English Stamp Club

This is my idea: I would like to start an English Stamps Club here in Japan. Young people (and old) may join. I would send them these stamps. They are quite common, so I have enough of them for 49 people to join the club.  By using English to follow a hobby, their English would improve.


I haven't started the club yet. If enough people are interested, I'll go ahead. So let me know if you think it's a good idea.

Some Japanese Definitives Mainly

No scanner, so I hope that the pictures I took using our digital camera are clear enough.

Old Japanese Stamps for Holland

Approximately 63 old Japanese stamps that I am trading for others (as yet unselected). I tried to attach the photos to an email, then a couple of emails, but the size was too great.

Thank heavens for blogs! I can get around the problem that way.

New Zealand batch

Here are 172 stamps from New Zealand. Who wants them, and which stamps in exchange are you prepared to offer me in exchange?

Sure, most of these stamps are quite common, so I have selected the best copies of those that I have dozens of. That way you may obtain better copies of stamps you already have. I have prepared 10 to 20 identical packets to trade with other people. This way, you can see exactly which stamps you are going to get.

They include:

• 38 Christmas stamps, 
• 9 Health stamps, 
• 4 'Officials'
• 59 Pre-decimals (1967 or earlier)

I have advertised this on All Stamps Paradise, and will wait for your reply. Tell me, or better yet show me with scans or photos, what you are prepared to send me. On the 19th of February (my birthday) I shall select the best offers, and let those people know by email. After that, I shall give you my snail mail address for you to send your stamps, and I will then send you your instant New Zealand collection.

I collect WW, so I am happy to consider any offer - either a mixture of different countries, or stamps from one country. You decide. I prefer used and no pre-cancelled, please.

Uto memories

The three of us visited Japan recently. I stayed for the month of September, and Mami and Sachi stayed on for October as well. There is plenty that I could write about our experience, but I'll confine myself to the topic of stamps.

My sister-in-law, Rumi, had collected a number of recent Japanese stamps for me and kept them safe in an attractive container. It didn't take me too long to work out how to take off the lid.

I hadn't brought my collection with me, so I wasn't sure just which of them I already had, but many of them looked new to me. After admiring them for a while I set to work.

A nice tepid bath is always the first step. 

 

The Polska Polka

Chris's letters arrive as regularly as clockwork via a synchronistic mechanism. It has happened before that no sooner have I sent a catch-up email to him that his letter arrives the very next day, or in this case just a few hours after I click the send button. Is the Concord still in operation then?

In his exchange letters Chris always protects the stamps with postcards. One of them seems to include the route of how to get to his holiday cabin on the side of a lake. Yes, but let's look at what you sent me.

A bunch of stamps from all over the world - from the African, South American and also European small-sized countries is what Chris usually encloses. About half of the stamps that he sent me this time come from Israel, a country that I don't actively collect but won't say no to.

A good number of them have perforated attachments which look interesting. One in the middle seems to be a stamp featuring Bobby Fisher, the chess player, but that can't be so. The man is known to have had some strong anti-Semitic views.

Happy collecting! part 2

John Gerbes from Australia was quick off the mark to send me another bunch of world stamps. He had no chance to include Papua New Guinea, USA and NZ stamps. Next time, he promises. John has stamps from all over: Holland, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark etc.

John always writes a good letter/email. He wrote that he was grateful for the last write-up. You don't mind your stamps posing in some felt slippers, do you John? My friend told me that he'd included a few part sets (from Austria).

As usual, included were a number of stamps still on paper. Some of them I left attached, so as to keep some good postmarks.


I picked out the purple-lavender-indigo issues just to make a nice photo. Yes, John, "Happy Collecting" to you too!