Yes, but only a few, like the federal Motor Vehicle tax stamp that my dad has on his 1956 Desoto!
The first stamp I ever collected, as a wee lad back in 1966. I was reading the book "Johnny Appleseed" and my father showed me a few of this stamp on a package he received. I was hooked! Here it is in the Scott Minuteman album I bought when I was 14. Even though stained, I couldn't toss it away!
That's the sole survivor from my 1966, 8 year old's collection. I don't know how it survived. I started again when I was 13 and I probably still have it all.
I have everything I ever collected I think. No pics for now, but this is my late sister's mid-1950's album that I still possess
Add my affirmative to that list. Although the stamps
were usually transferred as I went from a pair of
Harris Citation Albums to a Minkus multi volume set
and now slowly to self made pages, I still have my
Captain Tim's Ivory Stamp Club, "album."
The paper has deteriorated to somewhat brittle toned
pages in a protective folder.
No, gosh darn it all! But it wasn't much of a collection — three sparsely populated Scott International albums that were missing quite a few pages, a handful of modern U.S. plate blocks from the early to mid-1950s, a set of regular-mail commemoratives issued on the occasion of Grace Kelly's wedding to Prince Ranier (why did she marry him? I was in love with her!), a mint, hinged U.N. plate block which once had a catalogue value of $500, and a mint, hinged set of Hungary airmails that pictured among other aircraft a MiG-15, one of my favourite planes — I wanted to become an Air Force F-86 Sabrejet pilot so I could shoot down MiGs! Bloodthirsty I was, I guess.
I sold my collection to a dealer in Ottawa, shortly after immigrating to Canada in 1969, I sold my collection to a dealer in Ottawa. I got $20 ore $30. So much for stamps being an investment! But at least the Canadian dollar was at par with the U.S. dollar then. I fired up my collecting interests once again, about 1980, and after on-line shopping became a thing in the 1990s, I bought the Monaco commemoratives again, adding the airmail set, as well as the Hungary airmail set.
@Dave Sheriden— A Bounty stamp album? Never saw one of those before. I didn't even know that Capt. Bligh was a stamp collector! Must have been difficult that album dry on his holiday trip across the Pacific.
"@Dave Sheriden— A Bounty stamp album? Never saw one of those before. I didn't even know that Capt. Bligh was a stamp collector! Must have been difficult that album dry on his holiday trip across the Pacific"
".... I'm far more concerned that Bligh looks like a woman!...."
Well, after six months rounding the "Horn" strange things happen.
Captain Bligh would have had a hard time finding any stamps, given that he died in 1817.
I'm fairly certain that several of the stamps from the sixties and seventies are from my original collection, but I purchased a commemorative collection with nothing special in it for less than face value just to get the pages with mounts. If the stamp they had was better centered than mine I made the switch, so I have no idea which would be "original". Many of the airmails are original (but not the coil line pair).
There is ONE stamp, however, that I KNOW is original and has a story:
FA1 was purchased at the stamp counter of Famous Barr in St. Louis circa 1965. It's nothing special, but it was my first mint purchase from other than the post office. I think the SIPEX SS (Scott 1311) was my second. Before that I was diving into trash cans for used stamps, placing orders for older used stamps from H.E. Harris, buying stamps from the post office, and trading with my friends. I had gone to the Famous Barr stamp counter before with my father, but this year I was going to BUY something! I don't recall why this stamp caught my eye, but it has the most definite provenance of just about any stamp I have from childhood.
Lars
As a matter of fact i do..i have my 1949 Scott Modern postage stamp album...its beat to hell and the binder is taped together...70 years old ! There are stamps in the old Modern that i could merge into my Scott Internationals..but i will stay true to my childhood album.
