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I agree with lorddenning. Cover collecting is a different kind of collection. Floating covers for the stamps, a cover collector would never do that. I have a tallships cover collection. Tallships floats but I will never float my covers collection.

that's a terrific collection of covers for a stamp that we all probably have (or had) at least a thousand copies of ... thanks LD for displaying them for us.

clifhiker

Thanks for your kind words. I have several mini-collections on the go so that when I go to a stamp show I never come home empty handed. And I never have a check list with me. Although this year I brought my computer to Stampshow and checked my blog to see if I already had Philippine FDCs in my collection.

It's a great hobby limited only by ones' imagination.

Covers and/or postal history don't interest me all that much, unless they are something special. Some examples: I have a cover from India, mailed in 1924, that also has a cancelled Mount Everest label on it. I have several unaddressed Russian postal envelopes from the late 1990s that show Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe. The Elbrus items are of more interest because I've climbed the peak. Also have a cover mailed on December 19, 1999, from Macau, on the final day of 442 years of Portuguese sovereignty.

The simple solution. Collect what you want; how you want it; when you want it.

Steve, I've never been on a mountain in my life but I'm an "armchair" climber and have read and own about every classic mountain book there is....including Herzog's Annapurna!, the '53 K2 expedition "Savage Mountain" and started with "into Thin Air" by Krakouer and about 50 more. .

Since Mallory and Irvine were lost in the '24 Everest expedition, is the cover you're describing from anyone or to anyone from that expedition?

Please post a nice scan if you can. I would LOVE to see the cover.

And since you climbed Elbrus, are you considering the Seven Summits?

And if you ever get to K2, watch out for the Bottleneck and traverse-- I can't imagine how steep it really is and only have seen pictures but it must be a doozie!

Good and safe fortunes in your climbs, and thanks much for your post, Ray

Mobilman, I was in the same boat with US classics, and found 3 stamps that:

Are plentiful
Are inexpensive- many common copies for a couple of bucks
Have many varieties- plate markings, shades, fancy cancels
And you can buy every reference book available and in one lifetime you can't learn it all

US 1c 1857 #24
US 3c 1851-7, #10, 11, 25-26
US 3c 1861, #65 with 48 shades not listed in Scott.

Regardless, enjoy and thanks for the post.

Ray

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I have had it in the back of my mind to try to get a cancelled cover from each ship that was in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, as close to that date as possible. I never follow through on it though. Right now I am immersed in Newfoundland, a fascinating area.