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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Doctor Meng i have to know !!

 

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philb
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19 Mar 2015
02:19:44pm

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Doctor Meng, i realize you are no longer with us...but did you set up those binders and pages and mount the stamps by yourself ????Image Not Found

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Tom in Exton, PA

19 Mar 2015
03:52:40pm

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Wow! A great illustration of "He who dies with the most toys...."

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19 Mar 2015
04:31:02pm
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"...with a small part of his collection"Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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19 Mar 2015
07:04:15pm

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Chris, Exactly...he lent his collection to Scott to do their catalogs..thats power !!

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20 Mar 2015
11:36:12am

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Isn't there wallpaper like that?

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20 Mar 2015
01:29:19pm

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You don't believe ! I may have to look you up while we are in the Netherlands !!Happy

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I am used, hinged multiple times, OG but not teeth.

20 Mar 2015
01:48:03pm
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"Photo is of the actual stamps you will get. Will only ship across. . .the street. Cash accepted at your own risk. Thanks for looking."




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20 Mar 2015
02:26:22pm
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I would at least be smiling if I had that many stamps Big Grin

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20 Mar 2015
02:42:42pm

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He found out he still missed one.

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20 Mar 2015
03:38:56pm

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If he had a collection like that he could easily afford half a dozen Malaysian girls to keep it updated !Winking

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20 Mar 2015
04:13:03pm
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Hi Everyone;

He only collects covers? Rolling On The Floor Laughing

Just clownin'....
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20 Mar 2015
08:39:39pm
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My first response was to also think "Wow" what a great collection.
But after a while a thin sense of sadness seems to have crept in.
I am thinking of what it would mean to receiver packets from several new issue sources every month with hundreds of stamps to sort and mount. How much time would it take, or could be allotted to really looking at a set of stamps and enjoying them. How much time would be allocated to searching auction catalogs to find and prepare a bid sheet for those needed to fill a space. How about keeping some kind or organized listing of what is there or is wanted. What time would it take to write up some notation so that the stamp is identified should someone ever open one of those binders.
What an interruption a visit of some grandchildren would be to keeping up with last months arrivals before this months deluge arrives.
Would there be any time to just sit down and thumb through some favored country's binder and recalling that day twenty years ago when some particular page was laid out and completed, recalling the show or small storefront dealers shop and the chat with a like minded collector.
I am not sure, but just considering the Herculean task of keeping it all together seems more like work then enjoyment.
I really hope that those thoughts are wrong and the good doctor had the time to study some issue and then wonder if it was related to some other issue from a neighboring nation or in response to some political event. I hope he had the time to write out his thoughts about whatever hotch-potch of subjects popped up in his favorite club bulletin or on-line discussion group. I hope he had the time and enjoyed being able to pause from the unrelenting process of filling those spaces to chat with some newbie about how to tell whether the latest issue from Outer Thumbelina's subject was a ferret or a fox, photo or litho or one of the bogus issues sold by unhappy members of the Thumbelina People's Independent Freedom Party. (TPIFP )
And then the thought of having those dozen young assistants helping to handle the new issues. Did I say "handle," perish the thought.
But their aid would dilute the pleasure that I get "handling" stamps that I get, regardless of how cute and enthustiastic they were.

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19 Mar 2015
02:19:44pm

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Doctor Meng, i realize you are no longer with us...but did you set up those binders and pages and mount the stamps by yourself ????Image Not Found

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Tom in Exton, PA
19 Mar 2015
03:52:40pm

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re: Doctor Meng i have to know !!

Wow! A great illustration of "He who dies with the most toys...."

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19 Mar 2015
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"...with a small part of his collection"Rolling On The Floor Laughing

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19 Mar 2015
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re: Doctor Meng i have to know !!

Chris, Exactly...he lent his collection to Scott to do their catalogs..thats power !!

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20 Mar 2015
11:36:12am

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Isn't there wallpaper like that?

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20 Mar 2015
01:29:19pm

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You don't believe ! I may have to look you up while we are in the Netherlands !!Happy

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20 Mar 2015
01:48:03pm

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20 Mar 2015
02:26:22pm

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I would at least be smiling if I had that many stamps Big Grin

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20 Mar 2015
02:42:42pm

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He found out he still missed one.

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20 Mar 2015
03:38:56pm

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re: Doctor Meng i have to know !!

If he had a collection like that he could easily afford half a dozen Malaysian girls to keep it updated !Winking

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20 Mar 2015
04:13:03pm

re: Doctor Meng i have to know !!

Hi Everyone;

He only collects covers? Rolling On The Floor Laughing

Just clownin'....
TuskenRaider

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20 Mar 2015
08:39:39pm

re: Doctor Meng i have to know !!

My first response was to also think "Wow" what a great collection.
But after a while a thin sense of sadness seems to have crept in.
I am thinking of what it would mean to receiver packets from several new issue sources every month with hundreds of stamps to sort and mount. How much time would it take, or could be allotted to really looking at a set of stamps and enjoying them. How much time would be allocated to searching auction catalogs to find and prepare a bid sheet for those needed to fill a space. How about keeping some kind or organized listing of what is there or is wanted. What time would it take to write up some notation so that the stamp is identified should someone ever open one of those binders.
What an interruption a visit of some grandchildren would be to keeping up with last months arrivals before this months deluge arrives.
Would there be any time to just sit down and thumb through some favored country's binder and recalling that day twenty years ago when some particular page was laid out and completed, recalling the show or small storefront dealers shop and the chat with a like minded collector.
I am not sure, but just considering the Herculean task of keeping it all together seems more like work then enjoyment.
I really hope that those thoughts are wrong and the good doctor had the time to study some issue and then wonder if it was related to some other issue from a neighboring nation or in response to some political event. I hope he had the time to write out his thoughts about whatever hotch-potch of subjects popped up in his favorite club bulletin or on-line discussion group. I hope he had the time and enjoyed being able to pause from the unrelenting process of filling those spaces to chat with some newbie about how to tell whether the latest issue from Outer Thumbelina's subject was a ferret or a fox, photo or litho or one of the bogus issues sold by unhappy members of the Thumbelina People's Independent Freedom Party. (TPIFP )
And then the thought of having those dozen young assistants helping to handle the new issues. Did I say "handle," perish the thought.
But their aid would dilute the pleasure that I get "handling" stamps that I get, regardless of how cute and enthustiastic they were.

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