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Of course, anything faulty gets tossed out. But then I'm down to centering and cancels. I usually end up keeping one with a clear date cancel and then one with as light a cancel as I can find. OK, now I just HAVE to keep both! LOL If I have multiple copies with various faults, I end up keeping the ones that have the least amount of physical damage - centering and cancels are much less important than tears, holes or thins. I usually lay all of them on my black stamp table surface (I use a large piece of black matting cardboard on the top of my desk for all stamp work). Sometimes one copy just POPS out of the bunch screaming "pick me!", sometimes it is a tough call, thus the multiple copies stuffed on the page. I always tell myself "I'll go back and decide later" but I rarely do that. I am the queen of procrastinators after all!
So all you folks with mounted stamps on album pages - which would you choose? The light cancel or the interesting cancel? Any other preferences?
Looking forward to reading your thoughts!
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Advice? Choose the light cancel for your "one of a kind" album, put the interesting cancel on a page dedicated to "interesting cancels". After all, that's why it intrigues you, not because of the stamp it's on.
Too bad you don't have that dilemma with your "Irish find".
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I try to pick the lightest circular cancellation that leaves the most of the stamp image visible as the best copy (centering and condition already decided).
After that it becomes a case of circular before wavy line or slogan, the latter being kept separate for their own study.
However I do have a problem where there is not a cancellation as such but a blue or other type of dot/code where the envelope has actually gone through the system but the stamp is not postmarked at all
Any stamp with sharpie, biro, adhesive tape does not make it into the soaking stage. The rubbish bin is next to the desk, sometimes it gets more than the keeping pile.
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Light circular cancel wins every time for me. And while I know many like a SON cancel, to me many times it obscures the picture on the stamp.
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Anything that can enhance the design of the stamp does it for me. I like a light but clear SON on my old British Empire stuff because it clearly shows the use of the stamp. On the other hand, I like my newer commemoratives to have just a slight corner cancel that doesn't obscure the image of the stamp. It's all so subjective. I look at a stamp and decide "this is the one."
But then my stamp collector's OCD would love to have a consistent set of nice corner cancels on ALL of my stamps. I will never be satisfied.
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I am in the process of sorting out my USA collection from my youth and narrowing it down to the best representative for each stamp issue. Like you, I have issues picking just one, so I'm glad I'm working in a stock book type situation.
With used stamps, I prefer a circular cancel that's clipped a corner, leaving most of the stamp unmolested. After all we do want to see the stamp's design without a big black smear across it. As others said, second choice is light wavy lines. I had a lot of stamps in stock books where I literally had the choice of laying out a dozen stamps and narrowing it down to one I was happy to show.
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"After all we do want to see the stamp's design without a big black smear across it."
Do we?
If I really wanted to see the design clearly, I'd look it up in a catalog, or better yet online where I could blow up the pic as big as I wanted. I think the cancels are part of the charm of used stamps. I want to know that my little buddy did his job, perhaps in an interesting way, so I pick the more interesting choices. I know I'm never going to do a study of slogan or killer cork cancels so I like having examples of them in my album. In fact, circles that clip the corners look like CTO cancels to me, and are probably my least favorite.
I recently discovered the UK advertising cancels that practically blackout the stamp and have the brand in the negative space. At first I was appalled, but I've actually warmed to them, too, and the story they tell.
Your opinions may vary,
Chris
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When you have a bunch of USED copies of the same stamp, which one do you choose? For some reason, I always seem to end up keeping more than one copy and since I use Hagnar sheets, I can just stuff two or three copies on the page. I suppose those of you who use albums must have to narrow it down to just one copy.
Of course, anything faulty gets tossed out. But then I'm down to centering and cancels. I usually end up keeping one with a clear date cancel and then one with as light a cancel as I can find. OK, now I just HAVE to keep both! LOL If I have multiple copies with various faults, I end up keeping the ones that have the least amount of physical damage - centering and cancels are much less important than tears, holes or thins. I usually lay all of them on my black stamp table surface (I use a large piece of black matting cardboard on the top of my desk for all stamp work). Sometimes one copy just POPS out of the bunch screaming "pick me!", sometimes it is a tough call, thus the multiple copies stuffed on the page. I always tell myself "I'll go back and decide later" but I rarely do that. I am the queen of procrastinators after all!
So all you folks with mounted stamps on album pages - which would you choose? The light cancel or the interesting cancel? Any other preferences?
Looking forward to reading your thoughts!
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re: How do YOU pick which copy to keep?
Advice? Choose the light cancel for your "one of a kind" album, put the interesting cancel on a page dedicated to "interesting cancels". After all, that's why it intrigues you, not because of the stamp it's on.
Too bad you don't have that dilemma with your "Irish find".
Roy
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re: How do YOU pick which copy to keep?
I try to pick the lightest circular cancellation that leaves the most of the stamp image visible as the best copy (centering and condition already decided).
After that it becomes a case of circular before wavy line or slogan, the latter being kept separate for their own study.
However I do have a problem where there is not a cancellation as such but a blue or other type of dot/code where the envelope has actually gone through the system but the stamp is not postmarked at all
Any stamp with sharpie, biro, adhesive tape does not make it into the soaking stage. The rubbish bin is next to the desk, sometimes it gets more than the keeping pile.
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re: How do YOU pick which copy to keep?
Light circular cancel wins every time for me. And while I know many like a SON cancel, to me many times it obscures the picture on the stamp.
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re: How do YOU pick which copy to keep?
Anything that can enhance the design of the stamp does it for me. I like a light but clear SON on my old British Empire stuff because it clearly shows the use of the stamp. On the other hand, I like my newer commemoratives to have just a slight corner cancel that doesn't obscure the image of the stamp. It's all so subjective. I look at a stamp and decide "this is the one."
But then my stamp collector's OCD would love to have a consistent set of nice corner cancels on ALL of my stamps. I will never be satisfied.
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re: How do YOU pick which copy to keep?
I am in the process of sorting out my USA collection from my youth and narrowing it down to the best representative for each stamp issue. Like you, I have issues picking just one, so I'm glad I'm working in a stock book type situation.
With used stamps, I prefer a circular cancel that's clipped a corner, leaving most of the stamp unmolested. After all we do want to see the stamp's design without a big black smear across it. As others said, second choice is light wavy lines. I had a lot of stamps in stock books where I literally had the choice of laying out a dozen stamps and narrowing it down to one I was happy to show.
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re: How do YOU pick which copy to keep?
"After all we do want to see the stamp's design without a big black smear across it."
Do we?
If I really wanted to see the design clearly, I'd look it up in a catalog, or better yet online where I could blow up the pic as big as I wanted. I think the cancels are part of the charm of used stamps. I want to know that my little buddy did his job, perhaps in an interesting way, so I pick the more interesting choices. I know I'm never going to do a study of slogan or killer cork cancels so I like having examples of them in my album. In fact, circles that clip the corners look like CTO cancels to me, and are probably my least favorite.
I recently discovered the UK advertising cancels that practically blackout the stamp and have the brand in the negative space. At first I was appalled, but I've actually warmed to them, too, and the story they tell.
Your opinions may vary,
Chris
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