Great video Ted! I’m glad you like the Bluegrass FDC! I was thrilled that was even featured, but then you specifically gave me a shout out! I appreciate it. Happy Stamping!
Ted, I also use fountain pens. I have a collection of 173 so far dating from the 1920s to the present. I have a few Preppys, they are great pens. I re-use the cartridges and refill them using a blunt syringe with the ink colour I feel like using at the time. I also use Clairefontaine paper but I use the whit one and copy a grid pattern on to it.
That’s impressive. While I have developed a great interest in them, I haven’t developed (yet 😄) an urge to collect them. I’ve been watching a lot of YT videos (Fountain Pen Therapy, Doodlebud, Inkquiring Minds, sbrebrown, among others) trying to decide on one pen to have and to hold, forsaking all others, and staying within a double-digit price. If you have any recommendations, I’m all 👂 👂.
Ted, in many ways the possibilities are endless. I would recommend you see if there is a brick and morter penshop you could visit. JG Reviews is an other youtube channel. Pilot, Platinum, Lamy, Jinhao and Wing Sung are great pens and very affordable. Visiting a store will give you a chance to try different nib sizes which run from XF, F,M,Broad, Double Broad, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5 and 1.9 plus other types. The thing to remember is that Japanase pen nib sizes are smaller than wester. Ex: Japanese Fine is more like a western XF etc. I use a Western fine when writing on non-fountain pen paper and for most fountain friendly paper I will use either a Medium or a broad. The exception is When I label my stamp pages I will use a 1.9mm for the header and a 1.1 for the text. Once you get into it more you will see that there about 2000 different types and colours of ink. A great advantage of using a fountain is that there is much less strain place on our hands and wrists as one only needs a slight pressure on the nib to write. Especially if one has arthritis. Ebay, Etsy and Amazon have tons of pens. Good luck and let me know how you make out. An other youtuber is ODE who is Portugal.
I've watched your videos from the beginning and your impressive collection, shared knowledge and your life changes. I wish you the best of luck on your adventures.
always look forward to your videos, Ted. looks like you have quite the haul to help organize your pared down collection. best of luck with it! greetings from Tennessee.
Binders are the one item that always irked me for being so expensive. This one, however, I feel is worth every bit of the 33 euros it cost. I really love it.
Hello Ted! I am so glad to see a video from you! I love the USA arctic animal stamps you showed, and the Ukraine bird stamps are lovely. You acquired a good haul to restart your collecting activities. The binder is classy, I really like it. Your album pages and eventual collection is going to look very beautiful in that. I can just imagine what a huge undertaking and upheaval it must have been to pack up and do away with so many things in America, and now having to start building up again. It could be fun, though. 🙂Thank you for the update on your personal collection!!! Looking forward to see it growing and getting settled again, and all the "how to" do everything. Take care!
I feel like it can be just as fun to re-start a collection as to start one lol - then you have an excuse to get more stamps 😄😄😄. That HST, wildlife and bio luminescent sheets are amazing - I don't have a lot to spend on post 2000s US but space and flora/fauna stamps are a topical interest so don't count lol. Love the Stanislaw Lem cover - I recently read all of his sci-fi works! Great supplies - love the slip case albums.
I agree, John. This reset and refocusing of my collection has increased my appreciation and enjoyment of the stamps that remain. Nice to see a Lem fan. I’m reading Memoirs Found in a Bathtub right now.
Hi Ted, I am also in the process of reducing my stamp collection, and I have cut down the countries I am collecting as it has gotten too much. Yours is better organised than mine 😊
LOL I'm not really organized yet. Everything is jumbled up within all those envelopes. That old saying seems to hold true for stamp collecting: Less is more.
Interesting that need to build up your philatelic accessoires also 😂 Really looking good the Lighthouse Grande binder. And I love fountain pens. I would really be interested in a future episode of how this all progressed :-)
When I travel, I like to pick up a few current issues from the country I'm visiting. Last April, I picked up some Portuguese stamps from the CTT office in Coimbra. The clerk there was wonderful, diligently finding the stamps I wanted from her stamp storage drawer, and tolerating my non-existent Portuguese. As you say though, the place was busy - I felt badly as the queue of people behind me grew and grew as I indulged my philatelic wishes. Best regards,
It wasn’t as hard as one might have expected. I had become so scattershot and wide-ranging in my collecting that I never spent enough time to obtain much more than a superficial knowledge and understanding of many areas, and other things for which I had a deeper interest wound often get pushed to a back burner and forgotten.
