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Outstanding? Perhaps, for US standards. Below average, for European ones. Some of the most common and cheap German stanps of that period. But, if you got it cheap... |
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Congratulations on your buy. I, however, agree with Cursus in that "outstanding" is not how I would qualify the collection you are posting. The album appears to have been stored in a very damp place. |
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Outstanding? Perhaps, for US standards. Below average, for European ones. I don't know about anyone else, but that is what I come here for - a gratuitous insult...  John |
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You look to have quite a few nice postmarks, including some on the inflation period stamps of the 1920's.
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@flip138
Note that with German stamps, cancels need to be "readable" (dates/city names) not just wavy cancels or blotches like almost all US stamps.
The reason is that as soon as you get into the "interesting teritory", used German stamps are fraught with forged cancels. |
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WHAT A INSULTING THING TO SAY HERE
That is a beginners collection ,nice but still a beginners collection no matter what side of the pond you live on .
That collection has some nice features but nice for a person who is a specialist in German Inflation issues .Sorry to say there are only a few people really know the subject of cancels on those stamps .
The value and expertise is in period covers and not loose stamps . Still a good start no matter where your located ,it does look like that album came from overseas , and not original from the U.S. |
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How hypocritical!
Stating that questioning the collection is "outstanding" is insulting but relegating it to a "beginners" collection is not! |
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My Two Cents:
One person's outstanding is another person's trash. It is all subjective and your opinions are informed by where you stand in your own position. When I started collecting as a youth this find would have been as exciting as anything you could imagine. Just like my first car was amazing but looking back it was a dented rust bucket. It is the emotion at the time given my experiential base that matters. What benefit would have come from my friends and family telling me that my "amazing" car was a rust bucket? None, sometimes less comment is more.
There is a judgement call to be made though when commenting on things that others are obviously smitten with. How many people come here with "rare" stamps that are fake or misidentified. The truth can be harsh and oftentimes not taken well…at all.
In this case if the buyer of the album thinks it to be outstanding than so be it. At a different time, in a different place, I would think it outstanding as well. |
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How hypocritical!
Stating that questioning the collection is "outstanding" is insulting but relegating it to a "beginners" collection is not! My objection has to do with the following comment: Quote:
Outstanding? Perhaps, for US standards. Below average, for European ones. which is obviously insulting to people from the United States, on its face.. At a minimum, that comment was poorly written/constructed. It is an insult... John |
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@johnsim03,
My remark was not directed at you, nor did it refer to your remark.
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Nothing smacks the fun out of a find faster than posting it here  Maybe outstanding means hours of rainy day fun sifting through different cancels and looking for oddities? |
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Rodcam nailed it.
Also, I believe that German collectors' standards are higher when it comes to their own country's stamps. Most would not bid on/purchase hinged semi postals but a world collector from the US would be OK with such stamps to fill the space. I don't find that insulting, just the way is.
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Every country has experience collectors with high standards to what they collect ,then every country has beginners and hobbyist who mount stamps without any outside references .
It is uncalled for to make blank statements to any countries collectors being better when compared to any other area . |
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If stampavalanche is happy that is what matters, and the rest is just noise. Beautiful noise though. The noise of people freely voicing their opinions unhindered.  I think that the brown leisure suit I wore in 1978 was outstanding. Tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead. Tell me.  |
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I think that the brown leisure suit I wore in 1978 was outstanding. Tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead. Tell me. You are not wrong. But you were probably missing the man-purse that was all the rage in Europe at the time...  So, you would have been less than outstanding by European standards, but fine by US standards...  p.s. I spent 25 years of my adult life living in Germany - I love Europeans! John |
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