For the fun of it I just went to
http://colnect.com/en/stamps/catalog
and searched for disney and it returned listings for 394 stamps in 32 countries. You might get information on them there
Looks interesting
(Modified by Moderator on 2016-02-04 23:41:36)
What a cool page Brian. Didn't know it existed. Spot checked some of them and found them.
This it going to prove quite fun. Thank you for leading me to it.
" ... A friend approached me the other night and offered me a notebook with some foreign stamps in it (on stock pages)...."
Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ?
Some people might really enjoy having them. Personally since I collect primarily postally used they don't hold much interest. When I come across similar items I pass them on to which ever grand child I think might enjoy them.
"Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ? "
That's why it's good to let everyone in your life know about your hobbies. In my other collecting fetish, model cars, I've had many donations to my stamp collecting. A couple of guys have given me old postcards that were handed down in their families for generations. They had them in their care, didn't know what to do with them and knew they should be preserved. They were all too happy to release them to my care!
Last year a friend in my model car club was cleaning out his recently deceased in-laws house. His father in law had collected stamps. His wife wanted to throw it all out. He told me that he had some stamps to give me. I was floored when he showed up with two large black garbage bags full of containers of stamps! Nothing organized or rare,but it looked like the guy had saved every stamp from his mail for 50 years. He was Polish, so there was tons of Polish stamps, as well as USA and world wide that he had come across.
A few months later the same guy gave me a xerox paper box full of USPS annual mint sets. About 20 years worth, several of each year. From the same hoard. He wanted nothing in return than knowing he hadn't sent it to the landfill.
Ya never know when you'll get lucky!
"... Ya never know when you'll get lucky! ..."
I agree. Most members know I am deeply into collecting Machins. Every so often a parcel arrives, a stuffed envelope to a large shoebox, stuffed with thousands of used
Machins often on paper sent by another collector just to get rid of what to him, or her, is a bigger project than originally expected.
The best gift of that nature came one afternoon about twenty years ago from a local dealer who had closed a shop that I had visited almost every weekend. He had sold his house and was moving to an adult community in St Pete (Florida) where all maintenance and upkeep was included in the rental fee.
"Hey Charlie, we're closing tomorrow and I have no need for the rakes and other gardening tools, they are yours if you can come over today."
His house was only about four miles away and I owned several acres, so such tools are always welcome. I took my son and down the street we went. As we loaded the tools into the back of the Station Wagon Jerry began to bring out boxes and boxes of stamps in red file boxes, half cherry picked albums, catalogs dating back to 1904, an other shop inventory.
"Here you may as well have these, we are getting a small apartment and I'll not have room for this stuff"
It took two trips to get everything including a large tub (1½'x2½'x 1½' deep} of close cut Machins, easily more than ten pounds, almost full, that he topped off with manila envelopes of mixed world wide postage, suitable for trading.
It took over week to do a basic sorting, months to really choose what I wanted to dig into and in fact there are two envelopes of sheets of common packet lots still on the top shelf of my stamp closet.
Mikey,
Are these mint with gum?
Bhutan has had many Disney issues, some with higher catalog prices than other Disney issues.
For example, in the first image, the fourth stamp in the second row is from the Mickey Mouse 60th Anniversary issue of 12 different stamps. The set of 12 is valued at 22.50 mint OR used. This set is from 1989.
Colnect, shmolnect
The ATA checklist includes 1092 stamps as "Disney, Walt and Characters".
The American Topical Association (ATA)
The ATA topical checklists
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
Thanks for the links IkeyPikey I'll look into that site. Can't be joining too many subscription sites though. Money is a little tight right now.
"Are these mint with gum?
"
When I am given something like that, I always thank the person and tell them that if I cannot use them I will find someone who can.
David
David G, I do precisely the same thing, and eventually, they'll find a home.
David T
A friend approached me the other night and offered me a notebook with some foreign stamps in it (on stock pages). Right now I don't collect international stuff, but got to looking at it and it is totally Disney Themed. Quite impressive. At a quick glance there are between 5 and 20 stamps for each of a dozen or so countries around the world. I'm getting ready to scan and itemize and list them in a spreadsheet. So far I cannot find anything online for these. Here's a couple of pages I scanned as an example.
There are over 20 sheets (Front and Back) like these. I'd like to keep them because I kinda like Disney, but currently not planning to try and add to this.
