Stamp Collector

ADVICE FROM AN EXPERT

When and why did you start collecting stamps?

This will surely age me, but I started collecting some 55 years ago. I was in Scotland on holiday with my parents, and remember buying a new issue to commemorate the opening of the Forth Road Bridge, actually that was 1964, 57 years ago now. I had a few stamps somehow collected but this issue was my first new issue that I could afford with my pocket money and of course it was an issue being sold at a Post Office near the bridge and with a

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