Almost a year. Almost a year since my last article. I've been busy! Should I feel guilty? I don't think so, it is my pet fun project after all. Life has been very busy and my stamps are now splitting time with collecting records and CDs, trying to learn aWow...3 months have flown by. No articles for 3 months...I've been busy. Part of the delay however was that I discovered after beginning this article that it was going to be a completely different article than I had originally intended...you'll see why below. The National Costume seriesMike at the Feature Philately YouTube channel reached out to me and suggested doing a research swap. He is a specialist in Bulgarian items, so he sent me a large packet of Bulgarian material, and I sent him some interesting Austrian stuff. He will be releasing a video on hisAs a few of you might have noticed, I haven't updated the Turngren Philately Twitter account in a while, and that's because I've been spending a lot of time on Mastodon. I'll probably be locking or deleting the Twitter account soon. Twitter seems to be on the decline - bothHere's an interesting pair of stamps that I found while sorting through some unfiled Austrian stuff. My first thought was "that's an interesting color for a cancel," but upon closer examination this isn't something I've ever seen. After closer inspection, I realized the cancel/overprint (I don't know which itOnce again, life has gotten in the way — and it’s been a long time since I’ve posted. I didn’t want to let this one wait any longer. Jeff at Fox Ridge Philately sent me a wonderful packet of goodies! I’ve gone through and identified almost allThere are plenty of instructions online for soaking stamps — and it doesn’t take a lot of research or any kind of special products to sort them. Some people use newsprint for drying and pressing, others use a range of plenty of other methods. My goal is not to writeThe above cover is the first post-war obliterated Reich stamp cover I’ve ever purchased (I did get another at Stampex as well). This series of stamps were issued immediately after WWII — the postal authority used the existing stock of Reich stamps and obliterated Hitler’s face (as well asI just got back from London — and what a whirlwind it was. I was able to time a trip with my wife to coincide with Stampex, and thankfully she was willing to spend the better part of a day by herself in London. I arrived at the Business Design CentreI have been going through and cataloguing my Bosnia-Herzegovina material lately. This mostly isn’t material that I’ve gone out of my way to get, but rather stuff that would be in the back of other Austria collections that I’ve broken down. I think there’s a single 