What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Printed pages for China (People's Republic) and began sorting and mounting them to pages.

Also going through Australian Spares to share with my good buddy Bob of many gggg's

Dianne

Printed the pages and laid out the stamps for the countries I had ready from last time. Then I started to work on El Salvador ... a country with a lot of stamps! I fully sorted and catalogued what I had in glassines and then laid out regular issues through 1940. BOB is next and then back to mounting.

In my orders from Nordfrim, they include several recent CTOs from Denmark as a bonus to compensate for not using postage stamps on the package. I printed the necessary Steiner pages for the accumulation I have and will mount them later today.

Robert

A few days ago I was sorting some covers to make a few pages illustrating different date stamps and postmarks, like an idiot I had a cup of coffee on the table as well. When the coffee got knocked over I ruined a few modern covers I can replace, also ruined a better cover. further stained a cover from 1841 and some other covers that would be harder to replace.
people always warn you don't have food, drink or smokes with your stamps but I still did it. The main loss was inconvenience of stopping my sorting and going into disaster control mode saving stamps, and limiting damage then mopping up putting table cloths in the washing machine, sponging carpets etc. I still have to face a 30 minute search through my stocks for replacement common covers.
Morale do as others advise!

Over the past couple weeks, I've sorted and ID'd ~27,000 1869-1933 stamps arranged into stock books and inventoried in prep for pulling a few out and selling the rest. Coming soon to ebay, Hip and other sites near you! More yet to sort and stock. Numerically, I'm a bit over half way through this lot now but I started with the easy stuff... I'd probably be done if I didn't have a day job.

Today I spent some time with the most recent Scott catalogues at the Berkeley Public Library, updating and revising my topical stamp want-list. In the course of doing this, I discovered two more stamps that I need to get for my "Runes" topical collection: Denmark #1808 from 2019, which features the Købelev Thor's hammer amulet, the only known Thor's hammer with a runic inscription, and Sweden #2807 from 2017, commemorating digital innovation with a design that includes the HB bind-rune used as the Bluetooth logo.

Today I managed to organize all the stamps I have from the Weimar Republic. It seems I have some spots to fill.

Received my mount order the other day so I mounted classic:

Portuguese Africa
Portuguese Congo
Portuguese Guinea
Portuguese India
Puerto Rico
Quelimane
Rhodesia (British South Africa)
Somali Coast
Somaliland Protectorate
Southern Nigeria
Southern Rhodesia
South Russia

Have a bunch more on deck (mostly S countries).

Also finally finished:

Bohemia and Moravia
Slovakia

Received new issues from Israel , added to collection.
Sold a couple of items on ebay.
Checked several auction catalogues that arrived last week.
Checked a few online auctions

Paid for stamps that I didn't really want. I know, if you don't want them don't bid. I am more complex than that.

Ditto

I finished sorting through the last 11 lots of stamps I bought on ebay and placed what I needed to in my albums spaces. It was about 300 stamps in total checking perforations, watermarks, types and a little soaking.
I also ordered the 3 volume set of these references:The United States Postage Stamps of the 19th Century Lester Brookman yesterday.

I sorted some of my Germany stamps and added a few to the album. Not much today.
I'm going to have hip surgery on Wednesday and am glad I have stamps to keep me busy while convalescing.

JoanneG

Today I started a study on Sydney duplex cancels 1871-1888 on my De Le Rue holdings.

Pleased to say I've made 3 significant discoveries already!

Been sorting thru a couple thousand stamps from Poland, 50's thru 90's, both on and off paper. Removing duplicates and separating by year. Will most likely store these until I figure out if I'm going to print pages to mount them or not...