Diocles' World Stamp Collection
Diocles Briefmarkensammlung der Ganzen Welt
Diocles frimärkssamling från hela världen
Dioclesin koko maailman postimerkkikokoelma
by
Tore Gustafsson
Finland
This website contains a part of my collection of postage stamps. This web-site is my private catalog of my oldest stamps. Simultaneously this web-site is a means of sharing my collection with everyone who is interested in old stamps. The website is continuously enhanced with more stamps. Comments are welcome via e-mail: dioclesfin@gmail.com.
Small stamps are scanned with 600 dpi, larger stamps with 400 - 500 dpi. Thumbnails are about 90 - 150 pixels in height. They are scaled at 4 pixels per mm. Most stamps are scanned in Hawid plastic pockets, which give a bluish color to the background. The colours of the stamps are compensated for the discoloring caused by the pockets.
All contents have been moved to the new website: Diocles' New World Stamp Collection.
History:
18.7.2021: All contents have been moved to the new website: Diocles' New World Stamp Collection.
17.4.2021: I have added 3 stamps to Indonesia.
12.4.2021: I have added 48 stamps to French Indochina.
5.4.2021: I have added all my 19th century stamps and part of my stamps issued before the end of WW1. This web site contains now 7035 stamps from 264 countries from my collection:
Europe: 2327 stamps from 54 countries, from the 19th century and partly from the 20th century until the end of WW1.
Africa: 1770 stamps from 85 countries from the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
Asia: 1736 stamps from 57 countries, including India and Indian states until independence, Persia until 1925 and my complete Siam and Ottoman Empire collections.
America: 1044 stamps from 53 countries.
Oceania: 158 stamps from 15 countries.
18.12.2018: I have now added all my 19th century European stamps.This web site contains now 3282 stamps from 146 countries from my collection:
Europe: 1216 stamps from 48 countries, mostly from the 19th century.
Africa: 870 stamps from 62 countries from the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
Asia: 1196 stamps from 36 countries, including India and Indian states until independence and Persia until 1925.
7.10.2016: The web site contains now 425 European stamps from 36 countries mostly from the 1840:s, 1850:s and 1860:s, 629 African stamps from 58 countries from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries and 314 Asian stamps from the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The website contains now in total 1368 stamps.
9.6.2013: The web site is published with 370 of my stamps from 34 European countries from the 1840:s, 1850:s and 1860:s.