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Tracy Barber wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:01:29 GMT, Tom Loepp wrote: The club here is friendly beyond belief. The meeting takes place at the library and the dates and time are put up on an activities announcement board. The folks remind me of some here in the group. Harumph! :^P Come on, who resembles that? A kid came to a meeting and left with donated catalogues and I think an album and tongs. Very good! You aren't the only one here who puts on a nice guy hat once in awhile. I recently helped in raising $3000 for Make-A-Wish. I did portraits of 2 children who were getting a wish, the portraits went to the families, and the portraits were auctioned, the highest bidder donating their winning bid amount to M-A-W. I received a piece of paper from them giving a dollar amount to my donation but by law the only money I can deduct from taxes is the materials, an amount too small to worry about AND I deduct all material expenses annually anyway. So the only reward is happiness. I spoke with the M-A-W folks about having stamp collections in their silent auction. They had never had any but it would be a good way to do many things at once, potentially inspire stamp collecting, help in financing a sick or dying child's wish, and get rid of these darned stamps before I take the dirt nap. Someone usually brings some thing of interest to show, slides, albums. Kiloware is passed around to anyone who wants to take some home to look through. I bought a nearly complete Bahamas collection (2 stamps missing and 1 misidentified) and sold a bunch of mint U.S. souvenir sheets. Some continue on after at a restaurant to discuss miniature trains. Seems like it could meet more than once a month. Sounds like a good club. Tracy Barber It's too nice, we need some prejudice and snobby cliques to mirror the real world. This fantasy land is right out of the Twilight Zone episode "Next Stop, Willoughby" -- Tom Loepp Email: Website: http://loepp.home.mindspring.com/tom/ |
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Bob Ingraham wrote: It probably could meet more than once a month, which to my mind is hardly enough to keep up the momentum. My club meets weekly September through June, and has a summer auction in July. At the last AGM, there was a complaint from one "old grouch" member that we shouldn't have so many meetings, but it was quickly pointed out to him that there was no requirement to attend every meeting. And not everyone does attend every meeting. There are a dozen or members who never miss a meeting, and others who attend most meetings. Of our newest four or five members, only one is "old" -- the rest are in their late 20s or 30s. There's a lot of variety to the meetings, and best of all there are a lot of stamps available, both from members and from the circuit books sent by the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada once a month. Bob Your crowd is young. I am probably the youngest in mine at 49. Don't know if the library would have a problem with more meetings or what. The club also knocks off for the summer. They may be doing good at their present rate, momentum isn't a noun used around these parts. -- Tom Loepp Email: Website: http://loepp.home.mindspring.com/tom/ |
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:45:59 GMT, Tom Loepp
wrote: Tracy Barber wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:01:29 GMT, Tom Loepp wrote: The club here is friendly beyond belief. The meeting takes place at the library and the dates and time are put up on an activities announcement board. The folks remind me of some here in the group. Harumph! :^P Come on, who resembles that? A kid came to a meeting and left with donated catalogues and I think an album and tongs. Very good! You aren't the only one here who puts on a nice guy hat once in awhile. Never said I was! :^) I recently helped in raising $3000 for Make-A-Wish. I did portraits of 2 children who were getting a wish, the portraits went to the families, and the portraits were auctioned, the highest bidder donating their winning bid amount to M-A-W. I received a piece of paper from them giving a dollar amount to my donation but by law the only money I can deduct from taxes is the materials, an amount too small to worry about AND I deduct all material expenses annually anyway. So the only reward is happiness. I spoke with the M-A-W folks about having stamp collections in their silent auction. They had never had any but it would be a good way to do many things at once, potentially inspire stamp collecting, help in financing a sick or dying child's wish, and get rid of these darned stamps before I take the dirt nap. hehehe... I hear ya. I only talk about my stamp escapades here, because I have a feeling that "some folks" don't care to hear about other "nice guy" stuff I've done and will probably do. I've devoted many, many hours for radiothons and telethons in the past, with my PC and so forth. I can't even think of the money racked up (people calling in for me and all that) or how much I saved them for doing the collating and all that. I was the guy who did the donation tallies periodically and kept track of where they came from, amounts, etc. Couldn't write off any of it and probably wouldn't anyway. You made me smile to think of those good times! There are plenty of other volunteer things, but let's keep it to stamps. This is nice that you helped out. More people doing it cannot hurt. Someone usually brings some thing of interest to show, slides, albums. Kiloware is passed around to anyone who wants to take some home to look through. I bought a nearly complete Bahamas collection (2 stamps missing and 1 misidentified) and sold a bunch of mint U.S. souvenir sheets. Some continue on after at a restaurant to discuss miniature trains. Seems like it could meet more than once a month. Sounds like a good club. Tracy Barber It's too nice, we need some prejudice and snobby cliques to mirror the real world. This fantasy land is right out of the Twilight Zone episode "Next Stop, Willoughby" hehehehehehehehe! Willoughby! Willoughby! Next stop, Willoughby! I know exactly what you mean. Yup. More people donating their time would make the world a nicer place... Tracy Barber |
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Why not encourage the discipline, by melding the two?
