stamp collecting somehow more civilized

Are you tired of sleaze-ball dealers that rip off your grandmother?
Then join the civilized world of stamp collecting. Since making the
switch I enjoy my hobby more, make more money, and have lost weight
all due to the nice stamp collectors that treat each other with
respect, and always encourage and educate the naive for the good of
the hobby. So I will be selling off my silver hoard of VG Walkers
that I bought for $2000 last year on the Coin Vault, just as soon
as I finish slabbing them all. All serious offers over $4000 will
be considered. Come over to stamps and feel better, live longer,
and find true happiness, all from a little piece of paper!

-K

True, I am also the youngest person at my club....followed by.....let me
think.....uhhhhh......wait a sec here.......probably someone in their early
40's.

So I suppose the white haired thing holds true for this hobby too. Thank
Goodness I got in on the ground floor.

Fred
"checking for grey"


"James McCown" wrote in message
om...
Fred, what you say about stamp collecting is also true to a lesser
extent about coin collecting. I'm 43, but when I go to a coin club
meeting or bourse, I am often the youngest man in the building.

But stamp collecting is a long ways away from dying out. And if it
ever goes that way, then I will be able to buy some of my favorites
very cheaply.

Two weeks ago, I bought a package of ten Canadian covers from the WWII
era from a stamp dealer for $2.50. I put one of them up for auction on
ebay and it sold for $26! I hope I can sell the other nine for the
same price.

"Fred" wrote in message
...
My local coin dealer has begun phasing out his stamps in the store. He
is
very very knowledgable however, he refers to the hobby of collecting
stamps
as a dying hobby. It's an "old white haired man's hobby" as he put it.

He often sells large amounts of stamps on ebay at BELOW face value.

Most people that bring stamps into the store, he tells them to just use
them
on thier mail. Atleast he is honest. Unless of course there is
somethign
rare or scarce about the stamp.

The only way I would buy stamps is if I thought the design was
nice...hence
my purchase of the 1877 Indian Head Cent Stamp (I bought 5 blocks of 4
stamps or 20 stamps.)

Fred

"Keith Michaels" wrote in message
...
Are you tired of sleaze-ball dealers that rip off your grandmother?
Then join the civilized world of stamp collecting. Since making the
switch I enjoy my hobby more, make more money, and have lost weight
all due to the nice stamp collectors that treat each other with
respect, and always encourage and educate the naive for the good of
the hobby. So I will be selling off my silver hoard of VG Walkers
that I bought for $2000 last year on the Coin Vault, just as soon
as I finish slabbing them all. All serious offers over $4000 will
be considered. Come over to stamps and feel better, live longer,
and find true happiness, all from a little piece of paper!

You are kidding right? I collected a few stamps in the early
1980's and continue to collect a few as the opportunity arises,
US and World.
If you are not kidding then enjoy your illusions!

Dale
PS since switching to stamp collecting, I no longer need that
prescription to Viagra and I live in a wonderful world
where everyone is really out for my best interest.
My dishes come out from the dishwasher spot free, and my
shorts are whiter now than when I bought them. My wife
has turned into a goddess of love and my dog ****s in the commode.
My son is studying investments for my retirement and my daughter is
considering
dedicating her life to geriatrics so that she can extend my life
indefinitely.

Wait I forgot to take my medicine at lunch! be back in a min.!!

Dale

"Scottishmoney" wrote in message
...

"Dale Hallmark" dalehall.Not this wrote in message
...

Dale
PS since switching to stamp collecting, I no longer need that
prescription to Viagra and I live in a wonderful world
where everyone is really out for my best interest.
My dishes come out from the dishwasher spot free, and my
shorts are whiter now than when I bought them. My wife
has turned into a goddess of love and my dog ****s in the commode.
My son is studying investments for my retirement and my daughter is
considering
dedicating her life to geriatrics so that she can extend my life
indefinitely.

Wait I forgot to take my medicine at lunch! be back in a min.!!

Dale


Tell me Dale, was it that wonderful tasting glue on the backsides of
Marilyn
Monroe, Grace Kelly and other asst Hollywood godesses featured on postage
stamps that offset the need for Viagra? :]

Dave


Scheeesh.....

