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When i was 8 years old i was visiting a school buddy...his family was of a slightly higher financial status than mine and he had great stuff in his room, a castle with the metal soldiers made in England and i noticed a book..it was the Junior edition of the Scott International album with the red fabric binder and cardboard cover. I looked at it and i still remember the colorful Sudan camel rider and the French Africa stamps with the leopard. I was hooked...i sent away for the free stamps from the many approval dealers that had ads in the back of magazines like Popular Mechanics. I still have my first album now tattered and taped..a 1949 Blue Scott Modern Album (worldwide).
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I must've been eight or so when my family got a package with Johnny Appleseed stamps on it. I had just finished reading a book about him, so I was enthusiastic about the stamps and saved them. The next stamp I remember was when my father handed me a stamp from South Africa. Wow! I had something in my hand from Africa! Pretty darn cool!
When I recently pulled out my old Scott Minuteman album I bought around 1972, that stained Johnny Appleseed stamp was still in the album. Yea, I'll keep it! And as far as South Africa, I have no idea where that stamp went, but I've had friends from South Africa visit me! So that stamp got trumped by actual human visitors!
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I was looking for gold, did not find any so just started collecting stamps.
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I started collecting stamps at 9 (1965), I remember watching my late brother collect stamps (he passed away in 1968 aged 22). I remember now that he had a £1 coronation (I now know it was the thick paper type), the 5/- and 10/- both the King and Queen and many foreign stamps. This gave me the incentive to collect a few myself, the first place was around the house, found a few envelopes and tore off the stamps (looking back, maybe that was a bad idea). And my mother bought me a few packets of quite nice stamps.
A few weeks later I was looking over the back fence into the property of my neighbour and what did I see, a whole pile of old envelopes ready to be burnt, I would say about 60, and my collection sky rocketed; I still have two envelopes from my old childhood collection, a 5/- Navigator and an envelope with a joined pair of 1966 4c Dirk Hartogs.
My collection has reached a new level since then and the types of stamps I have are in a more serious class since I was a child.
And my late brother’s album, I have that album now, and the album is priceless (to me).
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I was about 7 or 8 I guess. My mother had a small accumulation of stamps, including plate number blocks of US stamps. Every once in a while she would pull them out and show them to me in a box covered with blue cloth. The stamps always wowed me. I began to collect more seriously in my early teens, and then sporadically afterwards. In 2010 or so I got the bug and this time some disposable income of my own, and I was off.
I still have that old blue box.
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Born. 6 or 7 years passed. Started collecting everything, marbles, model soldiers, stamps.
Kept every stamp that came into the house, told every relative that I collected and could they keep every stamp for me. Years passed. Stamps accumulated. Forget about marbles, model soldiers etc. kept accumulating stamps (mainly UK). Discovered girls, rock'n'roll, motorbikes and working for a living. Worked for Overseas Newspapers part of the IPC publishing group. Accumulated lots of foreign stamps. Had no time to sort them because of girls, rock'n'roll etc. Got married, had two children. Still accumulating, still had no time to sort them because of wife, children. Got divorced. Got no time to sort them because working hard to pay alimony. Got married again. Still accumulating every stamp into house and business. Now self employed. Got no time to sort them because of self employment. Retired - now plenty of time. 28 large cardboard boxes full of stamps on paper very many UK, very many duplicates. Soaked them all. Sorted by country in stockbooks. Read lots, started to buy stamps in volume, kiloware etc. Read more, started to by stamps to fill spaces. Joined Stamporama now I'm a collector.
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During the Great Depression, my parents married and once settled down spent evenings soaking, sorting and mounting stamps in an old Scott's world wide album.
When I was old enough, near the end of the war and afterward, I also sat at the kitchen table in the evenings, eventually with my own simplified album.
During the 1950s the formal collecting lessened, girls, college, military service and so on had the usual effect, although few envelopes passed through our hands that did not have the stamps torn asunder and placed in the top right hand drawer of an old child scarred wooden desk.
Then one rainy afternoon in about 1964, a Saturday, I believe, the stamp bug, stuck its flexible tongs into some fleshy area and I was hooked once more. I did write a story about how that happened and the part a previous visit to the Tokelau Islands played in my return to active collecting.
The Stamp Story
It was first posted on the Machin site.
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Thought it would be fun to see the various ways people here started collecting stamps. Whenever I meet someone locally that collects stamps (which is few and far between) I always steer the conversation to find out the answer to that question. For me, it was a U.S. album under the Christmas tree when I was 9 or 10- it wasn't a fancy album- looked like a coloring book but it had all the pictures of U.S. stamps to 1963. I remember having my parents, grand-parents, aunts and uncles saving me their used envelopes so I could soak the stamps off and proudly hinge them to the album. My father worked for a large engineering firm on Long Island and received alot of foreign mail and he started bringing home foreign envelopes. I was enthralled with the foreign stamps and his fellow workers started doing the same. Before I knew it I was getting hundreds of stamps weekly- alot from Japan and Germany but also a wide array of counties. I eventually abandoned collecting U.S. stamps and have been with foreign all the way.
