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Stamps on Colored Paper & other topicals...
Stamp collecting is still pretty new to me, about 4 months now, but I've
kind of taken to a sideline collecting (in my dreams perhaps) of different 'obtainable' oddball things besides the normal US and Canadian stamps sets that I'd like to collect over time. I suppose you could class them as topical. Old tall ships on stamps and maybe ferries & tugs (US initially, then other countries) will be one I'll probably table for awhile as I need to assemble a list. At this point I'm too cheap to join the ATA and then buy a list from them, however one day I'll tackle the catalogues and that attitude might change in a hurry. So far from various sources I've assembled a list of US stamps with hidden images & microprinting that I'd like to collect slowly but surely, a list of US nondenominated stamps, and now a list of US general issue stamps printed on colored paper. I scored a nice stack of older Scott Stamp Monthly's and older Linn's Stamp News and while reading the June 2001 issue of SSM I ran across such a list and a long article about them, which is what tweeked my interest. The list has 47 stamps (1956-1982) giving the Scott#, a description, issue date and paper description. I scanned it so I wouldn't have to locate the list in my stack of periodicals each time I wanted to check off a stamp. Another nifty oddball group to collect. So am I alone in this endeavor to collect wierd or odd groupings or are others afflicted by the same 'bug' as IG? What do you collect that is out of the ordinary, and from what countries? |
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Grandpa wrote:
Stamp collecting is still pretty new to me, about 4 months now, but I've kind of taken to a sideline collecting (in my dreams perhaps) of different 'obtainable' oddball things besides the normal US and Canadian stamps sets that I'd like to collect over time. I suppose you could class them as topical. Old tall ships on stamps and maybe ferries & tugs (US initially, then other countries) will be one I'll probably table for awhile as I need to assemble a list. At this point I'm too cheap to join the ATA and then buy a list from them, however one day I'll tackle the catalogues and that attitude might change in a hurry. So far from various sources I've assembled a list of US stamps with hidden images & microprinting that I'd like to collect slowly but surely, a list of US nondenominated stamps, and now a list of US general issue stamps printed on colored paper. I scored a nice stack of older Scott Stamp Monthly's and older Linn's Stamp News and while reading the June 2001 issue of SSM I ran across such a list and a long article about them, which is what tweeked my interest. The list has 47 stamps (1956-1982) giving the Scott#, a description, issue date and paper description. I scanned it so I wouldn't have to locate the list in my stack of periodicals each time I wanted to check off a stamp. Another nifty oddball group to collect. So am I alone in this endeavor to collect wierd or odd groupings or are others afflicted by the same 'bug' as IG? What do you collect that is out of the ordinary, and from what countries? Sounds pretty normal (for a stamp collector, that is). I collect stamps and postal history of Germany (including colonies, states, plebiscite areas & etc) and Norway. But a year or two ago I started collecting modern stamps of former German colonies that display stamps of the German colonies. I've searched through the Scott catalog listings for these countries and, _I think_, identified all of them. All pretty inexpensive, but some are hard to locate! = Eric |
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