Hello kgvistamps,
Welcome to Stamporama from a very warm Fort Worth, Texas. I think that you will find many friendly stamp collectors here.
Jim
Welcome to StampoRama!
Welcome! Glad to have you join the club. I see you have a post office box in Lisle, Illinois. I spent many weeks of my life, years ago, in training at the Unisys Training Center in Lisle.
Linus (from central Iowa)
Small world isn't it Linus. My grandparents lived in an apartment on Main Street in Lisle back in the 1930's. It was really a one horse town back then. Much different now with technical training centers and corporate offices by the tollway.
I can remember walking around the Main Street area of Lisle and thinking that this was originally just a little town that was swallowed up by the Chicago suburbs. I've been there!
I have been filling spaces in a pair of old Gibbons New Imperial albums, the whole empire to 1936. I know I won't get even a third of it filled but it's fun. Once in awhile I get a page filled.
I've been a customer of the OP in the past. Nice to see him on here.
Welcome to another collector of British Colonies. I collect a good deal of colonial material, primarily Bermuda and Falklands. I am interested in the postal history of the colonies with a focus on pacquet boat and other shipping related items.
David
Hi David.
I collect Bermuda from King Edward thru King George VI. I try to sort them by printings. I have scanned some of them and you will find them on my website - take the link to see the web pages to find them.
I also do the Falkland Islands, but only King George VI. I have a web page explaining how to identify the printings if you are interested, but it really only works with unused stamps because the paper and gum are a huge indicator for these stamps.
Just wondering, does anyone here use Steiner pages for their King George VI collection? I guess it would be kind of tedious to compile all the files for each country and print out the pages one needed based on the time he ruled.
"Just wondering, does anyone here use Steiner pages for their King George VI collection? I guess it would be kind of tedious to compile all the files for each country and print out the pages one needed based on the time he ruled."
I make my own KGVI pages because no one makes one that works for me. I used to draw it out on thick white construction paper with mounts to hold the stamps for the catalog listings. But then I started trying to find the various printings and that was too hard to modify. So now I use Vario pages and put the information in an Excel spreadsheet about each printing. Then I print the page and cut out the strips for each stamp. The strip gets put in the Vario page along with the stamp. This is easily the most expensive way to do this, but it is really convenient, and as I learn something new about the stamp, I just have to make new Excel printouts.
Here is an example showing the two pound values from my Jamaica collection.
Beautiful thanks for showing them...some good soul sent me these half a lifetime ago and they sat in a stockbook until this evening. I am partial to used stamps of Edward VII.
The 2/6 greyish-blue paper makes me think it is an early printing. Is the gum kind of yellowish and off-color on the back? Nice marginal copies on the 5/ and Pound values.
It could be, difficult to tell with the very blue paper on the back..there may be some yellow on the on the edges of the perfs. As you can tell i am not a British Commonwealth expert. phil
Hi. I am a full time collector and a part time dealer.
I collect British Colonies. Primarily King George VI from all countries, but also King Edward VII and King George V from the West Indies. Currently I am an APS member and the moderator of the King George VI Group site on Yahoo.com.
I hope we can discuss some of the stamps I collect on this site.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Hello kgvistamps,
Welcome to Stamporama from a very warm Fort Worth, Texas. I think that you will find many friendly stamp collectors here.
Jim
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Welcome to StampoRama!
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Welcome! Glad to have you join the club. I see you have a post office box in Lisle, Illinois. I spent many weeks of my life, years ago, in training at the Unisys Training Center in Lisle.
Linus (from central Iowa)
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Small world isn't it Linus. My grandparents lived in an apartment on Main Street in Lisle back in the 1930's. It was really a one horse town back then. Much different now with technical training centers and corporate offices by the tollway.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
I can remember walking around the Main Street area of Lisle and thinking that this was originally just a little town that was swallowed up by the Chicago suburbs. I've been there!
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
I have been filling spaces in a pair of old Gibbons New Imperial albums, the whole empire to 1936. I know I won't get even a third of it filled but it's fun. Once in awhile I get a page filled.
I've been a customer of the OP in the past. Nice to see him on here.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Welcome to another collector of British Colonies. I collect a good deal of colonial material, primarily Bermuda and Falklands. I am interested in the postal history of the colonies with a focus on pacquet boat and other shipping related items.
David
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Hi David.
I collect Bermuda from King Edward thru King George VI. I try to sort them by printings. I have scanned some of them and you will find them on my website - take the link to see the web pages to find them.
I also do the Falkland Islands, but only King George VI. I have a web page explaining how to identify the printings if you are interested, but it really only works with unused stamps because the paper and gum are a huge indicator for these stamps.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Just wondering, does anyone here use Steiner pages for their King George VI collection? I guess it would be kind of tedious to compile all the files for each country and print out the pages one needed based on the time he ruled.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
"Just wondering, does anyone here use Steiner pages for their King George VI collection? I guess it would be kind of tedious to compile all the files for each country and print out the pages one needed based on the time he ruled."
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
I make my own KGVI pages because no one makes one that works for me. I used to draw it out on thick white construction paper with mounts to hold the stamps for the catalog listings. But then I started trying to find the various printings and that was too hard to modify. So now I use Vario pages and put the information in an Excel spreadsheet about each printing. Then I print the page and cut out the strips for each stamp. The strip gets put in the Vario page along with the stamp. This is easily the most expensive way to do this, but it is really convenient, and as I learn something new about the stamp, I just have to make new Excel printouts.
Here is an example showing the two pound values from my Jamaica collection.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
Beautiful thanks for showing them...some good soul sent me these half a lifetime ago and they sat in a stockbook until this evening. I am partial to used stamps of Edward VII.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
The 2/6 greyish-blue paper makes me think it is an early printing. Is the gum kind of yellowish and off-color on the back? Nice marginal copies on the 5/ and Pound values.
re: New Member - Collecting British Colonies
It could be, difficult to tell with the very blue paper on the back..there may be some yellow on the on the edges of the perfs. As you can tell i am not a British Commonwealth expert. phil