I find myself, not really hating a stamp, but rather having a slight distaste for certain groups and countries. Almost anything from "The Dunes" I have no interest in whatsoever. And United Nations. You will never see a United Nations Album on my shelf.
Now I will admit that I used to have no interest in South America or the Caribbean, until I picked up a couple of lots with South American countries and thoroughly enjoyed them. I also spent a little time working in South America so that really helped too.
I will also say that I find it difficult to take anything with entertainers (rock stars, movie stars) on them seriously.
I find myself, not really hating a stamp, but rather having a slight distaste for certain groups and countries. Almost anything from "The Dunes" I have no interest in whatsoever. And United Nations. You will never see a United Nations Album on my shelf.
Now I will admit that I used to have no interest in South America or the Caribbean, until I picked up a couple of lots with South American countries and thoroughly enjoyed them. I also spent a little time working in South America so that really helped too.
I will also say that I find it difficult to take anything with entertainers (rock stars, movie stars) on them seriously. In my short of time collecting I agree with you about the "Dunes".
Post by zepherusbane on Sept 17, 2017 13:28:44 GMT -5
I don't care for stamps that were created with no intent to allow them to be used for actual postage. Especially ones that were printed on contract in some other country and sold directly to agents selling to collectors that were never even available in the country that commissioned them.
Worldwide collector of stamps and covers! I gave up on limiting to only certain countries.
To me the US Harry Potter stamps represent the major commercialization aspect of the US stamp program with aspects like JK Rowlings who is a British author. It goes against a number of original guiding principles for stamp issues. This is a sad in contrast to the poorly designed Star Trek that is far more American and deserved better. Yes, I am a Star Trek fan.
Since I have the microphone, although I do not think the cost of new issues is a real impediment to collecting there are general trends...
1. Force collecting of sheets/full booklets for many issues due to self-adhesive technology especially 2 sided booklets where cannot get a setenant block 2. Stamp sheets that do not fit easily on 8 1/2 x 11 pages. I would like to see a size limit for most designs. The World Stamp Show issues were ridiculously large rather than a nice engraved 2 stamp souvenir sheet. 3. Too many series (Chinese New Year, Holiday stamps, etc) crowd out more worthy historical issues 4. Lack of engraved stamps - need a new definitive series for bulk rate 5. I would prefer to see statehood issues have like 9 different designs on a sheet so the diversity can be shown. For some state stamps, without the name, you could not identify what state it was given the common themes.
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