Here's another haul-from-the-haul post, based on yesterday's visit to the Kingston Stamp Club Spring Stamp Festival at Crossroads United Church. Unable to make it for the opening bell, it was 12:30 when I arrived, large reusable shopping bag in hand and ready to fill. As always, first stop was the Club consignment table. LOTS of good offerings - country collections separated from an album, those always-tempting US precancels priced per page, and yes, bagged lots of mostly off-paper. I found two and headed to the club desk. "Oh, good, someone is buying them", said Val. "Oh, I love those bagged lots", I replied. (The bags were already marked down from 10 bucks to $7.) Val then said, "Any that are marked $7 you can have for $5". So I returned for two more. Another club volunteer was enthused and we discussed our love of sorting, also happy that someone was buying them. So I returned (top photo) for two more! That's twenty-seven bucks o' sorting fun!
A few more consignment lots (above): Africa, Commonwealth, Philippines and another burgeoning bag of Commonwealth! Dealer Don had some tempting stuff, too. Fortunately, $9.25 black mounts in just the two sizes I had written on the back of my hand to look for. And just as (when we used to) cross the border, we buy a bottle of booze, when you go to a stamp show, you always buy hinges. Don's shoebox (I love shoeboxes and cigar boxes just as much as those large Zip-Locs!) and this $7 Canada off-paper caught my eye. Some are stuck together, but can be soaked.
As usual, my sorting hierarchy was in my mind:
- keepers for my collection
- traders for fellow collectors
- thematics for Michael Lynn's free stamp program
- common definitives for charity
- damaged stamps culled for future stamp art projects.
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