<p>Glad to provide amusement. But it is actually the way I feel. :)</p>
<p>(Stamps that require licking are becoming harder and harder to find....)</p>
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Stamps that require licking are becoming harder and harder to find....
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mini - I could send you my "collection" of such stamps, a little curled and sticky from sitting around in alternating summer-muggy-humid/winter-dry conditions. I have various denominations spanning maybe a decade, including some of those "E"-type lettered ones which were used to make up the difference when first-class rates would change from say, 29 cents to 30 cents, etc.</p>
<p>I can no longer remember what these are worth, so don't use them. I would feel so great unloading - er, gifting - these to you. They would be going to a good home and not being wasted. You, in turn, could really stretch out your pleasure by having to unstick said stamps from each other, research the value of the un-denominated letter ones, etc.</p>
<p>CC triumphs again :D</p>
<p>Too funny! I am literally right now working on an article (that will begin as a speech I'm giving this Saturday) that includes recollections of what I learned from my stamp collection:</p>
<p>"But, hey, at age 11, I would sit for hours alone in my room with my stamp collection two huge volumes, with more than 35,000 stamps. And I would count them! (would you believe?) I engaged in a census twice a year. How boring is that! The side benefit, unbeknownst to me at the time, was that I became an expert, relatively speaking, in the historical geography and emerging nations of late 20th Century Africa, and the changing geopolitical face of Europe during World War I. To this day I can regale you with the transformation of Upper Volta into Burkina Faso (in the 1920s, Haute Volta was overprinted on stamps from Upper Senegal and Niger; it became the Republique de Haute Volta (replete with new stamps) in 1960; it metamorphosed into Burkina Faso -Land of the Incorruptible Men in 1984, but for 11 days, from August 4th to August 15th, 1984, it was spelled Bourkina-Fasso, though I dont know if any stamps were sold in this period; the first Burkina Faso stamps were from November 1984. What would a Name-Change Day first-day cover, with the old spelling, be worth? And would it even exist?) (What is this man talking about it?) If you are not snoring yet, let me tell you about Bosnia-Herzegovina stamps from 1915, or, if you allow me, we can discuss the stamps issued by the Sultan (whatever happened to him?) in pre-Independence, pre-Tanzanian Zanzibar. Having a good snooze? I expect many of you are ready to cry uncle (but those with similar fascinations should come see me at the next homeschooling conference and we can form a support group to kibbitz about San Marino or the Malagasy Republic.)"</p>
<p>I guess "collection" was a bit of an aggrandized word for my dysfunctional stamp <em>pile</em>. ;)</p>