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A very big Thank you to Gavin H. and Electric Chook (Frank). These members took time out of their busy lives to send my 6 year old son a very nice assortment of Stamps to jump start his collection.

You are both very kind and generous to do such a thing and must have great passion for keeping this wonderful hobby going through the generations.

Ian (My son) has sent personal thank you cards to both and you should see them within a few days. I thought you might like to see the end result of your kindness.

1 Happy collector



Busy organizing his collection, the way he wants



Observe the proper use of Stamp tongs



Thanks again, Rob

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Sensational to see young folks stiill doing what we probably all did at that age!

Many thanks to those very generous members that kick-started Ian along .. yes he and his ilk ARE the "Future Of Stamp Collecting"

Glen

@stallzer,

please send me an email with your address... I will send you a few stamps....

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Looks like he is having fun!

No clue if he is into covers at all or not but I can send you a dozen of two silk covers for him if you want!

ApothoKeri(at)hotmail.com

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stallzer,
I need your sons address too to send some stamps.

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Wolfgang
Papua New Guinea stamps and postal history: http://www.i-ng.org

Hi Rob,

Great to see a young boy interested in our great hobby.

Send me your son's postal address by board email and I will send him some nice PNG stamps.

Cheers

Bill

Its really great to see young people having passion for stamps. At present, philately seems to be a dying hobby among youth... Its really a sad scenario when u see the same faces everywhere.. anyway, love to share something i wrote on my blog:

http://ronlovestamps.blogspot.com/2010/ ... youth.html

Please take note its only my humble opinion.. would love to hear from all of you.

Hi Stallzer, please send me your address & I will send some old stamps your way as well.........

Ditto to me please Stallzer!
I'll send some Aussie stamps for him to practice soaking on!
Are there any Animals he likes? Dinosaurs? Cars?

And he's using TONGS! Yes! the future is safe.

Greg

PS Made my day, I needed a lift - feels very nice to share! Thank you.

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Greg - Looking for Goulburn Australia Cancels and Grangemouth Scotland Cancels and Covers
Member of the S.T.A.M.P Club for Slightly Twisted And Mad Philatelists - Motto: "Bring back the lick!"

Letter went out today.

Denis

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Stallzer!! Do allow me to contribute Singapore Stamps to Ian's collection. Can you email me the address?

Alan

I can't thank all of you enough, Ian is loving his new hobby, and prying him away from his stamps is no longer an option

I might just have the next Glen Stephens on my hands

Emails have all been sent, and again let me thank you all for your generosity and kindness.

Rob

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Anonymous

I sent the covers off today, Rob...you should get them soon, I am just next door in west Texas.

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Rob, you and Ian are most welcome - lovely to see a young keen collector enjoying his stamps like that.

I only hope he gets the same pleasure from this great hobby as I have enjoyed since I was his age.

When I was young, I benefited greatly from stamps given by relatives and family friends with contacts in "exotic" places - now it's great that the internet and Stampboards in particular can fulfil the same role.

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Hi Rob,

I posted the PNG stamps to Ian yesterday.

He should receive them in a few days.

Cheers

Bill

And a big thank you for aethelwulf , your package showed up today and Ian went nuts for the Hong Kong products. Although you can tell he is 6 years old since he calls them the Stamps from Hong Kong phooey....too many cartoons on the Brain.

Thanks again.

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Anonymous

Please send me Ian's address and I will send him some nice Canadian and other worldwide stamps that I have on hand.

One of the things I was taught years ago by some of our local stamp and coin dealers was to give foreign coins and stamps to the Ottawa Boys and Girls club and have done so for 30 odd years.

Lots of new collectors have been started by doing this and they are our future customers and fellow collectors.

It also helps them grow and most of them get into a lot less trouble as they get older. This is not my opinion but that of the former executive director of the Boys and Girls club here in Ottawa, Canada.

Often when I get collections in albums, I remove what I want and give them all of those albums as well.

I do the same with coins, often getting Whitman and other brands of coin collecting albums, most of the time leaving a few coins in them and bringing them to the club for kids to get started collecting.

When we are doing appraisals, and we see collections that have little or no value, we have often suggested to the owners to donate their collections to the Boys and Girls club and some of them have done so.

Nice feeling to get kids started on collecting stamps and coins.

Hi stallzer, would he like a 2000 Stanley Gibbon's Great Britain Concise catalogue?

