3-17-2021 NobleSpirit Newsletter: Meet the New Generation of Philatelists
This week, Casey Jo White discusses her position as a collection curator, her involvement in the philatelic community, and effective research methods.
Casey also talks about her current philatelic passion projects, the cats on stamps club, and shares with us the local post stamp she designed.
White is one of the hobby's most avid and innovative young philatelists, and she discusses her journey into the world of stamps as a completely unexpected and incredibly rewarding experience. This is a growing trend in philately – the emergence of young collectors discovering how much philately has to offer below the surface, incorporating history, geography, and culture to connect the past and present.
The Future of the Stamp Industry
At NobleSpirit, our entire staff of 20 is under 35 years old. We often see new hires expressing delight in discovering just how interesting the world of stamps really is, and how much it has to offer.
Casey Jo White's experience is just one of countless stories emerging from a new generation of scholars, apprentices, collectors, dealers and investors.
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In this article at Linn's Stamp News, Scott Catalog and Linn's Editor-in-Chief Jay Bigalke reports how the simple act of sharing his passion ignited the spark that induced his son's journey of discovery into the world of stamps.
Mar 2, 2021, 8 AM
Philatelic Foreword by Jay Bigalke
"One of the stories in the March 15 edition of Linn’s struck a chord with me. Charles Epting, HR Harmer writes about how author F. Scott Fitzgerald used stamps to bond with his daughter.
Like many in the world, I largely worked from home last March and April, and my children saw me working on various stamp projects throughout the day when they would slightly interrupt or let me know it was time for lunch.
One day, the oldest started asking quite a few questions about stamps and what I was doing. The next day I put together a number of items to get him started on his own collection: a packet of worldwide used stamps, an old stock book, an older edition of the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers, and a Mystic stamp sales catalog that I had received in the mail.
It clearly sparked something as he bookmarked several pages in the two catalogs and started his own collection. He even made a tag for the cover of the stock book, calling his collection “To the Stamps.”....READ MORE