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What a charming little booklet!
The cover appears to be in a sort of simplified art nouveau style.
If there is a chance to scan in the full cover (front and back), I'd really enjoy seeing that. (Possibly also the interior of the booklet cover, if there is anything there?)
Lovely!
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GORGEOUS!
The color combos on the stamps are SO tasteful!
Brings to mind the French commemoratives of the late 1950s, early 1960s - some of the prettiest stamps ever produced, to me...
Thanks!
-Paul
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Thank you, Phil!
And Paul, I totally agree.
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The stamps of the French "colonies" had a large effect on me when i began collecting. You could order 500 bland stamps for a dime(on paper) and the dealers would include on approval those very colorful unused French Africa for 2 or 3 cents apiece.
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Why do we buy what we do ? I don't know may be it catches our eye ? may be it's a bargain or the most obvious ,it's something we collect.
I just bought 14 albums of World Wildlife Fund leather binders and slipcases with all the stamps and covers not that I collect them but it was too good a bargain to pass up.
Now what to do with them???
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Its Ok my Son, provided you have room to store them.I still think about a hundred dollar mistake i made years ago..a dealer had a large box about 275 "covers from around the world". They were still in individual cardboard type mailers with invoices where someone probably paid in the neighborhood of 7 dollars apiece . What was i thinking..that i could sell them and make a profit ? I would have to ask 75 cents apiece and use 6x9 envelopes to mail them. I still have 95 percent of them. Oh another bargain...a 1976 album of world worldlife covers. i thought i might use the binder but the pages are a heavy plastic 3 covers to a page. The original covers are still in it. I can't think of too many more sins but i am sure they exist.
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Jings! Crivvens! Help Ma Boab!
I can say that I have NEVER EVER bought items, on a hunch, a whim, to make lots and lots of money, just to annoy another bidder, to hoard it until the price increases, that I thought it was something else, etc. etc. etc..
AND the band played "Believe It If You Like!" HEE HEE HEE!!!
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I forgot the $100.00 i sent to Campbell Hall in 1999. Six thousand dollars worth of catalog for 100.00 ! I guess they did not lie..but they sent sheets of the most bland Romania, DDR and African nations. C.T.O. of course but no one would have wanted them even if they were mint never hinged.
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Philb:-
YYYYUUUUUUPPPPP!
Been there, done that! (but not for so much!)
As they say, if it looks too good to be true it probably is!!
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I made the same mistake. I got back into collecting when my first wife died in 1993 at the age of 37 (I had just turned 36). We had no kids and I was in no mood to go out. Got into some serious spring cleaning and found my old stamp collection and my old baseball collection. Luckily a Nolan Ryan, a Tom Seaver, a Reggie Jackson, and two Rod Carew rookie cards were saved from the spokes of my Stingray! Sold my card collection for four figures to work on stamps. I had a lot of catching up to do and I wanted to move away from my old Minkus All American and settled on White Ace. Spent several years getting it up-to-date since I hadn't actively collected since 1974. When I was caught up and ready to start addressing all those empty spaces in the late 19th century (around 1999), I was amazed that I could buy a large lot of 19th Century US stamps for ONLY 10% of CV on this new place called eBay, and I needed MOST of the stamps! I would simply place my order, keep what I needed and sell the rest off at 50% or so of CV (no reason to be TOO greedy)! Goodness, I may even MAKE money at this!
Didn't work out that way. 
Lars
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i recall the ebay days of 1998...i did not even have a scanner and sold much more than i do now. There was no paypal,ebay fees were fair,shippng was inexpensive. Sales were based on trust and it was fun.
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I guess I've lost track of the times I have kicked myself for indulging in a whim-of-a-collecting-specialty.
But, I'm proud of myself for resisting another this week. Seller had EIGHT different sets of CTO obliterated Hitler heads, each set complete and on a single piece, being liquidated from Dad's collection. All cancelled in July, 1945. Pretty neat study material. And, he probably would have accepted my offer of $250 for the lot.
I just keep repeating to myself, "focus, Focus, FOCUS!"
But, I do find it more challenging to resist when a collection would be very tightly defined instead of a bottomless pit fraught with punji sticks, like the Hitler heads could be...That said, my Caribbean packet mail collection keeps gaining dimensionality... Just picked up a nice set of 5 Ceres heads postally used in 1877-78, by the French Consulate (?) in...La Guairá and Puerto Cabello, Venezuela! Wow! I do love foreign usages!
I'll start a new thread with those...
-Paul
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Oh, here's a couple more recent mild diversions that I have NOT been able to resist:
- 1910s postally used postcards with a comic theme and less than $3 each. Have 5 so far. My favorite: "If Hot Air was Music, You'd be a Brass Band." Sent by a female to (presumably) her wannabe boyfriend! Now, we just say, "Shut the F___ up!" in a text message...
- FDCs of American president issues cacheted with a map showing their birthplaces and less than $5 each. Have 2 so far: Herbert Hoover and George Washington, both issued on the anniversary of their subject's birthdate. The Herbert Hoover cover started me off, and is VERY cool, because it's handmade out of a roadmap. What a neat idea!
-Paul
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"Who knows why we buy what we do ? "
The Shadow knows ....
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Lars, your post reminded me that a Pete Rose rookie card helped on the down payment of my first house. 
I still have a bunch of non-stamp stuff that probably should go on eBay but can't be bothered. I'm working on my son to do it for me on commission - we shall see.
