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Time's Winged Chariot.
Some Journalists employ the English Language
with such skill, and with such apparent ease. It's even better when one of our own kind is so blessed. Hence I share these couple of paragraphs, that explains the other "hidden cost" of any stamp purchase. The cost of impatience. Snipped: THE BERKSWELL CUCKOO One Sunday afternoon in the middle of our indifferent Spring I found myself standing in the village churchyard at Berkswell listening to the sound of a distant cuckoo. Whether the bird was trying to put some sort of musical accompaniment to the rare shafts of sunlight the day had brought forth, or whether it was making sarcastic comment about the price I had recently paid for a Berkswell Village Church official cover I do not know. It is true I had paid highly for it; but in FDC collecting as in everything else you must be prepared to pay for your impatience. If you can play the waiting game you may eventually get a scarce cover at catalogue price or even less; but if you hear time's winged chariot hurrying near, and the spirit of acquisitiveness rises up strongly within you, you pay over the odds, and salve your conscience by telling yourself that in the long run the cover will prove to be a good investment, or your disposition will become all the sunnier because of it, or the item is undercatalogued anyway, and so on. So you go on your way rejoicing - as, of course, does the brisk lad who sold it to you. Edward Murch "Collect First Day Covers" 1984 |
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