Help-My Daughter Wants To Start Stamp Collecting

I knew so, Bob!!

David

Bob, shows you just how insane this hobby is if that's the world's most valuable stamp!
Bet it took a lot of can and bottle hunting to net that one.

No, Modern-who..I believe this stamps is

philb- we aren't in the hurricane lanes in Ohio either..or at least I thought we weren't! The storm hit on Sunday and our kids are supposed to be out of school until Thursday- too many people are still without power. And the dog-gone traffic light right down from my house is still out, and it's a major intersecton. I shouldn't complain too much though, at least we have power.

rockin

Can't be, Bob. It's only worth three million according to Scott 2005. The British Guiana is priceless!

That three million dollar stamp was found in 1885 by a school boy named Georg Wilhelm Baeckman. He removed it from an envelope his Grandfather had received. the letter had contained a sample of moss that had been sent to him, The Grandfather being a naturalist. He sold the stamp for 7 kroner. That's why we keep digging thru attics and estate sales

I wonder how many "old time", untouched collections are still around? People move around so much, to-day, that there aren't the "goodies that have been in the attic for sixty years", like there used to be.

My boss at the stamp shop I work at advised me there are very few of those untouched, Victorian-Edwardian collections around... but, one never knows!

David

David
When I am driving around Dc at night , up in embassy row or Georgetown or capital hill, and I see all those old homes 200 plus years old and given the history of Washington, I can't help bu dream about some of the treasures that maybe there that I am driving buy, maybe I am a romatic but I like to think there are still some out there

I think there are still alot out there--as we age we tend to hoard things-and I think those beautiful old houses have a lot of history still in them. You never know what you'll find behind old walls. In recent remodeling we found the first grade "primer" of the son of the man who built the house we live in! It was built in in 1940!

Gussyboy1

Gussy:

A first grade primer?

I know what you mean. When I was a schoolboy, we had a reader called "Little Black Sambo". Not politically correct to-day, especially for the Americans, but if you went to school in a British Commonwealth nation (like Canada) in the 1950's to the 1970's, that was what we had.

It was written by a Scottish gentleman and it was all about Little Black Sambo's adventures, much in the style of Rudyard Kipling... but much simpler. I found one last week at a garage sale... I remember reading them in grade two.

Those books now sell for a Queen's ransom, on ebay, to-day.

David