Frig, I love stamps! And flipping through an old worldwide album is great fun. Great episode. SO many projects on the go. An ongoing project that I am wanting to get back to you is transferring my British Commonwealth from 102 cards and glassines to Vario sheets. Dominica is next on the alphabetical list. Also am starting a “stamp journal” in the new year. Random stamps I like are mounted on a journal page and then I add hand written information to it. After a trip the SE Europe in November, I have found a love for Romanian stamps and its history as well as other nearby countries. So, there’s that. Want to complete my Isle of Man and add to my Iceland and Antarctic collection in the new year too. Oh, and organize my topicals: foxes on stamps and maps on stamps. Sheesh. French stamps beat British (just British, not Commonwealth) straight up on beauty for me. There are so many beautifully engraved French stamps. And as one who has experienced traumatic loss (I became a widower two years ago at age 52), I can attest to the importance of simply enjoying each day. Find the joy. Be kind. Take care of yourself and each other. NONE of us knows what tomorrow brings.
Aren't stamps great! And thanks for sharing, I always look forward to hearing from you. I think the best part of our hobby is the opportunity to connect with other folks, and to share our journeys. Shared joy expands and shared hardships diminish, as a friend of mine used to say. Happy collecting!
Great collection of world stamps with a few gems, worth every penny. And: it invites you to fill the gaps as well ! 👌56:38 That´s an Austrian newspaper stamp with Polish overprint after Poland became independent in 1918. Greets from GER, U.
Happy Holidays, Silk and family! Haven't even seen the video yet, but I am already excited hearing about your neighbor restoring the displays from Dayton's Department Store! Magical things from simpler times, and I love seeing them brought back to life. I would love to see America find some of her former glory and rediscover a love for herself and not allow people to take her and all her bounty for granted, as people are want to do in 2024. Things like your videos and the displays from Dayton's being restored and displayed again give me hope!
Writer has been collecting since the age of 7, off-and-on, and now, I am on after a couple of decades. Now, I am specializing in Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Philippines, and a few others. I also have a Reign of King George VI stamps, that came with an album and a few stamps, as well as Israel tabs, and Disneyana. This is all from years ago. Since I resurrected the collection, purchases are a littler higher in price, and I think I recently found a Canada dealer from Canada. The US collection is added to in dribs and drabs, because everyone wants US, hence my interest in other countries and Canada. I grew up in Maine, which is right next door, so that only makes sense. I even got stamps from the Ottawa mint as a pre-teen and teen. Stamps have been good. This is some of my story, and I'm stickin' to it! Deb
Just an FYI, for Belgium right page at 13:28, the stamps at row 2 and 4 with a square with a date and city inside. These are precancels not postal cancellations, I collect Belgian precancels. Precancels are not listed in Scott. Every time that I go to a stamp show there is at least one Chinese person walking around asking for China. I think that they are buying and shipping them back to China. My experience is different than some people. I started off 40 years ago collecting worldwide and I am still collecting worldwide but keep adding stamps that are not in my album such as Belgian precancels, Vienna issues of Indonesia, South Kasai, South Moluccas, British locals etc so my collection keeps growing instead of getting smaller. As for 2025 at my stamp club meeting last month someone was getting rid of a part of their collection and one lot was a bunch of New Jersey precancels. I have never collected US precancels and I won the lot. I have also purchaed a couple of precancel catalogues so I am all set for 2025. Other things for 2025 are Hawaiian Postal cards and Canal Zone Plate Blocks.
Hello from NC! I am so happy to find current philately videos! I restarted collecting in the 1990s but 4 moves later.. I boxed it away! Another restart! Still at an advanced beginner stage. I have Scott and Mystic albums but overwhelmed how to arrange on blank pages
Hello from MN! And glad you found my channel... I didn't pick up stamp collecting until I was an adult, but I'm so thrilled I did. As you might see in my other videos I really like stamps... :) happy collecting!!
