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Grandpa avait prétendu :
I'm curious, as to whether you collect mint or used stamps for your primary country(s)? I collect used mainly but do snag a few mint ones here and there if the price is right. hello! I prefer used stamps, when it is possible! France Switzerland Scandinavian countries, USA : I collect only used, and postaly used Israël with tab : mint and FDC, not possible to find all tabs used Yugoslavia and countries before YU and after YU: before 1950 mint or used, it happened how I find the stamp, and with hinges! Older Serbia or bosnia, or Montenegro it exist sets I have never seen used!! Argentinia: mint because I had began so with a friend!! I'd like also letters with stamps on, or without stamps before stamp has been issued! I find it is easier to protect and keep safe a used stamp collection, you have no problem with gum and moistry!! For expensive stamps in France (higher then 100$) I wonder that I see so many MNH stamps, when I was young, (1950)I saw all mint stamp collections with nice an heavy hinges!! I know that gum industry has made progress to transform a MH in a MNH. Some French experts refuse to sign the gum, or better refuse to say this is an original gum without reparation. Have a nice WE!! -- Jean-Paul DROGER (enlever "anti." et remplacer "ptt" par "wanadoo" pour me joindre en perso; remove "anti." and replace "ptt" by "wanadoo" to answer me directly) |
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"DROGER Jean-Paul" wrote in message
... I prefer used stamps, when it is possible! snip I find it is easier to protect and keep safe a used stamp collection, you have no problem with gum and moistry!! For expensive stamps in France (higher then 100$) I wonder that I see so many MNH stamps, when I was young, (1950)I saw all mint stamp collections with nice an heavy hinges!! I know that gum industry has made progress to transform a MH in a MNH. Some French experts refuse to sign the gum, or better refuse to say this is an original gum without reparation. -- Jean-Paul DROGER It is maybe easier to protect the used stamps, but are we always searching for just the easiest way? If so, then the easiest way is to not collect stamps at all. As for how and what you saw when you were young, one can suppose that you had a better vision then. Maybe the same applies to the mentioned French experts. :-) Victor Manta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org Art on Stamps: http://values.ch Romania Shown by Its Stamps: http://marci-postale.com Communism on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/Communism/ Spanish Africa: http://www.values.ch/sna-site/ Remove "um" from the e-mail address to reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:00:30 -0700, Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net
wrote: I'm curious, as to whether you collect mint or used stamps for your primary country(s)? I collect used mainly but do snag a few mint ones here and there if the price is right. ================================================== == I collect both but prefer covers and postal history. Blair -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote in message
... I'm curious, as to whether you collect mint or used stamps for your primary country(s)? I collect used mainly but do snag a few mint ones here and there if the price is right. I collect both mint and used, depending on the purpose. Mint for (virtual) exhibition purposes, and used for my albums -- and my albums like used, lightly cancelled, preferably on cover. -- Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) return address invalid -- contact me through heindorffstamps at yahoo dot dk http://www.xs4all.nl/~pkv/slania/ |
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I find it difficult to stick to mint or used - One of my specialist
countries is Barbados where the 1852 to 1892 period would bankrupt me if I collected just mint and thus I collect used in as fine a condition as possible with examples of use from all eleven parishes. This last aspect makes the used collection much more interesting as it gives room for study whereas with mint, numerous collectors have, over the last 150 years, done all the research for me and it is printed in the SG catalog. I buy mint if it comes cheaply. Another area in which I specialise is the 'Smaller Channel Islands' - issues from the Commodore shipping lines, Alderney Parcel Co., and Sark Shipping Co (Cinderella's to some, Locals to others but superbly interesting to all). With these issues, just try to find used examples which are not CTO or from FDC's so my hands are tied - mint it has to be. My GB collection is both mint and used as are my Jersey & Guernsey but here I use Lindner T system so the mint are mounted in glassine pages above the used. Lundy Island I collect both states plus postal history, ephemera, literature and anything else on the market and I am rapidly running out of places to keep it! The moral is: Do it your way but keep it FUN. Bob "Mette" wrote in message ... Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote in message ... I'm curious, as to whether you collect mint or used stamps for your primary country(s)? I collect used mainly but do snag a few mint ones here and there if the price is right. I collect both mint and used, depending on the purpose. Mint for (virtual) exhibition purposes, and used for my albums -- and my albums like used, lightly cancelled, preferably on cover. -- Ann Mette Heindorff (Mette) return address invalid -- contact me through heindorffstamps at yahoo dot dk http://www.xs4all.nl/~pkv/slania/ |
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"Grandpa" jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote in message
... I'm curious, as to whether you collect mint or used stamps for your primary country(s)? I collect used mainly but do snag a few mint ones here and there if the price is right. When I was a boy, just beginning to collect, I got used stamps because that was about all a beginner could get with my meagre allowance. Then when my collecting interests refined, I wanted as much unused as possible. Now more than 40 years after starting I have come full circle and prefer used. Used are easier to handle, easier to store, cheaper and need only a hingle to mount. The drawbacks are even finding some stamps used and sometimes can only find a stamp "murdered by cancellation. As my collection is now, it is a mix of used and unused stamps. Dave |
