Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Aussie Stamps

There are around 9800 Australian stamps with say 100 added each year.  The Post Office are sending me those extra 100 each year, so I am not strictly collecting them but rather having them conveniently packed and delivered.  I don't have every one of these but it must be at least 8000 of them.  I will still make bids on large lot items, old collections etc, however it is also time to get specific.  I have previously branched into maps on stamps and bicycles on stamps.  There are clubs specifically designed for these two purposes. I have joined the cyclophilately group, with maybe only 50 members in the world and free of charge. The Cartophilately group is similar.   

This is not getting any simpler as there are 3,000 bicycle stamps and 19,000 map stamps in the world.  However I have narrowed it down by trying to locate the first stamp from each country featuring a bicycle or a map. From what I can tell this seems to be a fairly unique approach. So there are roughly 200 countries with another 100 or so countries that no longer exist. This means a target of 600 hundred stamps but what are they.  I have been researching a list over the last week (not complete) of what stamps first appear with either a bicycle or a map from each of these countries.  I have used a few resources to do this but mainly an online database called ColNect where I can also purchase individual stamps as well. I have tried it for the first time just now but it might take weeks for those ten stamps to arrive.

My List - click for a larger view



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