Spooksprings Guinness World Record Achievment! In 1989 I fixated upon a rubber stamp I saw a teacher using to approve some important document or other. I knew it had to be mine. The power it yielded to approve a persons acts seemed to beckon. Unfortunately for my karma and lust for power, I stole it. My diary notes of my turn of conscience by meaning to take it back. I'm not sure I did, but that single impulsive act seemed to become an obsession, almost an illness for me, when in 1993 I started the wholesale purchase of any rubber stamp that caught my eye. By 2000 I had a small and comprehensive collection and decided to take a leap into the annals of history by completing this childhood dream. Not as dangerous as bathing in a bath of snakes, but certainly a deed that required painstaking research and travel. I featured in a small 1/2 column of the 2004? Guinness World Record Album. I am indebted to the late John Styler, mentor and upper class professional who witnessed the collection and suffered the fallout from my mania with humor and dignity at the time. |


Images by Aberdare Leader Copyright 2001. James M. Burton featured.