Post by Mark Jochim on May 26, 2017 2:41:02 GMT
Hi!
I'm a new member here, but not new to collecting. I received my first stamp album some 40 years ago as a birthday present. It was a Scott Modern, 1938 edition, started by my mom during World War II. She lived behind the New Mexico state capitol building (now renamed Bataan War Memorial Building) in Santa Fe and would often raid the trash there as the state government received mail from all over the world. So, the album was filled mainly with stamps from that era. The collection sparked my lifelong love of geography and history.
I have dabbled in many different areas of collecting: I went from that album to specializing in United States issues, then United Nations (New York), then United Kingdom. I built several smaller collections of Aland and Faroe Islands before adding first day covers and that eventually led to collecting New Mexico postal history (after I moved there from Kansas).
The height of my collecting activities was attending Pacific 97 in San Francisco. I then stopped collecting for almost 10 years. I moved to southern Thailand and began collecting Thai new issues. I share my birthday with the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej and developed a love for the royal issues. Eventually, I sought out the earliest issues, Straits Settlements "B" overprinted stamps (used from the British Post Office in Bangkok) and the first Chulalongkorn issues of 1883. Since I live in Phuket, I am always on the lookout for early Phuket postmarks and postal history items (few and far between).
A few years ago, I set out on a mission to collect "A Stamp From Everywhere", designing nice album pages. But I soon found I couldn't limit myself to just one stamp from many of the stamp issuers so it's become a general worldwide collection (bringing the entire thing full-circle!).
I never really collected topically until recently -- I am always looking out for stamps showing "classroom education" as I'm a teacher here, as well as stamps themed on the 2004 Andaman Sea tsunami (I was on the beach in Phuket when that happened), and a few others (including the Wright Brothers, Lindbergh, and FDR).
I also blog about my collecting activities, including one where I post "A Stamp A Day."
This hobby is great fun and limitless in scope. I love it and wish there was more time in each day that I could devote to the wonderful world of stamp collecting.
Cheers!
I'm a new member here, but not new to collecting. I received my first stamp album some 40 years ago as a birthday present. It was a Scott Modern, 1938 edition, started by my mom during World War II. She lived behind the New Mexico state capitol building (now renamed Bataan War Memorial Building) in Santa Fe and would often raid the trash there as the state government received mail from all over the world. So, the album was filled mainly with stamps from that era. The collection sparked my lifelong love of geography and history.
I have dabbled in many different areas of collecting: I went from that album to specializing in United States issues, then United Nations (New York), then United Kingdom. I built several smaller collections of Aland and Faroe Islands before adding first day covers and that eventually led to collecting New Mexico postal history (after I moved there from Kansas).
The height of my collecting activities was attending Pacific 97 in San Francisco. I then stopped collecting for almost 10 years. I moved to southern Thailand and began collecting Thai new issues. I share my birthday with the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej and developed a love for the royal issues. Eventually, I sought out the earliest issues, Straits Settlements "B" overprinted stamps (used from the British Post Office in Bangkok) and the first Chulalongkorn issues of 1883. Since I live in Phuket, I am always on the lookout for early Phuket postmarks and postal history items (few and far between).
A few years ago, I set out on a mission to collect "A Stamp From Everywhere", designing nice album pages. But I soon found I couldn't limit myself to just one stamp from many of the stamp issuers so it's become a general worldwide collection (bringing the entire thing full-circle!).
I never really collected topically until recently -- I am always looking out for stamps showing "classroom education" as I'm a teacher here, as well as stamps themed on the 2004 Andaman Sea tsunami (I was on the beach in Phuket when that happened), and a few others (including the Wright Brothers, Lindbergh, and FDR).
I also blog about my collecting activities, including one where I post "A Stamp A Day."
This hobby is great fun and limitless in scope. I love it and wish there was more time in each day that I could devote to the wonderful world of stamp collecting.
Cheers!
