Stamps, Coins and Train sets
My hobbies are buying and selling stamps, coins and Mehano train sets. I also offer deceased estate advice for Numismatic &/or Philatelic collections.
Welcome to Mike's Hobby Site!
For more than 25 years a great passion of mine has been collecting stamps and coins. Throughout the years I have accumulated a huge amount of philatelic stock, often with lots of duplication. As a collector, one never has enough and I am constantly buying, in turn I also need to sell excess duplication of my stock.
Coins and bank notes are another of my interests and hence my numismatic collection has also grown over the years.
In recent years I got interested in Model Railways, particularly Mehano Trains. These train sets are copies of the current modern speed trains traveling throughout Europe. All sets available for sale on this website are made by Mehano and fully imported into Australia by myself.
For your Collections - appraise, advise, sale or purchase!
My services are available free of charge to assess and appraise philatelic, as well numismatic collections whether being your own or from a deceased estate.
I value privacy and will work closely with you to provide the best advice. I’m available to call and chat with, no ‘strings attached’, just here to help.
Simply click here to Contact Mike.
About Mike
To introduce myself and for you to know whom you may be dealing with, my name is Miran but majority friends call me “Mike”.
I am of a retirement age & reside in the lovely tourist town of Ulladulla, NSW. To keep myself active I created a personal hobby of dealing with philately, numismatic and recently model railway as a ‘Hobby”.
I have been selling for more than 15 years and at this stage I still partially use eBay to purchase and naturally sell philatelic and Numismatic as well as the Mehano Model railway items. My eBay record classified me as a top seller/buyer with a 100% unblemished record. This outstanding report encouraged me to create my own Website thus allowing me to more personally communicate and deal with my clients. We all know nothing beats that extra ‘personal touch’…see testimonials.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me, for and advise, or guidance within the described fields and I endeavour to assist you at the best of my knowledge. I hope to hear from you!!
Testimonials
Mehano Trains sets
Ever since 1952 Mehano toy company challenges children’s creativity, producing toys which should prepare them for the biggest adventure, that is life. Special effort is put into ensuring the educational value of each toy, from the design, to the choice of the materials used during the production. The safety of their toys therefore, is guaranteed.
2004 Mehano developed the model of the locomotive “Locomoive Diesel Type 77” and was awarded with the “Modelle De L’Annee 2003” award on the “Expo Salon De La Maquette” exposition in Charleroi / Belgium.
2007 Mehano developed the model of the locomotive “Blue Tiger 2” in N scale and have been awarded with the “Model Des Jahres 2007” award in the locomotive category by the “Nbahn Magazine” from Germany.
Mehano developed the model of locomotive “Reeks 26” in H0 scale and have been awarded with the “Modelle De L’ Annee” award in the locomotive category by the “Commision De Modellisme” from Belgium.
Mehano developed the model of container car “SGGMRSS’90” and have been awarded with the “Modelle De L’Annee” award in the cargo cars category by the “Commision De Modelisme” from Belgium.
2010 New category for the preschool age segment “My first train” has been launched. The category consist of the following products: My First Train – Intercity, My First Train – Country Trip and My First Train – Hello Kitty.
Philatelic Collection
My interest in stamp collecting started in my teenage years when I received a lovely collection from my grandfather of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. However, being a young person I didn’t know how to look after the collection, so I lost it!
About 30 years on….and in the ‘spur of the moment’ I purchased a large box of stamps at a garage sell with view I will re-kindle my teenage stamp collection! My collection has begun again with many being European stamps and the whole collection is now extensive.
That is how all this started. From my interest in stamps it began to expand to Numismatic items, and in turn in to Model Railway. My philatelic collection covers stamps worldwide. However, as I am living in Australia a majority of my stamp collections are from Oceania.
Numastic Collection
The “Hobby” of collecting coins is worldwide a much older hobby than Postage Stamp collecting. Coins existed and were in use over 2000 years ago, yet the first postage stamp was issued 1848. I started my interest in Coin and Banknotes after obtaining a larger philatelic collection where I found a number of different coins and banknotes.
The majority of coins and notes were of various ages and condition, so curiosity led me to find more about these items of history. Such as country of origin, the age of the individual item, name and denomination and anticipated value. I enjoy further examination if any items were in current circulation, or discontinued, and naturally is the item original or a counterfeit?
Progressively this part of my hobby also increased in size, where duplications need to be disposed of to create bit of space…… as I am always on lookout for something new.