Old postage stamps have recently become of interest to me. My Grandad was a serious collector of them and since I have inherited his stamps collection, it is now my responsibility to move the collection forward.
I have started to add to the old postage stamp collection now. When I was looking for First Day Covers I can across one for Sharpe. Sharpe is one of my favourtie TV shows so that decided to get that one. This was my initial piece to the collection.
I then decided to get First Day Covers for my close family with their names and addresses on. I can then you it to outline a story. Once I have all the family in there I will buy them as and when their names and addresses change, and even new additions to the family.
I know that my Grandad liked old postage stamps from Christmas. I like old postage stamps about castles and that is something that I want to add into the collection.
The plan is that I will add a whole album to the collection at least. Once I pass it to the next generation then they will have to add an album to it. I think that over time that this will become something that will become extremely valuable to the family and I hope that this website will be around then too.
It feels good being involved at the start of such a tradition and brings my Grandad’s passion back to life. I am doing this for him, a tribute if you like.
I bought my old postage stamps album from the Royal Mail. I am quite upset at the quality difference between it and the albums that my Grandad has used. But I guess that is how it goes these days! I showed my Nan and she seemed to like it though. My additional album will now be quite different which when I think about seems a good thing. It will be interesting to see how that evolves over time too.
I just hope that I can do his old postage stamp collection justice.
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