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It's quite possible that this will be the largest section, though 'Resistance' may run it close. It currently comprises 649 items, of which 59 are miniature sheets/souvenir sheets. Of course, it is ongoing, although I hope I have tracked down all the 2015 releases and can pause now until 2019, when Albania will no doubt issue its clockwork-regular quinquennial Liberation stamps in November of that year. It is currently on 109 pages and will take up two albums.
In some ways it has been an easy task, as I have made very few notes on the album pages - just country, date and catalogue number in most cases: the images on the stamps have nearly always been self-explanatory. Perhaps the only difficulty has been with France, which often elides its Liberation with D-Day, even though Paris was not liberated until that August, and the entire country not until rather later than that. I have had to make arbitrary decisions as to which French stamps go into this section, and which await the 'D-Day' section, yet to be begun.
There are also a very few first-day covers still to be put up, which go at the 'back of the book' because obviously they are not a complete series of items.
Perhaps the hard work starts now - for these pages are really only the raw material for study and interpretation. Which countries issue these stamps, when, how many and why? It seems to me that the whole point of assembling a topical collection is to be able to say something intelligent about it. What do you think?
The first and 649th stamp in 'Liberation and Victory': a Romanian stamp in a set commemorating the liberation of Northern Transylvania, February 1945, and a Russian stamp (helpfully glossed in English) issued last November.
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"It seems to me that the whole point of assembling a topical collection is to be able to say something intelligent about it. What do you think?"
That is the way I enjoy topical collections, though I understand those who collect based purely on aesthetics. I like the way a stamp can be a portal into learning more about the subject depicted - a focal point.
Sounds like you are doing great work on your WW2 collection. Bravo Zulu!
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Just finished putting up the 'Liberation and Victory' section (European only) of my WW2 topical collection.
It's quite possible that this will be the largest section, though 'Resistance' may run it close. It currently comprises 649 items, of which 59 are miniature sheets/souvenir sheets. Of course, it is ongoing, although I hope I have tracked down all the 2015 releases and can pause now until 2019, when Albania will no doubt issue its clockwork-regular quinquennial Liberation stamps in November of that year. It is currently on 109 pages and will take up two albums.
In some ways it has been an easy task, as I have made very few notes on the album pages - just country, date and catalogue number in most cases: the images on the stamps have nearly always been self-explanatory. Perhaps the only difficulty has been with France, which often elides its Liberation with D-Day, even though Paris was not liberated until that August, and the entire country not until rather later than that. I have had to make arbitrary decisions as to which French stamps go into this section, and which await the 'D-Day' section, yet to be begun.
There are also a very few first-day covers still to be put up, which go at the 'back of the book' because obviously they are not a complete series of items.
Perhaps the hard work starts now - for these pages are really only the raw material for study and interpretation. Which countries issue these stamps, when, how many and why? It seems to me that the whole point of assembling a topical collection is to be able to say something intelligent about it. What do you think?
The first and 649th stamp in 'Liberation and Victory': a Romanian stamp in a set commemorating the liberation of Northern Transylvania, February 1945, and a Russian stamp (helpfully glossed in English) issued last November.
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"It seems to me that the whole point of assembling a topical collection is to be able to say something intelligent about it. What do you think?"
That is the way I enjoy topical collections, though I understand those who collect based purely on aesthetics. I like the way a stamp can be a portal into learning more about the subject depicted - a focal point.
Sounds like you are doing great work on your WW2 collection. Bravo Zulu!
Eric
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