For Your Next Collection: Pick One And Done?

For Your Next Collection: Pick One And Done?

I always enjoy those 'what you might collect next' articles that show-up in the collectibles press from time-to-time.

In fact, it does not seem to matter what they're collecting: I'm just a sucker for the pitch.

Last year, that button was inadvertently pushed by an article in that mainstream philatelic publication I won't be caught dead reading that began:

http://www.linns.com/en/insights/us...beacon-.html ... "Kent Kobersteen has collected the 1928 United States 5¢ carmine and blue Beacon airmail stamp (Scott C11) for 40 years."

Wow! What a great choice for Pick One And Done!

Q/ If you were going to Pick One And Done, how would you pick it?

My criteria would be:

- a proper design, eg, a subject inside a text-laden, informative vignette;

- engraved;

- monochrome (in all likelihood);

- large format (I'm getting too old for small stamps).

Q/ For which countries (yours, some, all) would you Pick One And Done?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

For Canada, for its near-mythological theme, I might pick:

Interesting question, ikeyPikey. What Scott number is that?

I picked one and done -----I would spend my dime for 100 stamps for ten cents thru a ad in BOYS LIFE magazine or 10 cents for a H.E.Harris packet at the Woolsworth store in downtown Providence R.I. so I chose Worldwide collecting ,little did I know that 60 years later that I would still be collecting the world .

I have seen it identified as Canada Scott C1.

I would use your criteria and also add that the stamp should depict, represent, or have been driven by something significant or profound in the life of the issuing country. With that rationalization I would have picked the Great Britain 1913 Seahorses.

U.S. Graf Zeppelins

After collecting for 57 years I am going with US Beer stamps and continuing Big Blue 1840-1950. Here is what I think of my MNH days.

Nice USIR stamp. I actually had to look up what unit of measure "one hogshead" was as I never heard of it before!

If I could choose only one, my criteria would be:
- Previously not yet plated
- From the period of 'innocence' (1840-1870)

But, as I tend to get interested in many new areas of philately all the time, that is probably never going to happen :-)

Or literally pick one and done ...

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/06....VWwW_Gt5mK0

cjpalermo1964: The Great Britain 1913 Seahorses are handsome & dramatic.

Q/ Do you see a lot of covers to/from the colonial possessions with these stamps?

Q/ Are they best collected by someone who owns a machine gun that fires money bullets?

stampcrow: Collector interest (auction traffic) in the Graf Zepps seems to run mostly towards, naturally enough, Zepp flight covers.

Q/ Do you see the Zepps in many other uses, eg, as upraters to pay registry fees on surface mail?

Mr Kobersteen chose a stamp of modest denomination, which allowed him to 'easily' find many different usages.

GeoffHa: Passing 100,000 sounds more like 'Pick One And Never Done'. When I've passed thru Lubbock, the thought never passed thru my head that someday, some guy in the UK would be reading the local rag. Go figure!

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

ikeyPikey

I wasn't electronically passing through Lubbock. I was actually looking for a web image of a lady in Noo Amsterdam who was President of a Four-Leaf Clover collectors club. Her picture appears in the booklet accomapnying a Yazoo CD of vintage blues and country entitled The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. The booklet includes a range of examples of people who are even odder than record collectors. The Collyer Brothers have pride of place, but others include Delphine Binger of New York and her 40,000-strong collection of wishbones, Charles Davis of Hartford's 425 hairs from elephants' tails and another New Yorker, Philip Vosburgh, who collected water specimens of the world.

Geoff