Why in the world would the Mystic Stamp Company send me a missive? I haven’t ordered anything from them in over ten years!
My path to becoming a philatelist began early, probably around fifth grade. My sister and I, and soon our younger sis, began the business of collecting stamps and took it rather seriously. We would soak stamps in the bathtub to put them in our shared book and air dry them all over the bedroom floor. Occasionally we would put our $.50 in an envelope when that Mystic company had a tempting offer! It was exciting to receive mail and immediately plug the treasure into our collection. Then, we diverged.
I’m not sure when, but we continued collecting stamps through our adulthood and found we each needed our own albums. Three stamp collections in one family. Maybe we have a Guinness world record?
More philatelic memories to follow.
Still have my stamp collection book, part of that era of growing up. Think of all the things we experienced not on a “screen”, ha!🥰