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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
03:28:26pm
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I find more hidden gems in the messy, unorganized world wide books than in the individual country books but I am very eclectic .... it takes time and effort.
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06:01:41pm
Why would one person, supposedly a collector and budding Philatelist,
suggest that another, hopefully unrelated collector, ignore any of the
approval books ?
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06:19:55pm
There have been several posters who have claimed that these types of books are useless and they ignore them. I was going to start doing that but have learned my lesson - big time!!!
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04:35:15am
RE:" ... You never really know what's there. ..."
I often go through the books and sometimes
find minor variants of long sets that others
are not interested in.
Some months ago I found several Malaya
stamps with occupation overprints mixrd
in among several pages of Malaya-Malaysia
stamps. Unless someone looked closely
and perhaps knew what they were looking at,
it they would be passed on as part of the
cancellations.
I'd like to say that my eagle eyes had spotted
them right away, but it was only when I got
around to looking closely, and put them under
the electronic microscope that I discovered.
what I had.
" ... You never really know what's there. ..."
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The lesson is to look at the lower section on what is not sold before glancing up at the stamps. As a worldwide collector, I do not know emery's countries stamps so have to research to get a catalog number to check if I have it. Then there are countries like Egypt where a definitive can be Egypt, Egypt/UAR, UAR and may miss the variety or purchase a duplicate. Like sellers not wanting to spend a lot of time on no value stamps, the same can apply to biuyer at times.
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18 Aug 2022
03:28:26pm
I decided to look at a World book today that I hadn't looked at for the last week, I was sort of staying away from books like that. I found an Australian stamp I wanted, one of the side by side pairs that Australia tends to issue. That was great and then I found the only Canal Zone airmail I was missing from a large series - the 22 cent! I was really pleased until I went to buy it and found that someone else had already done so!!! That'll teach me, I should have checked out the book as soon as it was posted. You never really know what's there. All I hope is that the person who bought the stamp really enjoys it! All these people who say you should ignore these books are WRONG!
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03:48:46pm
re: Damn, damn, damn - that'll teach me!!!
I find more hidden gems in the messy, unorganized world wide books than in the individual country books but I am very eclectic .... it takes time and effort.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
19 Aug 2022
06:01:41pm
re: Damn, damn, damn - that'll teach me!!!
Why would one person, supposedly a collector and budding Philatelist,
suggest that another, hopefully unrelated collector, ignore any of the
approval books ?
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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
19 Aug 2022
06:19:55pm
re: Damn, damn, damn - that'll teach me!!!
There have been several posters who have claimed that these types of books are useless and they ignore them. I was going to start doing that but have learned my lesson - big time!!!
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
22 Aug 2022
04:35:15am
re: Damn, damn, damn - that'll teach me!!!
RE:" ... You never really know what's there. ..."
I often go through the books and sometimes
find minor variants of long sets that others
are not interested in.
Some months ago I found several Malaya
stamps with occupation overprints mixrd
in among several pages of Malaya-Malaysia
stamps. Unless someone looked closely
and perhaps knew what they were looking at,
it they would be passed on as part of the
cancellations.
I'd like to say that my eagle eyes had spotted
them right away, but it was only when I got
around to looking closely, and put them under
the electronic microscope that I discovered.
what I had.
" ... You never really know what's there. ..."
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re: Damn, damn, damn - that'll teach me!!!
The lesson is to look at the lower section on what is not sold before glancing up at the stamps. As a worldwide collector, I do not know emery's countries stamps so have to research to get a catalog number to check if I have it. Then there are countries like Egypt where a definitive can be Egypt, Egypt/UAR, UAR and may miss the variety or purchase a duplicate. Like sellers not wanting to spend a lot of time on no value stamps, the same can apply to biuyer at times.
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