Yeah stamps, kinda like coins, I've got a small collection of them. Kind of an old school thing but it's kind of fun looking at the old coins and stamps and what they are worth and why they are worth what they are and stuff
I don't really collect anything, I don't believe. But I love to look at old coins and stamps. They make me think.
Like when you look at a stamp, torn from the envelope..... did some mother place that stamp there, ages ago, to send a letter or card to her child? Or was it an announcement of a birth? Or a birthday party invitation? Was it a social letter, or a family letter, or a legal notice?
The same with coins ... I always wonder where they have been. If a quarter is dated 1965 ... in those 50 years, how many people have touched it? How many pockets has it been in? Did someone use it to purchase a newspaper? (Heh... surely a newspaper only cost 25c at some point in those 50 years.) Did some child buy an ice cream with it? How many people actually looked at it, versus just pocketing it?
Perhaps it is good that I do not collect things, as it would take my entire life to think through the possibilities.