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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : i have posted this before over the years !

 

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philb
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23 Dec 2022
12:15:25pm

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trying to wrap my head around how one individual could maintain a collection like this !Image Not Found

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23 Dec 2022
01:15:43pm
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That's easy when you got that kind of money. Get a few Stamp Dealers to do the work for you they will be delighted to oblige. And then you can be a great Philatelist. Woopy.

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23 Dec 2022
01:25:56pm
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I wonder if he ever looks at his stuff, I'd bet he ever has people to help him mount the stuff!! I have my books around me and look at them all the time. That's most of the fun!!

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23 Dec 2022
01:34:34pm
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Harvey:

Agreed. I was just adding a few items to my Indonesia collection, then just looked at a few other volumes. Total bliss.

David

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23 Dec 2022
01:42:58pm
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Reminds me of a stamp exhibition where I learned that the best of-show exhibit had been assembled and designed not by the exhibitor but by an internationally praised philatelic judge who was regularly hired by collectors to “help them” win big. Exhibits that win prestigious awards apparently gain significant cash value, which helps explain why so many stamps are so far beyond the ability of most collectors to afford them.

Bob

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23 Dec 2022
01:52:03pm

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i figured he had a staff..besides the dealers he had searching for material. i guess he loaned quite a bit of his collection to the Scotts catalog people. David Giles gave me a couple of books published by Linns about the "worlds greatest stamp collectors" and they all operated in a similar way. Philippe Von Ferrary must have had unlimited funds...he sent agents around the world looking for the worlds rarest stamps.

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23 Dec 2022
01:53:12pm
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I have four collections I am very proud of, US, Canada, Poland and Russia and look at them all the time. It's not the value of the collections, it's thinking about all the fun I had accumulating all the stuff. With some of my material it's the history behind it. For example I have a small collection of some Roman material, a few early coins and a small glass jug. Imagine the people who have handled this stuff almost 2000 years ago, maybe even Nero himself. I have a Persian jug that's, I think, 12th century with amazing decoration and a bad rim chip, unfortunately. But that showed it was used and treasured enough to keep. It was supposedly out of the Alexander Graham Bell collection, but that's just what the auctioneer said!! We collect to give ourselves pleasure and satisfaction, but also for the history of the objects!! That guy with the room full of stamps probably has no real idea what's in all those binders (I could be wrong!) so probably gets his satisfaction from quantity rather than quality. Just my opinion...

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23 Dec 2022
01:58:16pm

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One year at Orapex we were at a wine and cheese thing (not dinner) for the exhibit winners. I guess the big winner was at a nearby table and i heard mention that he had to pay $25,000 for an item to complete his exhibit. Wonder if his wife was sitting at the table.

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23 Dec 2022
03:34:38pm
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"had to pay $25,000 for an item to complete his exhibit"


Any idea what it was, must have been something!!

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24 Dec 2022
05:57:32am
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"I wonder if he ever looks at his stuff, I'd bet he ever has people to help him mount the stuff!! "



I have a modest collection and do not often look at it. But, when I scanned all the pages I now have a digital copy to go through.

Exhibiting, when it is a chase for medals, is something else.

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23 Dec 2022
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23 Dec 2022
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re: i have posted this before over the years !

That's easy when you got that kind of money. Get a few Stamp Dealers to do the work for you they will be delighted to oblige. And then you can be a great Philatelist. Woopy.

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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
23 Dec 2022
01:25:56pm

re: i have posted this before over the years !

I wonder if he ever looks at his stuff, I'd bet he ever has people to help him mount the stuff!! I have my books around me and look at them all the time. That's most of the fun!!

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23 Dec 2022
01:34:34pm

re: i have posted this before over the years !

Harvey:

Agreed. I was just adding a few items to my Indonesia collection, then just looked at a few other volumes. Total bliss.

David

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23 Dec 2022
01:42:58pm

re: i have posted this before over the years !

Reminds me of a stamp exhibition where I learned that the best of-show exhibit had been assembled and designed not by the exhibitor but by an internationally praised philatelic judge who was regularly hired by collectors to “help them” win big. Exhibits that win prestigious awards apparently gain significant cash value, which helps explain why so many stamps are so far beyond the ability of most collectors to afford them.

Bob

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philb

23 Dec 2022
01:52:03pm

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re: i have posted this before over the years !

i figured he had a staff..besides the dealers he had searching for material. i guess he loaned quite a bit of his collection to the Scotts catalog people. David Giles gave me a couple of books published by Linns about the "worlds greatest stamp collectors" and they all operated in a similar way. Philippe Von Ferrary must have had unlimited funds...he sent agents around the world looking for the worlds rarest stamps.

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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
23 Dec 2022
01:53:12pm

re: i have posted this before over the years !

I have four collections I am very proud of, US, Canada, Poland and Russia and look at them all the time. It's not the value of the collections, it's thinking about all the fun I had accumulating all the stuff. With some of my material it's the history behind it. For example I have a small collection of some Roman material, a few early coins and a small glass jug. Imagine the people who have handled this stuff almost 2000 years ago, maybe even Nero himself. I have a Persian jug that's, I think, 12th century with amazing decoration and a bad rim chip, unfortunately. But that showed it was used and treasured enough to keep. It was supposedly out of the Alexander Graham Bell collection, but that's just what the auctioneer said!! We collect to give ourselves pleasure and satisfaction, but also for the history of the objects!! That guy with the room full of stamps probably has no real idea what's in all those binders (I could be wrong!) so probably gets his satisfaction from quantity rather than quality. Just my opinion...

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philb

23 Dec 2022
01:58:16pm

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re: i have posted this before over the years !

One year at Orapex we were at a wine and cheese thing (not dinner) for the exhibit winners. I guess the big winner was at a nearby table and i heard mention that he had to pay $25,000 for an item to complete his exhibit. Wonder if his wife was sitting at the table.

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23 Dec 2022
03:34:38pm

re: i have posted this before over the years !

"had to pay $25,000 for an item to complete his exhibit"


Any idea what it was, must have been something!!

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""We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years." George Carlin"
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Al
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24 Dec 2022
05:57:32am

re: i have posted this before over the years !

"I wonder if he ever looks at his stuff, I'd bet he ever has people to help him mount the stuff!! "



I have a modest collection and do not often look at it. But, when I scanned all the pages I now have a digital copy to go through.

Exhibiting, when it is a chase for medals, is something else.

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