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it was around the end of the 80s that I

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did the first edition and it was because

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there was such a proliferation of people

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doing artist stamps at that point and I

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thought it would make an interesting

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focus what you did and it was much more

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about the people like I did profiles of

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different artists and reproduced a

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variety of their images there were shown

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there were events that took place all

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relating to the artists down so I think

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I did six issues of hardest stamp news

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and it was 12 pages so it was 38 11 x 17

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sheets a lot of work and then I started

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tipping stamps into it have a certain

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point I just got you know this is more

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than I really want to be doing all the

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time because then I wasn’t doing them

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just as a year yearly which is how the

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banana rag had evolved so but I was glad

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to have done it because I did manage to

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do profiles of a good many of the mail

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art people who were stamp artists and it

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was very it was popular so and that

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helped to spread the international art

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post to get the word out that I was

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producing stamps for people but I just

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say it eventually got to the point where

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it was too much with the 12 pages and I

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don’t I think it was more than once a

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year and so and I didn’t and with the

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thing with all of my newsletters is I

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didn’t get many subscribers so the cost

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became more and more oppressive artist

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stamps are sort of a natural

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place from people who are exchanging

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things by mail to devote some of their

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creativity into the stamps and have

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their own issuing authorities and all of

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this is based on the philatelic model

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which is great because we’ve got

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something to model on and the tipping in

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for example is something that the postal

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thing people do when they have their

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albums of their collection they are

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stuck in rather than just tucked into a

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little shelf and so that’s what was

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happening with the but with the inter

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artist stamp news people would send me

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if I was doing the feature on so and so

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they would send me 500 or I think as I

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don’t remember what the actual editions

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were where there was 300 or 500 of the

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of artists down news but anyway they

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send me enough of their stamp or stamps

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that I could then and most of them were

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not Lincoln stick so I had to use a glue

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stick or something like that so it

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became very time-consuming and work off

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work heavy in terms of you know being

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able to on the other hand it really

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enhance the issues you know so it was it

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was it was compelling I wanted to do it

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and yet at a certain point it was like I

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think maybe I’ll go back to the banana

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