Introducing Stampworldhistory.com

I would like to introduce my new – entirely non-commercial – website http://www.stampworldhistory.com/.

The site provides information on the historical context of stamps issued worldwide. As such it is primarily aimed at the worldwide collector. The site contains country profiles with the political and postal history of countries described. It contains custom made maps illustrating the political and postal history of these countries. And it contains country diagrams: flow charts showing the political developments most often of groups of countries.

The drive to understand the historical context in which countries have issued stamps has led me to do some research on the political and postal history of countries worldwide. At first purely to satisfy my own curiosity. However, as the results of that research began to accumulate I thought it might be useful to share those results with the stamp collecting community. Hence this site.
I am well aware that there are other sites on the web that may offer similar content. However, each collector seems to have his or her own specific 'need to know' and so do I. This has led me to develop content that I hope will add something to the base of knowledge of the stamp collecting community and be of value for some collectors out there.

The site is – and will be for years to come – a work in progress. Currently the site contains a complete set of over 80 country profiles of the countries in Asia and over 50 country profiles for Africa. It furthermore contains selected country diagrams for Africa, Asia and Europe and maps of the continents and selected countries in Europe. Currently I am working on more profiles for the countries in Africa.

Please check it out and let me know what you think of it!

Very well done! Bookmarked for when I have more time to check it out

What a great idea, good luck with the project. (Poland looks really good BTW)

Very impressive. Generations of ww collectors will be indebted to you. Well-conceived and even better-executed.

The website is now down. Got this error: Network Error (tcp_error) A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"

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Before the site went down I was able to view the site. Very nice look to it! I like that!
I have been working a a paralel project like this, but with more detail. I would certainly enjoy exchanging thoughts & ideas on this subject. I think it's important to Stamp collecting as a whole that this kind of project be completed!

It's back up!

Mike33, YeaPolska, Hieronymus and warrehouse

Thank you for your kind words and encouraging feedback. I hope to be able to welcome you on StampWorldHistory as regular visitors!

warrehouse

I would love to exchange ideas on the project. Please do share your ideas here or on my site!

Gerben

Gerben's country maps are information dense, and reward careful study.

Outstanding!

Thanks Jim

Gerben, I sent you an email!

Great idea and great start to the site. Looking forward to it's continued development!

@ pk-short: thanks. I'll do my utmost to live up to your expectations.

Gerben

Hello Gerben! Did you receive my email?

@ warrehouse: Of course. And I sent a reply to the email address you provided. I would like to resend it through the forum but as a newby they don't allow me to do so. I would though like to continue our appreciated discussion via my site, also hoping to encourage other visitors to use the reply options on the site. So please copy your comments to my site.

Cheers
Gerben