What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

hawaiianbrian may I ask what website you use for this please as it is something I would like to look into as well? Thanks.

Hi! I just joined the forum today. I have been trying to properly identify my collection and inventory it on my stamp software program. But realizing there is so much I can't do without help…. Paper types, colors? Carmine? Red? It's the older stamps that are so hard, and the mystery and investigation is so much fun, but I need to know what I'm looking for and looking at. Oh not to mention Typograph, lithograph, photo. There are articles and videos to help of course and will be watching/reading. But being able to have knowledgeable input and advice will be wonderful. And hopefully once I know more, I will be able to pass on the knowledge with others.

Banana Bread, the website is Catalogit HUB, that you can search yourself. Again, you will find museums and historical societies that utilize this site throughout the world. Very easy to input. However, will take time to scan if you have a large collection and doing it by yourself. However, once you're done, no need to look at binders and needless handling and as long as you have the right environment, your items can be better preserved, and stored in the cloud. You can see my collection in there.

Good Luck!

xstitchalanna to the forum.

There is a topic on this site called "Stamp Production Process Forum" in which there have been extensive discussions about printing types and how to differentiate among them. I have found them very helpful.

Fantastic, thank you hawaiianbrian

I was working on my spreadsheet for USPS souvenir pages and correlating USPS numbers with Scott.

Scott's numbering of souvenir pages seems truly dumb. Rather than just number them chronologically, they half-hearted list like general issues with definitives in number ranges apart from commemoratives. Given there are no album pages per se (ike putting Trans coils on an album page), it makes no sense to number them in this fashion other than chronologically. At least they did not follow separate groups for semi-postal and airmails.

I have mine in sleeves (back to back) chronologically rather than have a 1998 page with 1995 pages.

Inventoried a 1965 Minkus Canada album, my brother gave me 10 years ago. Lovely single sided A4 sized pages with lots of space and captions, not the jammed up look of the Master Global Stamp Albums. 117 of 978 slots filled. One more collection to putter with.

Added 4 stamps found in kiloware to my One Stamp for Every Country album (Smithsonian).
Swaziland, Bosnian Croat Admin in Mostar, Kelantan, and Cape of Good Hope (unfortunately not a triangle)
Up to 357 countries out of 683 based on pages printed for 52.27%

Found a used 1863 Austria Newspaper stamp while sorting through a glassine labeled as Germany stationery cutouts. I guess it pays to look twice (or more). I've also been trying to further identify Germany revenue and local post items that I have. Almost not worth the effort.

Added stamps to my Denmark, Cuba and Hungary collections over the weekend, and updated my HAVE lists for these countries. Reminding myself that the main goal is to mount what I have on pages, vs. focusing on accumulation. :)

Yesterday finished a project begun in July, breaking down an old worldwide album containing about 6500 stamps that I purchased in June. Stamps from a few countries were merged into current albums as I went, the balance were either stripped from pages and put into envelopes for future inclusion into albums, or pages were cut down and combined into current albums awaiting transfer to Steiner pages.

I have not been doing much but will get back puilling stamps from two old albums as part of a not organized country collection,

Came up with a stamp-collecting sideline that I call my "Everywhere Collection."
One nicely representative stamp from each country or entity that has had stamps issued for it, taking into account the fact that some of those places' names have changed or have been differently expressed on stamps. Mounting those on 40 (so far) 20-space-each self-made pages for the list I have so far compiled in approximately temporal order starting with Great Britain. Since there have been seemingly-innumerable local issues for individual cities that I'll probably never be able to find, I've decided not to include them -- except for Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Batum? Mafeking? Tangier?

And Macao, too! Couldn't recall them all, but basically the ones to be found in Scott's and Gibbons'. Since there is no absolutely final official list anywhere, one can decide for him/her-self.