Erilatz, That's just a rough guess, I collected as a 7yo, then at 20yo, I had my stamp collection stolen from the boot of my 1952 Jaguar, in Sydney, when I was doing a Naval divers course.
I didn't revisit seriously till 1990 or so, and then only sporadically.
A cumulative, sporadic 20 makes more sense. I can understand that. There were years when I did hardly any active collecting, except on the one weekend each year when I went to WESTPEX with my uncle.
By the way, there's no t in erilaz, not even in the (presumed) pronunciation. It's a Proto-Germanic or Runic Norse z, not a German z. The sound represented by the runic letter in question is sometimes even transcribed as R (thus erilaR), since it was on its way to becoming r in Old Norse.
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