Subj : stamps collecting..
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Nov 18 2020 18:56:00

Hello Kurt!

** On Tuesday 17.11.20 - 09:33, Kurt Weiske wrote to JOE MACKEY:

 KW>  I used to collect stamps; when I was in elementary school I bought a
 KW>  bag of international stamps (through mail order, naturally) and
 KW>  started a stamp collection. It's a fun hobby, inexpensive to start,
 KW>  and lasts forever. I still have my stamp book 45 years later.

Exactly the same here.  I ordered first-day stamped envelopes  
and full 4-stamp corners of certain releases of my own  
country's stamps.

However, commensing about 20 years ago, I started to use them  
up.  Who would buy my collection?


 KW>  I remember as a kid sorting through some of the international stamps
 KW>  and pulling out my encyclopedia to look up the countries the stamps
 KW>  came from. The world was a bigger place back then.

They were inspiring to further research. We had a full  
Encyclopedia Britannica colllection that had frequent use.


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