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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Just one more country...right?

 

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Winedrinker
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25 Dec 2016
08:57:14pm
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Ten months ago I returned to stamps, after a decades long hiatus. My desire was to do it "right" this time and not collect every country under the sun, which is borderline insane. So Great Britain it was. Until Australia reared its lovely head, and then the Australian States, because that's Australia too -- only earlier, and how could I ignore Tasmania?

A few months later I started collecting US, because I had a fairly useful start there from my misbegotten youth. And last month it got worse. My step daughter, who was vacationing in Hawaii, thought it would be nice to get me a Hawaiian stamp at the Post Office in Oahu. She stepped right up and asked for Hawaiian stamps God bless her. They straightened her out and sent her on her way, but it did get me thinking about Hawaiian stamps. So of course that led to buying an album for United States Possessions. So now I am buying Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Danish West Indies, Cuba, Phillipines, and Ryuku Islands. Oh my. A few more missteps like this and I will be an (insane) worldwide collector.

The story of how the Kingdom of Hawaii was stolen by rich American plantation owners and lawyers is too deep for tears. God bless you Queen Liliuokalani

Incidentally, the stamp depicted, of Lili, is the first stamp to depict a butterfly. Hawaii, Scott 52, 1890.

Merry Christmas All

Eric

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michael78651

26 Dec 2016
01:14:02am
re: Just one more country...right?

"and not collect every country under the sun, which is borderline insane"



Just to set the record straight. I'm a world-wide collector, and have been since 1962. I can assure you that there is nothing "borderline" about it at all. It is totally insane!
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Tom in Exton, PA

26 Dec 2016
11:28:22am
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Totally susceptible to that illness!

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26 Dec 2016
12:57:19pm

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re: Just one more country...right?

I have been trying to take a "cure" to this worldwide collector insanity, by deliberately restricting my worldwide collection to a smaller world.
My medicine of choice is to restrict what I collect, so no more GB and British related (with a few exceptions, but that is a big chunk), or Africa (except non British colonial) or the very Far East Asia (China, Japan etc..)..and I am still looking for a few more areas to eliminate.
Problem is, it takes as much time to get rid of stuff as it takes to collect, and one gets less satisfaction! And you still have to organize what you want to get rid of.

If I had the storage space, I don't think I would get rid of anything. But as I grow my collection in the limited areas of personal interest, I have to make room! I wish I could just hand over, country at a time, all areas I have less interest in that I wish to dispose off.
Lots of the pleasure now also arises from reorganizing albums into more eye pleasing and attractive books with better stamps, mounts and varieties, and often it means spacing standard album pages more generously..ie custom pages, ie more pages, ie more books...IT NEVER ENDS!
Doing the culling and disposing with nephews and relatives and even some friends, but worldwide is a big endeavor so I am encouraging all to restrict their interests at first. But I am still stuck with my lack of storage problem.
Insanity no matter how you look at it Michael!
rrr...

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carlberky
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26 Dec 2016
01:28:10pm
re: Just one more country...right?

Not to worry, guys ... sounds like a mild psychosis, resulting in a mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

It does seem to be a bit contagious, so be careful out there. Happy

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stampmanjack

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26 Dec 2016
02:34:31pm
re: Just one more country...right?

In the last couple of weeks, I have
e worked on:
Malaysian States
Straits Settlements
UNNY, Geneva and Vienna
Thailand
France
Bechuanaland
Sweden
Macao
Japan
Jamaica
Gibraltar
Aland
Fr Poly
Estonia
Germany - Semis
Monaco

and I haVe three glassines full of Channel Islands here on the desk to sort out. I starteD to work on a collection of Israel but forgot it was in a Minkus album and it therefore went back on the shelf for a day when I have more patience. I do not care for the set up of regulars, semis , airs, etc all being in order through the album. It makes it so difficult to go back and forth. Anymore, I try to avoid buying Minkus albums.

In addition, I just went through a dealer list and selected two british lots, one Australian, one Danish, two Vatican, one French Africa and one Afghanistan.

I'm infected bad and could be contagious. Even reading this post could make you feel the urge to go worldwide. DON'T FIGHT IT - GIVE IN. The force is all powerful.
Stampmanjack

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TuskenRaider
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26 Dec 2016
02:45:08pm
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"You don't know the POWER...of the world-wide side....

Vader"





"I'll NEVER turn to the world-wide side....

Luke"





"Let GO of your desire...and make your journey to the world-wide COMPLETE....

Palpatine"


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26 Dec 2016
08:28:36pm

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If the price is right YES YES !

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stampmanjack

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27 Dec 2016
05:37:30am
re: Just one more country...right?

The trouble is that the price is almost always right. I was at a bourse in Oskaloosa, Iowa in a mall . I was looking at a box lot and didn't think there was enough in it and said so to the dealer. He pulled out a wad of glassines and started throwing them in the box and said "stop me when there is enough". I finally ot embarrassed and stopped him. I'm not sure how much longer he would have gone. I was looking at a box of postal stationery marked $35 and decided not to get it whereupon the dealer said "would it look better at $25?" Unfortunately, it did.

