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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* Origin: Nostalgia is like grammar: You find the past perfect & present