Browsing Random Stamps - I've Never Seen Some of These!
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2023
- We go through two large business envelopes of stamps to see what is inside. This totally surprised me with the number of stamps I had never seen before. A fun variety of stamps and a great search to be sure!
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The stamp at the end I thought was Slovenia is Yugoslavia!
Came upon this by accident. This is the first time I have watched anything about stamp collecting. Didn't know such programs existed. I started collecting stamps in 1956. I was 7 years old. My older brother and two uncles collected them. Just about every family had someone who collected them back then. It was really that popular. Over the years I accumulated a massive collection. Never collected for value, only bought what I personally enjoyed and could afford. Sold the bulk of it about 20 years ago, but saved about 30 albums and stockbooks of my favorites. Haven't taken it out but maybe once to look at since then. This video set off a tiny spark in me. . . . I think I may go through it again. My personal preference was "back of book," pre-cancels, U.S. fancy cancels and early British Queen Victoria "heads." I have many hobbies. Hobbies keep you young and keep your mind young. I will add, there were many stamp shops and dealers back in the 70's. I became good friends with two dealers. They would buy stamp collections from long time collectors or estates. I would watch them and it was unbelievable how quickly they would whisk through them, ripping out pages of the "good"stuff . Time is valuable and the trained eye of a dealer moves quick. After they removed what they wanted, I was allowed to bring entire collections home to better organize the collection and search out better stamps that they had missed. Then, off to the auction house it would go. Some of these collections were huge. It was lots of fun. I wanted to keep everything for myself, of course, but resisted temptation. Being honest paid off. Sometimes tucked away in the bottom corner of an old envelop I'd find something valuable they'd missed. I was rewarded for those "finds" with liberal discounts on what I wanted . I think that was the most fun I had, going through those old collections. Anyway that's my thoughts. If you ever want to read a good book about stamp collecting, look up" Romance of the postage stamp." Long out of print, I suspect, but a library may still have it. Have fun, I have.
Fun stories! I wish it was still as popular as it used to be. I would have to drive a long way to reach any dealers, so I don't bother. i agree that hobbies keep your mind sharp. This hobby can be quite stimulating. Thank you for sharing!!
My head is spinning due to all the stamps! I am pretty lost, but enjoyed to see the stamps. I am also a huge fan of African stamps especially those with African fauna and flora. Thanks for taking us on another journey. While I am writing here we (NZ) are about one and a half hour from 2024. Happy New Year!!! 🥳🎉🥂
I'm glad you enjoyed :) Happy New Year!!!
It has been previously mentioned that the Vietnamese stamps on the Indochina page are listed with North Vietnam. That is correct. It should also be mentioned that many of the stamps issued in the 1940’s by Indochina, as well as the North Vietnamese stamps, were issued without gum. Therefore, it is completely acceptable to have no gum on the backs of these stamps in unused condition. The Scott catalog will tell you which unused stamps should and should not have gum.
Good afternoon, a great collection of postage stamps of India. I looked at it with an intern
Thanks!
It should be noted that Indochina issued many stamps in the 1940’s without gum. The same is true for North Vietnam, to which the Vietnam overprints and inscribed issue at 11:26 belong. North Vietnam issued many stamps beyond the 1940’s without gum. Unused stamps of these issues without gum are not damaged, as this is normal for them. A Scott catalog will tell you which stamps should or should not have gum.
Some nice looking stamps. I started up an India collection alongside my Guatemala, France, and Austria collections. India stamps are really cool. Especially the older ones. The feudatory and convention states go really deep.
I do find them fascinating but haven't been willing to commit time to delve into comprehending India's stamps yet. They will remain mostly a mystery to me for now :P
Always interesting
Thanks Ruby😋
Hi Kyle. Happy new year. Best wishes from James in Scotland.
Hey there! Same to you!
I’ve only been collecting for about 9-10 months and I’m still working out how I want to organize my collection. I only have about 5k in both US and WW at the moment, with a separate box for duplicates. Do you have any videos on your method behind the madness when organizing into albums and how in the world do you keep track of the stamps you have/need?
The hobby welcomes you and so do I. I talk about making and organizing albums in lots of videos but don't have one specifically about it, perhaps I should!(Thanks for the idea!) Although, here is my opinion on how I'd do it:
If you had a huge box of mixed up worldwide stamps, I would sort them by country as the initial step before anything else.
