NC-“Never Collected”

I recently came across an old box of early US stamps that had been assembled in the 1920’s by an attorney. I questioned the family carefully. Had their Grandfather been a stamp collector? Not to their knowledge. Good. Why did he throw 1920s mint commemoratives in this box? The reply was that he sent out a lot of mail and it was easier to put postage on the envelopes if you applied stamps in strips. Good. When he got down to one or a pair, he threw them in the box and started with a strip again when he had a new batch of letters. My next question to the family was the important one-Did he intend to use the stamps in the box and did he just forget about them or had he intended on putting them in an album and collecting them. They answered that he definitely intended to use them and must have forgotten as Grandpa was tight as a drum and thought philately was silly. Eureka! For years I have wondered where the next quality craze would lead us after Never Hinged. And here it was- “Never Collected”- never looked at by a philatelist, never defiled by tongs, as pure as the day the stamp passed over the Post Office Counter. I quickly sealed the box. And if I could ever find a way to sell them without ruining their uniqueness, my fortune would be made.