I still have the old Harris Liberty and Ambassador albums that I had as a child. When I first returned to collecting, I wanted to focus on the US and thought that I would build on my childhood collection. But, alas, after looking through it, I saw that my childhood treasures weren’t treasures at all. My old liberty contained mainly used stamps, many with faults, and mint stamps that had all been hinged. I therefore decided to leave my old album as it was and begin a new US collection from scratch. My old albums occupy a place of honor on my bookshelf along with all of the albums that I’ve purchased since resuming my collection.
No childhood collection for me. I did not start collecting until the mid-1960s as an adult. I've been at it ever since, about 55 years now.
FF
What wonderful stories - thanks for sharing.
That Captain Bligh looks exactly like my sister in law! LoL!
Don’t ever part with your Johnny Appleseed, Tom!
I still grieve over the fact that my childhood stamp collection was stolen when I was at University. And I had traded my coin collection and comics in the late 60s to build on my fathers old collection which he gave me. It took up 2 suitcases. We even knew who the theif was but the police weren’t able to find them and he was never charged. ????
"@Dave Sheriden— A Bounty stamp album? Never saw one of those before. I didn't even know that Capt. Bligh was a stamp collector! Must have been difficult that album dry on his holiday trip across the Pacific"
Every ship had a “Captain” and was called Captain by the crew despite their actual rank in the service.
Philatelia:- You are correct.
Even lowly Midshipmen when being given command of a "prize" ship were acknowledged as "Captain" by the crew.
Hey I guess it paid to read all that Patrick OBrien. Hubby and I are big fans of his books and I grew up reading Hornblower. Good stuff!
Philatelia:-
My favourite is Alexander Kent, the Bolitho series.
No. My original album was stolen in transit when we moved from Germany back to USA. It was 8 years later before I started again after seeing one of my Dad's friend's collection.
Oh the stories of stolen collections are so sad. I hope that Karma pays back the stinking thieves!
"No. My original album was stolen in transit when we moved from Germany back to USA."
Apparently I am a very lucky collector! I still have my childhood collection, my fathers childhood collection and his mentors collection. Some of Mr. Weber’s, my fathers mentor, was melded into my fathers collection which was a wise move as mounting and album pages have improved so much since this collection was started. My father and I worked together on his collection since I was young. I had my own going but as time passed his collection was the focus for us both. We worked together finding, obtaining and building his collection. It is a world collection spanning more than 100 Minkus Supreme albums and too many others to keep track of. Unfortunately none of my kids found much interest in collecting but I do have a grandson that seems to be a natural collector of things. I’m hoping he may take over one day. He spends much time working on it and just enjoying it for what it is.
Reading this thread also makes me sad for those that have lost so much at the hands of others. It also makes me worry as my collection, which has been a lifelong effort on my fathers and my part , that if anything happened to it I would never be able to get it back to it’s current level. On top of that I haven’t actually seen it, other than visiting the storage facility where it is located for the foreseeable future. My wife and I are leaving our home of 40 plus years to go to our dream location in the Georgia mountains. Unfortunately our house is still many months away from completion. After reading this I think I’ll move it myself in a rented truck instead of “trusting” someone else.
Thanks to all that on this site for sharing their collecting efforts.
My only remaining item is a first day cover for the USA Mississippi Statehood stamp that I prepared and mailed to the P.O. for first day cancellation. Everything else was sold to raise money for college.
I started over during the month after graduation from college by purchasing a starter USA collection which had one really unusual item in it, a USA Scott #12 with a small cut in one side, in what was otherwise a fairly run of the mill collection with a mixed range of stamps going up to the 1960's. I replaced the album with a brown leather Scott Hingeless album in the late 1970's and have been working on the album ever since. Recently I purchased a Scott #67 one of the last 39 stamps that I consider possible for me to acquire for the album in the future.
Do you still have stamps from your childhood collection? Let’s see some pics and tell us the story around how and when you got the stamps. I’ll get us started ...
I traded for these stamps when I was in sixth grade - one of my first stamp trades. A friend’s father was always making business trips to Sierra Leone and he made it a point to send his daughter letters covered with these delightful shaped stamps. She kindly agreed to trade her duplicates for some of my Venezuela, plus I agreed to teach her how to soak the stamps off the paper.
