John Lennon, Freddie Mercury Stamp Collections to Go on Display

In their respective youths, John Lennon and Freddie Mercury were both philatelists, according to the BBC. Lennon inherited his older cousin’s stamp collection when he was 10, and Mercury collected between ages 9 and 12. This September, those collections will go on display at a UK stamp exhibition called Stampex.

Lennon’s includes stamps he’d take off letters sent from the United States and New Zealand. A young Lennon also drew mustaches on images of Queen Victoria and King George VI, included in the collection. Mercury’s collection, which has been owned by the Postal Museum since 1993, has stamps from his native Zanzibar, as well as the British Empire. See previews of their collections below.

John Lennon:

Freddie Mercury:

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