Found Collection

--

E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure
in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi
puttane!    F.d.A

Coins, travels and more:
http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/golanule/
http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html

Alyn

http://alynlunt.com/stamps
http://phabphilately.blogspot.ca

I have an inactive US collection started about age 10 thanks to an album given
to me by an uncle.  I collected mint through 1978 when I got ticked off due to
the massive flood of stamps being issued each year. After adding about all the
material to this collection I can afford, I quit collecting for many years.

My wife is a collector though, and I saw an ad in her Linns for the Precancel
Stamp Society a dozen years ago or so, swapped a couple of emails with a dealer,
and before I knew it I was a precancel collector.

I have a bureau collection that is about as complete as it ever will be, Over
this past winter my wife printed out the free PSS album pages for Town and Type
(one example of each type of precancel used in a town) collections for all
states and territories, and I have begun migrating stamps from my hand made
albums to the new ones.  The pages are issued by state and territory.  All the
US is about 2800 pages.

I have general collections (like a T&T except you try to get a copy of each
precancel type on every face different stamp) for MS, OH, TX and eventually one
for TN.  General collections are for the ***ic precancel collector.  For
example, a complete Ohio T&T collection is about 1857 types.  A complete Ohio
general collection is probably on the order of 30,000-40,000 stamps.

I also collect prepers (precanceled perfins), accumulate plain perfins thinking
that someday I'll buy an album and mount them, and have an accumulation of
precancels that show nail and***heads used to repair the precancel devices.
Not sure where these are going to end up, but I keep accumulating them.

I collect covers commemorating US Bicentennial events that were issued by the
local historical society, historical site or stamp clubs back in the 70's and
80's.  These do not have to be precanceled to interest me.  8^)  I do not
collect any commercial or FDC versions of these events.

For several reasons I've been mostly inactive for the last 18 months outside of
buying some accumulations of precancels.  Six more months and I hope things will
have straightened out enough to allow me to be an active collector again.  

Sorry for the length, but there are few precancel collectors, and thought I
should explain some of the terms.

Bill

I made several albums for T&T one year for the states I was most interested in,
and agree it can be done, and has been done by many collectors over the years.
I spent way too many hours typing in all the info once a page design was set.
The PSS pages saved me making over 40 albums and updating the rest, and the page
layout is much nicer than the layout I used.  My wife printed the pages on 80 lb
acid free card stock and they came out very nice.  Check out the album for your
favorite state:

http://www.precancels.com/free-albums/

I still use several different specialty pages I made for my general collections.
Those are posted in the files section of the precancel email list on Yahoo,
along with a couple other folks contributions.  You have to join the group to
get access to the files.  There is a link to the discussion group on the PSS
site.

Anybody feel free to post here if you ever find a source for decent peelable
hinges like the old Dennisons.  Please, please, please!

Roy

I collect for more then 60 years, I'd began at 7. and I am over 70.
now!! I had never stopped to collect,  I am member from CCCC (see here
http://www.covercollectors.org/, it's an APS member) since 1957 to find
friends in foreign countries I collect, bit now for some countries I
don't find friends, it's a pity..

I collect so:

France used only from "before stamp", one letter with each type of
cancelation, to now , older also on letter and different cancelations
on stamp alone or letter; I collect a lot of French things, always
used, and have still more duplicates from beginning to now necessary to
exchange with foreign friends.

Swizerland used from "Strubeli" to now , I use Zumstein; I search a
friend in this country to get modern used stamps;

USA used from beginning to 1990, include precancels, I am APS member
(mainly to get a newspaper I have interest and to have to read
english); search mainly stamps before 1940 (straight edges) and
precancel (but now time to discover all stamps I bought on Ebay 2 years
ago); I search also a friend in the States, it seems difficult to find
one that still collect French stamps; I use Scott specialized

All Scandinavian countries used, with Facit or Michel and search a
friend in Finnland and Iceland (I had never one in this country).

All countries from older Yugoslavia (before and after) mint or used,
how I find the stamps, but this collection is sleeping because not easy
to find friends in those countries now, they have other things to do
then collecting stamps

I have now stopped to collect Argentinia and Isra?l mint because no
time and they are mint collection, used stamps are better for me!!

I think I have not miss out something!

Best wishes for this week!

--
Pour m'envoyer un mail, remplacer anti par droger et manama par
wanadoo; to send me directly a mail replace anti with droger and manama
with wanadoo;

We have many philatelic interests and we're still standing!

--
Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/
Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/
Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/
Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/
Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------  

        S.N.A. Totally!

Tracy

He he he !!!
Very pleased to hear from you :-)))

I have a question : how do you collect S.N.A. : used or hinged or MNH ?
And also, which catalog would you recommend ?

N.B. For the education of the newbies in rcsd please visit :
http://sna-on.postalstamps.biz/rcsd/participants.htm

--
All the best,
Pierre Courtiade

--
Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/
Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/
Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/
Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/
Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------  

If you need help with your collection of Denmark do not hesitate to
contacting me. I am a collector since I was 6 and being 59 today you
can figure out the number of years I spent collecting stamps.

Have a nice evening
Svend

Pierre wrote me some days ago that you sent me a message here!! Ilook
over RSCD each morning whan I am at hone, but I don't read all therads,
only those I had a interess ...

Yes I continue to collect Scandinavian countries, but is is not very
easy to find new issues used, and friends that alos continue to collect
French used stamps! I search a friend in Finland for 6 years now, and
for other countries I have friends but they write every 6 to 8 month
and it is so not easy to get stamps!!

Fot older stamps, no problem, I find it by some friends, on Delcampe
and at most stamp markets day around LYON!!

I have Facit 2013 and a national catalog for each country I collect;
for DK I have an AFA 2008, but not the special catalog, I think it is
in Danish language with no English (or German) traslation, and I have
difficulty to understand your language.

So I thank you for your offer but to day I don't need help to day!

But if you meet friends that search to find a friend in France to swap
stamps (used or mint, but I search only used) you can give my E-Mail!!

Best wishes

JP

--
Pour m'envoyer un mail, remplacer anti par droger et manama par
wanadoo; to send me directly a mail replace anti with droger and manama
with wanadoo;

I collect pre-1950 stamps of:

British Commonwealth (used)
Great Britain (used)
GB used abroad and Commonwealth/colonial stamps used abroad (India and others)

I'm currently interested in and actively acquiring Gilbert and Ellice Islands with island cancellations

Regards,

Mike

I collect stamps from South American countries.
If anyone is interested to trade I'm offering a huge variety of used
stamps from Canada. I also have a large stock of used Europe and many
from the rest of the world.

See my wants & offers list:
http://pages.videotron.com/ricbab/index.htm

IMPORTANT:
To contact me REMOVE spam from my email address.