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I started collecting about 41 years ago when I was 18 years young. I have kept a general worldwide collection going, with interest waxing and waning over the years. With the advent of online sales and auctions, I really started accumulating a massive amount of worldwide and specific country collections about 18 years ago. Never had the time to really organize anything until about four years ago when I retired. Countries that I have a special interest in are getting their own Palo albums for homes, while everything else is going on Bill Steiner's pages.
I keep everything where I don't have a previous copy. I also collect both a mint copy and a used copy of each issue.
The countries and territories that I have taken a special interest in are quite varied, but usually involve finely engraved stamps catching my eye. So Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France and French colonies, Great Britain and British colonies, and Sweden receive a lot more of my time than other areas.
I also have an interest in several specialized areas, but have not really begun to organize anything in these areas at this time. They are USA coil plate number mint strips and used singles, USA mint blocks-of-four and used singles cut from the imperforate press sheets issued over the last few years, German constant plate flaws, overprint flaws and imperforates as listed in the Michel catalogue, and the biggest challenge of all, collecting all the plate numbers of Scott Number 33 of Great Britain. While that is certainly doable (except for plate number 77) for an individual stamp from each plate, what I am going to pursue is a complete sheet reconstruction of each of the 151 plates (I believe that number is correct if not counting plate numbers 77 and 225 due to their high cost). At 240 individual sheet positions for each plate, that would total only 36,240 stamps! I realize this is impossible due to both funds and time, but I just want to see how far I can get. While I try to find stamps in the most perfect condition possible in the other areas I collect, with Number 33 anything goes as long as I can see the plate number and the position lettering. So stamps that some of you would use as "fire-starters" I am keeping as long as I don't have a better copy. For this collection I have already designed the pages for mounting the stamps and have gotten started on a few of the plate numbers.
Outside of stamp collecting, my other big hobby is bicycling. I have never raced, but instead have been doing loaded turning since I was 18 (all my camping and other necessary gear is loaded on my bicycle). Most of my vacation time from work over the years was spent on such trips. Since I retired over four years ago, I have been on two really long bicycle trips, with each of them taking about 6 1/2 months and covering about 6,200 miles. In 2014, on the second of these trips, I finally took the trip that I had always wanted to do, pedaling from southern Oklahoma where I live down into central Texas, west into Arizona, then north through Utah, Idaho, and western Montana, through Banff and Jasper National Parks in Alberta, then west through British Columbia on the Yellowhead Highway and then north on the Cassiar Highway to Yukon Territory and the Alaskan Highway. From there it was on to Alaska and Anchorage. Needless to say, I have always been single. I also gave up motorized transit when I moved to The Netherlands at the beginning of 1997, just using one of my bicycles for all of my transportation needs even after moving back to Oklahoma in 1999.
I am a chemist by degree and worked in the energy services industry my entire career. Born and raised in Wisconsin where our family owned a dairy farm, I moved to Oklahoma after graduating from college (Wisconsin - Stevens Point). I have lived over the years in Oklahoma on three separate occasions, in Bakersfield, California, in Anchorage, Alaska, Houston, Texas, and Leiden in The Netherlands. In each case my location was tied to my job.
A bit of a long introduction to myself, but this should give you a basic idea of my interests. I plan on starting to list a few auctions soon, with Scott catalogues, stamp mounts and emptied albums being the first up. If you have any questions or comments, let me know.
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Richard,
A fine history sir. I have a sister living in Jenks, OK. Used to bike a lot myself, once took a trip with a friend, he on his Peugot (sp?) and I on my Libertas, from New Orleans to Atlanta and back -- nothing to compare with your journeys, but long enough to get the picture. It was in the fall, and got cold, so we would stop at churches in the evening and the folks would usually let us sleep in a church facility. Though once a church official called the police, and we spent the night in a jail cell. Very happy to see the cell door open in the morning.
Collect Great Britain and Australia. And other stamps I deem necessary.
Cheers!
Eric Carlson
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Howdy Richard,
Welcome from just south of the Oklahoma border, i.e., Texas.
Jim
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Hi Richard,
I am down under in Australia. Looks like you don't collect Australia, the best country in the world!!
Welcome to SoR. It is a great place to be.
Cheers,
David.
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Howdy Richard,
put our two states together and you get my favorite pasta: NOKY
That is one broad collection. I can help you with the PNCs. Contact me off line , if you're interested.
We also intersect at Czechoslovakia and Germany
and, welcome
David
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Welcome to SOR Richard. It seems you've taken on several challenges in your life and pretty well accomplished them, except for the GB 33 plate numbers, which is really a bit more than just a challenge. I also might be able to help you with some of those numbers, since I still have a lot of them around. Also, contact me via the SOR message system if interested.
Mike
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Welcome! I still have my 1974 Peugeot Tour De France!
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Richard Pauls from Duncan, Oklahoma. I joined about two months ago, spending this time looking through all the features of the website and lurking in the background of this Discussion section.
