New To Collecting Need Space Fillers

I've been collecting for a couple of years after inheriting a small colection from my grandfather. At 35 years old and not exactly rolling in the money, I have a lot of holes I want to fill, both front of book and back of book, and than later start getting better looking stamps. Besides ebay is there another good way of obtaining bulk space fillers, like revenue or other lots?

You don't indicate what you're collecting. U.S. > Worldwide, MNH, MH, Used etc. Let us know what specifically you are trying to accomplish. This way we can perhaps advise you better.

Sorry just US front and back of book. Mostly used, anything I can get for cheap to fill holes for now. Torn corners, creases, as long as it can identified.

Magguss,

I have a lot of duplicates that could use a good home. Get to 50 "quality posts" and shoot me an email of what you are looking for. Maybe I can help fill a few holes at little or no cost.

Dan

Cool! I'll post a couple of questions I've been saving tonight maybe. Most of my questions are the same as half the questions posed of this forum. Help identifying W/F stamps and cut squares and such. But I'll post some other questions I've had too.

Magguss: Deliberately seeking space fillers is a viable strategy, both short on cash & long on time.

Q/ What if you bought fewer stamps, and put more of those hours into deep-dive researching & learning about them?

One way to feel less holes-to-fill pressure is to simply remove whole sections from your album.

Q/ What if you began with a small binder, containing just the pages for a single definitive series?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Maggie,

I'm with Dan ... When you get to 50, email me also, I'll send a packet,


Chris

Same here Maggus

I have lots of US spares to share email me when youre ready

Dianne

Do you collect modern US as well? I would be willing to offer some of the pile of new stamps I have waiting to be sorted/cataloged.

Well due to my ADD I've kind of been all over the place. I started with us stamps to 1980 but when I started filling in most stamps up to 1980 that were less than $2 book value I started buying lots to try and get lucky and find some slightly higher value stamps. If I did find a good stamp that was worth some money I sometimes try and sell it or sell lots to try and make a little money to buy more stamps. After it had started to get a little more expensive to fill normal issue stamp holes I expanded to other US categories. I am now collecting just about all categories of stamps in the Scott Specialized catalog, lol. Seems like a lot of lots I would buy might have a little bit of stamps other than front of book. I have bought the Scott Revenue pages and have been trying to start to fill with revenue stamps, whatever condition. Later R series with perfins or tears have been fine with me. I'm also bought 200 pages of 2" x 2" clear sleeves and spent a ton of time printing out small labels to create my own cut square album and have been filling that as well. I have a few books of covers, a few books of plate blocks, been working on getting a block of 4 stamps from every definitive stamp series, I have hand made graph pages I've made to try and get a pair of each Washington Franklin. So basically everything. As much as I want to fill holes I do also like the process of figuring out what stamps Scottnumbers are. I think I'm so all over the place on categories because for not collecting some categories can still be cheap ish for me to continue to collect and fill holes with. I have a list of stamps hand written that I know I need and have been keeping an eye on ebay and such, but I'm having a hard time justifying spending $10 on some stamps I need on ebay that catalog for $10. I just want to fill some of these holes for now and later I might start focusing more on one category and focus on getting better looking stamps in that category.

So yeah, lol, I know I'm kind of all over the place on collecting. Thank god I've at least left it at just US and haven't looked at world wide stamps (well besides US possessions) I think because I keep buying lots of US stamps that come with a revenue or proprietary stamps I've started finding homes for those other stamps. I was more thinking when I posted if there was a place where dealers would offload more groups of stamps they would maybe throw away instead of dealing with them. Torn or bent stamps, corners missing, stamp holes or what not. Maybe a $100 catalog stamp could be gobbled up for a few bucks. Was just hoping there was another outlet than maybe continuing to grind out ebay.

On a side note, and if this post has to be deleted because it's in the wrong place that's fine, but I am willing to pay or trade some of you nice folks who have offered. Since I do have a little bit of everything I do have some interesting stamps I don't really collect but have aquired that I can trade too. So I am willing to buy or trade stamps to fill holes.

Maggie ....

Good news.... There are billions of stamps worldwide. The playground for ADD is unlimited. Keep going.... !! Don't believe you have to be focused to collect stamps... the opportunities are unlimited and there is no right or wrong.

LOL. I ment if I let my ADD get too out of hand I would be collecting US and worldwide. Least I've reigned it in to just US for my personal sanity.

Also I didn't mean it to come out as wanting to try and get free or super cheap stamps from people on this forum. I was more trying to see if there was another outlet other than ebay.

Call me ADD. What's wrong with collecting U.S. and worldwide? I focus mainly on U.S. and to a lesser extent, Canada...but I don't say no to any stamps that come my way. My worldwide collection is quite varied. It comprises stamps I've save since I started collecting as a kid, and has progressed to whatever any friends and family bring me back when they travel. That makes my WW collection a little more special to me.

DaveG28: I always separate bought from brought, eg, what I bought versus what people brought me.

Well for me what's wrong with collecting worldwide in addition to US is my wife won't let me have more than the 2 bookshelves I have now.