Looking for suggestions on how to approach this? Thanks in advance
re: Whatever Should I Do?
For the fun of it I just went to
http://colnect.com/en/stamps/catalog
and searched for disney and it returned listings for 394 stamps in 32 countries. You might get information on them there
Looks interesting
(Modified by Moderator on 2016-02-04 23:41:36)
re: Whatever Should I Do?
What a cool page Brian. Didn't know it existed. Spot checked some of them and found them.
This it going to prove quite fun. Thank you for leading me to it.
re: Whatever Should I Do?
" ... A friend approached me the other night and offered me a notebook with some foreign stamps in it (on stock pages)...."
Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ?
Some people might really enjoy having them. Personally since I collect primarily postally used they don't hold much interest. When I come across similar items I pass them on to which ever grand child I think might enjoy them.
re: Whatever Should I Do?
"Offered them to you ? In what way ? A gift ? "
re: Whatever Should I Do?
That's why it's good to let everyone in your life know about your hobbies. In my other collecting fetish, model cars, I've had many donations to my stamp collecting. A couple of guys have given me old postcards that were handed down in their families for generations. They had them in their care, didn't know what to do with them and knew they should be preserved. They were all too happy to release them to my care!
Last year a friend in my model car club was cleaning out his recently deceased in-laws house. His father in law had collected stamps. His wife wanted to throw it all out. He told me that he had some stamps to give me. I was floored when he showed up with two large black garbage bags full of containers of stamps! Nothing organized or rare,but it looked like the guy had saved every stamp from his mail for 50 years. He was Polish, so there was tons of Polish stamps, as well as USA and world wide that he had come across.
A few months later the same guy gave me a xerox paper box full of USPS annual mint sets. About 20 years worth, several of each year. From the same hoard. He wanted nothing in return than knowing he hadn't sent it to the landfill.
Ya never know when you'll get lucky!
re: Whatever Should I Do?
"... Ya never know when you'll get lucky! ..."
I agree. Most members know I am deeply into collecting Machins. Every so often a parcel arrives, a stuffed envelope to a large shoebox, stuffed with thousands of used
Machins often on paper sent by another collector just to get rid of what to him, or her, is a bigger project than originally expected.
The best gift of that nature came one afternoon about twenty years ago from a local dealer who had closed a shop that I had visited almost every weekend. He had sold his house and was moving to an adult community in St Pete (Florida) where all maintenance and upkeep was included in the rental fee.
"Hey Charlie, we're closing tomorrow and I have no need for the rakes and other gardening tools, they are yours if you can come over today."
His house was only about four miles away and I owned several acres, so such tools are always welcome. I took my son and down the street we went. As we loaded the tools into the back of the Station Wagon Jerry began to bring out boxes and boxes of stamps in red file boxes, half cherry picked albums, catalogs dating back to 1904, an other shop inventory.
"Here you may as well have these, we are getting a small apartment and I'll not have room for this stuff"
It took two trips to get everything including a large tub (1½'x2½'x 1½' deep} of close cut Machins, easily more than ten pounds, almost full, that he topped off with manila envelopes of mixed world wide postage, suitable for trading.
It took over week to do a basic sorting, months to really choose what I wanted to dig into and in fact there are two envelopes of sheets of common packet lots still on the top shelf of my stamp closet.
re: Whatever Should I Do?
Mikey,
Are these mint with gum?
Bhutan has had many Disney issues, some with higher catalog prices than other Disney issues.
For example, in the first image, the fourth stamp in the second row is from the Mickey Mouse 60th Anniversary issue of 12 different stamps. The set of 12 is valued at 22.50 mint OR used. This set is from 1989.
re: Whatever Should I Do?
Colnect, shmolnect
The ATA checklist includes 1092 stamps as "Disney, Walt and Characters".
The American Topical Association (ATA)
The ATA topical checklists
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: Whatever Should I Do?
Thanks for the links IkeyPikey I'll look into that site. Can't be joining too many subscription sites though. Money is a little tight right now.
"Are these mint with gum?
"
re: Whatever Should I Do?
When I am given something like that, I always thank the person and tell them that if I cannot use them I will find someone who can.
David
re: Whatever Should I Do?
David G, I do precisely the same thing, and eventually, they'll find a home.
David T