What Keeps You Busy With Your Stamps At The Moment?

I'm currently transferring my worldwide collection from a hodge-podge of albums, stock books, stock pages and glassines to Steiner pages. Been at it since last October. And buying new material.

Robert

Wow, sounds like you'll be occupied until Xmas, GeoffHa !

Currently transferring my U.S. collection from Harris Album to Scotts National album. Working on the BOB sections now. Should finish soon!

Whatever suits me I guess. Lately I have been going through my accumulations and deciding what stamps to keep and what stamps to get rid of. I have three 102 card red boxes I am filling with stamps to trade/sell. It is nice to watch stamps go in and fill them up. The trick of course is actually getting rid of them. Sold $80 catalog worth of stamps at the last collector's bourse. It was a moment of victory.

Blaamand

Unlike you, I don't have to work! Just pasting in some Central African Republic wallpaper to fill in the empty hours.

Geoff

Just finished organizing and mounting on album pages a binder of Albania fakes and Cinderella issues . This project started with a stamp auction purchase of a huge lot from the Jim Czyl estate .It is hard to explain in written words the satisfaction of accumulating material from different sources and then organizing it as you learn more about it and then mounting it into your own album .

Presently doing some inventory of my Bulgaria Stamps in EzStamp8 but am more active during the colder months and we have plenty of them in Eastern Canada. My main Album is Scott's International (6 parts) I have had for years. I realize Part 1 has too many stamps already, so will have to discard some pages at some point in time or use another Album for the earlier stamps. My CANADA stamps are in a separate set of Albums as well as FDCs, Mint sheets, blocks, etc.

I've been working on reorganizing what I have currently using banker boxes to separate new, used, blocks, and covers.

Thought I'd upload this. My young son is sorting out a stack of stamps for his album, and he hit upon the idea of using a trading card album to sort them. Great idea, I think. This one would set you back next to nothing and has 18 pages of 9 transparent compartments = 162 pockets. As they are for collector cards, I imagine they're safe to use longer term too.

GeoffHa, I like that, good to see others are also 'wasting time' on wallpaper Though I'm still a generalist, and also compelled to walk the walk with the wallpaper, I am seriously considering to implement cuts that would remove all thtat wallpaper and modern stuff in general, but 'it's complicated'.... For now I don't manage to cut anything, still a seriously infected WW collector

Edit: Ringo - it seems you've got good genes

I don't actively buy the stuff, but, having got it, I tend to hang on to it. And, if it's going to stay, it may as well be organised.

I fear that Ringo is selling his son packets of spare Dunes issues.

...then we're on exactly the same line regarding wallpaper
I didn't even mention the dunes, that's the only areas I've actually already managed to cut.... ( I bin any dunes stuff as soon as I see it, don't even pass it on to my youngest son or to sales material. Somebody might disapprove but I hope I'm doing philately a favour, my apologies to anyone offended )

Let's see, I currently have three pots boiling on the stove at the moment :

1) Organizing my Canadian stamp album (I house all my collections on Vario F pages and am making albums for them now based on specialized catalog information) based on the info provided on the blog http://canadianphilately.blogspot.com/ which takes Unitrade and goes three steps further in terms of varieties. (If you collect Canada at all this blog is an excellent resource. Currently it is focusing on the various varieties and collectible formats of the George V Scroll issue of 1928-1930). To give an idea of the depth I am going with Canada, so far I have spaced out 36 Vario F 6-strip pages (18 2-sided pages) to cover issues up to the 60th Anniversary of Confederation in 1927. That is the level of detail of varieties this blog is providing me .

2) Writing a series of blog posts for my own blog on specialized catalogs. Started this project last month with posts on the GJ catalog of Argentina and the Brusden-White Australian Commonwealth Specialist Catalog series. Up next will be the Gibbons Australia specialized.

3) *Longer Term* start creating a web store on delcampe to sell excess items from my late father's dealer's stock that I no longer need or do not have interest in, such as his US Duck Hunting Permit stamps (don't collect them, though they are definitely beautiful revenue stamps).

Along the way getting distraced by other countries and collecting interests that I read about on this forum or on stampboards. That my second-biggest problem, I have collector "ADHD" and when I see something "new and shiny" I get interested in it and forget my other collections.

My biggest problem is not having enough time, what with working retail 40 hrs+/week, spending quality time with my partner of 22 years, and my other hobbies (music and gaming). Twenty-four hours in a day just never seems enough for all I want to do.

Felt good to get back at my desk tonight. Only was able to research one cover tonight. It took longer than expected, but hey I found out everything I wanted to know about the 202 Field Artillery Battalion. Did you know they were tasked at the end of WWII in trying to find the mummified hand of St. Stephen...well I do now.

Been working on my British Commonwealth material - remounting some pages to clean them up. Been trying to complete some sets where I was missing high values. Most recent is Barbados KGV 1912 SG 170-180 - just acquired the 3/ thus completing the set. Now looking for Antigua SG 90 5/ KGV - (one that I can afford) to complete my KGV collection from that Island.