January 15, 2025
Tag: samplers
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Samplers vs Completists
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In a continuing debate – ongoing for nearly twenty years – one of my dearest postcard friends and I have wondered, “When collecting sets of postcards, which is better, being a “sampler” or being a “completist.” For the sake of debate, we define a sampler as someone who collects any piece of a set without…
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March 26, 2024 1 Comment
Mark Twain once mused that travel is the best defense against prejudice. If you visit foreign places, learn their culture, study their art, eat their food, and most of all, drink their wine, you will be entranced by the facts you learn.