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Netherlands
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Posted 01/23/2024   07:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I shouldn't value my collection at more than 60% face value. That's disappointing.


That is for mint stamps that remain valid for postage. Otherwise 15% - 30% of catalogue if the stamps are in good condition.
Rare and pre-1940 stamps in excellent condition have their own logic.
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Posted 01/25/2024   8:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add amccleaf1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Put some stamps from various U countries into my WW collection this evening: Uganda, Uruguay, UAE, Uzbekistan. This weekend, on to the V's and the end of the alphabet.
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United Kingdom
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Posted 01/31/2024   8:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kenstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
put more stamps of switzerland into a lindner album both mint and used, range of dates 1972 to 1987. still plenty to find till it is complete.
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United States
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Posted 01/31/2024   11:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NicholasC to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
While freeing up glassines, I found that I had 57 People's Republic of China stamps not yet mounted, including Scott #1 - #4. Not valuable, but nice to have. Going to go through the rest of what I have for China/Tawain and see what else I missed. It's been 4 years since I last looked at these stamps.
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United Kingdom
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Posted 02/01/2024   5:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Noocassel to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I have been transferring mint USA stamps from a Light house album and other sources to my own Stanley gibbons Devon albums, getting a little worried that my stash of Black split back mounts might run out before I am done. I now have catalogues for Scott numbers and SG numbers for most issues the two numbers are close so my stock books with Scott numbers don't need renumbering just look in the stock book and feel confdent the stamp I'm looking for will be somewhere near whatever Catalogue number I am using, Easy!
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United Kingdom
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Posted 02/04/2024   8:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add kenstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
yet more work on czeslaw slanias stamps of sweden, cut mounts and put in some stamps up to 1971, in a springback album, still many years to go for sweden, really enjoying collecting this engraver.
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Australia
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Posted 02/05/2024   02:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I finally finished writing up the B post offices for my book.

I should be finished the whole thing by the end of 2025, all things going well.


I wrote that on 19 August last year. I still haven't finished the C post offices.

Shall we say 2030 instead of 2025?
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Netherlands
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Posted 02/05/2024   05:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Shall we say 2030 instead of 2025?


You could publish part 1 and plan a part 2. After about two years, you just drop the planned date of issue for part 2.
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United States
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Posted 02/05/2024   4:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NicholasC to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
How about what I didn't do? I failed to purchase a complete 2022 Scott Catalog + U.S. Specialized from my local library book store. The asking price was $75.00. I waited too long to decide because I didn't really need another catalog (I have a complete 2012 plus a 2019 specialized). I don't have very many non U.S. stamps after the year 2000. Another gentleman offered $50.00 and it was accepted!
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Posted 02/05/2024   5:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add amccleaf1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Last week and over the weekend, started working on the recent US I have accumulated from incoming mail and from others who save them for me. Printed Steiner pages for US 2017-2022 (free!) and started clipping and mounting these. Noticed while doing this year's Christmas Snowglobe stamps that the USPS had 4 matching cancels, so now I am trying to collect: a) the 4 stamps of the basic set (table stakes), b) each of the 4 stamps canceled by it's matching design (blue ribbon), and c) all 16 combinations of the 4 cancels on the 4 stamps (best in show). If I don't get too frustrated doing that, I may try it out with 2022's Christmas Elves, though I may not have saved enough of them. But, still having fun with common stamps!
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Posted 02/07/2024   1:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rmeclark2112 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sorted through my US Scott 319 mint panes and singles, and sheet singles. My goal is to have one of each pane (319g, fh & fq) and a single of each as well. Also, a quality mint of 319,b,c,fi & j. We'll see how that goes
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Australia
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Posted 02/07/2024   3:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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You could publish part 1 and plan a part 2. After about two years, you just drop the planned date of issue for part 2.


I could, but this needs to be a one volume publication. It's very personal.
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United States
589 Posts
Posted 02/07/2024   11:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampgreendragon to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I went to the poor house buying stamps
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United Kingdom
8577 Posts
Posted 02/08/2024   2:02 pm  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That rara avis (well, for me), a completed page in the Imperial.

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Posted 02/09/2024   08:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Something I did NOT do....
I was recently asked if I wanted to submit my "want-lists," but I did NOT do so because I don't have conventional want-lists based on catalog numbers. That got me thinking.... I think of my want-lists as for "quirky" collections.
Long, long ago I gave up the idea of a complete collection of worldwide stamp issues. I don't think it can be done now.
I now have three stamp collections. The main one is what I call my "Gazetteer Collection," where I'm trying to get worldwide stamps on which I can ID the city/town/place of cancel. So far, I have got 76,000+ different ones.
The other two are much smaller. My "Everywhere Collection" is just one stamp from every geographic place (countries/colonies/provinces/cities/etc.) for which stamps have been issued. My "Some of my Favorites Collection" is just that -- stamps that I keep and mount in no particular order because I like or want them for whatever reason.
Maybe there are others among us who have collections we might think of as similarly "quirky"? It might be very interesting to hear about them, too....
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