6,499 Stamps. One Box. One Project. One Legacy.
Stamps 6499 is a full scan archive and catalog of a massive stamp collection gifted to me—roughly 6,499 stamps in total. It came from a friend of the family who offered it as support for one of my early projects. What I received were several beat-up boxes full of tiny, falling-apart sub-boxes, all packed with old postage from around the world.
Some stamps date back to 1945. Most are international, and while value is subjective, the project was never about profit. It was about doing something meaningful—with my son. We scanned every stamp using a high-speed scanner, sorted them by year, and published the full archive at stamps6499.info.
The site is live. You can view every stamp, browse by date, and appreciate the history locked into each one. It’s our small museum. A shared memory. A complete, personal archive.
The stamps are technically for sale, though I’m under no illusion about their market worth. The storage unit was broken into once, and I may need to recount the full collection, but the site remains active and the project itself is done. It was an honest, quiet thing I did with my son. That alone makes it priceless.
