Lennon's stamp collection on display in Stockholm

AFP, May, 2007

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — The late Beatle John Lennon's childhood stamp collection goes on display for the first time in Europe on Friday in an exhibition at the Stockholm Postal Museum, organisers said.

"It is an interesting and important collection as it shows that so many interesting people collect stamps," Linda Edquist, curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington which owns the collection and who brought it to Stockholm, told AFP on Wednesday.

The hardcover stamp album was given to Lennon by his cousin Stanley Parkes, who wanted to interest the 10-year-old John in stamp collecting.

The album's flyleaf bears the earliest known signature by John Lennon, believed to be from around 1950.

The Smithsonian acquired the stamp album for its...