Is the Stamps Forum the lonliest place on earth on the Collectors Universe Forums?

oldcameoproofsguy

I don't collect stamps. As I was growing up my coin collecting buddies and I used to kind of laugh at stamp collectors and call them geeks. Maybe I missed out on a really exciting area of collecting because I was worried that my friends would have thought of me as a nerd. Maybe there is someone on these forums that can convince me that stamp collecting is really kind of cool.

Anybody here collect stamps as well as coins or do you laugh at stamp collectors like my childhood coin collecting friends?

MrLee

<< <i>Is the Stamps Forum the lonliest place on earth on the Collectors Universe Forums? >>

Naw. That would the "Rare Records" forum.


<< <i>Anybody here collect stamps as well as coins >>

Nucklehead does. He'd be more than happy to talk to you about them. And he's not a geek.

BSqr

I've got a small collection that my uncle helped me put toegther while I was growing up. I'll add to it eevery now and them when something cathces my eye.

silverandvinyl

Mr.lee.Your right about the rare record forum.I don't understand why it's not popular.I believe there are more collectors of vinyl records than coin collectors.I know because I deal in then.What the difference is between coin collection and record collecting is,I buy by a box full of old 45's for 25 bucks and all you need is one in vg+shape and you now have your money back.I have sold plenty of albums between 100 and 400 bucks.Your return on vinyl is a lot greater than coins.Right now the vinyl market is pretty much at a stand still.It has it's ups and downs like the coin market.It's a good market when it's flying.Just thought I mention that.

littlewicher

I never got into stamps. They just never interested me.

jp

I collected stamps as a kid or should I say my grandma bought me stamps at the post office for my collection

My stamp collection was mostly my grandma's doings.

I wish she would have thought about coin collecting back then for me instead of stamps.

I still have the stamps. They are all unused and I have many years worth, so if anyone what to trade me SAE for some stamps let me know

nwcs

I was interested in stamps for a short while in my early teens. But people kept giving me more stamp things. I know I have one set or two of stamps that are supposed to be worth money, but I wouldn't know what to do with them.

postman

Ok, I'll come out and admit I collect stamps too. My interest is far from the mainstream though, metered mail. I try and get one design of each type of meter impression in one collection, in the other I collect town names and varieties. A meter from say Tacoma, Wa. is the basic town name, meters with "mailed from Tacoma Wa. 98405" for instance are varieties. The there are rate slugs, slogans by theme, state and local penialty mail, well the list goes on. Bob

TWODOGS

I bought a large box of stuff that happened to include thousands of stamps. I really enjoyed going through them all, I must admit. There's some beautiful artwork on stamps from various countries. Sold almost all of them for $20.

Twowood

I collected US stamps for years when our children were growing up. Of course, those were the days when it cost 10c to mail a letter and a postage stamp was an engraved work of art ie. the National Park series, Presidential series, Great Americans etc. etc.and new issues came out about 6 or 8 times a year.
At that time US engravers did the engraving for many,many foreign countries because the art work was incomparable.
Around the 60s or 70s all that changed. Engraving gave way to photo "engraving", new issues were published every few weeks, millions and millions of sheets were printed for each issue, and the general quality of the stamps deteriorated to garbage.
Today, a stamp collector must spend ten times what I used to spend just to get a plate block and sheet of new issues that the government is grinding out as fast as their printers will work.
Finally, all those beautiful stamps I've saved over the years are worth no more than face value...and it costs 37c to mail a letter!.
You can attribute the demise of philatily to our government.
Twowood