Weird and Wonderful Stamp Stuff: Things You Never Knew Existed

In every hobby there are people who go to the extremes or do strange things with it that you never could have imagined. Below area a few weird and wonderful things that have been created by stamp enthusiasts.

The World’s Largest Ball of Stamps: This can be found in Omaha, Nebraska of all places at Boy’s Town, the place featured in that famous 1938 Spencer Tracy movie about a home for troubled boys, in the Leon Myers Stamp Center. This HUGE ball of stamps was made in the early 1050’s by boys in the Boy’s Town Stamp club. It is 32 inches in diameter, is made of about 4.6 million stamps, and weighs about 600 pounds. You can see a great picture of it by clicking on this link: http://www.worldslargestthings.com/nebraska/ballofstamps.htm.

The World’s Largest Postage Stamp: Created just recently in the Netherlands, this bonafied postage stamp, printed by Koninklijke Johan Enschede, checks in at 60 by 49.3 centimeters which is about 2 feet by 19 inches. The stamp was posted on a huge postcard measuring 1.5 by 3 meters (or about 9 by 4.5 feet). School children in Het Kofschip, a school in a small town near Amsterdam will sent the card to a local bakery that helped prepare free meals for Dutch schoolkids furing their National School Breakfast week.