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07:15:09pm
"..... I guess all long term collectors have memories' of the old "Big Blue'. I learned geography on those "Clear Type" maps, tracing them on blank paper until I could draw a respectable Map of Europe, Asia or Africa freehand. One day in about the sixth or seventh grade I was sent to the chalk board for some reason and I drew Europe while the class watched. I think the question had to do with Scandinavia but once I did Norway, Sweden and the Baltic, I kept going down the coast to Spain and around into the Mediterranean, finishing up with the Black and Caspian Seas. More importantly Sister Mary Bartholomew watched and as I sketched in the national boundaries she had the class call out the countries to locate.
A few days later I brought the other tracings to class to show them to her, one with countries, capitals and major cities, another with seas and rivers and one with mountain ranges as neatly detailed as I could manage with ten year old hands. Needless to say my grades in that class were in the high nineties.
But it gets better, with the invention of copy machines, marriage and eventually six children, all of whom were given a copy of each section and learned the countries, rivers, seas and capitals at home supplementing what I feel is a weakened awareness of the planet we live on. And now these same copies, corrected for the ravages of war and peace, are being used for grand sons and grand daughters.
I have a copy of the light blue bound Scott's Junior WW Album at home and every once in a while will thumb through it for no particular reason, beyond helping to regenerate the smells and sounds of my youth of the evenings when behind blackout curtains we sat there soaking and sorting new stamps under the single table lamp allowed....."
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Hi all;
Thanks Charlie for those great nostalgic thoughts. I don't go back quite to the blackout of the war, but I had an old stamp album too. It was given to me by, of all people, my Geography teacher Mr. Becker. He was a fellow collector and a vest pocket stamp dealer.
I went to public school that year (7th grade) between St. Jean's school (5th & 6th grades) and St. Mary's school (8th grade). I too was Mr. Becker's best pupil. I could name and locate all the oceans, gulfs, seas, major rivers, channels, island groups, isthmuses, nations and their capitols etc.
The album I no longer have, but I'm looking for a clean used copy, hopefully on eBay some day. It is a bound album about 1" thick, and has a skyscraper and an airplane on the front. The album is red cloth bound and the title and graphic are in black. My thought was to acquire one and complete it as much as can be afforded with duplicates.
Oddly enough I also have a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle "Back in Circulation". The photo is of a stamp album open and a bunch of stamps mounted. The page is opened to Germany, inflation and all are mint stamps. It was published in 1990 by Ceaco Inc., Watertown MA, distributed by Playtoy Industries Toronto Ontario. The box has many small Fleur-de-lis, designs on it, so it was probably only sold in Canada.
Keep on stampin'....
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That is a great story Charlie. I can't begin to tell how much I learned about US history by reading and re-reading the captions below the stamps in my HE Harris Liberty album. While it wasn't the same as studying history, when I got to high school and had American History, World History, and Civics, everything fell into place much easier. As the teacher presented material or as I read homework assignments, almost every class had a stamp that I could mentally refer to.
Thanks for sharing that!
-Steve
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04 Dec 2015
07:15:09pm
Linn's on-line has a short article about the old stamp albums circa 1939 that I found interesting and that brought forth these thoughts.
"..... I guess all long term collectors have memories' of the old "Big Blue'. I learned geography on those "Clear Type" maps, tracing them on blank paper until I could draw a respectable Map of Europe, Asia or Africa freehand. One day in about the sixth or seventh grade I was sent to the chalk board for some reason and I drew Europe while the class watched. I think the question had to do with Scandinavia but once I did Norway, Sweden and the Baltic, I kept going down the coast to Spain and around into the Mediterranean, finishing up with the Black and Caspian Seas. More importantly Sister Mary Bartholomew watched and as I sketched in the national boundaries she had the class call out the countries to locate.
A few days later I brought the other tracings to class to show them to her, one with countries, capitals and major cities, another with seas and rivers and one with mountain ranges as neatly detailed as I could manage with ten year old hands. Needless to say my grades in that class were in the high nineties.
But it gets better, with the invention of copy machines, marriage and eventually six children, all of whom were given a copy of each section and learned the countries, rivers, seas and capitals at home supplementing what I feel is a weakened awareness of the planet we live on. And now these same copies, corrected for the ravages of war and peace, are being used for grand sons and grand daughters.
I have a copy of the light blue bound Scott's Junior WW Album at home and every once in a while will thumb through it for no particular reason, beyond helping to regenerate the smells and sounds of my youth of the evenings when behind blackout curtains we sat there soaking and sorting new stamps under the single table lamp allowed....."
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re: The old Blue stamp album 1939
Hi all;
Thanks Charlie for those great nostalgic thoughts. I don't go back quite to the blackout of the war, but I had an old stamp album too. It was given to me by, of all people, my Geography teacher Mr. Becker. He was a fellow collector and a vest pocket stamp dealer.
I went to public school that year (7th grade) between St. Jean's school (5th & 6th grades) and St. Mary's school (8th grade). I too was Mr. Becker's best pupil. I could name and locate all the oceans, gulfs, seas, major rivers, channels, island groups, isthmuses, nations and their capitols etc.
The album I no longer have, but I'm looking for a clean used copy, hopefully on eBay some day. It is a bound album about 1" thick, and has a skyscraper and an airplane on the front. The album is red cloth bound and the title and graphic are in black. My thought was to acquire one and complete it as much as can be afforded with duplicates.
Oddly enough I also have a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle "Back in Circulation". The photo is of a stamp album open and a bunch of stamps mounted. The page is opened to Germany, inflation and all are mint stamps. It was published in 1990 by Ceaco Inc., Watertown MA, distributed by Playtoy Industries Toronto Ontario. The box has many small Fleur-de-lis, designs on it, so it was probably only sold in Canada.
Keep on stampin'....
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re: The old Blue stamp album 1939
That is a great story Charlie. I can't begin to tell how much I learned about US history by reading and re-reading the captions below the stamps in my HE Harris Liberty album. While it wasn't the same as studying history, when I got to high school and had American History, World History, and Civics, everything fell into place much easier. As the teacher presented material or as I read homework assignments, almost every class had a stamp that I could mentally refer to.
Thanks for sharing that!
-Steve
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