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Old Stamps - Impressions At A Stamp Exhibition

Old stamps feature pictures of stamps fromNarathiwat is the southern province in
the 20th Asian International Stamp ExhibitionThailand, adjacent to the Malaysian state of
in Bangkok at the Royal Paragon Hall, SiamKelantan. It's also currently gripped in a
Paragon  held  from  3  -  12  August  2007.Muslim insurgency. Who could have sent that
letter from Sungei Golok, an obscure little
Walking through the rows of old postagetown  in  Narathiwat,  to  Paris  in  1936?
stamps flooded my mind with a mix of memories
of momentous events, of the rise and fall ofCommemorative stamps - coronation of HM Queen
great empires, some of which have occurred inElizabeth  II
my lifetime. These were some of the pictures
of  stamps  that  caught  my  eye.The first day cover for the coronation of HM
Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953 reminds me
Penny  Black  stampsof my mother. She still treasures the
crockery set commemorating the event in 1953,
England's Penny Black, the first pre-paidthat's proudly displayed in her showcase at
adhesive stamp in the world, was issued inhome  in  Singapore.
1840 in the reign of Queen Victoria at the
height of the British Empire. The demise ofOld  stamps  in  the  turbulent  decades
the Empire came a century later, when Japan
shattered Britain's invincibility in WorldThe red stamps of China's Cultural Revolution
War  II.were reminiscent of a turbulent age; the
anti-colonial struggles in the 50s, the
Old  stamps  SolotCommunist insurgencies in the 60s and the
climax  of  the  Vietnam  War  in  the  70s.
In 1883, in the reign of King Rama V the
first Thai stamp Solot (named after the priceIn April 1975 after the North Vietnamese took
of the stamps in the old Thai currency) wasSaigon, the Prime Minister of Thailand, M R
issued. The postal service was one of theKukrit Pramoj, asked the Thai army high
many reforms in the Chakri Reformation duringcommand how long it would take the Vietnamese
the  Fifth  Reign  from  1868  -  1910.to reach Bangkok. The answer was a matter of
days!!!
These two seemingly simple old stamps changed
the  lives  of  millions.We shuddered when the Vietnamese marched into
Phnom Penh in 1976. By then, the fanaticism
Chinese  military  mailof Mao's Red Guards paled in comparison to
the killing fields in Cambodia and the grim
Chinese military mail during theprospect of battle hardened troops knocking
Sino-Japanese War 1894 - 1895, a longon  our  doors.
forgotten war, was a harbinger of worse to
come. In the following century, Japan invadedGenghis  Khan  -  man  of  the  millennium
China in the 1930s and South East Asia in the
1940s. Born after the war, I was spared theMongolia's Genghis Khan resurrected images of
horrors of Japanese occupation. Mythe great warrior, in my school books, whose
grandparents  and  parents  weren't so lucky.Empire stretched from Beijing to the Caspian
Sea and the Danube as his horsemen rattled
Letter  from  Mafekingthe gates of Eastern Europe. His military
feats  have  been  unsurpassed  since.
Lord Baden Powell's letter from Mafeking
brought back pleasant Boy Scout memories, theThese were the old stamps that caught my eye,
outdoor adventures and the wholesome valuesimages of men and women whose actions have
imbued by the international Scoutingmoved the lives of millions around the world.
movement.Stamps tell different stories through
different eyes. Take a journey through the
Old  stamps  on  a  letter  from Sungei Golokpictures of stamps and find out, what's your
story?



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