Every once in a while, Blair Thomson attends a gathering of the brethren. “The other guys are more or less old men. They’ve probably been doing it for ever,” he says, admitting that other stamp collectors are “often quite baffled” by him. This should come as no surprise. It has been the lot of every revolutionary throughout history to “look a little bit out of place”.
Because, reader, you should be in no doubt: Blair Thomson is not like other stamp collectors. He sounds fairly bemused as he recounts stories of more orthodox philatelists attending exhibitions alongside him “armed with a long list of high-value stamps, spending hundreds of pounds on things they simply have to have, inspecting everything under a glass.”
He is not scornful though, nor is he tearing up…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, 01-Jul-2015