I have collected coins ever sence I was 11. In 2016 my grandparents moved and I was helping them with all there stuff and one of the things I ended up getting was my grandpas and his brothers childhood stamp collections which were in a cardboard box, stamp books from the 40`s and 50`s and envelopes of them and little boxes of them and things like that. I debated weather to sell it or keep it and decided to keep it and am happy I did, before they gave me it they got it appraised at an auction place and they said it was worth something like $200 and there is thousands of stamps in it haha! I recently got a job at a recycling center and what I do is sort recyclables from the garbage on a conveyor belt and from doing this have found out that a common thing is people throwing out there stamp collections they
inherit and don't want and have seen them go by in the garbage... Which is why I am here. What it is starting to look like is my interest in stamps not being started from what I said about what happen with my grandparents but by what I said about what I have seen at work. I try to save as much stamps as possible but do not get them all and the conveyor belt Is very fast. The other day someone told me that before I showed up that there was literally piles of old stamps from all over the world going by for 2 hours and that one he had gotten was from Canada 1933 and later in that same day I found one while cleaning downstairs on the side of another conveyor belt from India and apparently 39 - 44. A month ago I found a whole stamp book in the garbage while sorting the recyclables and it was filled with a large amount of US stamps mostly airmail and like 10 Canadian ones and some from Sweden. After finding out just how common it is for people to throw there stamps away I now want to think of ways I can reach those stamps before they are thrown away and try and educate people and prevent stamps being gone forever but I don't have very much education myself though. Another thing I found was a postcard from 1961 with a definitive 1961 Canadian stamp on it and it was from Boston. Maybe now and maybe later I will most likely want to add to my huge collection from my grandparents and finish what they never did. So basically kind of what is happening now with stamps is what happen with coins when I was 11 but that is another story! Unlike with coins... With stamps I am a beginner even though I am now beginning with such a huge amount of them when with coins I began with wayyyy less because when I began coin collecting it was not because of inheriting my grandparents coins unlike with what happened with the stamps.
Posted 02/13/2018 05:42 am
