Have You Seen Me?

Have you ever seen this stamp? lol.



What do you do with the duplicate stamps?

I keep a few of each, especially if perfect centering or interesting cancels. I also keep a few if very poor centering, or some slight color shifts. But the vast majority just go into the trash as they are not worth even bringing to my local stamp club.

I trash them all. I put this man on par with the mad house painter.

Terry

I keep any duplicates of any issue unless it's beyond salvaging as you never know who wants them for whatever purpose - flyspecking for plate flaws, color shades, postmarks, any other form of variations or even using them for arts and crafts. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I remember seeing this stamp by the dozens back when I was a kid and picking up the orange HE Harris bags of stamps from the local store...

That bothers me when stamps are just trashed for no reason than being a popular stamp. To each their own but I just love stamps too much to just trash them.

There are several uses for these stamps and the one I like most is putting a bunch of popular stamps together and handing them out to kids in the hope it might generate a future stamp collector.

Hey if anyone ever wants to trash stamps I will take them and find good homes for them.

I have a number of shades of this issue in my album. They can be quite scarce. And certain denominations are also quite scarce (maybe not the 1 peso denomination).

That stamp gives me nightmares - even while I'm awake

I believe that about 2 bazillion of these stamps found there way into the Harris orange bag of stamps that every kid got in the late 60's early 70's. I called these "the big head Espana dude" and of course the "nerdy looking Belgium guy" was a close second.

"Nerdy looking Belgium guy"...I love it!
I also have had a bazillion Spanish guy on a horse, kind of like Don Quixote.

Yup, I had lots of these critters in the orange Harris bags of stamps I got at Woolworths.

OK folks, I've been out of the hobby from the early '60s until last year. I confess I don't know what the story is about the stamp?

Please enlighten me!

mobilman44: It's just a fairly common Spanish stamp of Franco that made up a good portion of the typical hobby shop grab bag from the 1960's through 1980's. I use to buy the bags from the Smithsonian gift shops in Washington D.C. Many of those grab bags were not very diverse - lot's of Franco's, select British Machins, Canadian QEII definitives, the Belgian nerd, Smurfette (Marianne)of France and assorted definitives from Japan, Australia and New Zealand were the norm. If you bought a U.S. only bag then it usually contained American Flag over assorted things, other definitives and some Christmas stamps on red or green paper which you'll find by accident while soaking the batch as a whole. :)

It's a 1955 Spanish definitive. Value: 0. Best use: trash/pulp.

It depicts General Francisco Franco (1886/1975) who after starting and winning (with Hitler and Mussolini help!)a bloody 3 years war (1936/1939) against the democratic Spanish Republic (1931/1939), followed by a fierce repression of the defeated side, and cooperating with nazi's invasion of the USSR, ruled Spain with an iron fist and a fascist regime up to his death on November 20th 1975.

They are still soliciting donations of stamps at this link. (It's better than throwing them out.)

http://www.foxboroughrcs.org/studen...amp-project/

The majority of my damaged or incredibly common stamps go into a box and are sorted by primary colors. These lemons are then made into lemonade and 're-purposed' as other things such as the stamp balloon shown below. You can also apply them on old lamp shades for an interesting backlit affect.

I then give these away to others as a way to promtoe the hobby.