Here’s a quick look at a mix from Norway – I wish all mixes were as easy to sort as this one was.

If I happen to find nice large all-different mixes at a good price, I’ll often buy more than one lot in order to build up some trading stock for the future.  This lot of all-different Norway stamps is one such “doubles” mix.  I actually bought 3 different lots from the same seller, one mix of 800 different and two mixes of 680 different.

Almost all of the stamps will go directly in to the storage tin of stamps that are clean and ready to be catalogued.  The tiny pile of stamps are those that need soaking but have damage, so they can wait.  There are two larger piles of stamps that need soaking, one that goes in the “good” box and a smaller pile that goes in the “better” box, and then there’s a big pile that goes directly in to the storage tin.  Yay, no extra work needed!

I also bought a number of Denmark mixes from the same seller – 600 different, 800 different, 1000 different and 1200 different.  Hopefully they are all of the same high quality and there will be a rapid addition of stamps in quantity to my Denmark trading stock.