Back when my sisters and I were young, we used to enjoy collecting stamps. I guess we got it from our mom. Like many (or maybe some) 90s kids, we had penpals and exchanged friendship booklets. If you know how a friendship booklet look like, you're probably getting old.
So we would have lots of stamps from all those snail mails and keep them in stamp albums. If you recall, retrieving a stamp from an envelope is a delicate job. You have to rinse it in the water for a few minutes before you can peel the stamp off the envelope, and also at the same time you have to be careful not to tear the stamp.
I was looking through our old stamp albums and I came across some stamps I just feel like sharing with you.
This "Thinking of You" stamps from The Philippines was my all time favourite when I was a child. I think the reason is because it's a cartoon and pink: two of my favourite things - combined!
I have no idea where we got this stamp from but it must be very old since it's only worth half a cent. There's even Chinese lettering on the stamp so that must've been before the 50s.
And here are some old Pilipinas stamps from the 80s. This one is probably from my mom's collection. It's hard to tell because we mix all the stamps up. I guess you can say the collection is a combined effort from all four of us.
I really like this particular Nippon stamp showing a woman doing martial art. It protrudes feminine strength as opposed to olden presumptions on gender differences.
It's really nice to see a vast collection of stamps from various places. Although we stopped collecting stamps a long time ago, there is always value treasured by us four in this little hobby of ours. The joy of collecting paper-based materials is one that not many kids treasure these days.
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