1. Sort them into piles of duplicates
2. Put them into stock cards or glassines
3. Go card by card and catalog them, putting the Scott #, etc.
4. Organize the cards by catalog number
5. Put them in my album having already identified and organized them
This way, the experience of putting them into the album is smooth and confident since you've already done all the real work of identifying/organizing them. Now, you only have the simple task of putting them where they belong :)
I bought so many stamps when I started collecting; it was madness for me and I built filing cabinets to sort them by country into folders (I felt like I was drowning in stamps before I did that). So, I haven't ever attempted to keep track of them all. I've looked at some software you can inventory with, but most seem just "so-so" to me. One day I intend to begin the process of tracking at least my more valuable stamps!
The first thing that you need is a stamp catalogue. In the US that would be a Scott catalogue. They are expensive however, so 3 alternatives would be 1) Go to a stamp show and ask dealers if they have any old catalogues. I buy all my catalogues 2 years old from dealers. You do not need to have the most up to date version and most dealers buy new catalogues every year so they are happy to sell a 2 year old catalogue at a very discounted rate. 2) Scott has an online catalogue but I do not have a subscription so I know nothing about that. 3) My local library has a full set of Scott catalogues so I would check with your libraries. That would certainly be the cheapest way to go. If your stamps are in albums then you need to write the catalogue number next to each stamp in the album. If not, then you need to put your stamps in catalogue number order and write down the numbers that you are missing. Lastly, check to see if there is a stamp club in your area. They will have members that will be happy to help you out and maybe even give you some free stamps or sell you very cheap ones.
Great show. 52:54 should be a fiscal stamp from Imperial France (Napoleon III.), 1860s. 1:10:41 is a Cinderella from Japan, probably 1950s. Greets from GER, U.
Thank you!
The brown imperf orated stamp is a French timber stamp. I have a similar one.
At 47:20 the cartoon is Suske en Wiske, by Willy Vandersteen, from Belgium, Flanders. And what you saw as LOVE on the cancellation is POSTCODE.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND THE STAMPS. ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΗ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ 2024 from Athens/Greece.
Funny enough "Cash" was actually a unit of currency in a part of India. Indian stamps that say Service on them are official. The non - stamps are Cinderellas. Yes the stamp inscribed Kouang Tcheou was issued for French Offices in China not Indo-China. The stamp at the bottom of the Indo-China page and on the back were issued by the Viet Minh forces who were fighting the French before Vietnam became an independent country. You will find these in Scott before North Vietnam. The first of the 3 Indo-China airmail stamps was issued by the French Vichy Government. You can tell because it does not have the "RF" on it like the other 2 do. Vichy stamps were issued for many French colonies. The two stamps on the back of Netherlands Indies are Japanese Occupation. Baden Powell was the fouder of the Boy Scouts. Timbre taxe is a Postage Due stamp not a Revenue. The Travencore stamps that say "On S S" are Official stamps. I have a lot of the Indian Convention States but very few of the Indian Feudatory States so it was nice to see them. Thrift stamps were War savings stamps. The 3 you have were issued for WW1 but they were also issued for WW2. Japanese Naval Government is just another name for Japanese Occupation.
The Pennsylvania Real Estate Transfer Tax stamps are stamps that are put on a deed when you sell a piece of property. The Federal stamps known as Documentary Tax stamps are listed in Scott but the State stamps are not. In the 60's the Federal Government stopped collecting the tax and the states stepped in to collect and issued stamps. Poop poop is obviously not a real postage stamp. Sometimes when a label is next to a stamp both will get a cancellation. I always got a kick out of the Dutch stamps with the queen on it as to me she looks like she has an Afro. Baby boomer here. The Korean stamp is actually from North Korea. The booklet is missing a lot of stamps but I would want it for the cover. Scott does not list Reveue stamps unless they are US. Yes I hate it when people over tape something too. Cool souvenir sheet!
Nice info. It got stuck in my head that Timbre Tax was a revenue stamp, I will have to try and correct that in my brain... I was wondering if I would find the real estate transfer stamps in the catalog or not. I was using "CH" as a quick way to determine stamps were South Korean, I guess that won't work then. Is there a specific symbol on the stamp that you use to tell if they are North Korean instead southern?
North and South Korea split into two countries after WW2
1) Most South Korean stamps will have either Korea or Republic of Korea in English or have the yin/yang symbol
2) North Korean stamps will not have a yin/yang symbol. Early North Korean stamps will have no English except numbers. In the 70's when they joined the UPU they started printing stamps with DPR Korea in English on them.
Hint: If you have a problem telling Korean from Chinese/Japanese. The Korean alphabet has circles in it whereas Chinese and Japanese have only straight lines. So if you have a stamp that has circles in the writing then you know that it is Korean.
Awesome, thank you for the explanation!
Brown is older