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Post by RickBarrett on Nov 14, 2022 19:55:29 GMT
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Nov 14, 2022 20:23:00 GMT
RickBarrett As Archie and Edith would sing, "...those were the days."
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Nov 14, 2022 20:57:51 GMT
RickBarrett Thanks for taking us to Gimbel's. It reminds me of Marshall Field's stamp department in Chicago when I was a kid. Field's is now Macy's, no stamps.
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Post by greaden on Nov 15, 2022 1:17:22 GMT
I got my set of Afars and Issas birds there.
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Post by Jerry B on Nov 15, 2022 7:50:35 GMT
Hi Rick
As the song says: Thanks for the memories. My aunt started me collecting and took me to the Minkus counter at Gimbels. Later I found Nassau Street.
Again, thanks.
Jerry B
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 15, 2022 18:09:07 GMT
Great photos, RickBarrett!
Gimbles apparently also sold by mail as evidenced by this pre-WW II cover with a Jacques Minkus cachet posted at the Marine Detachment in St. Lucia, Windward Islands. Don StampHinger
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eggdog
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Post by eggdog on Nov 15, 2022 18:19:22 GMT
I remember a stamp counter at Woolworth's in Springfield, Massachusetts. I don't have a picture, which is a shame, because it probably would have fit nicely onto a Brownie photograph. Mostly I remember displays of 25¢ or 50-75¢ sets, probably incomplete ones. It was interesting enough, but it didn't exactly thrill me even at that impressionable age. I got most of my stamps from the "100 stamps for 50¢ plus approvals" ads in Linn's or, occasionally, the New York Times. Woolworth's might have had some more interesting items that weren't out were small fry like me could see them and which you had to know about and ask for.
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Nov 15, 2022 19:04:34 GMT
Thanks for starting this thread, Rick ( RickBarrett). It does indeed bring back old memories for me, too. I never went to the NYC department stores back when they still carried stamps and coins, but I did visit Higbee's in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and they had a stamp department into the 1980s, I think. For me, it was great, because while my Mom was shopping for shoes or a dress, I could hang out at the stamp counter looking at what they had on offer. Thanks again for helping me to recall a fond memory!  |
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Cephus
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Post by Cephus on Nov 15, 2022 20:50:11 GMT
I remember those counters. Some of my earliest mint sets were bought at similar places. I'd say it's too bad that those don't exist anymore, but for the most part, there aren't a lot of department stores anymore, are there?
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renden
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Post by renden on Nov 15, 2022 22:43:05 GMT
Here (Canada), Canada Post has always kept the privilege (I think) - never seen this (typical of our neighbours to the South !!  ) $$$ |
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Post by Jerry B on Nov 16, 2022 9:28:33 GMT
Hi eggdog
I also remember Woolworth stamp counters in Maine. It did not last very long. Who rememberts stamp ads on the back of comic books.
Jerry B
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angore
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Post by angore on Nov 16, 2022 11:25:13 GMT
I never recall visiting a department store that had a stamp department but then I spent many years on military bases. The PX never stocked stamps or other collectibles.
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Post by stanley64 on Nov 16, 2022 11:42:20 GMT
Alas renden , you are mistaken ;-) From the blogger website, Department Store Museum, the Hudson's Bay store of Winnipeg maintained a coin and stamps shop on the 5th floor, 
It is unlikely that the Winnipeg or Montreal Hudson's Bay Co. stores themselves bought and sold coins or stamps, but instead leased the space to a local dealer with the 5th floor appearing to be the location of choice.
Perhaps other Hudson's Bay Co. stores in different Canadian cities have, or had, similar arrangements...
Have fun and happy collecting!
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renden
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Post by renden on Nov 16, 2022 13:26:11 GMT
stanley64My mistake - Canada is a BIG Country and I have never been in Winnipeg or done any visit to huge Dept. Stores  !! Happy stamping ! René
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Nov 16, 2022 13:52:20 GMT
I mentioned in an earlier post about the Lawrence Block book series about the hit man Keller and his stamp collection. I am reading the fourth in the series ‘Hit and Run’ and there is a chapter I read this morning where he talks about how he got into stamp collecting. Being from New York he mentions early visits to Gimbel’s to buy packets from their stamp department.
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Post by uppercanadian on Nov 16, 2022 15:05:10 GMT
In the 1970's, there was a stamp counter in The Bay at Cloverdale Mall in Etobicoke (now part of Toronto). There was also one in the Simpson's Department Store at Sherway Gardens (also in Etobicoke). Those are the two places I first bought stamps - well, my mom and dad bought them for me. This would have been in the early 70's. I recall convincing my mother to buy me a small collection of British Occupation stamps from the Ottoman Vilayets of Basra and Baghdad (Scott Catalogue lists under "Mesopotamia".
I believe that these were not dealers leasing space but were employees of the department store. They did not know a whole lot, and I know that one of them worked in a different department before moving to Stamps and Coins.
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stanley64
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Post by stanley64 on Nov 16, 2022 16:06:18 GMT
One step up from the shoe department; thanks for sharing Brad( uppercanadian ). I also recall reading a similar anecdote from a fellow member of the British North American Philatelic Society who too had been taken by the offerings of the 'Coins and Stamp' department of the store. Appreciate the memory lane jog, Rene( renden )... Have fun and happy collecting! |
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Post by anglobob on Nov 16, 2022 17:12:20 GMT
eggdogGrowing up in England,I also purchased cheap packets of stamps from Woolworths. I can also remember seeing a stamp and coin counter in the Neiman Marcus store in downtown Dallas which I visited on my first trip to USA,back in 1975. Anglob
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Londonbus1
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What I collect: Wonderland; 1912 Jubilee International Stamp Exhibition, London ('Ideal' Stamp, ephemera); French Cinderellas with an emphasis on Poster Stamps; Israel and Palestine Cinderellas ; Jewish National Fund Stamps, Labels and Tags; London 2010, A Festival of Stamps (anything); South Africa 1937 Coronation issue of KGVI, singles or bi-lingual pairs.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Apr 18, 2024 10:10:06 GMT
Here's an advertisement from a (reproduction) copy of the October 1934 Stamp Magazine showing a full page of what Selfridges Stamp department in London had to offer. Those offers include a full set of Canada Jubilees and the dollar values of the USA Columbus series ! Oh to go back to those days !!  |
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Post by Ryan on Jun 16, 2024 5:10:21 GMT
As a youngish pup, perhaps 14 years old or so (which would make it approx. 1978), I would use my bus pass (earned by right of living more than 1-1/2 miles away from my junior high school) to ride into downtown Calgary. The far western end of the downtown shopping complex was anchored by Eaton's, and they had a proper stamp department with stuff that not only served "real" collectors but also 14-year-olds like me who favoured packets and suchlike. My first experience with a "dig through the box and take whatever you want for however many cents per stamp" was at this Eaton's, and I can remember finding my first Iceland stamp in that box (one of the Two Kings low values). One of my favourite purchases of my early collecting "career" was a packet of 300 French Colonies stamps, all these fine multi-coloured engraved stamps from Niger and Laos and Cameroun and so on. Hooray for the Eaton's stamp department! It was, unfortunately, on its last legs by the time I came across it, and it didn't last much longer. Oh well.
Ryan
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