To my fellow forum members,
Here is Ezra helping papa out with his stamps. Yes, I gave him a bunch of mint and used stamps. These stamps are called First Day Covers. They are stamps issued in there respective state and specific post office with a prepicked post mark just for that day only. The cost of a FDC will always exceed a single stamp. Here is my assistant Ezra, the next Philatetlist!
You’ve seen the old Hepburn- Grant movie Charade?
Not suitable for Ezra but fun.
Lol! No, but I will.
Close up. Two types. Hard to obtain. Usually it’s one or the other unless you go the aftermarket level. Then it’s a reputable dealer that needs to be found.
Another way of collecting, go to the post office and pay face value for a single stamp or a full sheet. Or you could cut the corner plate block. This always consist of 4 stamps and the outside plate number margin. Sometimes, the sales person is nice enough to break out a plate block if you let them know ahead of time that you’re a collector.
Toshi
One of my favorite sets, Third Reich. It’s technically illegal in the EU. You can find examples as I have via eBay.
All I know is I cannot have young Master Ezra taking Third Reich or Manchuko stamps to show and tell. That will not bode well at the next PTA meeting. Now maybe a Star Wars X-Wing Fighter? We shall see the political correctness nature of things to come.
My one all time favorite stamp of my all time favorite composer. Mozart!
I still have my collection. Used to buy the annual commemorative sets at the post office but I’m 40 years behind lol. I collected US only and I like the space program stamps. I also liked the overrun countries commemorate set. I got my birth year complete mint set as a gift when I was a boy. Someday I may get back at it. I have a few first day covers and tax stamps/hunting stamps. Great hobby
Here’s some Ezra would like I bet
Couple first day covers from a convention in SFO
And the overrun countries - beautiful stamps
It’s great to see you and Ezra having fun together, Toshi. [Y][Y][Y][Y][Y]
Oh my, now you’ve got him hooked on the dinosaur stamps! Lol!!
Thank You for sharing sir!
Your friend, Toshi
Here’s Ezra excited with his cartoon stamps as well as his Star Wars set.
Great pic of a happy kid. Hope he grows up to be a fine scale modeler and a philatelist like his grandpa.
Ezra said I can keep the next two sheets. Of course who is Ella Fitzgerald and or Jimi Hendrix! Ezra insists these are papas stamps! Lol!
your friend, Toshi
This is very interesting Toshi. I also have quite a few of them back in Croatia as well as Reichmarks, paper and coins. I never collected them, we just have them at home as they happened to be saved by my grandfather.
Very cool! I hope to give these Reichs Marks to my grandson Ezra. Just like how your grandfather has done for you.
you friend, Toshi
Oh my! How I wish it was just one stamp of the inverted Jenny that I’d own. Just one stamp would sell for $500,000.00. Yes half a million dollars in it’s current mint form. But alas, for now, I will settle for the reproduction. Correction, at the last auction a single Jenny invert sold for 1.5 million dollars.
Some misc. stamps.
Although too young to understand the significance of the first black US President, Ezra will later in life find this gem.
