Stamp - Collecting

There are many reasons for the great popularity of Vatican City stamps.  The Vatican has traditionally maintained a fairly conservative issuing policy, which presently consists of about a dozen commemorative series per year.  Vatican stamps feature a wide range of religious and historical subjects, including many that are of interest to topical collectors.  Adding to their allure

General issues produced by Austrians Second Republic became available on 24 November 1945.

Since that time Austria has issued a steady stream of stamps with a variety of subjects, many of them attractively engraved.

Here are a few samples of complete series from Austria. Most of them are commemorative stamps, to honor important persons and their work.

Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is one of the world's most popular hobbies, with estimates of the number of collectors ranging up to 20 million in the United States alone.

Stamp collectors are an important source of income for some countries