Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The stamp album



This is the one and only album my father had. Here he kept his favorite stamps. True, he had a little mountain of stamps but HERE in this very album lie little pieces of art... and by saying art I mean literally. I remember as a child, I was always hovering upon it, drinking it's beautiful contents, feeling amazed and excited i got to look through "daddy's book with little pictures"...
Every time i opened the stamp album i could sense the magic in it and i was instantly traveling through time, giving myself different questions, who got this stamp first? Why would someone put this on an envelope? What was written in the letter inside the envelope this stamp was on? To whom? Where?

The first page holds stamps from Cuba, i don't think there are any series, because the years are all mashed up, there are some from the past century, meaning 1969, some 1970, 1972...
It's of such necessity for a collector to have many stamp albums so he can sort stamp out and most important preserve them..To be honest, the stamps in this album are very well preserved, they are issued, yes, but their teeth are whole and their gum almost intact... If there wasn't for the seal mark, one would think they are new....
This album has only 12 pages but every next page amazes me more and more....
So, the second page has stamps from Mayar and as in all the stamps there, most are stamps with the faces of world known people and events that changed the world, in good or in bad...
The third page has stamps from Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialistichekikh Respublik, abbreviated to USSR (SSSR) or the Soviet Union, on these stamps there are pictures from Michelangelo, Rembrant, Rubens and some resident famous artists....
The forth page has art pieces as well from the Soviet Union.
The fifth as the previous two has SU stamps mostly portrets in which Titian;s Mary Magdalene.
The sixth is filled with stamps from Dubai, got to admit my personal favorite, I can't wait to post pictures from them...
Than seventh has stamps from Bulgaria on which there isn't any year printed but I can tell they are pretty old. Anyway in the Bulgarian stamps there is one in which it is shown Han Asparuh's crossing of the river Dunav.
The eighth page has DDR stamps, East Germany, Berlin.
Then the rest of the pages are not quite well classified but messed with one another, there are more stamps from SU, Dubai, Cuba, Mayar, Bulgaria....

As I mentioned in my previous post, this is not all, my father had a little mountain of stamps and i am willing to show it...but all in good time...


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