I used to collect postage stamps when I was a kid, up to the age of about 12 years old. Sometimes I would buy them in a shop, but mostly I got them from various people I knew. My Aunt Lil worked as a cleaning lady in an office in the City of London and would empty their garbage cans as part of the work. She often found some interesting envelopes with foreign stamps and would give them to me. Here I have only taken a photo of part of my stamps from the States. I do not suppose there is really anything rare amongst them or valuable, but who knows. Perhaps some of you might remember the time when these stamps were in use, but it would be at least 50 years ago. I had almost forgot I still had this album, but when searching for something rare I found it in the cupboard. There are some rare memories of a past gone by that you never let go.
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I also collected stamps and people used to give them to me. I recognize several of your stamps. Mine are in a big envelope. I haven’t looked at them for a long time. Thanks so much for this post 🙂
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The album is full of stamps from all over the world, but I chose the American page as I thought the stamps might be recognised.
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Some of them probably are worth something. How much, I’d have no idea. My brother collected stamps and I have no idea what became of his collection. It would be pretty old by now. I recognize some of those stamps from when they were in use … a long time ago!
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I think they have to be in mint condition to be worth a lot, if at all valuable. Mr. Swiss had a good collection, but gave it to his sister many years ago and no-one seems to know what happened to it.
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I remember the Washington 5 cent stamp from my childhood. My brother and I collected coins and stamps for a while, but neither of us kept them. I doubt they were worth much then or now.
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Interesting, I was wondering if anyone might have recognised a couple of the stamps.
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I collected stamps for quite some time, too, and have a box somewhere full of them.
janet
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I think a lot of us went through the stamp collecting phase. I remember I learnt a lot about other countries when doing it, that stayed for a lifetime.
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What a great collection. I love postage stamps and once had this as a hobby. Sad this is rarely used these days.
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I have many more stamps and forgot I had this collection. I just happend to find it when searching through some old stuff for the challenge.
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I remember having fun collecting all sorts of things as a hobby in The Sixties, cool lapel buttons, unusual and arty business cards, as well as, coins and stamps.
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I used to collect stamps as well when I was a kid. About the same way. Family members (parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents) started to collect all stamps and gave them to me. When my godchild started to collect stamps I gave my collection to him. Seeing your picture I wonder what had happened to this stamps when he moved out and went to university…
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They are things we should really keep. I was glad to see I still had my collection. When I moved from England to Switzerland, my parents got rid of a lot of things I had, but not all thank goodness and now and again I brought something back with me to Switzerland when I have been living for the past 50 years.
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You reminds me of our Nyayo era.That was the time stamps here in kenya were mostly used.Now days it is rarely used.It only sms’s by phone.Great post I love it.
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I wrote this five years ago. We still use stamps for official letters.
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