New Acquisitions...

Daryl:I would respectfully disagree with most of the respondents to this thread. Unless your goal is accumulating as many stamps as you can for the minimum price paid, I do not think stamps like these are a good expenditure for your money. I've watched on this and the Frajola board as you have displayed many of your acquisitions, many of which are either significantly off center, clearly flawed such as with short or damaged perfs or margins, not certified, etc. and I keep asking myself what your ultimate goal is? The current grouping are all poorly centered, average to fine at best and the 72 has a heavy cancel appears to have a blunt or shortened perf along the right lower margin. The 285 has a toned spot to the right of Marquette's head. NH doesn't have much premium value to me with this kind of centering. I could understand this kind of centering if you were talking about a rare stamp such as a 70d, no grill pictorial, 271a or 272a but these are all common stamps; even the 72 had a mintage of almost 400,000. I bet if you added up all of the money you have spent on stamps that you have shown on line, you probably could have purchased a really fine,certified 72 unused, and maybe a #101 as well. I do not mean this to be critical because I would say the same thing to myself: cheap "junque" is still "junque." But in the end, it is definitely only important what you think. It's your money. Sometimes, however, I think people are so anxious to be courteous that a spade is not called a spade. But that wouldn't be helpful to anything other than your ego. You can disagree completely with everything I have said, but it was said with the intention of being constructive and I thank you for exhibiting and taking the time to read this.

funcitypapa. I don't disagree with what you said. Every one has their own opinion.
I don't post on Frajola... maybe you think VSC?
The stamps I posted prior to this.. the two zeps.. are in excellent condition.
Yes, part of goal is to fill the spaces, but I also know some spaces will never be filled. I can't afford a #5 or similar.
To me that stamp might be off center and have a heavy cancel, but a few nibbed perfs have never bothered me. That comes with age, especially on used stamps.
As long as the stamps I buy aren't in any way altered, I don't have a problem with them. I prefer my stamps postally used when I can't afford a mint version.
and, to be honest, my mint stamps are pretty good, other then the ones in this post. those other 4 stamps cost me 10.00, so I am happy with them.
like I said, each collector has their own standards, I do this becuase I enjoy it, and I try to get the most bang for my buck. In the end, as long as I am happy with it, what someone else thinks really doesn't matter, right? (no offense is made with that statement)
Oh, by the way, almost every stamp I have that has a CV of more the a couple of hundred bucks I send for certs....
Just ask Bill W. he gets most of my stamp money.

Daryl!
Even though your #72 may not be the cutest kid on the block, for the price you paid for it makes it one darn great deal. And yes you most likely could turn around and sell it at better than break even.


Funcitypapa!
I have read your post with much interest, and I agree with you that looking at the investment potential of your stamp collection is something that we all should do. However,,,,,, most purest collectors distain the idea of looking at this aspect of collecting and will only acknowledge the finical side as a by product of their collection. I could go much further into the different styles of, and the investment impact of each style of collecting. But I would hijacking Daryl's thread. If you would like to start a new thread with this topic I would gladly contribute.