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The article is from 1940 (I can't find a reference to where it was published). This is interesting as it seems to give an approximate date for the beginning of the modern mania for valuing condition over practically everything else (I seem to fall into the "old-timer" category here as I tend to keep lots of duplicates in various types of condition that I hope to have time to examine one day).
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I also am an old timer, and have lots of duplicates in various types of condition.
Every morning with my coffee I research my duplicates for cancels. It usually takes me an hour or so every day. This way I'm reducing my duplicates. The stamps I don't want I give away.
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Translate for those who find it choppy on their display:
New Discoveries in United States Stamps
By Robert Haynes
The chief difference between the oldtimer, who was usually also a general collector, and the beginner in stamps of the past five years or so is that the former trained his eyes to look for minor differences in stamps, in order to have more varieties, while the latter trained his eyes to see mostly "condition".
This often causes the latter to pass up some valuable stamps which he might otherwise retain or possess as the months roll by.
In looking through a large lot of stamps, all of the same kind, one must center his mind on what he hopes to find.
If it's "condition" or "cancellation" you are looking for, naturally thats the first thing that registers your mind.
On the other hand, if you are looking for varieties or perforations you will scarcely note the condition of the sta,p, unless you go through the slow and laborious process of examining each stamp separately and deliberately for all these various things.
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Nice post 1899!
-Ari 
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Found this article, don't know but sort of looks like Linns or maybe not
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The article is from 1940 (I can't find a reference to where it was published). This is interesting as it seems to give an approximate date for the beginning of the modern mania for valuing condition over practically everything else (I seem to fall into the "old-timer" category here as I tend to keep lots of duplicates in various types of condition that I hope to have time to examine one day).
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I also am an old timer, and have lots of duplicates in various types of condition.
Every morning with my coffee I research my duplicates for cancels. It usually takes me an hour or so every day. This way I'm reducing my duplicates. The stamps I don't want I give away.
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re: Found short interesting article in an old book
Translate for those who find it choppy on their display:
New Discoveries in United States Stamps
By Robert Haynes
The chief difference between the oldtimer, who was usually also a general collector, and the beginner in stamps of the past five years or so is that the former trained his eyes to look for minor differences in stamps, in order to have more varieties, while the latter trained his eyes to see mostly "condition".
This often causes the latter to pass up some valuable stamps which he might otherwise retain or possess as the months roll by.
In looking through a large lot of stamps, all of the same kind, one must center his mind on what he hopes to find.
If it's "condition" or "cancellation" you are looking for, naturally thats the first thing that registers your mind.
On the other hand, if you are looking for varieties or perforations you will scarcely note the condition of the sta,p, unless you go through the slow and laborious process of examining each stamp separately and deliberately for all these various things.
END
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Nice post 1899!
-Ari
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