Post by khj on Nov 8, 2020 15:45:52 GMT -5
Or should I entitle it -- Found and will soon be Lost again?
So I'm looking for a stamp for about an hour. While I don't find the stamp, I do find a page of UNTEA that I was looking for last year. You know the Principle of Delayed Discovery: after many hours searching for item #1, you run across item #2 for which you had unsuccessfully spent several hours searching several months ago. Corollary to the Principle of Delayed Discovery: you no longer have a pressing need to find item #2, and you won't find item #1 until after you don't need to find it anymore.
In this case, looking for some Scandinavian and Newfoundland album pages. Lo and behold, what do I run across...
United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA), West New Guinea
UNTEA #1-19(1Oct1962-1Nov1962), first overprint (17x3½mm, top of “N” slightly lower than “U”, base of “T” nearly straight)
2018 Scott mint = $75
So I'm scanning it, because no doubt I will forget to put it back to its proper place (not the place I last found it), and it will get lost again.
So why was I looking for it several months ago? I have another set of UNTEA on a Lighthouse hingeless album page -- or I think it was Lighthouse. I was going to compare both sets to make sure they were from same printing and combine the better quality stamps into one set for my primary collection. But gave up, because I couldn't find the duplicate set.
Now I can do it, right? Wrong. I forgot where I put the original set.
So I've decided to scan whenever I find something I couldn't find beforehand, before I lose track of it again.
This thread will be a journal of my futility (my wife would use a different word) as the years go by...
So I'm looking for a stamp for about an hour. While I don't find the stamp, I do find a page of UNTEA that I was looking for last year. You know the Principle of Delayed Discovery: after many hours searching for item #1, you run across item #2 for which you had unsuccessfully spent several hours searching several months ago. Corollary to the Principle of Delayed Discovery: you no longer have a pressing need to find item #2, and you won't find item #1 until after you don't need to find it anymore.
In this case, looking for some Scandinavian and Newfoundland album pages. Lo and behold, what do I run across...
United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA), West New Guinea
UNTEA #1-19(1Oct1962-1Nov1962), first overprint (17x3½mm, top of “N” slightly lower than “U”, base of “T” nearly straight)
2018 Scott mint = $75
So I'm scanning it, because no doubt I will forget to put it back to its proper place (not the place I last found it), and it will get lost again.
So why was I looking for it several months ago? I have another set of UNTEA on a Lighthouse hingeless album page -- or I think it was Lighthouse. I was going to compare both sets to make sure they were from same printing and combine the better quality stamps into one set for my primary collection. But gave up, because I couldn't find the duplicate set.
Now I can do it, right? Wrong. I forgot where I put the original set.
So I've decided to scan whenever I find something I couldn't find beforehand, before I lose track of it again.
This thread will be a journal of my futility (my wife would use a different word) as the years go by...
Stamps - the bear necessities of life.
