[Herandu]

Anyone else share my hobby? I started a very long time ago, and now got them in boxes, bags, etc. I also have a couple of albums, where I keep my most priced possessions. My speciality is British Guiana, but I also collected a few of the British Empire definitives.
The most expensive stamps I got are from Bermuda and the Solomon Islands. I hope to thin down my collection though.

 

[xnothingpoetic]

I only spend my money on things I can use and enjoy.

So food and clothes and the like are kept to a small budget.

Photography and audio right now, are consuming most of my money. (about 90%)

 

[appophylite]

Unfortunately, I used to be very into stamp collecting, but I had to pack up all of my stuff and leave it in out attic in India. I haven't been too serious about it for 5-6 years now, but still hold onto the odd stamp (ever since e-mail, they don't show up in the mail quite as often as they used to). Never really had a country that was a favorite but I did always admire exceptionally odd stamps (I had a Korean stamp that was about 1/2" high but almost 2-3 inches long, and another from Russia that was nearly 2" by 3"). Also had a portfolio of never used, fresh of the print Japanese Stamps. I always felt that, at least when I started collecting about 15 years ago, stamp collecting was easier to get into than coin collecting. It seems to have gone the other way now.

 

[Lazarus Short]

I make a living going thru new and old files. Today, it included a file of mostly letters from the 1930's to the 1960's. In with the letters were a few envelopes, and two envelopes in a row had air mail stamps from the 1940's, the eight cent green ones with the Lockheed mailplane. Very nice - if I were a stamp collector, I would suffer!

Laz

 

[Herandu]

I started off collecting anything in any state. But then I switched collecting mint, unused, never hinged or lightly hinged. Those are the expensive ones (but there are exceptions) My most expensive stamp is around U$1500 the last time I looked. My most expensive series is a toss up between the 1889-1907 British Guiana stamps and the Dutch Guiana 1931 series. Of course, all in unused condition with the gum still on it.
eBay is loaded with forgeries. I picked upon several 1st Day covers or envelopes alleged to have been sent from XYZ to XYZ. The writing on the front was the same, or/and the address waaaaay out.

 

[jmmtn4aj]

Non-audio gear and gadgets?

 

[GAD]

I did when I was a kid. I have books and books of plate blocks of US stamps from the bicentennial.

GAD

 

[FalconP]

As a child I was crazy about stamps. I learned an awful lot from this hobby and I recommend any parents to cultivate this hobby in their children. I have a big themetic collection of birds: six big albums.

Why did I stop? new hobbies, and the preception that post offices all over the world are cynically fleecing us collectors -- excessive number of releases; unrealistic denominations; irrelevant themes; cheaper printing resulting in poor definition and colors (I lament the near-extinction of engraving); horrid design. I still keep everything, but have long ceased adding to it.