Be careful what you give your kids to look after.

[001JoycesStamps]

A cautionary tale.
Many years ago, I gave my 8 year old son some of my stamp collection, so that he could begin his own. Among the stamps were a dozen British penny reds from the mid to later 1800's, relatively available I know, but they were in excellent condition all the same.
He brought his album home from the stamp club at school one day and a myriad of colourful stamps fell out of it as he put it down. There were stamps from everywhere, Indonesia, India, Africa, and Eastern Europe. And lovely as they all looked, none of them were of any great interest. I asked my son where they had come from.
He replied 'I swapped them for 6 of those old red ones... These are much nicer, Mum, aren't they?'
There's a lesson, if ever there was.
Bye for now,
Joyce.

The rest of my collection remains intact, fortunately. Have a look if you like - http://www.everyonecollects.com/Joyces_Stamps

[philactica]

Hi Joyce,

Welcome to the Forum and thanks for your not at too strange a tale !

Indeed our values change over time and he propably enjoyed the swopping for a prettier lot.

We very likely all make some faux pas collecting stamps - if we keep at it we get more clever.

That is why we get too many young PC hotshots because the spend so much time discovering.

Regards
Erich