I took over a large collection of stamps from father.
I use to collect only US (mainly classic), but over last 1-2 years have branched into worldwide collecting but
19th Century only.
I enjoy the worldwide collecting of classics over specializing only US.
Worldwide 19th century extremely challenging with market flooded with forgeries. Takes lots of education, magnification etc-. Without internet information, it would be impossible, in my opinion to collect worldwide without forgeries infiltrating every portion of the collection. I am enjoying the challenge so far.
Well, I am not a Swedish stamp collector but did a little research here before generating this page. I am removing stamps from old albums that are poorly categorized, stamps in wrong spots etc.
But I am far from an expert in Sweden philately. Before I continue on to the next Sweden page, was just looking to see if these stamps appear genuine and if presentation appealing. From what I can tell, they appear genuine and gauge perf 14. But reprints and forgeries abound for these issues. They do not match up as Sperati forgeries.
Any experts to comment, criticize on the stamps and then presentation
reprints?
forgeries?
Definitely some minor perforation flaws, maybe a reperforation
Two of the stamps have very minor thins.
I prefer handmade pages over computer or stock albums for classic stamps. Its just more appealing to my eye. When I browse auctions I am always looking for and impressed by hand-made custom pages over computer generated. Just my preference. Everyone different.
Thanks
