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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

 

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26 Mar 2016
12:45:31am
OK, here we go. Now remember, I've already gone through tons of loose stamps and albums and just tried to get it down to this in the past year.

A table top with some of the pages I detached from 5 professional and 8 homemade albums - and some little binders I've made to start organizing a few themes I might be interested in so I can have some focus in my sorting activities.

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My dresser with more boxes of loose stamps, album pages, covers and binders - starting to get organized.

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More boxes on the floor of my "stamp room". Part of my pre-sorting ritual. The depths are not apparent from the picture, but the box on the left has a bunch of jammed-full envelopes organized by Topic hiding under the pages I threw on top; and the box on the right has about 50 stock sheets full on both sides. The one at the back has some of the piles of glassines I found with WW sets (including typewritten descriptions and catalogue numbers/values that look to be fairly old - when was the Scott minimum CV last 10c?).

The Hoard also conveniently included lots of stamp supplies: about 30 unopened packages of different Vario stock pages, and 10 stock books. Plus 3 magnifying glasses (2 with a light), a large and small guillotine, approx 100 pages of labels, 2 tongs, approx 300 glassines, and 100 stock cards/Form-102 cards, etc...

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My office bookcase with a bunch of binders (homemade albums), envelopes of stamps, and a set of the 2004 Scott Catalogue (prices are out of date but 90% of the stamps I have are covered).

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Top dresser drawer with boxes of loose stamps mostly presorted along Topics (the usual animals, flowers, trains, etc...)

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Middle dresser drawer for U.S. stamps - stacks of album pages with loose stamps in boxes and envelopes.

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Bottom dresser drawer with endless stacks of MNH Canada (booklets, singles, plate blocks, souvenir sheets, etc). I think I guesstimated $1,800 FV on another discussion thread but looking at it today I've got to be way off. This drawer is actually quite deep and I found one bag today with probably 200 $1 stamps alone. And there's another pile about half this size of Mint (Unused?) Hinged Canada somewhere else...

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Finally, my Sorting Table where I'm trying to get through the initial sorting and organizing of the last couple shoe boxes of loose WW stamps. Can't wait to finish that soon! Then it starts again with the secondary sorting plan...

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OK, time for your comments and ideas. After lots of starts and stops here's what I ended up with as an action plan, and I'm actually pretty happy with it...

1. Disassembled the various WW albums and combined the pages by country. Some countries with fewer stamps (maybe up to 100 issues) were removed and sorted into envelopes by country. Really major piles (30-60 pages) are being put into large envelopes by country - Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Romania, etc (about 20 so far). The rest are still on the pages, but combined and sorted alphabetically into magazine holders.
2. Fortunately, there was already an effort to sort stamps by country so I've just continued and organized it better. And within some countries there is further sorting by value and type (e.g. Airmail, Postage Due, etc). Also still bringing together random piles of covers, topical accumulations, etc.
3. Loose stamps (and there were PILES!!!) have just about killed me but after lots of starts and stops here's my approach (refer to the Sorting Table). I start with sorting by continent (kind of) and will later take each continent pile and sort again by country. I have additional boxes for certain individual country interests (Canada/US, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia). And another box for Topicals in general (which will later be sorted into more specific Themes) and one for various countries I'm starting to find interesting (e.g. British and French colonies, Scandinavia, certain African countries, and Australia/New Zealand).

OK, there you have it. Let the comments and suggestions begin. Much to the chagrin of my wife, I have been doing nothing but stamp stuff since 7:00 this morning so it's time to hit the sack. Gone all Saturday for Family Easter Dinners but will check in again on Sunday and maybe get to the Stage 2 pictures and explanations (a closer look at individual components of The Hoard).

Cheers, and Happy Easter to you and yours (I mean your family, ikey Pikey, not your damn stamps!) Silly

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26 Mar 2016
04:04:10am
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

" about 30 unopened packages of different Vario stock pages, and 10 stock books. Plus 3 magnifying glasses (2 with a light), a large and small guillotine, approx 100 pages of labels, 2 tongs, approx 300 glassines, and 100 stock cards/Form-102 cards, etc..."



