What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Took stock of my world pre 40's stamps. I documented what I have.

Almost done sorting a pound and a half of off paper Machins. Mostly all decimal, but quite a few pre-decimal, and regionals. None of the harder to find stuff from prestige or odd booklets.

I've decided to sell some of my best stamps and covers at auction. I'm not in the mood to buy anymore so I will sell maybe 50 items to see what the return is...

Today I purchased
this Scotts US 505.
Been wanting this for
sometime, came across it
on NYStamps ebay auctions.

Very nice stamps.

After a break, I got back to updating my 1947 Part I spreadsheet to match scanned pages sequence. Finished N yesterday, O this morning, and now I'm halfway through Persia. There's a lot of stamps between P and T, so it will take a while. I had already completed A-M and U -Z.

I was going through dad's estate supplies. He had many new mint sheet albums, cover sleeves, dealer sale cards (not shown), poly bags (no idea what these were for), and 3 banker boxes of mounts (mostly large size).

Score!!!

Took possession of USPS delivered Fulfilment order & double-checked contents against order. Found that the Day @ the Beach booklet (#685904) was missing & instead a Winter Landscapes booklet sent (#685704). I received the FDC & DCP Day @ Beach items so I'm guessing the order filler mistook the '9' for a '7'. This has happened to me possibly 2x-3x in all the years (since mid 80's) that there has been an error in my order. So, I packaged the item, made out the exchange form, used the provided return label & await the correct item. Not a bad record. Now I am preparing the other items for cataloging & album placement.

A couple of days ago. I ordered stamps from the USPS, and hope to receive them by next week.

Today I went to the bank. Since the close of the NYC, NY 2016 show I have been putting $$ away for the Boston 2026 show. (I would dip into it occasionally for LARGE Fulfillment orders but for the most part left it alone.) It was a small set-aside each month. (2-digts $xx). Today, I withdrew 95% for the show, split it into 2-piles. (A kid in a candy store, or Dad in the hardware store syndrome So I need to be focused & tight, it's an 8-day show). Double checking my agenda of events, bourse vendors, where the family time is scheduled, (not much), double check weather forecast (10 day almost gets me there) & on the look-out for public transportation issues, especially Saturday 5/23. I think I'm ready, bring it on.

Scanned in some pages from my Machin collection

eligies do you tend to purchase from dealers only? Do you find material on ebay? Do you trade or purchase from other collectors in stamp club or Stamp Community Family?

It didn't happen today, but I recently worked on a bunch of topical orders that arrived, and added them to my stockbook. Nice material. One of the dealers I bought from was Postbeeld. I'm in the US, but they arrive fast. Slow fulfillment speed, but great stamps!

Postbeeld has stock in a few countries they may first need to ship to the despatch centre. On top of that, since mid April, we had quite a number of holidays in this part of the world, where they are.