Red leather stamp album with glassine pages
Description
Yesterday around 3pm I realized my red leather stamp album was missing from the tote I left on a chair near the Geneva Public Library on North Main Street in the Finger Lakes. The album is about 9x12 inches, with gold embossing on the spine and a slightly worn, glossy red cover; it contains glassine pages full of stamps from the 1920s–1950s. Inside the cover, there’s a small green Lakeside Collectibles sticker, Geneva, and page 7 has a torn corner stamp with a blue cancellation. This collection means a lot to me—I started it as a kid, and it holds many memories. Please get in touch if you found it; I’d be forever grateful to have it back.
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