All the experts are looking for this stamp on and off cover None found to date. The PSE and APS wants to find more. I curanty own two off the three known and the only one on cover. 279A type vertical watermark <-> The dierection of the arrows are vertical.

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Pardon my ignorance: Does the new "Trajan Canada Specialized Stamp Catalogue" COMPETE with the Unitrade Canada catalogue or complement it?

Thanks! Just wondering if it's a purchase I should consider when I miraculously get money again 

I was asked today how do I  record all the differences in scott 231. Here is one my pages ive done to help me remember what I looked at. Columbian Scott 231 Plate types or rather differences in them. Plating a stamp is easy. What is difficulft is placing it or finding the origianl place it belongs in that is difficult. You could buy some stamps attached to a plate number. now you know the plate type But where do the rest of the stamps fit? Or do it from scratch just do it get the plating charts lookk at the plates plate them or find out what number they are then use the charts to help find were they belong or might belong. I recoment do all the easy steps first find plate number match all stamps to that. Then find the differences on the chart. Ilimminate them as you go untill you are almost certain they belong in that position.. So first find all the lines and cut edges and arrowes they will have to be placed in the exact postion on the sheet they were cut from. Then use the plate postion charts to help you. And remember close is good enough untill you find out you must move it from that position. Write it all down as you recreat the sheet stamp by stamp. Good luck Most times i remember what is different by my writting but some times i dont and have to take another look Ive done over 50,000 of these stamps so far and they arrive almost everyday to add to mo collection. The bigest problem with this stamp is all the errors with it Some A lot were reentered to the print making it hard to see the origanl lines.This can through out what position the stamp was taken from to be used.

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... that is, that fear in the pit of your stomach as you decide to move stamps along that you may have missed out on some valuable stamp because you had simply too many of them to check the catalogue to see if there were any potential valuable ones you should know about first?! 

I speak as I am starting to clear out my collection...

... and issuing postage stamps!

Denmark

I just read this, but am not surprised, quite frankly, which is why I'm still gobsmacked at the Canadian postal union's flailing attempts to keep a dying service alive, even as Canada Post loses 10 MILLION DOLLARS per day. And I speak as a stamp collector!  

Thoughts, anyone?

... you're going through some Canada Post Quarterly Packs that have been stored for several years, which you have not yet put away, although they've been catalogued. So you don't check your catalogue, and when you don't see the stamps in your album, you assume you had never bought them and now find yourself pretty much with a complete second set of new 2019 Canada stamps... which were in a temporary album called "Current Year" which you had completely forgotten about, sigh.

This is because you were LAZY, and wrote their location as "Canada Album" when you catalogued them, because you couldn't be bothered to locate them as TBPA (To Be Put Away), which would have saved you lots of money, ya know?! Oh well, I'll sell them.

That why I have kept this picture, quite a few years old (weight loss and no glasses are now the Real Me LOL!), to use for these whimsical, lesson-learning moments, yes? 


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Im wanting to buy first day covers of the over run series and none used single stamps. Still no contact for me to buy wow

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Do I have the following right?

• A FDC is usually issued by an official postal authority, like Canada Post
  

• A Cover can be a First Day of Issue type of thing, but usually done by a private company or person (i.e. like the Roger Tory Peterson cachets I'm currently cataloguing).
  

Hey all! Can anyone help me out with this: AI tells me this is a 1939 Egyptian revenue stamp, value 1 mil.

But I have been looking in the Scott catalog and CANNOT find it anywhere in Egypt. Probably Over-50 eyes missing it. So does anyone know the Scott number for this? Unless of course AI has it completely wrong and it's not from Egypt at all, which simply wouldn't surprise me.

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Although I love stamp collecting and all its varied tasks, can I get an Amen from everyone, that some of it is tedious, right? Right now, I'm cataloguing a great album of Roger Tory Peterson-illustrated Audubon FDCs which I acquired (perhaps from one of the forum members?! ) at October's Kingston Stamp Show. They commemorate the anniversary of his birth. 

Each is a beautiful piece of art... from 16 different countries, 2 different stamps each, hence 16 different databases in EZStamp, with two stamp records for each. 32 entries, with of course, 16 pics of the cover itself because I'm taking the trouble to do that for this. Thank goodness for Google Drive and how it simplifies me getting the pics into my Stamp Collecting directory.

Ya, tedium. But at least I get to Look At The Pretty FDCs, ya know?   So what's your version of Tedium?