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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:26:04 +0100, "Victor Manta"
wrote: "A.E. Gelat" wrote in message ... "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... "DROGER Jean-Paul" wrote in message ... I prefer used stamps, when it is possible! snip I find it is easier to protect and keep safe a used stamp collection, you have no problem with gum and moistry!! -- Jean-Paul DROGER It is maybe easier to protect the used stamps, but are we always searching for just the easiest way? If so, then the easiest way is to not collect stamps at all. (V.M.) Victor, don't take the extreme view. The subject is collecting stamps the easiest way, so your comment about not collecting at all is not relevant. Tony For many people collecting (quite anything) is more interesting when there is a challenge in it. A challenge can be to find something nice, special, unique, but can also be to properly protect those precious things that were found with some effort. Yes, protect them. Especially if they have the knowledge that down the road, how they protected them was adequate or inadequate. Maybe tell them right from the start that these are some of the pitfalls, or let them suffer if they run into those issues? I guess this --- IS --- a good question. Do we tell a newbie that collecting mint stamps may have some downfalls and you need to be prepared for these fromt he start? -OR- Do we tell newbies nothing, let them find out themselves and then cop an attitude at the hobby mid-stream and give up? The easiest way often means to me no challenge, if so no interest, therefore no reasons to collect, and vice-versa. I wonder if there is something wrong with this line of reasoning. If there's a challenge collecting mint stamps, I haven't seen much for it - other than finding the stamp itself. You buy a mint stamp, you mount it and maybe protect it, depending on humidity, heat, cold, mold, fungus, etc. Then you get to look at it. The challenge, for me, is to find used copies of said stamps - which, by the way, are not as common most times as the mint originals in some areas. Further, doing studies on said cancellations is a SERIOUS aspect of it. Nothing easy or non-challenging about that. Postal history deals with some mint items but moreso, canceled items. Actually, it can be necessary to learn for which reasons somebody left the stamp collecting. If he left it because he found that it is difficult to properly protect the stamps that he likes, then the subject is quite relevant, isn't it? But that's not what you were pertaining to above, Victor. If someone leaves collecting because they feel it's too difficult, that's their prerogative. Not everyone is up to a bunch of work that we all look forward to when we collect. I absolutely love viewing flyspeck varieties that would drive someone else nuts. I think you took the mint vs. used debate just a bit out of context here. -OR- you went off on another subject and I must have missed it. :^) Anyway, of course anyone should collect what they like. Period. I'd like an answer about what I mentioned about the newbie, if anyone is up for it. [ Lately, it seems a lot of deaf ears here or what? -OR- maybe I'm not speaking loud enough. Could be, I guess... ] Tracy Barber |
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Neener, neener, neener! Scroll waaaaaayyyyyyyy down...
Tracy Barber wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:18:32 -0700, Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote: Neener - bottom posted responseVVVVVBG!!! Neener, neener! Bottom posting reply. Tracy Barber wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:00:30 -0700, Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote: I'm curious, as to whether you collect mint or used stamps for your primary country(s)? I collect used mainly but do snag a few mint ones here and there if the price is right. I try to focus on decent used copies, because mint seems heavily overrated. Many mint stamps will stay in my collection, mostly because they look nice -OR- they cannot be found in used condition, such as WWII Vichy France & colonies. BUT! They cause much more trouble than they're worth, such as: [Take with as many grains of salt as you must, it ain't pretty below.] 1) Fingerprints - the infamous "oil" that purists talk about. Ruins a many MNH stamp. With my used stamps, I truly don't care. (Well, not all that much anyway.) Because? I can always soak the sucker again. [For the most part, except for fugitive, aniline or chalky inks / coatings anyway.] 2) Mounts instead of hinges cost WAY MUCH MORE money. As in cha-ching! This is money that can be used to buy more stamps or have a good weekend, instead of mounting some obscure country that will never increase in value. (Aside form aesthetic value...) (One reason I haven't mounted much yet.) [When hinges become more expensive than mounts, I'll switch over.] 3) Hinged mint stamps stink. They ______ dead bears. (Don't ask, mountain boy language.) You always have to decide whether to soak the suckers or keep the nasty wasty ugly wugly (stupidly ingnorantly multiple massively hinge and almost damaged type) crap on the back of the stamp, for fear of ruining OG. [Read- U-G-L-Y] 4) Some of these suckers will curl. And I mean C-U-R-L. Sometimes this curl will try the patience of a saint. [Boing!] 5) Stuck downs - even with mounts. If you're not truly blessed with mounts and mounting abilities, you'll achieve the beautiful mint stamp with stuck down corners. I think you all know what I mean. [I'll get you suckers off that album page, you watch and see!!!] 6) Used stamps are not mounted gum up. :^P [Nuff Said.] 7) Some gum on mint stamps has an acidic base. This will eventually destroy the stamp. [As per our recent discussion.] 8) Toning / foxing / mold will love to inhabit a mint stamp collection. Yum, yum. Once you soak the gum, the poor beasties will still have remnants of said "stamp / paper disease", albeit will be a bit more lenient in having an effect on the other stamps nearby. [Especially tropical gums.] 9) Folds / creases / breakage. Akin to curling above. Some gum is so nasty wasty that when you touch them, they may crease and create a situation where you stamp may truly break apart. [Always happens to the best stamp of the set.] 10) Mint stamps have not done postal duty. [Nuff Said.] Well, I think I've beaten up mint stamps for today, Grandpa. 10-4, for sure, good buddy. Come back? Tracy Barber Methinks you and hinges have a carnal dislike for each otherG. Methinks I like hinges and have trouble with mints and mounts! Tracy Barber Me thinks I like bottom posted replies - sometimes! |
