Pincet en Loep: stamp collecting at the kitchen table

Field notes

The archive follows a collection that began with two shoe boxes of loose stamps, many still stuck to envelope corners. Its entries move between practical handling and the small decisions of collecting: sorting before soaking, drying stamps between blotting paper, organizing bird stamps by species group, and checking humidity in a guest room. The author says the collection now comprises eight albums and four stockbooks, worked on at the kitchen table on weekday evenings.