My recent purchase of modern Hong Kong stamps

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Hi Pete and Sheila, I am glad you posted a video again. I am always looking forward to your videos. Many of the Hong Kong stamps you showed are beautiful and very colourful. I especially like those with metal colours and plating on them. The New Year stamps are always interesting. Thanks for the video!

[@ourdadsstamps]

Thanks for your comments, I'm glad you enjoy them.

[@chrislovesstamps]

Hi Pete and Sheila, welcome back. Hope you both had a wonderful stay in Britain. You bought some really interesting stamps. Quite frankly I am only a but familiar with Hong Kong stamps before 1998, so it is interesting to see these.

[@ourdadsstamps]

Thanks for your comments. I generally focus on pre 1970 British Commonwealth, as per Stanley Gibbons catalogue, but have recently "discovered" the modern Hong Kong ones and have been impressed.

[@stone807]

Hi Pete and Sheila, It is great to see you back again. Could I ask you what would be the best Catalogue for varieties and errors of King George V Profile Head Issue

[@ourdadsstamps]

Hi, Thanks for your comments. I only use Stanley Gibbons catalogues so can only advise on those. If you mean KGV UK issues, there is a specialist 4 Kings catalogue that is excellent and possibly one of the most detailed catalogues you are likely to get for this period. www.stanleygibbons.com/products/specialised-stamp-catalogue-king-edward-vii-george-vi-14th-e-3 If you mean KGV commonwealth stamps then you can't do much better than the Commonwealth & British Empire catalogue. www.stanleygibbons.com/products/2024-commonwealth-british-empire-stamps-catalogue-1840-1970 As always, neither are particularly cheap but if you are serious about collecting you really need one. It is often worth looking out for older issues which have mostly the same information, however the stated values may have changed. Good luck

[@stone807]

Hi Pete thanks for the reply. I have the four Kings 14th Edition. I am collecting irish overprint issue. I found a few frame breaks in a couple of set that I have and looking in catalogues too see if I can find them in catalogues no luck so far. Thanks for helping

[@ourdadsstamps]

@@stone807 Have you tried looking for an Irish study group. They might have more info. I got my specialist Maltese catalogue from the Malta study group. There may be a similar group for Irish stamps

[@taimanchan9899]

Hi Pete and Sheila, I am from Hong Kong, came across you channel the first time. The Chinese Zodiac specimens don't worth quite a lot to be honest. The post office just gave them out as presents to those who regularly order collective stamps from them. They were usually sold for a few US dollar (10 to 50 in HKD) in philately shops. The gold foil, silver foil and silk paper stamps are considered as scams among some philatelists 😂. It's just the post office trying to do something fancy so that they can put a 50x value on the little piece of paper. Then for the collective stamp booklets, are they mint? Or were they tear out, cut out, or soak out from a first day cover (missing back gum)? If I didn't remember wrongly, the post office never sold those in separate so it looks weird to me, but they do sell them like miniature sheets sticked on a first day cover. If the booklet sheets are obtained in the above ways, I am afraid that their value would be much less than a normal booklet. Talking about fancy stamps and gimmicks, there was a set of Chinese New Year stamp back in 1999 when they printed the stamps as a scratch card. Basically they wanted philatelists to scratch the gold paint and to reveal different blessing sentences behind. Philatelists just hate those, however, because it inevitably damages the stamps when one scratch it. They really overdid that.

[@ourdadsstamps]

Thanks for all the information. It's good to have some local knowledge, and yes I've seen the "scratch card" stamps and really didn't like them.

[@indetif839]

“Honk”? Please check your spelling.

[@ourdadsstamps]

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