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Those Early Stamp Collecting Days
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What do you remember of your earliest days as a stamp collector? I’d like to share my beginning stamp collecting memories and invite you to try to remember what it was like being a novice collector.
I started collecting stamps at the ripe age of 4½, sometime in mid-1947. My daddy had shown me a small beginner Scott album in which he had saved a few hundred worldwide stamps in the 1920’s. I was captivated. Here was a tangible connection with strange places all over the world and historical events from interesting time periods. One look and I was hooked! I wanted my own stamps!
I started saving the stamps from every letter that came into our house. I got a shoebox to keep them in and soon had it half-full of mostly 3¢ purple Thomas Jefferson Presidentials, a scattering of 1¢ green Washingtons, an occasional airmail, and a few 3¢ commemoratives. I liked the 1947 doctor stamp because it pictured a familiar scene.
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Friday April 1, 2005 at 8:21PM
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