What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Cephus.

Your perception is accurate. Checked with four large vendors earlier this week. All are experiencing difficulty obtaining mounts. Nearly all forecast a resolution next month.

Some believe the consolidation in product manufacture is the reason.

hello all. been working on moving malaria stamps from stock book to springback album still got 8 pages left to move enjoyable though .

Yesterday I put together quite a large Fulfillment order for the most recent USPS issues (w/FDC-DCP) for my album. The new Flag issues really was going to be maxing my budget but they are offering strips of 25 for the coils so I grabbed 2 of those & will use balance for postage needs. Given the upcoming rate increase (if approved), I suspect that there may be some issues added to the program for 2023. (Although I couldn't guess why (other than increase revenues). Also started to put together the 'want list' for the upcoming Boxborough MA show in May.

Went to a show yesterday, it was pretty disappointing, half the dealers didn't even show up so lots of empty tables. Talked to the people at iHobb about the mount situation and they really don't know anything concrete. They think that, at least on the Showgard side, it's still fallout from the Hawid failure, but he doesn't really know. Says they're supposed to get a Showgard by the end of the week and another one from Prinz within 2 weeks, but he has no clue what's coming and nobody can tell him.

It's just a mess.

Where was the show?

put the icelandic 1931 zeppelin stamps in a old schaubek album for scandinavia, my one and only set of zeppelin stamps.

Over the past several days and perhaps longer, I sorted through two shoe boxes of U.S. used singles, all pretty much in stacks of 25 stamps filling up all available space in really old glassines (from the 1970s) and packed tight into the boxes. Most stacks were the same stamp over and over, but many of the glassines had mixed stacks. Must have been 20K-30K stamps, but I'm not counting them. They were almost exclusively post-1934, but I did find a couple hundred from earlier years, though nothing I didn't already have. I organized all of the definitives first and have them all stacked in my sorting trays. Sad to say that I do have multiple hundreds of some individual stamps. I then sorted the commemoratives by face value groups (3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 13). I put all of the 3c into a 32-page stock book, one row per unique stamp with the intent of having a minimum of 4 complete sets of sound stamps. I'm far from that, but what I have is a really nice start (for a set of future stamp collectors). I did sort through all of the 6c stamps as well, weeding out anything that had an obvious fault, even as simple as one missing or really short perf, and put them in another tray (my reject tray). What I am left with thousands of nicely stacked sound 6c stamps in a single tray. I will likely do the same with the 4c and 5c stamps this week. I have so many 8c stamps, that I might put that off for a while.

I know that these stamps don't have much value, but I'm happy to have organized them.

I have been so bored waiting for my mount order to finally be delivered. Can you tell?

Spent part of today moving my Turkey collection into a new stockbook. They now have room to breathe! Will include some other related areas as well probably.
Regards
DavidR

I spent seven hours at WESTPEX today. I got some stamps that were on my want list and some postcards of topical interest, including five that were written in Esperanto, but I didn't spend a lot of money. The most expensive thing that I bought was a $10 Esperanto postcard, mailed from Tumut, New South Wales, to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1909.

I decided to go through my computer to organize all my stamp information (documents, spreadsheets, images, etc). If anything I got to find information I forgot I had.

The next step will be to organize OneNote since I use that for a lot of snippet data capture/ It looks like Microsoft finally fixed the search feature in OneNote. I am always leery of getting to committed to OneNote since Microsoft redid the app for Windows 10 and ended up losing features. I am too cheap at to use the pay version of Evernote which I found faster and better for searching.

OneNote for Windows 10. I really like the webpage clipping feature given most forum's search capabilities are limited.

I will start a separate thread for more discussion.

Used my new Linn's Multi-Gauge for the first time yesterday. It's a very nice product. My old metal perforation gauge is not only wearing out, but can't do the decimal perforations. Also, still working on sorting through my U.S. stamps and reorganizing several boxes of glassines that are holding them. I have so much left to do, but without mounts, I cannot really do anything else.

hello all. started putting german stamps from glassines that where in a shoebox . into a collecta preprinted album years range from 1990 to 2000 still got away to go all the best .ken

I laughed and cried at the same time.

Below is just one horrible example of the collecting madness that I have come across in my wonderful worldwide collection. The poorly stamped page below is from an otherwise decent 1978 U.S. National album.



I know it was quite common for collectors to do this, but I never can understand why putting extra stamps that don't belong on the page.

Late to the party, but I found a stamp id app. Been scanning and adding some Russian stamps that I would have no idea how to organize. After that, going to put them in pages according to Scott numbers.

Spent Friday night putting away most of the remaining stamps I had left, except a couple that I was lacking mounts for. The mount order showed up yesterday. Have to get back to those few. Yesterday, I went through Australia and China and put things I need into my want list for the show next Sunday. Now, if only I could get 24-sized mounts, I'll be golden. Hopefully, iHobb will get them in before next weekend and I can get them to bring them to the show for me.