Robstine Stamps- For fine used stamps

20th November 2020

Some weeks ago, I bought a collection of Angola. I knew it has a lot of mint included and it was a little bit disorganised. However when I got to work on it today, I was pleasantly surprised. The collection was very comprehensive and offered up lots of stamps I did not have beforehand. The early Crown issues were mostly good quality which is hard to find. I now have a quandary because there was a lot of mint and unexpectedly some highly catalogued singles and sets. I am going to have to see what to do with the mint stock!   

19th November 2020

It was some time since I last bought recent USA material. So I asked my main USA supplier to prepare things for me. He is sending me stamps in several envelopes. To begin with I received early 2019 stamps and blocks, including the (very) high values. More to arrive soon.

17th November 2020

The latest Australian new issues to arrive consist of two sets. The Civil Aviation issue has two values plus a self-adhesive stamp and a mini sheet. Then there are two self-adhesive stamps for When We Connect.  

A duplicated lot of Finland came my way, covering the period 1901 to the 1920a. They have now been checked for watermarks, perfs etc and I have a few new items in my list. Notable were two perf 11 x 12.5 stamps from the 1881 arms type. 

I have just noticed that SG have made it a lot more complicated. Previously there were three sets of their type 19: no watermark, Swastika watermark and posthorn watermark. Now they list backwards, forwards, upright, upside down etc etc. I have no immediate plans to list my stamps like this, but if you collect them this new way, let me know and if there is sufficient interest, I may relent! 

It was time to sort out some Ceylon, from 1868-1935. Not many new items but good back-up stock. There was one particularly interesting item (SG 233i with space between T and A). 

Lastly I sorted quantities of Large and Small Queens of Canada. There are quite a few new items in my list now. There were a lot of excellent copies among these.