We Never Forget Our First !

This stamp was current when I started collecting in 1949..i apparently will never forget it...do you remember the stamp that drew you in ????

Believe it or not, it was seeing Hitler on a stamp that surprised me and I had to get some too, I was just a kid at the time and couldn't belive he would be on a stamp lol.

Chimo

Bujutsu

WOW! That question brought back a lot of memories!

Here's my "first." It's the actual stamp too... I didn't care about the nibbed perfs on the bottom in 1963!





Dan

It is hard to forget your first stamp. In 1956 as a Cub Scout merit badge project, I bought my first stamps. In a 5 and 10 cent store I found a pack of "100 world stamps---with album". It was 49c, which was a lot of money for me back then. In this pack I found a Sc# 298 mint og nh. When I showed it to my parents they both almost fainted, my dad went nuts and started collecting. Hard to believe that was fifty five years and 40,000 stamps ago. Thank you for asking this question and bringing back a flood of good memories.
All the best
Ron
Yes I still have this stamp here is a scan

i guess I am not unique...thats so funny that your Dad started collecting...hey,whatever it takes !!

You went to school with Hitler?

Seriously... for me it was the 3c Iwo Jima from 1945.

KirkS

Kirk, I remember paying double face for the Iwo stamp at a hobby shop..the post office might still have had them..but I was just a kid..didn't think of that...suppose it was different and I siddled into a post office and plunked my nickle down and said give me the Iwo Jima stamp !

I collected FDC's before I started collecting individual stamps.
This was my first FDC...

and as this is the first stamp on the FDC...

I classify this as my very first stamp and I still have it.

Steve

These were my first two,
I must have stuck them in an excercise book,
and slobbered on the hinge.
I tried to move them later and ripped both,
I was distraught, no one told me there were many copies.

Hmmm, yes Kirk - it was "Dumbkopf High" with him if I am not mistaken

Chimo

Bujutsu

While I don't remember the first stamp I ever collected, I started by soaking stamps off of mail, I remember the first set of stamps I ever specifically bought as a collector. My father took me to Macy's where they had, at the time, a stamp counter. I spent a long time looking at what they had and came away with a set of 1935-1936 U.S. commemoratives, Scott# 772-777. For a long time thereafter, I used to ride my bike down there and buy stamps 2-3x per month, it was the first place I had where I could get MNH stamps, long before I discovered there were specialty stamp shops and stamp shows.

Still have those stamps in my album too.

i just started actively collecting but the first stamps I ever had as a collector stamp (was) is a set of two Joe Luis in a stamp envelope from a friend just before I left for basic training... I actually still have them I just need to get the collection in order before I pull them out from the safe spot I have them in LOL.... kinda weird I never used them and thought I may collect one day... well one day is here now...

edit to correct person on stamp Joe Luis is correct

I actually don't remember my first. I started collecting as a kid with stamps from a cereal box. Literally, some cereal (Shreddies or Muffets? I can't remember which) gave away packets of world stamps in their box.
But I also remember my Dad kept an old envelope of stamps hidden away in his dresser drawer. My siblings and I would occasionally ask to see them. I have them still and needless to say they're a little soiled from tiny hands, but they mean the world.
My favourite was the Canada Xmas stamp of 1898. Canada's first multicoloured stamp, the worlds first Christmas stamp and the worlds first map stamp, plus first Mercator projection on a stamp. But that didn't matter to me. It was old!

wow what an amazing piece ...

The first stamp I collected was US #C76 the first landing on the moon commemorative of 1969.

Mine was a neat stamp out of my grandmother's old photo album. Don't know why it was in there but it now resides with me. Scott#121 I believe.