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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Whatever Should I Do?

 

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MikeyToo
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04 Feb 2016
06:30:22pm
A friend approached me the other night and offered me a notebook with some foreign stamps in it (on stock pages). Right now I don't collect international stuff, but got to looking at it and it is totally Disney Themed. Quite impressive. At a quick glance there are between 5 and 20 stamps for each of a dozen or so countries around the world. I'm getting ready to scan and itemize and list them in a spreadsheet. So far I cannot find anything online for these. Here's a couple of pages I scanned as an example.
There are over 20 sheets (Front and Back) like these. I'd like to keep them because I kinda like Disney, but currently not planning to try and add to this.

Looking for suggestions on how to approach this? Thanks in advance


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04 Feb 2016
06:40:42pm
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For the fun of it I just went to
http://colnect.com/en/stamps/catalog
and searched for disney and it returned listings for 394 stamps in 32 countries. You might get information on them there
Looks interesting


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04 Feb 2016
07:08:15pm
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What a cool page Brian. Didn't know it existed. Spot checked some of them and found them.
This it going to prove quite fun. Thank you for leading me to it.


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04 Feb 2016
07:29:16pm
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" ... A friend approached me the other night and offered me a notebook with some foreign stamps in it (on stock pages)...."

Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ?
Some people might really enjoy having them. Personally since I collect primarily postally used they don't hold much interest. When I come across similar items I pass them on to which ever grand child I think might enjoy them.

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04 Feb 2016
07:38:38pm
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"Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ? "



Yes Charlie, it was a gift. I was helping my friend set up a new router on his home computer. He had gotten these through a family member who was going to throw them out. He said he was giving it to me for my help. It came as a total surprise to me.

Funny thing about all this is I started what I thought would be a few simple albums for my grandkids and it is now, according to my wife, becoming an obsession.
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04 Feb 2016
08:22:46pm
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That's why it's good to let everyone in your life know about your hobbies. In my other collecting fetish, model cars, I've had many donations to my stamp collecting. A couple of guys have given me old postcards that were handed down in their families for generations. They had them in their care, didn't know what to do with them and knew they should be preserved. They were all too happy to release them to my care!

Last year a friend in my model car club was cleaning out his recently deceased in-laws house. His father in law had collected stamps. His wife wanted to throw it all out. He told me that he had some stamps to give me. I was floored when he showed up with two large black garbage bags full of containers of stamps! Nothing organized or rare,but it looked like the guy had saved every stamp from his mail for 50 years. He was Polish, so there was tons of Polish stamps, as well as USA and world wide that he had come across.

A few months later the same guy gave me a xerox paper box full of USPS annual mint sets. About 20 years worth, several of each year. From the same hoard. He wanted nothing in return than knowing he hadn't sent it to the landfill.

Ya never know when you'll get lucky!

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04 Feb 2016
09:15:13pm
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"... Ya never know when you'll get lucky! ..."

I agree. Most members know I am deeply into collecting Machins. Every so often a parcel arrives, a stuffed envelope to a large shoebox, stuffed with thousands of used
Machins often on paper sent by another collector just to get rid of what to him, or her, is a bigger project than originally expected.

The best gift of that nature came one afternoon about twenty years ago from a local dealer who had closed a shop that I had visited almost every weekend. He had sold his house and was moving to an adult community in St Pete (Florida) where all maintenance and upkeep was included in the rental fee.
"Hey Charlie, we're closing tomorrow and I have no need for the rakes and other gardening tools, they are yours if you can come over today."
His house was only about four miles away and I owned several acres, so such tools are always welcome. I took my son and down the street we went. As we loaded the tools into the back of the Station Wagon Jerry began to bring out boxes and boxes of stamps in red file boxes, half cherry picked albums, catalogs dating back to 1904, an other shop inventory.
"Here you may as well have these, we are getting a small apartment and I'll not have room for this stuff"
It took two trips to get everything including a large tub (1½'x2½'x 1½' deep} of close cut Machins, easily more than ten pounds, almost full, that he topped off with manila envelopes of mixed world wide postage, suitable for trading.
It took over week to do a basic sorting, months to really choose what I wanted to dig into and in fact there are two envelopes of sheets of common packet lots still on the top shelf of my stamp closet.

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04 Feb 2016
09:55:30pm
re: Whatever Should I Do?

Mikey,


Are these mint with gum?

Bhutan has had many Disney issues, some with higher catalog prices than other Disney issues.

For example, in the first image, the fourth stamp in the second row is from the Mickey Mouse 60th Anniversary issue of 12 different stamps. The set of 12 is valued at 22.50 mint OR used. This set is from 1989.

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04 Feb 2016
11:48:09pm
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Colnect, shmolnect Winking

The ATA checklist includes 1092 stamps as "Disney, Walt and Characters".

The American Topical Association (ATA)

The ATA topical checklists

Cheers,

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05 Feb 2016
07:16:16am
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Thanks for the links IkeyPikey I'll look into that site. Can't be joining too many subscription sites though. Money is a little tight right now.

"Are these mint with gum?
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Musicman, I can see what appears to be faint postmarks on some of these, but most do not show obvious signs of a postmark. I looked at the backs of some and there are no signs of any disturbances. Now my experience is very limited but most of the "gummed" stamps I've seen have a faint yellow or brown shade on the back. The ones of these that I've checked are almost white so I suspect the gum has been soaked off.

Might have to get my macro lens and tripod out and photograph each one front and back. Wife's gonna kill me for spreading out on her dining room table.

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05 Feb 2016
07:23:25pm
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When I am given something like that, I always thank the person and tell them that if I cannot use them I will find someone who can.

