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3:38 if MW refers to a company the most likely one would be Montgomery Ward, one of the largest mail-order companies at that time. 13:15 The antique cars stamps were issued in booklet format; the Duesenberg stamp gives a clue as it is imperforate on 3 sides. Most, if not all, U.S. commemorative-sized stamps with 2 or 3 imperforate sides would be booklet issues.
Great buy. You may want to look at the transportation coils. Some of them will have a plate number on the bottom which will enhance their value if you ever decide to sell. Thank you for another great video
enjoyed, as always, your video. i really enjoy the way you take the time to learn about them, not just accumulate them in stockbooks. For the South Africa stamps, for a period fo time, the image was the same but were printed using a different font or font size that makes them different stamops. thank you for your effort.
So Chris jij hebt er weer wat moois bij. Wat een enorme variateit aan zegels hebben de Amerikaanse zegels. Dat maakt het ook wel weer lastig, aangezien je wel even bezig bent om de collectie bezig bent. Je idee van de opdruk met staat/stad is wel erg gaaf. Met een mooi kaartje erbij, dan lijkt het nog enigzins behapbaar en zal er prachtig uit gaan zien. Dank weer voor de leuke video.
Once again you have made a very good video. I like them very much, please keep them coming. You are a very organized person. I started collecting nearly 60 years ago (I'm now 74) and unfortunately I have so much money invested in albumns that making the switch to stock pages isn't feasible for me now. I wish i had started with them. I have one comment on the color coding for stamp condition. If you have a stamp with a heavy or damaged in some way, you have a color for it. If you eventually are able to upgrade to a better grade of stamp, would you have to do a whole new sheet to change your color code for that stamp? Again, thanks for the great video.
That’s a tremendous collection. Many US collectors never get that level of completeness. Great buy at $100. Check out that $2 Franklin stamp on the first page. A gem. That odd stamp like thing toward the end is a postage meter stamp. Businesses would print out that label with the postage they needed without using stamps. The machine would affix them too.
Beautiful collection of US stamps! I think it is worth much more than 28 Euro if you also think how much you already got and is going to get out of it. Great buy! I just loved that grey wolf stamp, and naturally I also found all the bird stamps to be lovely. It is interesting how the stamps really highlight America and all that are important to it. I think it is a perfect thing finding something that you are really drawn to - like you being drawn to precancels. Can you imagen how much you are going to enjoy such a collection and putting it together. Thank you for showing us this excellent stock book and collection, Chris. Already looking forward to your next video - I enjoy the style of your videos so much!
What a beautifully arranged stock book of US! I have a bunch of stock books and love to organize stamps similarly by size for countries with consistent sizes. I also love precancels - they were a lot more common in mixes and pick bins in the 1990s but are getting fairly rare now so that was a very nice group. Love the Washington State and Seattle Space Needle stamps :) The transportation and famous Americans of the 1990s stamps don't have a glossy gum - it is very dull matte so they are probably unused if the paper is perfectly smooth. 28 Euros was a great deal - the unused US stamps were worth more than that for postage lol. Thanks for sharing your latest find Chris!
Wow! Great collection! Good deal, too. The stock book, alone is probably worth $20. If I could find a stock book like that of a country I didn't have much of, I'd be thrilled. Thanks for another lovely video:) I just had my appendix removed, so gardening is not possible right now...but working on stamps is the best way I can think of to get my mind off the pain. It's so therapeutic for me. I look forward to new videos from you, always:)
I think you made a wonderful purchase. You recieved a lot of nice stamps for very little spent. Of course, it isn't the amount of money spent that determines value. It is the hours and hours spent sorting and organizing that makes it worth it. I use SG for my Great Britain and Australia collections, FACIT for my Scandinavian collections, Unitrade for Canadian and Scott for the rest. I don't particularly like Scott but it is the most easily used here in the USA. Thank you for a great video.
Thanks for another great video. I like the stamps of Luxembourg. One gets a feel for the country. I wish our USPS would take such care in stamp choices and cancellations.
Beautiful stamps! I am not too concerned about Japan issuing zillions of stamps because I love them all and will just be content with whichever ones come my way :)
Love those old maps of Singapore stamps..... You got some really nice stamps to add to your collection. I also collect "Japan," but main concentration for my collection is "Pre 2000 (AD)" because since then, Japan has been producing a ton of stamp issues - and I'm not a big fan of all the cartoon stamps, odd shapes, etc. IIRC, they have been producing sets for each Prefecture (like a state or county) and, imo, there are just too many of them. Thank you for sharing Seng Woon's generous packet of stamps!
I've enjoyed looking through all your Japan and Singapore stamps. Thank you for showing them to us, and also to Seng Woon for the gift. I have some Japan stamps which I would like to start to organise into a collection. I love the light-hearted, attractive, colourful designs. Also the early Japanese stamps and cancels are so attractive, and I would love to come across some of those on postcards or covers on ebay some day. Something to look forward to. :)
Great video. A very nice German collection. I have a fairly extensive German collection. I learned something new from your video. I didn't know the Briefcentrum cancels were geographically coded. Thank you for the information.
The philatelic item you talk about at the beginning is, as others have said, from an envelope for the US Columbian celebration in the 1890's.... it is called a "cut square." Cut Squares are not as "good" as having the whole envelope, but much easier to display in an album. Bison also cut square, although due to the clipped off lower left corner, a "space filler." Nice stockbook of interesting philatelic material !
Goodday to all. I know nothing about stamps. While coin hunting I've found a book at the salvation army full of old and all kinds of stamps from all over the world. If anybody is intrested.
The envelope stamp is a US stamp from the Colombian Exposition . I believe u have a good purchase with all the variety of issues u received. after the 1990's used US are harder and harder to find used. A lot of the definitives such as the US flags there were several printings and varieties not only of booklet, sheet and coil stamps.
Hi Jasmine. What I do currently is not add the catalogue value anymore. It is too much work. If I would I certainly wouldn't update it yearly. Catalogue value was for me an indication what the more rare stamps are. Mostly it is the higher denominations, not always though. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hi Jasmine. Really nice to hear that the video helped you. Tell me how your collection and organisation of stamps is going. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Just for interest: I gathered from another video I watched, for South Africa, if a pair of stamps are one in English and the other in Afrikaans, it is better to collect them as a pair, not single stamps. But at some stage English and Afrikaans occurred on the same stamp. You probably know that Afrikaans largely developed from Dutch. I understand fairly well what is said if someone talks in Dutch. Afrikaans is my home language. 🙂
Excellent price you paid, Chris. I am sure just the stock book itself is worth more than you paid. Very nice and neat collections of South Africa, South West Africa and the USA and an excellent beginning for these countries. Naturally due to my bias, I loved the SA and SWA stamps the most. 🙂 Of the USA stamps I somehow found the Montana stamp very attractive. Interesting how some things just caught one's eye - like you found the precancels so interesting. Thanks for showing us the stamps and for the interesting information you give for some of the stamps!
18:52 that USA Buffallo comes from an envelope where they were to print the stamp readily available on the envelope. I received one recently and the envelope had a red “airmail” seal on it as well with the figure of a plane. I thought this is an old envelope which was prepared this way for ease of use.
The stock book alone is worth the price, and you got an excellent start on both South Africa and US collections. Others pointed out that the two stamps you asked about were cut from envelopes. They are sometimes called cut squares. If you want more, I can send you some, oh, and also unused full envelopes if you like. Let me know.
