I think nearly all passioned collectors give plenty of time and devotion to their beloved hobby. I confess that I spend about 2-3 hours daily for stamps. A large part of it goes doing stamp exchanges or browsing online stamp discussion/articles; the weekends I usually spend mostly offline (and sort my stamps) …I know, 2-3 hours a day sounds lot, but as I don’t do much TV (besides random movies) or reading (besides random active periods) in late nights, I can afford the luxury.
I’m doing some cleaning at my stamp room (again), and would like to try something new to make a better use of some obscure, seriously outdated (especially pricewise) but hopefully still useful specialized stamp catalogs… So here comes an exchange offer that is open to all readers of the blog: I’ll exchange my unwanted specialized stamp catalog to your unwanted specialized stamp catalog…. I know the below listed books are nothing fancy (very likely even not worth the postage fees), but possibly someone out there could use these. As there is only one item of each, please be quick and specific if You like to have any of these.
Time definitely does fly, as it’s been a bit over a month since my last post. Yes, I did have a relaxing summer vacation with plenty of sun and heat.
Just to notice, that this will be my last update on the blog for few weeks. Summer has finally reached central-Finland, and like most folks I’ll be taking a break from the online world to enjoy the sun and warm weather. Instead of traveling anywhere, I’ll be mostly doing classic summer chores on our backyard.
As I’m writing this, Stamp Collecting Blog is about to break the limit of 1,000 approved user responses / comments. I’d like to thank all the readers of the blog for this great achievement. Without your contributions this blog would be much more boring (and I would have a lot more unanswered questions).
Besides collecting stamps, I cherish a small collection of worldwide airmail labels (or airmail etiquettes as some do call them). The history of airmail labels dates back to early 20th century and the era of first commercial airflights. AFAIK, the labels were born to ease the life of postal clerks by allowing easy separation between groundmail and airmail.