My husband inherited something very special from his grandfather- two albums of postal stamps . His grandpa collected them for a long time and some stamps are indeed very old. There are different themes and he had quite a few foreign stamps-lots from Easter Europe, Cuba. Most of the stamps are from his own country, country that no longer exists. And among all these stamps I came across one from USA, it looks old and battered. I can only imagine how hard it must have been to get one, giving the fact that grandpa lived behind the iron curtain. I felt very sharply our own blessing of being free to travel now, to exchange letters with virtually anyone in the world...
We decided to keep this collection going, I got couple of books from the library to introduce D. to the world of stamps collecting (and learn it myself) and finally signed up for
postcrossing (which I'm really excited about).
Few gems from grandpa Misha's collection:
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