What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Received my 2018 Scott Volumes 1A(US/UN) and 1B (A countries of the world) last night. I'd planned to revisit early Austria and Australia but fell asleep with the catalogues at my side :-) Long day at work again today, but at least there is the StampCommunity to check out and share philatelic moments with when I can sneak it in!

Tonight I may find time to actually turn a few more Scott Catalogue pages. I always like to check out new issues. Well, at least LAST year's new issues, as the catalogues run about a year behind!



--Jim Wentzell
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Thank you Trainwreck. I ended up buying a binder at Walmart. It fit perfectly for the those pages. Now I just need to fill them with stamps :)

Nice looking binder, CP2018. I do wonder if a zippered binder will allow sufficient air circulation. What are others' thoughts?

Good question. I wanted one which can close like this to protect it from dust but you are right, maybe it would be best to let it open a bit.

You ever go through your album and there's a stamp that doesn't really meet your standards, but it's been there since you were 9 so it's like an old friend? Yesterday I removed a poorly centered and washed out color copy of Scott U.S. #372 with an XF MNH copy. My "old friend" has been relegated to a stock book that houses duplicates.

I have recently returned from a 3-week trip to the UK, Catalonia and South of France taking in 9 Philatelic 'Events' on the way.
It was a unique and unusual trip.

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Getting ready for a busy September bidding in several auctions and acquiring Fall project material. Lots of great material available. I am getting excited.

I have a trimmed 370 that I've had since I was about 12. It would fool no one, but I keep it because it takes me back to those first magical days of stamp collecting. At the time it was the oldest stamp I had.

When it comes to those "old friend" issues, I have a picture frame on the wall of my home office that I add them to...I just love seeing them every time I walk into the room.

Preparing an exhibition for a competition for the Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club in June 2019 titled "Australian Errors and Varieties". Hopefully I'll win.

Printed off the Henry Gitner French philatelic translations for my Maury catalogues found in a previous thread link,Excellent!!!

for those who might want to track down that thread here's a link https://goscf.com/t/32071

it is indeed a very useful thread!

I started moving stamps from a old SG album I purchased to my Steiner album. I was not surprised that there are spaces for stamps not in Scott albums or on Steiner pages but it seems the original owner was not careful with identification. I already found uncertain color differences, incorrect perforations, and watermark. I just started with Aden with QEII stamps (not a real difficult area) and did not make a lot of progress. I do have enough minor Scott varieties to create a custom album page.

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Visited Autumn Stampex in London.