tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702294928145374276.post1084148111601394042..comments2024-01-03T12:22:42.314-08:00Comments on Trevor Pateman's Philately Blog: New Issue Collecting, Heritage Collecting and Philatelytrevor patemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01843120497490896242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702294928145374276.post-74491525555964214672014-01-24T16:27:49.503-08:002014-01-24T16:27:49.503-08:00Trevor
Hope you don't mind some unabashed ent...Trevor<br /><br />Hope you don't mind some unabashed enthusiasm about your Russian and East European blog- it is clearly one of the best regional stamp blogs extant. <br /><br />Although I collect classical WW, I find something of interest almost every time. The New Issue collecting and heritage collecting post is a case in point.<br /><br />Consequently, I am adding a link for my Big Blue 1840-1940 blog. <br /><br />http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />Jim Jackson<br />Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702294928145374276.post-38638058573901814342014-01-19T12:05:21.236-08:002014-01-19T12:05:21.236-08:00Ah, Vertical Collecting: just pick a geographical ...Ah, Vertical Collecting: just pick a geographical location (as small as a city or as big as a region) and collect anything from that area. Peter Ashford converted me to that style of collecting decades ago, but it's interesting that the field hasn't made more progress. Transcaucasia, Siberia, St.Petersburg and the Baltic area, that's it. I hear Mikhal Lapushkin is about to publish a postmark study of the Volga German area, to which I look forward eagerly, and I'm still chasing those Crimean postmarks myself, but apart from that... I think part of the problem is that material from anything other than the big cities just doesn't pop up that often. Kiev, Odessa, Warsaw - those you will be able to collect easily, but if you collect postmarks from, say, Kem or Kherson you're in for a long wait sometimes. My solution: collect lots of different things!Dr.Ivohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08909156720024759785noreply@blogger.com