I have always enjoyed getting albums like this as you never know what you might find. There are some very nice stamps in this album. I plan to purchase stamp lots like this in future myself. The stamp you were asking about at 56:38 is one of the Cracow issues of Poland; issued January 10, 1919. Various Austrian postage; postage dues and newspaper stamps were issued with this overprint , January 10, 1919. Some are quite valuable if authenticated as genuine. These overprints were extensively counterfeited and Scott has a note of warning about that fact. The two stamps you asked about at 1:00:26 are listed by Scott under Saudi Arabia as Hejaz. The stamps of Hejaz are listed as the first stamps of Saudi Arabia issued 1916 to about 1926. The previous owner correctly identified them as being from Hejaz. You will want to verify that the catalog numbers have been correctly identified. The Arabic script overprints of Hejaz are complicated to any of us who can’t read Arabic and can be easily mistaken.
Album from 1947. A big album worth every penny...you did a great buy. Hope you had a great Christmas and wishing you and Mrs Silk and family a happy and healthy new year 2025.
Happy holidays sir. I hope you and your family have a great 2025!! Not a stamp collector myself, but love your videos. Nice to see your love for your hobby.
Funny that I made/received same Christmas gift! I think adding WW album is very good to merge with own collection (or to start one!), it is usually thousands of different stamps of a specific era. So better put a bit more money on one full album with nice finds than less in two which will give plenty duplicates, and you still need to find the key stamps ! Question is : how many different albums do a collector need to watch online to find the good deal... Personally, for sure I looked over a hundred before to find the one for me, and I really love it as you look to do for yours!!! Number of views before decision may be somehow correlated with budget available haha! My main 2025 quest will be to find a decent lot of albums. My secondary one will be to connect with more collectors... Happy new year to you too buddy!
40:56 GB 6d stamp CV $240 (but color changeling), 2/6 lilac large stamp CV $165 42:03 George V 5/ large carmine rose stamp CV $225 1:03:18 Switzerland 40 rappen from $100 to $1300 following the paper and the silk thread color 1:04:36 Just check if the stamp is engraved to be sure it's a genuine one
Frig, I love stamps! And flipping through an old worldwide album is great fun. Great episode. SO many projects on the go. An ongoing project that I am wanting to get back to you is transferring my British Commonwealth from 102 cards and glassines to Vario sheets. Dominica is next on the alphabetical list. Also am starting a “stamp journal” in the new year. Random stamps I like are mounted on a journal page and then I add hand written information to it. After a trip the SE Europe in November, I have found a love for Romanian stamps and its history as well as other nearby countries. So, there’s that. Want to complete my Isle of Man and add to my Iceland and Antarctic collection in the new year too. Oh, and organize my topicals: foxes on stamps and maps on stamps. Sheesh.
Thank you for another interesting romp through someone's old stamp album ! There are some cool stamps in that old Scott album. From my limited experience buying old albums, I tend to find that if bought from a dealer, the album more likely to have been "cherry picked." Best luck buying from someone trying to dispose of "Dad's / Grandpa's / some relatives'" stamp collection and they just wanna get a few $ for it all. But those are harder to find now-a-days.....As for me, in 2025........ continue to organize my 35 year accumulation...... start adding stamps to my "one of every country' album, and I probably should par down my philatelic collecting interests.... Happy New Year 2o25 to you and your family..... I hope it is better than 2024 !
In 2025 I hope to sort and scan all plate flaws and trial colors of Croatian stamps that I managed to aquire so I can finally start organising other countries. Best wishes to you and your family from Croatia!
Hi Silk, video for your channel! i have a stamp collection with some interesting U.S. stamps, letters, and bank checks from around 1860. I’d love to film a quick video showcasing it and send it to you as potential content for your channel-just for fun, with no expectations in return. I used to consider selling some stamps but no longer plan to do so; instead, I’ll likely send the collection to an auction house at some point. Let me know if you’re interested!
I collect British Colonies. I use a Bermuda Specialized album, which you can buy from the Bermuda Stamp Company. For my Falkland Islands collection I use modified Steiner pages, which you can download from the web. Stock books for all of the postal history.
