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[Alex_iv]

Hello friends,
I'm from Russia, my name is Alexander. I'm collecting stamps from childhood by seriously return to it only 2 years ago. One of my biggest interest are vietnamese stamps, i collect rather a lot already but some thing now is rather hard to get so i hope you can help me and i can help you
I'm sorry - so far i cannot read and speak vietnamese even my wife is from Saigon but i'm working on it If you ready to communicate in english i will be very happy, if it's hard for you but you interested - you still can write in “tieng viet” - my wife will translate for me
For an exchange I can right now provide few albums of German democratic republic, USSR, Russia (all of these mostly mint), Germany third Reich, china (new 199x-200x), some Thailand, japan (old and new) and many other things. All together this stuff takes one shelf in my wardrobe.
As for things I need – I can provide list of the items if someone interested. For example I need all ** Vietnam form 2000 to 2004. I even ready to buy but by the price of Vietnamese catalog issued in 2006 which I have. I see now Vitnamese post office sell these through website, but we try to contact them and they do not reply (seems don’t know how to clean their mailboxes ). And what is sad – their prices there is much higher than in catalog. + I’m interested in Indochina overprints but cheaper than they sell also. Much interest is unissued stamps which are not listed in vetnamese catalog and a lot of overprints of liberation front. Also all new specimen issues are interesting for me as well as many mint (**) form the 70-80 ies of North Vietnam. Especially if you can sell it or exchange cheaper than in VN catalog.
Actually I’m planning to publish catalog of Vietnamese stamps in future in Russian language – we have one here but it’s old – was issued in 1990 and it do not include variety which is pretty a lot in Vietnam.
For convenience of exchange I can provide scan of all my material. As a base we can take national catalogs if for example you will be interested in USSR or Russia. Because for example in US catalogue much of the north Vietnam is overpriced as well as in German Michel.
And finally I will be happy just to make friends here who share the same hobby. From time to time I visit Saigon, maybe I will be there next year, don’t know yet. If you use ICQ or MSN I can provide my contact for easier communication.
Hope to hear from you soon!

Best wishes,
Alexander

P.S. I also collect Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, China and Japan. And interested in many stamps for these countries 