F'rinstance, I knew who "Salem Poor" was long before it became chic to put people on a pedestal soley because of their race.
Mr. Poor actually deserved to be there and I doubt that even 1% of the gimmedat generation could even recognize his name.
F'rinstance, I knew who "Salem Poor" was long before it became chic to put people on a pedestal soley because of their race.
Mr. Poor actually deserved to be there and I doubt that even 1% of the gimmedat generation could even recognize his name.
Last show I attended was a huge New Eng;and show with an auction, lectures, displays of collections and so on. A ton of dealers.
98% of the buyers and dealers were older white gentleman. I am not young bit I was one of the youngest people there.
There was one section devoted to young ( kids, teens ) collectors and it was a ghost town.
Very, very sad.
But that being said I have read that in other countries stamp collecting is thriving. I suspect its nothing like it was many years ago when so many men collected stamps. But still, a bigger deal in other countries than ours.
I think kids don’t relate to them as they don’t use stamps. Stamps are a foreign concept. Coins on the other hand are not. They use them, know full well what currency is and I have seen kids aplenty at numismatic shows.
What is really curious is I find most of the coin collectors / dealers I know are very conservative. many of the stamp dealers / collectors I have worked with are flaming liberals.
Really odd.
While the general disinterest of today’s young people in anything educational certainly hasn’t helped market prices, I would hesitate to recommend starting stamp/coin collections to anyone who is focused on profiting from them financially. I held onto many of my coins/stamps (that I myself had gotten for good prices at flea markets and such) because the offered prices were so low as the markets slid (and never recovered). Someday they may be worth something to my grandchildren, but they’ll probably be selling them to collectors from Red China or India.