What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Today was the first in several weeks that I had some time to work with my stamps. I spent about an hour examining some US #720's for plate varieties, and found one to add to my growing collection of these interesting stamps.

"Cleaned house" in my stock book, which had a lot of cancelled U.S. stamps, mostly post-1940, the kind of stuff for which there's no market. Sorted them into four glassines: definitives, commemoratives, Christmas stamps, and one with a whole crop of Scott #1818 - the infamous blue "B" rate stamp with the stylized eagle.

Today, cleaned the hinge and hinge glue remnants from the backs of about 600 used and NG stamps from a collection that will be cataloged and sold later.
Answered a dozen or so questions here as well.

I spent part of the day yesterday complaining about the awful new issue from Great Britain. It almost broke my heart to see it. I no longer collect stamps but as a 'Philatelic Brit' I still take an interest in new issues.
A sad day.

Then I continued to sort the Commonwealth Collection I am selling for a friend. Found some nice gems and some good stamps. I have never collected Commonwealth so it's a learning curve. Lots of fun, lots of watermarking, measuring and studying.

Londonbus1

I'd say that these aren't bad at all by modern standards

https://www.royalmailgroup.com/en/p...ssics-issue/

I, too, like the new issues from Britain. At least they're not Harry Potter or Star Wars.

Yesterday I ordered the first three volumes of Mystic's American Heirloom Hingless Albums. I'm tired of cutting mounts and don't care for the looks of a collection mounted in stock books, so I'm in the process of going hingeless for my main collecting areas (US, Rhodesia, French Polynesia, British Solomon Islands, and British Virgin Islands).

Coastwatcher,

Let us know how you like the hingeless album.

Man, y'all are hard-core.

I mean that in a good way.

Remounting stamps in my WW album I had pulled to sell for some emergency cash a few years ago and then misplaced afterwards. My Penny Black with red MX, Two Pence Blue and most of my Thurn & Taxis had covered the emergency and the others I didn't need to part with. Now back to searching US 720's for plate varieties.

I'm with you Geoff, and rather surprised at Londonbus' dislike,
I wonder why?

The Tyrian Plum is just super, in my opinion.

I was admiring this little holiday gift I received and how it motivates me to work on my cataloging (I started Tunisia last night). And I wanted to share it with SCF too

I have been sorting Spain and realized that I have way more than I thought. I have put them asside for a bit and am working on my canadian album. Before Christmas I purchase a good size box of mostly recent Canada on Paper and spent Sunday soaking them.

I am to the point now that most of the missing stamps are beyond my budget so I may sell a few of my better quality spares at our next auction to see if I can aquire a few of them. sometimes I have been lucky enough to find some with minor flaws for a very good price and as long as they look good on the page I don't mind that at all.

Dianne

I have moved into my new home office (also stamp room) and got most things organized. I have been mounting Bermuda and a few others on Steiner pages as I acquire ebay lots or purchases off stamporama.

I have been cataloging and listing US revenue stamps from a collection that I bought at an antique auction. Holy cow there is a lot more there than I thought. This will take some time.

Moved many of my covers from a cover album - the kind with the very flexible clear pockets, to Vario 2S pages.

I like the Varios a lot for covers, and the newer ones seem to have a nice shiny but deep shade of black that works well. My 20 year old Varios were a duller black. Maybe they just faded.