Collecting

I collect stuff, see below

Physical Stamps

Stamp Collection

I’ve decided to take up a hobby that my Dad used to do, and that is stamp collecting. I have a few of his stamp collection books, which have UK stamps, however I thought I’d start with NZ stamps.

I like the early stamps, the really early ones – mostly had a queens head on them, but the ones that interested me, where the first ‘pictorial’ stamps, which were released in 1898, so I thought I’d start with them.

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Digital Collectables

Veve Digital Collectables

In addition to physical stamps, I also want to collect digital stamps or NFT’s. I’ve settled on the platform Veve as the NFT marketplace, which is a little different from most like Opensea, as it’s a closed environment (for now). They started selling USPS digital stamps, and they have some large brands such as Disney and Marvel, even Star Trek.

They are a NZ company founded by a chap called David Yu .

What is an NFT?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are cryptographic assets on a blockchain with unique identification codes and metadata that distinguish them from each other.

Unlike cryptocurrencies , they cannot be traded or exchanged at equivalency. This differs from fungible tokens like cryptocurrencies, which are identical to each other and, therefore, can serve as a medium for commercial transactions.

I may collect the physical version of the digital stamps as well…

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Books

Book Collection

I love books, old and new. So I’ve been collecting them for a while as well… I especially like the fiction ‘classic’s’ books and also enjoy more contemporary books, mostly non-fiction. I also have a collection of astronomy (as I’m an amateur astronomer ) and science related books.

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