I've posted my first album before, it was a cheap cardboard covered album published in North Wales in the early 1950's called the Special Agent album, but rather than post a picture of it again, I wanted to comment on the interesting selection of stamps used to illustrate the cover of the Stanley Gibbons Gay Venture album that Nickireland posted to start this thread. I suppose they are put there to inspire the young collector, and most of the stamps are the type of cheap, common ones that beginning collectors would find in the typical packets of the day (probably early 1970's judging by the price in new pence: 32P), but then they throw in a few zingers, the type of stamps that would cost hundreds, thousands, even millions of dollars or pounds to acquire: both varieties of the Mauritius Post Office stamps, the GB Penny Black with VR as the top corner letters, a Brazil "bullseye", the GB tenpence embossed stamp of 1848, a Greek Hermes head, and, just above the "Y" and the "G" in Stanley Gibbons, what looks like Canada #3, the 12 pence Queen Victoria black, probably the rarest Canadian stamp of all. You wouldn't find any of those in any beginner's collection, and you wouldn't casually toss them in a mixture of cheap packet stamps.
Posted 01/29/2022 4:36 pm
