What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

Digitized my latest cover from a recent Schuyler Rumsey auction. By digitizing, I can look at my whole collection with quality images, ease at sorting, updating notes, viewing it from my desktop or cell, and sharing the website amongst, family and friends.

1900 Funchal, Madeira, to Hilo, Hawaii, registered cover franked with Funchal 1897-98, 25r gray green, horizontal pair + 65r slate blue, vertical pair (19+23) tied by "Funchal, 19 Fev. 00" cds's with one additionally tying registry etiquette, London oval and red "Honolulu, Oahu, Mar 25, 1900" transit date stamps; some cover edge wear and reduction at right.

Nice cover ,did you win that lot of many covers from the Portugees Colonies to the Islands .

Floortrader making Portugees Bread by hand and the preheated rock oven that was made by Portugee cowboys in 1880's on the Big Island

Nice cover ,did you win that lot of many covers from the Portugees Colonies to the Islands .

To floortrader: The cover from Portugal was from a single item (Lot# 1237) , Nov 12th auction.
Mahalo for sharing your photos of making pao duce. Miss the Portuguese bean soup and malasadas as well back in the islands.
Lucky you live Hawaii! Aloha!

I added 100+ stamps to my Germany used collection (Germany Part I) on Scott Specialty pages. These came from a stock book that came in the mail today. There's many more to go through, both used and unused. I expect to add at least another hundred. I have my unused Germany on Steiner pages.

I spent an hour looking through some old purchases that had been tucked away. The second hour trying to figure out if within this bundle, do I have an 1857 Franklin 1c Type IV (#9), or (what I am going to bed thinking) a likely 1b (5A). I was originally frustrated with the amount of toning and filed it away thinking I would look closer in a day or two. That was months ago - so glad I glanced at it today!

HawaiianBrian - great call digitizing the collection. I have been scanning the majority of all recent catalogues as I am reviewing them and building a file(s). Seems wise and will be so helpful down the road.

Cheers!

Writing a check for dues to my local Oregon Stamp Society. It's located in an old red brick firehouse in the neighborhood where I grew up. Fourth Saturday of each month they have a group of collectors selling their duplicates. Been in love with this hobby since 1955.

Looking at my dad's accumulation. He loves buying stamp but sometimes unpacks what he has purchased.

Today I spent the morning remounting GB commeratives to new album pages from stockbooks, envelopes and old album pages. Then started researching phosphor band types for Machin booklet panes. Ordered more stamps mounts. More Machin research. Stared at all of the Machins needing homes in my album. Looked at some US PNC's I am thinking of organizing. Opened some mail received late yesterday that had stamps with Illuminated Manuscripts for a Topical collection just begun.

All over the map, but thoroughly enjoying the hobby I had put away for almost 30 years...

I spent New Year's Day remounting (in-place) my classic U.S. MNH stamps in my Scott National. I also replaced existing used air mail stamps with newly acquired MNH copies. When I first mounted these back in 1978 or so, the recommended mount sizes, many precut, wound up being too small. They were Showguard brand. Perhaps they shrank over time. Anyway, I pulled the old mounts and put new larger ones over the old remnant. Pages look so much better and the stamps are no longer cramped into the mount. Probably going to do this for the rest of the album (goes through 1978).

Today I finally heard back from a 'lazy' auction house that they are looking into why my winnings from a month ago have not been processed. I phoned them directly to give my cc info and asked them to use a courier because of the Canadian mail disruption. That was weeks ago, right after I won one Lot for around $30. They haven't charged my card or done anything as far as I can tell. Not a true stamp auction but this should be part of their normal routine. Still don't know if I will ever get it.

I just finished merging 2 different big blue collections. An 18-month task, all to hold duplicates. I had thought it was going to be short work.

In mid 2023 I bought a collection (1840-1969) housed in international big blue albums to hold my duplicates and maybe add a few stamps to my collection. Binders were like new. Collection was priced right. But not all countries were present, and not all pages were present, which I discovered as removing stamps I needed for my collection before adding any duplicates.

So, in January 2024 I bought a second collection that had countries and pages that I was missing. Again, priced right but binders not so great.

I just finished merging the 2 international sets.

I had forgotten how many stamps these albums contain.

Finally back to stamp activities this week after 8 months of almost no work on my collection. I usually slow down during the summer but last year I unexpectedly took a package at work and retired early (55). Since then a whirlwind of travel, holidays, etc and am finally getting back to stamps. First thing I did was take peek through all my binders and bins reminding myself what's where. I left off last May after sorting thru 30lbs of kiloware and still have many projects pending stemming from that horde. I started with sorting a couple hundred US and worldwide pre-cancels and perfins left from last year, sliding them into my current holdings kept in Vario pages. I am also sorting thru and identifying a few glassines of W/F's. Will figure out what's next after that. I did decide that I need to put more focus on my US collection this winter as the last couple of years I focused mostly on worldwide. Glad to be back.

Added quite a few stamps to my collection from Sweden thanks to a Stamp Club friend.
Also have been working on want lists so I don't purchase stamps I already have This happens more often than I would like.

Dianne

Sorted through the Switzerland stamps gifted to me by Willwood42 from his very generous give away last year. Will be placing them in my database and books for the next several days.

I have several more countries to get through. Such a generous gift that arrived on Christmas Eve. Whoever said there is no such thing as Santa.