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I have found a few from Aland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Poland, Liberia, Denmark, Greece, Central Africa, and a Cinderella from Belgium.
A search for "mermaid" returns a lot stamps for a Disney cartoon character and a lot of naval covers that don't interest me. Meerjungfrau seems to return more of what I'm looking for, but I'm sure there is a lot missing. It seems to be such a common topic I would be surprised someone else hasn't already developed a list.
I have never done a topical collection before and I intend to do exactly one. I just finished an extensive analysis of an historical cover because I've never done one before. It's outside my area of expertise so I won't do another, but it was VERY educational! I learned a lot and I can appreciate how compelling that research can be. More importantly, I have a better appreciation of what cover detectives have to go through to properly tell the story of a cover. Big fun!
I hope for the same result with this topical collection. I only want to do one, but I want to do it with the same rigor as a dedicated topical collector. I have a much greater appreciation for the areas of philately where I have tried to walk a mile in their shoes.
Cheers!
Lars
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Lars,
Can you tell us more about your analysis of your historical cover? You said, and I empathize, "…I have a better appreciation of what cover detectives have to go through to properly tell the story of a cover." I've found that there's no such thing as a cover that's easy to understand and explain. Time and again I start working on a web page about a particular cover, thinking that I can finish it off in just a few hours. Days and days later, I think, "Am I nuts? Why don't I just collect stamps!"
Bob
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Bob,
Send me your email address in a PM and I will explain.
It isn't something I wish to discuss openly.
Lars
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Good morning lars,
I just checked the ATA website and they do have a checklist for mermaids. You need to be a member to purchase it. here is a link to their website.
Alyn
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Thanks, Alyn.
Looks like I'm about to become a member of ATA!
Lars
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OK, joined ATA, bought the checklist, and off I go!
Thanks again, Alyn!
Lars
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Looking for mermaids...that sounds like fun!
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As with most things, it's serendipity. The story is too long and uninteresting to post here.
I had always wanted to add ONE topical collection, and that seemed to tie the coin collection and stamp collection together. I did the same sort of thing when I added a silver commemorative half dollar to my coin collection. It HAD to be the 1893 Columbian Expo coin.
I got the Mermaids checklist from ATA and it has 111 listings. That seems manageable enough! I looked through the other checklists they had and found one more that seemed promising: Coal Mining. It has 127 listings. I intend to spend some time looking through both lists and then decide which one to pursue. I know that those two topics seem light-years apart, but they both tie-in to my overall collection in unique ways.
I plan to post the "A Stamp for Every Country" on my web site soon. Right now you have to know the URL: http://www.larsdog.com/stamps/smithsonian.htm
I also plan to post my OFEC collection on my coin web site, but it is also only accessible via a direct URL: http://www.larsdog.com/coins/ofec.htm
I have never done a topical collection. If I went with mermaids, I would be tempted to group all of the stamps relating to Hans Christian Andersen's "Den Lille Havfrue" together, and all of the stamps relating to the Disney movie together, etc. If I went with Coal Mining, I would be tempted to contrast how the topic is cast very differently by western countries versus Eastern Bloc countries (6 from Bulgaria; 13 from Czechoslovakia; 7 from East Germany; 5 from Hungary; 7 from Poland; 4 from Romania; 10 from Russia; 7 from Yugoslavia). If you add North Korea (6 stamps) and North Vietnam (2 stamps), that's 67 stamps. That's 53% of the total from just 10 Communist countries. The US? ONE stamp, and that is just the Knoxville World's Fair that mentioned fossil fuel. No stamp for John L Lewis, or the United Mine Workers, or Mother Jones.
So either topic will be fascinating. And yes, I could do BOTH (Deon), but I am going to pick ONE to start on. Any suggestions from you topical collectors as to how you organize a topic will be most welcome. I have no problem making my own pages, so I don't need to know how to store them. I just need some tips on how to organize them to tell a compelling story.
Cheers!
Lars
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The USA does have at least one coal mining stamp. Scott #4801f, issued 2013 from the "Building a Nation" set. You could get the sheet that has the coal miner on the selvage along with the 12 stamps (one stamp is the coal miner), or just find the single stamp, if you were doing coal mining.
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Ah, yes! I had forgotten that one. Thanks for pointing that one out. That was left off of my checklist from ATA. The mermaid checklist didn't have the 2013 Denmark stamp. Perhaps it takes a few years to get all the recent stuff on the checklists!
If I decide on coal mining I would probably get the whole pane with selvage as my intro piece.
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Does anyone know of a good list of worldwide mermaid stamps? Definitely postage stamps valid for international postage, probably local postage stamps, and maybe cinderellas like the Belgium water nymph stamp attached to a postage stamp or non-postage stamps (e.g. Revenue) from a stamp issuing country. I want to focus on mythology, but it would be easy to screen out cartoon characters from a more complete list. I also don't care about fantasy stamps or just about any other Cinderellas, but the Belgium water nymph Cinderella would be a good addition if it was attached to a valid postage stamp.
