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WELCOME to Connexus!
Connexus is a "partnership" - Stamps and Stones!
Throop C. Brown began collecting stamps at age 4 in 1947. He had become a serious philatelist by 1955. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1964, receiving an MA from Ohio University, and serving as an Army officer, he became a full-time philatelist in 1970. Working first as an auction describer and appraiser, he rapidly advanced to senior positions as catalog editor and auction manager. In 1992 he launched his own company, Connexus Stamp Auctions. And although Connexus no longer sponsors auctions, it still remains a vibrant stamp source/resource.
Karen Sheaffer Brown is a glass and garden artist, (as well as our official "online lister"). She has a brick-and-mortar shop in Sanford North Carolina and she specializes in one-of-a-kind fused jewelry pieces.
My Blogs
Those Early Stamp Collecting Days
Mood:
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.
More to follow...
Leave a CommentFriday April 01, 05 at 08:21PM
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Those Early Stamp Collecting Days...cont'd Friday April 01, 05 at 08:08PM
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