@@tedtalksstampsI am debating on what to do with my collection as well. I get easily distracted and go down different rabbit holes in the hobby because I enjoy so much of it. So I keep making a generalist? I do concentrate on adding to a few specific countries, mainly on Isle of Man and Iceland the last number of months so do I become a specialist in those areas? I like my topicals of maps and foxes too though. I know there is no “right” way to do it. It what is the right way for me is the tricky part.
Ted I have a question about stamps I have never heard an answer to. Why has there never been a Jacqueline Kennedy USA stamp. She is probably the most revered First Lady and never a stamp. Lady has actually had two different ones. It's about time.
You’re right. I was planning on giving a correction in my next video. I would pin a comment with a correction, but Kelly Brown’s comment is too important to unpin. 😄
Yea I walked into a post office recently and ask the clerk for the underground rail road portfolio and was handed a sheet of railway stations. I paid for them and left.
The lifestyle. The atmosphere. The people. The views. The nature. The hiking. We can live comfortably without a car (and bus travel is free to anywhere on the island of Madeira for seniors). We can own a home without having to hand over $5,000 each year to the state. There are so many cultural activities, from traditional festivals to live classical music. There’s more, but you get the idea. 😀
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Ted, my friend, you sound like a "Karen". You live in a much smaller country.... be grateful
I am very grateful to be here. Thank you so much for your kind words.
Great video Ted! I’m glad you like the Bluegrass FDC! I was thrilled that was even featured, but then you specifically gave me a shout out! I appreciate it. Happy Stamping!
Thanks, Dan. Same to you.
Ted, I also use fountain pens. I have a collection of 173 so far dating from the 1920s to the present. I have a few Preppys, they are great pens. I re-use the cartridges and refill them using a blunt syringe with the ink colour I feel like using at the time. I also use Clairefontaine paper but I use the whit one and copy a grid pattern on to it.
That’s impressive. While I have developed a great interest in them, I haven’t developed (yet 😄) an urge to collect them. I’ve been watching a lot of YT videos (Fountain Pen Therapy, Doodlebud, Inkquiring Minds, sbrebrown, among others) trying to decide on one pen to have and to hold, forsaking all others, and staying within a double-digit price. If you have any recommendations, I’m all 👂 👂.
Ted, in many ways the possibilities are endless. I would recommend you see if there is a brick and morter penshop you could visit. JG Reviews is an other youtube channel. Pilot, Platinum, Lamy, Jinhao and Wing Sung are great pens and very affordable. Visiting a store will give you a chance to try different nib sizes which run from XF, F,M,Broad, Double Broad, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5 and 1.9 plus other types.
The thing to remember is that Japanase pen nib sizes are smaller than wester. Ex: Japanese Fine is more like a western XF etc. I use a Western fine when writing on non-fountain pen paper and for most fountain friendly paper I will use either a Medium or a broad. The exception is When I label my stamp pages I will use a 1.9mm for the header and a 1.1 for the text. Once you get into it more you will see that there about 2000 different types and colours of ink. A great advantage of using a fountain is that there is much less strain place on our hands and wrists as one only needs a slight pressure on the nib to write. Especially if one has arthritis. Ebay, Etsy and Amazon have tons of pens. Good luck and let me know how you make out. An other youtuber is ODE who is Portugal.
@@danielste-marie779 Thanks. JG3 is already in my viewing rotation. I will check out ODE.
Great episode, as always! Can you please consider covering USPS Postal Stationary airmail someday in the future? UC16 is one heck of a design!
I will put it on my to-do list. Thanks for watching.
I've watched your videos from the beginning and your impressive collection, shared knowledge and your life changes. I wish you the best of luck on your adventures.
Thank you, David. I appreciate the kind words.
awesome episode, I wish I knew you were doing that with your stamps I would have asked for some, Oh well, LOL!!!!
always look forward to your videos, Ted. looks like you have quite the haul to help organize your pared down collection. best of luck with it!
greetings from Tennessee.
Thanks. I’m looking forward to digging in.
Nice haul, I love those binders!
Binders are the one item that always irked me for being so expensive. This one, however, I feel is worth every bit of the 33 euros it cost. I really love it.
Can't go wrong with Philatelic Green.
