Who collects stamps?

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I most certainly do. I have two stamp albums - one of them is already full. Another one - this one I got from mom for my name day on May (the previous one I got from a classmate of mine in high school as a Saint Nicholas day gift) - is just starting - very slowly - to get filled up. But my stamps aren't expensive by any means (many of them - ones I inherited from my mom who collected them as a teen - are damaged), their value is purely sentimental because I started to collect them when I was about ten. I found an envelope full of those when I was a kid, in my mother's papers and I kept them. Is there anyone who shares this hobby with me?

I have a stamp collection which goes from my grandad who had lots from his relatives. The collection is from old to modern. My grandad brought it to school. A teacher confiscated it. He was given it back with some of the popular rare stamps removed like penny blacks etc. However, as the teacher didn't know about the rare foreign stamps they remained with penny reds etc.
Then a German neighbour we used to know before he died used to regularly travel the world as a stamp dealer. He became very excited when he saw the collection as he saw one stamp which e said was rare, and it was even more rare as it was a missprint. (I would have thought missprints were less valuable). This was back in the early 1980's and he said the samp was worth several hundred pounds.
I tried to sell the collection but no one was interested. I was concerned incase the collection deteriates as I have so many trains, sometimes the stamp collection has been in a damp garage.

I've collected stamps on and off since childhood, and have revived my interest recently. Here are a few of my Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues: poor pic, but best I could I could manage from laptop camera.




The Penny Black is not a very rare stamp, as almost 70,000,000 were printed. The 2d Blue is ten times as scarce, but doesn't sell for much more. I've been looking on Ebay, and am surprised at how high the prices are - a lot of people are bidding silly money for poor examples of these stamps.

Thanks for your posts Nice to know there are more folks sharing my hobby I have many Russian stamps because my mom was a pen pal with several Russian teens when she was young.

A cousin died from Leukemia before I was born and he collected stamps.His dad was a Ham radio fan and people he talked to sent stamps from all over the world.Later on when I was around 12 years old and took an interest they gave me his collection.I’ve added some, but they aren’t displayed in an album.Instead I have them in an old Whitman’s sampler box.It’s full.

I had to check on the net what this Whitman's sampler box thing is I thought it's something that has something to do with Walt Whitman I have also an old chocolate box but I keep in it my high school postcard collection instead. I haven't added any new ones to my postcard collection for years, though. I also collect empty perfume bottles, too.

I collected em for a bit when I was a kid but some of the reason I got into it is cuz my mom kinda got me into it. She suggested it or something & i went along with it & did it with her but I wasn't majorly into it or anything.

We have a nice thread of stamp pictures right here: viewtopic.php?t=373927

Feel free to add yours too.

I did into college and found them last month. All my good friends' letters included stamps for me. I liked the variety. I feel a little guilty that as a child I found a box of old letters and without asking anyone's permission (gasp!) I cut the stamps off all the envelopes. Looking back that seems fairly mild and I am fairly certain my parents weren't upset at all but at the time that was one of my big "renegade" moments.