These are now part of what I call “Terri’s Magpie Collection” - anything that catches my eye but doesn’t fit into a collection.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Yes, but only a few, like the federal Motor Vehicle tax stamp that my dad has on his 1956 Desoto!
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
The first stamp I ever collected, as a wee lad back in 1966. I was reading the book "Johnny Appleseed" and my father showed me a few of this stamp on a package he received. I was hooked! Here it is in the Scott Minuteman album I bought when I was 14. Even though stained, I couldn't toss it away!
That's the sole survivor from my 1966, 8 year old's collection. I don't know how it survived. I started again when I was 13 and I probably still have it all.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
I have everything I ever collected I think. No pics for now, but this is my late sister's mid-1950's album that I still possess
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Add my affirmative to that list. Although the stamps
were usually transferred as I went from a pair of
Harris Citation Albums to a Minkus multi volume set
and now slowly to self made pages, I still have my
Captain Tim's Ivory Stamp Club, "album."
The paper has deteriorated to somewhat brittle toned
pages in a protective folder.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
No, gosh darn it all! But it wasn't much of a collection — three sparsely populated Scott International albums that were missing quite a few pages, a handful of modern U.S. plate blocks from the early to mid-1950s, a set of regular-mail commemoratives issued on the occasion of Grace Kelly's wedding to Prince Ranier (why did she marry him? I was in love with her!), a mint, hinged U.N. plate block which once had a catalogue value of $500, and a mint, hinged set of Hungary airmails that pictured among other aircraft a MiG-15, one of my favourite planes — I wanted to become an Air Force F-86 Sabrejet pilot so I could shoot down MiGs! Bloodthirsty I was, I guess.
I sold my collection to a dealer in Ottawa, shortly after immigrating to Canada in 1969, I sold my collection to a dealer in Ottawa. I got $20 ore $30. So much for stamps being an investment! But at least the Canadian dollar was at par with the U.S. dollar then. I fired up my collecting interests once again, about 1980, and after on-line shopping became a thing in the 1990s, I bought the Monaco commemoratives again, adding the airmail set, as well as the Hungary airmail set.
@Dave Sheriden— A Bounty stamp album? Never saw one of those before. I didn't even know that Capt. Bligh was a stamp collector! Must have been difficult that album dry on his holiday trip across the Pacific.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
"@Dave Sheriden— A Bounty stamp album? Never saw one of those before. I didn't even know that Capt. Bligh was a stamp collector! Must have been difficult that album dry on his holiday trip across the Pacific"
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
".... I'm far more concerned that Bligh looks like a woman!...."
Well, after six months rounding the "Horn" strange things happen.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Captain Bligh would have had a hard time finding any stamps, given that he died in 1817.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
I'm fairly certain that several of the stamps from the sixties and seventies are from my original collection, but I purchased a commemorative collection with nothing special in it for less than face value just to get the pages with mounts. If the stamp they had was better centered than mine I made the switch, so I have no idea which would be "original". Many of the airmails are original (but not the coil line pair).
There is ONE stamp, however, that I KNOW is original and has a story:
FA1 was purchased at the stamp counter of Famous Barr in St. Louis circa 1965. It's nothing special, but it was my first mint purchase from other than the post office. I think the SIPEX SS (Scott 1311) was my second. Before that I was diving into trash cans for used stamps, placing orders for older used stamps from H.E. Harris, buying stamps from the post office, and trading with my friends. I had gone to the Famous Barr stamp counter before with my father, but this year I was going to BUY something! I don't recall why this stamp caught my eye, but it has the most definite provenance of just about any stamp I have from childhood.
