Another Stamp Collecting Perspective

From time to time I will post a blog entry written by someone other than myself. I like to give the perspective of other stamp enthusiasts and get a glimpse of the philatelic world through their eyes.

Musings of a Stamp Collector.....

I was mounting a set of China (Taiwan) 1966 Fruits in a stock book. Not hinging it mind you when I thought about the innocence of the designs of Scott # 1414-17.  While the China Republic Stamps were vaguely anti-communist in that era, the stamps from the Peoples Republic of China were still stuck in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s.

China PRC stamps were all about Mao Tse-tung and stamps of the Republic of China were starting to take on a life of their own.  In those days China Republic still held a security council seat at the United Nations and PRC wanted to replace the Taiwan representation as if it was speaking for all of mainland China.

Politicians in the USA were screaming about the immoral communists and the righteous President Chiang Kai-shek.  It all seems so long ago and so far away now.

Stamps of China PRC are just so hot and stamps from the Republic of China (Taiwan) are as cold as a mountain breeze.

It started me thinking about the rest of that region and I started wondering about Korea stamps. Right now North Korean stamps are embargoed and the people and leadership of that country excoriated in the press and in Congress. The South Koreans are virtuous and prosperous and their stamps are popular. Someday there will be a change in the North and their stamps will become popular and their people will be free and productive. No timeline offered here. Just as the communists used to say “it is the inevitability of history”.

Back to me now!

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