In the seventies and early eighties of the last century, I fell in love with philately.
At that time, there was no economic consciousness such as appreciation, purely because of liking. When I was in college, I corresponded with my classmates and friends a lot, and when I saw that the stamps were beautifully printed and novel, I cut out the stamps. Soak in water and dry. Later, when there were more, I bought a philatelic album and packed it up, and carefully packed it in a philatelic film bag.
After working, with the economy**, in addition to subscribing to philatelic magazines, I often went to the philatelic market** to buy stamps. Of course, at that time, philately was scattered, and it was difficult to assemble sets, especially special stamps, a set often had more than three sheets, and the face value of 4 points and 8 points was easy to collect, and the amount of use was large. It is difficult to collect more than 10 points.
I remember that the first time I was able to collect a set of special stamps was the Dream of Red Mansions. When I went to a small bookstore to buy a book, I happened to see the newly issued Dream of Red Mansions ticket, so I bought it. Whether it was 1981 or 1982, I can't remember.
I don't like to collect small booklets, I only like to collect ordinary stamps. At that time, it was also very difficult to collect all the pieces by topic. For example, in Chinese houses, a set should be twenty or thirty sheets, and they can always be collected.
But the most difficult thing to collect is the Cultural Revolution ticket. I have long known that the mountains and rivers of the country are sky-high, and I haven't even seen the real thing. At that time, I went to the philatelic market to buy a lot of quotation tickets and model tickets. If you want to get a new stamp, the safest thing is to book the stamp at the post and telecommunications office.
At that time, I did miss the opportunity to make a fortune. In 1980, the first set of zodiac tickets monkey tickets, the cancelled tickets collected a few, but at that time I felt that ** was not very good-looking, so I didn't cherish it.
What I regret the most is this. I once collected a gray-blue stamp with the Great Hall of the People as the background, although it was a cancelled stamp, but the face of the stamp did not have the words "Chinese People's Post". Since there were not many search methods at that time, I couldn't find out what was going on. stamped, when it will not be a fake ticket.
In the early 90s of the last century, when my son was in elementary school, he brought several of my thick philatelic albums back to school to show off, but they were borrowed by senior students and never returned. For this reason, I beat my son for the only time in my life.
Years of hard work were ruined, and stamp collection was never done again.