You've covered half of your investment, right there, in the cost of these supplies.

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26 Mar 2016
11:39:44am
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

"(I mean your family, ikey Pikey, not your damn stamps!)"




But I like my dam stamps!


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And, to repeat, no, I do not collect FDCs.

That FDC has not been collected.

It has, however, been acquired & retained.

Cheers,

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26 Mar 2016
01:52:08pm
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

Hiding in the bathroom at my brother-in-law's sending this by phone. Haha the wife found out I brought my computer,a briefcase full of Germany loose, sorted, and album pages. I hacve to talk to her Uncle who is so GD boring and opinionated that I may start drinking again (just kidding, that road won't be travelled again!) He overheard my wife mention stamps and although I'm sure he's never collected it didn't deter him from launching into a lecture on the downward spiral in Canadian postal services and stamp designs since they replaced our gracious monarch's image with those of hockey players. Ok, he's got a point if we include Maple Leaf players haha...

I hear her calling so I'll pretend it's a "Number 2"to buy some more time. Once again I've learned something from The Master. I have been mindlessly soaking stamps off paper assuming it added to the value. But then I see the examples (Argentina particularly) and realize trimming with my small guillotine to preserve nice postmarks is WAY better. I'll have to poke thru The Hoard when I get back home tomorrow and hope I still find some things to save. I feel sick thinking about some of the beauties I've desecrated.

Time to flush and run. Cheers! (Excuse the spelling, I have my old BlackBerry with the apprappropriately postage stamp size screen with maximum 20 character width

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Tom in Exton, PA

26 Mar 2016
02:18:01pm
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

I hear ya Dave! I'm going to my sister's house tomorrow and her husband is a dolt to talk to. He thinks he knows everything, and says moronic things like, "You know why it's called an ICU? Because it's all glass and you can see everything... like I See You!" and he believes this stuff. I cannot wait to get his take on the presidential race. It's like an afternoon with Ralph Kramden!


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26 Mar 2016
02:37:11pm
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

You two are cracking me up! Tomorrow will be spent with "you know who"...... wait for it, it's coming...... THE MOTHER IN LAW... Aaaghhhhh!!!!! HELP ME ... SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME. .....

The woman talks NONSTOP and its always the most inconsequential babbling. Ive never seen anyone like her before. I sit and listen to her for an hour or so because I don't want to be rude then I gotta head to another part of the house. She's a widow and she's lonely so we make it a point to go spend an afternoon with her every so often.

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26 Mar 2016
03:37:50pm
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

"... But then I see the examples (Argentina particularly) and realize trimming with my small guillotine to preserve nice postmarks is WAY better ..."



No ... WAY better is collecting the cover, and trimming with software, to wit:

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That same U$D 400 will buy you cartons of ratty covers.

If you see 'damage', these are not for you.

But if you see 'character' ...

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (who should de-character the remains of that delivery notice)
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26 Mar 2016
03:39:41pm
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

You guys are priceless - Dave - tmi - but in all honesty I think we've all hid in the loo at some point.

And the Leafs will win again. I was in Québec during the playoffs a number of years ago and the McDonald's in this small town was totally outfitted with flat screen tvs and no one was buying food - even the kitchen staff were in the midst of the crowd and there I say - a lonely Leaf in the midst of the whole town of Habs!

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31 Mar 2016
03:56:51am
re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

I have one question Lemaven...Where do you keep your socks? Laughing
couldn't resist lol..you have quite a monumental task there

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08 Apr 2016
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re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

Sorting big lots is hard, but the best advice I ever had was 'touch each piece of paper just once'.

I bought a big accumulation about ten eyars ago. I set up a whole range of plastic sleeves in alphbetical order and put each country's staps into that sleeve as I found them.

It made the initial sorting more laborious but paid off in spades once it was all done.

Please let me know if there is any British Commonwealth postage due material in the hoard.

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26 Mar 2016
12:45:31am

OK, here we go. Now remember, I've already gone through tons of loose stamps and albums and just tried to get it down to this in the past year.

