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I heard about this stamp only yesterday. The USPS has created and released the first heat-activated postage stamp in honor of the upcoming solar eclipse. The stamp shows a black moon until you touch it. The stamp then changes colors to represent our real moon. They are 49 cent stamps and they only come in a sheet. The entire sheets costs under $8. I'm not sure if it's a limited edition.
I'm not a stamp collector, but this new stamp intrigued me. I've ordered a sheet to save. They might be worth money in time, but even if not, they are a "first".
I wonder why the postal service doesn't advertise its new stamps? How many of us purchase the boring book of self-stick flag stamps the USPS staff mindlessly pushes through the window?
Here's a link to that stamp. Or Google USPS Solar Eclipse Stamp.
I collected stamps before they went to the self-adhesive stamps.
Really, Dirt? That really sounds like an interesting hobby. I might try it.
When we were kids my older brother had a stamp collection. It was a big thrill for me to help him paste them into his stamp album. He had a packet of tiny "pasties" that folded in the middle. Both sides would be moistened. One end stuck to the album page. The other end stuck to the stamp. It took a certain finesse to do it right.
My brother died long ago. I don't know what happened to his stamp albums. They'd probably be worth a small fortune today. It's been 555 years.
...They'd probably be worth a small fortune today. It's been 555 years.
I have an extensive collection of US mint stamps and mint plate blocks dating back to the early 1900's. I tried to sell the collection, and I was offered 70% of face value. Heck, I'll use them as postage before I take a hit like that.
I have an extensive collection of US mint stamps and mint plate blocks dating back to the early 1900's. I tried to sell the collection, and I was offered 70% of face value. Heck, I'll use them as postage before I take a hit like that.
Smart move, Dirt.
I'd take everything into the backyard and burn it rather than sell to a cheapskate.
My late DH started collecting stamps as a kid in the 1940's. Had a huge collection, all in glassine envelopes, never in albums. When he finally sold it 50 years later it was quite disappointing. Stamps normally sell for about 10% of "Catalog" value.
Really, Dirt? That really sounds like an interesting hobby. I might try it.
When we were kids my older brother had a stamp collection. It was a big thrill for me to help him paste them into his stamp album. He had a packet of tiny "pasties" that folded in the middle. Both sides would be moistened. One end stuck to the album page. The other end stuck to the stamp. It took a certain finesse to do it right.
My brother died long ago. I don't know what happened to his stamp albums. They'd probably be worth a small fortune today. It's been 555 years.
It's a dying hobby. As mentioned in another thread, my wife's boss took me to a stamp show to help sell an old stamp collection I found in my basement. Even he admitted that it was a dying hobby. In the stamp show, I was the youngest person there. And I'm 54.
As we walked out of the hall (it was a Rotary club) I noticed many plaques on the walls with multiple "in memoriam" names on them. A lot of dead Rotarians. I said to my wife's boss, "A dying hobby, with a show being held in a dying venue."
The notion that stamp collecting is dead, and there is no value is absurd. What isn't absurd it that most likely after checking some of the posts in this thread, and this forum overall people think they have something that has value because it's 50-80 years old, and in their mind should have value regardless of what it is. The what it is is the important part.
I buy and sell, sometimes keep anything I think I can make a buck on and I see this mindset all the time. People think they have something, and have nothing, or are trying to sell something for some high price. Sometimes they do have something, but don't know what they are doing. Just read this board.
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Heck, I'll use them as postage before I take a hit like that.
