22-10-2025, 11:09 PM
I like your style Richard if you think that US$130,000 is a 'low' price. It may be lower than US$220,000 but if I had that kind of money to throw around, I certainly wouldn't be buying stamps ... or, at least, one stamp.
Luckily, as a postal historian, I never worry about the quality of a stamp. I collect historical artifacts. Used, even damaged covers and stamps, are evidence that they served their intended purpose. It's part of their story. Even when a stamp has fallen off a cover (or been taken off by someone more interested in the stamp's 'valuue') it's still fun to try to reason out what stamp was originally on the cover. A fun game to play.
From time-to-time, on another forum, I do a weekly Postal History Challenge. Earlier this year, I asked people to identify the missing stamp and find out as much as they could about this cover. I bought it for fifty cents from one of Roy's boxes. A world of amusement.
Cheers, Hugh
Luckily, as a postal historian, I never worry about the quality of a stamp. I collect historical artifacts. Used, even damaged covers and stamps, are evidence that they served their intended purpose. It's part of their story. Even when a stamp has fallen off a cover (or been taken off by someone more interested in the stamp's 'valuue') it's still fun to try to reason out what stamp was originally on the cover. A fun game to play.
From time-to-time, on another forum, I do a weekly Postal History Challenge. Earlier this year, I asked people to identify the missing stamp and find out as much as they could about this cover. I bought it for fifty cents from one of Roy's boxes. A world of amusement.
Cheers, Hugh
Hugh MacDonald, Wolfe Island
Member: BNAPS. PHSC, Auxiliary Markings Club, Postal Stationary Society, British Postmark Society,
AMG Collectors Club, China Stamp Society, France and Colonies Philatelic Society
ArGe Deutsche Feldpost: 1914-1918 e.V.