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My husband has collected stamps for 40 years, and now has dementa, and I am trying to cataloge in a way I can understand, and just make sense of it all.
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Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear of his condition, that's not an easy one for anyone involved. Odds are good that if your husband collected for that long, he had a system that made sense, so with a catalog like Scott, Stanley Gibbons, Michel, or Yvert, learning what you have won't take too much time. Of course, feel free to post a few pictures, we should be able to help discern the goings-on. |
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 ADA, Enjoy having fun with stamps! That is the name of this game. Old(errrr) collectors never die, they just relocate to a higher location. Collecting for the enjoyment of collecting, whatever that might be, is the name of the game. Don't hesitate to ask questions especially if you need basic information and especially more advanced sources of information for any possible topic. You should be able to find folks on this board a little further along on their collecting journey glad to share experiences. My personal bias is a used stamp loses the story of its journey in the postal service when it is removed from the cover it transported to its destination. Collecting postal history adds a whole new aspect to your journey in our hobby. Wishing you many enjoyable future days in our hobby. Russ |
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Hello and welcome. I'm sorry for your husband's dementia. I know it is difficult for you both. I'm also caring for someone with dementia and one of the challenges is his occasional insistence on taking something that he had previously organized and reorganizing (disorganizing it?) it in way that only makes sense (at that moment) to him. He will later get upset that it has become disorganized. We recognize he enjoys working with the material and don't want to deprive him of that enjoyment, so we try to provide only small portions of it to him to work with at a time.
This community is a good source of suggestions on everything about stamp and stamp-related collections including: what various terms mean, how to organize and store it, how to add to it, how to find a new caretaker for it, and how to best sell it should you want to. This community may even have some suggestions from their own experience about how to work jointly on a collection with someone who has dementia.
Sharing photos of what you're trying to make sense of, will help us give you the best advice. |
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Thanks everyone!  I look forward to doing more stamp stuff, the history and amazing artwork is more than I ever paid attention to. I used to threaten him, that I was going to lick all his unused stamps. not anymore! lol |
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Welcome ADA Sorry to hear of your husband's condition. Perhaps you could also reach out to a local stamp club. If you want me to email you I could guide you in this. Local clubs can be very helpful In these matters. Dianne |
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Welcome! That's quite the promise to lick all the unused stamps, lol. Hope you enjoy the cataloging! |
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Posted 12/31/2022 5:08 pm