David

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06 Feb 2016
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David G, I do precisely the same thing, and eventually, they'll find a home.

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MikeyToo

04 Feb 2016
06:30:22pm

A friend approached me the other night and offered me a notebook with some foreign stamps in it (on stock pages). Right now I don't collect international stuff, but got to looking at it and it is totally Disney Themed. Quite impressive. At a quick glance there are between 5 and 20 stamps for each of a dozen or so countries around the world. I'm getting ready to scan and itemize and list them in a spreadsheet. So far I cannot find anything online for these. Here's a couple of pages I scanned as an example.
There are over 20 sheets (Front and Back) like these. I'd like to keep them because I kinda like Disney, but currently not planning to try and add to this.

Looking for suggestions on how to approach this? Thanks in advance


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04 Feb 2016
06:40:42pm

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For the fun of it I just went to
http://colnect.com/en/stamps/catalog
and searched for disney and it returned listings for 394 stamps in 32 countries. You might get information on them there
Looks interesting


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04 Feb 2016
07:08:15pm

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What a cool page Brian. Didn't know it existed. Spot checked some of them and found them.
This it going to prove quite fun. Thank you for leading me to it.


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07:29:16pm

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" ... A friend approached me the other night and offered me a notebook with some foreign stamps in it (on stock pages)...."

Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ?
Some people might really enjoy having them. Personally since I collect primarily postally used they don't hold much interest. When I come across similar items I pass them on to which ever grand child I think might enjoy them.

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04 Feb 2016
07:38:38pm

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"Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ? "



Yes Charlie, it was a gift. I was helping my friend set up a new router on his home computer. He had gotten these through a family member who was going to throw them out. He said he was giving it to me for my help. It came as a total surprise to me.

Funny thing about all this is I started what I thought would be a few simple albums for my grandkids and it is now, according to my wife, becoming an obsession.
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04 Feb 2016
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re: Whatever Should I Do?

That's why it's good to let everyone in your life know about your hobbies. In my other collecting fetish, model cars, I've had many donations to my stamp collecting. A couple of guys have given me old postcards that were handed down in their families for generations. They had them in their care, didn't know what to do with them and knew they should be preserved. They were all too happy to release them to my care!

Last year a friend in my model car club was cleaning out his recently deceased in-laws house. His father in law had collected stamps. His wife wanted to throw it all out. He told me that he had some stamps to give me. I was floored when he showed up with two large black garbage bags full of containers of stamps! Nothing organized or rare,but it looked like the guy had saved every stamp from his mail for 50 years. He was Polish, so there was tons of Polish stamps, as well as USA and world wide that he had come across.

A few months later the same guy gave me a xerox paper box full of USPS annual mint sets. About 20 years worth, several of each year. From the same hoard. He wanted nothing in return than knowing he hadn't sent it to the landfill.

Ya never know when you'll get lucky!

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09:15:13pm

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"... Ya never know when you'll get lucky! ..."

I agree. Most members know I am deeply into collecting Machins. Every so often a parcel arrives, a stuffed envelope to a large shoebox, stuffed with thousands of used
Machins often on paper sent by another collector just to get rid of what to him, or her, is a bigger project than originally expected.

The best gift of that nature came one afternoon about twenty years ago from a local dealer who had closed a shop that I had visited almost every weekend. He had sold his house and was moving to an adult community in St Pete (Florida) where all maintenance and upkeep was included in the rental fee.
"Hey Charlie, we're closing tomorrow and I have no need for the rakes and other gardening tools, they are yours if you can come over today."
His house was only about four miles away and I owned several acres, so such tools are always welcome. I took my son and down the street we went. As we loaded the tools into the back of the Station Wagon Jerry began to bring out boxes and boxes of stamps in red file boxes, half cherry picked albums, catalogs dating back to 1904, an other shop inventory.
"Here you may as well have these, we are getting a small apartment and I'll not have room for this stuff"
It took two trips to get everything including a large tub (1½'x2½'x 1½' deep} of close cut Machins, easily more than ten pounds, almost full, that he topped off with manila envelopes of mixed world wide postage, suitable for trading.
It took over week to do a basic sorting, months to really choose what I wanted to dig into and in fact there are two envelopes of sheets of common packet lots still on the top shelf of my stamp closet.

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04 Feb 2016
09:55:30pm

re: Whatever Should I Do?

Mikey,


Are these mint with gum?

Bhutan has had many Disney issues, some with higher catalog prices than other Disney issues.

For example, in the first image, the fourth stamp in the second row is from the Mickey Mouse 60th Anniversary issue of 12 different stamps. The set of 12 is valued at 22.50 mint OR used. This set is from 1989.

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04 Feb 2016
11:48:09pm

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Colnect, shmolnect Winking

The ATA checklist includes 1092 stamps as "Disney, Walt and Characters".

The American Topical Association (ATA)

The ATA topical checklists

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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05 Feb 2016
07:16:16am

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Thanks for the links IkeyPikey I'll look into that site. Can't be joining too many subscription sites though. Money is a little tight right now.

"Are these mint with gum?
"




Musicman, I can see what appears to be faint postmarks on some of these, but most do not show obvious signs of a postmark. I looked at the backs of some and there are no signs of any disturbances. Now my experience is very limited but most of the "gummed" stamps I've seen have a faint yellow or brown shade on the back. The ones of these that I've checked are almost white so I suspect the gum has been soaked off.

Might have to get my macro lens and tripod out and photograph each one front and back. Wife's gonna kill me for spreading out on her dining room table.

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05 Feb 2016
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When I am given something like that, I always thank the person and tell them that if I cannot use them I will find someone who can.

David

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David G, I do precisely the same thing, and eventually, they'll find a home.

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