Ever Lose/Misplace A Valuable Stamp?

Recently I saw a mention of a special that Philatelic Foundation has going on whereby you can get previously certified stamps (after 2005) graded for a $10 fee. I thought I might want to take advantage so I started going through my certs to see how many certs I had that met the criteria. In so doing I came across a cert for a nice looking mint Scott #467 error of color. I've been looking to buy a copy of #467 for the past couple of years not realizing I already had one! It's NH with a copy of #463 attached. I looked in my album but it's not there. There's a copy of #463 filling the space. I seem to recall doing that because I didn't want the attached #463 covering up the stamp next to the 463/467 pair. But where is the pair? My collection is good-sized, but not that large. There are only a few places it could logically be. The first is somewhere else in the main album. Nope. I have a a large Lighthouse stock book where I keep odds and ends. Nope. I'm stumped. Not going to spend the day looking through all my albums (pretty sure I wouldn't have placed it in my Lighthouse stock books containing Mexico, Israel, U.N., Australia, or U.K. I'm going to let nature take it's course and hope I happen upon it sometime in the future. Or as my wife likes to say, "I'm an idiot."

You're not alone. The other day, I had a cert for a Nova Scotia #4 and went to mate it with the stamp and was shocked to see that the sales book page which should have contained the stamp was empty.

Hope you haven't done what I did with the tiny, antique silver name brooch I bought for my daughter. Carefully stowed away in a drawer for Christmas; carelessly thrown away when I cleared out the drawer.

FOUND IT!! It was on the next page in the space for 534B which i'm not in danger of filling any time soon. Well, that's another one I can cross off my checklist.

Things lost are usually found in the last place you looked for them.

I believe my record is approximately 15 years. I put away some stamps I bought in the Bahamas, and much later found them among some U.S. material. Must have been distracted when I stashed them away.

I have a few MIA stamps, some have been on this list for years, one about 2 decades. I am starting to suspect Space Alien collectors raiding my collection to add to their own. I guess I will have to install some IR security cameras and attempt to catch them in the act.

I hadn't done anything with my Harris Canada and Harris Statesman albums in quite some time, so I didn't really keep track of them. I thought they were in a box in my bedroom closet, but when I looked for them last year, they weren't there at all. I turned my place upside down looking for them, and still no luck.

When I went to my Dad's house for Thanksgiving, I found the albums in the closet of my old bedroom. I haven't lived there for 30 years!

Neither of those albums contains anything particularly valuable, though.

[quote]Things lost are usually found in the last place you looked for them.[quote]

I am used to hearing "things lost are usually found in the last place you put them"

A sign we are gettinold!

Missing since 2002
I have it somewhere............

How about this, I was stashing some cash in with some stamps to be mounted for the purchase of a particular set of stamps, when I found a suitable deal, I forgot about it for a number of years long after the search was over. When I found this sizable amount it took some time to remember what it was for. It was like winning the lottery.

About two years ago I purchased a stamp at auction. It came with two PSE certs. I still have the stamp, but … I managed to lose track of the certs. Before I had recorded their dates/numbers.
On a different note, I also managed to misplace a pair of concert tickets that I purchased last September. The concert was in December, but by mid-October the tickets were nowhere to be found. Fortunately, since I had "paid" by credit card, I was able to obtain replacements at no charge. Then, just a few days ago I stumbled across the tickets, a full half year after the concert.
Meanwhile, unknown to me at the time, the ticket seller had failed to enter my credit card info correctly & then also failed to notice that the transaction had not been successful. While they had a local record of the transaction, it apparently never made it into their corporate accounting system. Each month when my credit card statement arrived with no charge for the tickets, I contacted the ticket seller to report the problem. On the fourth call, I was finally told that they had decided the simplest solution was to not charge me for the tickets. So the concert was free!
For now, I'm still hoping that, like the concert tickets, my missing certs decide to turn up.

I lost a current year duck stamp several years ago and never found it to this day. I always buy my ducks from the post office but don't put them into my Mystic album until the new supplement comes out; some seven months later.

Jack Kelley

Jack, You know the old saying, keep your ducks in a row. Easier to find.

I must admit I am there too. Purchased several of the Series of Century sets from Canada Post and put the overprinted stamp pane in a tin box away from the fabric shirt and cardboard box, and as of yet have still not found them. They cat at $100 ea. And regularly sell for about $50 cdn ea. Sheesh!

When I can't find something after a reasonable search, I stop looking. Usually I find it when I am looking for something else etc...etc...

Not a stamp, but the PFC for a cover I sold.

About 10 years later, the PFC showed up - right where I put it, no doubt. Fortunately I knew who had bought the cover, and I gave him the cert.