Found this while going through some old catalogs and books. Funny thing is, I have no idea how I got it, since it was from before my time. Must have come with an auction lot. I wonder if the illustrated stamp is actually the one you received. I'd like to have THAT in my collection right now. Enjoy.
Sure I remember that and those tiny ads in comic books in the early 50's. They said they would send me stamps, on approval, and all I had to do was to include a dime. Having no idea what approval meant, I mailed them off, got all these wonderful stamps in the mail, kept them all and thought what a great deal!. Of course in time, we got some nasty letters from these dealers wanting their stamps back or for them to be paid. My mother, who had no idea what I had done, wrote them back telling them that if they were dumb enough to send these stamps to a 6 year old, then it was just too bad. That was the end of my first stamp collecting phase, but I did learn what "on approval" meant. regards, yakboomer.
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