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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 had an unblemished history of getting First Day Covers.

It wasn’t just a hobbie for him. His old postage stamps were his passion. A passion that has gained some interested with me. It was when I was a child that I was more interested. 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. Individual stamps are harder. There was a correct place for them to go.

Although I wish I could, I don’t really rememeber it. My familly tell me all the time about how much I liked it.

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. I had the album to know when I had all the stickers… 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. This was to help me catalogue his collection, give it a proper record. It took a few nights for me and my girlfriend to go through the entire collection and tick off the each stamp in the book.

That 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 stamps don’t have much value and some appeared to have lost their face value which was a bit disappointing. The volume of the stamps did mean that it worked out at quite a bit. But the individual costs mean that I myself will be able to add to the collection.