I have collected British Commonwealth for the past 30 years. Primarily using stock books. Why? Well, for example, one of my favorite areas is Malayan states, especially the Japanese occupation stamps. Each denomination has an overprint in at least 2 or 3 different colors. As far as I know, there is no pre-printed album that covers that detail. Other favorite areas are Sarawak, Lagos, Niger Coast and India with states. Please keep posting videos, they are so enjoyable so watch. Especially the thrill of "the hunt" for the unknown.
@@silkontheweb I store by country and continent and highlight what I have with a yellow marker in an old Scott 1993 Vol. 1 catalogue. I put in little notes next to the stamp if the stamp is something other than the "main issue" ie. a's, b's etc.
I don't really collect anything besides U.S., but seeing this video makes me want to buy a worldwide album like this. I definitely would love to collect British Commonwealth, and I love love LOVE Belgian postmarks and franking, as well as German and French, too. Arguably, I enjoy the franking of European philately more than the stamps themselves, but I digress, although I loved the Belgium section of this album. That's one thing that I love about old albums full of hinged stamps: they're busy and full and that is very satisfying to look at. Going back to a previous video about the George VI album, that album is EXTREMELY beautiful and satisfying to look at, but albums that have stamps that are hinged always scare me because the stamps contained inside are going to only get banged around if you ever look at them and, as a result, they will only continue to deteriorate. I wish there was a way to put entire rows of clear mounts on those pages and then put the stamps that are so tightly packed that they can't accomodate individually-cut mounts into that entire row of Hawid top-loader mounts, rather than the split-back mounts. I believe in preserving June's album as well, because it is a work of art, but only if you can preserve the stamps inside. I think entire rows of top-loading clear mounts might be the way because it still allows you to see the markings on the pages and be guided by them. I hope that makes sense. I also hope you find some additions to her album in this new worldwide album. What notable holes does June's album have that you would like to fill? Did you end up finding any in this album?
I did! I'm only a third of the way through now or so, and I've found a handful so far. The thing that amazes me about her album is the stamps are SO fine, apart from being hinged... I could put the higher cat ones in clear mounts along with the ones I add, but they all ought to be preserved better than they are currently. Unfortunately the binding would burst if I tried to put too many into it... on my quest for a solution I found a set of very nice Stanley Gibbons albums that are mucho dinero but I'm considering saving up for them... and then viewing this collection as my lifetime quest outside of usa... it'd honor her work by preserving the stamps, and king george vi was such a fascinating figure... we'll see though, hard to spend good $$ on albums when what I really want are the stamps, and I still don't like the idea of pulling the stamps out of it. I don't, though, think that book is a good longterm solution...
Very interesting album. There ia aomething really fun and fulfilling to such an album. On the other side...stamps are hingest and I fear the album would get too big if one would really try and fill it. Ofcourse a lot comes down to personal preference. I am really curious about your next year in stamp collecting. A recurring theme for a lot of collectors seema to be: 'more ideas/projects than there is time. I often find myself deciding in a vacuum. Wanting to buy a stockbook with a country but forgetting about what I already have and that I probably don't find the time for all I want. I also tell myself that there will be more opportunities to buy what I see now. A focus for 2025 is less impulse buying, focus a bit more on some countries, learn about what a specific stamps has to tell, and for UA-cam: make content that I like and hope to inspire new collectors, strengthen the philatelic UA-cam community. Anyway, lovely lengthy episode. Thanks for 2024 Silk. Enjoy your time off. Looking forward to Silk's 2025 adventures!
Totally agree... and running a UA-cam channel about collectibles can contribute to impulse purchases too. (I really like your new German series, btw!) I'm also getting to the point in my collecting where the stamps I'm after are really $$$ and so specializing on what truly interests me is important. Happy New Year to you!
