So What About Those "Consider Collecting [x]" Articles?

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Those "consider collecting [x]" articles are a staple of the philatelic press ... and other hobbies, too.

Unless they are terribly written, these articles almost always work their magic on me.

By the time they're half-way done, I am all the way there, ready to pull out a fresh binder, print-up some pages, dedicate a stock book, write-up a want list, join a new club, and, oh yeah, dive right in.

None of that ever happens, but none of that ever matters.

I still enjoy the ride, and look forward to my next fix.

So how about you?

Q/ Have you ever started a new collecting area after reading one of those "consider collecting [x]" articles?

Q/ If 'no', do you still eagerly read every one of them?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (who dreads other necessary staples of the philatelic press, such as re-printed press releases)

It is worse than just articles...I can go off on a tangent by getting something in a lot or accumulation that is of interest. 'Gee, this Postal Note is kind of neat' BAM. 'Oh look, these are nice National Park center line pairs' BAM. 'Oh, what cool Miniature View Postcards' BAM. Also occurs in this very forum. People post interesting things like the 'stamp vending machines' thread and I start making counter space in my stamp room.

Don

This is exactly why I adamantly stick to U.S. only. If I open the floodgates to considering other countries, I'd be buried!

Yes, those articles - and topics on here - are very, very enticing. It takes all the discipline I can must not to succumb.

As a worldwide collector many of my purchases are decided on reading various stamp auction catalogs. My favorite interest comes from stuff I never seen before ,I try to make my worldwide collection interesting by adding stuff nobody else has ....like when Bill Gross's collection of British Colonies went up for auction ,I never had a NEW REPUBLIC and LONG ISLAND stamp ,so I bought his .
This has been going on for years ,when I retired and move to Florida ,I went to Michael Rogers Auctions and purchase stuff I never seen before like the BLACK FLAG REPUBLIC , Forgery study well written up on TIBET forgeries and then Chinese buyers were coming in from overseas with big money for CHINESE stamps but were not bidding on the PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA {LIBERATED AREAS} so I started buying those around opening bid .

Always looking for that material nobody has in their collection ,I am not talking about high price items that you see every year in the major stamp auctions ,I enjoy stuff like putting together a CENTRAL ALBANIA collection after buying stuff from three different sources .

The new interest that I am putting together is used single U.S. PLATE NUMBERED COILS.

Have you ever started a new collecting area after reading one of those.......articles? NO, but I still read them. My primary specialties (have a few others as I continue to downsize from a worldwide collection):

Portugal & colonies: started in the 1970s because I liked the design of the 1914 Ceres issues. Also thought their colonies were more exotic than British or French colonies. Finally visited Portuguese areas in recent years (Lisbon, Macau)
Poland: part Polish, so............
Mexico: climbed several Mexican volcanoes in early-mid 1990s. Learned of early, classic, Mexico stamps and began collecting, but not from any specific article.
British East Africa: got interested in history of the area after multiple climbing trips there, beginning in late 1989.

I do have some oddities in my collections, however. I wonder how many people have State of Indiana intangibles tax revenue stamps?

Not sure if this is mine or not, I had a few Hagners of US State revenues and was trying to get them in some order, back in 2017.

There were a lot of intangibles stamps issued:
The intangibles tax is a local tax levied on gross earnings received from intangible property such as savings accounts, stocks, bonds, accounts receivable, and mortgages. It is not to be confused with the state income tax which is used to support state government.

As for the original question, I would collect 100 areas if I could afford to, there is always something interesting around the corner.

I haven't started a new collecting area because of one of those articles, but floortrader's ASFE/ASFEW thread inspired me to start a collection of one unused postal card from every issuing entity, limited to the 19th century. I've only been working on this collection for a little over seven months, but I've already accumulated 92 cards, with another six en route.

@Climber Steve



As a specialized collector of Índia Portuguêsa 1914-22 Ceres issue, I fully concur with the above sentiment.

Por. India Ceres issue is a HUGE subject which even after being extensively studied, has many scopes to explore.

Anyone collecting Por. Colonies Ceres keytype issues, must have to have this work.



Os Selos Ceres das Colónias Portuguêsas Estudo das Diferentes Emissões de Todos os Territórios Ultramarinos Correio Ordinário, Porteado e Imposto Postal (1913– 1949)
José Manuel Miranda da Mota.
Núcleo Filatélico do Ateneu Comercial do Porto, Porto, Portugal 2015

Índia section is elaborately illustrated and described in pp.105–18.

I chose Por. India because I like Goan cuisine. May be I can attribute this to the reading of the following.



BTW, initially I thought this thread was about ikeyPikey's collection of x-rated articles.

No, that's Consider Collecting XXX, another thread.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Leave it to Rod to have an Indiana intangibles tax stamp "down under." I'm just always impressed, Rod, with your stuff. Revcollector: thanks for weighing in about intangibles taxes. I'm originally from Indiana; born and raised; and had to pay those taxes when I was out of college and finally had enough money to have some modest investments.

Joy: appreciate your comments about Portuguese India. Port. & colonies is my primary specialty. I'm familiar with Sr. da Mota. I have several stamps with his certificates. I've belonged to the ISPP since 1991 and that book about the Ceres issues may be in the store. If not, I hope to be back in Lisbon next June and will see about getting it from the good people at Filatelia Joaquim A. S. Macas (my keyboard doesn't do "tilde" and other marks). I may do an order with them in January and maybe get the book then if they have it.

@Climber Steve
I don't think this book is available either at ISPP or Filatélia Joaquim AS Maçãs, Lisboa, Portugal.

You have to go to Porto, Portugal in June 2019 to get it directly from Núcleo Filatélico do Ateneu Comercial do Porto from its treasurer Isabel Vieira who is a wonderful lady who has been very helpful to me.

I strongly recommend you to join Portuguese Philatelic Society which has an extensive digital reference library accessible only to its members. You will get more information than you can chew.

And yes, I also have stamp with Cert. of JM Miranda da Mota, that is of an Índia 1877 Tipo Corôa stamp. Another great in this field is Luís Frazão. You must have met him during visit to Portugal.

Now there are only 5 types of diacritic marks used in Português viz., agudo, cedilha, circunflexo, crase and til (preferable term over "tilde").
Windows 10 laptop/computer keyboard supports all these.

I started putting together a little collection of New Zealand life insurance stamps after reading a Janet Klug article about them in Linn's...

The above description of Indiana's intangible tax regulation is entirely incorrect. I don't have time right now to describe the facets of it, hopefully in a day or two....

Almost everything philatelic that I read these days gets me interested in collecting what I just read about. I think about buying albums and pages to store the multitude of things I might purchase. By this time, I've been thinking about it long enough to where I get interrupted, and that saves me from over-indulgence. Eventually I will slip-up.