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‘You into stamps,’ he said as we sat drinking coffee.
‘I always put one on a letter before posting,’ I said.
‘No, no,’ he said, ‘I mean collecting stamps. You into collecting stamps?’
‘No,’ I said.
He bent down and took a book was a stamp album out of the bag by his feet. He opened the album to a page filled with stamps and said, ''ere, look at these. All of these’ve got Queen Victorial on them, see?’
‘Who?’ I said and leaned towards him for a closer look.
‘Queen Victorial,’ he said pointing. 'See?'