Fuzzy Bus

I inherited the duplicates of an old stamp collection when I was 6 years old. The images on the stamps fascinated me. All the different colors and pictures of plants, animals, people, landscapes, seascapes, air craft, rockets, flowers, nuts, seeds, events and on and on and on. A a child you would have thought I would have been drawn to colorful multi colored stamps. But I was not, I really like the detail in the usually monochromatic engraved stamps. Some of the engraved stamps were in two colors the order in one color and the vignette in another color. I love the detail and little line that went into making up the image, I love looking at these under a magnifying glass. The stamps I got were from all over the world some of the stamps were 100 years old. The old paper intrigued me it was different then the paper of the newer stamps. The memories came back one day in Barcelona, I stepped from my Barcelona boutique hotel and saw a Spanish street scene that reminded me of an image I had seen on a stamp as a child. I learned a lot about the world from those stamps. Some had markings and symbols unrecognizable to me so I looked them up in a little book I had that would decode the symbols and identify the stamps country of origin. With that information I could locate the stamps rightful place in the album. With the identification of the country of origin I then looked on a map, if I was unfamiliar, to locate where on earth the country was located. Many stamps commemorated events in history I would be intrigued to find out more about these events learning history in bits an pieces.  I spent many long hours at this pursuit.

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