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1/30/2004 5:00 PM
I'm curious, as to whether you collect mint or used stamps for your primary country(s)? I collect used mainly but do snag a few mint ones here and there if the price is right. Wow! Quite the thread! I think of my mint stamps as salad, and my used stamps as salad with dressing. I normally try to obtain both mint and used stamps, the mint so that the images will be clearly visible (useful for web pages when the stamps the design of the stamp is the topic). I try to obtain used stamps that have light, readable CDS cancellations, or other types of cancellations that complement rather than compete with the design. Gum? I don't lose any sleep over the MNH / MH controversy. I buy either, depending on my budget. I will always take a MLH mint stamp over a MNH copy, assuming I can save money. I will soak a mint stamp if the hinging or hinge remnants have visibly distorted the stamp as viewed from the front. I am always on the lookout for covers franked with stamps in my collection. Or I buy covers franked with stamps that I don't have, and start looking for them. These days most of my money goes towards the purchase of covers, not stamps. Stampless covers interest me too -- V-Mail, soldier's mail, official mail, Red Cross mail. I also buy contemporaneous picture postcards which complement the stamps and covers. Bob Ingraham |
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"Victor Manta" wrote in message ... "DROGER Jean-Paul" wrote in message ... I prefer used stamps, when it is possible! snip I find it is easier to protect and keep safe a used stamp collection, you have no problem with gum and moistry!! For expensive stamps in France (higher then 100$) I wonder that I see so many MNH stamps, when I was young, (1950)I saw all mint stamp collections with nice an heavy hinges!! I know that gum industry has made progress to transform a MH in a MNH. Some French experts refuse to sign the gum, or better refuse to say this is an original gum without reparation. -- Jean-Paul DROGER It is maybe easier to protect the used stamps, but are we always searching for just the easiest way? If so, then the easiest way is to not collect stamps at all. Victor, don't take the extreme view. The subject is collecting stamps the easiest way, so your comment about not collecting at all is not relevant. Tony As for how and what you saw when you were young, one can suppose that you had a better vision then. Maybe the same applies to the mentioned French experts. :-) Victor Manta -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org Art on Stamps: http://values.ch Romania Shown by Its Stamps: http://marci-postale.com Communism on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/Communism/ Spanish Africa: http://www.values.ch/sna-site/ Remove "um" from the e-mail address to reply -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - |
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:47:00 -0600, "A.E. Gelat"
wrote: It is maybe easier to protect the used stamps, but are we always searching for just the easiest way? If so, then the easiest way is to not collect stamps at all. Victor, don't take the extreme view. The subject is collecting stamps the easiest way, so your comment about not collecting at all is not relevant. I thought that a wee bit harsh, but declined comment. Maybe the idea of people attacking mint stamps for their inherent problems / issues rang a bell? I dunno! If people want to collect mint stamps, then they -*/*- MAY -*/*- want to know what's involved with saving paper with gum. There is nothing -*/*- WRONG -*/*- with it, it's just a lot of extra work at times for some of us. Granted, the -*/*- AESTHETIC -*/*- issues at hand are that mint stamps are more pleasing to most people, but I'd rather see a great SON than a bland piece of paper anyday. I'm not collecting gum - I'm collecting stamps. Of course, this is my .02 and I'm sticking to it. Like S/A, man... ---:^) Tracy Barber |
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"A.E. Gelat" wrote in message
... "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... "DROGER Jean-Paul" wrote in message ... I prefer used stamps, when it is possible! snip I find it is easier to protect and keep safe a used stamp collection, you have no problem with gum and moistry!! -- Jean-Paul DROGER It is maybe easier to protect the used stamps, but are we always searching for just the easiest way? If so, then the easiest way is to not collect stamps at all. (V.M.) Victor, don't take the extreme view. The subject is collecting stamps the easiest way, so your comment about not collecting at all is not relevant. Tony For many people collecting (quite anything) is more interesting when there is a challenge in it. A challenge can be to find something nice, special, unique, but can also be to properly protect those precious things that were found with some effort. The easiest way often means to me no challenge, if so no interest, therefore no reasons to collect, and vice-versa. I wonder if there is something wrong with this line of reasoning. Actually, it can be necessary to learn for which reasons somebody left the stamp collecting. If he left it because he found that it is difficult to properly protect the stamps that he likes, then the subject is quite relevant, isn't it? Victor Manta --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org Art on Stamps: http://values.ch Romania Shown by Its Stamps: http://marci-postale.com Communism on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/Communism/ Spanish Africa: http://www.values.ch/sna-site/ Remove "um" from the e-mail address to reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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