My Favorite and Most Valuable USED Stamps 

It can be very relaxing…sometimes late at night I find myself fast asleep at the dining room table where I have been working on my collection, and that’s not because the material that I have been working on with was boring. But it can also be very thrilling…hunting for items at a stamp show and being excited to find something excellent for the collection…bidding at an auction and feeling the excitement when an item (usually a bigger lot or a collection) that I am interested in is coming up, and feeling anxious not to overspend because the dealers and agents around me have much deeper pockets. And then feeling very joyful when I got what I wanted. It can also make you feel anxious and frustrated…but let’s keep up the good vibes; that’s certainly what you are spreading, Mr. Silk.

I think the judges will enjoy your collection

I agree with the therapeutic effects of even simple tasks with stamps - but put on some good music, too. My favorite used stamp is US 292 - "Western Cattle in Storm". An absolute classic.

i always liked the Vincennes commemorative.

After lunch, began sorting a long neglected batch of off-paper US stamps. The next thing I know, its dinnertime. Visits to alternative worlds are good.

You are so right about the therapeutic effect of stamp collecting - sorting, researching, valuing, arranging and displaying- perfection! I’m also keen on photography and one day it struck me that a screen full of picture thumbnails look exactly like a page full of stamps! And vice versa…

What a wonderful collection for submission. At the beginning of the video you scanned around the albums you have on your shelves which made me salivate. What a cool library of albums you have. To digress a bit, I won a trophy for the best display in the new commer section of an exhibition. I felt elated. The exhibiting committee had then to change the rules to state that if there was only one entry in any category, (which mine was), then no commendations would be given. That's life.......

Thanks for sharing. Absolutely wonderful collection and display. Good luck with your entry

Thanks for sharing your album. Now that I see what you have and don't have in used stamps, I can check my collection and possibly fill a few holes for you.

Yes, after the passing of my dad, I doubled-down on improving my stamp collection......helped so much!

You are braver than me- I am not sure I would put my album of valuable stamps at the fair

It is therapeutic going through a pile of stamps; and you never know what you might find, even when the stamps appear to be of low value. The coil pairs you pulled out at 1:10 - 1:20 are an example. They appear to be Scott 391 and 393 (perf 8 1/2) which are of a much higher catalog value than the other stamps that were visible in the bag.

Now that you mention it, I decided to keep an American banknote. It's a State of Florida $2 note 1858 - this is when there are pen signatures and pen serial numbers! The note i am keeping is nice condition but the special bit is the second serial number top right of note that has the last number crossed-out; top left reads 4384... top right 4383 and you can see the 3 crossed-out and a 4 as near to it as possible, clear as day. Probably at some desk, in time and space, right?!

Yes, who would have thought that fiddling around with stamps could be so relaxing? It was a nice surprise for me. Only thing is, sometimes I get a little obsessively involved and fiddle too long...which can be more tiring than relaxing. But it does clear the mind! Your State Fair entry is looking great. I suggest a one-page "key" at the beginning of the album that explains a few of the types of cancels, like the cork cancels and the precancels, and those cancels with the bars and numbers (which I just learned are also considered "cork cancels"), etc. Maybe showcase one actual stamp example to the left of each brief explanation. I think that would add to viewer appreciation as they leaf through the album. Hope the new job is going well!

Well... I spent an hour sorting Brazilian definitive by watermark. Oddly, my stress level went up. lol

Yes, collecting stamps is relaxing. And it is so different from day-to-day-life. I wonder why not more people are looking for this sort of hobby. To collect something is always relaxing and to hunt special items is also a lot of fun. I like both. From USA I like the Omaha exhibition set and my favourite stamp is same as you the orange 4 cent. Many say, the 1 $ with the cows is the nicest, but I prefer the 4 cent stamp with the native indian hunting a buffalo. This is classic Wild West, I love it. On the other hand I still have many cows where I live in Germany. Besides this USA has a lot of real fascinating stamps especially showing nature. Really great. I collect every country til the 1950s. Some of the modern stamps as well, if I like them. But I focus on the older ones, because they show a lot of topics/people which were interesting somewhere from 1840 -1950 (in my case).

It´s well kown that philately can be a very relaxing hobby, so thanks for your great advice ! 👌 And you also got a pretty neat collection of early U.S. stamps as well, highly appreciated. Keep it up, and hope everything is going well in your new job, fingers crossed. 🤞 Greets from GER, U.

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BTW if you would like to add the 5c of the Hug-Wal and Lex-Con to your collection with precancels I got a cpl beauties I just recently acquired.

You are the best!! And inspiring!! Always a pleasure.

I'm pleased to see you chose option 3 I think it was. That's the one I thought you should go for. I love socked on the nose stamps too. Great videos guy!

Let me tell you a bit more about your 6c Madison Sq cancel, I noticed it is also perfinned MLI/Co. Which is Metropolitan Life Insurance of NYC Perfin style M164 used between 1917 and 1933 and value rated "F", or fairly common. If next year you wanted to knock the socks off the judges, find some Minnesota precancels with various perfins such as the initials MP/Co ( Minnesota Paper Co ) only available on Wash-Frank heads 1914 to 17 and so far only on 1 to 6c stamps. OR even an M/STL on the perf 11 1923 1.5c which is The Minneapolis & St Louis Railroad. And further include a fair number of the 1894/5 series with Minneapolis Precancels Type L-1E. I have one that is a colored cancel, inverted and carries a value of $75 Very nice and vary clean. BTW if your interested in overloading yourself with US Used, I have a USPS Large Box stuffed which as soon as I get pix will be on eBay. must weigh close to 8 lbs. Happy Collecting, and BTW come join our stamp collecting group on GAB Social, we need more input there too.

Hello! Thanks for your video, Bro! It is very interesting. Great job!

Nice video, as always. I notice that you've put the stamp pages into plastic sleeves. Any recommendations on that? I've been trying to figure out how to proceed with that, that is easy to handle, but also safe.

Just one question,did my package arrive?

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you forgot the MOST important thing, the F***ing cost of the Scott's albums or Catalogs a freeking $100 for the US Specialized alone. and nigh on $1000 for the world. Thats why I quite US stamps for perfins and Precancels as well as Perfinned Precancels.