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I'm Svetoslav, 41 years old Bulgarian, living with my Norwegian family in Norway.
BULGARIA and NORWAY are my favorite countries. Would you like to know more about them, don't hesitate to ask me. Would you like to get something from there, don't hesitate to ask me. I love hobbies, especially to play games, any kind of games, but CHESS and BRIDGE...Actually they are not a hobby, but a kind of art, a masterpiece of art ! I dreamed to be proffessional, but my destiny wasn't that. Studing Economics, enjoying travelling, knowing the world...Norway...What an amazing place to live ! I never could imagine I would live here, but my destiny...I met my Norwegian wife...
Collecting postcards and stamps. Why ? Well, I'm always interested in geography and love making new friends. That's why  stamps and cards are my passion ! I love  travelling and seeing pictures. And all these memories, keeping me alive...cards !
Postcard collecting is my hobby
I shall not be bored.
It maketh me do research on faraway places.
It keepeth me alert .
It causeth me to correspond with strange people.
It leadeth me into new areas of knowledge
for curiosity's sake.
Their beaty and their history enchant me.
They show me a pleasant escape
from the tensions of everyday life.
Yea, though I am house bound by
miserable weather.
I wil fear no boredom, for my cards are with me.
They fill my shelves with shoe boxes,
My checking account runneth lower.
Surely,
their beaty and information shall surround me
all the days of my life,
and I will be listed in the ranks of deltiologists forever.

My Main Postcard Collection
I collect mainly views of towns or landscapes, but only identified places worldwide

My Collection of Postmarked Capitals
This collection consist of postmarked postcards of capitals that are personaly sent to me from any place of the same country

Friends and Collectors
contributed to My Collections

Many thanks to them

More Postcard Statistic and some Want Lists
After some years of postcard collecting today 17.05/2005 I finaly succeded to get in my collection at least one postcard from every country in the world ! Thanks to all my collector friends and Internet !

My method of trading
Principle of trading: "Contact first, send first", but anyway I advice to be careful of incorrect traders

My postage stamp collection
I collect  stamps topical and by countries for more than 20 years.
Topical: only mint (MNH) and FDC's ! The FDC's must have a complete set of stamps unless  single stamp issued !
By countries: only used via the post with some exeption !
IMPORTANT: I don't accept damaged stamps - stamps with defects like bents, missing teeth, cuts, ugly cansellation etc. I prefer best round cansellation. If not available accept other type of cansellation even waves, but it must be clear cansellation. Please check carefully your stamps for defects before sending them. I try to do my best to provide good quality stamps with as good cansellation as possible.

COLLECTING THEMES - MINT STAMPS (MNH):
1) CHESS - everything in connection with chess

2) OLYMPIC GAMES - both summer and winter olympic games

3) EU / EURO - stamps related to  EU and EURO

4) FAUNA - all kind of fauna classes

5) MILLENIUM 2000 - the passage to the new century

6)
EUROPA-CEPT 2009 - astronomy

FDC's - TOPICAL:
1) CHESS - everything in connection with chess
2)
OLYMPIC GAMES - both summer and winter olympic games
3)
EU / EURO - stamps related to EU and EURO
4)
FAUNA - all kind of fauna classes
5)
MILLENIUM 2000 - the passage to the new century

FDC's - COUNTRIES:
1) NORWAY
2)
LICHTENSTEIN
3)
LUXEMBOURG
4) SWITZERLAND

COUNTRIES - USED STAMPS:
EUROPE:
1)
NORWAY
2)
BULGARIA
3)
GREECE
4)
LUXEMBOURG
5)
LICHTENSTEIN
6)
SWITZERLAND
7)
AUSTRIA
8)
BELGIUM
9)
GERMANY

AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA:
1) AUSTRALIA
2)
NEW ZEALAND
3)
ALL COUNTRIES & DEPENDENCIES IN OCEANIA
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