Re: A new collector!
- From: ronrpk <ronrpk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:09:08 -0600
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:37:12 GMT, "Wes Chormicle"
<wchormicle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I gave
>him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also
>brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After
>going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every
>Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every
>week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't
>know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are
>very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty gritty!
>4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S.
>
>I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then
>worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look
>back and smile at the effort his dad went to!
That's awesome. I tried to get my kids interested in the hobby. It
worked for a while,,, but then slowly fizzled.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to get back some of the things I got
them,,, lol. Could sell the stuff and use the proceeds to bolster my
collection :-)
-- Ron K
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