I’m currently working on a George VI collection since I’ve reached a point in my Newfoundland collection where what I need is exceeding the amount I can afford to spend on it. At the moment my George VI collection is going into a large (60 page) stock book using the tab system that you actually introduced on the channel for your early stamps. It’s working reasonably well for storage but I’m not entirely pleased with the way it looks aesthetically and for display. What I may end up doing - probably in the distant future - is to create album pages of my own design and layout. And as far as the country with best looking stamps, don’t discount Spanish stamps from the 1920s and ‘30s.
You and me both... I like how it allows you to catalogue your stamps, but it's pretty time consuming and I'm not thrilled with how it looks either. I'm grudgingly accepting that albums are probably the best way to go to put together a good looking collection... I just don't like spending money on them, would much rather buy stamps!
Whoops... important context... it's an album I found a few years ago full of really nice King George VI stamps. I've been debating how best to preserve it
Is Silk your pseudonym, or does "silk on the web" refer to printing, like an intaglio web press. If it's the latter, then what does the "silk" part refer to?
Frig, I love stamps! And flipping through an old worldwide album is great fun. Great episode. SO many projects on the go. An ongoing project that I am wanting to get back to you is transferring my British Commonwealth from 102 cards and glassines to Vario sheets. Dominica is next on the alphabetical list. Also am starting a “stamp journal” in the new year. Random stamps I like are mounted on a journal page and then I add hand written information to it. After a trip the SE Europe in November, I have found a love for Romanian stamps and its history as well as other nearby countries. So, there’s that. Want to complete my Isle of Man and add to my Iceland and Antarctic collection in the new year too. Oh, and organize my topicals: foxes on stamps and maps on stamps. Sheesh.
French stamps beat British (just British, not Commonwealth) straight up on beauty for me. There are so many beautifully engraved French stamps.
And as one who has experienced traumatic loss (I became a widower two years ago at age 52), I can attest to the importance of simply enjoying each day. Find the joy. Be kind. Take care of yourself and each other. NONE of us knows what tomorrow brings.
Aren't stamps great! And thanks for sharing, I always look forward to hearing from you. I think the best part of our hobby is the opportunity to connect with other folks, and to share our journeys. Shared joy expands and shared hardships diminish, as a friend of mine used to say. Happy collecting!
Nice collection Mr Silk. Also looking forward to more journeys with you. We like being on excursions with y'all too.
Great collection of world stamps with a few gems, worth every penny. And: it invites you to fill the gaps as well ! 👌56:38 That´s an Austrian newspaper stamp with Polish overprint after Poland became independent in 1918. Greets from GER, U.
I can hear Mrs Silk's response... 'another project?!?' :)
@@silkontheweb 😂😂😂
Great find Mr. Silk, looking forward to many more videos next year, Happy new Year to You and Youre Family 🙂🥂🍾
Happy Holidays, Silk and family! Haven't even seen the video yet, but I am already excited hearing about your neighbor restoring the displays from Dayton's Department Store! Magical things from simpler times, and I love seeing them brought back to life. I would love to see America find some of her former glory and rediscover a love for herself and not allow people to take her and all her bounty for granted, as people are want to do in 2024. Things like your videos and the displays from Dayton's being restored and displayed again give me hope!
Happy Holidays to you too!! I hope you enjoy the video
I like your 'Newcy' Brown Ale mug.
Really interesting album
Writer has been collecting since the age of 7, off-and-on, and now, I am on after a couple of decades. Now, I am specializing in Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Philippines, and a few others.
I also have a Reign of King George VI stamps, that came with an album and a few stamps, as well as Israel tabs, and Disneyana. This is all from years ago.
Since I resurrected the collection, purchases are a littler higher in price, and I think I recently found a Canada dealer from Canada. The US collection is added to in dribs and drabs, because everyone wants US, hence my interest in other countries and Canada. I grew up in Maine, which is right next door, so that only makes sense. I even got stamps from the Ottawa mint as a pre-teen and teen. Stamps have been good.
This is some of my story, and I'm stickin' to it!
Deb
Great story! Thanks for sharing... and happy collecting...
