I was in my parent's house last month, opening boxes with stuff of mine that have been left behind. I haven't seen some of those things for decades. You know how it goes. Boxes with things that you don't really need and most probably never will but you can't throw away either.
Anyway, before I find what I was looking for, I stumbled upon three little albums that I kept aside. They contained my stamps collection from my teenage years that I hadn't seen for ages and in an impulse of nostalgia I took them with me on my way out, to thumb through at a later, more appropriate time.
Imagine my surprise when, two days after that, I saw this post by 
First of all, it was a bliss to look all those stamps for one more time and all the work I have done so many years ago, separating and grouping them, according to their country of origin. They are roughly 500 stamps, 200 from Greece and the rest from more than 30 countries all over the world. Actually I have to give credit to an aunt of mine for most of this collection. She had started it and then she passed it on to me when I was 15 years old. I enriched it of course and devoted a lot of time shorting them out but I am afraid that I never upgraded my knowledge on the subject as a true collector.
So I don't really know their value or their scarcity but I do like looking at them as part of the history. I have stamps from the sixties and the seventies and some even older. I have stamps that the currency they represent does not exist any more, like the Greek drachmas or even the countries that issued them don't exist, like Czechoslovakia, which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1992.
I have found an app that is supposed to give details for every stamp that you scan with it but I don't think that it is very reliable so I won't count on what it says :)
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I am showing you some of the stamps that stood out either for their picture or their origin. Like the 5c from USA above, with the sketch of Henry David Thoreau or the ones from Venezuela and Argentina below.
Some more below from Poland, Romania, Switzerland and France. I was impressed here to see Switzerland written as HELVETIA which is the Roman name of that area, very familiar to me since we call Switzerland with that name in Greek too (ΕΛΒΕΤΙΑ).
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And from Europe above (Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Germany) let's go to more exotic places below, like Ethiopia, Libya and Egypt but also Nigeria, Cameroon and Australia.
Of course I can't show you all my stamps in one post so I better stop before I get you bored (if I haven't already) and end with four more from Greece. The first two are separated by a few decades, featuring two different eras in the history of modern Greece, a king on the left and the politician on the right who's name has been identified with democracy.
The last two ones are from the oldest I have or at least I think so, with the last one dated at 1947 according to this wikipedia article.
I hope you enjoyed reading this, I for sure enjoyed writing and searching for information and getting to know a little better my stamps.
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The camera that I used is a Canon EOS 6D mark II with an EF 100mm f2.8/L macro lens attached. I edited the photographs in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic
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