[Elecraft] Collecting stamps vs. seashells -- and why this is not wildly O.T.

[Eric Fitzgerald]

On 6/7/22 10:21 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> One album held foreign stamps, the other domestic. I'd admire their colors and artwork. Sometimes I'd ask him questions about their monarchs, palaces, and currency denominations. But Dad seemed most interested in the fact that they were each slightly different -- their social, political, or geographical nature was secondary.

In casually collecting world coins I discovered from "The Phone Book" -- 
a catalogue of world coins -- that the true political and cultural 
history of a country was reveled through the coinage. Like stamps, I 
preferred circulated coins.  The stories I imagined they could tell.

Fast forward to my new-found love of DX.  Those faraway people and 
places now come to life.  Not so OT after all.

Lovely essay Wayne.  Thanks.

Eric

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