Some Day I'll Get It -Today -I Got It

You can go a life time to saying , SOME DAY .

Everybody has those things they always wanted ,for some reason other things got in the way , plus other things are more important but in the back of your mind at later dates that item comes nocking in your head . The opportunity just never happen .

I was 16 years old and joined the Ogden Hills Stamp Club in Chicago ,this is the club that started COMPEX ,as the largest stamp show in the Midwest .

The club actually had a special meeting ,while I stood in the hall way . They had a vote with discussion if I could join ,they welcome me at 16 as a member . The next youngest person was 42 . So I can now claim I am the only member today .
At the club over the years there was one stamp that came up from the other members sitting around the table ,which all agreed was the stamp to buy and yet none had it . I was making $28.00 a week so the $800.00 then later $1200 value was out of the question . It continue to climb over the next 60 years ,but never forgot what was said in that room and it got got higher and higher .
Last week one of my CD's came due and was rolling it over now at a better rate . Wife asked me "What am I going to do with the money made " Told her I would decide after breakfeast . While eating turned on the computer , then Kelleher Auctions just listed their up coming auction . There was my answer ,smacking me in the face . So while washing dishes told wife I am buying something that escaped me for 60 years .

This week I buried that desire .

I purchased the 1933 WIPA souvenir sheet MLH , in very fine choice condition .

Congratulations!

Congratulations; both the sheet and the story are incredible. Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.

That's what it's all about. Congrats!

I collected U.S. and have a similar story I guess (don't we all). I was a lapsed stamp collector as I had a wife, children, a mortgage etc.. But one day in my mid-30's I ran across a circular from Rupp Brothers that listed the White Plains Souvenir Sheet in superb condition (and it truly was) and I bought it. that purchase restarted my collecting and I didn't stop until I completed my mint U.S. with the purchase of the $4 Colombian (Scott #244). A few years later I sold them all at auction. No regrets. I used to worry about my collection every time I left the house for more than a day, though it was insured.

My "Some day I'll get it" story was one I always thought was unobtainable --- until I obtained it. It's the iconic 5 pound orange Queen Victoria postage stamp from Great Britain, issued in 1882. I would scan the ebay ads incessantly, seeing the astronomically high prices that were being asked. One day I saw one, there was only about an hour before the bids closed, there were no other bids, and there was a "Make an Offer" option, so, I boldly made what I thought was a pretty ridiculous offer, a third off what they were asking, and to my amazement, they accepted. So it now sits proudly in my album, alongside its near twin, the 5 pound Telegraph variant.

Congratulations to both of you. By the way, both items are still on my wish-list...

Thanks for all the positive feedback .

Someday I am going to write a article about those key worldwide stamp many collectors are shooting for . Those stamps worldwide many collectors pay attention to . Not the Inverted Jenny ,British Guinea issue or the Tre Skilling Sweden . Please newspaper editors and writers I am tired of reading about the 4 or 5 stamps ,that I and thousands of others are tired of reading about , every few years a rewrite of some multi-million dollar stamp .
I am talking about key stamp that are rearchable . That is what collectors hope for not some stamp that you need to win the lottery to own . Maybe make a list of the famous 200- 500 key collectible stamps for a worldwide collector

Kudos to you!!!

I still need that for my Coaches collection. I did just pick up a single of the stamp on a souvenir cover from the show via unsold lots at an auction. I will have to start my own search for this block!

I love reading stories like this, stamp collectors who have a life-long desire to pick up a stamp (or stamps) that have eluded them through the years. Congratulations to both of you for fulfilling a small dream...and now you move along to the next "dreamed of" acquisition.