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So far I have 4 penny blacks in varying poor condition, tuppeny blues and a bunch of early Victorian GB. As far as I can see there are numerous early stamps with printed stationary cut-outs from many countries.
The early USA look interesting, but will probably have to remove the pages to soak off the stamps. Going to be fun sorting them all out after the bath and drying.
Hours of interest for C$160.
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Sounds good Vic,
Gimme first crack at the US!
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01:55:14pm
"Gimme first crack at the US!"
I'll take second crack. There's not a huge amount of affordable classic US I am looking for but I'd love to get a shot at some classic revenues! Is there much BoB stuff?
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A couple of pages from one of the albums. Stamps are stuck to pages at present, will have to probably remove pages to get at individual stamps. The two yellow Baden stamps, if genuine, are a nice addition to my collection. Have not gone through the whole 3 albums yet but appears to be a lot of early stamps, in varying condition, some even only half stamps? Also a lot of stationery cut outs from old postal cards.
Edit, just a shame the yellow stamps are unused rather than used, value difference is extreme!
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I was reading somewhere that in the very early days of stamp collecting, probably before hinges were commonly available, that collectors just glued stamps in albums. Are these albums old enough that that might be what happened?
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Certainly looks that way. Hope they used a water soluble glue!
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Many of the stamps have been stuck in with selvedge, very few of the older ones are hinged, and even then they are stuck, maybe where glue has migrated or have been in a damp environment at some time.
Going to keep me busy for quite a while.
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Nice lot of Germanuy States!
Something I would buy.
I have some glued stamps on 1920s album pages...
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Have now soaked and sorted (sort of) the earlier USA, some with damage and sadly none with grills, at least not that I have seen. But a few gaps filled.
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Some of the grills are real hard to see, but you have a nice lot of stuff there!!!
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Our local club had an auction yesterday and I managed to buy a lot of three old albums, (a couple of Oppens and a Lincoln). Now comes the fun/hard part, a lot of the stamps are stuck to the pages, some attached with selvedge, some with hinges.
So far I have 4 penny blacks in varying poor condition, tuppeny blues and a bunch of early Victorian GB. As far as I can see there are numerous early stamps with printed stationary cut-outs from many countries.
The early USA look interesting, but will probably have to remove the pages to soak off the stamps. Going to be fun sorting them all out after the bath and drying.
Hours of interest for C$160.
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Sounds good Vic,
Gimme first crack at the US!
Ernie
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27 Apr 2025
01:55:14pm
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"Gimme first crack at the US!"
I'll take second crack. There's not a huge amount of affordable classic US I am looking for but I'd love to get a shot at some classic revenues! Is there much BoB stuff?
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A couple of pages from one of the albums. Stamps are stuck to pages at present, will have to probably remove pages to get at individual stamps. The two yellow Baden stamps, if genuine, are a nice addition to my collection. Have not gone through the whole 3 albums yet but appears to be a lot of early stamps, in varying condition, some even only half stamps? Also a lot of stationery cut outs from old postal cards.
Edit, just a shame the yellow stamps are unused rather than used, value difference is extreme!
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01 May 2025
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I was reading somewhere that in the very early days of stamp collecting, probably before hinges were commonly available, that collectors just glued stamps in albums. Are these albums old enough that that might be what happened?
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Certainly looks that way. Hope they used a water soluble glue!
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Many of the stamps have been stuck in with selvedge, very few of the older ones are hinged, and even then they are stuck, maybe where glue has migrated or have been in a damp environment at some time.
Going to keep me busy for quite a while.
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Nice lot of Germanuy States!
Something I would buy.
I have some glued stamps on 1920s album pages...
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Have now soaked and sorted (sort of) the earlier USA, some with damage and sadly none with grills, at least not that I have seen. But a few gaps filled.
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05 May 2025
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Some of the grills are real hard to see, but you have a nice lot of stuff there!!!
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Postage due classic precancel
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