Getting Back Into Stamp Collecting

We will be married 46 years in six days. Though my wife really isn't interested in stamps herself. She did buy me the "American Heritage Collection" Albums for my Birthday last August to encourage me to resume collecting after a 43 year absence from Stamp Collecting.

My wife has been and still is a casual collector. She likes to collect what she calls beautiful stamps, stamps with nice artwork.

I just got back into stamp collecting a few years ago, and again mainly because of being able to purchase online. Living in Ireland, I had to rely on Approvals from the UK as a kid and they became quite expensive. So some thirty years later the internet has opened up the world of collecting again, and already its getting out of hand with so many exchanges in the past few years that there are still a few packs yet to be opened.

I remember those approval books well good old Stanley gibbons, if you lived in Dublin there was always Easons book store that sold stamps.

I remember those approval books well good old Stanley gibbons, if you lived in Dublin there was always Easons book store that sold stamps.

Yeah Irishjack, Got to Dublin once in a blue moon, and I think I did get to Easons once for some stamps, but it was over 4 hours by train from the West back then! Moved a little closer to the capital since....and even got a car!