Who is Hitler? I bet everyone can give a proper description somehow or other! There’re many abusive words given him owing to what he did in the past. However, a few people pay their last respects to him and his encirclement.

Should we decide whether this out of the ordinary personality deserves any kind of honor and recollection or has to be blamed and damned?! The majority of people remember Hitler and his policy in look bleaks. On the other side, times change and we change altogether.

Not long ago I happened upon strange news concerning Neo-Nazis post stamps. It turned out that Deutsche Post issued a collection of Rudolf Hess stamps. By the way, Mr. Hess was a Hitler’s fellow fighter. For the fascist regime he has been an epoch-making figure.

I’m just curious how Neo-Nazis were able to take in Deutsche Post!? Do industrial and office workers of Post go limp? Obviously, not everybody can know the faces of Hitler’s encirclement. It has aroused all manner of speculation on my side (like skinheads and Nazis penetrated the Post and allowed such a thing to be issued!).

Deutsche Post spokesman Dirk Klasen offered: “It was a slip-up. We are very sorry about it. It runs in most cases without difficulty. Only with the Hess image did something go awry. I presume it came from the far-right scene. But those 20 envelopes won’t affect German democracy.” Deutsche Post spokesman Dirk Klasen confirmed that an order of 20 55-cent stamps had been printed by the service.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any patterns of Hess stamps. Have a look at photos of Hitler and Hess next to him.

Let me show you some Hitler stamps at your consideration. Value of Hitler stamps should be estimated respectively.

These stamps are the original Hitler Heads issued by the Germany Government during WWII. As leader of Germany and the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler demanded that his image be placed on postage stamps.

Most of the stamps with Hitler were devoted to differetn considerable events like victories and triumphs. Everything points to the fact that fascist theme matters till now. Thus, value of Hitler stamps is high.

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Various postage stamps are printed in different countries on paper which differs enormously in type and quality. It’s hard to keep an eye on numerous series and collections. As a rule, postage stamps are devoted to momentous events like Olympic Games, New Year, Christmas, etc.

We seldom think over values of postage stamps. Taking into consideration some information on prices and origin of one or another stamp, we reckon it makes us feel full confidence that we’re well-informed.

Being a profound collector, one should remember that stamps work their way up from small pieces of paper to the most popular way of paying for retail mail. For example, classical stamps were printed on hand-made paper which was of the best quality. They can be both thin and thick of a high quality. They never turned yellow. These postage stamps were very expensive and produced mostly from rags.

People found a cheaper source to print stamps. They also kept in mind a type of paper that could be snow-white, grayish, colored. Depending on geographical environment and location white paper exhibits a tendency to turn yellow, a slightly bluish tinge or a brownish shade.

By the way, some countries tried to print stamps on aluminum foil (Hungary), silk (Poland), gold foil (Tonga), sugar bags (British Guiana), and even on plastic. The State of Latvia printed postage stamps on the reverse side of maps left behind by the German General Staff in Riga Probably, these countries have enough the abovementioned resources and materials, or it’s a shortage of paper and wood.

To sum up, remember that postal services do all their best to cater for people’s needs and necessities.

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Vatican City, or the State of the Vatican City, is a theocratic independent city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within Rome. It is well known that Vatican City is ruled by the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. This information should be mentioned to enlighten you and give just minor knowledge about this small country.

Vatican City has its own postal service and postal history, issues postage stamps (as many other countries all around the world). In general, the postal history begins after official foundation of the City in 1929. Some time later Vatican City and Italy signed a postal agreement. Go to Vatican City official site and learn more.

The first Vatican postage stamps appeared in August. And then in April the Vatican issued its first semi-postal stamps. Since then the postage stamps started their official issue. By the way, Vatican produces attractive issues in limited quantities (on the average 300,000-500,000 stamps a year). Vatican stamps are produced under the authority of the Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State.

There are a great many Vatican postage stamps. Main information concerning latest and upcoming issues of stamps (2003-2007) you can find on the site of Vatican Philatelic Society. Surely, if you go to Rome visit this little country, especially the Poste Vaticane. You won’t pay heed that you cross a border. It’s an opportunity to send a Pope postcard to the Catholics you know.

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