And that’s what this site is all about.
Stories.
Not necessarily about stamps.
But the story each stamp tells, when we don’t have time to slow down and listen.
This is my fascination with stamps, by and large. The often tell the story of a nation, a culture, an era. And they talk about how those attributes change over time.
Take the 1953 U.S. stamp depicting the Gadsden Purchase. That’s where I was born and where I still live. It was issued in my birth year, 100 years after the event.
But until I held this stamp in my fingers, I didn’t bother to ask all the questions one might want to know about their birthplace: who, what, why, when, where? (You can find out for yourself in this blog post.)
This is just one stamp from one nation, among of thousands that are issued every year, and out of the hundreds of thousands that are now in collections everywhere. And in on-line catalogs.
I hope you will enjoy this voyage of discovery as much as I have — and am continuing to — and will want to read these posts. And maybe you will be interested enough to acquire one of the books I am writing about the many topics depicted by the world’s postage stamps.
I would love to hear from you.
Gary Dillard
P.S.: You can learn more about this site here and about me here.