World Stamp Show-NY 2016

[troutdude]

HI,

My wife has never been to NYC, and its been a long long time for me, so we are going to try and go to the World Stamp Show-NY 2016.  Ive never been to any of the big ones held ever 10 years, so I think its my time.

Anyone else plan on attending?



thanks

td

[khj]

I was in NYC last month, so I guess I missed it by 1 year. Oh well.

[khj]

We must be thinking on the same wavelength here. I was going to post those stamps in the Philatelic News Fix thread! I was going to comment on how the stamps reminded me so much of the Russian "medals" series of the 1940s -- for better or for worse.

[darkormex]

I regret not purchasing at least a sheet of these stamps as they were available at the APS Stampshow here in Grand Rapids. My stamp agenda at the time was focused on other things.

I would like to say, however, that I will tentatively, possibly, maybe go to this show. I can see myself heading east and visiting the villages of my ancestors including Potter, Yates County NY, Pittsfield, MA and maybe visit our glorious Admin Bear in North Adams, MA.

[khj]

I sort of wish they wouldn't issue it so far ahead of time.

[darkormex]

Certainly good advertising but the message gets lost after the stamps run out. I agree...it should have been issued later and just in advance of the show.

[Philatarium]

I think I read that they're going to issue another stamp next year for the show, so this is not as bad as it seems.   (I was about to write, "... not as bad as it looks", but then, those designs are just awful.)  

I did buy some anyway to use on mailings of stamp purchases, to put some philatelic karma out there, but they are the least favorite stamps I've used in some time.

[khj]

Nothing against the Russians, but again they remind me way too much of the Russian medals series of the 1940s.

[darkormex]

Philatarium, I agree with you and khj, the designs are horrible and they look like Russian medals....which, coincidentally, North Korea copied in the 1950s...I know this because I was looking at them this morning....in fact North Korea could have come up with a better design than these stamps!

[khj]

I'm sure the two stamps looked good initially. Leave it to us party-poopers to give it 2 thumbs down. Sheesh, can't make any of us happy, can they?

[darkormex]

Aug 29, 2015 19:30:38 GMT -5 khj said:

I'm sure the two stamps looked good initially. Leave it to us party-poopers to give it 2 thumbs down. Sheesh, can't make any of us happy, can they?

In truth, does anyone else's opinion really matter? Seriously...why were we not consulted on the initial design specs?

[khj]

We're stamp collectors. What do we know. They know, either way, we're going to collect it. Let's face it -- they've got us figure out, and they also realize that they can save themselves some trouble and just ignore us to begin with.

k

[khj]

As for me, my main complaint is the lack of selvage markings. The glory days of selvage markings are over. Now, we either get blank selvage or a glorified header label. So bourgeoisie, leave nothing for us trash-can selvage-picking proletariat.

[darkormex]

Aug 29, 2015 20:01:05 GMT -5 khj said:

As for me, my main complaint is the lack of selvage markings. The glory days of selvage markings are over. Now, we either get blank selvage or a glorified header label. So bourgeoisie, leave nothing for us trash-can selvage-picking proletariat.

Oops....looks like I got you all wound up...I was actually just trying to be funny.  The design still sucks though.

[Philatarium]

Yes, they look like they were issued here:

[darkormex]

Hopefully New York won't look like that during the stampshow....

[khj]

Haven't I seen that on a North Korean stamp before? Or three, or ten, or fifty?

I've totally ruined this stamp issue. Sorry. I'm sure I've made it onto the WSS persona non grata list.

Now back to your originally scheduled "we're not Russian nor North Korean medals thread" (aka World Stamp Show-NY 2016)...

EDIT: Just for the record, the short fellow, 48th from the left in the 39th row... is NOT me.

[Philatarium]