Mr. Tran Huu Hue is passionate about collecting Uncle Ho stamps.
This year, at 74 years old, Mr. Hue still maintains his passion as before and passes it on to the younger generation. In a small house in a peaceful neighborhood of Thoai Son commune, looking at Mr. Hue's 24 massive stamp collections with each own theme, we understand why he is called by the stamp collectors as "The man with many stamp collections of the Mekong Delta".
He collects stamps about Uncle Ho, Hoang Sa and Truong Sa islands, patriotic heroes, famous people at home and abroad, landscapes of his homeland...
He arranged the stamps and envelopes to create separate themes according to time frames, of which Mr. Hue treasured the stamp set about Uncle Ho with more than 2,000 stamps and envelopes.
Mr. Hue slowly turned each page of the stamp collection of Uncle Ho's image for us to see, which he had collected since his youth. Mr. Hue said that when he was in secondary school, he loved to collect stamps and search for his favorite stamps.
Thoai Son was a small town at that time, so getting a satisfactory stamp was a great pleasure for the village school student. From the village, he sent letters to make friends and exchange with people who were interested in stamp collecting.
Through stories about Uncle Ho when he was still in school and through books, Mr. Hue admired the beloved leader of the Vietnamese people who traveled to find a way to save the country and liberate the nation, so he began to research and collect stamps related to Uncle Ho's revolutionary life.
He wrote letters asking friends everywhere to exchange stamps about Uncle Ho or to ask friends to buy and send them to him. According to Mr. Hue's memory, until July 1998, the old An Giang province still did not have the An Giang Stamp Association, so he joined the Can Tho Stamp Association.
One of the stamps about Uncle Ho that Mr. Hue collected.
By 1998, after more than 30 years of carefully collecting each stamp, Mr. Hue had his own stamp collection about Uncle Ho with more than 300 stamps about Uncle Ho along with more than 50 postal items.
Recalling the past, Mr. Hue did not forget the joy of winning the stamp exhibition contest about Uncle Ho at the 2nd National Postage Stamp Exhibition held in Ho Chi Minh City in April 1998.
Mr. Hue said: “I named the stamp set for the contest “Ho Chi Minh, the most beautiful name” and won the Bronze Medal. This is a great honor for stamp collectors.”
Images of beloved Uncle Ho that Mr. Hue collected through stamps and envelopes,
After winning the prize, Mr. Hue's name was noticed by the domestic stamp collectors. In August 1998, the An Giang Province Stamp Association was established and Mr. Hue brought the stamp set "Ho Chi Minh, the most beautiful name" to an exhibition in An Giang to introduce to the public the life and career of Uncle Ho.
Mr. Hue said that in 2000, he brought 4 stamp collections to the National Postage Stamp Exhibition held in Hanoi and among them, his stamp collection "Ho Chi Minh - life and revolutionary career" won the Bronze Medal.
Having won many prestigious awards, Mr. Hue continued to search for stamps about Uncle Ho, the stamps he loved. Mr. Hue calculated that he had spent almost his whole life collecting stamps about Uncle Ho, and now he owns 2,000 stamps and envelopes with Uncle Ho's image issued by Vietnam and many countries around the world such as the former Soviet Union, Cuba, India, France, etc.
Among them, he owns a precious stamp, the Uncle Ho stamp with Lien khu V issued by Hoai Nhon district, Binh Dinh province in 1951-1952. He confided that he was very lucky to have this stamp, considering it as the fate of a stamp collector.
Mr. Huu owns a precious Uncle Ho stamp with Inter-zone V.
Mr. Hue showed us this precious stamp and explained: “This stamp is also called the rice stamp, the price of 1 stamp is 300 grams of rice, it is a service stamp for public agencies”. According to Mr. Hue, the stamp was printed and issued by the Inter-Zone 5 Post Office, at that time the country was in the resistance period so the quality of the printing paper and printing was not as good as it is now.
At that time, this stamp was printed by hand, the four corners of the stamp had no teeth marks, so it was very valuable, with priceless value over time. Mr. Hue said that he had been collecting stamps for a long time and noticed that the number of Uncle Ho stamps with Lien Khu V was very small, so stamp collectors at home and abroad were very interested.
Mr. Hue confided that when he was young, the image of Uncle Ho was deeply imprinted in his heart as a moral example, sacrificing himself for the country. When collecting stamps about Uncle Ho, he understood more about him, thereby he respected him more and at the same time, he learned many things from him about diligence, simplicity, patriotism and love for people...
Tran Thanh Dung
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