kencooke
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Posts: 4
What I collect: Australia, Greece, Netherlands
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Post by kencooke on Jun 18, 2024 4:27:07 GMT
I retired from all employment this year. Sitting at the bottom of the wardrobe was an old cardboard carton containing our childhood stamp collection. This was brought over from my father’s house when he passed away several years ago. I have not looked at it since the 1960s. The collection was originally started by my father when he was a youngster in about the 1940s. Myself and two siblings started mucking around with it when we lived in Greece in the mid 1960s. No television then. The collection consists almost entirely of stamps pre 1966 with a few dating back as far as the British Penny Reds. The largest cohorts of stamps are from Australia, Great Britain, Greece, Netherlands, United States, Germany and France. There are small numbers from about seventy other countries. We have Australian stamps because of course that is where we reside. Many of the stamps of Greece and Netherlands we would have because we lived there for several years while my father worked in the Australian consulates. I think my father collected German stamps because in the 1940s and 1950s packets of stamps were given away as a promotion with ETA peanut butter. There were packets of stamps attached to the jars of peanut butter and for some reason they contained a lot of the German Reich stamps including a lot from the inflationary period with face values in the millions of Marks. ![](https://i.ibb.co/DDvp3Lj/IMG-1735.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/Wt8pLjK/IMG-1736.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/7Rr0XyL/IMG-1738.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/r4Nkw50/IMG-1737.jpg)
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mberry
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Posts: 1,114
What I collect: USA, USA Revenues, Beer Related Stamps and Revenues, US State Revenues, Stamp Show Stamps
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Post by mberry on Jun 18, 2024 9:58:05 GMT
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rex
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Posts: 1,193
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Post by rex on Jun 18, 2024 16:20:45 GMT
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dorincard
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Posts: 1,577
What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Jun 18, 2024 22:14:48 GMT
Welcome!
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hrdoktorx
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Posts: 6,952
What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 19, 2024 6:03:18 GMT
![sign0016](//storage.proboards.com/5386724/images/mTWkazaNMlOYzcVBdMZT.gif) to TSF! Thanks for the nice introduction. You've come to the right place.
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Post by david on Jul 10, 2024 12:44:02 GMT
Welcome to the forum.
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Post by dgdecker on Jul 10, 2024 23:37:16 GMT
Welcome to the Forum!
David Ottawa, Canada
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sudbury12000
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Posts: 342
What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Jul 12, 2024 15:02:22 GMT
Welcome to the Forum!
Roy Scugog, Ontario, Canada
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drblade
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Posts: 822
What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Jul 13, 2024 8:24:41 GMT
Welcome to the forum.
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