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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silentnviolent, post: 2145745, member: 8797&quot;]3rd generation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Gramps was more into postage stamps, but I inherited a bunch of empty Whitman folders I assume were at least partially filled before getting into my hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dad had a big tackle box filled with coins. Many were 90% Kennedys&nbsp; he had saved as a child with the dream of one day visiting the pyramids in Egypt. My brother swiped them all to buy McDonalds for his friends.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spent the entire summer going door to door mowing lawns, raking, etc. Each week I would go around to the banks asking for halves and explaining why. An awkward moment when dad discovered my stash of halves before I could present them to him, leading him to think I had stolen them from him. Brother took those too, a few years later. My mother took everything else when she left.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, though I&#039;m 3rd Gen, neither predecessor had any specialized knowledge or anything of substance to be built upon, so that makes me the first serious collector in the fam...... That I know of anyway...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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