Found A Good Use For My Duplicates

For a few of them, anyway. I'm mounting them. In my own album that I've had for over 3 decades, namely my childhood Harris Traveler album. I was sorting through some duplicates last night and I thought I'd break out the old Traveler that I only really keep for sentimental reasons. Sure enough, plenty of blank spaces I could fill in using a duplicate I already had. I've often thought that before I die, I'd like to fill every last space in that album, just to say I did it. It's certainly not a priority, but there aren't many high-cat items illustrated in those types of albums, so it's certainly doable.

Art, Greetings:

Another choice: laminate them, and put them up on ebay as vintage luggage tags.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I agree with you. Somehow I have more satisfaction adding to a smaller album than my usual run of albums. One stamp has a much larger impact.

That's sort of what I do. I have a mystic heirloom album I use for my duplicates and it's darn near filled! I mainly use that album to keep my Washington/Franklin issues in so I can keep track of them so I thought, like you, that I may as well keep adding to it.

Not easy keeping track of the W/F's. ILS. They can get jumbled fast. I haave mine in the Heirloom album with blank pages for the overflow. Since I am in love with the color variations, I can get a lot of stamps fast of the W/F's. The Scott specialized does not even come close to the range of colors

That's a wonderful idea TheArtfulHinger

Thanks for sharing.

Dianne

Yup Rohumpy I needed nomenclature order and fast so I got me a mystic Heirloom a year or so ago and put all mine in it. It was a game changer to see what I needed and be able to reference a particular stamp in a jiffy. I didn't like that the rest of the album was empty so it was a natural progression...

Yes I found a good way to use my duplicates!

As of today I'm trying to put together as many stock manila proof cards for the stamp class. I'm not sure if I mentioned I'll be doing the class at the Anoka public library this fall. This is in Minnesota. I'm requesting a $300 budget for the purchase of 20 Mystic beginners album with stamps and hinges for $14.95 each.
Tom

Nice writing, almost poetic... enjoyable.

TheArtfulHinger, may you live to 120 years and accomplish all your dreams.