Sixty Bucks o' Fun! Kingston Spring Stamp Festival

Last weekend, the Kingston Stamp Club held its Spring Stamp Festival at Crossroads United Church. My first stop, as always, was the club consignment table. Their pricing and selling system is effective and after perusing tables full o' goodies, I was checked out with my consignment items (above and below) in my reusable shopping bag. I was especially pleased to find two tins full o' stamps! Who doesn't like a tin or cigar box? 

Also, several stock pages of mint Canadian postage, albeit 5-6 cents in the majority. However, I did find several blocks in the 10-25 cent range. (It's tough to find an envelope big enough to effectively hold first-class postage in these small denominations.) Over $38 face value of stamps for $13.

Then I was off perusing the sale tables. I picked up a few items from Verona's Roy Lingen. 

Also three small stamp-block albums from seller Don. Over $53 face value of 5-25 cent stamps for $4.50:

I was hoping to pick up some black stamp mounts but didn't find any dealers at the show selling supplies. Among the club consignment items, check out this three-dollar U.S. album with some high values, open view of the top photo items:

STAMPed Volume 4 Published!

I came across this cool graphic (top photo) somewhere and was surprised to see a similar sea-turtle theme in the email I received from the APS publicizing the publication of Volume 4 of STAMPed! This volume is indeed unconventional as expected, with several off-the-wall articles about micro-nations, low-cost early postage, and stamps that don't appear to really be stamps. Plus a pretty good article on Antarctic stamp-issuing entities.

 

This Saturday! Kingston Spring Stamp Festival

Kingston Stamp Club president Bob Gardner reached out with some local highlights for this Saturday's upcoming show:

• Jim Skelding. a postcard dealer from Merrickville will be bringing 150 vintage Kingston/Queen's postcards.
• John Beddows, a dealer from Gananoque will have some vintage Kingston postal material.
• Graham Noble, a club member will have some Kingston-based postcards.

All dealers will have signage to assist in locating the appropriate dealer. 

 

The club will have eight dealers along with sales tables from several of our members. The club will also have a large sales area. Our club has 60 members with the Fall and Spring Festivals being our main events.

Looking forward to it!

Why Stamp Collecting...

 

This Canadian Stamp News article explains why quite concisely. A nice break from (how one somewhat-critical article described) philately becoming simply postal history. When we focus only on Penny Blacks and hoary old covers with nearly-unintelligible postmarks and quill-penmanship, we forget what interested us in the first place: bright, colourful, engaging.