Jade Knox
Jade is a casual collector who enjoy topical philately. Her main interests at the moment are mushrooms and other flora and fauna. She has been collecting for 4 years and has a dedicated website https://www.startstampcollecting.com, designed for beginners.
She also posts stamps regularly on her Instagram account JKPhilately and sometimes posts videos to her YouTube channel. Jade's goal is to try and attract a new and younger audience to the hobby to ensure that stamp collecting lives on.
She one day hopes to be able to create a display to showcase her collection at a fair and present her favourites to the community.
Mushrooms on Stamps
"I love mushroom stamps because they often come in such bright colours and really show the huge diversity we have across the world.
One thing I learned quickly was that the mushrooms or fungi shown on a postage stamp often wasn't a native species!"
"While I do have an interest in postal history and love leafing through different kinds of ephemera, my favourite thing is receiving a package of new, bold and brilliant mushroom stamps in the post and adding them to my ever-growing album.
I'm also part of the postcrossing community and always hoping to receive a mycological postcard."
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"I got into the hobby purely by accident when I picked up a small stamp packet at a local Sheffield charity shop. I slowly became obsessed with these tiny pieces of art and now my collection has grown so much.
As someone in my 30's, I hope to try and show people the huge number of benefits that come along with a hobby like stamp collecting - it can certainly beat sitting on your phone all evening or rotting in front of the TV!"