Welcome to the 9th episode of the Place Stamp Here Show!
In this episode, I go through all the US postage stamps I have that have a date of 1999 on them. Today we are looking at about 79 different stamps that came out in 1999- including 2 air mail stamps! 4 of the stamps have the scrambled indicia hidden images. I break down the differences between 8 or so varieties of the "Flag over City" definitive 1st class postage stamp.
At the end of the 1998 episode we were at 138 of 158 self adhesive stamps from 1974-1998. Watch and see how many we find for this group of stamps! I go through an envelope that has a bunch of stamps dated 1999, sorting them by designs, identifying varieties, remove them from paper and then choose a suitable example and put them into my stamp album.
All of the stamps in this episode did soak off easily with water, but the "thin gold frame" reindeer happy holiday stamps put up more resistance than the other ones.
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For more information on stamps and stamp collecting, or places to buy stamps try some of these websites-
The USPS website- www.usps.com/store/home
The American Philatelic Society (APS for short, my membership number is 234598 stamps.org/
My favorite auction site built for stamp collectors by stamp collectors - www.hipstamp.com/
A great site to buy supplies, albums, stamps etc - www.mysticstamp.com
A wonderful reference site I use often- www.bardostamps.com/
A great resource on identifying older stamps- www.theswedishtiger.com/ID.html
A website to get catalogs and philatelic supplies- www.amosadvantage.com/
A resource for topical collecting - americantopical.org/ I'm member number 59102
Thanks for watching!
Greg
If you're interested in where I've been the last few months, last summer my wife and I built a large raised garden bed out of cinder blocks. We planted a lot of plants including broccoli, cauliflower, jalapenos, bell peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, brussel sprouts, asparagus, horseradish, beets, onions, pumpkins, spaghetti squash, watermelon, basil, rosemary, and more! We also have a number of fruit trees such as apples, cherries plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and a pear tree. Our 2022 summer was very hot, like 90 degrees for a majority of the season. When things cooled off in October, our plants started producing all sorts of fruit, especially the tomatoes. Unfortunately the first frost hit around October 15th. We had to harvest everything that was still on the vine or branch at that point. Our kitchen was full of boxes of tomatoes and apples and squash. We have never really canned anything before so it was a learning experience for both of us. We were making apple butter, grape jelly, jalapeño jelly, salsa, spaghetti sauce, stewed tomatoes, freeze drying apples and peaches, giving away food to friends, making cobbler, freezing extra fruits, it seemed like that was all we did for weeks. There were a few trips down to family in Salt Lake City, our dog had surgery, helped some people move, we had friends from out of town over for a few days and we had a "fakesgiving" dinner, I got sick with RSV for about a week, then I had fever blisters on my face and one of my eyes was all red, then we went down to Utah for "real" thanksgiving. I picked up the new pokemon game when I was in bed sick and I played several other pokemon games after that and started working on what's called a "master living pokedex" where you try to collect as many different species, genders and forms of various pokemon from the last 26 years and put them all into an app called Pokemon Home. Then we had more people over, then some of our adult children came down for a week, then we all drove down to Utah for Christmas, and a few trips to airports and whatnot later we finally got home. I had a hard time getting back into the recording mode, I've been finding other things to do, like organize all the tools in my garage, stacking firewood, working on my Pokémon collection, cleaning the house etc.
The funny thing is, most of this video was recorded in-between September 30th 2022 and October 10th, 2022. I had it edited to what I wanted, I just needed to film the little goofy intro and outro to bookend it. I know the videos don't even need that, but I started doing it with the 1996 album fill episode (PSHS episode 4 I think) and I wanted to avoid just having a "top down" prespective video. I like having those bookends and I felt like I needed to keep doing them, even if it meant waiting a couple of months to get the next episode out. Just every time I wanted to go record, my face was all messed up or my voice was scratchy or whatever. Anyway thanks for reading and I will try to be more consistent moving forward