A table top with some of the pages I detached from 5 professional and 8 homemade albums - and some little binders I've made to start organizing a few themes I might be interested in so I can have some focus in my sorting activities.

Image Not Found

My dresser with more boxes of loose stamps, album pages, covers and binders - starting to get organized.

Image Not Found

More boxes on the floor of my "stamp room". Part of my pre-sorting ritual. The depths are not apparent from the picture, but the box on the left has a bunch of jammed-full envelopes organized by Topic hiding under the pages I threw on top; and the box on the right has about 50 stock sheets full on both sides. The one at the back has some of the piles of glassines I found with WW sets (including typewritten descriptions and catalogue numbers/values that look to be fairly old - when was the Scott minimum CV last 10c?).

The Hoard also conveniently included lots of stamp supplies: about 30 unopened packages of different Vario stock pages, and 10 stock books. Plus 3 magnifying glasses (2 with a light), a large and small guillotine, approx 100 pages of labels, 2 tongs, approx 300 glassines, and 100 stock cards/Form-102 cards, etc...

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My office bookcase with a bunch of binders (homemade albums), envelopes of stamps, and a set of the 2004 Scott Catalogue (prices are out of date but 90% of the stamps I have are covered).

Image Not Found

Top dresser drawer with boxes of loose stamps mostly presorted along Topics (the usual animals, flowers, trains, etc...)

Image Not Found

Middle dresser drawer for U.S. stamps - stacks of album pages with loose stamps in boxes and envelopes.

Image Not Found

Bottom dresser drawer with endless stacks of MNH Canada (booklets, singles, plate blocks, souvenir sheets, etc). I think I guesstimated $1,800 FV on another discussion thread but looking at it today I've got to be way off. This drawer is actually quite deep and I found one bag today with probably 200 $1 stamps alone. And there's another pile about half this size of Mint (Unused?) Hinged Canada somewhere else...

Image Not Found

Finally, my Sorting Table where I'm trying to get through the initial sorting and organizing of the last couple shoe boxes of loose WW stamps. Can't wait to finish that soon! Then it starts again with the secondary sorting plan...

Image Not Found


OK, time for your comments and ideas. After lots of starts and stops here's what I ended up with as an action plan, and I'm actually pretty happy with it...

1. Disassembled the various WW albums and combined the pages by country. Some countries with fewer stamps (maybe up to 100 issues) were removed and sorted into envelopes by country. Really major piles (30-60 pages) are being put into large envelopes by country - Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Romania, etc (about 20 so far). The rest are still on the pages, but combined and sorted alphabetically into magazine holders.
2. Fortunately, there was already an effort to sort stamps by country so I've just continued and organized it better. And within some countries there is further sorting by value and type (e.g. Airmail, Postage Due, etc). Also still bringing together random piles of covers, topical accumulations, etc.
3. Loose stamps (and there were PILES!!!) have just about killed me but after lots of starts and stops here's my approach (refer to the Sorting Table). I start with sorting by continent (kind of) and will later take each continent pile and sort again by country. I have additional boxes for certain individual country interests (Canada/US, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia). And another box for Topicals in general (which will later be sorted into more specific Themes) and one for various countries I'm starting to find interesting (e.g. British and French colonies, Scandinavia, certain African countries, and Australia/New Zealand).

OK, there you have it. Let the comments and suggestions begin. Much to the chagrin of my wife, I have been doing nothing but stamp stuff since 7:00 this morning so it's time to hit the sack. Gone all Saturday for Family Easter Dinners but will check in again on Sunday and maybe get to the Stage 2 pictures and explanations (a closer look at individual components of The Hoard).

Cheers, and Happy Easter to you and yours (I mean your family, ikey Pikey, not your damn stamps!) Silly

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26 Mar 2016
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re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

" about 30 unopened packages of different Vario stock pages, and 10 stock books. Plus 3 magnifying glasses (2 with a light), a large and small guillotine, approx 100 pages of labels, 2 tongs, approx 300 glassines, and 100 stock cards/Form-102 cards, etc..."



