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Mar 9, 2010 7:49pm

Sometimes I find myself writing these notes add very odd hours. This time I’m dealing with the “pleasures of child family” as stomach flu has hit few of my kids and I’ve been awake for few hours already. Anyway, I don’t know if there exists any stamp promoting...

Breaking the mold

Mar 8, 2010 5:18am

As some of my single country collections have lately reached over 50% completion level, I’m beginning to approach the situation where I have to start making some major decisions about the final storage and output of these collections. Should I continue to keep them on stock book, or...

Random stamp stories

Mar 5, 2010 10:06pm

Carol suggested in a recent blog comment that I should write a piece about the stamps you see on the blog’s header image. Tough each of the stamps has been covered thoroughly on the blog during year 2009, newer readers of the blog might not be familiar with them. A...

Winter holiday feelings

Mar 5, 2010 1:31am

As some know I’ve been having my winter holidays this week. Although things didn’t go quite as planned (I got some heat/fever for few days), I still did have a quite enjoyable week with my family and some stamps. Here’s my youngest kid playing with her own stock book and...

Shifted overprint on Congo (Kinshasa) stamp

Mar 1, 2010 1:33am

Here’s another item from EFO (”Error-Freak-Oddity”) collection that I’ve been lately building alongside my worldwide stamps collection. It’s 1961 Congo (Kinshasa/Zaire) 20c (mint) stamp with heavily shifted overprint. I don’t think it’s hugely rare (or valuable) as somewhat similar shifted overprints on Congo stamps are more or less constantly...