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

If your buying stamps at less than 20% of catalog ,you can stay away from a stamp auction in 2 days . On June 18 is another MIDDLE EAST stamp auction .

The last auction 8 years ago was a wake up call for me and was the first time my purchases started at 125% of catalog and watched a lot of bids and sales hit close to 200%. So my guess is in 2 days we are going to be up there again .

Which auction site are you referring to? I've never bought from any major auction houses, only ebay, KMP, and my local club auctions, not to mention private purchases from here and a few other sources. I'm certainly not going to find any great rarities using my 20% rule, but it nets me some really great stamps!

Brian

Brian ,it is the Kelleher 6-18-26 Essam Maasarani collection . The Egypt stamp should be the highlight with strong prices .

The auction that I posting about was a Egypt stamp auction , Sale prices went thru the roof and I ended up with a real strong back-of-the-Book plus a reference collection for Egypt postage dues . . 75% of all lots went overseas .