A broadsheet can be an integral part of the work, but divorced from it. The Judgement process need not suffer handicap from it's present focus, and those of the curious nature, have something to savour and appreciate not the least, a line to the author for those of similar tastes. "Albumen" wrote in message ... | This is a complex topic. Certain items are considered objects de art, and/or | items of historical significance, and these *are* given the special | attention you suggest. But, where do you draw the line? At what point does | completion or completeness of the exhibit take the back seat to space | devoted to simple lines of text? | | -a | | | | "Rodney" wrote in message | ... | | The question Rodney raises has been aired here too at several | | occasions. It seems that judges seem to want loads of philatelic | | material rather than too much info, that would take up too much | | space in the frames. And handouts along these lines tend to be | | "forgotten" immediately after the exhibition. Personally I much | | prefer to a see a "strictly exhibition" exhibit, and then either contact | | the exhibitor afterwards, or read more in-depth on a website. | | Finally, we disagree on something :0) | People often comment on the problems of exhibits, | I think I have raised a pertinent point that many, who | are at different levels of the collecting habit, would appreciate. | | I am suggesting it, not as part of the exhibit, but for those | who like you, would like to refer to it after the event | and not having the opportunity to have a one on one. | The reference sheets could be placed on the obligatory | folding tables that append such exhibits. | | If, as you say, people have raised the point before, | why not take off the blinkers, and move with the times. | Collecting is much about information, and to see | effort wasted by not accommodating the curious seems | to me to be rather strange. | | Perhaps the exhibitors want to display only for the judges, | in that case, don't complain about the lack of the common viewer interest. | One cannot have it both ways. | | The chappie that went to extraordinary lengths to produce an excellent | display of Burmese Overprints, in my respect, completely wasted | his time. Should I have needed to increase my knowledge in this genre | and I had his info sheet, perhaps with his phone number, I could have | made contact, and in doing so, surely improved all facets of this | topic. | As it stands...........nothing. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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I'm told in the good old days the exhibitors were required to stand in front
of their exhibits for a half-hour or so every day of the show. Wouldn't that be fun.? :-) -a "Rodney" wrote in message ... Why not encourage the discipline, by melding the two? A broadsheet can be an integral part of the work, but divorced from it. The Judgement process need not suffer handicap from it's present focus, and those of the curious nature, have something to savour and appreciate not the least, a line to the author for those of similar tastes. "Albumen" wrote in message ... | This is a complex topic. Certain items are considered objects de art, and/or | items of historical significance, and these *are* given the special | attention you suggest. But, where do you draw the line? At what point does | completion or completeness of the exhibit take the back seat to space | devoted to simple lines of text? | | -a | | | | "Rodney" wrote in message | ... | | The question Rodney raises has been aired here too at several | | occasions. It seems that judges seem to want loads of philatelic | | material rather than too much info, that would take up too much | | space in the frames. And handouts along these lines tend to be | | "forgotten" immediately after the exhibition. Personally I much | | prefer to a see a "strictly exhibition" exhibit, and then either contact | | the exhibitor afterwards, or read more in-depth on a website. | | Finally, we disagree on something :0) | People often comment on the problems of exhibits, | I think I have raised a pertinent point that many, who | are at different levels of the collecting habit, would appreciate. | | I am suggesting it, not as part of the exhibit, but for those | who like you, would like to refer to it after the event | and not having the opportunity to have a one on one. | The reference sheets could be placed on the obligatory | folding tables that append such exhibits. | | If, as you say, people have raised the point before, | why not take off the blinkers, and move with the times. | Collecting is much about information, and to see | effort wasted by not accommodating the curious seems | to me to be rather strange. | | Perhaps the exhibitors want to display only for the judges, | in that case, don't complain about the lack of the common viewer interest. | One cannot have it both ways. | | The chappie that went to extraordinary lengths to produce an excellent | display of Burmese Overprints, in my respect, completely wasted | his time. Should I have needed to increase my knowledge in this genre | and I had his info sheet, perhaps with his phone number, I could have | made contact, and in doing so, surely improved all facets of this | topic. | As it stands...........nothing. