About us

We have the same passion

Whether we are philatelist, numismatist, cartophile,…, in short whatever our collection we are all the same, we were touched by acute collectibility and we buy compulsively, we search for the rare pearl, we search, we sort, we arrange and we have problems with our sweetheart explaining to him why we gave so much money for a small piece of paper, scrap metal or something else.

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Geo-Philately - ASFE (A Stamp From Everywhere)

TThe Geo-Philately (ASFE ( A Stamp From Every-where)) is a way to collect stamps that blends with the history and geography. 

The advantage but the disadvantage too of this collection is that you just collect what you want and as desired, but the danger is that you should set strict limits and not exceed them if you does not end completely “crushed” under the weight of stamps that you will collect.

The second advantage is that when you reach the limits of his collection because the stamps are too expensive or unobtainable, enough to open a small door within the strict limits you have fixed, and you up with '' work'' for the next 10 years.

Start in Geo-Philately: Gather informations, gather informations and after one time more gather informations. and then create YOUR PERSONAL  want list 

And this is only the beginning because the only limit in this collection is your imagination.

Another aspect of the “1 stamp /1 country” collection: the collection of cancellations

In fact, stamps were originally designed to be used on a letter, and thus to be cancelled.  

So there are plenty of rare, interesting and hard-to-find cancellations.  

These include out-of-country (or used abroad) cancellations, military cancellations, naval cancellations, village cancellations, random cancellations...

It's more interesting to look for these cancellations on stamps issued up to the 20s and 30s, because in those days there were no cancellations of convenience: letter carriers did their job, cancelling mail and that was that. 

You can also, and above all, look for cancellations on stamps during periods of war, annexations and restitutions of territories, in short, when things got “messy”, because people had other things to worry about than philately... 

If you want to start collecting, you'll first need to buy a lot of documentation and either have an “elephant's memory”, or have EXCEL files of cancellation names in your tablet or phone. But above all, you'll need to know whether a given type of cancellation is normal or not on a given type of stamp. 

I confess, this is my favorite collection!