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09:45:17am
I haven't been to a show yet, but I got some dealer pages in a mystery box that were marked with a show name (don't remember what show) Well turns out they used a glue stick and scotch tape to put the stamps on the paper instead of hinges. It came off ok when I soaked them, only to further find out that The dealer wrote the Scott numbers on the back of the stamps, in none other then red ink! All in all the stamps aren't too bad off but this is the kind of thing a child would do. I expect better from someone selling them. I've gotten dealer pages before in mystery mixes and they all used hinges and wrote the numbers on the paper under the stamp.
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I attend a Stamp Auction 3 times a year and they have 90% Dealers there buying mostly large lots. I go because it is close to where i live and I can go to the viewing before the auction to see the lots.
These large lots have just piles of stamp stuff packed into boxes, large and small. The viewing is held in a room with tables surrounded by shelves full of hundreds of boxes and bookshelves with 1000's of binders. Dealers sit or stand at the tables and request a lot number. There are handlers who get the lot and put it on the table for you. You can then look through the box or boxes at the contents.
I'm sure that the dealer you bought these stamps from bought them in a box from an Auction such as this. And he broke it down to smaller lots for people to buy from him.
Amazing what you can find in these boxes !!
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Ha! The story was entertaining. I haven't been to a stamp show since 1980 or so, but the description falls into the same category as model car shows. Except for the mention of no customers... model car shows fall into the realm of regional and annual. If you got to one three hours in, there wouldn't be a parking space for blocks!
But hobbies do attract interesting and often odd people! The shirt you describe sounds like the work of auto artist Ed Roth. His work is legendary in the car hobby. If that shirt was one of his air brush originals done at a car show in the early 1960s, it's worth a mint! As a kid in the late sixties, I had printed Roth attire. Even that's worth money today!
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10:45:34am
Wow Jim that sounds like a lot of fun.
You are probably right, and I did get a lot of great stuff in the box! It was just when I saw what someone had done, the only thing that went through my brain was "why would someone do that" haha.
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Delightful read!
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Once again Leon gives a humorous spin on a sacred area of our hobby with a satirical narrative of his first venture to a stamp show: First Show - Bourse - PEX Although fictional, Leon does hit on one of my own stamp show fascinations - the dealer eating a messy "submarine" sandwich surrounded by delicate philatelic treasures. It seems every show I visit features at least one...
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Wanting to bring the joy of stamp collecting to younger generations
23 May 2015
09:45:17am
re: First Show (Fun New Article from Leon Lutje)
I haven't been to a show yet, but I got some dealer pages in a mystery box that were marked with a show name (don't remember what show) Well turns out they used a glue stick and scotch tape to put the stamps on the paper instead of hinges. It came off ok when I soaked them, only to further find out that The dealer wrote the Scott numbers on the back of the stamps, in none other then red ink! All in all the stamps aren't too bad off but this is the kind of thing a child would do. I expect better from someone selling them. I've gotten dealer pages before in mystery mixes and they all used hinges and wrote the numbers on the paper under the stamp.
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re: First Show (Fun New Article from Leon Lutje)
I attend a Stamp Auction 3 times a year and they have 90% Dealers there buying mostly large lots. I go because it is close to where i live and I can go to the viewing before the auction to see the lots.
These large lots have just piles of stamp stuff packed into boxes, large and small. The viewing is held in a room with tables surrounded by shelves full of hundreds of boxes and bookshelves with 1000's of binders. Dealers sit or stand at the tables and request a lot number. There are handlers who get the lot and put it on the table for you. You can then look through the box or boxes at the contents.
I'm sure that the dealer you bought these stamps from bought them in a box from an Auction such as this. And he broke it down to smaller lots for people to buy from him.
Amazing what you can find in these boxes !!
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re: First Show (Fun New Article from Leon Lutje)
Ha! The story was entertaining. I haven't been to a stamp show since 1980 or so, but the description falls into the same category as model car shows. Except for the mention of no customers... model car shows fall into the realm of regional and annual. If you got to one three hours in, there wouldn't be a parking space for blocks!
But hobbies do attract interesting and often odd people! The shirt you describe sounds like the work of auto artist Ed Roth. His work is legendary in the car hobby. If that shirt was one of his air brush originals done at a car show in the early 1960s, it's worth a mint! As a kid in the late sixties, I had printed Roth attire. Even that's worth money today!
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Wanting to bring the joy of stamp collecting to younger generations
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re: First Show (Fun New Article from Leon Lutje)
Wow Jim that sounds like a lot of fun.
You are probably right, and I did get a lot of great stuff in the box! It was just when I saw what someone had done, the only thing that went through my brain was "why would someone do that" haha.
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Delightful read!
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