Here is more background information about philately from Vimeo
My source of stamp information for this project
My source about the stamps themselves comes from the 2012 edition of the Scott Stamp Catalogs. There are ALOT of stamps, so the entire Stamp Catalog is divided into multiple volumes organized alphabetically. Stamps are published ("issued" in philatelic terminology) every year, so a new Scott Catalog is printed every year. These catalogs are expensive, so I only purchsed the entire set of catalogs in 2012 - which is not an issue for me because most of my stamps were issued before 2012.
Here is a link to the Scott Stamp Catalogs bibliographical information.
Some of my stamps
Below is a list of some of the topics and places whose stamps are in my collection.
| Place or Topic | Brief Description | |
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Air Mails | It used to be that regular mail did not travel by air-sending mail by airplane was more expensive. |
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Andorra | Andorra is a nation that lies between Spain and France in the Pyrenees Mountains. |
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Animals | Animal lover - enough said. |
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Bolivia | Bolivia is one of two landlocked nations in South America. Bolivia borders Peru, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay. |
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Brazil | Brazil, the largest nation in South America, is the only nation in Latin America that speaks Portuguese. |
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British Commonwealth | The British Empire, an empire where the sun never set, evolved into the British Commonwealth today. |
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Miscellaneous Stamps | Other stamps I enjoyed from other parts of the world. |
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USA | Can't have a stamp collection without stamps from the nation I live in. |