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The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. Some people build collections of stamps with supernatural themes — skeletons, graveyards and more. And there is now an organization for them: The Halloween Spooktacular Stamp Club, founded by Denise Lazaroff. "They can just collect one thing Halloween or they can collect everything Halloween." LdeV: "Do you also cover supernatural?" DL: "Yes, we do. We also cover Harry Potter and Edgar Allan Poe." RUNS :12 Like many subject collectors, Lazaroff's stamp collecting theme comes from a wider interest. "I've always been into Halloween since my girls were small. When they were teenagers, I used to have parties once a year and scare the bejeebies out of teenages, because that's so fun to do." RUNS :12 The club is a study unit of the American Topical Association, the national organization for people who collect stamps by subject. The Halloween Spooktacular Stamp Club covers a wide area, even movie monsters and Batman. Members don't just collect U-S stamps, which Lazaroff says is a good thing. "A lot of the foreign countries have a lot of Halloween-considered stamps, but the U-S does not have very many." RUNS :09 The U-S has now climbed on the bandwagon — or maybe that's a hearse — with its first Halloween stamps, the Jack O'Lanterns. American Topical Association: I'm Lloyd de Vries of The Virtual Stamp Club. For more on stamps and stamp collecting, visit virtual-stamp-club-dot-com. ---------------------------------------------------------- Go to Previous Report Go to Next Report Go to Report Index |
