I was in my parent's house last month, opening boxes with stuff of mine that have been left behind. I haven't seen some of those things for decades. You know how it goes. Boxes with things that you don't really need and most probably never will but you can't throw away either.
Anyway, before I find what I was looking for, I stumbled upon three little albums that I kept aside. They contained my stamps collection from my teenage years that I hadn't seen for ages and in an impulse of nostalgia I took them with me on my way out, to thumb through at a later, more appropriate time.
Imagine my surprise when, two days after that, I saw this postHive Collectors Community which was no other but postage stamps! Of course I had to write this post and although it took me three whole weeks to actually do, I am writing it with great joy! by @mipiano announcing the monthly theme for the
First of all, it was a bliss to look all those stamps for one more time and all the work I have done so many years ago, separating and grouping them, according to their country of origin. They are roughly 500 stamps, 200 from Greece and the rest from more than 30 countries all over the world. Actually I have to give credit to an aunt of mine for most of this collection. She had started it and then she passed it on to me when I was 15 years old. I enriched it of course and devoted a lot of time shorting them out but I am afraid that I never upgraded my knowledge on the subject as a true collector.
So I don't really know their value or their scarcity but I do like looking at them as part of the history. I have stamps from the sixties and the seventies and some even older. I have stamps that the currency they represent does not exist any more, like the Greek drachmas or even the countries that issued them don't exist, like Czechoslovakia, which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1992.
I have found an app that is supposed to give details for every stamp that you scan with it but I don't think that it is very reliable so I won't count on what it says :)
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I am showing you some of the stamps that stood out either for their picture or their origin. Like the 5c from USA above, with the sketch of Henry David Thoreau or the ones from Venezuela and Argentina below.
Some more below from Poland, Romania, Switzerland and France. I was impressed here to see Switzerland written as HELVETIA which is the Roman name of that area, very familiar to me since we call Switzerland with that name in Greek too (ΕΛΒΕΤΙΑ).
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And from Europe above (Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Germany) let's go to more exotic places below, like Ethiopia, Libya and Egypt but also Nigeria, Cameroon and Australia.
Of course I can't show you all my stamps in one post so I better stop before I get you bored (if I haven't already) and end with four more from Greece. The first two are separated by a few decades, featuring two different eras in the history of modern Greece, a king on the left and the politician on the right who's name has been identified with democracy.
The last two ones are from the oldest I have or at least I think so, with the last one dated at 1947 according to this wikipedia article.
I hope you enjoyed reading this, I for sure enjoyed writing and searching for information and getting to know a little better my stamps.
Thank you @mipiano for giving me the excuse to do so :)
The camera that I used is a Canon EOS 6D mark II with an EF 100mm f2.8/L macro lens attached. I edited the photographs in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic
All the pictures and the words are mine.
Thank you for reading and if you want to know more about me you can check out my introduction post.
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AYYYY! QUE LINDOOOOO. yo tengo un post preparado de mi colección de sellos. Pronto la verás.
Really? 😍 I am looking forward to seeing it too :)))
Ahora me da curiosidad si tenemos algunos en común. Porque veo muchos parecidos. Porsupuesto que los míos son heredados porque para cuando aquello no estaba nacida. Jajajja
Ahora que dice lo de mipiano me sumo a la iniciativa.
🥰🥰🥰🥰que emoción.
Looking forward to see your collection and find out what items we have in common! A lot of mine are older than myself too, actually I have a few older even from my parents :)
Greetings
I used to collect and store old stamps, but I lost most of the journal where I kept them after a terrible flood that destroy many houses at my birthplace.
Old stamp collections can be a nostalgic, allowing us to revisit memories about cultures and historical periods through the various periods of the history.
Regards
#freecompliments
So sad to loose such a treasure!
Papers and water go bad together ;/
!PIZZA
Have a great Sunday
🙂
It's a pity you lost your stamps but I guess that this is part of life too. Loosing things and moving on.
Thank you for stopping by :)Hello @oadissin!
Cheers!
!PIZZA
Wow, you have a great collection!
Some time ago my sister made a post of her collection, I think she has some of the ones you show hehe.
What year might this one be from?
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Thank you!
I remember your sister's post. I think I told her in the comments that I have a collection in a box somewhere that I have to find. And finally I did :)
This is the only stamp I have from Venezuela. My app says it is issued in 1986 but, as I said, I am not sure if it is reliable.
What a great app! It probably is from that date 👍.
I'd assume 70-80-es.
👍 1986 says an app, this is likely to be the case.
Aha! my intuition did not fooled me. This simply do not have that vintage spirit as 50-60-es. 😉 Nice to know anyway. !LUV
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Wow. that is a blast from the past.
I loved the stamp collection so much.
it was a whole family thing really, we all loved it.
it has been like a portal to the rest of the world with its languages, exotic country names, strange alphabets. some of these countries no longer exist..
great photos. thanks so much for sharing 🙏
Thank you very much!
Stamp collection is a great activity for the whole family indeed :)
Cheers!
I have the same joy to see your post and stamp collection @fotostef , what a coincidence to find the albums just some days before the topic arrived. It indeed was a perfect timing for several Hivers and I am very happy that it worked out the same way to you 🤩 All the stamps are beautiful, let me tag one user, @elbuhito , she will love to see the owl 🦉 :)))
¿Alguien dijo buho? 🦉
🦉😂
This was an impressive collection, a great pleasure to examine.
Thank you @mipiano I am glad you liked it! I really enjoyed it too. I spent way too much time for one post but it was a very pleasant time :)
Is it possible to call this destiny? haha it was too much of a coincidence that a few days before you took your albums, the initiative was waiting for you hehe 😂
I loved the one with the owl, but the most beautiful thing is to see how you keep them in these albums, what a valuable collection you have stored there ❤️
Too much of a coincidence indeed :)
The owl is the bird of an ancient Greek Goddess so it is quite common here!
Thanks!
I recognize those beautiful oldies! The queens... the German and French unknown republican heads. Precious. Your collection is bigger than mine. 😄
Oh yes, a lot of heads :)
I guess when you collect European stamps, you can't avoid them!
Thank you for stopping by @qwerrie!
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I don't know anything about stamps, besides how to buy the current ones and put them on letters I send, but this looks like quite the nice collection.
I am glad you liked it!
Thank you for stopping by @jacey.boldart :)
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Πώ, πώ, πώ 😻, τι ωραία γραμματόσημα 😃, δεν ξέρω ποιώ να διαλέξω χεχεχε. Αχ, αυτό της Αιγύπτου, μου αρέσει πάρα πολύ ότι έχει σχέση με την αρχαία Αίγυπτο 💛, της Καμερούν είναι ωραίο, της Αυστραλίας με το tilacino και αυτό από το 1914 με το αεροπλάνο. Φοβερή συλλογή έχεις 👏🏻. Είμαι περίεργη να μάθω πώς βρήκες το γραμματόσημο της Βενεζουέλας 🤔.
Σ'ευχαριστώ!
Ναι, έχει πολύ ωραία γραμματόσημα η συλλογή! Της Βενεζουέλας όπως και τα περισσότερα ξένα, τα είχε μια θεία μου που μου τα έδωσε. Θα πρέπει να την ρωτήσω που τα βρήκε.
Ωραία θα ήταν να είχα αλληλογραφία με ανθρώπους από όλες αυτές τις χώρες αλλά δυστυχώς τα βρήκα έτοιμα :)