Well, the Olympics have started, so let's see some Olympics themed stamps. Here is the only one that I have.
Hello all, we had some Olympic stamps a few months back. Here is one of my 1948 London Olympic Sets. Regards, James.
Hello all, I visited London for the 2012 Olympic Games. My home is quite close to some of the venues. I bought these stamps just after the games, they came with a purpose made album. These are also shown in an Olympic thread started by Tasha back in February. British Gold medal winners. British Para Olympic Gold medal winners Regards, James.
Yes the first stamp shows team handball scene, although rather freaky. I dont know where the hand that grabs the hand with the ball could possibly have come from!? Are you familiar with the sport?
Wish I had a million dollars to buy all of these GREAT stamps! I have never seen the 'pen and ink' sketching motif on a stamp before but these are gorgeous!
Now the subject matter here is above all... do you have these in your collection or just a 'cut-and-paste'? Worthwhile as a topical... I have quite a few Olympics stamps but never catalogued them as a topical.
I thought handball was played with a smaller ball... similar to racquetball but just a little larger ball and with gloves. But I never played handball (did play racquetball until the knees gave out...)
Hello SATX, the majority of my postings are scans/photo's from my own collection, occasionally I will post an image from the web, of stamps that I own but am unable to find (or too lazy) I estimate that I have well in excess of 20,000 GB stamps MNH, MH, FDC's, Mini-sheets, Booklets, and used. My Thai collection is about 10,000, conditions as above. Other country collections about 30,000 total, covering 200 + dead or alive countries or states, these collections consist of from one stamp to many hundreds of stamps per country. For the past two days I have been sorting ten packs of 250 stamps that I bought from a retired collector/dealer two years ago for £20. [about 1 us cent for each stamp] They were left here in the UK. The second photo shows the five unsorted packs that I still have to deal with. I sort alphabetically first, then by country/state, then by theme. Eventually they will be added to my A4 mini albums with lighthouse 6&7 row black d/s leaves. So far I have found only 1 duplicate stamp, still attached to the back of its twin. Regards, James.
Very systematic James. its good you dont live in the US, or they would list you as a suspect for "alphabet killer" never caught...
Hello James: Substitute U.S. and the N. Americas (Canada, Mexico, Caribbean) for the GB and I have about 50K - 70K items world-wide, only about 20K of which are indexed and all of those are used US... haven't even started on the mint stuff yet. Some are singles in all conditions (MNH, Mint, Used), others are Plate Blocks, complete sheets, S/S, many from collections I have bought over the last 30 years or so. I only "collect" fine or better; I give a lot of the lower grades away. My biggest 'opportunity' to deal with is that I get lots and put them in a box to sort later... 5 years go by and I still haven't done so but now there are so many that the box is full. So starting about 2 years ago, I began sorting all of them out and I also quit buying what I already had... I try to catalogue a few hundred items a week, time permitting; one good thing about living alone is that you have a lot of uninterrupted time. My inventories are all kept in an Excel spreadsheet custom created by myself. I have two 5-bookshelf areas that are full of albums as well as plastic boxes with my sorted materials waiting for albums. Mounts only, no hinges. I have started investing in a laser printer to start making my own custom album pages, as the catalogue items rarely count for varieties, etc. Plus I can put a lot more narrative on the page if I choose to do so. I also have a unique sorting arrangement: I have two 6-foot tables, corners together, and I play a geography game: here is North America, here is South America. Canada goes to the top, then the US, then Mexico, Central America, South America; Caribbean goes off to the lower right. Next: Europe is top, Africa is bottom. Russia is top, ME&A is middle, India and surrounding is bottom. Finally: Asia and Australia are similar. Sort it all by countries first, then I have boxes with envelopes sequentially lettered for the countries.
Did some research... what I used to see played is called "American handball" when I lived in Michigan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_handball
Official name of the sport is Team Handball. It can be played indoor and outdoor by two sides. Each side has six players and a goalkeeper. Total number of players on the bench must not exceed 12. It is played with the ball similar to football only twice smaller in size and different material.
Hello all, I mentioned in my previous post that I transfer my smaller collections (up to 1000 stamps) to my A4 mini albums with lighthouse 6&7 row black d/s leaves. The page shown can hold 36 stamps of 45mm * 33mm on each side. The 7 pocket pages can hold up to 56 standard size stamps per side. Each album can hold about 12-15 pages. I add a hooked bar to the spine so that they can hang in a filing cabinet or box-file. The pages are available in a number of formats to suit all collections. I have just received a new supply of 20 d/s pages, costing us$ 16.94 inclusive of postage. More important collections are stored in [expensive] purpose made albums or ring binders [4 square-rings] with my own design pages. Regards, James.
