No no I haven't fled from Big Blue, but during summer time I left it aside, well stamps were getting in but I wasn't ranging them or verifying what I had or not.
So now with autumn passing away and winter settling in, I try to dedicate a part of my weekend (3 or 4 hours on two days) to Big Blue.
So it happened I had quite some stamps from Austria to look after.
I did a first run, thought I had them all verified, then stumbled upon a second cover with austrian stamps.
Then yesterday I discovered I had a binder with loose pages containing .... austrian stamps.
So here I go again.
Well for the moment I have been able to expand my austrian collection to 112 stamps or 15% of the 755 stamps.
And as nice addition while I was putting on the hinges and waiting for them to dry on my austrian stamps I added a few belgian stamps (now 40), my first 8 Newfoundland stamps !!, my first Egyptian stamp and one more for India (makes 12 in total).
So now I have 946 stamps in Big Blue, there might be a few hunderd ready in my feeder stockbooks but that's to be seen in the future.
Oh 946 stamps makes it 3 % complete.
I even had time to have a quick glance on the hungarian stamps I have waiting, will try to put hinges on them the coming evenings I hope.
Let's have a realistic goal : 1.000 stamps hinged in Big Blue for December 31st, 2017?
Anyway it takes quite some time to verify which stamp goes where on which page and then to put on the hinges and put them in the album so that might be tight after all.
And so what about Poland?
Well acquiring a Big Blue via the net may be interesting and the easiest way for europeans but you're unable to verify its completeness. The seller had told me that the american pages were missing but when I wanted to have a quick look (for 3, 4 stamps) on the polish pages they were not there.
That also explained the 0 in the excell sheet ;-)
Luckily Jim Jackson came forward and sent me the pages related to Poland.
Thanks so much Jim !!
To end my post : I have quite some austrian stamps double for the moment, will try to set up a page for eventual swaps if anyone's interested or cares;-)
