Greetings from Down Under folks. Queensland IS the gem of Australia and rumors, myth if you like, has it that it was the last of Gods creations. It was the last simply because the sheer perfection of what He had produced prompted Him to break the mould. That being so, all you none Queenslanders have, sadly, missed out. We do though, permit visitations and in the case of extremely nice people, permit immigration.
(Removes tongue from cheek)
I have collected stamps for a very long time but until very recently I came to realise I had been doing it all wrong. I truth I am still doing it wrong but I have advanced to the state where I know I am doing it wrong and I am attempting to do it right.
So as not to bore anyone, who has read even thus far, I will begin at the end, as it were. I have given one of my Grandsons about a third of my collection(s). They are all my Great Britain collection from 1840 Queen Victoria through Her five successors to Queen Elizabeth the second.
It was akin to severing an arm. Some of the stamps I had treasured for over seventy years, I can still remember the letters upon which they had arrived. Would that I could return, as an Eight year old to a tiny shop where an old collector had lived who's son was selling off His collection of Queen Victoria issues. For sixpence ( a weeks pocket money) I bought an half penny rose red, Plate 12 of 1870. It still resides, with many more later acquired, in the first of many albums.
Repeat that little story perhaps a hundred, perhaps a thousand times and a none collector might just get a peep into the heart of a collector of tiny pieces of paper(preferably used in my case) called postage stamps.
fast forward to last month and I began to *down size* my collection by virtually giving away several thousands of*stuf* that where not even able to fit in stock books.
I have resolved I will, hence forth, collect only Australian States (passively)Kangaroo issues (avidly) KGV (passionately) Modern Australian for the benefit of my Great Grandson.
I have probably bored any one who has read thus far, enough, thanks for reading my ramblings. R
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Great post - I envy your Grandson - that would be heaven to me. :-D
Kelly
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Roger,
Welcome to you and you may ramble all you care to here on SOR. Many of us "younger" kids, (LOL, I'm 4 years your junior) enjoy tales of the good ol' days. You can put me down as envious of your grandson's gift also.
Mike
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Welcome, Roger. Have fun here!
Bobby
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Roger, welcome ! As a fellow Australian (now living in Minnesota), I can relate to the passionate collecting of the Kangaroos and the KGV's. One could make an argument that God perfected stamps at that point and should have stopped there . But then what would the rest of the world have collected.