Lars
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
As a matter of fact i do..i have my 1949 Scott Modern postage stamp album...its beat to hell and the binder is taped together...70 years old ! There are stamps in the old Modern that i could merge into my Scott Internationals..but i will stay true to my childhood album.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
I still have the old Harris Liberty and Ambassador albums that I had as a child. When I first returned to collecting, I wanted to focus on the US and thought that I would build on my childhood collection. But, alas, after looking through it, I saw that my childhood treasures weren’t treasures at all. My old liberty contained mainly used stamps, many with faults, and mint stamps that had all been hinged. I therefore decided to leave my old album as it was and begin a new US collection from scratch. My old albums occupy a place of honor on my bookshelf along with all of the albums that I’ve purchased since resuming my collection.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
No childhood collection for me. I did not start collecting until the mid-1960s as an adult. I've been at it ever since, about 55 years now.
FF
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
What wonderful stories - thanks for sharing.
That Captain Bligh looks exactly like my sister in law! LoL!
Don’t ever part with your Johnny Appleseed, Tom!
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
I still grieve over the fact that my childhood stamp collection was stolen when I was at University. And I had traded my coin collection and comics in the late 60s to build on my fathers old collection which he gave me. It took up 2 suitcases. We even knew who the theif was but the police weren’t able to find them and he was never charged. ????
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
"@Dave Sheriden— A Bounty stamp album? Never saw one of those before. I didn't even know that Capt. Bligh was a stamp collector! Must have been difficult that album dry on his holiday trip across the Pacific"
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Every ship had a “Captain” and was called Captain by the crew despite their actual rank in the service.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Philatelia:- You are correct.
Even lowly Midshipmen when being given command of a "prize" ship were acknowledged as "Captain" by the crew.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Hey I guess it paid to read all that Patrick OBrien. Hubby and I are big fans of his books and I grew up reading Hornblower. Good stuff!
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Philatelia:-
My favourite is Alexander Kent, the Bolitho series.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
No. My original album was stolen in transit when we moved from Germany back to USA. It was 8 years later before I started again after seeing one of my Dad's friend's collection.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Oh the stories of stolen collections are so sad. I hope that Karma pays back the stinking thieves!
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
"No. My original album was stolen in transit when we moved from Germany back to USA."
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
Apparently I am a very lucky collector! I still have my childhood collection, my fathers childhood collection and his mentors collection. Some of Mr. Weber’s, my fathers mentor, was melded into my fathers collection which was a wise move as mounting and album pages have improved so much since this collection was started. My father and I worked together on his collection since I was young. I had my own going but as time passed his collection was the focus for us both. We worked together finding, obtaining and building his collection. It is a world collection spanning more than 100 Minkus Supreme albums and too many others to keep track of. Unfortunately none of my kids found much interest in collecting but I do have a grandson that seems to be a natural collector of things. I’m hoping he may take over one day. He spends much time working on it and just enjoying it for what it is.
Reading this thread also makes me sad for those that have lost so much at the hands of others. It also makes me worry as my collection, which has been a lifelong effort on my fathers and my part , that if anything happened to it I would never be able to get it back to it’s current level. On top of that I haven’t actually seen it, other than visiting the storage facility where it is located for the foreseeable future. My wife and I are leaving our home of 40 plus years to go to our dream location in the Georgia mountains. Unfortunately our house is still many months away from completion. After reading this I think I’ll move it myself in a rented truck instead of “trusting” someone else.
Thanks to all that on this site for sharing their collecting efforts.
re: Do you still have stamps from your Childhood Collection?
My only remaining item is a first day cover for the USA Mississippi Statehood stamp that I prepared and mailed to the P.O. for first day cancellation. Everything else was sold to raise money for college.
I started over during the month after graduation from college by purchasing a starter USA collection which had one really unusual item in it, a USA Scott #12 with a small cut in one side, in what was otherwise a fairly run of the mill collection with a mixed range of stamps going up to the 1960's. I replaced the album with a brown leather Scott Hingeless album in the late 1970's and have been working on the album ever since. Recently I purchased a Scott #67 one of the last 39 stamps that I consider possible for me to acquire for the album in the future.