Wow, a few other stamp collectors. That's cool. for stamps I collect a few areas, mostly the Official stamps from 1873- 1884 focusing on plate varieties.
The one on the right is from plate 40, used on an experimental steam powered press. I found this one with the small bit of plate number showing in 2012. Got to write an article about it since nobody had shown one in print since 1932!
The left one is a foreign entry and only about 75 were sold from the special printing. More rare than the upside down airplane stamp
but not worth anywhere near as much
I also collect way too much other stuff. Not all actively at the same time, but off and on depending on availability of stuff and my whims.
Bicycles - Mostly ones built for special purposes for professional or national teams between about 1983 and 1999. But I have a bunch of others ranging from the 1890's to fairly recent. (About 80 depending if you count ones I'm finished restoring/rebuilding only or all the project ones as well.
1920's motorpacing bike.
1984 US national team bike built for the team time trial at the LA Olympics. The team finished third, and was a 4 man team. They built 12 bikes, so about a 1/3 chance it was actually raced there. Almost every part is special or modified rebuilding it took me about 5 years to research and make the parts. (And I do mean make the parts, not just take a sketch to a machine shop I had a welder weld the handlebars but the rest I did myself. )
Hey, it's not another collection, they're sports collectibles!
And the usual coins, comics, postcards, old photos, ephemera, old bottles/insulators etc
And the less usual - early home computers, shortwave radio, antique machinery etc.
Plus a bunch of "stuff" that I just thought was cool.
Steve B
Plus the cate