Septemper survey – What would you like to read?
Not that I suffer from a writers’ block… But just curious and wondering (and trying to make the blog even better)…If you could choose one article topic I should write, what would it be?
It’s been roughly seven months, 150 posts and 200 comments since the first post, but my approach to running this blog is still the same as the first day – no great promises, just random writings from a hobby I love and feel passionate. But… This survey is just one way for me to check the course I’m currently sailing is the right one.
Just let me know what you’d like to read (and please, try to be as specific as possible). You would help me a great deal and you will do yourself a favor; so go ahead and make us both pleased 
Thanks!
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I’d love to hear more about how your store your stamps in stock books. Do you use one stock book per country? Do you try to put them in order? For modern issues it’s tough to beat the stock book idea since albums would be very pricey! Thank you for the letter and the geat stamps
I enjoy a lot the posts in which you tell how you keep your collection, and your opinion about different subjects (Now I recall the recent about unsoakable stamps, the ways of storing stamps, reasons for a worldwide collection, etc.)
I found out we do many things in the same way.
Hi,
good ideas… keep ‘em coming
I think one or more posts about the place of CTO’s in stamp collecting would be good…the different kinds of CTO’s available and the good and bad points about adding them to your collection.
That’s a good point: How do you consider Mint/hinged/used/CTO/FDC in your collection?
Hello:
Being 61yrs old, starting and stopping stamp collecting in all my years, and much in love with my hobby and lifestyle, I have great joy in just reading all that out there, where folks have been and good newsy articles from those that are my age.
jim
I can’t say which topic I would like most. I like your blog because you write about many topics, even some unusual ones.
Of cause some are more intersting for me than others, but I couldn’t say which is the most interesting.
Hi Keijo,
How about another survey? What are the 10, 50, or 100 most beautifully engraved stamps of the world?
Keep up the great posts,
David
Hi David,
another survey… definitely. But I’m not so sure about the topic suggested (as it would be somewhat difficult to implement in practise). Maybe some kind of “stamp death match”/face-off where anybody could vote their favourite from a group (=2-3) of pre-selected stamps; or something similar… Must put the thinking-hat on
I have been reading about altered stamps, which got me to wondering. In the process of soaking stamps off paper and soaking old stamps to freshen and clean them, I usually tear off grossly irregular perforations to make them more even, so they don’t distract from the stamp’s overall design. Is this considered an acceptable practice? What is yours and your readers’ humble opinion?
Hi Carol,
I think there’s no single truth to this question, as the purpose of stamp/collection is to please it’s owner. For a serious philatelist I think it would be a sacrilege (or very close to it) as it might destroy some “philatelic evidence”; for example slot-machine stamps tend to have very irregular perforations that can help to distinguish them from sheet stamps…But for a normal stamp collector I think it’s just a matter of personal preferences.
Personally I try to leave stamps “as is”, as there’s no way to turn back time.
Thanks Keijo, your explanation makes sense.
A few years ago I found a very common Japanese stamp that seemed to be missing a color. It had been torn off an envelope, destroying the postmark, so I did not see the point in keeping it on paper.
I showed it to a “serious philatelist” who had no personal interest in it. He advised me not to soak it off paper. I ignored his advice, soaked it, and mounted it alongside a specimen with all of its colors. The difference is very subtle. Maybe it was caused by exposure to (sun) light.
Oh well, live and learn.
Any other stories/opinions about altered stamps, anyone?