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Frank Emanuel wrote:
snipped The one exception is that I do buy Canadian year sets which, unfortunately, are mint. I think this would be a good exception. If you're going through the expense of buying a new stamp set, why not keep it that way. |
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Victor Manta wrote:
snipped Being mainly a topical stamp collector, I have good reasons to prefer mint stamps. As an example, a stamp showing Mona Lisa without a cancel over her smile looks better to me than otherwise. Another good exception, Art on Stamps. Somehoe I cannot envision the beauty of Mona Lisa with wavy lines on it. Art in this context screams for mint I think. What little topical I do (ships) they are just fine with cancellations on them. |
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Victor Manta wrote:
snipped For many people collecting (quite anything) is more interesting when there is a challenge in it. A challenge can be to find something nice, special, unique, but can also be to properly protect those precious things that were found with some effort. For me part of the challenge is the hunt, but mostly its knowing that I have the thing I was looking for in my possession. I've some coins, nothing of value, just like my stamps, however having something old that has passed the years in use brings me great pleasure. Thinking of who may have handled a certain coin or stamp, where it went and what it was used for is something I ponder at times. I get more pleasure from that and looking at old thngs than anything else really. The easiest way often means to me no challenge, if so no interest, therefore no reasons to collect, and vice-versa. I wonder if there is something wrong with this line of reasoning. Nothing wrong with it if thats how you feel. Myself, I'm more nterested in the end result, which is almost always the cheaper way moneywise. I can derive just as much if not more pleasure from looking at an old used coin or stamp than a new one, unless I really want to closely analize it. |
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:35:56 -0700, Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net
wrote: Neener, neener, neener! Scroll waaaaaayyyyyyyy down... OK, grandpa, go soak some stamps! :^P Tracy Barber |
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:39:41 -0700, Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net
wrote: Frank Emanuel wrote: snipped The one exception is that I do buy Canadian year sets which, unfortunately, are mint. I think this would be a good exception. If you're going through the expense of buying a new stamp set, why not keep it that way. Yup. Agreed. No need to hinge those suckers if at all possible. Tracy Barber |
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"Victor Manta" wrote in message ... "A.E. Gelat" wrote in message ... "Victor Manta" wrote in message ... "DROGER Jean-Paul" wrote in message ... I prefer used stamps, when it is possible! snip I find it is easier to protect and keep safe a used stamp collection, you have no problem with gum and moistry!! -- Jean-Paul DROGER It is maybe easier to protect the used stamps, but are we always searching for just the easiest way? If so, then the easiest way is to not collect stamps at all. (V.M.) Victor, don't take the extreme view. The subject is collecting stamps the easiest way, so your comment about not collecting at all is not relevant. Tony For many people collecting (quite anything) is more interesting when there is a challenge in it. A challenge can be to find something nice, special, unique, but can also be to properly protect those precious things that were found with some effort. The easiest way often means to me no challenge, if so no interest, therefore no reasons to collect, and vice-versa. I wonder if there is something wrong with this line of reasoning. Victor, what I was commenting about is that the poster wanted the easiest way TO COLLECT, therefore not collecting was not a proper answer. Tony Actually, it can be necessary to learn for which reasons somebody left the stamp collecting. If he left it because he found that it is difficult to properly protect the stamps that he likes, then the subject is quite relevant, isn't it? Victor Manta |
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:35:56 -0700, Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net
wrote: Neener, neener, neener! Scroll waaaaaayyyyyyyy down... BTW, quit neenering and answer my original response to the topic, old timer! :^P Tracy Barber |
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Tracy Barber wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:35:56 -0700, Grandpa jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote: Neener, neener, neener! Scroll waaaaaayyyyyyyy down... OK, grandpa, go soak some stamps! :^P Thats the nicest thng I've heard all day, wife thinks I should go soak my head! |
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