Post #627192 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Mar 1, 2012 2:59 PM

On 2012-02-28 04:28, The Blue Kahuna wrote:
Where do you find these? Really cool!

For the fancy envelopes with graphics(First Day Covers=FDC),search ebay under: Tiki FDC, Hawaii FDC, National Parks FDC, etc.

For the regular stamps, it's sometimes as easy as typing in "tiki stamps". To thoroughly find what is out there, a company called Scott's prints pages for stamp albums for each country with a black and white graphic of the stamps on them. I look at the sheets from random polynesian countries for the tiki ones and then denote the official Scott's number for it. Then I search ebay under those numbers occasionally to see what comes up. The numbers are universal, so stamp dealers generally list,sell, and organize their collections by these numbers. The US stamps are done by a different company called Minkus, with their own set of numbers.

There's also a monthly stamp show here in San Diego going on for about 20 years or so. Ebay's way easier and cheaper, though.

Buzzy Out!