Sometimes I find myself writing these notes add very odd hours. This time I’m dealing with the “pleasures of child family” as stomach flu has hit few of my kids and I’ve been awake for few hours already.
Published on March 10th 2010 | Read more.... | No Comments »
As some of my single country collections have lately reached over 50% completion level, I’m beginning to approach the situation where I have to start making some major decisions about the final storage and output of these collections. Should I continue to keep them on stock book, or transfer them to pre-printed stamp album pages. The more I have thought about it, the more I believe I need to break the mold. Pick up the best of both worlds so to speak.
Published on March 8th 2010 | Read more.... | 4 Comments »
Carol suggested in a recent blog comment that I should write a piece about the stamps you see on the blog’s header image. Tough each of the stamps has been covered thoroughly on the blog during year 2009, newer readers of the blog might not be familiar with them. A common nominator for all these stamps is that I like their designs.
Published on March 6th 2010 | Read more.... | 1 Comment »
As some know I’ve been having my winter holidays this week. Although things didn’t go quite as planned (I got some heat/fever for few days), I still did have a quite enjoyable week with my family and some stamps.
Published on March 5th 2010 | Read more.... | 3 Comments »
Here’s another item from EFO (”Error-Freak-Oddity”) collection that I’ve been lately building alongside my worldwide stamps collection. It’s 1961 Congo (Kinshasa/Zaire) 20c (mint) stamp with heavily shifted overprint.
Published on March 1st 2010 | Read more.... | No Comments »
Somewhat related to last post about golden era stamp collectors and philatelists is this Finnish booklet commemorating collector Agathon Faberge. Yes, he was a member of the same Faberge family that created the fabulous Winter Eggs for the Russian czar. But above all, he was one of the first “grand collectors” of Finnish stamps.
Published on February 26th 2010 | Read more.... | No Comments »
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