It all started with one stamp. This was mine in 1963. I can picture myself outside the village post office discovering its not just sweets one can buy with pocket money.

STAMPS. I prefer to exchange stamps 1:1 mostly. If you prefer a value swap, please can you offer to calculate. My Buy list is a second Wish list having reached the limit of 400k.

Quality control. please check both sides of the stamp and the perforations for faults. I do not want stamps with obvious faults or a heavy cancellation that hides the image. I often supply certain self adhesive stamps on paper if I know they disintegrate or delaminate when wetted; this is standard practice. Where I have not indicated condition they will be used.

From 2009, customers in France can print stamps called montimbrenligne, online for short, of selected images from the Laposte website or a logo onto self adhesive labels or envelopes. I began editing the online stamps 3 years ago. There are now over 5000 listed in France Personalised. Having bought many lots to gather material, I have a few hundred swaps.

My online swaps (MonTimbrEnLigne) are supplied: used, close cut, on paper. and maybe a variant. See

https://colnect.com/en/stamps/years/country/939-France_Personalized_stamps/swap_list/brittanyrose

then click Series

CONTRIBUTIONS I am currently contributing catalogue entries of cinderellas, fiscals, personalised and private posts of France, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand; and multifarious collectables in other categories for swapping.

BADGE COLLECTION As well as my passion for stamps, I also collected badges >100, as a child listing them in my own catalogue. I will add these to the Lapel Pin Category eventually.

COINS. I do not collect coins. So there are several ways to acquire some of my coin swaps. You can give me stamps in exchange for coins; I accept stamps from my wishlist for coins at an exchange rate of 10 fine (new or used, on or off paper) stamps for 1 coin, to offset higher costs for postage of international registered letters. Or pay with Paypal, most of the coins are at 1 euro postage included. I will need your email to send an invoice to. Or new stamps of France (euros or new francs, not unfranked and used) that I can use for postage. Dates have only recently been added to the coin catalogue so this is a work in progress. Ask me if you want several or just one from the date range.

POSTCARDS 1€ each + postage

THE OTHER COLLECTABLES These are to swap for stamps.

All enquiries for exchanges replied to eventually. J'écris aussi en francais. Google translation from/to other languages offers partial understanding and thus requires patience.