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I am an ESL teacher from Aurora (but I work in Toronto). I have a wide variety of interests from Japanese culture to bicycles, from hockey to literature. This is my latest and most serious start at stamp collecting, but there have been others. This latest one was triggered by Lawrence Block and his character Keller.
I have started collecting Canadian, Japanese, and Vietnamese stamps. This is owing to my experience living/working and traveling in those countries.
I am also toying with the idea of collecting all the stamps issued in 1970. This is an idea that struck me quite recently and as yet, I am not clear how I will go about it, or what I will do with it. However, the idea has really taken hold of me. If I had enough space, I would love to make a huge exhibit of this with details of key historic events that happened in all the countries that year. Obviously this is a big project, and I am only thinking out loud at this point.
As I said, I am quite new at this and have had very limited experience in the hobby. I know hardly any terminology and only a little history. I have been to two stamp shows, but the first one doesn't count because that was more of a scouting mission and I was too shy to interact with many people.
Additionally, I want to be a professional writer. As such, I am writing several blogs: one is about finding happiness, one is about hobbies, and my latest one details my stamp collecting and the path I have taken to get where I am now. None of them are monetized in any way, but hopefully all of them are entertaining. I would like to share them with you, but I will wait until I have permission to include a couple of the links here.
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Hello MustangA,
Welcome to Stamporama. Stamporama is a friendly group of stamp collectors. You can find many different stamp collecting interest here. I am sure you that can find at least one person here that shares one of your areas of interest.
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Welcome, Mustang!
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Great to have you here Mustang!
Welcome from down "South" in Michigan (US).
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if permission is required from us to share your writings, post away. if it's necessitated by the original publishers' copyright, we'll wait.
and welcome.
We have several accomplished writers in our midst, notably Steve Davis, another Canadian who heads up US and Canadian air mail study groups; and Bob Ingraham, who, like you visited and is fascinated by Viet Nam, although I think his visit was probably a tad shorter and not as pleasant. He too is currently a Canadian.
don't Americans write any more?
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Actually, a link to my stamp blog (there are only 3 posts, but a new one arrives every Friday morning) was already at the base of my posts. I guess this is automatic.
It gives a bit more of my history as a beginner stamp collector and should evolve from there. A link to my other blog is on that page on the right near the top.
However, I will include it here.
If this is inappropriate, the moderator can delete this post. I don't want to upset anyone. Remember again, these are not monetized and this is not a commercial website (for me at least....maybe someday when I had millions of followers)
http://todaysperfectmoment.wordpress.com/
I am not a professional writer, but with practice, dedication, and luck someday I might.
Thank you.
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Hello and welcome MustangA from the Muskoka area.
Hope you enjoy it in here?
Chimo
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Hi Everyone;
Welcome to our little stamp club Mustang!!
I'm down here in Mid-Western Michigan, in the village of Baldwin, rainbow trout, and German brown
trout capitol of Michigan.
@ amsd;
You forgot to mention Michael Generali, also a great writer of mystery novels.
Yes Bob Ingraham (babstamp) is a great writer and web publisher, and he has many, many pages of great reading
to enjoy. This is his web address:
http://www.ephemeraltreasures.net/
He has graciously given me much background information, about some stamp-less covers of Viet Nam soldiers that
I had listed once.
I sold him a postcard, a few years ago, with an air mail stamp on the address side depicting a gander Canadian
Goose in flight, and the picture side had a photo of a "Connie" or Constellation passenger aircraft on the tarmac
at Gander Airport in Newfoundland. Its is on one of his web pages somewhere in there, and this is his favorite
airliner. I can understand that because it has three vertical fins on the rear wing, a really impressive aircraft.
We are all very glad to welcome new members, and especially those that are also very new collectors as well.
So ask any questions you like. The only dumb questions are those that were never asked.
Still just sortin'....
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Picking a particular year to collect is a well-known (if not that well-trod) path, both in stamps & coins.
Perhaps the most common choice is to collect your birth year, but that ain't no rule.
Remember that, in addition to the stamps of your target year, you can also collect:
- postal stationery (PO-issued postcards & aerograms & envelopes), and
- covers (envelopes that were registered, or mailed from a ship, or flown between two cities the first day that airmail service began between those two cities, or ...)
Both my big brother (z"l) and big sister (z"l) were TOESL at one point or another.
Welcome to SOR.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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"Picking a particular year to collect is a well-known (if not that well-trod) path, both in stamps & coins.
Perhaps the most common choice is to collect your birth year, but that ain't no rule."
Wow! Here I was thinking I had a completely unique idea. Well spotted.
Now I just have to figure out which stamps came out in 1970 all over the world.
Thanks again to everyone for responding.
My latest blog post was published this morning.
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"Now I just have to figure out which stamps came out in 1970 all over the world"
https://colnect.com/en/stamps/years
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who only wonders what took you so long to ask)
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Thank you so much. That link is really amazing.
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Hello everyone.
