The anatomy of fun

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For the last 4 weeks me and my wife have been somewhat occupied with sorting a 1kg box of worldwide off-paper stamps. It’s been a lot of fun, so I thought to share some details about it. First, to put the box contents into some kind of perspective… One kilo of off-paper stamps equals around 10-15,000


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