When working on transferring stamps to my new album, I ran across a series of stamps that brought back memories.

The Overrun Countries series is from 1943/44 and shows the flags of the countries that were overrun during WWII. I really like the colorful flags on the stamps and the great details around them.

There are a total of thirteen stamps in the series, and I had collected eight of them when I was back in Junior High. The man that I had bought them from did not have the complete series when I first saw them, but later acquired a few more. However, he was not able to find the rest before I stopped working on my collection. It was always one of the first things I would look for when we would meet up. Way back then it was not as easy to find stamps you were looking for, as it is today. Especially if you lived in a remote area.

After I got all my stamps transferred into my new album, I made a list of stamps I wanted to order. The remainder of this series was on my list. Here you can see the four missing stamps. All of the stamps I collected in the series were unused and so were the ones I ordered.

I need to concentrate more on taking the pictures, I cut off the bottom captions.

However, the pages look really nice with all the spots filled.

Here is the second page with all the stamps in place.

I will share some of the other stamps that I ordered in a future post, but this series brought back the most memories.

The stamps to complete the series did not cost me much and I had the satisfaction of completing the series.

Imagine how much I learned about History and Geography when I was young from stamps like this.

Steven