Any Colour Blind And/Or Young Collectors?

Growing up my father always had classic Country Western music playing in the background. To this day I still listen to Dave Dudley, Johnny Cash and all the other big names. One thing I always found odd about the classic Country Western station is the amount of NASCAR and Evangelical Christianity you would hear on the air waves along side the music. They seemed to go together.

I was an outsider as I only tried watching NASCAR once (for 3 minutes) and was raised in an Anglican house hold yet I loved country music. In the same vein I have been a coin collector for years and most coin guys dabble in stamps too.I never "got" stamps. I have been given pseduo-kilowares from family members snipping off stamps for me and of course stamp booklets come birthdays. I paid no attention to them until recently.

I was born in 1994 and have never really used actual paper to send letters. It is quite foreign to me actually. I wouldn't know how many stamps to put on a letter to send to my Grandparents back on Cape Breton Island.

I am also colour blind. Not black and white bad but worse than most colour blind folks. A paper money dealer I know was telling me that when he is at the big show in Baltimore that if a guy tells you he collects French Colonies and is looking for a certain note that is red he finds that if he doesn't have said note he could easily sell them a red note from, say, Jamaica.

That got me wondering. Coins come in monochromatic colours (excluding the red and brown copper) and I actually used them growing up and still do to this day. Does my age and condition play into why I am having a hard time diving into stamps?

All there any other young or colour blind collectors experiencing the same thing I am going though? I like stamps as historic artifacts but I don't get the same spark from my coins. I like them as they show how NB went from the pound to the dollar and what not but as things to look at I do not know...

I am not colr blind, but I know a dealer who is, but he specializes in modern stamps where there aren't a lot of color varieties (and if he has a color question he gets someone else to help him).

Color is only one attribute and especially for more modern material most stamps can be distinguished other than by color (though it's definitely one significant part of a stamp's appearance)!

I do think it's harder for young folks to deal with stamps than with coins. Stamps aren't the everyday presence they used to be, which makes it harder for kids to get introduced to stamps other than through the concerted effort of someone else, but for kids especially [I have 3] coins have a very simple, tactile appeal and they are easier to handle. You can hold them, put them in a jar, jingle them, etc., all in a way that you can't do with stamps. My kids all collect both (and have all done stamp exhibits) but they like coins and paper money too.

I'm red green color blind and it helps to have a color guide with me for all those red shades of stamps.

I am also of your age, and can relate to some of your experiences. Good to see there are more young people like us in this community