Hobbies!!!

[Michael@ton]

When I was a wee lad, far too long ago to even talk about, but what the heck, amongst friends here, I used to collect stamps, Mum got me started with the fundamentals, it's amazing how something so seemingly boring, could captivate one so quickly and thoroughly, :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: :spin: , shows what I'm made of, Fruit Loops!!!! :D :D :D :D

After a few years I had a genuine collection, which was actually worth some money, don't ever know what happened to that collection, anyway about 20 years ago I started on a new project, Firt Day Issues, I know what happened to them, enough said about that, I am bringing this up as I was talking to a friend the other day who collects valuable stamps, he has one of those "Black Swan" stamps, worth something like $2,000.00, but you wouldn't pick him for it. :14hah: :14hah: :14hah:

Anyway that's my two cents worth!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

[Blanche]

:hairaiser I had a Black Swan stamp!....the garage is getting gutted tomorrow:3rofl3: :3rofl3: My new computer could be sitting in a raggy old book:lmaoblue:

[Lady Bump]

Bought back a memory for me.. I sold my stamp collection at 20 and the mug still hasnt paid me.. wonder should I send him an account:brow:

[Sue@Home]

Hi I had a stamp collection, I remember having a stamp with hitler on it. I properly had a stamp with a black swan on it too... as my step dad was a postman for 30 years:wave: :wave: :wave: I handed down my stamp collection to my children.

[Moo]

I also was a stamp collector!

My favourites were German and Mongolian stamps. Also Malaysian ones. Still have my collection at my Nan's I think. Would be interesting to know the value of some of them!

The only first issue I bought was the Australian rock 'n' roll collection. I also got the CD and a massive laminated poster. My dancing teacher had to go one better than me and got the framed set with the golden record in it!

Gave up after that!

[Michael@ton]

It's amazing how we simply put some of our fondest memories on the "back burner", especially as at the time we were engrossed in them, I still have the Team Guides to all the Representative Rugby League I used to play, not my doing or a bragging thing, just that my mother was so proud of me she'd even take cuttings from the paper to store, I still have an Issue of the Original Program of the Great Britain team that toured here somewhere between, 1958-1960, that is something that Mitchel will gat when the time is right.

We are passing on HISTORY to our children and children's children, etc; etc;