tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post5530506276743891560..comments2024-03-18T13:48:15.176+00:00Comments on Commonwealth Stamps Opinion: 590. The Commonwealth's Greediest Stamp Producers 2014.White Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-83066205091000364682015-06-24T07:53:41.742+00:002015-06-24T07:53:41.742+00:00Stewie1911, thank you for your interesting comment...Stewie1911, thank you for your interesting comment. You feel that miniature sheets of poor quality (frequently) will never be worthless since they are issued in small numbers and there is always a certain number of collectors who are interested in obtaining such items. You are clearly right but I believe that even thematic collectors will eventually see through what is being offered to them - poor quality material with unnecessarily high face values produced in limited numbers because there are not enough interested buyers who wish to buy such material. I think it is all a matter of what happens to stamp collecting in the next few years - certainly most collectors in Britain are men in late middle age or of old age. What happens when we all die off? I think that there are much more appealing items for any future collectors to buy rather than second rate pieces of sticky paper. Under no circumstances should a present-day buyer look on such new issues as any sort of investment - they should spend their money on them if they like them and think that they will enhance their collections. White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-71359086073124215262015-06-24T06:32:48.518+00:002015-06-24T06:32:48.518+00:00All those mint sheets will not become worthless. T...All those mint sheets will not become worthless. There will allways be a demand from topical collectors who don't care which country name is on them and who issued them. Also the printing runs of IGPC and Stamperija stamps are very low. Maybe only a few thousand for each issue. It can be very hard to find one of there issues from 10 or 15 years back. Sometimes I have a small batch of IGPC material in my Delcampe shop. Those are the fastest selling items.Stewie1980https://www.blogger.com/profile/17215449288925099410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-68847616925757696922015-06-21T18:02:48.249+00:002015-06-21T18:02:48.249+00:00No doubt! For the local Land-Rover club newslette...No doubt! For the local Land-Rover club newsletter I wrote an article on the infringement as part of a larger series on the topic. At the dramatic rise in uncancelled stamps coming through the American, British and Canadian postal systems to my mailbox, I could probably use some of this Baltic and US, Land Rover themed stamps upon envelopes here and get nice cancellations! Regards from Canada,dkennerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05542543752747235704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-83688752577900841322015-06-20T23:05:26.698+00:002015-06-20T23:05:26.698+00:00Dear dkenner, thank you very much for your interes...Dear dkenner, thank you very much for your interesting comment. You are of course right about the images that are used on some of these stamps and copyright infringement but those who carry this out seem to go along with impunity. Bad news - I fear that within a short time of you publishing your comment countless "Landrover" stamp designs were being churned out from computers in USA and the Baltic states! White Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968199477827266643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2005756131065514338.post-75036418706992145692015-06-20T21:59:53.892+00:002015-06-20T21:59:53.892+00:00Interesting list. I am not sure whether to be in ...Interesting list. I am not sure whether to be in awe of the current New Zealand collector or to have tears. This explosion since the Nineteen Seventies is what caused several friends and I to abandon current releases for any country and concentrate on the period from 1840 to the beginning of the Seventies. For me, the exception is topical, stamps with a Land-Rover on them, but I probably shouldn't mention that, least there be a sudden flood of those stamps to fulllfill a possible demand in an extremely small market segment, If anything, this flood of wall paper may have value in genuine postally used copies, unlike the never hinged mint which will approach being worthless. As a tangential observation, some of these companies not only create a flood of stamps, but at times have taken images right off of websites, which implies some breach of the Bern Convention on rights infringement of said image. Regards from Canadadkennerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05542543752747235704noreply@blogger.com