Thailand Stamp Catalog on STAMPEDIA

We proudly announce we have released our new catalog and the new country is Thailand.


We call this release as "project Bangkok" just because it's our goal to release this catalog before the begining of Bangkok stamp show "Bangkok 2010".



We changed the system to build Stamp catalog on June and the new system works well.

We can also have time to make this new Thailand catalog better before Bangkok2010.

We're making a Thailand catalog.

   

 We Stampedia Project is now making a catalog of stamps of Thailand.

As you know, this August, in Bangkok, Thailand , there'll be a World Stamp Exhibition BANGKOK 2010.

It's our goal to release this catalog in July to celebrate this event.

 

The result of RAPP auction

The result of RAPP auction

 

I've recently received the auction results of RAPP, stamp auction house in Switzerland.


It says the total amount of their last auction was 17.2 million CHF including buyers'premium(20%)and VAT(7.6%).17.2 million CHF is 16 million USD.



Some says philately has lost fascination and the number of stamp collecting people decrease.

But to see 16 million USD at one time auction , that rumor is far from what it is now.



To tell the weakness in philately that is the lack of new collectors.

The improvement of top page!

  

Today we have changed some program of top page.


Our top page was rather slow and I think many Stampedia users don't like it just because it is slow!!!



The reason of slow speed is caused of the speed of blog display program.So we decided to display at top page non-blog area first and after a while blog area appears.Please see the attached two web shots.



This change will help both of user who want to use catalog of certain country and one who want to see blogs.

Bug fixes of stamp image display (UK, Germany and Eire)

 I appreciate all of you to use Stampedia .




In the project LONDON released at the end of May, we failed to coax stamp image files and text databases. Some still can not be seen , however it goes better these days.

The contribution page of stamp.

Do you know every stamp page of Stampedia have a contribution page and you can upload the image of your items of the stamp?




As I am collecting stamps of old German states , I contribute some images of my collection of Bergedorf.


http://www.stampedia.net/stamp/catalogue/stamp,45946/



Bergedorf is one of "dead countries" and is a part of Germany now as you know.I especially like the cover because used and covers are much rare than mint/unused stamps in collecting Bergedorf stamps.That is because you can use Bergedorf stamp in very short times (1861 - 1867)

We add stamps of 3 countries to Stampedia

As we have announced , we've just added stamps of UK,Germany and ireland to stampedia.

We are very late for the release but anyway we did.Now you can check 5 countries 43,715 stamps on Stampedia instead of 2 countries 17,475 stamps.



We have alredy found we made some mistake when we uploade image files and you can not see some of them. We have almost all the images of mainland UK,Germany and ireland so we want to improve them in a week this time.

Stamps of LAO

As a gerenal collector as well as Stampedia webmaster , I've put almost all the stamps of LAO into my Lindner album. I got perfect collection of LAO at Christoph Gaertner auction last year and this collection contains most of the souvenior sheet in early times. Of course there are some missing stamps in it , I found and get some of them at ebay.



When I put stamps of new country , I also study the country on Wikipedia. Getting new knowledge is exciting.

There are some portrait of king on the LAO stamp in 50's and 60's.

After the Vietnam war however , communism abolished the monarchy , look&feel of LAO stamp has completely changed (after July 1975).



Study from price change of stamps tells me there were twice inflation in LAO.

First time is around 1990 when the cold war ends and the other is around 2000 of asian currency crisis.



Now we start scanning and making text databese of them and we will exhibit LAO catalog in our Project.Bangkok (this August).

How I re-start philately.

I started collecting stamps again just 2 years and half ago after 20 years absence from philately.



I've not completely lost interest on stamps during the time , so I have stored all the stamps , covers and albums into the stockyards. I also made certain stamp related homepage during the time , I've never bought stamps from dealers and auctions however.Business fascinated me much more than stamps during the time. I have almost forgotten how to use tweezers , Hinge !!



After retirement from the former company, I travelled around the world and one day I remembered my hobby of Junior days. I checked stamps on Google and found there're many stamps sold on eBay. As I was a leader of internet industries ,of course I knew eBay, but this is the first time I start using eBay and that day is in the middle of August 2007.



I've been collecting stamps eagerly from then and I found many dealers began to have web-site. A few of them has good interface , but it is much better to get stamps on the internet from forein countries than to get stamps by fax and postal mail 20 years ago.About payment the situation is much better , now I can use paypal instead of expensive and useless wire transfer.



