Collecting Europe

In the good old days I would send the Netherlands PTT 20 dollars and they would send me stamps and covers until it ran out(about 6 months)..i guess everything changes !!

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"Heavy fog in Channel - Continent cut off!".'
It is my understanding that there are 5 (6=Antartica?) continents- Asia, Africa, No. America, So. America and Europe. Europe, when referred to as a land mass , does not include the UK but the Continent does include England, Wales, Scotland. This is how we learned it in school many, many years ago.....

I like that too! Reminds me of Mrs. Bale and her weather reports

i would suggest finding the kid an old map from pre-1950 of the world..

Diane, my tartan is Blackwatch...:)

I just picked up an old Minkus album, the best feature of which is a two-page contemporaneous late-'40's map. I may razor it out and part with the album, itself...not much redeeming.
[By the way...did they change the rules? Isn't Australia granted continent-hood?}

Seven continents: Asia, Africa, N. America, S. America, Europe, Antarctica and Australia.

Hello Tony, I'm a Europa Stamps collector and there's more than sixty postal administration in Europe, 64 to be precise. Most of them issue every year a Europa Stamps. There is a list of postal administration in Europe on this blog http://europa-stamps.blogspot.com Yes it's a good thing for a 10 years to collect the whole of Europe. With time he will choose the countries he prefer but in the meantime he will learn allot about Europe. Daniel

Wikipedia has a good list of current European countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

The Europa stamps are a great collaboration.

You can find more information here: http://www.posteurop.org/index.jsp?...7&isoCode=en

Every year a specific theme is defined and all countries part of the Post Europ organization issue a set reflecting this theme.

This year they chose a wonderful theme, Children's Books. Some of the stamps have been breathtaking in my opinion. Extremely colorful and great for kids. Not sure if this link works but you can view 1 stamp from each country on the site above: http://www.posteurop.org/index.jsp?...7&isoCode=en
Or "EUROPA Library - Theme View".

prior to somewhere around 1975, there was a single design that was common for all the issuing nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa...n_of_1957.29

a lot of information, including the theme for each year, and the number of nations participating for each year.