August 11, 2026
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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October 13, 2019 No Comments
I slept in a London hotel on a Saturday in May 2010. Sunday morning I went downstairs for breakfast a few hours before my flight to Philadelphia and while waiting for a full-English fry-up, I chose a newspaper from the rack by the door and found the following banner headline: After 467 years, Copernicus gets […]