As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors?rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. When this passion reignited in his mid-forties, it consumed him. In the span of a couple of years he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand pounds, pursuing not only this secret passion, but a romantic one as his marriage disintegrated/5(). · As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors—rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. Then, in his mid-forties, this passion reignited—and it 3/5(4). · Garfield is standing outside a marriage counselor's office in London, an album with stamps worth 40, pounds (about $57,) under his arm. His marriage is about to collapse due to an affair. We travel back in time to learn what led him to this moment of crisis/5.
To those who read Simon Garfield's essay in the Fall issue of Granta, The Error World: An Affair with Stamps is a long-awaited continuation of the. An obsessively readable memoir about the passionsmdash;and perilsmdash;of collecting, from the New York Timesndash;bestselling author of Just My Type. #; From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare. Reading this memoir about an on and off relationship to stamp collecting from across the pond, it was fascinating not only learning and discovering about the odd, sometimes bizarre world of collecting misprints mainly from the UK, but totally identifying with the author's near- obsession, starting in childhood, fading away in youth and early adulthood, and blazing back like a tornado in early.
As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors?rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. When this passion reignited in his mid-forties, it consumed him. In the span of a couple of years he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand pounds, pursuing not only this secret passion, but a romantic one as his marriage disintegrated. Just my type: a book about fonts by Simon Garfield (Book) 35 editions published between 20in English and Turkish and held by 2, WorldCat member libraries worldwide. As a boy, Simon Garfield started collecting "errors" - rare stamps flawed by printing faults and absent colours. As an adult his childhood obsession became a full-blown mid-life crisis.
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