Modern Topicals, Classical and Philippine Stamps

Modern stamp collecting has always been interesting for us since we started organizing some of our items by topics and themes. Some collectors/stamp dealers are in the opinion that collecting modern stamps is the fastest growing segment now among collectors. New collectors tend to collect stamps that they want and themes that are easy to understand. They would rather acquire the new issues that interest them than get into collecting the classics.

We are in agreement that indeed more and more collectors are going into these modern thematic type of collections. With a big variety and lots of beautiful designs and topics, we too got hooked. As mentioned earlier, we have collections from a range of many topics and we still add items to them.
Fortunately, we started earlier in collecting these topicals and with many items already, we are able to start our new blog at http://angelas-thematic-collections.blogspot.com
Initially we are posting animal topicals which are among our first and biggest thematic collections. We have even divided these into collections of specific animals on stamps.

Up to now however, the classics still is a focus of our acquisitions. We have limited information on the valuation of these stamps and we still collect a great variety especially with the 19th and early 20th century stuff. A lot could be learned from these old stamps. We really would like to learn more on the background ground of the designs and the technical details of these stamps. Is there an on line library of some sort? Or even an online catalogue? Hope someone can help us.
Anyway, we do want to concentrate on stamps from the old british commonwealth, from hongkong and china and of course from the Philippines.

With a modestly large Philippine Stamp Collection already; we are also planning to start a filipiniana blog which will feature items from our Philippine Collection. We are currently trying to expand our collections from the spanish, american, and japanese eras. Hope this also will soon be a reality.

We haven't even gotten to improve the look, layout, and the content of our different blogs. We look forward to have links with other stamp collectors, a message board or a forum, counters, a guest book etc. But as of now, we have been busy just with organizing our collections and trying to have them posted. If you have suggestions on how to improve our blogs, we will really appreciate it.

Our auctions have taken a back seat but we have currently posted some of them at http://www.ebay.ph (ebay seller: angela_m2m).