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Posted 05/15/2025   9:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Nils Helstrom to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
A philatelist for nearly sixty years, but a new member to the Stamp Community forum. I enjoy discussing stamps, seeing what others have collected and sharing some of my favorite finds. I especially love seeing other's specialized collections.

In the past six decades I've collected a wide range of stuff, including revenue stamps of El Salvador (filling ten albums), revenue stamps related to apiculture and honey, prehistoric life on first-day-covers, insecticides on poster stamps and several detailed topical collections dedicated to things like praying mantises and sawfish... just to name a few.

These days I have finally narrowed myself down to just one specialized collection... the wildlife themed stamps designed and/or engraved by French artist Pierre Gandon. It was only a few years ago that I discovered that Gandon had created nearly all of my favorite stamps... and I had never made that connection before!

Looking forward to some stimulating philatelic discussions...



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Posted 05/15/2025   10:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome onboard. Yes, those engraved stamps are just the best, aren't they?
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Welcome!
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Posted 05/16/2025   12:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobcat126 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
welcome to the community

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Welcome to SCF!!
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Visit my website @ www.scottsstampcollection.com
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Posted 05/16/2025   2:38 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add txstamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome!

That is a beautifully engraved stamp. (of an ugly fish )
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Posted 05/16/2025   3:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Nils Helstrom to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you all! And txstamp... beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

I always liked that "mesmeric" eye, which you can really only see well under magnification...
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Posted 05/16/2025   3:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Nils Helstrom to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is an artist's die proof of this issue:

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