April 30, 2010

Old postage stamps have recently become of interest to me. I now have the responsibilty to take care of the collection. I showed a lot of interest when I was younger so I am hoping that I have the required skills in my genes to take this forward.

I have started to add to the old postage stamp collection now. When I was looking for First Day Covers I can across one for Sharpe. Sharpe is one of my favourtie TV shows so that decided to get that one. This was my initial piece to the collection.

I then decided to get First Day Covers for my close family with their names and addresses on. This means that I could use it to tell a story. Once I have all the family in there I will buy them as and when their names and addresses change, and even new additions to the family.

I know that my Grandad liked old postage stamps from Christmas. I like old postage stamps about castles and that is something that I want to add into the collection.

The plan is that I will add a whole album to the collection at least. The collection will be passed on the next generation, the next member in the collection history and then they too will have to add an additional album. Over the generation this is sure to become more and more valuable to the whole family and I hope that this story will still be around on the internet still after all that time.

It feels good being involved at the start of such a tradition and brings my Grandad’s passion back to life. I want this to be a tribute to him.

I bought my old postage stamps album from the Royal Mail. I was actually a bit disappointed with the quality of it compared to the ones of my Grandad had. The same with a lot of things in this day and age! My Nan like it when see had a chance to see it. Perhaps it is a good thing though to make my contribution distinct. It will be interesting to see how that evolves over time too.

I just hope that I can do his old postage stamp collection justice.