You've covered half of your investment, right there, in the cost of these supplies.

Ted
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26 Mar 2016
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re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

"(I mean your family, ikey Pikey, not your damn stamps!)"




But I like my dam stamps!


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And, to repeat, no, I do not collect FDCs.

That FDC has not been collected.

It has, however, been acquired & retained.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey
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26 Mar 2016
01:52:08pm

re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

Hiding in the bathroom at my brother-in-law's sending this by phone. Haha the wife found out I brought my computer,a briefcase full of Germany loose, sorted, and album pages. I hacve to talk to her Uncle who is so GD boring and opinionated that I may start drinking again (just kidding, that road won't be travelled again!) He overheard my wife mention stamps and although I'm sure he's never collected it didn't deter him from launching into a lecture on the downward spiral in Canadian postal services and stamp designs since they replaced our gracious monarch's image with those of hockey players. Ok, he's got a point if we include Maple Leaf players haha...

I hear her calling so I'll pretend it's a "Number 2"to buy some more time. Once again I've learned something from The Master. I have been mindlessly soaking stamps off paper assuming it added to the value. But then I see the examples (Argentina particularly) and realize trimming with my small guillotine to preserve nice postmarks is WAY better. I'll have to poke thru The Hoard when I get back home tomorrow and hope I still find some things to save. I feel sick thinking about some of the beauties I've desecrated.

Time to flush and run. Cheers! (Excuse the spelling, I have my old BlackBerry with the apprappropriately postage stamp size screen with maximum 20 character width

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Tom in Exton, PA
26 Mar 2016
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re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

I hear ya Dave! I'm going to my sister's house tomorrow and her husband is a dolt to talk to. He thinks he knows everything, and says moronic things like, "You know why it's called an ICU? Because it's all glass and you can see everything... like I See You!" and he believes this stuff. I cannot wait to get his take on the presidential race. It's like an afternoon with Ralph Kramden!


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26 Mar 2016
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re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

You two are cracking me up! Tomorrow will be spent with "you know who"...... wait for it, it's coming...... THE MOTHER IN LAW... Aaaghhhhh!!!!! HELP ME ... SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME. .....

The woman talks NONSTOP and its always the most inconsequential babbling. Ive never seen anyone like her before. I sit and listen to her for an hour or so because I don't want to be rude then I gotta head to another part of the house. She's a widow and she's lonely so we make it a point to go spend an afternoon with her every so often.

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26 Mar 2016
03:37:50pm

re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

"... But then I see the examples (Argentina particularly) and realize trimming with my small guillotine to preserve nice postmarks is WAY better ..."



No ... WAY better is collecting the cover, and trimming with software, to wit:

Image Not Found

Image Not Found

That same U$D 400 will buy you cartons of ratty covers.

If you see 'damage', these are not for you.

But if you see 'character' ...

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (who should de-character the remains of that delivery notice)
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26 Mar 2016
03:39:41pm

re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

You guys are priceless - Dave - tmi - but in all honesty I think we've all hid in the loo at some point.

And the Leafs will win again. I was in Québec during the playoffs a number of years ago and the McDonald's in this small town was totally outfitted with flat screen tvs and no one was buying food - even the kitchen staff were in the midst of the crowd and there I say - a lonely Leaf in the midst of the whole town of Habs!

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31 Mar 2016
03:56:51am

re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

I have one question Lemaven...Where do you keep your socks? Laughing
couldn't resist lol..you have quite a monumental task there

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08 Apr 2016
07:55:11pm

re: "The Hoard" - Stage 1. Finally, Some darn pictures!

Sorting big lots is hard, but the best advice I ever had was 'touch each piece of paper just once'.

I bought a big accumulation about ten eyars ago. I set up a whole range of plastic sleeves in alphbetical order and put each country's staps into that sleeve as I found them.

It made the initial sorting more laborious but paid off in spades once it was all done.

Please let me know if there is any British Commonwealth postage due material in the hoard.

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