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I heard that on Grzylyrg they have a stamp commemorating the first probing.

 
 

 
 

Steve:
 
Thanks for all the above.  It must have taken a bit of time getting all those small stamps aligned on the scanner.  Then, some cropping and posting.  Good job and thanks for sharing.
 
Everyone enjoys a bit of philately... every now and then. 

Really cool collection Strummy, Thanks.

Thanks Steve!
That is great stamp collection.
I have gathered a few stamps but not space.

I did manage to get a great "patch" collection....hope it's
cool to share some of  it here....

  I wish I could help but I'm out of date on the subject I guess. When I was about 13 years old a neighborhood friend of the family give me a stamp collection that I wish I still had today. At the time I started a collection off of that. I went to a U.S. Post office and purchased a stamp book of my own to add to my collection at the time, it was one of the Space Exploration or Nasa book, I can't remember the title.  I purchased a book that told you the value of the stamps, at the time I had several that were worth a decent amount of money then, but probably worth a lot of money now.

To make a long story short, me being a kid and not knowing any better I took all my stamps and put them in one of those photo albums where it has the sticky stuff on the pages and clear plastic to cover the pictures, I think that probably destroyed the value of them.

Either way, what ended up happening was my stamps collection ended up with some family members and probably got sold for next to nothing. But that's ok, it was nobody's fault but my own because if it would have mattered enough for me to keep up with it I would have done so.

I have a few stamps now, they are kept in a safe place, they were given to me by some relatives that have passed away. I think I have the Walt Disney stamp, not sure.

I don't know how the postal service works where you live, and I haven't been to the U.S. post office in years, but it used to be that you could go to the U.S. Post office and buy stamp collecting books and such things. Maybe it's not like that anymore.

Either way, that's a nice collection, I wouldn't sell them or give them away unless you need money for some reason and cane make some to help you or your family, the reason I say that is they were given to you for you to have and not to be given away. LOL, sorry to preach, that thought just crossed my mind because my nephew had some collectable stuff given to him a couple of weeks ago and he kept trying to give a few things away and I told him pretty much what I just said to you.

Fascinating collection.
I dig on the patches also.

I, somewhere, have a set of patches and coins from each of the shuttle launches I viewed as a kid all the way through the one I took my kid to in 2007. Maybe 10 or 11 patches, I can't remember the exact number now.

Not sure where they are, though (except the most recent one).

Thanks for posting this,
- zevo

The most important question of all Steve is : Are you going to start a Stamp Collection? Have you been inspired to do so from this happening for you?

Just wondering

Here are some stamps...

I really like The Beatles collection. There's much more than what I
took pic's of. The Royal Mail put together a fantastic package.

These things don't do much for me. Really got them for my  grand daughter.
I started a lot of collections for her when her mother passed and she
became mine to raise. She has a fantastic Johnny Lightning car collection
but she doesn't know it. LOL

The gold stamps are cool. They are of everything. I looked briefly for a beagle....
to many of them this late.

I have this stuff put away, out of sight....thanks Steve it's been cool all over again.

 
Hey Michael, thanks for showing us some of your stuff - I love those emblems.
 
I'm old enough to remember the excitement that surrounded all the Apollo missions, and the genuine expectation that mankind would soon be living in a permanent moonbase, and that astronauts would shortly be exploring the surface of Mars.
 
I suppose these things would have come to fruition if money had been no object.
 
 

Space stamps are one of the greatest.Please share more...here is one from the Space 70 series.