Did you lose your stamp collection? A Portland man may have found it.

"I was working at my office," Allen Weed said over the phone Tuesday, "and looked out the window and saw a whole bunch of paper falling from the sky."

Weed works under the Marquam Bridge and he thought at first it was just trash. But when he saw other people picking the papers up, he decided to go outside and investigate.

What he found, he said, was "a whole bunch of waxed envelopes with stamps inside of them."

"They all had numbers on them," he added. "It looked like they spent quite a bit of time on it."

Weed wasn't the only person picking up the envelopes. He gathered several hundred, he estimates, but other people were under the bridge picking them up for hours. He thinks there were thousands of envelopes.

Weed hopes to reunite the stamps with their owner, at least the ones he was able to collect. Did you lose your stamp collection or were you one of the people who picked up envelopes? Send an email to lacker@oregonian.com.

-- Lizzy Acker

503-221-8052

lacker@oregonian.com, @lizzzyacker