What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

I joined APS.

I had recently exhibited my collection on Flowers in a National Level competition and won a Large Vermeil and Best Exhibit awards for thematic class. And it was a very joyful moment for me having participated after almost 8 years.

A great accomplishment. Congratulations to scinde_dawk

I've been mounting stamps from various countries onto album pages. At the moment I'm working on some Swedish stamps.

Welcome. May I ask what prompted you to join? Journal, services, fellowship, etc?

@angore:

A little of column A, a little of column B.

The proximate cause was that there are a couple of books in the APS store that I wanted to buy. When I accounted for the member discount, becoming a member made financial sense. And now that I am a member, I imagine that I will take advantage of other benefits (e.g., circuit book sales, stamp store, buy more books).

I had an APS membership during my 2nd stamp collecting period back in the '90s. It was a useful part of my collecting hobby then; I am hoping I will find it be useful now.

Dublin.
New Irish Definitives issued today. Mostly Stamps on a Roll (SOAR).
From the Philatelic Bureau I got the eight designs at National Rate. One set to be retained as mint and the other eight sent to myself.
Also picked up the booklet and coil stamps....again mint and others sent to myself.
As these stamps can be issued in any value, I brought some older stamps with me so that I could "top up" with some unusual values such as 2 cents, 4 cents whatever.
Disappointted that the new definitives are not yet available at regular post offices counters but no big deal as I will be doing this all year at different post offices.
So in the next few days, the envelopes I posted will be delivered.

One of the things I need to do this year is to clear stuff out - both the boxloads of duplicates and the countries that I'm going to divest. Began today on Central America, and I hadn't realised how utterly miserable my Costa Rican "collection" was. Not very many, mostly low values and some of the earlies thinned. No holiday on the French Riviera there, then - not even a half-bottle of Chablis, in fact.

Bought a lot of 200 used stamps of Ireland. I have 2007 Scott cat. on cd and a 2014 cat. from the library. I'm building a listing with comparative values. I will collect Ireland all used. It"s a slow process because I spend time reading about what a stamp is about. It make the hobby more interesting for me. Daniel

I inventoried all my mounts. I still need a better organization method.

The "used" versions of the new Irish definitives all arrived safely today. I never like firsr day cancellations so these are clear "ordinary" cancellations thru the Philatelic counter. Pretty pleased that they were all received within 48 hours of posting. They will be in my album within an hour.

Scanning, and more scanning. 3 hours a day for the last 2 weeks. Getting my French Polynesia ready for sale. About 5 more days should see me done.

On page 12 I mentioned on this thread that I was due to make some presentations to our local philatelic society. I've posted them in the World Covers and World Picture Postcards sections of this forum.

Finished inventory of Costa Rica and Cuba this past week !

I created a list of all Prinz/Scott mounts sorted by height.

L x H
215 x 20
215 x 22
215 x 23
215 x 24
215 x 25
265 x 25
215 x 26
215 x 27
215 x 28
215 x 29
215 x 30
215 x 31
215 x 33
215 x 35
215 x 36
215 x 37
215 x 39
265 x 40
215 x 41
215 x 42
215 x 43
215 x 44
265 x 44
265 x 45
265 x 46
215 x 48
215 x 50
265 x 52
215 x 55
265 x 55
215 x 57
265 x 59
215 x 61
215 x 63
215 x 66
215 x 68
265 x 70
265 x 72
215 x 74
265 x 75
265 x 76
215 x 80
215 x 82
89 x 83
146 x 84
215 x 84
265 x 85
215 x 89
111 x 91
265 x 91
265 x 95
265 x 96
215 x 100
265 x 105
265 x 107
265 x 109
265 x 111
241 x 114
245 x 114
265 x 115
175 x 117
265 x 117
161 x 120
215 x 120
265 x 121
129 x 122
176 x 124
129 x 126
265 x 127
265 x 129
174 x 130
229 x 131
265 x 131
177 x 133
265 x 135
265 x 137
265 x 139
265 x 143
187 x 144
203 x 146
265 x 147
165 x 150
139 x 151
185 x 151
189 x 151
198 x 151
265 x 151
204 x 153
196 x 158
265 x 158
161 x 160
187 x 160
188 x 161
265 x 163
184 x 165
150 x 166
265 x 167
265 x 171
185 x 172
233 x 172
265 x 175
201 x 176
178 x 181
185 x 181
265 x 181
184 x 184
150 x 185
174 x 185
156 x 187
198 x 187
223 x 187
265 x 188
165 x 190
151 x 192
265 x 192
148 x 196
162 x 196
188 x 197
130 x 198
265 x 198
190 x 199
275 x 200
160 x 200
192 x 201
265 x 201
156 x 204
120 x 207
265 x 207
182 x 209
183 x 212
161 x 213
181 x 213
265 x 215
183 x 216
265 x 216
179 x 217
152 x 228
191 x 229
186 x 230
192 x 230
265 x 231
182 x 232
172 x 233
179 x 242
182 x 244
185 x 255
159 x 259
156 x 264
159 x 270
227 x 280