Post by seagull on Jul 17, 2023 19:08:09 GMT
Hello all, hope you’re having a great day.
I hate writing introductions so please bare with me while I babble along with little point or direction.
I’ve been lurking on the site for a little while and figured it’d be nice to actively partake in the discussions as well as just view them, so here I am!
I currently reside in the UK, near the town of Northampton.
Like many others here, I’m a returning collector. I primarily collected in the early 90’s when I was a kid. Having lost interest as a teenager —I’ll let you fill in the blanks here— my collection then sat in my parents attic for near on three-decades before being dug out, accompanied with the burning question, “What do you want us to do with your old stamp collection?”
From here it lived in my garage for six months whilst I re-garnered the desire to creak open the faded flaps of the old hifi box that held so many of my youthful memories.
A couple of months back I overcame the trepidation and entered Narnia. Needless to say I was once again bitten by the collecting bug, this time with a greater appreciation of the history behind the stamps whilst enamoured by the beauty of much of the artwork adorning them. Despite my regretful thirty years of neglect, the collection had faired amazingly well.
Throughout my life, I’ve always been a collector of things. Maybe it links back to football cards —among others— when I was a child, and trading dog-eared swaps in the playground? In my twenties I had a brief brush with Pez, but I can’t really explain that one.
More recently I’ve been very into video games, and I still am. However I’m not a full-setter, and I’m at the point where much of what’s left for me is either expensive shovelware (uncommon junk) or I’m just not interested enough to warrant paying the current prices. I'm sure I'll still pick the odd game up, but it no longer feeds the collector in me. My second issue has become the space needed to display them. A thousand video games consume a wall of shelving to properly display, whereas a thousand stamps fit neatly into a stockbook. I know, I'm rambling now, apologies.
Back on topic: My stamp collection is probably two-thirds British. I have a fair amount of mint commemoratives from the 60’s onwards. A fair few FDCs and a wide range of cancelled stamps spanning most eras in varying condition. My non-British collection is a bit all over the place, quite a wide mix with many old packet stamps. I’m sure in the coming months and years I’ll discover a direction or two in which to pursue in greater depth.
I still have a lot to sort through, and I’m sure many stories to discover along the way. As the collection currently stands I’d say it has little monetary value but I’m really not into it for that. I don’t currently have a collection goal of sorts, but going forward I like the idea of picking up a cheap/rough (rough is an expectation, not a desire) penny black with a Maltese cross, purely for the historic value it holds.
Anyway, once again, thanks for having me. Must return to Narnia now, swear I saw someone flying a plane upside down there a while ago! (If only!)
I hate writing introductions so please bare with me while I babble along with little point or direction.
I’ve been lurking on the site for a little while and figured it’d be nice to actively partake in the discussions as well as just view them, so here I am!
I currently reside in the UK, near the town of Northampton.
Like many others here, I’m a returning collector. I primarily collected in the early 90’s when I was a kid. Having lost interest as a teenager —I’ll let you fill in the blanks here— my collection then sat in my parents attic for near on three-decades before being dug out, accompanied with the burning question, “What do you want us to do with your old stamp collection?”
From here it lived in my garage for six months whilst I re-garnered the desire to creak open the faded flaps of the old hifi box that held so many of my youthful memories.
A couple of months back I overcame the trepidation and entered Narnia. Needless to say I was once again bitten by the collecting bug, this time with a greater appreciation of the history behind the stamps whilst enamoured by the beauty of much of the artwork adorning them. Despite my regretful thirty years of neglect, the collection had faired amazingly well.
Throughout my life, I’ve always been a collector of things. Maybe it links back to football cards —among others— when I was a child, and trading dog-eared swaps in the playground? In my twenties I had a brief brush with Pez, but I can’t really explain that one.
More recently I’ve been very into video games, and I still am. However I’m not a full-setter, and I’m at the point where much of what’s left for me is either expensive shovelware (uncommon junk) or I’m just not interested enough to warrant paying the current prices. I'm sure I'll still pick the odd game up, but it no longer feeds the collector in me. My second issue has become the space needed to display them. A thousand video games consume a wall of shelving to properly display, whereas a thousand stamps fit neatly into a stockbook. I know, I'm rambling now, apologies.
Back on topic: My stamp collection is probably two-thirds British. I have a fair amount of mint commemoratives from the 60’s onwards. A fair few FDCs and a wide range of cancelled stamps spanning most eras in varying condition. My non-British collection is a bit all over the place, quite a wide mix with many old packet stamps. I’m sure in the coming months and years I’ll discover a direction or two in which to pursue in greater depth.
I still have a lot to sort through, and I’m sure many stories to discover along the way. As the collection currently stands I’d say it has little monetary value but I’m really not into it for that. I don’t currently have a collection goal of sorts, but going forward I like the idea of picking up a cheap/rough (rough is an expectation, not a desire) penny black with a Maltese cross, purely for the historic value it holds.
Anyway, once again, thanks for having me. Must return to Narnia now, swear I saw someone flying a plane upside down there a while ago! (If only!)
to TSF! Thanks for the excellent introduction. You've come to the right place.
....Ludwig
