I have migrated over here from CCF courtesy of the wonderful Christmas present that Bobby has provided for us
I am not an active stamp collector and have not been in almost 20 years. I heavily collected as a kid, going through old mail of relatives to scavenge for stamps and purchased from Mystic Stamp Co for years in addition to buying (then)current stamps and annual albums from the USPS. I collected coins concurrently, but my meager childhood budget allowed me to purchase(and get for free) more stamps than coins. The later I got into my teenage years, the less interested I became in the hobby. Also, the maddening need to count perforations and be able to tell the difference between carmine rose and rose carmine drove me batty
Several years ago, I got back into coin collecting and never severiously considered taking up stamps again. My budget is much larger now but I feel that I can seriously concentrate on only one hobby so coins won out. My problem is the fact that I still have a reasonably large stamp collection with some nicely valued stamps. I will probably use this forum to re-educate myself with philatelics so I can then proceed to liquidate my stamps to fund the coin habit. I plan on offering quite a few for sale here once I reach 50 posts
Posted 01/04/2008 12:43 pm
