"My life would have been different, if only ...I COULD SELL MY STAMP COLLECTION"

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 22, 2014 at 2:13pm

I started my stamp collection when I was about 8 years old. I stopped when I was about 12 because I discovered something else*, but kept it intact. Then I started up again when I was in my mid-30's as my Dr advised me to take up a hobby (that did not involve drinking**) and would help me relax. For about 15 years when we lived in Holland and there were good stamp markets ad fairs and auctions about, and, importantly, when I had some money, I added to it in a systematic way. Then it got put into cold storage again, where it largely remains. Voilà!

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* girls

** and/or women

Comment by stripygoose on October 22, 2014 at 7:06am

Why and when did you collect them in the first place?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 22, 2014 at 4:53am

Stamps SHOULD be re-cyled, re-used and re-circulated. Sometimes I include the Artistamps that people send me on my collage cards -- it seems a pity not to do so.

Comment by Shellie Lewis | moved 2020! on October 21, 2014 at 11:14pm

I have a postcard and mail art trader friend who seems to have inherited a stamp collection. She sticks them on postcards and envelopes. ^^' Seems to be sending a whole collection through the mail.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 20, 2014 at 4:38am

Well, well...Erotic Postcards...whatever turns you on...

I get round the slippiness of vinyl by giving it an undercoat/primary coat or two of gesso. the acryclic paint sticls to it OK. However, if you need some of the original vinyl black-ness in your composition, this can be tricky...

Comment by Petrolpetal on October 19, 2014 at 9:18pm

The silly stamps have me laughing out loud...but the erotic collection was what really caught my eye. Very funny and clever! Re: the vinyl - no problems with the round so far. The shiny slipperiness has been more of a problem from time to time!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 19, 2014 at 8:28pm

PS. Sorry, there was a typo. The correct link is

www.val-herman-art. eu

Then go to Stamp Art

Then go to Silly Stamps.

I'm not that organised at all. I put stamp odds and ends and bits and pieces in a large box. One day when I was sorting through it to find something, i decided to put aside the silly stamps that I found. Then I mounted each on it's own postcard size page and wrote a short caption for it.

Am glad to hear that you are having fun with vinyl art. I'm most cutious to see what your 1, 2 or 3 will look like. Do you have trouble adjusting to a round format? I still do, even though I must have made about 75 bits of vinyl art by now.

Comment by Petrolpetal on October 19, 2014 at 7:40pm

PS I think your stamp link is faulty - the interwebz tells me no such address exists

Comment by Petrolpetal on October 19, 2014 at 7:33pm

I love your silly stamps - esp the Polish boob job pair! Your collection must be fantastically well organised for you to have been able to locate them so readily! I am on vinyl art piece 2 (1 and 2 are completed) - and I have my ideas all sorted for item 3. I realised the cost of sending wld be pretty much the same regardless of how many I send (within reason)...and its strangely addictive. So far none of mine are even remotely similar to yours- its quite amazing how creativity works!!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 19, 2014 at 6:39pm

Hi Petrolpetal!No, I have billions of stamps, with specialist collections of early GB; GB postal history; Vanada and Provinces; New Zealand; ex-British Commonwealth; Australia and States; etc. They have a high (for me) catalogue value, but it's meaningless in the market-place.

(The 50 refers to this piece of vinyl. Tomotrow's will be 51).

On nudes and dancers, these are from my Silly Stamps series (more on www.val-herma,-art.eu, under the 'Stamp Art' heading:

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