Writing about old postage stamps is a way for me to highlight the greatness of my Grandad’s stamp collection. My Grandad had a great passion for old postage stamps. He would subscribe to newsletters and would always have to have the latest First Day Cover.
It wasn’t just a hobbie for him. His old postage stamps were a passion. A passion that has gained some interested with me. Well actually was more interested when I was a kid. When his old postage stamps arrived in the post I would go to his house and would help them mount them into his albums. First Day Covers easily went into a sleeve. The individual stamps were trickier. There was a correct place for them to go.
Although I wish I could, I don’t really rememeber it. I must have loved it because my family tell me about it a lot.
I can really remember collecting football stickers as a teenager more. I remember that unlike other kids I didn’t like sticking mine into the albums. Sure I had the album because I needed to know which stickers I needed but I didn’t like the sticky part of it… I still don’t.
His old posage stamps collection was always going to be passed onto me because of my interest. Recenctly I spoke to myNan to see it I could have the stamp collection be brought over to my house so I could investigate it more. So I now have the old postage stamps at my house.
I bought a book from Amazon about old postage stamps. By cataloging his collection I now hav a complete record. It did take quite a while for both me and my girlfriend to catalogue the stamp collection against each of the entries in the book.
It also gave me an idea of the value of old postage stamps. I wanted to know for a number of reasons. I needed to know for insurance reason plus I want to see if I could increase the value of the stamp collection. This is not me wanting to sell his collection. I would not want that at all. If it was valued at £1miliion then I wouldn’t sell, it is something to be treasured.
Most of the stamps don’t have much value. Because of the number of stamps in the collection it did work out at a good value. But the individual costs mean that I myself will be able to add to the collection.