Diary Of A Wannabe Worldwide Collector

Back into the swing of it, and spent the last few days identifying plate numbers and cancels and mounting my small bunch of Penny Reds.

Shame that there is at least one space on these pages that will never be filled, but not a bad start to this section of the Great Britain collection.

That's a beautiful collection

Gibbons doesn't leave a space for plate 77, so I don't think you need to!

Hi Maiden,

Glad to see you posting again. I love the pages of penny reds. This is the sort of thing I'd love to do. I only have a couple penny reds in my collection at the moment, so it would have to wait until I add some more.

I recently got some later British and have been looking forward to going through them. I picked up copies of the Stanley Gibbons Specialized volumes 2 and 3, so I hope to get started on them soon.

Dale

Glad to see you back Maiden! I'm looking forward to following your journey through your posts.

maiden, I'm glad to see you have a space for Plate 77. If it exists there should be room for it. My collections are arranged similarly (though I don't collect GB). I don't care that I will never fill some spaces but those spaces have to be there.

Very nice! Projects such as your plating project, that requires looking at many copies of a single copy of a stamp, are right down my wheelhouse, although these Reds are probably not on my todo list, mostly because I have so few of them. I really admire this type of collecting though.

Maiden,

Your pages are beautiful. You are touching a nerve with those Penny Reds. Unhappily, I am currently focused on completing my QEII collection. After that, it'll be Penny Reds for me!

Jack Kelley

Wonderfully done. Oh.to have the time.

Nice tread Maiden. You still have work ahead, but will be fun work. I still have not started to reorganize my collection. I think my reason is no area dedicated to be able to work on them.

Thanks for the comments :)




Yup, I see it the same way. Besides, one day I may have a spare half a million quid kicking about, and if I bought a plate 77, I'd have to re-do the pages if I left it out




I still have Machins to come-the very definition of looking at many copies of a single stamp

I understand about the Machins. I have been squirreling them away for years. One day I too will take that leap.

Nice collection. I have some of the Penny Reds, but just hinged to a couple blank quadrille pages in my British Commonwealth albums. And, no, I don't have #77 either.

The census of known copies of Plate #77 is ten, including three on the famous Victor Hugo cover sent from Guernsey to Brussels in 1865. An article explaining the expertization of the cover appeared in the March/April, 2019 issue of Scribblings, the bi-monthly journal of the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library. It was a very interesting read. Author is Abed Najjar.

Of the other seven copies, one unused copy was purchased by King George V and is in the Royal Collection. Two others, one unused and one used, were bequeathed to the British Library. Another used copy is in private hands. Two used copies were sold respectively in 2012 (L550,000, $700,000) and 2016 (L495,000, $640,000). The whereabouts of the seventh, an unused copy, is unknown.

Hi Maiden.

You mentioned that are doing your own albuns. How are you doing this? Which software, based on which catalogue?

Keep going the project!

I've been using an ancient (2007) copy of MS Publisher. It can be a little clunky but I'm happy with the results.

For the Great Britain pages I am working from SG Concise.