Part 1. "Sir, you have the rarest of collections!..." a cyberguest told me. My answer: thank you for your kind appreciation [delusional, too :) ], but your choice of words exposes you to harsh criticism. Yes, I have some rare or unique items, but the SUPERLATIVE is N/A [not applicable] to my collection.

A cyberguest visited my blog and my photobucket album, and then he said:
"Sir, you have the rarest of collections!..."

Let me burst that bubble: nobody has the rarest collection of anything...unless there is a precise definition, context and frame of reference.
Semantics make all the difference here.
What role do Quality and Quantity play?
Who's to objectively evaluate that?
Nah!...

But I will say this: I have over 1,000 maximum card images uploaded, but many other collectors have presumably more and better.
It's just that they did not upload them, for whatever reason.
You can't evaluate what you don't see, in this case.
I also have many images that I didn't upload yet.

For stamps, I have several stock albums, but that's nothing compared to what others have accumulated over the years.

What I DO have as rare (only 20, or 40, or so, in the world) is, for example, a set of over 45 different personalized stamp designs that I created and bought.
Even sold, some -  I haven't put up for sale all designs, yet.
I have created over 140 stamp designs, for sale (except about 10) in my Public Gallery at zazzle - but many will never become stamps thru purchasing, because they are experiments, proof-of-concept.

Here are 42 designs of mine from zazzle and 2 from endicia.com (can you spot them?).
I created and purchased other designs for friends and customers, but I didn't retain any stamp of those - it's their stuff, paid and received in USA, Romania, Republic of South Africa...:)...4 more continents to go in my Conquest of the World :) .
Still, I have a few that were gifted back to me, on maximum cards.
I'll show you in another blogpost, Part 2 or so.

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It's interesting, instructive and occasionally fun to see from WHERE and WHY you have cyberguests: Feedjit Live - Updating in real-time

Feedjit Live - Updating in real-time
For example:

Arrival or Departure

Country

Browser

OS

Website

Long description

Current time: 01:28:28 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

    

San Francisco, California arrived from google.com on "Dorincard: WWF maximum card: pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia".

01:13:52 -- 14 minutes ago

    

West Chester, Ohio arrived from google.com on "Dorincard: 8/15/10 - 8/22/10".

01:00:20 -- 28 minutes ago

    

Lancaster, Minnesota arrived from google.com on "Dorincard: What is that accordion song played like once an hour on canned music stations like HOT 99.5 FM (USA)? It's "Stereo Love", the longest charting song in the history of European top Hot 100, accumulating 52 weeks. Sung by Edward Maya ( Ilie Eduard" by searching for what music is played with an accordion?.

00:57:58 -- 30 minutes ago

    

Phnum Pénh, Phnum Penh arrived from thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com on "Dorincard: The SERVAL (Leptailurus serval) can jump straight-up and intercept in mid-air a bird flying at up to 2-3 meters above ground. It can also jump 3.6 m horizontally. I show you WWF maximum cards from BURUNDI".

00:43:58 -- 44 minutes ago

    

Nepal arrived from bing.com on "Dorincard: Maximum card from Namibia: Bushmen children" by searching for Namibia.

Not a true jaguar, leopard or wildcat: The OCELOT (Leopardus pardalis), also known as the dwarf leopard or McKenney's wildcat. Not a true ocelot: The MARGAY (Leopardus wiedii), also known as the Tree Ocelot. WWF maximum cards from El Salvador

Upper-left (UL) and LL :  The OCELOT (Leopardus pardalis). Mostly terrestrial.

UR and LR: The MARGAY (Leopardus wiedii), also known as the Tree Ocelot. Mostly arboricol.

"The name ocelot comes from the Nahuatl word ōcēlōtl (pronounced [oːˈseːloːtɬ]), which usually refers to the jaguar (Panthera onca) rather than the ocelot."

"The ocelot's genus Leopardus consists of nine similar species to the ocelot, such as Geoffroy's cat and the margay, which are also endemic to South and Central America. 

All of the cats in the Leopardus genus are spotted, lithe, and small, with the ocelot being the biggest of its genus."

Salvador Dalí and Babou the ocelot.

Guess which of the two was WILDER? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salvador_Dali_NYWTS.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot

How many TEATS has YOUR pet cat? Go check.

DID YOU KNOW that MARK WAHLBERG has more nipples than a MARGAY, who has only 2...???

" Mark Wahlberg, actor and producer as well as Calvin Klein underwear model and former singer known as Marky Mark, has a third nipple.^[9]  He famously spoke about it to the press before considering an operation to have it removed, but has since reneged, citing his third nipple as his "prized possession"."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernumerary_nipple

"The margay is very similar to the larger ocelot in appearance, although the head is a little shorter, the eyes larger, and the tail and legs longer. 

It weighs from 2.6 to 4 kilograms (5.7 to 8.8 lb), with a body length of 48 to 79 centimetres (19 to 31 in), and a tail length of 33 to 51 centimetres (13 to 20 in). 

Unlike most other cats, the female possesses only two teats."

"So, why do men have nipples? Because females do."

"The "female template" is the default for humans."

"Their advantage in females, in terms of reproductive success, is clear. 

But because the genetic "default" is for males and females to share characters, the presence of nipples in males is probably best explained as a genetic correlation that persists through lack of selection against them, rather than selection for them. 

Interestingly, though, it could be argued that the occurrence of problems associated with the male nipple, such as carcinoma, constitutes contemporary selection against them. 

In a sense, male nipples are analogous to vestigial structures such as the remnants of useless pelvic bones in whales: if they did much harm, they would have disappeared."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teat

"Most notably the margay is a much more skillful climber than its relative, and it is sometimes called 

the tree ocelot because of this ability. 

Whereas the ocelot mostly pursues prey on the ground, the margay may spend its entire life in the trees, leaping after and chasing birds and monkeys through the treetops. 

Indeed, it is one of only two cat species^[4] with the ankle flexibility necessary to climb head-first down trees (the other being the clouded leopard). 

It is remarkably agile; its ankles can turn up to 180 degrees,^[5] it can grasp branches equally well with its fore and hind paws, and it is able to jump up to 12 feet (3.7 m) horizontally.^[4] 

The margay has been observed to hang from branches with only one foot.

The margay is considered^{[by whom?]} to be the true jungle cat, because it spends almost its entire life in trees."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margay

See, that's the NIPPLE, I mean RIPPLE EFFECT of researching hyperlinks in wikipedia...:)

Enough about teats unless YOU can never have enough...

A bit about El Salvador:

Republic of El Salvador República de El Salvador  (Spanish)
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "Dios, Unión, Libertad"  (Spanish) "God, Union, Freedom"
Capital (and largest city)		San Salvador 13°40′N 89°10′W
Official language(s)		Spanish
Ethnic groups		Mestizo 86%,White/Caucasian 12%,Native American (Maya,Pipil, Lenca) 1%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_salvador

Did you notice the PINK nose of the Ocelot?

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