Are you the eldest or youngest collector of stamps?

brickie143 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 09, 2011 23:51:39 pm

Are you older than 40?
Are you younger than 40?

gavin-h · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 05:37:33 am

You couldn't have set the line at 50, could you?

Gavin (48) :lol:

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 05:58:04 am

I'm 15.

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 07:51:08 am

I know I am not the oldest but, at 72, I can beat Gavin and Eric added together. :roll:

dollaryen · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 09:10:43 am

DISASTER I'M 40

Maybe I should stop collecting now :?:

No maybe not "It will pass, and no doubt more quickly than it should" to quote Jane Austen

Berlin-Gus · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 13:05:09 pm

I started collecting early in the 1950s, well maybe even a year before that. I guess that must mean I am over 40.

muruk · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 13:41:42 pm

I was just born when Berlin-Gus started collecting, so I can't be the oldest.

Krone und Adler · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 14:40:39 pm

Shortly to turn 37 y.o :mrgreen:

jjarmstrong47 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 15:17:28 pm

I bought my first stamp around 1956 and I haven't really stopped since. Funny how the prices keep going up faster than my age does.

brickie143 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 21:41:29 pm

Hi!
Ok, So far Erik you're the youngest at 15 - I wish that I could have started collecting at your age - keep it going.
Hey Kevin! as far as I can see, you're the only eldest person willing to reveal his age- a whole 72 good on you .
Is there anyone younger than Erik or older than Kevin and if so will you share ?
Regards
Brickie143

quicksingle · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 21:47:00 pm

Soon to be 48,
I start collecting when i was 7 with some stamps my dad give me.

Eric Casagrande · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 06:24:34 am

KevinHedley wrote:

I know I am not the oldest but, at 72, I can beat Gavin and Eric added together. :roll:

You might beat Gavin and Erik added together ... but you definitely cannot beat Gavin and Eric added together.

Although ... you could beat Erik and Eric added together!

hatter · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 06:50:55 am

Out of 6575 (?) registered stampboarders only 100 have responded.

We need a lot more if the age analysis is to be meaningful :mrgreen:

tacomabob · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 07:02:54 am

O.K. I confess. I just turned 80 last April
Almost shot my age in golf last week so
things must still be going well.
But I know there are still some out there
older than me.

Eric Casagrande · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 09:35:12 am

hatter wrote:

Out of 6575 (?) registered stampboarders only 100 have responded.

We need a lot more if the age analysis is to be meaningful :mrgreen:

Actually, only 37 have responded. The "100" you see is the percentage breakdown of how everyone voted.

aussie_robbo60 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 09:41:16 am

Okay, my vote is in

Just turned 50 which is really the New 40, haha

Robbo

joelk · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 09:56:24 am

45. I still feel pretty young at auctions, but that's slowly changing. Sad but inevitable.

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:34:04 am

Jacob is 12, I believe?

Ian is ???

Voyager · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:51:02 pm

will be 31 in a couple of days (June 13)

brickie143 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 22:05:39 pm

Hi there tacomabob
Well congratulations for being our eldest collector so far and keep up the golf but I think there is still someone who will beat your age.
Thanks for participating
Brickie143

brickie143 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 22:14:44 pm

Hi Erik!
Who is Jacob ? If he is 12 he will knock you off the list because so far you're winning as the youngest. Please don't keep it a secret ! :lol:

Regards Brickie143

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 07:36:38 am

Jacob (username: "Jacob") collect Island stamps, postage dues, and hmmm.... another topic I can't remember.

Ian is featured in the thread, "The future of stamp collecting".

brickie143 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 08:49:44 am

Thankyou Erik
I will look up there posts .
By the way I guess I should let everyone in on my age seeing that I am asking for theirs. I am over the hill at 56.

Regards
Brickie143

mcgooley · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 16:43:05 pm

"I'm as old as my tongue, but a bit older than my teeth."

(an' those who remember hearing that saying are as old [if not older] than me)

Yobo · **Posted:** Sat Jun 25, 2011 05:05:22 am

I'm 32, and feel very young at stamp events. Which is a nice feeling when you have passed thirty. :lol:

LucaL · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 01:56:09 am

Hi everyone,
I am 34 and started collecting when I was 9. I never stopped.

Ciao
Luca

rks.saran · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 05:21:44 am

I just turned 32...

