Hello Kurt!

** On Tuesday 17.11.20 - 09:33, Kurt Weiske wrote to JOE MACKEY:

I used to collect stamps; when I was in elementary school I bought a
bag of international stamps (through mail order, naturally) and
started a stamp collection. It's a fun hobby, inexpensive to start,
and lasts forever. I still have my stamp book 45 years later.

Exactly the same here. I ordered first-day stamped envelopes
and full 4-stamp corners of certain releases of my own
country's stamps.

However, commensing about 20 years ago, I started to use them
up. Who would buy my collection?

I remember as a kid sorting through some of the international stamps
and pulling out my encyclopedia to look up the countries the stamps
came from. The world was a bigger place back then.

They were inspiring to further research. We had a full
Encyclopedia Britannica colllection that had frequent use.


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