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I just recently joined a wooden model ship (tall ships) forum, on the internet. As I've been getting to know the members there, I have mentioned stamp collecting. Specifically ships-on-stamps, and the packet boats used for private posts, between offshore islands and mainland. It seems like a few of these members think that it would greatly enhance their own main hobbies.
I think that many hobbies besides model ships and train layouts could be conbimed into small stamp collections with a specific theme.
Here is an example of exactly what I'm getting at. My very first ever sale on the internet was on eBay. The buyer was from Finland, and I was very excited that someone from so far away wanted and appreciated my stamps. He was however not a stamp collector at all, but a tobacconia collector. He collected pipes, humidors, and anything to do with smoking.
Another example was a buyer just a few weeks later after Finland, was a buyer in Belgium. He was into composers of scores for operas. He was a big fan of the composer Giuseppe Verdi, and purchased a set of Austrian stamps from me. One of the stamps depicted a scene from an opera that this composer scored, the music for. He also did not collect stamps at all, but asked me to be on the lookout for other items of interest to him.
This hobby and the internet has allowed me to make friends with folks all around the globe that I would never have imagined possible two decades ago!
How many other SOR members have had similar experiences with other hobbies or collectors, using stamps to turn them into enhancement of their main, non-stamp hobby? If anyone has had similar experiences like this, share them with our club members.
Just thinkin' again....
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Another of my hobbies is fly tying and fishing. I don't have any made up right now, but I've laminated a few of the '91 fishing fly sets to the top of fly boxes and given them to buddy's that I fish with. I use a 2 part polymer liquid to seal them down.
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I believe that this is where topical collecting jumps in, for most of us collecting stamps is not our only hobby but if we can tie it to another hobby it makes it more enjoyable, personally I'm amateur herpetologist so naturally I've a section on my stamps dedicated to the little creatures along with many pictures taken at different places.
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W.B. Many years ago we had a fellow in our stamp club with two passions..stamps and fly tying. Hew would sell the flys and buy stamps. He told me he flew to India once or twice to purchase special feathers for the flys. Another interesting fellow !
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He does sound like a very interesting fella, Phil.
I've never traveled outside of the states to acquire materials, but I do have feathers(and fur)from all over the world. I got most of mine from the estate of a professional tier, who retired here from Wisconsin back in the 70's. He had been tying since the 1930's and had some fairly rare and unusual materials.
I'm far from a pro and have never sold one of the flies that I've tied. Although, on occasion, we do swap a few between friends. Typically, I'll tie about 10-25 each, of about 20 different well established patterns during the winter months and normally I'll tie another 100 or so of patterns I've made up as I go along. I doubt any of those will ever be considered classics, but it is fun to catch fish on flies you've designed yourself.
Most people associate fly fishing with trout and salmon fishing, but they work equally well for most species of pan fish, too.
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I collect the fishing fly stamps and my husband who is/was a salmon fly fishermen in his younger years ties the fly shown on the stamp
We then frame the FDC or stamps and his hand tied flies and display them in the room where of course he has his antique fly rods displayed on the walls. We are both happy collectors
I am just glad that its flies and 
not larger animals that he may have been hunted lol
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Hi Everyone;
I hadn't thought of fly tying as a hobby that is very well represented on stamps. I know of only one set of US stamps that have fishing flies as the theme.
Michael##### is a model railroader and he is very keen about railroad mail car cancels. I think some railroaders would enjoy collecting stamps with trains and engines as the theme, there must be several thousand of them.
About two or three years ago I sold a bronze Ethiopian coin to a buyer in Ireland. He spins the coins to enlarge them to twice their size and with a bit of a dome shape to them. He somehow adds threads and makes them into snuff box lids. The bas-relief image is still intact, tho stretched.
He sells them on Etsy, because buyers there are looking for only handmade items and do not expect to pay bargain basement prices like on here. If you search "snuff boxes" on there you will see his items. Most of what he makes is custom orders, where the buyer wants a coin lid with a certain date, a certain country or both.
I wonder how many florists collect flowers on stamps? People who like to pick mushrooms that are edible, would probably enjoy the many hundreds of stamps with that theme.
Just Chillin'....
