Potential unusual stamps giveaway

I gave up stamp collecting in the 1990s and sold most of my collection, especially that part listed in the Scott catalogue. I still have hundreds of stamps I am not interested in selling but would like to dispose of. I can't bear to throw them away so I thought maybe the stamp collectors among Numista members would appreciate a competition for them. My idea is to make 1 set or stamp available at a time, maybe more than 1 set for the same topic. I would have the interested members PM me with their addresses and have a pre-identified number of submission received win the particular prize, like the 5th submission received. I would include scans of the stamps available and state the condition -- mint never hinged, hinged, used, cancelled to order, damaged. The stamps are mostly listed in Michel catalogues, Gibbons catalogues and Yvert catalogues. Scott may have listed more of the newer stamps. No United States stamps.

Some types I have are sand dune (United Arab Emirates states) countries (before formation of the UAE) commemoratives for people such as Napoleon, Beethoven, and artists (some in gold and silver foil), Equatorial Guinea commemoratives including really scarce Copernicus, which I could find the foil issues only in cancelled to order condition, Guyana old British Guiana stamp overprinted for a maritime anniversary, very many Venezuelan souvenir sheets for Simon Bolivar, Bolivian souvenir sheets for Bolivar, Uruguayan souvenir sheets including high values not valid for postage, Java used set on piece for Indonesian Republic, Indonesia Republic Universal Postal Union anniversary souvenir sheets (some perforations separated; also overprinted RIS for use in United States of Indonesia--Dutch area), not issued Yemen Arab Republic for Red Cross anniversary, Gabon imperforate strip of flower stamps not known in literature as imperforate, privately issued souvenir card from Chile for anniversary of postage stamp founder Rowland Hill, and many more too numerous to detail now.

I'd like to get some feedback on what people think of this idea or if they have other suggestions for a competition.

Will

I think it's always more interesting that the participants in a game are actually involved. The lottery that you offer does not require a real participation of the players. In general, the easiest for this kind of game is to ask more or less easy questions.
The time factor can also add a bit of spice, for example: this game is limited in time and will only be valid this weekend until Sunday midnight. It is therefore important to warn future players that such Friday at such time the game will start for a limited period of 3 days.
Then the public; Numista is not a stamp collection site but there are several collectors, I even made on swap with only stamps on Numista! You can simultaneously open your game to other stamp sites you are registered in.
Finally, for the participation and the gain of the greatest number you can put several prizes in a game, by asking about ten questions simultaneously, each player only entitled to one winning answer. For the dynamics of the game, it is better to favor direct exchanges and not by PM

All that remains is ... to find the questions:
- From the easiest ones : This country flooded the CTO stamp market at the end of the 20th century


To the most difficult: This territory is a region located around the current Lithuanian city of Klaipėda which enjoyed a special status between WW1 and WW2: It was created after the First World War by the Treaty of Versailles, then placed by the League of Nations under French administration.

I think your method may prove very time consuming to you and could take years to dispose of your collection.

I would be interested in some of your stamps however as an advanced collector I would only be interested in postaly used stamps. You might find that with others as well they only want certain types of stuff.

To sell as a collection you would take a heartbreaking loss but breaking down into subsets would take a lot of time.

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​Your stamps - you make the rules.
Some of the stamps you describe - like the sand dune countries, sound very interesting.

Thanks to all who replied so far. Your ideas are valuable and I will give them some thought.

Will

I think you should keep the best of your stamps (that are sentimental to you) and slowly give them away to the members here.

I don’t collect stamps but I normally give them to my parents because they haven't really collected them since the mid 90s and sadly in the mid 90s our newly built home one of the water pipes burst and sprayed water onto them and ruined some of them. A couple of the stamps went to the trash and the rest were placed into a cupboard for them to dry until late 2020 when the stamps finally dried.

Quote: "Worldwide collection"[...] sadly in the mid 90s our newly built home one of the water pipes burst and sprayed water onto them [...] the rest were placed into a cupboard for them to dry until late 2020 when the stamps finally dried.

Ok, you're trying to make us believe that the stamps got wet in the mid '90s and it took them around 25 years to dry?
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Quote: "Worldwide collection"[...] sadly in the mid 90s our newly built home one of the water pipes burst and sprayed water onto them [...] the rest were placed into a cupboard for them to dry until late 2020 when the stamps finally dried.

​Ok, you're trying to make us believe that the stamps got wet in the mid '90s and it took them around 25 years to dry?
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Yes because it was damp to the touch until recently.​

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Quote: "Worldwide collection"[...] sadly in the mid 90s our newly built home one of the water pipes burst and sprayed water onto them [...] the rest were placed into a cupboard for them to dry until late 2020 when the stamps finally dried.

