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<p>[QUOTE="Kimbert, post: 454465, member: 9204"]that's too bad they didn't end up being worth anything but I hope he still got enjoyment from his collection and that your brother will cherish it!!</p><p>I thought probably most collections weren't worth much, but I was shocked when my grandma told me how much my grandpa's collection sold for! She said he used to have fellow collectors over some evenings and they'd trade stamps and all that, so I guess he was very serious about it!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That would make sense! And it also makes sense that the younger generation is not as interested, less and less things are done by mail anymore! (though surely the collectible stamps are older ones that you acquire in other ways than from your incoming mail anyways so maybe that doesn't matter, but I feel like mail and postage just isn't on our radar as much in the world of electronic communication!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kimbert, post: 454465, member: 9204"]that's too bad they didn't end up being worth anything but I hope he still got enjoyment from his collection and that your brother will cherish it!! I thought probably most collections weren't worth much, but I was shocked when my grandma told me how much my grandpa's collection sold for! She said he used to have fellow collectors over some evenings and they'd trade stamps and all that, so I guess he was very serious about it! That would make sense! And it also makes sense that the younger generation is not as interested, less and less things are done by mail anymore! (though surely the collectible stamps are older ones that you acquire in other ways than from your incoming mail anyways so maybe that doesn't matter, but I feel like mail and postage just isn't on our radar as much in the world of electronic communication!)[/QUOTE]
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