Petica's posterous http://peticawatson.posterous.com a place to plonk stuff posterous.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:29:14 -0800 Fun with my stamp collection http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/03/09/fun-with-my-stamp-collection http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/03/09/fun-with-my-stamp-collection I've never purposefully collected stamps but somehow I seem to have ended up with a collection of thousands. There's no way I'm going to sort through them, though they all seem fascinating, from hundreds of different countries, some very old. Who knows what their value is. Collections are worth much more when they're displayed properly. So, I sorted them into colours and I have started to make my own displays, see below. But it's not just the aesthetics that please me, it's what they represent...
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Global Saliva Hundreds of tiny pieces of paper and ink passing through thousands of hands into mine..Doesn't it make you think? How many people? How many lives? Each stamp has journeyed through time and space to be here now...How far, where from, how old? Where were you made? By whom? The stories we'll never know - the contents of a letter long ago - lost now. A collection of ghost fingerprints and global saliva... I am their keeper.  From Russia, Vietnam, the Congo, you name it. From professors, and perhaps lovers daughters and friends and colleagues. Collected for me by my family, also long gone. Mama, and Zizzie, and Ronnie Grandpa, me here now. Digging them out of an attic to jumble and reassemble and examine and stare and appreciate and feel ...and touch the people, once important. Found, lost,  found, lost, remembered, forgotten This is me. This is humanity, actually. --
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