Remember Chicago Marshall Fields' Stamp Dept. Circa 1950-S

Hey, Floortrader, if you see my post, were you at the CBOT? I was a Mid-Am and CBOT member in the 90's. I started collecting stamps in the 70's as a kid, stopped and now I'm back into it after 30 some years.

7th Cav . ----yes ,I traded T-Bonds and T-Notes at the CBOT ,was the first to use the yield curve spread between futures and Treasuries .Was at the MIDAM 1970's trading Soybeans ,Corn and Metals , then left the trading floor to run my own brokerage firm . I sold my firm to Rosenthal-Collins Group , It was Best Commodities that was before those crooks in Iowa started another firm Best Futures which stole some $200 million .My floor badge was UZI.

Which being translated (we do have an international membership here and acronyms can be frustrating) means:

CBOT = Chicago Board of Trade
MIDAM = Midamerica Commodity Exchange

I remember this stamp shop at Marshall Fields very well. Sometimes bought packets there. I grew up on the south side (Hirsch High School). My big moment was not with stamps, but winning the city championship in wrestling (120 pounds) in 1951. Seems a long time ago, and yet not so much. Memories stay fresh sometimes.

It sounds as if Minkus had stamp stores throughout the US. Marshall Fields in Chicago. Gimbals in NYC, and Jordan Marsh in Boston. Jordan's actually had stamp stores in the Boston suburbs at several Malls. I remember buying my All-American album there -the blue binder with the red paper cover.

Jack Kelley

Sorry about the Chicago trading speak Hieronymus. If you heard Floortrader and I speak on the floor you would think we were speaking a foreign language. Now... back to stamps.