What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Finished cataloging my Boston 2026 purchases. Next action is to place in appropriate albums. I did not have a perfect show, (although close). My mistake purchases were mostly FOREVER stamps, thus I can use for postage. It was a good show for me as I did acquire many high values (catalog) in great condition and for substantial discount versus catalog.

Got a decent USB camera that is a digital microscope. It only views 1/4 of a Difinitives stamp, but I only need it to see flaws or printing types. Also got a UV light that does 365nm, 395nm, and 254nm, and it's bright!!!

I started identifying some Sudan issues. I finally found a watermark that Sherlock revealed that Clarity and Ronsonol could not but I real finding watermarks is a skill.

Identifying and organizing my French classic stamps that have been accumulating for years..... also organizing a bunch of other stamps and debating about giving a bunch of 'em away because I am not that interested in collecting 'em..... have a lot of used US to give away too....

I have finally completed the letter S in my 1947 International Part I spreadsheet. My coverage for S is just over 59% which is far less than I had hoped. This finishes a more than rough pass at the spreadsheet. I sit at 70% coverage, 25013 spaces filled out of 35732. This includes the U.S. section and of course assumes I didn't miss anything. The only stamps I have not inventoried are my cut squares and revenues since I only recently received the pages that were missing from my album. I don't have too much in those areas, perhaps 100 or so spaces filled out of the 496 possible, but puts me comfortably over 25000 and 70%. Next question for me will be whether or not I try to drastically improve. The answer is likely no.

Edit: corrected 486 to be 496

Just took in a Israel collection. Probably 1000+ for 20.
I will be needing those 3 high value ones.

Regarding the previous post. I'm afraid I don't understand. What 3 high value ones?

I created a page for my Netherlands Album from some of the 2002 Children's Stamps.

Scott 7,8, and 9.

Very Nice !!!

Israeli stamps have been a drug in the market for some time, and that's only likely to continue - if you want that stuff, the likelier price trend is downward.

This showed up yesterday: Michel MH 34.1 exploded booklet, NH.

This one isn't particularly rare but it proved difficult to acquire for a price I was willing to pay (~20% of catalog). I'm very pleased to add to it my collection!!

Brian