LOUIS OOSTHUIZEN PHILATELY

Louis Oosthuizen lives in Port Elizabeth, a relatively small harbour city on the southeast coast of South Africa. Stamps must be in my genes as my grandfather, Henri Louis Erhardt Lucouw (1902-1978), used to be passionate about his stamp collecting from a very early age. He had stamp friends from all over the world with whom he exchanged new issues from various countries, including Rudolph Dewina from Bonn. After my grandfather passed away, Rudolph continued mailing me new issues from West Germany and Austria for many a year... As a young boy in primary school I became fanatic accumulating anything stamp related I could lay my hands on. As I grew older, all my hard-earned pocket money (working over weekends in a local sport shop in Uitenhage and waitering in the evenings in a restaurant) was used in buying stamps.