When I started collecting stamps the whole class was interested in every stamp no matter where it was from, myself included. After a while a limit was needed, so the focus became just Australia and it's Territories. I threw New Zealand in for good measure. In order to maintain some worldwide feel, philatelists often pick a theme running through all countries, like aviation or trains etc. Bicycles on stamps and maps on stamps are two unique themes that I have never seen any where else. As I was adding the 1982 component into the collection, I got sidetracked by two stamps from the Australian Antarctic Territory.
I had two pages of these as well as Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island in the old album from years ago. So a week later I now have a new album dealing with the four Territories containing a total of 97 stamps. Between the four territories there are over 2000 stamps that have been issued. That's a lot more collecting.
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First ever AAT stamp |
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