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Just joined SCF recently…my story…
Like many a collector, I started stamp collecting when I was about 8 years old. My parents gave me a small paperback Harris stamp album (you know the one with an astronaut and a horse-drawn covered wagon on the front cover) and a packet of stamps. I was hooked. I have fond memories of sitting in front of the TV putting stamps into my little album. I eventually moved up to the Harris Standard World Stamp album. But, once my teenage years rolled around, I put my stamps aside for other interests (cars, girls, beer, etc.). Then came the military, college, graduate school, marriage, kids, raising a family, etc., and my stamps stayed boxed up in storage over the years. I do remember visiting a few actual stamp shops in various different cities while I was in the Navy during the mid-1980s, but that was about it.
Then, a few years ago, I dug out my stamps and slowly started collecting again. I decided not to specialize in any specific country, but to continue to be a generalist worldwide collector, but I would focus on the classic era stamps from 1840-1940. I must say, my choice to be a WW classic era collector was influenced by a couple of popular blogs on classic era WW collecting and an article I read in the Washington Post about two guys in the 1970s who set out (and travelled the world) to complete the 11-volume Scott International albums. I too have been using the Scott International albums, but after becoming frustrated by having too many stamps for which there's no space in these albums, I recently took the plunge and purchased the first volume of the Vintage Reproduction Scott Brown album (actually still waiting for them to arrive as I write this).
Anyway, glad to have finally joined SCF.
-Chris
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Posted 06/23/2015 2:03 pm
