Appearance of the Halley's Comet, Mexico

After having missed the previous two entries, here we are back with the letter H. And the main reason for my absence is actually lack of inspiration. Has it ever happened to you? Flipping through your stamps albums, like trying to find something related to the corresponding letter, but you realize that it is like staring into blank space, cos you just go through all those pages, but you actually see nothing, your brain is like totally disconnected from what you are doing...

Well, today almost ended up the same, but then somehow m brain registered this stamp in my album, and voilà!
It is just a single stamp, not something typical for my posts, but it is surely better than nothing, plus this makes it a first Mexican related post ever on this blog :)

Issued on 25th April 1986, to celebrate the appearance of the Halley's Comet that year. I still remember the euphoria this event had caused back then. And for a kid like me, it was also something unheard of. I mean, something appearing every 75 years, and like being so punctual every single time... how is that even possible!! These kind of phenomena still amaze me to this very day.
In the background of the stamp,you can see an image of Edmond Halley, after whom it is now named since in 1705 he first determined the comet's periodicity .

It is said that its next appearance would be in mid-2061, with some precise date of 28th of July. Now if I get to live until then, this would be like the most unique birthday present :D

If someone is more interested about Halley, take a look at this video. I believe that a video is sometimes better than some dry facts and figures.

For more of today's H-entries, check out today's Sunday Stamps edition.

Different kind of a post!

Hi folks,

This time I have something little bit different.

Few days ago, on April 6th we celebrated day of the city here in Sarajevo. This date is also related to quite few important historical moments, on April 6th 1941, Germany attacked Kingdom of Yugoslavia (part of which during that time was Bosnia and Herzegovina). On same date 1945, resistance of remaining German and collaborationist troops in Sarajevo was broken and Sarajevo was liberated from Nazi grip. Finally on April 6th 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina became recognized by many countries of European Union as independent country.

As you can imagine on such important date many manifestations took place all around city. In Sarajevo we have Society of postage stamps and coins collectors of which I'm also a member of and just a little bit before this date we decided it would be nice to organize small joint exhibition. We acted promptly and got some support from City government and also from Gazi Husref bey library which offered us their premises for exhibition. Total of 20 people exhibited some parts of their collection and all I can say it was pretty neat little exhibition!  Below are some photos of event and exhibits, hope you enjoy it :)

As you can see media representatives were there too!

It was not crowded but can't say there was no interest for it :)

 

Chairman of our little society had to give speech!

Topic of exhibits were  quite colorful as you can imagine.

This is a exhibit on first president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito

     I liked this one (made by before mentioned chairman :) ) Postcards of old part of city by the end of 19th century

They say modesty is one of my many virtues :D so I have to show off my exhibit, Money on stamps

This is one very serious exhibit, Bosnia and Herzegovina issue from 1906, considered one of the most beautiful issues in general philately. This exhibit shows  basic set as well as many trial prints perforations etc.

 And for the end Chess on stamps!

I hope you enjoyed this virtual exhibition!