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new to the group but very interested
I was encouraged by my parents to collect stamps "as it is
educational" and guess what - it was and still is! At the age of about 11 I could recite the capital city of almost every country in the world.Admitted I have never quite got my head round the new names of all the non-Commonwealth African countries, and other new nations. My majors at school were Geography and History, and I have never quite worked out whether that was the root or the result of being a stamp collector !My boys now both grown up, never cease to amaze me at their ignorance of the world around them ( regrettably they never collected stamps ), and my wife tolerates rather than encourages me - she is somewhat more sympathetic when I explained to her that it keeps me out of pubs and stops me chasing other men's wives !! Another aspect which should not be overlooked is that as you get older the intellectual effort required to pursue this hobby at whatever level you want to collect is very healthy brain-exercise ! As has been said before people here are happy to help with information - and we have one member here who is a one-man Google substitute ( only even more efficient at digging out obscure net references ). I would love to know how he does it ! Malcolm On Apr 6, 8:32*am, joshuamcgee wrote: On Mar 19, 4:57*pm, Jim wrote: Ralphael1 wrote: On Mar 19, 6:50 pm, jim wrote: Hello: Welcome to the group JIM. Many of are also OLD stampers with varied interests. I will have to agree with Raphael, stamp collecting is one of those hobbies that you either love or have no use for. *My ex-wife and kids Hello Jim, Welcome, as has been said, to the group. This may startle my cohorts, but I am thirty years old. *I began collecting stamps in 1987. *The first pane I purchased was the North American Wildlife issue. My son is five years old. *He has a stamp album. *He earns stamps for particularly "good" behavior. *He does not strictly differentiate them from "stickers", but he loves them all the same. *He is a through-and- through thematic collector. *He is a devotee of coal-fired rail engines, and when he has been PARTICULARLY good, demands a new train stamp in his album. *His album? *An empty approvals booklet from the 1950s. I started, briefly, collecting stamps when I was still in Japan, where I spent some formative years. *At age 8.5, I moved to the United States, and when a stamp collecting adult came to "hook" the class on the passion (in -- I guess -- 1988) I was grabbed forever. *Blah blah blah, putting it aside for girls later on. *But I picked it up again quickly when I was married. *At age 22 I was back in the thick, getting letters published in Linn's and starting to specialize. I am not a child, per se. *But I am not sure my 1988 self is entirely different from children today. *Yes, we didn't have the Internet, we didn't have computers, blah blah. *But it is a captivating venture, and may "stick" in more kids than you might think, if for nothing else than immediacy and tactile engagement. *I don't think the CIA Factbook and Wikipedia have obselitized stamps. *My ex-wife -- four or five years ago! -- watched a film and said she had never heard anything about the Spanish civil war! *Egads. *But, of course: I knew of this from age seven or eight. *Hearing of a bombing in Harare, and being able to find a cover in a more experienced collector's trove? Priceless. *Stamps bring it home as nothing else does. I've had people say to me things like, "But how did you know AT ALL that a trident stood for Ukraine". *The answer: yes, you guessed it. So, welcome. *We'll be here, young and old alike. *Looking forward to seeing your posts. -- Joshua H. McGee, Los Angeles, California, USA Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC Trade?: *http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/ |
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