Bought a stamp collectors magazine yesterday, read all the way through it and discovered I hardly understand any of it. What is this obsession with the rare and the first day covers and the “mistakes”? I was vaguely thinking of recapturing the childhood thrill of steaming a stamp off a letter from foreign parts and sticking it (with stamp hinges) onto the appropriate page. I used to have a collection from far and wide because my parents ran a correspondence course for the Chartered Transport Institute. Oh how I loved the triangular stamps from Madagascar with bright pictures of birds. Exotic and alluring.
Shame I cannot remember where the original collection went. Anyone out there know anything about stamps or have access to foreign issues?