An old collection of stamps from all the world ^_^

Here in Italy it's very common to have a parent or a relative who had an old collection of stamp and also my father have a fantastic collection of them. He started to collect stamps while he was working in a paper mill. He was lucky, because in the paper mill arrived (to be destroyed) many letters, postal cards and many paper things, so when she saw a nice stamp he added it to his collection. He has many different stamps from all the world and since I was a child I like them, because they had nice illustrations and they made me dream to be in countries far from mine!

It's fantastic to think they came from places very far from here and they were used to say something to people in other place! Love letters, a simple postal card to say "I think of you", the news about the families and other thing that during old tie you could say just sending a paper letters.

Sure, now we use the email and so we need to have the stamps just few times, but I have to say that it's always nice to open the letterbox and to watch inside of it a nice hand wrote letter ^_^

Some days ago, a friend of mine gave me some old stamps of his father. He said to me I can use them to create something, because those stamps are not rare and so they have just a very low value. I admit I have some problems to use them in a craft/art project, because some of them are really little piece of art!

I decided to give some of them to my father to add to his collection and to use just some stamps for some project (I have no idea, at now).

Today I start to read some information about some of them, just to know more about the story behind the stamp and I have to say that it's really interesting. Maybe in the next days I'll wrote something more about my favorite stamps ^_^

See ya soon and steem on!

Silvia

Li collezionavo anche io, mi hanno sempre affascinato i francobolli!

Mio padre lavorava in cartiera, puoi immaginare quanti album stracolmi abbiamo a casa. Adesso sto sistemando e controllando quelli che mi ha dato il mio amico, ma temo mi ci vorranno mesi :P

Iceland, Argentina, Hungary, Brazil. A nice collection!
Good to see a Hungarian stamp in your collection (Magyar Posta)!
Greetings from Hungary!

I have other nice stamps from Hungary, but the stamp in the pic is really my favorite :D

@silviabeneforti what beautiful stamps, I am excited to see the stamp of Argentina with the jacaranda.
The jacaranda in a beautiful tree in this area, when it blooms gives an enormous beauty to my province
many garcias for publishing

http://maringatova.blogspot.com/2009/07/jacaranda-jacaranda-mimosifolia.html

Dear friend, when I saw that stamp I thought about you because I remembered you live in Argentina, so I took a photo of it :D all the best to you and yours :)

thank you very much for this recognition dear friend
I wish you a prosperous week

Hello friend silviabeneforti 👸 happy friendship day.🍫🍫🍬🍬

Make a diary of it so the can be preserved

I have some special diary full of them :)

My father used to collect stamps too and he passed his collection to me. I still keep them somewhere. Some of these stamps are very old, maybe from the 40s or 50s when we were still a British colony.

Hello, I'm stamp collector over 30 years. My principal interest is about scout and scouting stamp theme, used or mint. Also have postmarks and postal cards. Your post are so good, and I want to write some post about my collection too, very soon. Regards.