It certainly is nice to see a young boy enjoying postage stamps. I started at the same age...and the rest is history, as they say.

Mark Alan

I too will send the 'young Glen Stephens' some stamps!

Please email and I will arrange next week (some more soaking practice for him!).

Cheers!

John

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Rob, I received my thank you card to day. What a pleasure to find a young boy with such beautiful manners. He's an absolute credit to you and his Mum

This has been sent!

An envelope left today Rob!
Hope young Master Ian likes his start to an Australian Kangaroo Collection.

As I sort through more Ill put bits away as about 100 in an envelope isn't that expensive to send by post.

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Greg - Looking for Goulburn Australia Cancels and Grangemouth Scotland Cancels and Covers
Member of the S.T.A.M.P Club for Slightly Twisted And Mad Philatelists - Motto: "Bring back the lick!"

holy moley! this kid's stamp collection is going to be bigger than any of ours!

Yes, but he's a much cuter kid than any of us

It is getting up there, he dwarfs my collection by a long shot, but then again my collection will be his collection. Poor guy has a lot of thank you cards to send off. I'll post some more pictures as he get his collection all put in order.

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Anonymous

Stamp collections go in order?

Why didn't I get the memo?

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

You were too focused with the the Cricket field to read it.

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Rob, if you would like to send me your address by board e-mail I will try to find something that Ian would like.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted. World, Australia or New Zealand
are where I could help. I will send two of each, or two envelopes, so that dad can keep up.

Ron(raz).

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Package arrived today Skilo, He will love them. I haven't seen the inside yet as Ian loves getting Mail and opening it is half the fun. Probably would have been here yesterday but it was a postal holiday for Columbus Day., I'll post pics later this week.

Thanks Skilo.

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Anonymous

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Sorry it took so long for me to scan it in but it's been crazy around here lately. Thank you cards for all hit the PO tomorrow morning. I'd really like to thank all that sent Ian the goods, he absolutely loves his hobby.

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Anonymous

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Have you received my parcel? (2000 SG catalogue?)

Yes he did Erik. He loves finding his GB Stamps in the catalog and has taken a fond interest in Machins and he counts them every day or two to make sure his Sister hasn't swiped any


Nice choice on the Stamps Skilo with the Perregrine Falcon, we have only 2 themes that we are pursuing together. Birds of Prey and Aircraft.

Again Big thanks to:

Erik
Keri
Tom
Denis
Jeremy
Greg
Wolfgang
Shawn
Gavin H
Frank
Anthony

You all have made a young boy smile.

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Anonymous

I VERY neatly filed my memo for future reference -

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=3636

Is he an official stamp collector now ?



His Stamp desk, trying to organize the last haul from Great grandmothers:



Not too far removed from dad's desk

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Anonymous

WOW! Look at all that neat stuff in there!

I love to see my (Greg's!) old GB Concise catalogue being used for a good purpose.

There really is some neat stuff in there. There are a couple little tour guide books to the Paris Exposition of 1900, Maps, Hotel brochures from Germany turn of the Century, and a bunch of old deeds with some nice revenue Stamps.

1872 Deeds

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Anonymous

Is there any regular organized Philately for the younger collector in Newport??

Perhaps a community group??

Tony W

Naah! Still too neat.

Norm

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Actually there is. He attended his first Stamp club meeting last month as we both joined our local Stamp club. The Twin cities Philatelic society also has a lifetime membership for a Family for $90.00 USD which is a pretty good bargain if you ask me, and we will be going that route after our first year of membership is up.

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Anonymous

Ha!

Pray they do not get an Actuary in there - as signing up 10 year olds for life at $90 may not past muster.

Way to go!!

Tony W

Today the Postal system gave me the finger



Unfortunately 1 of Ian's thank you notes got the big RTS. So Anthony if you read this, please email me your correct mailing address because I seem to have screwed something up in the process of saving everyone's information.

Thanks, Rob & Ian

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Anonymous

A belated reply as I just checked and found that I hadn't!

I received a very nice handwritten thankyou from Master Ian.
And I can't decide whether to put it in the world covers collection or the "happy thoughts" scrapbook!
(There's no room on the fridge!)

Thank you Ian.

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Greg - Looking for Goulburn Australia Cancels and Grangemouth Scotland Cancels and Covers
Member of the S.T.A.M.P Club for Slightly Twisted And Mad Philatelists - Motto: "Bring back the lick!"

Excellent, glad it made it there.

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Anonymous