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| I'm told in the good old days the exhibitors were required to stand in front | of their exhibits for a half-hour or so every day of the show. Wouldn't that | be fun.? :-) Ah! the good old days.....now there's an oxymoron for someone to chew on. I recently had happenstance to view some stamped postcards China circa 1913 civil war? Forget the pillory, these poor fellows (looters) were locked in bamboo cages in the village square, whilst people watched them starve to death. Hmmmm, today........... these days are fine with me. |
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Were I an exhibitor, I think I would hang around my exhibit for a part of
each day of the show... just to see what people think, and to talk to them about my collection. I've met a few people like that at the AFDCS Americover show. Ron "Albumen" wrote in message ... I'm told in the good old days the exhibitors were required to stand in front of their exhibits for a half-hour or so every day of the show. Wouldn't that be fun.? :-) -a "Rodney" wrote in message ... Why not encourage the discipline, by melding the two? A broadsheet can be an integral part of the work, but divorced from it. The Judgement process need not suffer handicap from it's present focus, and those of the curious nature, have something to savour and appreciate not the least, a line to the author for those of similar tastes. "Albumen" wrote in message ... | This is a complex topic. Certain items are considered objects de art, and/or | items of historical significance, and these *are* given the special | attention you suggest. But, where do you draw the line? At what point does | completion or completeness of the exhibit take the back seat to space | devoted to simple lines of text? | | -a | | | | "Rodney" wrote in message | ... | | The question Rodney raises has been aired here too at several | | occasions. It seems that judges seem to want loads of philatelic | | material rather than too much info, that would take up too much | | space in the frames. And handouts along these lines tend to be | | "forgotten" immediately after the exhibition. Personally I much | | prefer to a see a "strictly exhibition" exhibit, and then either contact | | the exhibitor afterwards, or read more in-depth on a website. | | Finally, we disagree on something :0) | People often comment on the problems of exhibits, | I think I have raised a pertinent point that many, who | are at different levels of the collecting habit, would appreciate. | | I am suggesting it, not as part of the exhibit, but for those | who like you, would like to refer to it after the event | and not having the opportunity to have a one on one. | The reference sheets could be placed on the obligatory | folding tables that append such exhibits. | | If, as you say, people have raised the point before, | why not take off the blinkers, and move with the times. | Collecting is much about information, and to see | effort wasted by not accommodating the curious seems | to me to be rather strange. | | Perhaps the exhibitors want to display only for the judges, | in that case, don't complain about the lack of the common viewer interest. | One cannot have it both ways. | | The chappie that went to extraordinary lengths to produce an excellent | display of Burmese Overprints, in my respect, completely wasted | his time. Should I have needed to increase my knowledge in this genre | and I had his info sheet, perhaps with his phone number, I could have | made contact, and in doing so, surely improved all facets of this | topic. | As it stands...........nothing. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 05:33:14 +0800, "Rodney"
wrote: Ah! the good old days.....now there's an oxymoron for someone to chew on. I recently had happenstance to view some stamped postcards China circa 1913 civil war? Forget the pillory, these poor fellows (looters) were locked in bamboo cages in the village square, whilst people watched them starve to death. Hmmmm, today........... these days are fine with me. Rodney: Treatment now reserved for forgers and counterfeiters of the stamps of SNA. 3B*O 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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