I will tell the secret but you must keep it just between us!
It was the much older horse glue!!! Yes that is correct!
Mucilage that is the key! Want to be a stallion again? Well..............
And it helps keep the uppers from coming lose at an inopportune moment,
if you catch my drift! :-)|

Dale
PS
Pleeezzze delete this message 35 seconds after reading.
It will self destruct shortly after and I don't want anyone to suffer
a melt down. Of course if you are discovered in your mission, this office
will dis-avow any knowledge of your mission.!!!

Fred, what you say about stamp collecting is also true to a lesser
extent about coin collecting. I'm 43, but when I go to a coin club
meeting or bourse, I am often the youngest man in the building.

But stamp collecting is a long ways away from dying out. And if it
ever goes that way, then I will be able to buy some of my favorites
very cheaply.

Two weeks ago, I bought a package of ten Canadian covers from the WWII
era from a stamp dealer for $2.50. I put one of them up for auction on
ebay and it sold for $26! I hope I can sell the other nine for the
same price.

"Fred" wrote in message ...
My local coin dealer has begun phasing out his stamps in the store. He is
very very knowledgable however, he refers to the hobby of collecting stamps
as a dying hobby. It's an "old white haired man's hobby" as he put it.

He often sells large amounts of stamps on ebay at BELOW face value.

Most people that bring stamps into the store, he tells them to just use them
on thier mail. Atleast he is honest. Unless of course there is somethign
rare or scarce about the stamp.

The only way I would buy stamps is if I thought the design was nice...hence
my purchase of the 1877 Indian Head Cent Stamp (I bought 5 blocks of 4
stamps or 20 stamps.)

Fred

(Keith Michaels) wrote in message ...
Are you tired of sleaze-ball dealers that rip off your grandmother?
Then join the civilized world of stamp collecting. Since making the
switch I enjoy my hobby more, make more money, and have lost weight
all due to the nice stamp collectors that treat each other with
respect, and always encourage and educate the naive for the good of
the hobby. So I will be selling off my silver hoard of VG Walkers
that I bought for $2000 last year on the Coin Vault, just as soon
as I finish slabbing them all. All serious offers over $4000 will
be considered. Come over to stamps and feel better, live longer,
and find true happiness, all from a little piece of paper!

-K


Guess you never heard of that flame war of a few years ago in
rec.collecting.stamps that so far has made anything here look very
mild in comparison. It was the ugliest thing I have ever seen in a
usenet hobby newsgroup. I don't think that coin
and stamp collectors are all that much different except in one area:
Stamp
collectors seem to have much less fear in naming dealers they feel are
crooks.
There is a very interesting stamp website where people post their
experiences
with bad Ebay sellers etc., very detailed and very interesting. They
don't pull many punches. With coins there is a cautious "be careful
or you could get
sued" attitude. Stamp collectors seem to throw caution to the wind.
Whether that is good or bad I'll let others decide.

I rather like stamps but have never gotten to the point of getting
serious
about collecting them. I always try to use commemmorative stamps
rather than
the same old ones most people use. I like variety.

(Keith Michaels) wrote:
Then join the civilized world of stamp collecting. Since making the
switch I enjoy ...

Thanks for the humor!
I also feel that for several reasons, philatelics is perhaps more
civilized than numismatics. My experience with an active stamp dealer
was being in a coin shop with both counters. As the coin counter were
some of the typical coin guys. At the stamp counter was a
distinguished older women, grey hair pulled back, suit, you know the
type.

Ayn Rand was the goddess of gold, but she collected stamps, not coins,
and she once rhapsodized about stamp collecting for Minkus.

You have the nations like Monaco, Chad, and the United States that
depend on the sale of dubious stamps for immediate income. The best I
can think of was the stainless steel "Literacy" stamps from Nepal, a
nation without steel mills and with a population too illerate to
really need a mail system. On the other hand, you have Estonia, a
little nation so darned literate that the people there counterfeited
stamps in preference to counterfeiting money. So, stamp collecting is
what you make it to be for yourself.

Myself, I like postcards and covers. I like to see that a stamp has
been used and know how it served its purpose.

