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A new collector!
My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave
him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S. I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to! |
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A new collector!
Wes,
How about selling some of those "salted" pounds of wheaties on eBay? It would beat out all the other sellers of supposedly unsearched pounds of wheaties. Haa Haa. I could use a 1909-S VDB to fill my album as well. Bob "Wes Chormicle" wrote in message ink.net... My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S. I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to! |
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A new collector!
Wes Chormicle wrote:
My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S. I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to! When my brother and I were kids (back in the early 1960s), our dad and grandpa used to go out with us for long leisurely walks. Remarkably my brother and I would regularly find some coins strewn along the paths of these walks, amazingly in exactly equal numbers. When we told out other grandfather about such finds, we began to find coins when out with him as well. |
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:37:12 GMT, "Wes Chormicle"
wrote: My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S. I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to! That's awesome. I tried to get my kids interested in the hobby. It worked for a while,,, but then slowly fizzled. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get back some of the things I got them,,, lol. Could sell the stuff and use the proceeds to bolster my collection :-) -- Ron K |
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"ronrpk" wrote in message news On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:37:12 GMT, "Wes Chormicle" wrote: My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S. I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to! That's awesome. I tried to get my kids interested in the hobby. It worked for a while,,, but then slowly fizzled. Snip -- Ron K Same thing happen with my kids. My daughter is now 28 and she has never show an interest in the last 15 years. My son did the Whitman boards for a while too. Nothing now in years. He does collect knives however. Dale |
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"Wes Chormicle" wrote in message ink.net... My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S. I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to! C'mon, Wes. That's cheating. No one should be able to nearly complete a Lincoln set in one month of searching and then be expected to develop into a patient collector. It took me years of searching and lawn mowing to complete my set (minus the 1922), and that was in the pre-Memorial days. Then it took another thirty years to upgrade it to an overall EF-BU grade. I would have had him attack the 1959 to present album first. If he completed it without losing interest first, THEN you could have fed him those bags of "unsearched" wheaties. Next would come the bags of unsearched Morgans, eh? Bruce |
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:37:12 GMT, "Wes Chormicle"
is alleged to have written: My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty! 4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S. I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look back and smile at the effort his dad went to! I can't imagine anything cooler than my Dad running a coin shop. At age 11, I'd never have left. Bruce ************************************************* ANA R162074 EAC 3606 To email me, remember that RoadRunner and Coyote do not mix. ************************************************* |
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