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Message:: [QUOTE="Pocket Change, post: 394651, member: 8012"]Interesting question.  i think it is one of the few times you'll find people do not wax nostalgic about how "great" the old days were. If you were living in a city, you probably had access to a few dealers and/or flea markets.  But if you lived in any kind of rural area, you were fried.  Maybe the only thing that was cool was going into our local Ben Franklin dime store and standing in front of the stamp and coin rack for probably hours on end.  They would have the whitman folders, stamp hinges, the Whitman "black book", envelopes of exotic, foreign stamps for $0.99 (or whatever).  Those were my little voyages out of the midwest..... Finally, all the coins and stamps on approval!  Talk about spending way too much.  Ah, the names of yesteryear - Kenmore, Mystic, Littleton, Calapan, ....... I don't know if prices now are more or less.  I would say, that in general, prices are more FAIR.  That assumes you have at least did a bit of research before you buy.  And you can't say there is a lack of material out there to study. So prices up or down - hard to say.  I'd say they're more where they should be.[/QUOTE]