We Just Lost Another Great Actor, Comedian And Philatelist

Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012):

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...736052.story

How many remember this 1978 US Postal Service ad with Ernest Borgnine promoting stamp collecting as a hobby?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqFd8yUXZg

Within the past few weeks, reports of recent deaths of Ernest Borgnine (McHale's Navy), Andy Griffith (The Andy Griffith Show), Don Grady (My Three Sons), Frank Cady (Green Acres) ... suggests to me that a series of stamps for 1960s TV Show memories can't be too far behind.

Yes, I saw that Ernest Borgnine had passed away...he was a Gentleman,always entertaining and a stamp collector !He lived to a good age !!

In addition to the PSA link I posted, I find they also did a magazine print ad around the same time (circa mid-1970s). It's a shame he wasn't using his stamp tongs when handling the stamps, though.

Andy Griffith and frank cady are dead?!?
I'm sorry to say I've never heard if the other two; I'm too young I suppose.

new12collector see the movie From Here to Eternity you will remember Ernest Borgnine...thats when I started drinking beer I wanted to be like the guys in the movie !!

Looks like Borgnine's stamps are in a black stamp mount. No tongues needed, as long as you leave it in a mount.

I remember reading about him a year ago or so in wikipedia and they had mention he was a advid stamp collector, Today I went there and had a read about him again on wiki there is no mention of him being a collector, A funny guy worth taking a few minutes to read the article especially about his secret about longevity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Borgnine

If anyone ever deserved to be fast-tracked onto a US Postage Stamp, this is the man.

I don't recall the clerks at the post office using tongs when I bought all the bicentennial issues at my local PO from 72 through 77.

PO clerks aren't philatelists; Ernest Borgnine was -- that's the difference. But with the stamps being in mounts, I suppose it wasn't all that important of a detail.

I never use tongs as metal is much harder than paper!
I wear soft white cotton gloves to handle my stamps.
To take a stamp out of a stock book the best tool to use is........
a stamp!!

Mr. Borgnine was very funny in 'Escape From New York'.

I don't think anyone ever had a bad thing to say about the man.

Congragulations Zee on achieving 50 posts..are those tatoos on your chest ? I see the guys at the gym in their 20s and 30s and they have more money spent on ink on their bodies than I have spent on stamps all my life !