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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manny9655, post: 5128074, member: 112417&quot;]I started collecting stamps when I was about 10 years old.&nbsp; I&#039;m 65 now, so I&#039;ve been doing it almost as long as you.&nbsp; I was a stamp dealer at one time, up until the late 1980s when I got married.&nbsp; I still have some of my old dealer stock.&nbsp; All foreign, nothing high end, mind you.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve been EXTREMELY disappointed at how much the market has dropped in recent years.&nbsp; I still have my Greek collection in a Scott specialty album.&nbsp; At one time, just a few years ago, it catalogued at between $4000 and $5000.&nbsp; Now I&#039;d be lucky to get a tenth of that.&nbsp; It includes quite a few of the valuable old Hermes Heads, which I specialized in.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll get all those old dealer&#039;s stock stamps out of my closet someday, go to a flea market, and sell them.&nbsp; Or maybe get back into dealing now that I am nearing retirement age.&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; But I agree with you...the post office and post offices of other countries destroyed the hobby by issuing so much wallpaper.&nbsp; Now the mints are trying to do the same, all for the almighty dollar.&nbsp; The sports card hobby has done the same.&nbsp; The average Joe is being pushed out by the sheer volume of new issues and the expense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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