• Re: Promoting stamp collecting

    From David E. Ross@21:1/5 to Victor Manta on Thu Aug 15 13:24:24 2024
    On 8/15/2024 12:50 PM, Victor Manta wrote:
    I recently bought on eBay a beautiful set of cats from Poland, from 1964 (which is celebrating its 60th anniversary!), which I will frame and
    give as a gift to my 14-year-old niece.

    This may be how I am arousing her interest in stamp collecting.

    When I think that at her age, when I started to take an interest in
    stamps, the 60-year-old stamps dated from... the year 1900.

    How time flies with stamp collecting...

    Images of stamps here: https://tiny.cc/zk1hzz

    Victor Manta, PWO

    I used to collect U.S. mint stamps. When the US Postal Service (USPS)
    started issuing definitives with slight changes, that meant I had to buy
    more just to keep my collection truly complete. Then there were the "commemoratives" that featured things that did not justify
    commemoration. I realized that the USPS had its hand on my wallet, so I stopped collecting.

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