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Like many collectors on this forum, I've returned to collecting after an absence of many years. As I've tried to re-sort and place material in my "new" collection from my "old" collection, I've been surprised by the number of items I've found that have surprised me. No idea where I got them, why or from whom? Most of the items have been pleasant surprises but it is amazing to me how they found their way into my albums and stock books in the first place. Perhaps I should start worrying about dementia but it WAS a long time ago and I'm wondering how many "returning" collectors have had similar experiences. It would be fun to hear experiences and see some of the items.

I've read several threads where people return to collecting, post up pictures of their prized collection only to be told that a Jatz cracker is worth more.

BIG suprise for them.

D.

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This was a surprise for a different reason.





I put up these scans a while back, and suggested that it might be worth around AUD 20 as a complete sheet. It came from a junk lot, so I suspected junk. Then a very astute Stampboarder (Traralgon3844) asked for close ups.





...and it turned out to be a complete COIL sheet, which broken down into imprints, coil strips pairs and blocks would retail at around AUD 400. Pleasant surprise indeed. And no, I don't know which junk lot it came from. There have been too many.

Norm

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This pair of stamps, plated as 4L22/28 sat in my collection possibly for years as unidentified mint examples of SG 102 - single watermark New Guinea.

A couple of years ago I decided to plate all unidentified copies. Much to my surprise these turned out to be inverted single watermark examples that had no catalogue number. There are several known copies of SG 65 (Third setting) including a vertical strip of 3 and untold ones of SG 119w (Large Multiple) but no listed 102w.

In 40 years of collecting NWPI these are the first two copies I have seen. Last September I contacted Hugh Jeffries of SG to have these listed. Since no copies have been sold through an auction no catalogue value has been assigned.

In September of this year the 4L22 copy will be auctioned off. Its companion will remain in my collection. Hopefully no additional copies will be found.

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Anyone else accumulating NWPI material for research?