Just an FYI, for Belgium right page at 13:28, the stamps at row 2 and 4 with a square with a date and city inside. These are precancels not postal cancellations, I collect Belgian precancels. Precancels are not listed in Scott. Every time that I go to a stamp show there is at least one Chinese person walking around asking for China. I think that they are buying and shipping them back to China. My experience is different than some people. I started off 40 years ago collecting worldwide and I am still collecting worldwide but keep adding stamps that are not in my album such as Belgian precancels, Vienna issues of Indonesia, South Kasai, South Moluccas, British locals etc so my collection keeps growing instead of getting smaller. As for 2025 at my stamp club meeting last month someone was getting rid of a part of their collection and one lot was a bunch of New Jersey precancels. I have never collected US precancels and I won the lot. I have also purchaed a couple of precancel catalogues so I am all set for 2025. Other things for 2025 are Hawaiian Postal cards and Canal Zone Plate Blocks.
Great info! I didn't realize there are pre-cancel catalogues... Scott?
@@silkontheweb Precancel catalogues are Hoover Brothers and Precancel Stamp Society.
Hello from NC! I am so happy to find current philately videos! I restarted collecting in the 1990s but 4 moves later.. I boxed it away! Another restart! Still at an advanced beginner stage. I have Scott and Mystic albums but overwhelmed how to arrange on blank pages
Hello from MN! And glad you found my channel... I didn't pick up stamp collecting until I was an adult, but I'm so thrilled I did. As you might see in my other videos I really like stamps... :) happy collecting!!
Looking forward to see updates on your collections
16:14 The Brazilian numeral seems genuine
I have always enjoyed getting albums like this as you never know what you might find. There are some very nice stamps in this album. I plan to purchase stamp lots like this in future myself. The stamp you were asking about at 56:38 is one of the Cracow issues of Poland; issued January 10, 1919. Various Austrian postage; postage dues and newspaper stamps were issued with this overprint , January 10, 1919. Some are quite valuable if authenticated as genuine. These overprints were extensively counterfeited and Scott has a note of warning about that fact. The two stamps you asked about at 1:00:26 are listed by Scott under Saudi Arabia as Hejaz. The stamps of Hejaz are listed as the first stamps of Saudi Arabia issued 1916 to about 1926. The previous owner correctly identified them as being from Hejaz. You will want to verify that the catalog numbers have been correctly identified. The Arabic script overprints of Hejaz are complicated to any of us who can’t read Arabic and can be easily mistaken.
Great info, thanks for sharing!
Mr. Silk have a Happy New Year & enjoy your new album...!
Album from 1947. A big album worth every penny...you did a great buy. Hope you had a great Christmas and wishing you and Mrs Silk and family a happy and healthy new year 2025.
Thanks! And same to you
Happy holidays sir. I hope you and your family have a great 2025!! Not a stamp collector myself, but love your videos. Nice to see your love for your hobby.
Same to you!
Funny that I made/received same Christmas gift! I think adding WW album is very good to merge with own collection (or to start one!), it is usually thousands of different stamps of a specific era. So better put a bit more money on one full album with nice finds than less in two which will give plenty duplicates, and you still need to find the key stamps ! Question is : how many different albums do a collector need to watch online to find the good deal... Personally, for sure I looked over a hundred before to find the one for me, and I really love it as you look to do for yours!!! Number of views before decision may be somehow correlated with budget available haha! My main 2025 quest will be to find a decent lot of albums. My secondary one will be to connect with more collectors... Happy new year to you too buddy!
“… new…. ah… unused” LOL! As a native St.Paulite, now living abroad, I am proud of your promotion of the hobby.
40:56 GB 6d stamp CV $240 (but color changeling), 2/6 lilac large stamp CV $165
42:03 George V 5/ large carmine rose stamp CV $225
1:03:18 Switzerland 40 rappen from $100 to $1300 following the paper and the silk thread color
1:04:36 Just check if the stamp is engraved to be sure it's a genuine one
Thanks for the info!