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Perhaps i just get bored and start surfing the internet looking for something to bid on. i came upon this booklet from Gabon which is within the time frame i collect (1967) and it just looked pretty with its wood veneer booklet(C62a). Now i just have to find a way to incorporate it into my album.
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What a charming little booklet!
The cover appears to be in a sort of simplified art nouveau style.
If there is a chance to scan in the full cover (front and back), I'd really enjoy seeing that. (Possibly also the interior of the booklet cover, if there is anything there?)
Lovely!
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GORGEOUS!
The color combos on the stamps are SO tasteful!
Brings to mind the French commemoratives of the late 1950s, early 1960s - some of the prettiest stamps ever produced, to me...
Thanks!
-Paul
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Thank you, Phil!
And Paul, I totally agree.
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The stamps of the French "colonies" had a large effect on me when i began collecting. You could order 500 bland stamps for a dime(on paper) and the dealers would include on approval those very colorful unused French Africa for 2 or 3 cents apiece.
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Why do we buy what we do ? I don't know may be it catches our eye ? may be it's a bargain or the most obvious ,it's something we collect.
I just bought 14 albums of World Wildlife Fund leather binders and slipcases with all the stamps and covers not that I collect them but it was too good a bargain to pass up.
Now what to do with them???
Brian
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re: Who knows why we buy what we do ?
Its Ok my Son, provided you have room to store them.I still think about a hundred dollar mistake i made years ago..a dealer had a large box about 275 "covers from around the world". They were still in individual cardboard type mailers with invoices where someone probably paid in the neighborhood of 7 dollars apiece . What was i thinking..that i could sell them and make a profit ? I would have to ask 75 cents apiece and use 6x9 envelopes to mail them. I still have 95 percent of them. Oh another bargain...a 1976 album of world worldlife covers. i thought i might use the binder but the pages are a heavy plastic 3 covers to a page. The original covers are still in it. I can't think of too many more sins but i am sure they exist.
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Jings! Crivvens! Help Ma Boab!
I can say that I have NEVER EVER bought items, on a hunch, a whim, to make lots and lots of money, just to annoy another bidder, to hoard it until the price increases, that I thought it was something else, etc. etc. etc..
AND the band played "Believe It If You Like!" HEE HEE HEE!!!
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I forgot the $100.00 i sent to Campbell Hall in 1999. Six thousand dollars worth of catalog for 100.00 ! I guess they did not lie..but they sent sheets of the most bland Romania, DDR and African nations. C.T.O. of course but no one would have wanted them even if they were mint never hinged.
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I made the same mistake. I got back into collecting when my first wife died in 1993 at the age of 37 (I had just turned 36). We had no kids and I was in no mood to go out. Got into some serious spring cleaning and found my old stamp collection and my old baseball collection. Luckily a Nolan Ryan, a Tom Seaver, a Reggie Jackson, and two Rod Carew rookie cards were saved from the spokes of my Stingray! Sold my card collection for four figures to work on stamps. I had a lot of catching up to do and I wanted to move away from my old Minkus All American and settled on White Ace. Spent several years getting it up-to-date since I hadn't actively collected since 1974. When I was caught up and ready to start addressing all those empty spaces in the late 19th century (around 1999), I was amazed that I could buy a large lot of 19th Century US stamps for ONLY 10% of CV on this new place called eBay, and I needed MOST of the stamps! I would simply place my order, keep what I needed and sell the rest off at 50% or so of CV (no reason to be TOO greedy)! Goodness, I may even MAKE money at this!
Didn't work out that way.
Lars
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i recall the ebay days of 1998...i did not even have a scanner and sold much more than i do now. There was no paypal,ebay fees were fair,shippng was inexpensive. Sales were based on trust and it was fun.
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I guess I've lost track of the times I have kicked myself for indulging in a whim-of-a-collecting-specialty.
But, I'm proud of myself for resisting another this week. Seller had EIGHT different sets of CTO obliterated Hitler heads, each set complete and on a single piece, being liquidated from Dad's collection. All cancelled in July, 1945. Pretty neat study material. And, he probably would have accepted my offer of $250 for the lot.
I just keep repeating to myself, "focus, Focus, FOCUS!"
But, I do find it more challenging to resist when a collection would be very tightly defined instead of a bottomless pit fraught with punji sticks, like the Hitler heads could be...That said, my Caribbean packet mail collection keeps gaining dimensionality... Just picked up a nice set of 5 Ceres heads postally used in 1877-78, by the French Consulate (?) in...La Guairá and Puerto Cabello, Venezuela! Wow! I do love foreign usages!
I'll start a new thread with those...
-Paul
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Oh, here's a couple more recent mild diversions that I have NOT been able to resist:
- 1910s postally used postcards with a comic theme and less than $3 each. Have 5 so far. My favorite: "If Hot Air was Music, You'd be a Brass Band." Sent by a female to (presumably) her wannabe boyfriend! Now, we just say, "Shut the F___ up!" in a text message...
- FDCs of American president issues cacheted with a map showing their birthplaces and less than $5 each. Have 2 so far: Herbert Hoover and George Washington, both issued on the anniversary of their subject's birthdate. The Herbert Hoover cover started me off, and is VERY cool, because it's handmade out of a roadmap. What a neat idea!
-Paul
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"Who knows why we buy what we do ? "
The Shadow knows ....
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Lars, your post reminded me that a Pete Rose rookie card helped on the down payment of my first house.
I still have a bunch of non-stamp stuff that probably should go on eBay but can't be bothered. I'm working on my son to do it for me on commission - we shall see.
Geoff
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