What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Nothing, but had to post this while passing through Oklahoma City area...

I guess this is philatelic...

Here's the Historic Glenrio Post Office on U.S. Route 66 just across border from Texas into New Mexico.

And visited this post office...

Well, last night I had to bail on an auction because there was no proof that what I was looking at was real. One blurry photo seemed to show a complete set of the 1869 pictorials. Were they real? Who knows but I cut my risk at $325 and said 'see ya'. Daddy also needs a new fridge right now

NicholasC -----Maybe I could use that location as a retail stamp store .

Started laying out and printing pages for the 24 Visio stock pages with my errors, freaks and oddities. Should make a nice addition to my Scott Specialty album.

Been looking for a number of years for a clean MNH Malaya Selangor Scott 56 to complete the 1935-41 set. The Malaya States definitives from the 1930s have become almost impossible to find, especially MNH, as most of the available material flowed to East Asian collectors in the 2010's.

Finally located a suitable copy and hopefully it's as high quality as it appeared to be online. On to the next incomplete set- awaiting a Netherlands Scott C3 MNH to complete another set. That one is on the way from Cairo, hopefully soon.

Just finished putting together my June issue order with the Fulfillment Center (to be mailed Thursday) Opened up the USPS stamp store site for new issues (July) & saw the new low denomination definitive issues. Hoping the coils will be available in 25- strips (only 10,000 shown). Think I'll stop @ 2024 & spend $$ on classics or some hole filling of modern coils I missed.

Got some of the new USPS 2024 Flag definitives in the available formats plus a few commems I like. And I am smitten now with First Day Covers from Great Britain. Although a new area of interest I see it as a way to curb and focus my initial exploration of World stamps that I had when I first started.

Expecting in July to get the new Duck stamps from the USPS and then later this year just a few more commems and new issues from French Polynesia. Aside from those, just trying to get plate positions of panes of one or two low denomination stamps but hit a wall with the local post offices. Did go to dealers to fill in a few positions and get one Scott number of another low value definitive that is considered semi-scarce. May have to do that again - have too many sheets of low value definitives.

And got a catalog - "Collecting Great Britain First Day Covers" an older one going to 2012. Rather cool.

Took myself to the State Library in Sydney a couple of days ago to do some research for my book.

Spent almost twice as much time on the trains as I did in the library

A tiring day, but highly rewarding

Working my way through thousands of the Clinton Ang WWII Patriotic covers from his estate. Although it has a good representation of his own cachets, the vast majority are from other cachet makers he traded with. He was a long time USPO letter carrier and part time stamp dealer, mainly new issues. He also got many of his fellow Louisville Stamp Society members to create cachets and service covers during the war, which is why there are over a dozen members listed, as well as the Society itself, as publishers in Sherman's United States Patriotic Envelopes of World War II, 2nd edition. Sherman included a brief bio of Ang in the first edition, but removed it from the second edition. Ang did business under the name Parkway Stamps in Louisville.

Strange Machinations going on around here:

Been working through remounting several countries from 194x-1959. Austria, Ionian Islands, Iraq, Panama, El Salvador, San Marino, and Türkiye. Almost done with these, but waiting on mounts to finish completely. Still so many more countries to do for phase II.

I am having a drought. It has bee a very busy spring and summer and will continue until at least fall.

Today I laid out pages in my Scott Specialized album for the National Parks imperforate errors (740a, 741a & b, 742a, 744a and 746a). I paired the stamps with their certificates and they really look nice. Certainly worth the time I spent in design & layout.