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 39 years later I am still at it.

In 2008, 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 items is not productive.

The Exhibit

My exhibit of the Falkland Islands stamps covers the years 1878 to 1902 or more appropriately, the issues of the Queen Victoria era. 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. Watch WSP shows for this exhibit.