I have found a few from Aland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Poland, Liberia, Denmark, Greece, Central Africa, and a Cinderella from Belgium.
A search for "mermaid" returns a lot stamps for a Disney cartoon character and a lot of naval covers that don't interest me. Meerjungfrau seems to return more of what I'm looking for, but I'm sure there is a lot missing. It seems to be such a common topic I would be surprised someone else hasn't already developed a list.
I have never done a topical collection before and I intend to do exactly one. I just finished an extensive analysis of an historical cover because I've never done one before. It's outside my area of expertise so I won't do another, but it was VERY educational! I learned a lot and I can appreciate how compelling that research can be. More importantly, I have a better appreciation of what cover detectives have to go through to properly tell the story of a cover. Big fun!
I hope for the same result with this topical collection. I only want to do one, but I want to do it with the same rigor as a dedicated topical collector. I have a much greater appreciation for the areas of philately where I have tried to walk a mile in their shoes.
Cheers!
Lars
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Lars,
Can you tell us more about your analysis of your historical cover? You said, and I empathize, "…I have a better appreciation of what cover detectives have to go through to properly tell the story of a cover." I've found that there's no such thing as a cover that's easy to understand and explain. Time and again I start working on a web page about a particular cover, thinking that I can finish it off in just a few hours. Days and days later, I think, "Am I nuts? Why don't I just collect stamps!"
Bob
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Bob,
Send me your email address in a PM and I will explain.
It isn't something I wish to discuss openly.
Lars
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Good morning lars,
I just checked the ATA website and they do have a checklist for mermaids. You need to be a member to purchase it. here is a link to their website.
Alyn
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Thanks, Alyn.
Looks like I'm about to become a member of ATA!
Lars
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OK, joined ATA, bought the checklist, and off I go!
Thanks again, Alyn!
Lars
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Looking for mermaids...that sounds like fun!
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As with most things, it's serendipity. The story is too long and uninteresting to post here.
I had always wanted to add ONE topical collection, and that seemed to tie the coin collection and stamp collection together. I did the same sort of thing when I added a silver commemorative half dollar to my coin collection. It HAD to be the 1893 Columbian Expo coin.
I got the Mermaids checklist from ATA and it has 111 listings. That seems manageable enough! I looked through the other checklists they had and found one more that seemed promising: Coal Mining. It has 127 listings. I intend to spend some time looking through both lists and then decide which one to pursue. I know that those two topics seem light-years apart, but they both tie-in to my overall collection in unique ways.
I plan to post the "A Stamp for Every Country" on my web site soon. Right now you have to know the URL: http://www.larsdog.com/stamps/smithsonian.htm
I also plan to post my OFEC collection on my coin web site, but it is also only accessible via a direct URL: http://www.larsdog.com/coins/ofec.htm
I have never done a topical collection. If I went with mermaids, I would be tempted to group all of the stamps relating to Hans Christian Andersen's "Den Lille Havfrue" together, and all of the stamps relating to the Disney movie together, etc. If I went with Coal Mining, I would be tempted to contrast how the topic is cast very differently by western countries versus Eastern Bloc countries (6 from Bulgaria; 13 from Czechoslovakia; 7 from East Germany; 5 from Hungary; 7 from Poland; 4 from Romania; 10 from Russia; 7 from Yugoslavia). If you add North Korea (6 stamps) and North Vietnam (2 stamps), that's 67 stamps. That's 53% of the total from just 10 Communist countries. The US? ONE stamp, and that is just the Knoxville World's Fair that mentioned fossil fuel. No stamp for John L Lewis, or the United Mine Workers, or Mother Jones.
So either topic will be fascinating. And yes, I could do BOTH (Deon), but I am going to pick ONE to start on. Any suggestions from you topical collectors as to how you organize a topic will be most welcome. I have no problem making my own pages, so I don't need to know how to store them. I just need some tips on how to organize them to tell a compelling story.
Cheers!
Lars
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The USA does have at least one coal mining stamp. Scott #4801f, issued 2013 from the "Building a Nation" set. You could get the sheet that has the coal miner on the selvage along with the 12 stamps (one stamp is the coal miner), or just find the single stamp, if you were doing coal mining.
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Ah, yes! I had forgotten that one. Thanks for pointing that one out. That was left off of my checklist from ATA. The mermaid checklist didn't have the 2013 Denmark stamp. Perhaps it takes a few years to get all the recent stuff on the checklists!
If I decide on coal mining I would probably get the whole pane with selvage as my intro piece.
Lars
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