IN MEMORY OF

Peter Adamini

Peter passed away July 6 at home. He and I were friends and business associates for more than fifteen years. He started as a collector, as virutally all of us did, and decided to become a dealer. He did it right. He found out what people wanted, didn't deal in poor quality material, supplied stamps that were salable and developed many long-term customers. He constantly expanded his operation by working painfully long hours. I would come into the office at 10 am or noon and he would be here, often since 6 am. I would leave in the early evening and Pete would usually still be working. He covered several states doing almost every show he could get into and occasionally booked three, four or even five weekends in a row. He also pushed out material on ebay constantly. We had a very convenient business relationship. He rented space from me in my office and we kept entirely separate books for our businesses. Pete purchased the foreign stamps that walked in, I took the US and auction consigments. Of course we pursued other collections offered to us directly but virtually never stepped on each others' toes. Pete had worked as a teacher in Michigan for many years, primarily involved in high school theatre; then as a salesman; then as a stamp dealer. One of his sons is a collector (though not of stamps), his other son and daughter are not. His only grandson collects rocks, stamps and loads of other things. No one in his family, that I am aware of, is or was as intense as Pete in collecting 'stuff.' Given more time I believe his intensity in business would have enabled him to move ahead more quickly and profitably in philately; his biggest impediment was the unfortunate limitation of 24 hours in any given day. Here is Pete on receipt of my biggest philatelic purchase about three years ago. (Yes, it is all sold now; he got a big portion of it) We shared a love of most kinds of music; playing poker; telling jokes; needling and then helping each other on internet problems; talking about our respective families; both happily remembering and at the same time being glad we were done with teaching school. We also got along well not discussing politics if possible as we were pretty much polar opposites. If you never met him perhaps you spoke with him on the phone, even if he just handed it over to me. Did he sound gruff or unfriendly? Well, he was at times but like all big, gruff guys he was soft on the important things in life. We had a great run and it won't be matched. posted by Wm. B. Robinson @ 6:17 PM 0 comments (on his blog...RLC)

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