Do any OGFB members collect old postage stamps as a hobby, or have family members who do so? I discovered my childhood stamp album from the 1950s earlier this year and decided to start collecting again - nothing expensive, just filling in gaps. Main interest is Commonwealth stamps of George V and VI and to a lesser extent early QEII. My interest is for fun, not investment or obsessive collecting. You learn more geography and history and it's good fun going to a local stamp fair and meeting other people with similar interests and stories to tell! Judging from their comments, there aren't many children taking up the hobby these days - too much competition from computers and TV.
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 19:19
The airmail ones I have are all for seat of your pants biplanes and early mono wings, mostly on internal domestic route flights. The air equivalent of the Pony Express.
Stamp collecting
