Odd stamps : 02b Silver / golden stamps

It's been a long time since I posted my 'odd stamps', so it's a good time to take up that topic and give you some more 'oddies'.

In the category 'silver stamps', today I'm presenting two stamps from France.
The most famous type of French stamps are the so called 'Mariannes'.
Marianne symbolises the French and the French Republic.
There have been many types of Mariannes throughout the stamp history, but I will come to those stamps later.

Just a quick overview...

Marianne de Dulac	Marianne d'Alger (de Fernez) 1944	Marianne de Gandon 1955
Marianne à la nef 1959	Marianne de Cocteau 1961	Marianne de cheffer 1967
Marianne de Béquet 1971	Marianne de Briat (bicentennaire) 1990	Marianne du 14 juillet (2002)
Marianne de Beaujard	Marianne de Lamouche (Marianne des Français)

 

Those last 2 were issued in silver too.
And of course, that's the reason why they appear here.

Both silver stamps have a face value of 5 Euro, they can be used postally, but since silver is oxidating easily, the moment they are in contact with oxygen, they turn dark.
That's why both stamps were issued in a special card, surrounded by a plastic cover to protect them.
Even with that protection, the corners of the stamps have a slight colour shift.
This can be removed by cleaning with a soft cloth.

card with silver Marianne de Beaujard

Silver Marianne de Beaujard

card with silver Mariand de Lamouche

silver Marianne de Lamouche

detail of oxidating silvers stamps

Collecting : my collection 02d

The last post for this second item on 'my collection'.
As I just moved, I had the unique opportunity to put all of my separated collection in one place.

And luckily I had enough space to put it.
As there is still a lot of work to be done, and many albums I bought on stamp fairs, exhibitions, sales, internet, auctions .... contain stamps of various countries, topics and quality.
I haven't found enough time yet to sort them all out, but I decided to make it somehow a bit easier for me.
First of all I brought all large albums together, and checked them one by one.
Then I gave the albums a number and I wrote down in a spreadsheet, what kind of stamps there were in that particular stockbook.
Then I went to the next book, until I had written down the contenent of all 'to be done' books.

I hope I will live long and prosperous, because I think there is still a lot of work for me....

second shelf

part 1

part 2 (top shelfs are not numbered yet)

last ones (so far)

One remark, some books contains lots of doubles, not all books are full either...

to be continued

Collecting : my collection 02c

Enough talking about the stamps. This blog is also about coins and banknotes.
Thus, a picture of my banknote collection. Also here, I respect the colour codes; blue for Europe, yellow (here cream colour) for asia ...

Banknote albums and coins

This collection is not as elaborated as my stamp collection, but still...
A picture of one of the albums I randomly chose : Laos.

detail of my Laos banknote collection

Small detail, the pages of cardboard paper that are put between the transparent banknote pages, are in the colour of the albums. If it hasn't got style, it hasn't got style, right :-)


My coin collection is rather limited, as I'm not really specialised in it.
Most successful is my Euro-coin collection.

Since Euro was introduced, a large number of preprinted albums for collecting euro coins are available.
I chose neutral albums (blue of course, since it's for Europe); but witht he € - logo on the albums.

Cover Euro coins

Inside Euro coins album

There's still a lot of work to be done on those albums too.
Especially for the coins other then euro coins.

to be continued

Collecting : my collection 02b

Last time, (previous entry) I told about the European part of my collection.
As 'DAVO' albums are quite expensive, and not always available for non-European countries, I chose to make my own albums.
But first my books for my 'cancelled' collection.
I use regular stockbooks for this part of my collection. Again I stick to the colours I mentionned before in my country list. Asia is there shown in yellow, but for the album I don't have sufficient yellow albums of course.
So I use brownish albums.
In the pic below, I only have Iran and Thailand finished so far.
In my 'green' part (Australia and Pacific) I only started my album 'Papua New Guinea'.

Stockbooks - cancelled Asia and Papua

So how about my MNH stamps?
I told you that preprinted albums are (or can be quite expensive).
Making your own album takes more time, but is more fun of course.
There are several websites that offer free, or paid preprinted albums.
With a simple subscription, and a little fee (or free for certain countries), I made my own albums.
They are all in so called 'display books' with transparent pockets.
I chose 'neutral books' and not the coloured version, because not all desired colours were available, and in case one colour gets out of stock, I don't have to renew all album.

I'm still working step by step to those albums, but a little example for my India-collection.
Again, this books are only for my MNH collection (outside Europe):

Display books - India (part 1, 2, 3) - self made cover

Display album inside - Early issues of India

Display album inside - Modern India

Various display albums

Various display albums

Of course, this takes a lot of time, but ... i'm working on it.
the horizontal papers are albums that aren't finished yet...

bottom shelf, in the middle ... to be done...

to be continued ...