When The World Was Young

A nice article on stamp collecting:

http://countylive.ca/blog/?p=16471

I found this quote particularly interesting:




I knew there were a considerable number of country names that changed throughout the years, but had no idea there were over 100 in just the past 50 years alone.

Wow ! a lot of former colonies !!

Nice little article.

I thought I was going to see some dinosaurs at first, going by the thread title.

All the new countries are neat. Always something new in stamp collecting and postal history.

All you folks who aren't collecting yet, jump on board before it's too late and you are in a new country yourself.

I somehow want to go read W. Somerset Maugham now for some reason. Colonial times and all.

great article - things stay the same and things change - the wonderful world of stamp collecting - something new every day

Nicely written.




John Lennon went from 200 stamps to 657 stamps, it seems.....

And how many others could place Poonch on a map?