Stamp Show in Kingston - This Saturday!

 

Long & Noble Crusade 3.0

Now that I've had a chance to finish sorting MaxSold box contents, two tins from the previous Kingston stamp show (another coming up next weekend!), trades from exchange partners and stamps selected from circuits, I've grouped them by continent or colonies and it will soon be Long & Noble (that's starting to sound like the name of a law firm!) Crusade 3.0 over the coming colder months.

The cornucopic crusade contents continuation can comprise: 

• checking each zip-loc bag for duplicates and sending the duplicates for disposition,
• sorting each zip-loc into country-glassines,
• checking those sorted-by-country stamps against what's already in my collection, 
• and finally albumizing them.

It's impossible to albumize without sorting, and what's the point of sorting if there's no albumizing?

The United Stamps of America!

My very basic Freedom U.S. album by H.E. Harris (at left in these photos) covered all of the 19th century in one page. Compact yes, but I had accumulated an abundance of early U.S. with no little black & white album-page illustrations in which to put them.

As a result of my recent MaxSold win I ended up with an 1960s Minkus All-American and an H.E. Harris Liberty U.S. album (at right in these photos). Both had very good descriptions and excellent coverage of the early U.S. issues, but I couldn't keep all three U.S. albums. With the Liberty being superior, I wondered if I could combine its early U.S. pages with my Freedom pages. (A long time ago, I had removed and three-hole punched the pages from the Liberty and added them to my own album pages for superseding U.S. issues.)

Yes, I could. I drew a line in the American sand, in the early 1930s, and transferred my early U.S. issues to the Liberty pages. There is one page of overlap and I used that to double up my coverage of the Washington centennial other period stamps. I used a USPS Guide to U.S. Stamps and Google to try to get the right stamp on the right illustration.