Half a dozen times a year, I take a table at a show and almost always put a sign up that says "Reasonable offers accepted, Unreasonable offers considered. If I haven't made cost, on the second day, those unreasonable offers sometimes look reasonable. As we used to say in the service, "a four becomes a nine at closing time".
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Tom in Exton, PA

27 Dec 2016
09:01:25am
re: Just one more country...right?

" I was looking at a box of postal stationery marked $35 and decided not to get it whereupon the dealer said "would it look better at $25?" Unfortunately, it did."



I was at a small bourse recently and a guy had a very large box of older mixed covers with a $200 price tag on it. As I wasn't going to spend anywhere near $200 that day, I glanced in it and then sat down to go through his stock. Then a guy came up and expressed interest in the box. Quickly the price became $100 and the guy hemmed and hawed a bit as I listened intently. I was waiting for him to walk away and I would have offered the vendor the $100. But as my luck often goes, the buyer realized he hit the sellers bottom price and paid for it. Oh well.

I have been digging further into my hoard and have been looking at old stock books where I had sorted out my then collections for Germany (I lived there then!), Italy and Belgium. Has me thinking I have a fair representative collection already... maybe they'd look nice on Steiner pages? Down the slippery slope we go!

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bobgggg

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28 Dec 2016
10:01:23am
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Yea..I asked my wife... Please honey just one more country... Wham Bam...

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Tom in Exton, PA

28 Dec 2016
11:19:37am
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where did you get the picture of my wife??? Surprise

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TribalErnie

28 Dec 2016
02:23:06pm
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My wife said, "No problem baby, Go for it!"


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stampmanjack

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29 Dec 2016
05:51:26am
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When we were first married, we went up to Chicago and I took her with me to one of my favorite auction houses. They don't do it anymore but at that time, all of the unsold lots were available for purchase at the minimum bid. I always bought whenever I went to Chicago. This time I picked out two big piles of lots and then asked my wife which one I should take. She said, " I don't care", so I took both of them. Since then she has an opinion.

I finally called about the list I got in the mail. I go two of the eight lots I picked out but when I had finished he said go through once more and take 40% of of any lots you want. I found 6 more at that price of which three were still available. I ended up adding some Ireland and some Norway for me and a batch of British aerograms for a friend. I'm not sure I need the Ireland, but a friend does and it will make either a good trade or a gift for New Year's.
Today I mounted a small lot of Channel Islands and started to work onArgentina. Next up is a Minkus (boo) album of Italian Colonies
Jack

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25 Dec 2016
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Ten months ago I returned to stamps, after a decades long hiatus. My desire was to do it "right" this time and not collect every country under the sun, which is borderline insane. So Great Britain it was. Until Australia reared its lovely head, and then the Australian States, because that's Australia too -- only earlier, and how could I ignore Tasmania?

A few months later I started collecting US, because I had a fairly useful start there from my misbegotten youth. And last month it got worse. My step daughter, who was vacationing in Hawaii, thought it would be nice to get me a Hawaiian stamp at the Post Office in Oahu. She stepped right up and asked for Hawaiian stamps God bless her. They straightened her out and sent her on her way, but it did get me thinking about Hawaiian stamps. So of course that led to buying an album for United States Possessions. So now I am buying Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Danish West Indies, Cuba, Phillipines, and Ryuku Islands. Oh my. A few more missteps like this and I will be an (insane) worldwide collector.

The story of how the Kingdom of Hawaii was stolen by rich American plantation owners and lawyers is too deep for tears. God bless you Queen Liliuokalani

Incidentally, the stamp depicted, of Lili, is the first stamp to depict a butterfly. Hawaii, Scott 52, 1890.

Merry Christmas All

Eric

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michael78651

26 Dec 2016
01:14:02am

re: Just one more country...right?

"and not collect every country under the sun, which is borderline insane"



Just to set the record straight. I'm a world-wide collector, and have been since 1962. I can assure you that there is nothing "borderline" about it at all. It is totally insane!
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Tom in Exton, PA
26 Dec 2016
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Totally susceptible to that illness!

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26 Dec 2016
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re: Just one more country...right?

I have been trying to take a "cure" to this worldwide collector insanity, by deliberately restricting my worldwide collection to a smaller world.
My medicine of choice is to restrict what I collect, so no more GB and British related (with a few exceptions, but that is a big chunk), or Africa (except non British colonial) or the very Far East Asia (China, Japan etc..)..and I am still looking for a few more areas to eliminate.
Problem is, it takes as much time to get rid of stuff as it takes to collect, and one gets less satisfaction! And you still have to organize what you want to get rid of.

