--as of 2009, "there was slightly over $2 billion of unused postage stamps in collectors’ hands";
--Hermann Herst Jr's Nassau Street "was on the New York Times’ bestseller list";
--How it came about that "collectors all around the world use the same types of perforation gauges and count perfs."
I have a permanent link to Mr. Apfelbaum's latest blog entry on the right of this screen, and I encourage you to check out his posts at least a couple of times a month.
there
was slightly over $2 billion of unused postage stamps in collectors’
hands - See more at:
http://www.apfelbauminc.com/blog/the-will-always-be-new-stamps/#sthash.9pPijO5f.dpu
there
was slightly over $2 billion of unused postage stamps in collectors’
hands - See more at:
http://www.apfelbauminc.com/blog/the-will-always-be-new-stamps/#sthash.9pPijO5f.dpufthere
there
was slightly over $2 billion of unused postage stamps in collectors’
hands - See more at:
http://www.apfelbauminc.com/blog/the-will-always-be-new-stamps/#sthash.9pPijO5f.dpuf
there
was slightly over $2 billion of unused postage stamps in collectors’
hands - See more at:
http://www.apfelbauminc.com/blog/the-will-always-be-new-stamps/#sthash.9pPijO5f.dpuf
there
was slightly over $2 billion of unused postage stamps in collectors’
hands - See more at:
http://www.apfelbauminc.com/blog/the-will-always-be-new-stamps/#sthash.9pPijO5f.dpuf
4 comments:
"But I hope there is no disagreement about the value of John Apfelbaum's informative and entertaining blog"
Agree.
His posts are full of information and insight based on his and his family's years of experience in the philatelic trade, and he has a first rate mind.
I just had to share a quote from a recent blog post from Apfelbaum's Corner. Funny...seems to me like WW collecting is still pretty popular.
"Fifty years ago, if you had to draw a picture of the average stamp collector, he (and it was a "he") was an older white male who had a general world wide collection, maybe a US mint collection and definitely a collection of US Plate Blocks and First Day Covers. Today if you were to do the same thing it would be a somewhat younger male who collects one country(or British Commonwealth) usually mint."
Ironically, I fit his description except that I stopped collecting worldwide early in my early teens to go exclusively to US. But as Apfelbaum says, it seemed like everybody, of my age at least, collected US plate blocks and first day covers, regardless of their other interests.
Unfortunately, all of the older blog entries have been reduced to stubs. If you see one that interests you, the Wayback Machine MAY be able to retrieve it for you.
Dave
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