04-12-2025, 07:36 PM
Hi Carmen ... you asked what 'tedium' others find with their collecting.
Well, I'm not sure I'd call it tedium. I probably would call it relaxing or challenging or frustrating (smile) ... but if what you mean is something that is 'a lot of work before you get the pleasurable result', my two candidates would be:
a) trying to read old German handwriting (pre-1930) when people used the older cursive scripts like kurrent.
b) trying to read cross-writing
It can be done, but it takes a while.
Cheers, Hugh
Well, I'm not sure I'd call it tedium. I probably would call it relaxing or challenging or frustrating (smile) ... but if what you mean is something that is 'a lot of work before you get the pleasurable result', my two candidates would be:
a) trying to read old German handwriting (pre-1930) when people used the older cursive scripts like kurrent.
b) trying to read cross-writing
It can be done, but it takes a while.
Cheers, Hugh
Hugh MacDonald, Wolfe Island
Member: BNAPS. PHSC, MPHS, FPHS, AMGCC, CSS
Auxiliary Markings Club, Postal Stationery Society, British Postmark Society,
Civil Censorship Study Group
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