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WB, Harold the tyer/stamp collector was an interesting guy indeed and a wheeler dealer. He worked for the city of New York and for some reason one day many many sheets of United Nations stamps showed up at his location to be incinerated. Long story short Harold pulled quite a few of them from the flames and traded them to stamp shops for stamps he needed. i would not reccomend it myself...but he was one of a kind.
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Phil, it sounds like Harold wasn't the type to make opportunity knock twice. Too, I'm betting he was one of those people that folks tend to remember...long after he's left the room.
WB
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I routinely give the car/model car guys a dose of stamp culture whether they like it or not! I will post photos of old covers from long gone car companies, and mailed things like auto insurance policies from the 1930s, Ford Model T repair bills and such. As people who like all things old, they get it and appreciate what I'm showing.
As such I have become the "Go To" guy for all things stamps. I've identified and given values for things they have owned such as a Zeppelin flown cover that has always been in their family, old postcards and covers. I've also been gifted many stamps and such since they had them and wanted them to go where they'd be appreciated.
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Many people with hobbies will collect anything directly associated with their hobby. When selling such topical items it is best to put relevant info in the description line when selling on sites such as Ebay. Otherwise potential buyers would probably never know they existed. These type of buyers will also often pay more for the stamps than stamp collectors.
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Back to fishing flies:
This is actually a Canada Post Souvenir item (listed in the Unitrade catalogue under Thematic Collections #140/ Catalogue Value C$80) from 2005.
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yup...Same idea as what hubby made for me (US) lol
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Beautiful Display, Roy!
The Alevin, Mickey Finn and P.E.I. aren't too awfully hard to tie, but the Jack Scott is a very tough pattern, or at least to do it well.
Canada Post also issued a nice set of six fishing fly stamps back in 1998, almost all those are very tough patterns.
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Hi Everyone;
Wow, I've never seen those before. They are much nicer than the USPS set. Thanks for showing
those Roy. I have many fishing buddies and I fly fish, mostly for Largemouth Bass, Speckled Bass,
and Sunfish/Pumpkinseed Bluegills.
Is that shadow box easy enough to find, say for gift giving, like Christmas?
Just castin' my line....
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Hi Everyone:
I just recently joined a wooden model ship (tall ships) forum, on the internet. As I've been getting to know the members there, I have mentioned stamp collecting. Specifically ships-on-stamps, and the packet boats used for private posts, between offshore islands and mainland. It seems like a few of these members think that it would greatly enhance their own main hobbies.
I think that many hobbies besides model ships and train layouts could be conbimed into small stamp collections with a specific theme.
Here is an example of exactly what I'm getting at. My very first ever sale on the internet was on eBay. The buyer was from Finland, and I was very excited that someone from so far away wanted and appreciated my stamps. He was however not a stamp collector at all, but a tobacconia collector. He collected pipes, humidors, and anything to do with smoking.
Another example was a buyer just a few weeks later after Finland, was a buyer in Belgium. He was into composers of scores for operas. He was a big fan of the composer Giuseppe Verdi, and purchased a set of Austrian stamps from me. One of the stamps depicted a scene from an opera that this composer scored, the music for. He also did not collect stamps at all, but asked me to be on the lookout for other items of interest to him.
This hobby and the internet has allowed me to make friends with folks all around the globe that I would never have imagined possible two decades ago!
How many other SOR members have had similar experiences with other hobbies or collectors, using stamps to turn them into enhancement of their main, non-stamp hobby? If anyone has had similar experiences like this, share them with our club members.
Just thinkin' again....
TuskenRaider
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Another of my hobbies is fly tying and fishing. I don't have any made up right now, but I've laminated a few of the '91 fishing fly sets to the top of fly boxes and given them to buddy's that I fish with. I use a 2 part polymer liquid to seal them down.
WB
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I believe that this is where topical collecting jumps in, for most of us collecting stamps is not our only hobby but if we can tie it to another hobby it makes it more enjoyable, personally I'm amateur herpetologist so naturally I've a section on my stamps dedicated to the little creatures along with many pictures taken at different places.
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W.B. Many years ago we had a fellow in our stamp club with two passions..stamps and fly tying. Hew would sell the flys and buy stamps. He told me he flew to India once or twice to purchase special feathers for the flys. Another interesting fellow !
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He does sound like a very interesting fella, Phil.
