What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Hit a show yesterday and it's been bugging me for a while that there was the rare empty spot in my later U.S. album, so I bought almost everything to fill just about every hole from, I think, 1916 onward. I'm going to go through the album page by page to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Just finished mounting Scott Specialty France II (1959-1976). Was 611 stamps. More than 90% coverage through 1973.

NicholasC Love the photo and the colorful binders. What are those boxes you used for 102 card storage? Very clever. I was at an auction this week and a guy used Woodpecker suet boxes from Wal Mart for 102 card storage. Almost perfect with a little room on the sides.

If you are referring to the six (6) red and blue boxes, they are corrugated cardboard cartons that each held 36 packs of sandwich crackers from BJs wholesale club. They are holding mostly #4 glassines but are wide enough for #4.5. They are long as well, fitting nicely in the space.

Very neat and tidy Nicholas C!

Today I went to the Vintage Paper Fair in San Francisco, where I bought three dozen picture postcards. Most were unused, but among the postally used cards were six written in Esperanto from 1908–1913, which only cost me 25 cents each.

I accumulated enough for Indonesia to print inventory, update Steiner pages with cat numbers and page numbers, and print. Mounting and scanning is next on the list.

In the process, I learned about the "Vienna" issues (1948-49) that are listed in Scott, Michel, and Yvert but not in SG supposedly since they are considered revolutionary/propagada issues. Scott only started listed them in 2008. I am curious about how Scott listed them prior to then since they assigned No. 1 to the first Vienna issue. In searching SCF, some of the threads have links that are now dead. I was looking for information on Stolow and the revolutionary goverment. Mabye this post should be under Modern Asia/

Indonesia Scott No. 1

It was less, I think, that they were revolutionary, more that they were commissioned by an American entrepreneur and didn't see genuine use in the Dutch East Indies.

I guess I was wondering what was Indonesia scott 1 number before they added these issues. I just do not have a pre-2008 catalog.

Update

I discovered there was never a Sc 1 for Indonesia until the Vienna issues were added. Scott had continued the Netherlands Indies so the "first" Indonesia stamp in catalog was Scott 333. From First Issues Collectors club newsletter.

Worked on my collection from Greece. I purchase a small collection at our latest Club Show and was pleasantly surprised how many I was able to use.

Also worked on Yugoslavia, and a few commonwealth countries.

Crazy season is upon us at the Garden Center so my "stamping time" will be limited until it slows down.

Dianne

I spent a few hours getting caught up on reading back issues of Linn's, the nice ISWSC newletter, and SG Monthly.

Angore are these issues found online or paper copies?

All digital subscriptions. I have an 11 inch Samsung Android tabet so usually easy to read.

enjoyed a couple of hours of putting german stamps into a hingeless album year dates from 1960 to 1985 still plenty to find.