Hello, I'm Cartoon Peril

I'm a professional and owner of a small family-owned business. I live in beautiful (well, when it's not raining) Portland, Oregon, with my wife and our two teenagers.

For the last 7 years or so I've been collecting world-wide from 1840 (I actually don't have any stamps that old) to 1960 or so. Through ebay, I bought several old Scott International albums which cover up to 1953 or so.

I'm mostly interested in politics and history as reflected on the stamps, so used is okay with me, especially if there's a readable postmark. I avoid MNH because I don't like to pay extra and they're harder to mount. (I bought some Vario pages for these).

I don't check for watermarks other than a visual inspection, and as the Internationals don't discriminate between watermarks, if I get into a country, such as India, where watermarks are important, I just save all the (apparent) duplicates on a separate page, maybe I'll check them someday.

I like preprinted envelope stamps, especially international, these used to be featured in international albums but a long time ago Scott made the editorial decision not to feature them except for the U.S.

I'm also interested in cinderellas, fantasy stamps, telegraph stamps, local stamps, etc.

Welcome! Sounds like you have quite the collection and a lot of neat interests! You'll fit right in! again-

As you are in Portland, I hope that you got a chance to attend the PIPEX show last weekend.

I came down from Seattle and had a great time there. Found a lot of good material from the dealers and saw some excellent exhibits.

Welcome Cartoon:

I missed your introduction the first time around. We're glad to have you here and look forward to learning more about your growing collection.

When/if you can, we always love pictures.

Kirk

Hey I live near Portland too! Welcome. Your collection sounds like it will bring many years of enjoyment to you. Best of luck!

Hi all,

I just inherited my dad's stamp collection. He started collecting in the 1930's. I have found stamps from 1850's still 2012 (US). Mint, used plat4eblocks, first day of issues. There is also quite a foreign collection. I have No idea quality of stamps in collection. Any ideas of how to establish value and best way to maximize value?

Thanks

Hello Cartoon Peril, welcome!

I'm in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Nice read, do you do your own album pages? I haven't looked at all posts on here for a while though.

Not sure what album pages are. Please identify. My father basically created his own albums. So if There was a series that traversed multiple years, He created pages for the series.