If I had the storage space, I don't think I would get rid of anything. But as I grow my collection in the limited areas of personal interest, I have to make room! I wish I could just hand over, country at a time, all areas I have less interest in that I wish to dispose off.
Lots of the pleasure now also arises from reorganizing albums into more eye pleasing and attractive books with better stamps, mounts and varieties, and often it means spacing standard album pages more generously..ie custom pages, ie more pages, ie more books...IT NEVER ENDS!
Doing the culling and disposing with nephews and relatives and even some friends, but worldwide is a big endeavor so I am encouraging all to restrict their interests at first. But I am still stuck with my lack of storage problem.
Insanity no matter how you look at it Michael!
rrr...

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26 Dec 2016
01:28:10pm

re: Just one more country...right?

Not to worry, guys ... sounds like a mild psychosis, resulting in a mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

It does seem to be a bit contagious, so be careful out there. Happy

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stampmanjack

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26 Dec 2016
02:34:31pm

re: Just one more country...right?

In the last couple of weeks, I have
e worked on:
Malaysian States
Straits Settlements
UNNY, Geneva and Vienna
Thailand
France
Bechuanaland
Sweden
Macao
Japan
Jamaica
Gibraltar
Aland
Fr Poly
Estonia
Germany - Semis
Monaco

and I haVe three glassines full of Channel Islands here on the desk to sort out. I starteD to work on a collection of Israel but forgot it was in a Minkus album and it therefore went back on the shelf for a day when I have more patience. I do not care for the set up of regulars, semis , airs, etc all being in order through the album. It makes it so difficult to go back and forth. Anymore, I try to avoid buying Minkus albums.

In addition, I just went through a dealer list and selected two british lots, one Australian, one Danish, two Vatican, one French Africa and one Afghanistan.

I'm infected bad and could be contagious. Even reading this post could make you feel the urge to go worldwide. DON'T FIGHT IT - GIVE IN. The force is all powerful.
Stampmanjack

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26 Dec 2016
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re: Just one more country...right?

"You don't know the POWER...of the world-wide side....

Vader"





"I'll NEVER turn to the world-wide side....

Luke"





"Let GO of your desire...and make your journey to the world-wide COMPLETE....

Palpatine"


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26 Dec 2016
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If the price is right YES YES !

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27 Dec 2016
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re: Just one more country...right?

The trouble is that the price is almost always right. I was at a bourse in Oskaloosa, Iowa in a mall . I was looking at a box lot and didn't think there was enough in it and said so to the dealer. He pulled out a wad of glassines and started throwing them in the box and said "stop me when there is enough". I finally ot embarrassed and stopped him. I'm not sure how much longer he would have gone. I was looking at a box of postal stationery marked $35 and decided not to get it whereupon the dealer said "would it look better at $25?" Unfortunately, it did.

Half a dozen times a year, I take a table at a show and almost always put a sign up that says "Reasonable offers accepted, Unreasonable offers considered. If I haven't made cost, on the second day, those unreasonable offers sometimes look reasonable. As we used to say in the service, "a four becomes a nine at closing time".
Jack

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re: Just one more country...right?

" I was looking at a box of postal stationery marked $35 and decided not to get it whereupon the dealer said "would it look better at $25?" Unfortunately, it did."



I was at a small bourse recently and a guy had a very large box of older mixed covers with a $200 price tag on it. As I wasn't going to spend anywhere near $200 that day, I glanced in it and then sat down to go through his stock. Then a guy came up and expressed interest in the box. Quickly the price became $100 and the guy hemmed and hawed a bit as I listened intently. I was waiting for him to walk away and I would have offered the vendor the $100. But as my luck often goes, the buyer realized he hit the sellers bottom price and paid for it. Oh well.

I have been digging further into my hoard and have been looking at old stock books where I had sorted out my then collections for Germany (I lived there then!), Italy and Belgium. Has me thinking I have a fair representative collection already... maybe they'd look nice on Steiner pages? Down the slippery slope we go!

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28 Dec 2016
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Yea..I asked my wife... Please honey just one more country... Wham Bam...

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where did you get the picture of my wife??? Surprise

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TribalErnie

28 Dec 2016
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My wife said, "No problem baby, Go for it!"


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When we were first married, we went up to Chicago and I took her with me to one of my favorite auction houses. They don't do it anymore but at that time, all of the unsold lots were available for purchase at the minimum bid. I always bought whenever I went to Chicago. This time I picked out two big piles of lots and then asked my wife which one I should take. She said, " I don't care", so I took both of them. Since then she has an opinion.

I finally called about the list I got in the mail. I go two of the eight lots I picked out but when I had finished he said go through once more and take 40% of of any lots you want. I found 6 more at that price of which three were still available. I ended up adding some Ireland and some Norway for me and a batch of British aerograms for a friend. I'm not sure I need the Ireland, but a friend does and it will make either a good trade or a gift for New Year's.
Today I mounted a small lot of Channel Islands and started to work onArgentina. Next up is a Minkus (boo) album of Italian Colonies
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