My Collection (Olympics/Soccer/Hockey/Chess)

Just finished scanning my collection and uploading it online. If anyone wants to see, here it is:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61991...50284557460/

There are five parts: Chess, Hockey, Soccer, Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.

Very nice collections! Thank you for sharing them.

Here is a better link:

http://www.hokkej.com/my-collections.htm

Contains my various topical and thematic collections.

Lovely! I enjoyed looking at these.

Wow - what magnificent collections, with obviously a lot of effort and care put into their construction, arrangement and annotation. How long have you been working on them? Thanks for posting them for us to enjoy.

Thank you! I've been a stamp collector for quite a while. First as a kid, 1979-1989 on and off. Then for a couple of months in 1994, and finally since 2006. This time, I have had great resources online as well as obviously more money than during childhood :)

Of course, accumulation was just a part of it. In 2014, I moved all my collections into VARIO PLUS stocksheets. In 2015, I scanned all of the sheets with stamps. Then, I used Microsoft Office Picture to create separate images for most of the stamps. The rest was relatively easy: create Microsoft Word files, put stamps with annotations there, and save them as PDFs...

Pasha, I saw this stamp today depicting a chess game with human pieces and thought of you... didn't notice it amongst your chess photos.

Edit: Apparently I can't post the link. Here are the cat numbers:

Michel IT 1748
Unificato IT 1551
Yvert et Tellier IT 1481
Stamp Number IT 1455
Stanley Gibbons IT 1711
Sassone IT 1551

Thank you, Angreeley, but my Chess collection includes only stamps that depict the history of chess competitions. Other chess-related stamps, such as chess-related art or, say, children playing chess are not included.