More of the same (but different)

This is the third time I've exchanged with Vaclav from the Czech Republic. Third time lucky, again. I asked for and received some more Japanese stamps from him. I wonder where he gets them all from.

Here are the stamps displayed in a 64-page Davo stock book - a recent purchase. I bought it on Trade Me from a dealer in Dunedin. It came fully stocked, so I have had to make room for my New Zealand collection. If there's room, I'll also use it to store my Japanese stamps too.
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Czech these out

In response to my request, for his second exchange with me (and my 26th altogether), my friend Vaclav sent me 100 Japanese stamps. He wrote for me to select those that I could use, and to send the rest back. Even though I have well over a thousand stamps from that country, 79 of Vaclav's stamps were new to me, so naturally I kept them!

I still owe Vaclav from the time before. He had most of the stamps I sent then, so this time I worked from his want list of recent New Zealand stamps (Vaclav collects NZ stamps after 1953 - the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?). 

It's a pity that stamps are produced so quickly today. It took me ages to plough through NZ's recent decades. Really, there are too many. I personally will keep the later issues of this country, but I won't actively hunt after them. 1970 is my cut-off date.

As for Japanese stamps, though, the more the merrier. On the same day that Vacav's Japanese stamps arrived, I received another letter with more of the same!

Ex the Czech Republic

I'm going to have to make it up to Vaclav Trpalek. He sent me 50 used stamps from Greece and Cyprus. In exchange I sent him 50 from New Zealand based upon my 'core New Zealand' set. I sent him this link for him to preview what I was sending. But his return email to say that he already had those stamps arrived too late.

But all is not lost. There other more recent stamps that I added to make up the numbers, and I also used about 6 stamps for postage. I can compensate the next time that we trade when I shall probably request stamps from the Czech Republic. I've suggested that he sends me a list of the NZ stamps he already has. (And if you need a 'Kiwi core' maybe contact Vaclav.)

As we say in NZ, Vaclav, I owe you one. The next round's on me!

Above are shown the 31 stamps that I have from the Czech Republic.