Most impressive! You had a great Christmas 🎄 as well! Congratulations sir! And happy new year 🎈
Thanks! And Happy New Year to you too
Frig, I love stamps! And flipping through an old worldwide album is great fun. Great episode. SO many projects on the go. An ongoing project that I am wanting to get back to you is transferring my British Commonwealth from 102 cards and glassines to Vario sheets. Dominica is next on the alphabetical list. Also am starting a “stamp journal” in the new year. Random stamps I like are mounted on a journal page and then I add hand written information to it. After a trip the SE Europe in November, I have found a love for Romanian stamps and its history as well as other nearby countries. So, there’s that. Want to complete my Isle of Man and add to my Iceland and Antarctic collection in the new year too. Oh, and organize my topicals: foxes on stamps and maps on stamps. Sheesh.
Very nice collection, happy new year to you.
Same to you!
Thank you for another interesting romp through someone's old stamp album ! There are some cool stamps in that old Scott album. From my limited experience buying old albums, I tend to find that if bought from a dealer, the album more likely to have been "cherry picked." Best luck buying from someone trying to dispose of "Dad's / Grandpa's / some relatives'" stamp collection and they just wanna get a few $ for it all. But those are harder to find now-a-days.....As for me, in 2025........ continue to organize my 35 year accumulation...... start adding stamps to my "one of every country' album, and I probably should par down my philatelic collecting interests.... Happy New Year 2o25 to you and your family..... I hope it is better than 2024 !
Happy New Year to you too!
In 2025 I hope to sort and scan all plate flaws and trial colors of Croatian stamps that I managed to aquire so I can finally start organising other countries. Best wishes to you and your family from Croatia!
Nice! Happy collecting
Hi Silk, video for your channel!
i have a stamp collection with some interesting U.S. stamps, letters, and bank checks from around 1860. I’d love to film a quick video showcasing it and send it to you as potential content for your channel-just for fun, with no expectations in return. I used to consider selling some stamps but no longer plan to do so; instead, I’ll likely send the collection to an auction house at some point. Let me know if you’re interested!
I collect British Colonies. I use a Bermuda Specialized album, which you can buy from the Bermuda Stamp Company. For my Falkland Islands collection I use modified Steiner pages, which you can download from the web. Stock books for all of the postal history.
Great tip, thanks for sharing!
I have collected British Commonwealth for the past 30 years. Primarily using stock books. Why? Well, for example, one of my favorite areas is Malayan states, especially the Japanese occupation stamps. Each denomination has an overprint in at least 2 or 3 different colors. As far as I know, there is no pre-printed album that covers that detail. Other favorite areas are Sarawak, Lagos, Niger Coast and India with states. Please keep posting videos, they are so enjoyable so watch. Especially the thrill of "the hunt" for the unknown.
That's how my Commonwealth collection is stored now too... do you put slips of paper in to catalogue stamps or store by country?
@@silkontheweb I store by country and continent and highlight what I have with a yellow marker in an old Scott 1993 Vol. 1 catalogue. I put in little notes next to the stamp if the stamp is something other than the "main issue" ie. a's, b's etc.
I don't really collect anything besides U.S., but seeing this video makes me want to buy a worldwide album like this. I definitely would love to collect British Commonwealth, and I love love LOVE Belgian postmarks and franking, as well as German and French, too. Arguably, I enjoy the franking of European philately more than the stamps themselves, but I digress, although I loved the Belgium section of this album. That's one thing that I love about old albums full of hinged stamps: they're busy and full and that is very satisfying to look at. Going back to a previous video about the George VI album, that album is EXTREMELY beautiful and satisfying to look at, but albums that have stamps that are hinged always scare me because the stamps contained inside are going to only get banged around if you ever look at them and, as a result, they will only continue to deteriorate. I wish there was a way to put entire rows of clear mounts on those pages and then put the stamps that are so tightly packed that they can't accomodate individually-cut mounts into that entire row of Hawid top-loader mounts, rather than the split-back mounts. I believe in preserving June's album as well, because it is a work of art, but only if you can preserve the stamps inside. I think entire rows of top-loading clear mounts might be the way because it still allows you to see the markings on the pages and be guided by them. I hope that makes sense. I also hope you find some additions to her album in this new worldwide album. What notable holes does June's album have that you would like to fill? Did you end up finding any in this album?
