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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Kurt Weiske on Wed Nov 18 18:56:00 2020
    Hello Kurt!

    ** On Tuesday 17.11.20 - 09:33, Kurt Weiske wrote to JOE MACKEY:

    I used to collect stamps; when I was in elementary school I bought a
    bag of international stamps (through mail order, naturally) and
    started a stamp collection. It's a fun hobby, inexpensive to start,
    and lasts forever. I still have my stamp book 45 years later.

    Exactly the same here. I ordered first-day stamped envelopes
    and full 4-stamp corners of certain releases of my own
    country's stamps.

    However, commensing about 20 years ago, I started to use them
    up. Who would buy my collection?


    I remember as a kid sorting through some of the international stamps
    and pulling out my encyclopedia to look up the countries the stamps
    came from. The world was a bigger place back then.

    They were inspiring to further research. We had a full
    Encyclopedia Britannica colllection that had frequent use.


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