European Stamp Prices & News

Today’s review is about one of the better stamp collecting blog we’ve come across: Eric Contesse’s bilingual Blog Timbré De Ma Philatélie (Crazy Blog About My Philately, as he translates it), on Blogspot at http://timbredujura.blogspot.com. With frequent, in-depth posts covering interesting stamps from all over the world, Eric’s knowledge and enthusiasm is infectious, and you’ll probably find yourself reaching back into the archives and thoroughly enjoying each post.

Eric lives in France, and has an open offer to trade covers with anyone in the world: send him a stamped letter and he’ll return the favor. The envelopes and cards he receives become the subject of the posts on the blog.

Each post is witten in French, with an English translation provided in a different colored font. (If you don’t know French you’ll probably pick up some while reading.) Large scans of his international envelopes and postcards are attached to each post, and his indiscriminate love of foreign stamps gives the archives a very wide scope; a list of countries in the side menu reaches from Greenland to Argentina; from Indonesia to Iran; from Canada to Kazakhstan, and most places in between. (As of this post, his most recent article and picture is about an American stamp celebrating the Chinese Year of the Rat.)

Easily navigable, and with the extensive archives (about 150 articles reaching back to January 2007), a new post at least every 2-3 days, and endlessly interesting pictures, Blog Timbré De Ma Philatélie is an excellent resource for someone who just wants to look at stamps from around the world without being bogged down by the overwrought humorlessness that plagues too many collectors.

Eric Contesse is keeping one of the internet’s better stamp collecting blogs. Check it out.

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