Too Many Stamps - What To Do?

Yes, I think our Mr.Phil has captured the real essence
of that discipline.
I leafed through my thesaurus, and Hodge Podge
just cannot be upstaged,
one may wish to employ perhaps "mish mash"
or "Salmagundi" or even "Gallimaufry"
but really Hodge Podge fits like a wedding ring.

Hodge Podge--from Hotch Potch- to Hot Pot
A thick lumpy soup of dubious ingredients.

Here we go again - nice stamps, but all they are doing is sitting in a glassine envelope. (Anybody volunteering the SJ perfin information? The town did not help me. )

More and More Belgium? Anyone specialize here?

Brazil Scott 229 Aaargh! I don't even know anyone in Brazil.

And some Canada QVs

And some Canada air mail

That airmail stamp with the cancel missing the city and province (5th row down, 3rd stamp over) is known as a Blackout cancel. It is one of two types. Used in port cities during World War II.

See an old thread here on King George VI:
https://goscf.com/t/6660&SearchTerms=kgvi,blackout

I guess too many stamps is better than not enough !!

Read the thread, absolutely fascinating puzzler. Rod must be right - never too many stamps (puzzler can I retire now?)

If you mean can you retire from other aspects of my life so I can have more time to devote to my stamps, then yes, of course.

I have a rather addictive computer game called Diamond Mine. When you finish a level and are ready to proceed it stacks all the diamonds together so it looks all unsorted again and says in an authoritarian voice 'Level Up'.

Level Up, jhlovell.



I think they should replace the diamonds with stamps and call it Stamp Sorter.

Jeff,


i got the stamps

yeah!! 14 dots..




j/k

thanks!

hope it filled a couple of holes :)

Puzzler, I want you to know I am paying attention. I think I found the other type of Blackout cancel, or is there too little of the postmark to be sure? There is just a piece of a letter sticking out from the top, so I am not sure.

That is probably not a blackout cancel. It has the province abbreviate below the year. P.Q. = Province of Quebec or Province de Québec, the old way of saying it instead of just QC for Quebec now. There are some short place names in Quebec.

Just went and picked up what was supposed to be a few stamps from a small ad I posted locally. Person was more than happy to give them for free and when I went through the old magazine type albums there was envelope after envelope with anywhere from 4-50 stamps in each from all over the world. Most look mid to late 1900's but here I am again with a bunch of material I just have to look at but don't want to add to the hoard. Yes I will be tossing some if not all up for grabs/ trades as soon as I can get to them. Couple I may ask about but generally just going to say goodbye.
JHLovell I still owe ya one but not sure If I should help your hodge podge pot get any fuller.