Hello From China

Long time lurker, new member.

I am a Canadian living and working in Mainland China as a school teacher for a private Canadian school for the past seven years.

I primarily collect Canadian mint with excellent centering (don't care about hinges) with the goal of filling every slot in my stamp albums, a dream since I saw my first stamp album at the age of 13. I have five volumes of Davo Hingeless Canadian albums and I need 30 more stamps to complete the goal. It's getting expensive now though.

I am also interesting in American stamps, particularly before 1980. I picked up three volumes of UD Davo Hingless with most of books 2 and 3 completed. Have to start working on the holes in the book.

I know this is a boring method for many people but I just like the clean look of a stamp album filled with nice looking stamps. Call me old-fashioned. :)

Anyway, hello. I am tempted to get into Chinese stamps but I am hampered by a lack of language skills and the knowledge that the guys at the Shanghai stamp market (really is amazing to see) will rip me off blind the first chance they get.

Welcome to the Community Tom Swift !

Let me add my Welcome.

Hope you enjoy it here.
I had never given China much thought in my younger like, but over the last few years we had some involvement with international students from China that were attending a local university. Gave me a whole new appreciation for China. Now I hope to visit there some day.

Dave N.
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welcome on board TS - hope you have lots of fun

Hi Tom Swift and Welcome to the forum. Glad you've joined up, look forward to hearing more about your collection.