How do you see the future of philately ?

Roswell NM, must be a letter from ET

 

or from my mom.

she doesn't live in roswell, but all the mail gets routed there to be sorted and sent.

 

oops

 

All the cities around New Orleans still do it.

 

You certainly did not ask for the stamp to be cancelled in such a way.
I am referring to a 'begged' round circular date hand stamp on the stamp.

Had there been a strip of 4 stamps in post #20 one would have had at least a part of the cds.

 

Now I know what you were asking........ a CDS on the stamp, duh
Do I feel stupid.

 

I only have the 2 lighthouse binders of my classic American stamps (and some post 40's stuff) It's a small collection by comparison but it's straight to the point and I love it to pieces. I can't even fathom having that many stamps! I would have thought I was in heaven if ever walked into that room. ha-ha!

 

For those who don't know what it stands for:
CDS = Circular Date Stamp

 

I guess it's all relative. At something like 650 double-sided pages per album and 26 albums, that only works out to something like 9 stamps per page. I've got a lot of empty pages in those albums; on the other hand, I have a couple of those albums with so many stamps in a given country, the 'open' side of the album flares out. Posting supplements is a labor intensive pulling the albums apart to post newest pages for each country, so I only do that maybe every other year.

Add another 10,00 or so for the Canadian, US mint, US used collections. Don't want to count the US plate block or mint sheet stamps - that's just overkill x4, x20, x50, or x100.

 

Dear Tom,
How do you store your stamps?

 

Dear Larry,​

How about mint George V, I do not mind what colour the bag is : )​

How do you store your stamps?​

 

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Dear Peter,
What do you use for storage?​

 

Hi West,
Me well I have started from Mystic Stamp Company , stamps by mail USA MINT. They send me stamps, mounts, and a album with pages, . That is the easy one for me.
Now for my others, I bought 3 inch binders that open flat, 100 lb card stock, yellowish, found free album pages online and printed away. The design is simple so when I get to a point with no preprinted pager I can make my own.
For world wide, same binder different color all pages my own design, still working on it though. Some will point out cost, ease or what ever. Remember this is your collection so enjoy. But I do listen to all inputs, some I do some I don not and others I will take some of there suggestions.
Got to go to work will talk to you when I get home tonight.

Your friend Tom

 

The mixed foreign in the orange bags were always cancelled / on paper. Mint George V will only be available thru collector trades or more likely thru stamp dealers or on-line stamp auctions.

As to how I store my stamps? . . it depends. My mint US and Canadian are mounted in something called Showgard mounts on album pages. Vario, Hawdid, and Prinz make similar mounts. My mint plate # blocks are also mounted in Showgard mounts on album pages. My US sheets are contained in mint sheet file pages in 3-ring binders. Those sheets are similar to the plastic document protectors commonly used in offices except the sheet file pages are open on two edges instead of just one. As to my foreign collection, they're mostly cancelled, so I just mount them on my album pages using stamp hinges. Bulk spares are stored either in envelopes typically used for sending letters in the mail, or on multi-pocket manila stock cards in three ring binders. For display purposed of Br. Col. spares, I've recently migrated to Vario or Showgard stock sheets; black background and clear pockets.

If you'll PM me (click on my name, then click on 'Start a Conversation') your snail mail address, I'll send you a few stamps and examples of stamps mounts and displays.

 

Your image is the result of a machine cancellation, the hand obliterator which was once a round circular date stamp is now a 'begged' postmark which also could be called 'cancelled to order' in a way, but that could be another topical thread..

 

An interesting topic, So I'm bumping it to the top.

 

The Future may just be bleak.

 

"Yes indeed Stamp Collecting will be ongoing for more years than we could speculate"

Is not the whole point of speculation that it is not based on sound facts?

 

Come on team let's have some opinions?