Best Items You've Added To Your Collection In The Past Year

I don't care about value but I am interested in what you have acquired recently that brings you back to your albums every day or so just to enjoy what you see. Post images for the rest of us and I apologize if I don't do it right away; will do so shortly. My top three have been:
1. A penny black (finally);
2. A commercial cover from Pitcairn Islands with 3 Admiral N.Z. stamps;
3. A Newfoundland Unitrade 25 - uncancelled 5 cent brown Seal.

The $1-$5 Canada Jubilees

I added a very nice collection to my collection...

There have been a quite a few goodies. Many I've shown.
The first that come to mind are my
1. US#77 Abe Lincoln 1866
2. CSA#4 Jeff Davis 1862
And the other day I finally won a Canada #20 Queen Vic 1864 - the other one besides the Abe which was at the top of my want list.
She's not perfect, but will do 'til something better comes along.

My number one is a meter cover from Equatorial Guinea - you just dont see these on the market and are that rare they are not assigned a value in the "International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog" - and the best part is I picked it up on the cheap

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Intern...orial_Guinea

Zeppelin/Dirigible flown covers from Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin II, USS Akron, & USS Los Angeles. In addition Zeppelin NT flown covers from Germany. I almost snagged one from the British airship R100, but was outbid today.

This is a hard one to answer! but probably the $1 Columbian #241, #153 (just a personal favorite) and a lot of banknotes- oh!, and my #75.

Not my biggest buy, but still not cheap, was a lot from Harmer-Schau Auctions. It contained three covers I'd have to rate as favourites so far this year. Top of the list, this from Poonch, with four copies of the ½ Anna on white laid paper



followed by this from Bhopal, with the 1895 ¼ Annas:



and then this from Indore, with the scarcer type 1889 ½ Anna provisional



It isn't often that a single lot yields three favourites, but this one did ...

Easy to answer !









A wonderful,wonderful item from one of our great and thoughtful members, PARTIME.

I open the album every day just to ogle.
Posted here on their own thread a while back but when one gets the chance to show them again........

Londonbus1

PS and some of my purchases from LB1








Thanks LB1

Great Post huckles !

Some lovely items......I must have been mad to sell !
I want them back, gimme,gimme.......



In the meantime, another gem I picked up at the Strand Stamp Fair, London last September.

This is a folded advertising card for an upcoming issue of Stamp Lover, the magazine of the National Philatelic Society [UK]. Celebrating the Postage Stamp centenary Year, the card has a Penny Black reproduction on the cover inside an embossed and sucken Oval frame and surround as per the Wyon Head.
Inside is a facsimile of the magazine cover and text.
I am in no doubt that very few of these survived and it is scarce thus. Wonderful piece of Philatelic History.





Londonbus1

I'm green with envy

Here's my set:

I have acquired several good stamps and covers recently. I guess, this inverted post office in vertical pair of Guatemala is my pride and joy.

This is the other stamp I recently acquired. I have been looking for it in the past 20 years. The known mint copies can be counted with the fingers of ONE hand.

Nice pieces friends!.

Here are some of my last year purchases.

Penny Black - Plate 4



Penny Black - Plate 8



Penny Black - Plate 9



1sh - Plate 1 - #55



Green Pound - #124



Third Reich - Postcard. Vienna - April 10, 1938 / Stamp with Italian Cancel. Roma - 3-9 Maggio. 1938
Slogan "Ein Volk, Ein Reich und Ein Fuhrer"





Regards!
Rodolfo