I've never traveled outside of the states to acquire materials, but I do have feathers(and fur)from all over the world. I got most of mine from the estate of a professional tier, who retired here from Wisconsin back in the 70's. He had been tying since the 1930's and had some fairly rare and unusual materials.
I'm far from a pro and have never sold one of the flies that I've tied. Although, on occasion, we do swap a few between friends. Typically, I'll tie about 10-25 each, of about 20 different well established patterns during the winter months and normally I'll tie another 100 or so of patterns I've made up as I go along. I doubt any of those will ever be considered classics, but it is fun to catch fish on flies you've designed yourself.
Most people associate fly fishing with trout and salmon fishing, but they work equally well for most species of pan fish, too.
WB
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12:23:04pm
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I collect the fishing fly stamps and my husband who is/was a salmon fly fishermen in his younger years ties the fly shown on the stamp
We then frame the FDC or stamps and his hand tied flies and display them in the room where of course he has his antique fly rods displayed on the walls. We are both happy collectors
I am just glad that its flies and not larger animals that he may have been hunted lol
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Hi Everyone;
I hadn't thought of fly tying as a hobby that is very well represented on stamps. I know of only one set of US stamps that have fishing flies as the theme.
Michael##### is a model railroader and he is very keen about railroad mail car cancels. I think some railroaders would enjoy collecting stamps with trains and engines as the theme, there must be several thousand of them.
About two or three years ago I sold a bronze Ethiopian coin to a buyer in Ireland. He spins the coins to enlarge them to twice their size and with a bit of a dome shape to them. He somehow adds threads and makes them into snuff box lids. The bas-relief image is still intact, tho stretched.
He sells them on Etsy, because buyers there are looking for only handmade items and do not expect to pay bargain basement prices like on here. If you search "snuff boxes" on there you will see his items. Most of what he makes is custom orders, where the buyer wants a coin lid with a certain date, a certain country or both.
I wonder how many florists collect flowers on stamps? People who like to pick mushrooms that are edible, would probably enjoy the many hundreds of stamps with that theme.
Just Chillin'....
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WB, Harold the tyer/stamp collector was an interesting guy indeed and a wheeler dealer. He worked for the city of New York and for some reason one day many many sheets of United Nations stamps showed up at his location to be incinerated. Long story short Harold pulled quite a few of them from the flames and traded them to stamp shops for stamps he needed. i would not reccomend it myself...but he was one of a kind.
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Phil, it sounds like Harold wasn't the type to make opportunity knock twice. Too, I'm betting he was one of those people that folks tend to remember...long after he's left the room.
WB
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I routinely give the car/model car guys a dose of stamp culture whether they like it or not! I will post photos of old covers from long gone car companies, and mailed things like auto insurance policies from the 1930s, Ford Model T repair bills and such. As people who like all things old, they get it and appreciate what I'm showing.
As such I have become the "Go To" guy for all things stamps. I've identified and given values for things they have owned such as a Zeppelin flown cover that has always been in their family, old postcards and covers. I've also been gifted many stamps and such since they had them and wanted them to go where they'd be appreciated.
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re: Selling Stamps to Non-collectors
Many people with hobbies will collect anything directly associated with their hobby. When selling such topical items it is best to put relevant info in the description line when selling on sites such as Ebay. Otherwise potential buyers would probably never know they existed. These type of buyers will also often pay more for the stamps than stamp collectors.
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Back to fishing flies:
This is actually a Canada Post Souvenir item (listed in the Unitrade catalogue under Thematic Collections #140/ Catalogue Value C$80) from 2005.
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yup...Same idea as what hubby made for me (US) lol
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Beautiful Display, Roy!
The Alevin, Mickey Finn and P.E.I. aren't too awfully hard to tie, but the Jack Scott is a very tough pattern, or at least to do it well.
Canada Post also issued a nice set of six fishing fly stamps back in 1998, almost all those are very tough patterns.
WB
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Hi Everyone;
Wow, I've never seen those before. They are much nicer than the USPS set. Thanks for showing
those Roy. I have many fishing buddies and I fly fish, mostly for Largemouth Bass, Speckled Bass,
and Sunfish/Pumpkinseed Bluegills.
Is that shadow box easy enough to find, say for gift giving, like Christmas?
Just castin' my line....
TuskenRaider
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