A Secret About Stamp Collectors

I have spent a life time around stamp collectors. My father and grandfather were both stamp collectors, and I got my first album at the age of six. I have belonged to over ten clubs and have been a professional philatelist for over forty years. There is a little known secret about stamp collectors that for the most part they don’t want you to know and that they hide with all their might, and the secret is this: stamp collectors are usually kind and gentle people. Sure there are some bears in the hobby and people who take advantage of others and who are mean spirited, unkind or who expect something for nothing. Collectors are not perfect but they are generally pretty nice guys. I write and talk to scores each week and they are eager to talk about what they are doing and how they collect. And they have other interests outside the hobby and love their families and are really very nice regular people. Introspective, cerebral, often shy but usually very nice. It is writing and talking to collectors that has been one of the most enjoyable parts of my professional life.

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