Anyone also collect stamps?

JeffH · June 05, 2013, 07:53:59 PM

I received a delivery from Fiji today and thought these stamps are to good to put in the WPB.
First to send a name and mailing address can have them free,
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Postmark is Pacific Harbour but it looks like the stamp still is set for 2012, whoops! It is a rather small post office.
Jeff

robbiegal · June 05, 2013, 07:59:42 PM

nice colourful stamp
but nah,
don't collect ém
got too much 'collector' junk already!!

Fulvio · June 05, 2013, 09:07:56 PM

They are nice. I mostly collected Aussie stamps, but will put my hand up if nobody else does.

MattGold · June 05, 2013, 09:11:21 PM

I did have a folder full of world stamps and that went bye bye when my niece and nephew decided to use them as a playbook.. They still have the folder about 2 stamps left I think:dodgy:

Matt

JeffH · June 06, 2013, 07:01:30 AM

OK. Going to Fulvio.

Fulvio · June 06, 2013, 10:11:12 PM

Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='17241' dateline='1370467890'OK. Going to Fulvio.

Cool. TY. :yahoo:

coxspau · June 07, 2013, 09:45:53 AM

After my Grandmother passed away, we were clearing up a room in her house and came across about 5 albums of old Aust stamps. Unfortunately, silverfish have had their way with the edges of some of the books, but there are still a truck load of stamps that I'm working through.

One thing I've quickly picked up about stamps, is that the value of old poor condition stamps is less than that of the same condition of coins. Ho hum. I guess I'll categorise them to satisfy my addictive personality.

ausjack · June 07, 2013, 10:00:52 AM

look for perfins..here http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/sis.html?_kw=AUSTRALIA+PERFIN+STAMPS+ALL+DIFFERENT+inc+KGV+VICTORIA the little holes tell you where it was posted and some collectors only collect from a certain PO :good:

coxspau · June 07, 2013, 11:22:30 AM

Roger that...will keep an extra eye out for the perfins.

Fulvio · June 07, 2013, 11:29:26 AM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='17321' dateline='1370565052'the little holes tell you where it was posted

Errrrr... not so, sorry.

Perfins were used by governments to stop people stealing stamps basically. OS as in Official Stamp, VG for Victorian Government, etc. I don't think anyone other than governments used them in Oz, though they did overseas.

ausjack · June 07, 2013, 11:33:50 AM

sorry fulvio, I new that they were the ones to look for but thought it was a PO mark..ya learn something new every day :good:

Fulvio · June 07, 2013, 11:36:09 AM

Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='17334' dateline='1370570630'ya learn something new every day

Y'got THAT right.. hardly a day goes by I don't learn SOMEthing new. And forget several somethings old as well... *sigh*

ausjack · June 07, 2013, 11:47:16 AM

this is my one and only, I'll look into them one day..coins are more my go at the moment :winkextra:

Fulvio · June 07, 2013, 12:12:42 PM

Hmm... that looks suspiciously like a private perfin. No idea whose though...

Meanwhile, a search for the stamp turned up this newspaper article...
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/45975844
Which I couldn't help but correct the electronic version of.

ausjack · June 07, 2013, 12:22:17 PM

come on fulvio, you've got me interested now