Post by cdj1122 on Jul 11, 2020 0:46:50 GMT
Huzzar !!!
After some confusion I have managed to join this forum.
I started collecting at a young age during the early 1940s at the kitchen table, with blackout curtains drawn and a small lamp. My parents had a Scott International and I had probably a blank Marble Notebook and a Captain Tim's Ivory Stamp Album.
Of course, since I did not read more than alphabet letters then, what they gave me to soak off and mount were most likely just junk stamps. However it was a start.
Like many others I continued tracing maps and learning what countries were where until High School and girls became an interest, although I never through out an envelope with a collectable stamp. I went to the US Merchant Marine Academy and then served in the US Coast Guard, stationed on a sssssssssmall CG Cutter out of Charleston, SC, and later Honolulu,Hawaii.
That later vessel sailed to many ports and small islands between Samoa and Hokkaido, Hong Kong and, of course, Hawaii.
After the USCG I joined the Merchant Marine and began sailing to Europe and back, to India and Ceylon and some of the most interesting ports in the world.
One rainy afternoon in 1964, while doing nothing between trips, I spied the old albums on a shelf in my bedroom and while thumbing my way though the pages I found the spaces for the three stamps of the Tokelau Islands.
I had visited all three of the Tokelau atolls !
And with that the philatelic bug bit.
I began to fill spaces of a new Harris Citation album which then accompanied me around the world several times. I found stamp shops from Istanbul to Saigon, and all over Europe's counties, making a different class of friends as I filled the album.
I chose to collect postally used stamps and have never stopped. At the end of the Viet Nam Unpleasantness I found a mate, married, left the sea and we raised six children, first on Long Island, N.Y., then for thirty years on the West Coast of Florida. Eventually I moved to Texas to be closer to the local Veteran's Hospital, my personal liferaft.
I still prefer postally used but have made a compromise when necessary and enjoy long definitive series such as the UK's Wildings, Machins and Norway's posthorns.
After some confusion I have managed to join this forum.
I started collecting at a young age during the early 1940s at the kitchen table, with blackout curtains drawn and a small lamp. My parents had a Scott International and I had probably a blank Marble Notebook and a Captain Tim's Ivory Stamp Album.
Of course, since I did not read more than alphabet letters then, what they gave me to soak off and mount were most likely just junk stamps. However it was a start.
Like many others I continued tracing maps and learning what countries were where until High School and girls became an interest, although I never through out an envelope with a collectable stamp. I went to the US Merchant Marine Academy and then served in the US Coast Guard, stationed on a sssssssssmall CG Cutter out of Charleston, SC, and later Honolulu,Hawaii.
That later vessel sailed to many ports and small islands between Samoa and Hokkaido, Hong Kong and, of course, Hawaii.
After the USCG I joined the Merchant Marine and began sailing to Europe and back, to India and Ceylon and some of the most interesting ports in the world.
One rainy afternoon in 1964, while doing nothing between trips, I spied the old albums on a shelf in my bedroom and while thumbing my way though the pages I found the spaces for the three stamps of the Tokelau Islands.
I had visited all three of the Tokelau atolls !
And with that the philatelic bug bit.
I began to fill spaces of a new Harris Citation album which then accompanied me around the world several times. I found stamp shops from Istanbul to Saigon, and all over Europe's counties, making a different class of friends as I filled the album.
I chose to collect postally used stamps and have never stopped. At the end of the Viet Nam Unpleasantness I found a mate, married, left the sea and we raised six children, first on Long Island, N.Y., then for thirty years on the West Coast of Florida. Eventually I moved to Texas to be closer to the local Veteran's Hospital, my personal liferaft.
I still prefer postally used but have made a compromise when necessary and enjoy long definitive series such as the UK's Wildings, Machins and Norway's posthorns.
to TSF !!
..Ludovico
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