I am an ESL teacher from Aurora (but I work in Toronto). I have a wide variety of interests from Japanese culture to bicycles, from hockey to literature. This is my latest and most serious start at stamp collecting, but there have been others. This latest one was triggered by Lawrence Block and his character Keller.
I have started collecting Canadian, Japanese, and Vietnamese stamps. This is owing to my experience living/working and traveling in those countries.
I am also toying with the idea of collecting all the stamps issued in 1970. This is an idea that struck me quite recently and as yet, I am not clear how I will go about it, or what I will do with it. However, the idea has really taken hold of me. If I had enough space, I would love to make a huge exhibit of this with details of key historic events that happened in all the countries that year. Obviously this is a big project, and I am only thinking out loud at this point.
As I said, I am quite new at this and have had very limited experience in the hobby. I know hardly any terminology and only a little history. I have been to two stamp shows, but the first one doesn't count because that was more of a scouting mission and I was too shy to interact with many people.
Additionally, I want to be a professional writer. As such, I am writing several blogs: one is about finding happiness, one is about hobbies, and my latest one details my stamp collecting and the path I have taken to get where I am now. None of them are monetized in any way, but hopefully all of them are entertaining. I would like to share them with you, but I will wait until I have permission to include a couple of the links here.
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Hello MustangA,
Welcome to Stamporama. Stamporama is a friendly group of stamp collectors. You can find many different stamp collecting interest here. I am sure you that can find at least one person here that shares one of your areas of interest.
Jim
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Welcome, Mustang!
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Great to have you here Mustang!
Welcome from down "South" in Michigan (US).
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if permission is required from us to share your writings, post away. if it's necessitated by the original publishers' copyright, we'll wait.
and welcome.
We have several accomplished writers in our midst, notably Steve Davis, another Canadian who heads up US and Canadian air mail study groups; and Bob Ingraham, who, like you visited and is fascinated by Viet Nam, although I think his visit was probably a tad shorter and not as pleasant. He too is currently a Canadian.
don't Americans write any more?
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Actually, a link to my stamp blog (there are only 3 posts, but a new one arrives every Friday morning) was already at the base of my posts. I guess this is automatic.
It gives a bit more of my history as a beginner stamp collector and should evolve from there. A link to my other blog is on that page on the right near the top.
However, I will include it here.
If this is inappropriate, the moderator can delete this post. I don't want to upset anyone. Remember again, these are not monetized and this is not a commercial website (for me at least....maybe someday when I had millions of followers)
http://todaysperfectmoment.wordpress.com/
I am not a professional writer, but with practice, dedication, and luck someday I might.
Thank you.
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Hello and welcome MustangA from the Muskoka area.
Hope you enjoy it in here?
Chimo
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re: New Member from Aurora Ontario
Hi Everyone;
Welcome to our little stamp club Mustang!!
I'm down here in Mid-Western Michigan, in the village of Baldwin, rainbow trout, and German brown
trout capitol of Michigan.
@ amsd;
You forgot to mention Michael Generali, also a great writer of mystery novels.
Yes Bob Ingraham (babstamp) is a great writer and web publisher, and he has many, many pages of great reading
to enjoy. This is his web address:
http://www.ephemeraltreasures.net/
He has graciously given me much background information, about some stamp-less covers of Viet Nam soldiers that
I had listed once.
I sold him a postcard, a few years ago, with an air mail stamp on the address side depicting a gander Canadian
Goose in flight, and the picture side had a photo of a "Connie" or Constellation passenger aircraft on the tarmac
at Gander Airport in Newfoundland. Its is on one of his web pages somewhere in there, and this is his favorite
airliner. I can understand that because it has three vertical fins on the rear wing, a really impressive aircraft.
We are all very glad to welcome new members, and especially those that are also very new collectors as well.
So ask any questions you like. The only dumb questions are those that were never asked.
Still just sortin'....
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re: New Member from Aurora Ontario
Picking a particular year to collect is a well-known (if not that well-trod) path, both in stamps & coins.
Perhaps the most common choice is to collect your birth year, but that ain't no rule.
Remember that, in addition to the stamps of your target year, you can also collect:
- postal stationery (PO-issued postcards & aerograms & envelopes), and
- covers (envelopes that were registered, or mailed from a ship, or flown between two cities the first day that airmail service began between those two cities, or ...)
Both my big brother (z"l) and big sister (z"l) were TOESL at one point or another.
Welcome to SOR.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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"Picking a particular year to collect is a well-known (if not that well-trod) path, both in stamps & coins.
Perhaps the most common choice is to collect your birth year, but that ain't no rule."
Wow! Here I was thinking I had a completely unique idea. Well spotted.
Now I just have to figure out which stamps came out in 1970 all over the world.
Thanks again to everyone for responding.
My latest blog post was published this morning.
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re: New Member from Aurora Ontario
"Now I just have to figure out which stamps came out in 1970 all over the world"
https://colnect.com/en/stamps/years
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who only wonders what took you so long to ask)
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Thank you so much. That link is really amazing.
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