I use MacOS and I don’t like Canon’s software so I use Apple’s Image Capture to run my scanner. Place stamps on scanner with enough space between them (white space) to rotate them to straiten once scanned.Ĥ. Clean scanner glass (scanner is an inexpensive Canon Lide 220).ģ. Clean stamp (blow it off to get dust and hair off).Ģ. Feel free to comment with ways to make this better.ġ. So, I experimented and came up with a process that I think works. I was all set to set up my camera on a tripod and photograph stamps but then I realized that my flatbed scanner would do a better job and it would be a lot easier. Understand that not only are these stamps pieces of history, many of them are also marvels of printmaking and they’re beautiful as art objects.īesides my now old and musty stamp collection (I have to take an antihistamine when I open one of the boxes) I also collect matchbooks and boxes, and many other pieces of interesting ephemera.Ī while back I posted a video on Collectors and collections and another on Jane McDevitt’s Eastern European matchbox labels which sort of zero in on what I’ve decided to do with my stamps. What to do with all of these great stamps? It was mind boggling and fun although one thing I learned for sure: stamp collecting is out of vogue and my collection is probably not worth much to anyone except me. Last year I went down to New York and the Javits Center for a big philatelic (stamp) show. You see, even though I wasn’t actively collecting since 1971, I was still corresponding with people all over the world and when I got envelopes back with interesting postage I tossed it in a box. There were two large boxes of albums, tools, smaller boxes of loose stamps, some of them needing to be soaked off of envelopes. The collection was in my mother’s house until she died in 2016, then I had to bring it home. I merged all the collections into fewer albums and kept it up until I went away to college in 1971. So, collections like this one are a wormhole into a time that’s long gone, except for Wikipedia and the like. The collections are far ranging and fascinating as many countries represented don’t exist anymore. My father liked French, Belgian, and English colonies in Africa and I have many of those (see above and below), his father liked U.S. The stamps in these various collections are spectacular: both U.S. My late father inherited his father’s and his uncle’s stamp collection and I inherited my father’s collection and his younger brother’s. The Flawed Stamp Had Not Been Seen Since 1918 and it got me thinking about my own stamp collection (and yes, I was hoping I might have another copy of the inverted Jenny). I read a piece in the New York Times the other day: An Inverted Jenny Surfaces.
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