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"The next thing to do is find out what happened to Bill."
The next thing to do is forget Bill
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When i was 8 years old i was visiting a school buddy...his family was of a slightly higher financial status than mine and he had great stuff in his room, a castle with the metal soldiers made in England and i noticed a book..it was the Junior edition of the Scott International album with the red fabric binder and cardboard cover. I looked at it and i still remember the colorful Sudan camel rider and the French Africa stamps with the leopard. I was hooked...i sent away for the free stamps from the many approval dealers that had ads in the back of magazines like Popular Mechanics. I still have my first album now tattered and taped..a 1949 Blue Scott Modern Album (worldwide).
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I must've been eight or so when my family got a package with Johnny Appleseed stamps on it. I had just finished reading a book about him, so I was enthusiastic about the stamps and saved them. The next stamp I remember was when my father handed me a stamp from South Africa. Wow! I had something in my hand from Africa! Pretty darn cool!
When I recently pulled out my old Scott Minuteman album I bought around 1972, that stained Johnny Appleseed stamp was still in the album. Yea, I'll keep it! And as far as South Africa, I have no idea where that stamp went, but I've had friends from South Africa visit me! So that stamp got trumped by actual human visitors!
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I was looking for gold, did not find any so just started collecting stamps.
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I started collecting stamps at 9 (1965), I remember watching my late brother collect stamps (he passed away in 1968 aged 22). I remember now that he had a £1 coronation (I now know it was the thick paper type), the 5/- and 10/- both the King and Queen and many foreign stamps. This gave me the incentive to collect a few myself, the first place was around the house, found a few envelopes and tore off the stamps (looking back, maybe that was a bad idea). And my mother bought me a few packets of quite nice stamps.
A few weeks later I was looking over the back fence into the property of my neighbour and what did I see, a whole pile of old envelopes ready to be burnt, I would say about 60, and my collection sky rocketed; I still have two envelopes from my old childhood collection, a 5/- Navigator and an envelope with a joined pair of 1966 4c Dirk Hartogs.
My collection has reached a new level since then and the types of stamps I have are in a more serious class since I was a child.
And my late brother’s album, I have that album now, and the album is priceless (to me).
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I was about 7 or 8 I guess. My mother had a small accumulation of stamps, including plate number blocks of US stamps. Every once in a while she would pull them out and show them to me in a box covered with blue cloth. The stamps always wowed me. I began to collect more seriously in my early teens, and then sporadically afterwards. In 2010 or so I got the bug and this time some disposable income of my own, and I was off.
I still have that old blue box.
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re: How did you start collecting stamps?
Born. 6 or 7 years passed. Started collecting everything, marbles, model soldiers, stamps.
Kept every stamp that came into the house, told every relative that I collected and could they keep every stamp for me. Years passed. Stamps accumulated. Forget about marbles, model soldiers etc. kept accumulating stamps (mainly UK). Discovered girls, rock'n'roll, motorbikes and working for a living. Worked for Overseas Newspapers part of the IPC publishing group. Accumulated lots of foreign stamps. Had no time to sort them because of girls, rock'n'roll etc. Got married, had two children. Still accumulating, still had no time to sort them because of wife, children. Got divorced. Got no time to sort them because working hard to pay alimony. Got married again. Still accumulating every stamp into house and business. Now self employed. Got no time to sort them because of self employment. Retired - now plenty of time. 28 large cardboard boxes full of stamps on paper very many UK, very many duplicates. Soaked them all. Sorted by country in stockbooks. Read lots, started to buy stamps in volume, kiloware etc. Read more, started to by stamps to fill spaces. Joined Stamporama now I'm a collector.
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re: How did you start collecting stamps?
During the Great Depression, my parents married and once settled down spent evenings soaking, sorting and mounting stamps in an old Scott's world wide album.
When I was old enough, near the end of the war and afterward, I also sat at the kitchen table in the evenings, eventually with my own simplified album.
During the 1950s the formal collecting lessened, girls, college, military service and so on had the usual effect, although few envelopes passed through our hands that did not have the stamps torn asunder and placed in the top right hand drawer of an old child scarred wooden desk.
Then one rainy afternoon in about 1964, a Saturday, I believe, the stamp bug, stuck its flexible tongs into some fleshy area and I was hooked once more. I did write a story about how that happened and the part a previous visit to the Tokelau Islands played in my return to active collecting.
The Stamp Story
It was first posted on the Machin site.
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