I’m attending the Virtual Stampex, a big event usually held in London. One of the features, like at many stamp shows, is the presentations.
Some, well in this case all, of the talks at such shows may appear to be too specialized, or too esoteric to be of interest to those of us that aren’t in the rarefied strata of being interested in such things as “The Non-Postal Usages of the Green Version of the Bermuda 1875 60 cent Stamp on June 2, 1868” (yes, I made that up).
But look at all the things we can learn from such a talk. First, maybe you’ll get an idea. You might find out you love green stamps. You might find you have a lot of green stamps and suddenly you want to know more. You might at least become aware of non-postal uses of stamps, and that they’re of potential interest to someone. Or that some stamps are used before they are released as postage (not 7 years, but some).
Maybe you’ll only learn that you really don’t like the look of the 60 cent Bermuda 1875, so you won’t bother with it unless it drops out of the sky on your desk.
Or maybe you’ll learn how to do a stamp talk (or how not to).
The point is, it’s rarely wasted time, and you will probably get something out of any stamp talk or presentation, whether at an online show, a in-person show, or on YouTube. Try a few!
By the way, Bermuda did have an 1875 green stamp, but it was one penny. No 60 cent stamps in sight. An image can be found at StampWorld.