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What prompted this post was one of Earl's columns that I recently came across cleaning out some files. Titled "The Worth of Stamp Collecting" he discusses what many of our members already know about this wonderful hobby and I would like to share some of his thoughts from that column.
"The worth of stamp collecting to society is primarily in the incentive it creates to learning. It has the flavor of school, lectures, reading, writing, art and economics without being any of these things. The ten-year-old with his five dollar album cannot escape the above...Every stamp in a collection offers a path to increased knowledge. There is no better clean, wholesome and accepted avocation."
As a side note when my wife and I moved out of Center City to the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia, one of Earl's grandsons lived in the same apartment building where we were living. I often ran into him in the elevator where we had some very nice, but short, conversations about this hobby.
Enjoy,
Fred
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Brilliant !!!! Worth saving and sharing Thankyou
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Wise words but let's not forget it is coming from someone who sells stamps for a living.
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"Wise words but let's not forget it is coming from someone who sells stamps for a living."
They USED to sell stamps for a living. The family just sold the farm.
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I made a number of purchases while I was living in Philadelphia in the 1960s to 1970s and I never had any complaints. When Earl Apfelbaum died in 1985, his son Martin took over the firm, but was tragically killed in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Earl's grandsons John and Ken along with their sisters, Missy and Suzanne, who had joined the firm earlier took over running the company. You may remember that John Apfelbaum coauthored with New York Times columnist, David Lidman a book in 1981: The World of Stamps & Stamp Collecting.
A number of Earl Apfelbaum's columns are still available on the Apfelbaum, Inc. website under the heading "Resources".
Fred
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Beginning in 1963, Linn's Weekly Stamp News and Stamp Collector magazines ran a weekly column by Earl P.L. Apfelbaum titled "Apfelbaum's Corner" consisting of short essays on stamp collecting. It ran for over twenty years and was one of the most popular features of those publications. The Apfelbaum firm ran regular monthly Public Auctions as well as a large retail store in Center City, Philadelphia, where I was living in the late 1960s attending graduate school. As their store was only a few blocks from my apartment, I was able to spend many happy afternoons poring over their thousands of counter books of stamps neatly arranged by country and Scott number.
What prompted this post was one of Earl's columns that I recently came across cleaning out some files. Titled "The Worth of Stamp Collecting" he discusses what many of our members already know about this wonderful hobby and I would like to share some of his thoughts from that column.
"The worth of stamp collecting to society is primarily in the incentive it creates to learning. It has the flavor of school, lectures, reading, writing, art and economics without being any of these things. The ten-year-old with his five dollar album cannot escape the above...Every stamp in a collection offers a path to increased knowledge. There is no better clean, wholesome and accepted avocation."
As a side note when my wife and I moved out of Center City to the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia, one of Earl's grandsons lived in the same apartment building where we were living. I often ran into him in the elevator where we had some very nice, but short, conversations about this hobby.
Enjoy,
Fred
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Brilliant !!!! Worth saving and sharing Thankyou
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Wise words but let's not forget it is coming from someone who sells stamps for a living.
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"Wise words but let's not forget it is coming from someone who sells stamps for a living."
They USED to sell stamps for a living. The family just sold the farm.
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I made a number of purchases while I was living in Philadelphia in the 1960s to 1970s and I never had any complaints. When Earl Apfelbaum died in 1985, his son Martin took over the firm, but was tragically killed in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Earl's grandsons John and Ken along with their sisters, Missy and Suzanne, who had joined the firm earlier took over running the company. You may remember that John Apfelbaum coauthored with New York Times columnist, David Lidman a book in 1981: The World of Stamps & Stamp Collecting.
A number of Earl Apfelbaum's columns are still available on the Apfelbaum, Inc. website under the heading "Resources".
Fred
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