UN Day Quadfecta!

I did not set out to complete a blogging quadfecta (yes, it is a word!) today but that is just what I will do with this final post about United Nations Day. As I have written before, I began collecting stamps with a general worldwide focus before concentrating on U.S. stamps. This was during the era of celebration marking the American Revolutionary War Bicentennial circa 1974-1978 (and beyond).

The third collection I began — in my teens — was one of mint United Nations stamps (I believe my mom gave me the H.E. Harris album for my birthday when I was a junior or senior in high school; around this time I was the “junior ambassador” for Syria in my school’s mock UN activity). I continue to collect UN and related stamps as a topical.

While I have many mint stamps issued by three current offices of the UN (New York, Geneva, and Vienna) as well as various forerunners and agencies such as UNESCO not to mentioned UN-themed stamps from many of the Member States, my holdings do not include very many covers or postal stationery. I mentioned in today’s article for my postcard blog that I only had two unused postcards and two maximum cards related to the United Nations. That proved to be untrue as I later went through still another bin full of philatelic material and found several additional items. I will post a selection here (with very brief descriptions — it’s almost dinnertime!) and save others for future articles.