How I Started Collecting Falkland Islands

I was a freshman in college (U of Tennessee, Knoxville) and I was telling a friend about my collection. At the time it was a total of 5 volumes; including Israel, a scattering of recent US, and some foreign.
This “friend” looks at it in disgust and said, “real collectors specialize in something, they do not try to collect the world.” I pulled my catalog off the shelf and opened it at random. It fell open to Falkland Islands. Over 30 years later I am still at it.

In 2010, I am redefining the exhibit even further. The new exhibit is should expand from one-frame of one penny stamps to 4 frames covering the entire QV period.

I have accumulated enough material to fill 6 frames but would rather tell a tight story. Showing 8 different postion pieces of a cheap item is not productive.

The Scott's catalog numbers these issues 1 through 21 with several varieties. Stanley Gibbon's numbers them from 1 to 42 with considerably more varieties.

The Heijtz catalog, which I think is one of the most comprehensive, list numbers to 15 but goes into excruciating detail of the varieties in each value. There being about 18 color variations, these 2 kinds of bisects and constant varieties.