Comments on: Federal Duck Stamps

By: Father’s Day Gift Ideas | The Art of Manliness

Father’s Day Gift Ideas | The Art of Manliness — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:48:58 +0000

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By: Iowa personal injury lawyer

Iowa personal injury lawyer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:35:54 +0000

Thanks for the history of the stamp, its all very interesting. You’ve created a unique collection, thanks for sharing your favorites.

By: Red & Black Redneck

Red & Black Redneck — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:18:51 +0000

Great post. The duck stamps can also lead to the collecting of the artwork (specifically etchings) created by the artists such as Richard Bishop, Frank Benson, Ding Darling, J.D. Knap, Roland Clark and Lynn Bogue Hunt. I have etchings from many of these men hanging in my office and they serve to remind me of well spent time with my uncle, grandfather, dad, friends and dogs!

By: Whippet

Whippet — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:26:11 +0000

@Tyler Logan,

What you seem to forget in your equation of “freedom of opinion” is that it goes hand-in-hand with the right to criticize opinion. And like it or not, you shall be judged by that. (As in “grow up”. Is that really the best you can do?)
The problem with “freedom of opinion” and one that you highlight so brightly in your posts is that knowledge of subject matter is clearly not a qualification for opinion.

Therefore, best advice is to open a book or two, gain some knowledge, or try to learn a little about the issue or subject matter at hand before exercising your right of opinion.

You’re not a man or a gentleman until you learn that quality.

By: Tyler Logan

Tyler Logan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:24:25 +0000

@Whippet

Thanks, but no-one needs to judge. This isn’t a competition, I’m not challenging your manliness – stop acting like it. Instead, realise that people have different opinions than you and have the right to express them with respect. You’re not a man or a gentleman until you learn that quality.

By: Whippet

Whippet — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:50:40 +0000

@Tyler Logan

This exalted audience of gentlemen will judge by simply reading our respective posts who the one is that should, in your eloquent words, “grow up”.

By: Tyler Logan

Tyler Logan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:08:27 +0000

Saying it has nothing to do with manliness is an opinion. One I’m free to express. I didn’t say it was bad, or worthless – I said it didn’t correspond to the site in my eyes.

@Whippet

Grow up.

@Jeff

I’m glad you like my site.

By: Cosy Amar

Cosy Amar — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:56:19 +0000

http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter110.html

The most famous rare and expensive stamp is the 1856 British Guiana, 1 cent, ‘Black on Magenta’. purchased in 1922 by millionaire Arthur Hind of Utica, New York, for 7,343 British pounds. Around that time, rumors circulated that because Hind was obsessed with the stamp, he had bought a second one-cent Black on Magenta and destroyed it so that his remaining one- cent Black on Magenta would remain as the only one in the world.

Some may not consider collecting stamps a manly activity, but would you consider buying an expensive item and destroying it as an act of a MAN!

By: Cosy Amar

Cosy Amar — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:30:20 +0000

I was introduced to philately (stamps collecting) by my teacher at the age of 10. I am now 70, and have been collecting stamps all these years. I am on the EXCO of my national philatelic society, and have attended local and international exhibition in different parts of the world. I am currently also the auction committee chairman, and we organise an auction every month.

Like any other hobby, unless you are part of it, you will never know the joy(s) the hobby can bring you.

Philately is known as “The Hobby of Kings and King of the Hobbies”!

The duck stamps are very beautiful indeed, and I am sure many a thematic collector would find them very interesting. In fact I would like to seek permission to reproduce the article for my local club newsletter as well as the journal…

Stamps these days are an investment, and the rarer stamps only go UP in value…

By: John Mills Jr.

John Mills Jr. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:50:44 +0000

I sell Federal Duck Stamps at the Sporting Goods store where I work. I am only 23, but I have had a great many of my customers, from their 30′s to their 60′s, tell me with great pride how far back their, and in some cases their father’s, collection goes.
Great article.