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

Excellent on Sweden. I have two lighthouse hingeless albums and seven vario pages that I move stamps around in. Collecting cancellations. Shades. Strips, and now adding some covers.

Each collector decides for themself how they want their collection to look .

There are a few things that drive me crazy as I look at other collectors collections . The Scott International vol. I is loaded with pages that have broken/partial sets , they don't deal with complete sets only . How do you value these broken sets ?

Then other collectors like blank stock books again are the sets complete ? Without a catalog present your not sure . Recently a major auction firm put up scans of a dealers life time inventory. The scans were a fast flip thru of the inventory . You could not see at first look ,were you buying a book full of broken sets or a much higher reason to bid high if you knew everything was in those binders ,again you have to lower your bidding to adjust to what you see in a quick scan .

This is why I like STEINER PAGES for viewing and bidding on material .

Another thing that gets my underwear all bunched up is, the dumb idea of mounting mint hinged stamps in mounts without telling the viewer that they are not mint NEVER hinged .......here is a sample of my page ,it makes it clear what the stamps are . Remember if you have to bid on stamps that are in mounts with the understanding they are hinged unless the auction house clearly states the fact of what your bidding for .

Thank you for the answer to my previous question. Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this but can someone help me with these stamps is one of them a forgery?

No, it was issued in two colours.

KyleB ---- I believe this is what you may be thinking of

This forgery is a Propaganda forgery produced in the United States for the OSS.

Here is more on this subject of Hitler Head forgeries

Ok yes I believe you're right that is what I was thinking of. I just couldn't find online for sure that it was issued in two colors. Thank you for helping me to learn. I'm assuming if I get the 12 volume ww scott catalogue set all that info will be there. My friend is supposed to sell me his 2013 set when he upgrades in May.

KyleB ----Glad to help .

My Forgery Collection is different than others . I try to match up fake stamps next to a real stamp . I belive most collectors will be able to see a scan and notice the differences themselves in most cases.So if anyone tells you I am buying expensive damaged stamps for my country collections ,you will know those are in my Forgery Collection . I see no reason to dump a lot of expensive stamps or a lot of money into it . A damaged real stamp will work as a comparsion without a big cash outlay .

From my forgery collection .

These weren't forgeries, but official printings issued in error by the Sudan Agency in London.

KyleB, Michel 785, the 6 Pfg, comes in a wide range of violet to purple. Here are a few from my collection. This stamp was also forged by the OSS, look up "Operation Cornflakes". In addition to that the British made their own forgery. None of these forgeries are particularly common but the forgeries of the forgeries are.

Wow. It's amazing how many different shade varieties there are for 1 stamp.

I am not a color expert and we got a lot of them in the Philatelic community , they are really good about identifiying color . They know all about printing , listen to them .

Me ,I was the kid who worked a low paying job after high school in a factory . The factory was printing boxes . My job was stacking boxes at $2.25 a hour ,good money if your goal is to buy a used car for $800.00 .

Life was good ,one day the guys running the MIEHLE printing press , asked me to go get a can of green ink from storage . I went to get it and there was some 120 colors of ink in storge ,so I found a can of a green label and took it to the press room .The printer operater was busy changeing the job ,he was done printing in blue , so he told me clean the ink tank on the machine, I looked inside the tank and there wasn't much blue ink left so I dumped the green ink into that tank .

He came over when I was done by looking into the tank and I handed him the green ink can . So he walked away . I walked away back to stacking boxes .


So the lesson here if you don't want green -blue cereal boxes don't pay a high school kid $2.25 to fill the ink in your printing job . That is why you get color changes in the different printing runs .