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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tall Paul, post: 24786294, member: 114635&quot;]My mom was really into stamps. Sadly as she got older she became more of a stamp hoarder. After she passed we had a group of family and friends help us with clearing out the house. One person, who happened to be a stamp collector dealt with the stamps. There over a hundred stamp albums many without stamps and cigar boxes full of canceled stamps. Her early efforts at collecting had some neat stuff, plate block albums, USA singles etc. We sent two palettes worth of the stuff, gratis, to the friend who was helping us sort through everything. He lived in Texas. I kept a small box of items that I ultimately traded to a stamp and coin dealer for a Krause catalog. I did keep a few single stamps from the USA and Canada. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have started a small collection that currently has ten stamps in it. My focus in on the the Trans Mississippi, Pan-American, and Panama Pacific issues. I also have some of the early airmail issues. Like coins, there are grading services for stamps and I only buy graded examples. There are too many nuances for a novice to risk money buying ungraded examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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