Pushing 330,000 All Different Worldwide Stamps In One Collection .

Extreme level of completion. Were these all found in collections Floor, or did you source some of this material as individual sets? I don't recall you ever saying whether you rely 100% on collections you buy, or do sometimes acquire sets/singles individually.

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Shermae ---- I have moved away from country collections over the past few years . Just been picking up too much duplicates .

My interest is directed to buying better complete sets . All long term worldwide collectors develope certain goals such as building up certain countries , or areas of interest ,others try to get a good showing of as many countries as possible , then others try to build up their 1840 's to 1880's pages , or like me want to have a decent showing of complete sets .

I think there is a serious lack of written stories and lack of disclosure of how most of all these serious and impressive worldwide collections have been put together .

I got books and articles I saved thru the years on the subject , but most of it is really not discribtive of how it was put together .It usually gives a one sentence note like "he purchased the collection of Mr . XXXX and never goes into detail .

There is so much missing in this major part of Philately .

Isn't it as simple as locating and purchasing stamps or am I missing something. The purchasing part seems to be pretty straightforward. When something is available you exchange money in some form for it or maybe trade. The locating part could be more challenging but comes down to patience in the end. Auctions, dealers, private parties and contacts developed through networking. In the end the really legendary collections were formed because the collector had a ton of cash. No?

Rogdcam -- You are correct ,money becomes a important part to reach my goal . My goal has been and will continue to be to have a decent size Worldwide Collection .

There are parts I will never have like the MOST EXPENSIVE collection like Bill Gross or the MOST COMPLETE for his time like Philippe Ferrary .

I am staying with my early goals from my youth of having a nice W.W. collection .

When I moved to Florida in 2014 ,my China collection was a beginner collection still in a Scott International Album ,it gave me a opportunity to visit the Michael Rogers Auctions . There I started strengthing my China collection . At his auctions the "CHINA PHILATELIC MAFFIA " showed up with real big wallets and threw their weight around . But I notice they only went after mainland China stamps and left the back of the catalog sections alone .

This left a area for me to play around in , their was little active bidding so. First I went after the Twanian stuff called the Black Flag Republic , then after Tibet and finally they had a China Liberated Areas at one auction ,it was huge lot and expensive with a lot of stuff not catalog listed , way above my spending limits .
It open at half of estimate and went no where , then the auctioneer lower the price ,still no bids ,he lowered it again , I threw in the bid and got the lot . Michael Rogers after the auction told me I stole the lot because it was a must sell for a estate .

Well guess what this week {9 years later } still have it mounted on my album pages. David Coogle in this month's Stamp Collector'd Quarterly for 2023 . says there is now a heavy demand for Liberated Areas in the home country .Waiting for a phone call from Michael , he will want the lot back .

Floortrader for the liberated areas if you can find a copy of Yang's catalogue for the Liberated Area issues if you do not have already I'd recommend it, since Scott is hopeless on this area for pre-1945 liberated area material and varietals on the post-1945 material

I also believe Gibbons list much more of this material in its China regional catalogue compared to Scott

Thanks DJ ,for that info. I found a Stanley Gibbons part 17 in new condition after searching around ,now that is a must have purchase .

Good morning everybody ----- 10:00 in the morning in Orlando ,Florida and it is 9:00 A.M. in Chicago .

Rasdale Stamp Auctions sold maybe the last full box of 40 packages of Dennison Stamp Hinge this morning . Maybe the last box to be sold ,remember they have not made these for more than 40 years . So some how this can be the very last box to ever go up for auction .

It likely my very last purchase of hinges in my life time ,which I have been doing since 1961 . I won the lot at a bid of $700.00.....It is not the price ,it was the satisfaction of having it, thinking it is the last box ever .

Really glad I did it ......

Gratz on your purchase. In 1955 I used masking tape for a hinge. (Well, I didn't know any stamp collectors to guide me.) Then Fold-O-Hinge I think. Well, all I really remember was that they were folded. Lately I found
non-folded that seems to work well. The pre-folded are stuck together in glumps of 4---difficult to get a single hinge into the tongs. And speaking of tongs, I have a "Hygrade" made in USA tongs I believe are my first pair. (Ever try using a single tong?) They are much heavier than the other tongs I've accumulated like the Davo or Showguard. I've not been able to find any more Hygrade tongs. [I'm new to the forum---what's the difference between "Submit Reply" and "Switch to Full Reply"?]

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Last pages of French Indo-China ,

I believe it is important that collectors and those looking to start a more active interest see how collections were put together and displayed in years past .