My other hobby is aviation. Airmail covers can be overly plentiful,
but I look for true firsts and earliests, the C-1 stamps of nations
that really have airports for instance. I also like First Flight
Covers, and have gotten in Space Flight covers. My favorite there is
a SECRET US SPY SATELLITE cancelled cover from Cape Canaveral -- only
in America! (:-)

Stamps and Money is a theme I have not gotten around to. There are
several issues celebrating Coin Collecting and several stamps with
pictures of money on them and of course, stamps have been used as
money.

Like any hobby, it is what you make of it. However, I agree, that in
terms of broad brush strokes and glittering generalities, stamp
collectors and dealers are more civilized than coin collectors and
dealers. Philatelics is also FAR FAR less of an investment than
numismatics -- stamps cost less and appreciate in value hardly at all.
That has a lot to do with it.

when my nephew was 7 I tried to get him interested in coin collecting
with the SQ program in 1999 but all he was interested in was stamps so I
buy him all kinds of stamps. I did get my niece into coin collecting
when she was 5, now she's 11 and says to her grandpa if Eddie dies I
get his coins right. My father looks at me and grins well you got her
into coin collecting : ) "What is it about collecting coins that brings
out the greedy I got to have it mentality : )

Edward McGrath wrote:

when my nephew was 7 I tried to get him interested in coin collecting
with the SQ program in 1999 but all he was interested in was stamps so I
buy him all kinds of stamps. I did get my niece into coin collecting
when she was 5, now she's 11 and says to her grandpa if Eddie dies I
get his coins right. My father looks at me and grins well you got her
into coin collecting : ) "What is it about collecting coins that brings
out the greedy I got to have it mentality : )

From the 1930's through the early 1950's it seemed like most
All-American boys collected stamps at one time or another. Cancelled
stamps were just as popular as unused ones, maybe more so. Foreign
stamps were usually more fascinating than domestic, probably because
there were so few domestic designs issued back then. And there was
something magical about opening grampa's musty old phonebook-thick stamp
album. Very few youngsters collected coins, and those that did were
more likely to be interested in foreign coins. Before TV, kids were
very fascinated about the mystique of foreign things. I wasn't around
in the 1930's but the 40's and 50's sure were fun times for a kid who
loved to collect stuff.

Bruce

Bruce Remick wrote in message ...
Edward McGrath wrote:

when my nephew was 7 I tried to get him interested in coin collecting
with the SQ program in 1999 but all he was interested in was stamps so I
buy him all kinds of stamps. I did get my niece into coin collecting
when she was 5, now she's 11 and says to her grandpa if Eddie dies I
get his coins right. My father looks at me and grins well you got her
into coin collecting : ) "What is it about collecting coins that brings
out the greedy I got to have it mentality : )

From the 1930's through the early 1950's it seemed like most
All-American boys collected stamps at one time or another. Cancelled
stamps were just as popular as unused ones, maybe more so. Foreign
stamps were usually more fascinating than domestic, probably because
there were so few domestic designs issued back then. And there was
something magical about opening grampa's musty old phonebook-thick stamp
album. Very few youngsters collected coins, and those that did were
more likely to be interested in foreign coins. Before TV, kids were
very fascinated about the mystique of foreign things. I wasn't around
in the 1930's but the 40's and 50's sure were fun times for a kid who
loved to collect stuff.

Bruce



I dabbled in stamps as a kid but never got into it in a serious way. I think I
bought one of those "send $1.00 received 300 stamps" or something like that
kind of ad from a comic book. I had a stamp album at one time but I'm not
sure whatever happened to it. My dad still has his old stamp albums that
probably date from the 1940s or so sitting up on his shelf of books, he hasen't
done anything with stamps for decades but he still has them. It would be fun
to go through what he has some day to just see what is in there. My sister
was given some stamps by the widow of a guy who was a serious collector from
way back, I remember there were a number of plate blocks of four stamps that
were quite old, we looked up the values (about 30 years ago) and some were
listed as $15 or $20 for each block of four, what they would be worth now
who knows? I think those were also just stuck up on the shelf in another
stamp album.