When I read the recent Inverted Jenny thread and saw someone had posted they were disappointment in finding they had a "partial invert".... followed by a picture of it.....I had to join.
I thought stampcrow was a fitting user name. Because, in this hobby, I kind of just pick at everything. No real focus, except, the fun of discovery and the patient search for treasure. Slowly, over the past dozen years, I've accumulated some knowledge and some pretty neat stuff. Never really spending a ton of money on any one item. Part of my joy in the hobby is finding the gem that others don't even acknowledge.
It all started with a garage sale buy. A box of stuff that had a film canister full of old buffalo head nickles and some other stuff. Got home and saw that some of the other stuff were stamp albums. One had some age on it. The USA stamps looked cool. The beautiful blue one cent stamp with Ben Franklin jumped out at me. Hehe this gets good. I went online and searched for it. First thing that pops up is a page showing this same stamp (so I thought) and telling how it is the rarest US stamp and sold for 800,000 or so. WOOHOO holy moly jackpot I spent about ten minutes alternating pumping my fist making plans to contact Christie's and heading for NYC to heading back to the house where I had bought this and letting them know what they had. It was an awesome ten minutes. I'm sure you know the rest of the story. Once I settled down and listened to the wiser voice in my head. I took the next ten minutes to learn what a Z grill is... whawhawha. What I had was a really nice Scott #63. No early retirement but a new addiction. I was hooked.
In the same album was some nice French stamps also. The imperf 1 franc #7 don't know which color, it has the nice diamond grid cancel. Also the 15 cent green imperf. Good news is I paid 5 bucks for the stuff. The bad news is I paid 5 bucks for the stuff. So I to this day have a hard time spending a lot of money, hence the stampcrow. That kinda adds a fun and challenging dimension to my collecting. I'm sure many people collect this same way. Nothing in my collection is certified. I'm thinking about doing that with some in the near future.
Looking forward to spending some time here. Thanks. The Stampcrow.
Hi Stampcrow and welcome, Cool story. Stamp collecting is by far the most exciting hobby, partially for the reason you stated above. I have about 15 large boxes of stamps that I've acquired since the 1960's. I also 9 albums worldwide, stockcards filled and since have created myself three ring binders with vizio's MNH/LH albums worldwide. The boxes have off paper/on paper stamps, so it keeps me busy. Some of the stamps in the boxes were bought at yardsales, I would ask the person while I was there if they had any stamps for sale and behold, anything for them to make a buck. Hope to see you out here.. Gary
Welcome. I too have been collecting since 1952 however I lost the largest part of my stamp collection after Hurricane Katrina in New Olreans but collecting on a small scale.
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Posted 11/29/2013 11:11 pm
Welcome stampcrow
