I recently was offered to buy a big box of off paper worldwide. This is the first time that I've gone through a standard off paper worldwide mixture in, OMG, dare I admit it, four decades! My first reaction was "Oh my Gawd, what DID I buy?" LoL! I've been specializing for so long that I'd forgotten what a genuine beginner mixture actually looks like, all those Poland and Romania, the Sand dunes, the orange Spanish Franco, the Netherland numerals, the queens, the Danish kings and exotic Turkish, Chinese, Japanese that I couldn't read. And nowadays mixes contain Machins galore in a rainbow of colors, phantasy stamps from places like Einhallow Scotland and Equatorial Guinea. Plus every now and then I'm finding in this box what I now recognize as "better" such as Iceland and some mint sets from the Caribbean tucked underneath like Easter eggs waiting to be found like buried treasure.

But, seeing all of those old stamp friends brought back many memories of hinging stamps in my Citation album while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Sigh.This box also brought back memories of riding my bike to the downtown mall in Kalamazoo and buying a bag of stamps from Woolworth's five and ten store. LoL I wish I knew what I know now! I would have bought every bag of Dennison hinges that they had!

I'm doing a presort and getting them ready to ship to the SFTW charity. FYI, if anyone else want to donate stamps, they request foreign be separate from USA, and that mint USA be sorted from used. Damaged are to be removed and sent to that big album in the sky.


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