Kiloware arrived

Yesterday my Great Britain kiloware arrived and I am quite pleased with it. It is 2 kilos total. I ordered 1 kilo of GB closely trimmed, unpicked mixture, and 1 kilo of GB trimmed close, (in order to see the difference between the 2 mixes). It was ordered from a charity in GB.
It is mainly very recent, and in excellend condition. It appears as if damaged material was removed where it was noticed, as this mix has less than a normal percentage of damaged that I see in kiloware from charities or office mixes.
Here are scans of a representative sample from the 2 mixes:


This is the trimmed mix. It is very nicely close trimmed, and definitely yields more stamps per kilo. But there was less variety in this one than the untrimmed/unpicked mixture.











The untrimmed mixture below showed more variety, more different commemoratives, and a nice smattering of Channel Islands and foreign countries. I found stamps from places as diverse as New Zealand, Gambia, South Africa, and Germany. Overall I am quite pleased with the entire parcel, and am going to see about ordering other items from this charity as well as more of this mixture down the road when the variety changes. They have worldwide stamps mixtures available also.




The most common stamp found in either bag of stamps was the first class gold Machin. There were also plenty of other nice Machins.






Anyone interested in trading for any of this material, let me know! I will be working on soaking over the next few days, but I can send stuff still on paper also. Do you have some interesting stamps on paper that you want to trade? You can trade some of your on paper mix for mine if you have any on paper stamps that either my kids or I collect. Just email me and ask- we're very flexible. I also have an older Machin/GB mixture, and can send some of either or both if you would like.


Suzi

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