​​Ok, you're trying to make us believe that the stamps got wet in the mid '90s and it took them around 25 years to dry?
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​Yes because it was damp to the touch until recently.​

​I do believe you ... I've heard of this place where it always rains ... must be really moist there
It also recently underwent a divorce of some kind, so probably also really sad right now



And on-topic
Will, I'm looking forward to your give-away/competition as my daughter got into stamp-collecting last year

In torrid countries, it might also take a while do dry

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Quote: "Worldwide collection"[...] sadly in the mid 90s our newly built home one of the water pipes burst and sprayed water onto them [...] the rest were placed into a cupboard for them to dry until late 2020 when the stamps finally dried.

​​​Ok, you're trying to make us believe that the stamps got wet in the mid '90s and it took them around 25 years to dry?
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​​Yes because it was damp to the touch until recently.​

​​I do believe you ... I've heard of this place where it always rains ... must be really moist there
​It also recently underwent a divorce of some kind, so probably also really sad right now
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​And on-topic
​Will, I'm looking forward to your give-away/competition as my daughter got into stamp-collecting last year

​Yep rains almost everyday and cold but on some occasions we do get decent whether and when I gets warm most people get sunburn or the opposite in winter where half the country grids to a halt.

Also after the divorce chaos started and that caused the country to split in political opinions which I won’t get into to avoid arguments here.

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​Probably thousands of years because Mummies from ancient Egypt still has to complete the process of drying up.

Rosalia Lombardo is the one pictured and probably the most intact specimen of a human that died from complications relating to the Spanish Flu.

Interesting because there is many persevere bodies from around the world some are innocent regular people or supreme leaders such as Lenin, Chairman Mao and Kim il Sung.

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​​And on-topic
​​Will, I'm looking forward to your give-away/competition as my daughter got into stamp-collecting last year

​​About the Stamp give away do you mean it to the original poster or to me because my stamps are actually my parents (I don’t collect stamps) and they want to keep them.

​Is your name Will?

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​​​Will, I'm looking forward to your give-away/competition as my daughter got into stamp-collecting last year
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​​​About the Stamp give away do you mean it to the original poster or to me because my stamps are actually my parents (I don’t collect stamps) and they want to keep them.
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​​Is your name Will?

​That’s the problem when men multitask always doesn’t end well.

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​​​Yep rains almost everyday - No it doesn't
and cold but on some occasions we do get decent whether and when I gets warm most people get sunburn No it doesn't
or the opposite in winter where half the country grids to a halt - No it definitely doesn't

Also after the divorce chaos started and that caused the country to split in political opinions which I won’t get into to avoid arguments here.​​​​​​ - which country are you talking about

Please refrain from spewing utter rubbish

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​​​​Yep rains almost everyday - No it doesn't
​and cold but on some occasions we do get decent whether and when I gets warm most people get sunburn No it doesn't
​or the opposite in winter where half the country grids to a halt - No it definitely doesn't
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​Also after the divorce chaos started and that caused the country to split in political opinions which I won’t get into to avoid arguments here.​​​​​​ - which country are you talking about
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​Please refrain from spewing utter rubbish

It might be different in your area but the 1st one is true especially between Autumn 2019 and February 2020.

The second one I might have taken a bit too far but
For the Winter that’s true especially around the airports and motorways.

Finally the last one would be left for you to debate because I don’t want to cause civil unrest here.
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Anyway back on topic…

Total aside though, is there something like numista for stamp collectors or is that not available? I stumbled into numista a few years ago and it pretty much ended my excel spreadsheet making. Very handy, but not sure what people use to catalog their stamps as I mostly only touch coins. I only have a few to look up so it's not a monster task for me to undertake. Just need a starting point.

Quote: "Linketake42"​Total aside though, is there something like numista for stamp collectors or is that not available? I stumbled into numista a few years ago and it pretty much ended my excel spreadsheet making. Very handy, but not sure what people use to catalog their stamps as I mostly only touch coins. I only have a few to look up so it's not a monster task for me to undertake. Just need a starting point.

​See here:

https://en.numista.com/forum/topic112079.html

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Quote: "Linketake42"​Total aside though, is there something like numista for stamp collectors or is that not available? I stumbled into numista a few years ago and it pretty much ended my excel spreadsheet making. Very handy, but not sure what people use to catalog their stamps as I mostly only touch coins. I only have a few to look up so it's not a monster task for me to undertake. Just need a starting point.

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​https://en.numista.com/forum/topic112079.html

​Thank, I will eventually check those out.