I started collecting about 41 years ago when I was 18 years young. I have kept a general worldwide collection going, with interest waxing and waning over the years. With the advent of online sales and auctions, I really started accumulating a massive amount of worldwide and specific country collections about 18 years ago. Never had the time to really organize anything until about four years ago when I retired. Countries that I have a special interest in are getting their own Palo albums for homes, while everything else is going on Bill Steiner's pages.
I keep everything where I don't have a previous copy. I also collect both a mint copy and a used copy of each issue.
The countries and territories that I have taken a special interest in are quite varied, but usually involve finely engraved stamps catching my eye. So Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France and French colonies, Great Britain and British colonies, and Sweden receive a lot more of my time than other areas.
I also have an interest in several specialized areas, but have not really begun to organize anything in these areas at this time. They are USA coil plate number mint strips and used singles, USA mint blocks-of-four and used singles cut from the imperforate press sheets issued over the last few years, German constant plate flaws, overprint flaws and imperforates as listed in the Michel catalogue, and the biggest challenge of all, collecting all the plate numbers of Scott Number 33 of Great Britain. While that is certainly doable (except for plate number 77) for an individual stamp from each plate, what I am going to pursue is a complete sheet reconstruction of each of the 151 plates (I believe that number is correct if not counting plate numbers 77 and 225 due to their high cost). At 240 individual sheet positions for each plate, that would total only 36,240 stamps! I realize this is impossible due to both funds and time, but I just want to see how far I can get. While I try to find stamps in the most perfect condition possible in the other areas I collect, with Number 33 anything goes as long as I can see the plate number and the position lettering. So stamps that some of you would use as "fire-starters" I am keeping as long as I don't have a better copy. For this collection I have already designed the pages for mounting the stamps and have gotten started on a few of the plate numbers.
Outside of stamp collecting, my other big hobby is bicycling. I have never raced, but instead have been doing loaded turning since I was 18 (all my camping and other necessary gear is loaded on my bicycle). Most of my vacation time from work over the years was spent on such trips. Since I retired over four years ago, I have been on two really long bicycle trips, with each of them taking about 6 1/2 months and covering about 6,200 miles. In 2014, on the second of these trips, I finally took the trip that I had always wanted to do, pedaling from southern Oklahoma where I live down into central Texas, west into Arizona, then north through Utah, Idaho, and western Montana, through Banff and Jasper National Parks in Alberta, then west through British Columbia on the Yellowhead Highway and then north on the Cassiar Highway to Yukon Territory and the Alaskan Highway. From there it was on to Alaska and Anchorage. Needless to say, I have always been single. I also gave up motorized transit when I moved to The Netherlands at the beginning of 1997, just using one of my bicycles for all of my transportation needs even after moving back to Oklahoma in 1999.
I am a chemist by degree and worked in the energy services industry my entire career. Born and raised in Wisconsin where our family owned a dairy farm, I moved to Oklahoma after graduating from college (Wisconsin - Stevens Point). I have lived over the years in Oklahoma on three separate occasions, in Bakersfield, California, in Anchorage, Alaska, Houston, Texas, and Leiden in The Netherlands. In each case my location was tied to my job.
A bit of a long introduction to myself, but this should give you a basic idea of my interests. I plan on starting to list a few auctions soon, with Scott catalogues, stamp mounts and emptied albums being the first up. If you have any questions or comments, let me know.
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Richard,
A fine history sir. I have a sister living in Jenks, OK. Used to bike a lot myself, once took a trip with a friend, he on his Peugot (sp?) and I on my Libertas, from New Orleans to Atlanta and back -- nothing to compare with your journeys, but long enough to get the picture. It was in the fall, and got cold, so we would stop at churches in the evening and the folks would usually let us sleep in a church facility. Though once a church official called the police, and we spent the night in a jail cell. Very happy to see the cell door open in the morning.
Collect Great Britain and Australia. And other stamps I deem necessary.
Cheers!
Eric Carlson
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Howdy Richard,
Welcome from just south of the Oklahoma border, i.e., Texas.
Jim
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Hi Richard,
I am down under in Australia. Looks like you don't collect Australia, the best country in the world!!
Welcome to SoR. It is a great place to be.
Cheers,
David.
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re: Howdy from Oklahoma!
Howdy Richard,
put our two states together and you get my favorite pasta: NOKY
That is one broad collection. I can help you with the PNCs. Contact me off line , if you're interested.
We also intersect at Czechoslovakia and Germany
and, welcome
David
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re: Howdy from Oklahoma!
Welcome to SOR Richard. It seems you've taken on several challenges in your life and pretty well accomplished them, except for the GB 33 plate numbers, which is really a bit more than just a challenge. I also might be able to help you with some of those numbers, since I still have a lot of them around. Also, contact me via the SOR message system if interested.
Mike
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Welcome! I still have my 1974 Peugeot Tour De France!
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