What I would Collect

After forty years and millions of auction lots, I still get excited by many different kinds of stamps. What I would collect is stamps that I rarely see. For instance, yesterday I wrote up a Morocco collection complete mint 1956-2000. It cataloged about $800 and will sell for about $200. It contained over 800 mint stamps nearly all beautifully engraved and all having the finest philatelic production values. They commemorated famous Moroccan politicians, Islamic scholars and leaders and Arab art, artists and scientists. All that beauty, history, and difficulty of acquisition for about 25c per stamp. And I never saw most of these stamps before. Once a collector gets out of the narrow “major country” collecting syndrome, it is truly amazing how much beauty and rarity there is in this hobby for so little cost.