Who Buys & What Does One Do With So Many Duplicates?

Ah well, worth a try. I haven't done it myself really, just heard about it so bravo for trying.

Yes I read about that here on the forum but it did not work well. Might have worked on blocks but the sheets did not do well.

$455 final sold Price. Must have been a bidding war toward the end.

kilowarecollector, you are mistaken in your belief that you have cornered 1% of the market of the West German 500pf radio telescope stamp. When I read your post several months ago, I thought it looked incorrect. So, just now I looked in Michel Deutschland Spezial and they list 143 million as the quantity issued. So, with your 4300 copies you have slightly more than 3 one thousandths of 1 percent of this issue. To hit the 1 percent mark, you only need about 1.43 million more copies.

I bought a large lot of bundleware of Belgium Parcel Post stamps from a dealer-friend to collect the cancellation varieties (many different stations). I paid a fraction of a cent per stamp and am still having fun with it more than a year later. I may be crazy...but I'm also never bored!

amc - I collect those railways also. Wish I could find a big cheap lot. Do you have the album?

Chasa, I do not have a pre-printed album for these Belgian Railway stamps...is there one? I collect by station name; I print a page with the station name when I find a new one, and then mount one of each different stamp with that cancel on the page. Quite a challenge but it's an interesting sideline collection.

Pages for Belgian colis postaux here at the bottom of the Belgium section:

http://www.album.france-timbres.net/

Geoff

amc... here is a sample page from the album, it was created and marketed by Talbot Allen Parker. He is on facebook, occasionally.
I collect just one denomination from each station.