What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Attended a live stamp auction at the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library. Picked up a duck stamp and two nice lots of Canadian stamps. Spent the last several days designing and printing pages for my Canada collection and adding the new stamps.

Attended my weekly stamp club meeting last night. We had a member buy,sell,trade bourse. I scored 4 MNH Ducks and 17 US mint sheets 3c & 4c.
Sheets were only $1 each!!!

carried on putting german stamps 1990 to 2000 in collecta album, still a way to go searching for the stamps takes a while, but still enjoying collecting stamps.

for a change, putting stamps of the faroe islands in a davo album, year pages range from 1975 to2010, yet more fun to enjoy, printers names to note enschede of holland also courvoisier of switzerland.

Packaged four bankers boxes to be dropped off tomorrow for auction. These are things that I can live without that also take up a lot of space. I am hoping that the 1000s of world stamps in dealer stock binders do well. Huge volume of stamps but I am mostly into early Commonwealth now.

My bulk stuff is ebay-able, rather than auction-able, but the pleasure at getting rid of those useless piles of stuff is terrific!

This week, updated my A countries with new purchases. Moving on to B countries, including a lot of new items for my Belgium Railway Parcel Post cancels collection.

It's been over a week since I did anything. Was focused on tax returns. Goning to get back to mounting. Thought I'd share my current bookshelf picture...



The binders with the white paper spine labels house the Steiner pages. Most of the binders hold 90-100 pages. The skinnier ones 50-70. All stamps are in clear mounts. It's mostly 1840 to 1940, but many to mid 1950s and some other smaller countries go beyond to their end. I still have 6 or 7 International binders holding mostly full pages from 1940 to 1973.

The Scott Specialty binders contain U.S. to 2000, and parts of Germany, France, and China.

NicholasC, I wish this forum had a way to react to a post, because your photo would get a WOW from me. Attractive, neat and organized.

I bought a couple of bulk lots at an auction in last 2 months and now I'm stuck with tons of stamps from countries I don't even want to collect, like Australia for example. If there's anyone here willing to swap stamps, I am offering lots of stuff from Australia, USA, + a variety of other countries worldwide :) my focus is on Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Yugoslavia and Croatia

@VerZakes, you require 50 'quality' posts to contact other members. It will be difficult for you to set up a trade at this moment.

Amazing presentation NicholasC! Are those shelves IKEA Kallax? Do they hold up well with the weight of the albums?

Yes, they are IKEA Kallax. No issues with weight so far. Started with 2 of them about 3 years ago and bought another last fall. I think I need 1 more to hold everything I have.

Catalogued and placed into stockbooks some recent ebay purchases of early 20th century Belgian issues, then sorted through some Sweden earlies thrown in stockbooks many years ago.

Up through Bolivia in my Big Blue journey, which is taking stamps from a Minkus Global, a Bound junior from around 1930, and another Big Blue and putting them into my Volume 1. I'm updating inventories (I use a 1969 Scott Catalog) & the spreadsheet from the stamp club referenced on the Big Blue blog. I need to take a break now from buying more stamps, I'm filling in Argentina, Belgium, Bermuda, and Austria (plus now Bolivia). Very happy with where I'm ending up: 45% complete Argentina, 45% Australia, 54% Austria, 63% Bavaria, 32% Belgium (OMG, the semi-postals!), 50% Bolivia. I try to have at least 1 of each "cut" in a series. These are good-looking pages at this level of completion.