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If anyone has done this sort of collection before, I'd be open to any tips and advice.
Thanks!
David Giles
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Colnect has 120,000 calendars listed and probably has folks who chat about them on their forum.
https://colnect.com/en/pocket_calendars
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Close, but no cigar.
A calendar collection is a dated postmark collection, January 1st to Decemeber 31st, throught specific years.
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Would you actually be able to find very many postmarks for days like Dec 25th and Jan1? I know some exist since I've seen them but they must be fairly rare! And when did they stop doing dates like that? Surely now there is no work done in post offices on holidays or Sundays!
To change subject just a little, one of the things I collect are Christmas salts from the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company in Sandwich, Mass. The reason they are called that is because the patent date is Dec 25, 1877. So there must have been someone working at the patent office that day! This is a picture of a very complete collection from the Sandwich Glass Museum! My collection only has 11 pieces and 6 different colours, but I'll get there!!
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Harvey, You inspire !
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"Would you actually be able to find very many postmarks for days like Dec 25th and Jan1? "
Easy enough! It seems the mail moves 7 days a week!
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There's no mention about which countries are to be collected, so don't forget that 25 December and 1 January are only (relatively recently) holidays in only a part of the world. Non-Christian countries just keep working on those days!
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Is January 1 a Christian holiday? It is a major holiday in Japan, definitely not a Christian country.
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Thanks for the correction Josh, you're quite right. My error
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January 1 was first set as a holiday by Pope Gregory XVII when he defined a new calendar in 1582 to correct errors of the Julian calendar. There had been previous "New Years" (start of year) celebrations and holiday. Great Britain and the American colonies did not follow it until 1752
From Encyclopedia Britannica.
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These are good examples:
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This kind of a collection is something that seems like it would be a lot of fun but very easy to cheat. Let's say you're down to a couple dates, say June 2 and Sept. 19. The temptation to go to the post office and send a letter to yourself on one of these days would be awful hard to resist!! Has anyone out there managed to finish this kind of collection?
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Years ago I saw, a collection.
Each year had 12 pages, one for each month with 31 spaces. The collection started with the beginning of stamp time. World Wide dates.
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Is mailing yourself a letter on a specific day really "cheating"? Back in the old days people used to create home-made "First Day Covers" then go to the post office on the day of issue, buy the stamp and mail it to themselves or a friend to get the appropriate dated cancellation. But I guess everyone has to make the "moral" choice according to their own beliefs.
BTW#1: In the past few years I have found five or six "January 1" postmarked stamps for my good buddy "Mel, the New Years Baby". As I recall, they are mostly from Great Britain and late-19th/early-20th century (I assume before NYD became yet another excuse for government employees to stay home nursing a hangover).
BTW#2: There is an SOR member who has (I believe) an extensive calendar collection. I send him stamps as I find them and he returns the favour with soccer stamps and two specific dates I want. Since he has not replied to this discussion I am not revealing his name in case he wants to stay under the radar.
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I am looking at organising two calendar collections I have. Both are in stockbooks.
If anyone has done this sort of collection before, I'd be open to any tips and advice.
Thanks!
David Giles
Ottawa, Canada
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re: Calendar Collection
Colnect has 120,000 calendars listed and probably has folks who chat about them on their forum.
https://colnect.com/en/pocket_calendars
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(Modified by Moderator on 2023-03-04 22:27:39)
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Close, but no cigar.
A calendar collection is a dated postmark collection, January 1st to Decemeber 31st, throught specific years.
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re: Calendar Collection
Would you actually be able to find very many postmarks for days like Dec 25th and Jan1? I know some exist since I've seen them but they must be fairly rare! And when did they stop doing dates like that? Surely now there is no work done in post offices on holidays or Sundays!
To change subject just a little, one of the things I collect are Christmas salts from the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company in Sandwich, Mass. The reason they are called that is because the patent date is Dec 25, 1877. So there must have been someone working at the patent office that day! This is a picture of a very complete collection from the Sandwich Glass Museum! My collection only has 11 pieces and 6 different colours, but I'll get there!!
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Harvey, You inspire !
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"Would you actually be able to find very many postmarks for days like Dec 25th and Jan1? "
Easy enough! It seems the mail moves 7 days a week!
Christmas eve and Day
New Years Eve and Day
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There's no mention about which countries are to be collected, so don't forget that 25 December and 1 January are only (relatively recently) holidays in only a part of the world. Non-Christian countries just keep working on those days!
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Is January 1 a Christian holiday? It is a major holiday in Japan, definitely not a Christian country.
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Thanks for the correction Josh, you're quite right. My error
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re: Calendar Collection
January 1 was first set as a holiday by Pope Gregory XVII when he defined a new calendar in 1582 to correct errors of the Julian calendar. There had been previous "New Years" (start of year) celebrations and holiday. Great Britain and the American colonies did not follow it until 1752
From Encyclopedia Britannica.
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These are good examples:
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06:03:04pm
re: Calendar Collection
This kind of a collection is something that seems like it would be a lot of fun but very easy to cheat. Let's say you're down to a couple dates, say June 2 and Sept. 19. The temptation to go to the post office and send a letter to yourself on one of these days would be awful hard to resist!! Has anyone out there managed to finish this kind of collection?
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re: Calendar Collection
Years ago I saw, a collection.
Each year had 12 pages, one for each month with 31 spaces. The collection started with the beginning of stamp time. World Wide dates.
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Is mailing yourself a letter on a specific day really "cheating"? Back in the old days people used to create home-made "First Day Covers" then go to the post office on the day of issue, buy the stamp and mail it to themselves or a friend to get the appropriate dated cancellation. But I guess everyone has to make the "moral" choice according to their own beliefs.
BTW#1: In the past few years I have found five or six "January 1" postmarked stamps for my good buddy "Mel, the New Years Baby". As I recall, they are mostly from Great Britain and late-19th/early-20th century (I assume before NYD became yet another excuse for government employees to stay home nursing a hangover).
BTW#2: There is an SOR member who has (I believe) an extensive calendar collection. I send him stamps as I find them and he returns the favour with soccer stamps and two specific dates I want. Since he has not replied to this discussion I am not revealing his name in case he wants to stay under the radar.
Dave.
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