On the other hand, I felt much inconvinient on getting knowledge of philately.There are some stamp catalog or stamp community on the internet , I want Worldwide stamp catalog with all the images and all the varietys .If it is free and multi-languaged , it's better.This is why I'm working for stampdia project.

The outlook of Stampedia this year

Today I show you our next project. We call this project "Bangkok".

There'll be an asian international philatelic exhibition at Bangkok,Thailand this August.We're worried about the political confusion of Bangkok and have not decided to go there , however we're now making catalog of Thailand and some more countries around.



As the ecnomy of Thailand becomes bigger and bigger every year, stamps of Thailand becomes more popular. Some of the early stamps are really rare and hard to get.There are also British stamp with overprinted letter"B" before the start of Thailand stamp issue.

These stamps are called "Bangkok stamp" and of course rare.



This is the first time stampedia exhibit stamps of asian countries and we're happy to show our policy to exhibit all the stamps over the world not only European stamps.

We will tell you the situation of project Bangkok on this web.

LONDON2010 report

You can see LONDON 2010 at the business design centre near Angel station of the subway until this weekend , though it is the last day of my stay in London today.



I've met many friends here again and also I got new friedns in this four days, so I can spend wonderful days and wants to be more (at least twmo more days!!).



London 2010 was beyond my expectation , I was impressed by the exhibition of competition especially on the 1840-1841 UK collections with many essays and covers of Penny Black ,Pence Blue . Some one watching this collection beside me said the exhibitor of this great collection starts collecting around 2001. I feel sympathy just because I start collecting stamps 2 years and half ago.



I've also been to many dealer's booth. There I found many stamps of rarity.I bought some and I'll also buy some from home when I'm back.(I found Finland Military 1983 ovpt. stamps at a dealer's booth what I long wanted to get.)



As you know I'm a general collector to make Stampedia, I also collect Old German States bisides. Many German & Switzerland people advise me in making collections especially covers and descriptions. It will help me when I exhibit for the international philatelic exhibition next year.



Anyway I have to leave London , that is all the pity for me now.



PS IMAGE:We gave people a pamphlet of Stamepdia at the booth.

LONDON 2010 starts!

London philatelic event starts today at the business design centre and we "stampedia" made a demonstration at booth no.109 thanks to Christoph Gaertner Auction House ,Germany. We've just released the service and few people knows our services , so we just play the video repeatedly. We hope some of the visitors become a user of our service.I'm planning to be and make a demonstration here until Monday.

Stamp Catalog of UK,Ireland and Germany

As I wrote on the blog on Apr.28 , we thought to start stamp catalog of UK , Ireland and Germany soon. We even thought we could start it before London 2010 exhibition , however we can not achieve it unfortunately this time.



I think Germany is one of the most difficult and interesting countries both to collect them and to make a catalog of them. There were many German States before German empire. There are also many occupied stamps related to two times war such as SAAR and East Germany. I want to list German Local stamps of 1945-46 too and it is so huge volume!



Stamps of UK are interesting in another way. Many territories has achieved independence ,there are still many overseas territories of Great Britain now and they spread all over the world. Gibraltar is in Western Europe, Falkland isle. is in Southern America while St.Helena is in the Altantic Ocean.The stamps of some of the territories are obviously too much volumes in compare with population and industries there , we want to show all of the stamps issued up to 2005 this time.



When we are going to buy stamps to make a catalog of certain country, to complete or not is a big issue.It is difficult to distinguish good stamps and bad ones.



We will exhibit stamp catalog of UK,Ireland and Germany in this May!

There'll be a big international stamp show in LONDON this weekend.

Hello. Dear Stampedia users!

As you know there'll be a big international stamp show in LONDON this weekend.



Not only philatelists in UK but from all over the world will come to see the show and I also join the show of course and want to see philatelic friends again there.



This year there'll be another big international stamp show in Bangkok (4th-12th Aug.), Lisbon (1st-10th Oct.) and Johanesburg (27th-31th Oct.). I want to join at least one of them to see you all!

Stampedia ver 0.2 ( project LONDON) has just released.

Finally, we can manage to release Stampedia ver 0.2 .

We named and called this version "project LONDON" because we want to release it before LONDON 2010 philatelic event.



We've started Blog and SNS service today. You can make your philatelic blogs on Stampedia and you can update your stamp items such as used stamps or entire to the France and Monaco catalog.Please try it!



We also think to start stamp catalog of UK , Ireland and Germany soon. They include Old Germany and UK territories of the world such as Falkland isle. , Gibraltar and so on of course.



We've been using twitter for announcing the release of Stampedia but from now on we use this blog for it , so please check it!