A brief look at the stamps of Spain

[@2realesazul]

Nice summary, thanks Pete!

[@jeffnewbery7376]

Great episode, thanks for sharing!

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Excellent episode and excellent concise review of Spain's stamps. The newer stamps you showed right at the start of the video are absolutely beautiful. They were immediately added to my "I want!" list. Thanks for the video, Pete!!!!!

[@ourdadsstamps]

Yes I liked them too. Thanks for your comments, glad you enjoyed the video.

[@piratephilately1087]

I agree with the artists series ... as a kid, I found those to be a great set and today own all of them. Thanks for sharing ... you skirted the topic of the Goya nude (probably a wise decision) ;)

[@ourdadsstamps]

Glad you liked the video. It wasn't a conscious decision to omit the Goya nude, there was so much to include I couldn't fit everything in.

[@piratephilately1087]

@@ourdadsstamps Glad you make these, regardless. A great resource for all of us novices :)

[@chrissahar2014]

Your remark about modern stamps Worldwide from about the late 1960's thru much of the 1990s is so true of the overproduction. IN the US it goes even farther back about late 1930's thru 1990s. The main difference is many of the stamps prior to 1970's are being used for postage or sold at discounted prices . The result is the supply is smaller than those stampts from the later decades. Now the reason for recent issues attaining greater value is simply that many countries have curtailed production of stamps due to less interest in the hobby compared to its heyday in the middle of the 20th century and need. In the US many commemorative stamp issues were produced around 100 Million or more in the 1970's (the peak was the 1976 issue commemorating the Boston Tea Party in a lovely 4 stamp setenant set - 1 BILLION were produced). I think too post offices are destroying more quickly excess stock so survival rates of recent modern stamps is lower than in past decades. Finally, getting cancelled used definitive and commemorative US stamps is becoming harder and harder to find since people do not write letters much -- interestingly postcard writing has had a renaissance in recent years so certain stamps aren't too difficult to find used for postage. But the difference in amount of commemorative stamps produced in the US highlights my point -- most stamps are produced in the 12 - 35 million range for a commemorative, during the pandemic it was around 18 million. Definitive stamps are still produced in ample amounts as the main users of them are businesses - especially marketers who find they get a better response sending their mail with stamps rather than a meter strip.

[@ourdadsstamps]

Thanks for your comments. Very interesting

[@martindoman7315]

Interesting that you live in Spain, I loved my time there. Civil war stamps, as you say, are a very interesting avenue to explore but where do you start? Are there any good reference books on the subject?

[@ourdadsstamps]

I don't know of reference books in English but I suspect they exist. Edifil (the Spanish equivalent of Stanley Gibbons) have published a set of 4 specialist catalogues covering the civil war period but they will be in Spanish and are quite expensive.

[@jeffnewbery7376]

I actually really like the explorers and colonizers issues, they are an attractive design to me. To each their own😉. And you have now got me wanting to collect Spanish stamps; I really have to stop watching KZbin videos😆

[@ourdadsstamps]

ha ha, that wasn't my intention but I'm glad you enjoyed the video.