I did! I'm only a third of the way through now or so, and I've found a handful so far. The thing that amazes me about her album is the stamps are SO fine, apart from being hinged... I could put the higher cat ones in clear mounts along with the ones I add, but they all ought to be preserved better than they are currently. Unfortunately the binding would burst if I tried to put too many into it... on my quest for a solution I found a set of very nice Stanley Gibbons albums that are mucho dinero but I'm considering saving up for them... and then viewing this collection as my lifetime quest outside of usa... it'd honor her work by preserving the stamps, and king george vi was such a fascinating figure... we'll see though, hard to spend good $$ on albums when what I really want are the stamps, and I still don't like the idea of pulling the stamps out of it. I don't, though, think that book is a good longterm solution...
Very interesting album. There ia aomething really fun and fulfilling to such an album. On the other side...stamps are hingest and I fear the album would get too big if one would really try and fill it. Ofcourse a lot comes down to personal preference.
I am really curious about your next year in stamp collecting. A recurring theme for a lot of collectors seema to be: 'more ideas/projects than there is time. I often find myself deciding in a vacuum. Wanting to buy a stockbook with a country but forgetting about what I already have and that I probably don't find the time for all I want. I also tell myself that there will be more opportunities to buy what I see now. A focus for 2025 is less impulse buying, focus a bit more on some countries, learn about what a specific stamps has to tell, and for UA-cam: make content that I like and hope to inspire new collectors, strengthen the philatelic UA-cam community.
Anyway, lovely lengthy episode. Thanks for 2024 Silk. Enjoy your time off. Looking forward to Silk's 2025 adventures!
Totally agree... and running a UA-cam channel about collectibles can contribute to impulse purchases too. (I really like your new German series, btw!) I'm also getting to the point in my collecting where the stamps I'm after are really $$$ and so specializing on what truly interests me is important. Happy New Year to you!
Drooling over the old Queen Victorias. Please let us know if you sell any in your store.
I have some if you want, my price is 1/3 of the CV for a good copy, 1/10 for a damaged one
Nice older album
I’m currently working on a George VI collection since I’ve reached a point in my Newfoundland collection where what I need is exceeding the amount I can afford to spend on it. At the moment my George VI collection is going into a large (60 page) stock book using the tab system that you actually introduced on the channel for your early stamps. It’s working reasonably well for storage but I’m not entirely pleased with the way it looks aesthetically and for display. What I may end up doing - probably in the distant future - is to create album pages of my own design and layout.
And as far as the country with best looking stamps, don’t discount Spanish stamps from the 1920s and ‘30s.
You and me both... I like how it allows you to catalogue your stamps, but it's pretty time consuming and I'm not thrilled with how it looks either. I'm grudgingly accepting that albums are probably the best way to go to put together a good looking collection... I just don't like spending money on them, would much rather buy stamps!
There are certainly many beautiful French stamps but I still prefer Britain and Commonwealth!!
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What is "Junes" album?
Whoops... important context... it's an album I found a few years ago full of really nice King George VI stamps. I've been debating how best to preserve it
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Is Silk your pseudonym, or does "silk on the web" refer to printing, like an intaglio web press. If it's the latter, then what does the "silk" part refer to?
It's a pseudonym... a tribute to a character in my favorite fantasy series the Belgariad by David Eddings
@silkontheweb Oh okay very nice. I kept wondering about that.
That #158 is listed in the 2017 Scott's Catalog at $600.00 new or used. I hope yours is genuine.
Which country ?
I was wondering the same... :) (Haven't had a chance to spend more time with the album yet)
Sir, can you suggest me any site,from where I can buy post stamps of any country from INDIA.
I'd suggest Hipstamp, it's where I go when I'm in the market for nice, individual stamps