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 07:42:56 am

I'm turning 16 in less than a month.

hatter · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 21:20:44 pm

Must be getting old

came to this thread to vote

and found
that I had already voted

and forgotten
:shock:

Naggom · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 22:03:13 pm

Hi every one ,
well..... Im 43 going very fast to 44 ... i start collecting when i was 7 ...So can this make me the youngest one !!!!! :roll:

Nagwa

Lakatoi 4 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 23:14:40 pm

I started collecting really early in life then left it for a long while (as most people do). Re-started in ernest when I began earning real money in the early 1980's with typically perfect timing, right in the mad days of selling and collecting in Australia. Should have invested the dollars all in better quality Roo's (hindsight is marvellous isn't it :!:

).

I then meandered a bit (read into that - had a really good time

) until I inherited my father's stamp collections in the late 1990's.

I'm now 59, sounds really old yet strangely I don't feel any older than, oh, 40 or so.

I put it all down to food preservatives, they make food last longer so why not us humans :shock:

MrSamoa · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 01:33:53 am

Hi. Will turn 64 late next month. Started collecting about 55 years ago. Met some really great people during that time.

DerbyRam · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 13:55:32 pm

I started collecting stamps when I was 11, I'd been given a FDC as part of the QEII Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977. I was introduced to my local philatelic society by a friend of the family when I was about 14. They had a small junior section, but I still felt uncomfortable, and never got involved.

I rejoined in 2003 ironically just after my family friend had just past away. I was then and still am the youngest member of my local society (Derby Philatelic Society)

Richard

Not Bruce · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 17:22:57 pm

yobo wrote:

I'm 32, and feel very young at stamp events. Which is a nice feeling when you have passed thirty. :lol:

I'm just about almost 50 - and feel very young at stamp events... I would say the average age of collectors in the UK is definitely 60-65 plus.

hutch · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 17:37:27 pm

Hi, I just turned 59. Started collecting when I was a kid but, same as others, gave it away for a long time. 5 kids tends to do that to you!

Should have kept going, maybe they would be taking more of an interest in it now! Been back to more serious collecting over the last 10 years.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 20:53:00 pm

I'm under 40 ... for now ... and I'll cling to that as long as I can. :mrgreen:

wolseley16/60 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2011 22:20:35 pm

I'm 50 now, started collecting when I was 6..........

Spartacus · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2011 00:24:49 am

I started collecting stamps when I was 10. Am 36 now.

pitronix · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 00:31:41 am

31 years old, or should I say young!? :mrgreen:

Started collecting at age of 6 (I think), then made a stop for a reason of inability to collect stamp during war times in Sarajevo (tough collected ammunition cartridges and other kinds of war related collectables

) Then, soon after war continued to collect stamps and got seriously into money collecting (both cash and old

)

MissVicki · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 04:31:18 am

52 now and didn't even start collecting till after I was 40 even though my grandfather took up my father's collection after a stroke.

Teaching my 3 grandchildren and the 6-yr old next door (5 when we started) to collect stamps.

mikey1327 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 16:14:36 pm

41 now, started when i was about 10. Was in and out of collecting until about 5 years ago

egillies · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2011 17:17:12 pm

Started at 4 (with my mum), now 22

Johnny B. Good · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 16:04:00 pm

***I start collecting around 14 to 16 stamps around the world
and now my collection are *Canada 4 Corner Plate Blocks and some Complete sheets...

and now I have 58...

....(*&*)....&*).....

Also many **USA.. Plate blocks...

Also many collection of Firdt Day Sheets from**Germany** I like it...

Have fun with stamps...Friendly::Johnny B. Good..

..(*&*)...&*)...

SailorTzipi · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 03:21:51 am

19, 20 on Saturday.

dannyvd · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2012 03:06:07 am

53
collecting for over 25 years now

Flitzen · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:31:26 pm

I am 77 and still vertical at times

Lillen · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 02:39:03 am

Started Collecting when i was 11 years old...now i'm 15 and still collecting

.

Edit: Nice to notice that i'm not the only young here

.

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:45:37 am

Just to update, I am 16. :shock:

Privett1 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 14:33:42 pm

Started collecting in 1962 and still at it. Over 40, a lot over 40

griffofromtas · **Posted:** Thu Mar 22, 2012 21:34:14 pm

Body is 42,mind is still 25


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