Here’s a photo showing the progress made so far while sorting another one of my recent mixture purchases.  Like the others, it’s from a country that has been rather weak in my collection.  In this case, weak enough that anything that needs to be soaked goes into the “soak it right away” pile.

As with the others I’ve highlighted on this blog, the percentage of damaged stamps is pleasantly low.  Once again, the stamps which need soaking but are damaged are in the upper left pile, whereas the remaining stamps which need to be soaked are in the upper right pile.  The lower row contains the stamps which are clean and ready to go into my collection.  On the right are the gummed stamps – there are more of these this time in comparison to the other countries I’ve shown.  On the left, a nice pile of mostly definitives.  There is much more variety among the stamps which need to be soaked, but I’m happy with these stamps that are already clean because I’m a fan of engraved stamps, and this lot contains a good number of fine two-colour engravings.  There’s a single stamp in the wrong pile so far, it belongs in the Lebanon box.  There have been a couple of Jordanian stamps overprinted Palestine as well, once they get soaked they’ll be put into their own glassine envelope since that’s a separate country listing in the Scott catalogue.  I don’t have very many of those yet, so it’s good to get a few more.

Progress progress progress!