Philately, the "training grounds of collections"
"History for us is a collector's item": this is the philosophy adopted by Bolaffi with pioneering venture since 1890 in the field of stamp-collecting. Stamps have always been Bolaffi's core business: from the "Penny Black" to the latest developments with an eye for first issues of early Italian States, through the stamps of the Kingdom and the Republic - besides San Marino and the Vatican - to turn albums into entertaining, modern historical reportages.
By considering philately as the privileged "training ground of collections", Bolaffi also focuses on the documents that forerun the genesis of stamps in historical and collector's terms. In this perspective, ancient Sumerian tablets, medieval parchments and letters written by Renaissance merchants are the tangible tokens of the development of the written word through the ages.
By considering philately as the privileged "training ground of collections", Bolaffi also focuses on the documents that forerun the genesis of stamps in historical and collector's terms. In this perspective, ancient Sumerian tablets, medieval parchments and letters written by Renaissance merchants are the tangible tokens of the development of the written word through the ages.