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Are You A Space Filler Or A Hoarder?

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Posted 01/30/2025   6:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Thinkstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Both, but mainly space filler.
Filling Scott specialty pages worldwide to 1965 or so.
Once done here, the remaining duplicates I fill spaces in a set of Scott Brownies that go to 1938 or so.

After this any better remainders 'hoarded' until enough to send to auction in about 5 years or so.

Lower value remainders I fill Scott blues which when fairly full I will send to auction in about 20 years. Only sold 1 set of Scott blues about 10 years ago to pay a semester of daughter's college.

Just bought a used set of blues 2 years ago. So in between the 1st sale and the repurchase I hoard.
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Posted 03/17/2025   5:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Mastodon to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What an interesting topic!

Man, I think I'm both :-} I want stamps in the little squares in my albums--I'll tell you what: even ordinary, plain common stamps look good when they're ranged together in a coherent collection.

I tend to hold onto stuff with the intention of trading my extra material--but it tends to get stuffed into little envelopes which keep piling up and never seem to get sorted. But I'll work that out later. Right now, I try to buy and trade for bundles of whatever looks good. I'm collecting worldwide, so, with the exception of Iron Curtain, "dunes," and a few other categories which don't interest me, I'm open to all of it.

I have bought specific items, particularly for a few countries which are filling in quite nicely for me (Germany comes to mind. And Philippines older stuff), so I do go after specific items as well.

Looking to build a United States state/local 21st Century Taxpaids collection. Mostly cigarette these days, but the going is SLOW! Hard to get these things, despite people in every state buying packages of cigarettes with them on them. I think I'll have a MOST interesting collection once I get more material. I'm working on an expandable album to account for past and future issues. Unsure if anyone even catalogs the new stuff anymore :-P

Josh
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Posted 03/17/2025   7:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Captain Stamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I would say... none!

I'm specialized in special countries and periods, but I'm not a space filler. I prefer taking my time, choosing my stamps one by one.
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Posted 03/19/2025   08:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You only cover two areas about the philatelic community ,the Space Filler and the Hoarder .

There are two more ,both small areas .

The EXPERT ,who spends his time ,money and effort into a very small area of the hobby .

Then the SPECIALIST, these type of collectors goes beyond the album and the general catalogs , their playground is perforations ,watermarks ,unlisted items ,color shades and useages .
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Posted 03/19/2025   08:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
When you start to research the history of Philately ,step back and read about these early leaders of the hobby you start to understand how they collected .
We have the records today of what they had and what they collected.

They had what I would call SPECIALIZED collections.
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Posted 04/12/2025   5:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cephus to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Space filler. I was sort of a hoarder in the past, but that's all gone now. Today, I provide any extras to a young collector and I no longer buy collections, I only buy individual stamps that I need for my collection.
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Posted 04/13/2025   07:34 am  Show Profile Check philatelia7's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add philatelia7 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm a space filling, flyspecking, variety and cover seeking sorter and organizer. Definitely NOT a hoarder - my view is that those lazy duplicate stamps goofing off in glassines should get off their flat little back sides, move out of my stamp room and get a J.O.B. filling an empty space in someone's stamp album!
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Some women buy designer shoes, but I'd rather buy classic covers. They never go out of style. ;-)
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Posted 04/19/2025   09:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Philatele to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm a wannabe space filler, but in actuality I'm a hoarder. Feel free to send me stamps!
:-)
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