Stamps 2

Amongst the stamp collecting materials - see earlier post here - there are two albums. This one has pages organised according to groups of animals, so, for example, there is....

....a page for 'Fresh Water Birds'. The handwriting is mine, and I think the album was started by David and I. We didn't get far: most of the pages, like this one, have very few stamps on them.

One of the fiddliest things about stamp collecting used to be handling the small, sticky mounts. This album attempted to get round the problem by....

....mounting the stamps in small, semi-transparent pockets. It might have been a good idea but it doesn't work very well.

It too was organised by natural history, though I have no recollection as to which member of the family did it. This double-page spread is flowers.

Finally, there are two envelopes, this one containing, amongst other things, a number of stamps relating to rocks and minerals. It also has a registered envelope with my handwriting on it sent from Jamaica to my parents in England. It must have enclosed something important, though I cannot remember what it was, and my father probably kept it with a view to floating off the stamps for his collection - which, incidentally, had a very good for Jamaica section as Gill and I actively looked for stamps for him while we lived there.

The other envelope has a jumble of stamps in it - which reflects the problem with stamp collecting, that there are now so many stamps that a collector has to specialise in a very narrow field.