What do you collect?

In the past we run several times postings with the subject: What do you
collect? This way we could learn more about the philatelic interests of the
participants in RCSD and know better one another.

I will start by (re)introducing myself. As noted in my signature, I'm
interested in the topics "Art on Stamps" and "Communism on Postal Stamps."
Other interests are Romanian stamps and philatelic webmastering. Humor
related to stamps is also a subject that interests me.

How about you? TIA.

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Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP

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On 8/18/2012 8:49 AM, Victor Manta wrote:
In the past we run several times postings with the subject: What do you
collect? This way we could learn more about the philatelic interests of
the participants in RCSD and know better one another.

I will start by (re)introducing myself. As noted in my signature, I'm
interested in the topics "Art on Stamps" and "Communism on Postal
Stamps." Other interests are Romanian stamps and philatelic
webmastering. Humor related to stamps is also a subject that interests me.

How about you? TIA.

I collect US just because they are simple to obtain. Have nearly a mint
collection all the way back to the 20's. Beyond that I tend to collect
things about space including stamps, event covers(launches etc), some of
my favorite covers now are from Ariane V launches by Arianespace from
French. A side note, I got my wife started collecting stamps with
penguins on them, keeps her interested when we go to stamp shows. She
has a pretty good small topical collection now.

Jim

On 8/18/2012 09:49, Victor Manta wrote:
In the past we run several times postings with the subject: What do you
collect? This way we could learn more about the philatelic interests of
the participants in RCSD and know better one another.

I will start by (re)introducing myself. As noted in my signature, I'm
interested in the topics "Art on Stamps" and "Communism on Postal
Stamps." Other interests are Romanian stamps and philatelic
webmastering. Humor related to stamps is also a subject that interests me.

How about you? TIA.


I am a casual collector of US stamps, up through 1985 (my son does
1885-present). We're both in this purely for pleasure rather than
investment value, though finding something valuable is certainly nice.

-Don

I have collected stamps from France since 1954 (I was 10).

I stopped buying the newly issued stamps on 1st jan 2002,
a symbolic date (the last stamps with a face value in French Francs
disappeared at that date). The reason was not of course the
introduction of Euro, but the silly policy of the issuing authority
trying to sell more and more stamps, booklets, souvenir sheets,
personalized stamps and all kinds of cinderellas.

Amongst this ugly stuff about only 10% of nice looking engraved
stamps, the remaining being mostly computer designed stamps
based on photographies.

As my "to have" list of stamps from France is now consisting of
about 15 stamps plus some "end of catalog", I only buy these
remaining stamps. Due to their price, it takes time and I will
never have all of them ...

I also began sorting out a "shoe box" of about 8,000 stamps from
Australia that I bought 10 years ago. It took me nearly 2 months to
nearly complete the job.

I also collect "oddities" or amusing covers.

--
Regards,
Pierre Courtiade

to answer me, please replace NOSPAM by my family name

I also began sorting out a "shoe box" of about 8,000 stamps from
Australia that I bought 10 years ago. It took me nearly 2 months to
nearly complete the job.
If you are interested in minutae, get a copy of the Brusden-White
cataloge for Australia. Of the KGV 1d [and many others], which sell
for pennies, there's quite a range of sub-varities and some are very
rare! Should you find those, you might get enough to finance your
remaining 15!

Having given up on the US when the 50 "Everything" began to appear, I
specialize in Victorian GB - with sides in Australia and Egypt
[pre-UAR]

I also began sorting out a "shoe box" of about 8,000 stamps from
Australia that I bought 10 years ago. It took me nearly 2 months to
nearly complete the job.

Sir F.A. Rien answered :

If you are interested in minutiae, get a copy of the Brusden-White
catalogue for Australia. Of the KGV 1d [and many others], which sell
for pennies, there's quite a range of sub-varities and some are very
rare! Should you find those, you might get enough to finance your
remaining 15!

Yes : I am aware of the existence of the Brusden-White, this "bible" for
Australia stamps.

For the time beeing, I juste used the *very* basic Yvert & Tellier
(for this country) ; for instance, they do not even mention the ~ 20
stamps printed (in the 1960's) on "Helecon" (phosphorescent) paper !

In a second step, I will use a better catalogue (the "Comprehensive
Catalogue of Australia Stamps") that I already have in old issues.
Apparently it is no more published (not a big problem for me as
I am not very interested in modern stamps from OZ).

After that 2d step, I will surely invest in a set of Brusden-Whites
or in one or 2 volumes to begin.

Which volumes would you suggest to acquire first ?

Having given up on the US when the 50 "Everything" began to appear, I
specialize in Victorian GB - with sides in Australia and Egypt
[pre-UAR]

I have hundreds of old GB stamps : it will be my next country to sort
out ... in 10 years ? When I have finished to classify my KGV's
from OZ :-)

--
Cheers,
Pierre Courtiade

After that 2d step, I will surely invest in a set of Brusden-Whites
or in one or 2 volumes to begin.
Which volumes would you suggest to acquire first ?
Get what you can - I have the single loose leaf volume

I have hundreds of old GB stamps : it will be my next country to sort
out ... in 10 years ? When I have finished to classify my KGV's
from OZ :-)
Hundreds? There are about 3000 separately identifiable Penny Blacks!
G

? "Pierre COURTIADE" ?????? ??? ??????
...
I have collected stamps from France since 1954 (I was 10).
I stopped buying the newly issued stamps on 1st jan 2002, a symbolic date
(the last stamps with a face value in French Francs disappeared at that
date). The reason was not of course the introduction of Euro, but the
silly policy of the issuing authority trying to sell more and more stamps,
booklets, souvenir sheets, personalized stamps and all kinds of
cinderellas.
Amongst this ugly stuff about only 10% of nice looking engraved stamps,
the remaining being mostly computer designed stamps based on
photographies.
As my "to have" list of stamps from France is now consisting of about 15
stamps plus some "end of catalog", I only buy these remaining stamps. Due
to their price, it takes time and I will never have all of them ...

I also began sorting out a "shoe box" of about 8,000 stamps from Australia
that I bought 10 years ago. It took me nearly 2 months to nearly complete
the job.

I also collect "oddities" or amusing covers.

--
Regards,
Pierre Courtiade

to answer me, please replace NOSPAM by my family name

I collect 4 countries namely Romania, Greece, Vatican and San Marino.
I want to complete a collection with all the S/S from each country and
secondly to put together collections with normal stamps from those four
countries but only what pleases my eyes, that is mainly paintings on stamps,
athletic events, war time stamps and similar.

PS
Nice greek family name you have;-)

gogu wrote :
........
Nice greek family name you have;-)


Thank you : I was not aware of that !
May be "COURTIADES" would "sound" more greek than COURTIADE ?

Does that family name have any meaning in greek language (my learning of
ancient greek at school during 4 years is quite far away - more than 50
years ago !)

BTW, my family name comes from the SW of France (between Bordeaux and
Toulouse).


--
All the best,
Pierre

"Pierre COURTIADE" wrote in message
...

May be "COURTIADES" would "sound" more greek than COURTIADE ?

Does that family name have any meaning in greek language (my learning of
ancient greek at school during 4 years is quite far away - more than 50
years ago !)

"We do not have a record of the primary ethnicity of the name Courtiade.
Many surnames travel around the world throughout the ages, making their
original nationality and ethnicity difficult to trace. "

http://www.ancientfaces.com/research...nd-family-tree

Désolé, Pierre, it's the best info that I could find so far, together with
the stamp dedicated to you on:
http://sna-on.postalstamps.biz/rcsd/participants.htm

:-)

--
Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP

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