Stamps

Oscar recently announced that he wanted to collect stamps.

I asked my Mum if she still had my late father's stamp album that he used to collect stamps in the 1930's. The same stamp album that fascinated me at 6 years of age fascinates another boy 70 years later.

She still had it. It is rich with names of countries long forgotten.

Take this shot of Russia. Tsars and of heroes of The Patriotic War. It has an immense index and magical maps.

A real treasure.