What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

The question may be what stamp collecting commercial item (mounts, catalogs, albums, etc.) would you miss the most? The hobby sustains them.

Mrita75, note that modern one or two volume junior WW albums will have few spaces for older/pre-1940 stamps and a ton of spaces for very modern stuff. You'll see when you get a look in person. Used albums in very good shape from the 1960s or earlier provide a better balance and if one comes with some stamps, all the better, I think.

Thank you hy-brasil. I am not having a lot of luck finding something appropriate when trying to bid on or buy used Albums. I may not be looking for the right thing. Now, once I get to a Stamp store, I will probably get better perspective on what to look for.

The local stamp club had its twice yearly auction last night, the first I've attended as I'm a newly rejoined member. They do a live auction whereas the stamp club where I lived before had a silent auction format, which I prefer as you have a better opportunity to review the material as you circle around bidding.

My consignment of Scott 1804-1810 Cuban cattle breed stamps (2016 cv $6.10, min. bid $1.00) didn't sell, but I came home with a lot of mixed WW, some US, mostly off paper, weighing 36.76 ounces for $5.00.

Already I can tell this will be fun and while there are defiantly many duplicates to what I already have (though hopefully opportunities to upgrade) there will also be much new material.

Finished up page layouts for another Malay State tonight - Negri Sembilan

Another new issue in Dublin yesterday and for the second successive week, there was achange to the programme as set out in the pre-publicity.
Oneof the stamps scheduled to be in the "Irish Abroad" set was replaced by a different and I think better design. Three stamps at national rate and two at airmail rate. Supposedly the original stamp could not be verified as "Dublin airport" which seems a bit odd. But whatever the reason, I dont think its a big deal. Behind the scenes, there will always be second thoughts. The problem is in publishing the quarterly bulletin before final decisions are made.
Also spent the day buying some "Quiet Man" postcards which will be a nice connexion to next weeks issue which includes Maureen O'Hara. ...unless she is replaced by Saoirse Ronan.

Hi Moneil, there is nothing like a club auction. I belong to a club that has a club auction every meeting. We usually sell around 100 to 150 lots per meeting. Lots usually are either consignments, donations or members lots. December is the big auction so the club can start off fresh the next year and we limit the lots to consignment or donation lots only.

Found a B&O perfin; I am not a perfin guy, but this was unexpected fun.

So for paying bills by mail, I'm using up a batch of old 13 cent stamps MNH which I got at a steep discount from face, these take an additional 3 cent stamp to make the 55 cent first class rate (US 2020). So I dip into a supply of old 3 cent stamps in an envelope and pull out what I thought was a single 3 cent Jefferson from the Prexies back in 1938 (Sc. 807). But it was two, and the one hiding had a nice perfin that I could make out fairly easily.

I do notice an isolated puncture at the top left of the left-hand 3.
This is lacking in the only other B&O perfin I have seen in the thread https://goscf.com/t/41978 So I wonder what this perfin meant. Perhaps a particular B & O office location?

I just mailed 3 coil past up singles on covers to a guy who will use them to create a process for removing them off cover for expertising and then reapplying.

Received more clear mounts so working on my Mexico Album again to distract me from everything going on. :)

The B & O pefin looks like Randall's book # B280 = Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company General Offices in Baltimore MD

Dan

Motivation: Due to the virus, I am on a no stamp buying budget for a month. (Yes, I will probably spend all I save at some later date.)

1. I am re-reading the front section of my Scott US Specialized. Everyone should re-read the intro to their catalogs every few years. You will be surprised at what you will find.

2. I happened to borrow a few of the 5 cent binders (M, Mexico, N) at the last Knoxville Philatelic Society club meeting. I have gone through them and found a total of 36 new additions to my Internationals I-IV (1840-1960). I enjoyed almost every minute of the search. The time that was not enjoyable was when I spilled one of the binders. That was not fun.

3. In an interesting twist, after buying those few stamps from the binders, I am now going to go through my M and N duplicates and will add some of them to the binders.

Anything to keep busy so that I do not look online to buy stamps.

Since Monday, I've been on holiday from work due to the virus. It'll run through at least March 30th.

I can't think of a time in my life when I've been more grateful to have stamp collecting as a diversion.

Work continues on transferring my collection to Steiner pages. I wrapped up the French Colonies collection yesterday. When I finish with Fujeira today, I'll have all the A through F countries completed, with the exception of a few Australian stamps that I need to study more closely.

Thank you ddaann for the specificity on that perfin.

Went into the local post office as they opened (cleanest air) and picked-up two auction lots.

I figure those lots sat at the auction house since, say, December, as they were in a mid-March catalog.

BYOBB (Buy Your Own Bargain Box) purchases that will last me awhile.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey