Do You Still Have Your Childhood Stamp Collection?

I still have my Minkus US album and my one volume Statesman Deluxe Album from circa 1964.

I got a lot of my stamps from the same places mentioned in earlier posts. My dad was a stamp collector so I got his "leftovers" too.

I never took the time to incorporate the stamps in the albums into my grown-up collection. It's pretty vanilla stuff. I doubt there are any sleepers in there. Fortunately, though, dad taught me how to hinge in the unlikely case there are!

Dan

I have slowly upgraded albums over the years and sold off some of the oldest albums from my youth. I started with a Scott US paperback album and a world album. I upgraded to a Traveler, then Senior Statesman for my worldwide stamps, a Harris Liberty, and a Harris Canada Album as a teenager.

I still have the Senior Statesmen and Liberty albums, but I've slowly pulled them apart as I move stamps in to my Scott International or Mystic Heritage album for the US. Although I focus on pre-1965 issues, I have slowly moved many of the stamps collected in my youth over to the Scott Albums.

I guess I still have most of the stamps, but have moved them several times over the years. My current albums are the "last stop" for the stamps as an adult.

I still have my HE Harris AMBASSADOR Album, full of issues and like to go through the album every now & then. Nothing of significant value for the World Wide section, but I did manage to pull some nice examples of early US for my main collection library. I stopped for a while, ( in mid 60's mostly due to service time or school) but got back into it in the mid 70's and stayed with US. I have a box of WW that I occasionally sift through, but not a priority.

My youth WW collection was mailed to someone on SCF. I think it may have been SpanishMoss. The US collection I still have, though it has grown quite a bit.

My Minuteman (c1968) is probably the least interesting thing in that carton, which had not been opened in ages. I bought a few EFOs at Schiff auctions, and took advantage of every weird offering in Herst's Outbursts (official USPOD training stamps, cinderellas, etc). There are a few plate proofs, some printer's waste, show covers, my brother's 1950s plate blocks & FDCs ...

Over the years, it occurred to me that I could create a pretty good 'teaching album'; what we collect, how & why.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I still have my collection from when I was a kid. I found it recently while spring cleaning. In fact, discovering my long-forgotten collection has reignited my passion for philately. I am very much into it these days and I know I will do this for the rest of my life. I am making up for lost time.

I started at age 15 with my mother's stamp album, a 1936 Scott Modern Album (red). I still have that. Unfortunately in my youthful exuberance I wrote all over the pages, drew lines for new countries, etc. After several years I got a Harris album, now gone. I graduated to a Minkus Global Album given to me by an uncle; that went to 1960, and now have four of those (now up to 1970).

My old albums are long gone but all the stamps are still in my collection - somewhere!!??

My childhood stamp collection, from when I started as a Boy Scout, grew into what it is now. There has been much replacing of used stamps with unused ones between various hiatuses since then. The collection has gone thru two binder change surgeries in it's lifetime, from the original 2 post Minuteman album, to it's present 5 volumes. The most and best work I have done with it has been in the last 7 years.

I offer for your consideration a peek at my Stamp Collecting Merit Badge.



The goal towards getting this is what got me collecting in the first place. My only merit badge. We had a poor Scoutmaster. We never went anywhere or did anything except play dodge ball. This is a shame, realizing now what a good Boy Scout experience as a youngster can do for shaping the character of a child. Especially in this "absence of Traditional Family world" we live in today.


-IBFS

Sure wish I did but it is long gone. I can't even remember what the name of it was. It was about 1953 or so and was red with black print. Newsprint like pages and came from a neighbor boy who gave it to me with 50 stamps. If someone has an idea what it was called I'd like to know.

Maybe this one?

Part of it. I started collecting again only 4 years ago, after being away from it for over 30 years. I kept my childhood Canada and US collections, plus a couple of odds and ends, and sold the rest (badly) to a dealer. The books I kept have been expanded upon and I now have almost twice as many binders than I did when I restarted (including covers, cinderellas and those pesky odds and ends).

That depends on what you mean. The albums I had when I was young are long gone, my international album, along with all the stamps in it, vanished when I stopped collecting international and the overwhelming majority of my U.S. stamps, at least the used versions, have gone away as well. I still have all of the MNH stamps that I collected, they just moved into my new albums when I got them back in the early 1990s.

I have mine and the Albums also. I have made no changes in it since 1963. When I look thru the two Albums I have they bring back fond memories. I shared with my parents helping me. I woouldn't trade, sell or change them for a million dollars. Welllllllllllll maybee a million?

My father was convinced stamps was a waste of time that coins was the hobby to pursue. So, the album went away and was replaced by coin holders when I was a boy. 25 years later, I picked up stamps again and couldn't be happier.