
I started my stamp collection at age of 20, actually I am 55 years old .
I collect oldies, what we all call classic stamps.
I have an advanced collection from Europe & Africa starting from first issues till year 1920.
I'll be glad to share philatelic knowledge with you, and hope to be able to help some of you.

All the best from France.

PS: please forgive me for my approximate English, I guess I need much more practice...

Welcome!
Very glad you have joined us.
Please do not apologise for your perfect English!
Look forward to hearing more about your collection.

Bienvenue sur le forum.

I hope you enjoy visiting us here. We look forward to seeing some of your classics.

Welcome! I look forward to seeing and hearing about your collection. Classic France and colonial stamps are a subject that I find really interesting and learning more about!

Billys, I am glad that you decided to join us. I love the early French commemoratives and French Colonies. I hope to be able to see some scans of your collection, sounds great - Welcome - Jeff

Hi Billys,
I'm also a big fan of French and French printed stamps.

Hello everybody,
Thank you very much for your very warm welcome.
Just to whet your appetite and attract your curiosity, I would like to show you 2 photos of my stamp's album (stamp album cover only).
Please feel free to ask for a scan from any country you wish to see the stamps. Remember that I only collect stamps from Europe & Africa till 1920.

I also, might be able to help about classical forgeries or reprints.




All the best from France.
Billys

Hello Billys, welcome!

That album looks like it is very full of goodies!

Hi Puzzler,

I confirm, it's the kind of album where you have a case for each stamp emitted before 1920.
My challenge is to fill it, for all represented countries.
I believe that it's an impossible challenge.
There are genuine stamps and forgeries inside, my interests are how to identify all these stamps and to accumulate documentation about forgeries & reprints.
Therefore, I need the help of this community and I can also share my knowledge with you.

best regards from France.

Billys

Billys, a big WELCOME to SCF. You may be the closest SCF member to the 'CERN Particle Accelerator' between/in France and Switzerland.

Welcome Billys

Beautiful album and your collections sounds wonderful.

Dianne

Thanks Dianne and Finches for your welcome.

By the way Finches, I live on south-west coast of France, it means that I'm quite far from Switzerland (no CERN around), but very close to Spain.

Regards.

Billys