They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
25 Nov 2014
09:30:44pm

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

I have several that I purchase frequently (read, "whenever I can get them cheap"). Now I am on a British binge with mass purchases of the last QV set and the KEVII definitive series.

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

Phil.
It's just you. None of the rest of us have duplicates. I guess we are more disciplined than you are.
Seriously I once bought three pounds of the three cent green large banknote. I have no idea how many that was. I think the technical term is "a bunch". I would do it again if I could find that deal again. That was probably fifteen years ago. The same dealer sold me two pounds of two cent reds. The kind that started in 1890 through the turn of the century. That lot was a little different as most of it is still on paper. At least the greenies were off paper.
I found so many different cancels on those three cent greens that I started a collection of fancy cancels on that issue. I also found a whole bunch of the grilled 136's in that lot. So even though they were "all the same", their was a ton of variety.
Pat

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

Thanks BeeSee, i always thought i was different !

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

I save the town cancels of the Dutch Indies( Indonesia) and the numerical cancels on the older Netherlands stamps that identify the town... 22 Delft, 46 Haarlem etc;.

Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
26 Nov 2014
01:50:19pm

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

" ...
I've got a whole slew of South African Springbok stamps, in 26 different envelopes. ..."

I also have a glassine stuffed with the SA Springboks that I thought I'd work on when I finished the one penny South Africa Ship stamp. Well I managed to mount pages of the ship stamp, an interesting item with several different printings, watermarks, overprints and perf varieties. All of course in two different languages. But I never got around to the Springboks because the Machins were replacing the .

In the 1980s through to about 2000 the Nigerian Prince scam (The 419 Scam) was a popular mail cam and many envelopes were processed through the mail many of what appeared to be the Nigerian Stone bridge stamp, the interesting thing is that almost all are counterfeits that were produced by a copy machine, some so crudely that it is amazing that they passed through the mail stream. They were extremely common in bulk worldwide lots so I started setting them aside and eventually mounted several pages just to see how many variations I could acquire.

Then there are the ubiquitous Machins. Once you get the basic level one set you could b done. But there are so many that seem to be slightly different that I was drawn into a deeper level using he Deegam Handbook as a guide. Even then there are shades that add more to the collection. Of course by then cancellations become as intriguing so SOTNs and Perfins can each get a separate section.
The largest bulk lot I ever bought was about twenty kilos from Weeda Auction in Vancouver. The price was really great because the postage to Florida, alone was steep and may have limited sane bidders, but that is about forty pounds on paper and easily fifteen pounds once removed, I never counted them at one time but since there are about 10,300 Machin's to a pound, off paper that lot alone should have contained 150,000 stamps. I have certain color/value Machins on several pages.

Some day when I close my albums someone is going to have a heck of a big lot off paper to sell

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

Sure... GB's Machins (I used to honestly think these were simple... values, colors, phosphorus bars... how little did I know )

Australia Roo collection.
SA's Springbok/Sugar Tower/etc.
Norway's Posthorns...

Any other nightmares that I'm forgetting off the top of my head?

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

i suppose i do not study them that much,but i do have trouble with these guys !!

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

I am always picking up more classic Panama stamps (especially pre-independence) for flyspecking, colors, papers and cancels. Then there is the rare chance to get blocks/multiples.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
28 Nov 2014
03:48:17pm

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

Antonio, great to see you! Where you been hiding?

Philb, send those pretty little portraits of KGV to me if they get too troublesome, I would much rather examine them then these cursed Washington Franklins that are driving me crazy!

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re: Anyone else buy the same stamp over and over or i am unique ?

Franklin and Washington's are my favorite non-topical for JUST that reason. Use pencil cause you may need to look them up again and change your mind.