Old postcards and stamps can tell too much about one or another building or person. They are just like privacies or medical reports that contain proper data and information on specific features, characteristics, properties, secrets and habits known only a small number of people.

We can’t but go into raptures seeing such weird and wonderful masterpieces here and there. Furthermore, a person with a deep sensory perception is capable of going into ecstasies while seeing antique buildings drawn in old postcards photos of synagogues, castles, churches, mosques, etc.

The most important moment, however, is that you can appreciate old constructions at their true value either you’re a Christian or a Muslim. By the way, it’s no by chance why I did single out loads of synagogues photos. Look at these old postcards photos of synagogues and you’ll make sure!

Old postcard photos of synagogues are found all over the world. In spite of the fact that the Muslims are very young nation, they did too much for cultural development and the flowering of art.

Italian synagogues have the features that mixed Roman, Greek, Assryo-Babylonian, and Egyptian elements.

Have a look at Polish synagogues! They do also possess specific for this culture features. Unfortunately, most of these works of arts have become the legends in the annals of history.

Old postcard photos of Hungarian synagogues show in what way the history of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire had been developed. Each kingdom had its ruling class: the German-speaking people in Austria and the Magyars in Hungary.

Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian synagogues are also the legacies of the former Soviet Union that have to be taken as examples.

I found traces of synagogues even in the USA, where many Christian churches act on a level with different reformed churches, Baptists, Lutherans, etc. Simply visit the National Museum of American Jewish History and find American Synagogue Postcards’ Collection.

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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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As we know the most expensive and collectable stamps are those that have one or another oversight called a printing error. Take the “Yellow - Sweden – 1885″ as an example. Thanks to a printing error this stamp became one of the most expensive and unique stamps in the world. Likewise the “1 and 2 Penny - Mauritius – 1847“, on which the watchmaker made an error and printed “Post Office” instead of “Post Paid” on both types of stamps.

Last year, namely at the end of December, one of the most famous postage stamps in the USA philately history sold for $825,000 to an unidentified Wall Street executive. The “Inverted Jenny” is a United States postage stamp of 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down.

Accoring to Heritage Auction Galleries president Greg Rohan, the buyer is the same collector who lost an auction last month in which another “Inverted Jenny” sold for $977,500.

By the way, the mint condition red, white and blue stamp is one of the finest known surviving stamps from the original sheet of 100 misprints. The original 100 were bought at a Washington, D.C., post office in 1918.

Invert errors occur when part of a postage stamp is printed upside-down. Such stamps are quite rare and highly valued by collectors. Sure thing not every inverted stamp is valuable, e.g. the Dag Hammarskjöld invert of 1962 consists only of a misprinted yellow layer.

Errors, gaps and oversights make these small pieces of paper a part of history. We should take this fact into consideration.

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