True dat. :)
Hello Ted! I am so glad to see a video from you! I love the USA arctic animal stamps you showed, and the Ukraine bird stamps are lovely. You acquired a good haul to restart your collecting activities. The binder is classy, I really like it. Your album pages and eventual collection is going to look very beautiful in that. I can just imagine what a huge undertaking and upheaval it must have been to pack up and do away with so many things in America, and now having to start building up again. It could be fun, though. 🙂Thank you for the update on your personal collection!!! Looking forward to see it growing and getting settled again, and all the "how to" do everything. Take care!
Hi Charnie. I look forward to getting everything back in order again.
and let the FUN begin !
That’s what I’m talkin bout. LOL
I feel like it can be just as fun to re-start a collection as to start one lol - then you have an excuse to get more stamps 😄😄😄. That HST, wildlife and bio luminescent sheets are amazing - I don't have a lot to spend on post 2000s US but space and flora/fauna stamps are a topical interest so don't count lol. Love the Stanislaw Lem cover - I recently read all of his sci-fi works! Great supplies - love the slip case albums.
I agree, John. This reset and refocusing of my collection has increased my appreciation and enjoyment of the stamps that remain.
Nice to see a Lem fan. I’m reading Memoirs Found in a Bathtub right now.
Great haul. When you said, "What is that word," I felt a pang of sympathy as I often find myself saying the same thing.
Thanks. It’s another reason to stay busy with stamps - keep exercising the mind.
Hi Ted, I am also in the process of reducing my stamp collection, and I have cut down the countries I am collecting as it has gotten too much.
Yours is better organised than mine 😊
LOL I'm not really organized yet. Everything is jumbled up within all those envelopes. That old saying seems to hold true for stamp collecting: Less is more.
Interesting that need to build up your philatelic accessoires also 😂 Really looking good the Lighthouse Grande binder. And I love fountain pens. I would really be interested in a future episode of how this all progressed :-)
Yeah, when I got to Portugal, all I had was 4 or 5 vario stock pages and a B5 sized thin stockbook. I had a lot of stamps, but no place to put them. 😄
Portugal, that's quite a leap!
It’s been an adventure.
Hi ted thank you for your great videos
Would love to see more killoware stamp unboxing
I will work on it Dany. Thanks for watching.
When I travel, I like to pick up a few current issues from the country I'm visiting. Last April, I picked up some Portuguese stamps from the CTT office in Coimbra. The clerk there was wonderful, diligently finding the stamps I wanted from her stamp storage drawer, and tolerating my non-existent Portuguese. As you say though, the place was busy - I felt badly as the queue of people behind me grew and grew as I indulged my philatelic wishes. Best regards,
I’m glad to hear of your good experience with CTT. Thanks for your comment.
It must have been so hard to cut back so much and give so much away
It wasn’t as hard as one might have expected. I had become so scattershot and wide-ranging in my collecting that I never spent enough time to obtain much more than a superficial knowledge and understanding of many areas, and other things for which I had a deeper interest wound often get pushed to a back burner and forgotten.
@@tedtalksstampsI am debating on what to do with my collection as well. I get easily distracted and go down different rabbit holes in the hobby because I enjoy so much of it. So I keep making a generalist? I do concentrate on adding to a few specific countries, mainly on Isle of Man and Iceland the last number of months so do I become a specialist in those areas? I like my topicals of maps and foxes too though. I know there is no “right” way to do it. It what is the right way for me is the tricky part.
Ted I have a question about stamps I have never heard an answer to. Why has there never been a Jacqueline Kennedy USA stamp. She is probably the most revered First Lady and never a stamp. Lady has actually had two different ones. It's about time.
That's a good question. It's a mystery to me, as well.
Actually Nordfrim is based in Denmark.
You’re right. I was planning on giving a correction in my next video. I would pin a comment with a correction, but Kelly Brown’s comment is too important to unpin. 😄
The USPS has absolutely garbage service....... I've experienced dozens of serious to moderate issues, including theft, with the USPS.
Yes, it really is unconscionable.
Yea I walked into a post office recently and ask the clerk for the underground rail road portfolio and was handed a sheet of railway stations. I paid for them and left.
@adamhuffman3354
😆 🤣 funny but not funny 😔
Why portugal Ted ?
The lifestyle. The atmosphere. The people. The views. The nature. The hiking. We can live comfortably without a car (and bus travel is free to anywhere on the island of Madeira for seniors). We can own a home without having to hand over $5,000 each year to the state. There are so many cultural activities, from traditional festivals to live classical music. There’s more, but you get the idea. 😀