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Hello, I am so sorry, it has been 6 weeks since I wrote. Somehow that time
just slipped past a trip to UK for a family funeral didn't help I might
add. Bu...
Undated "YEOVIL" handstamp, c.1759-1769.
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Acquired off the internet, the undated entire below has gone from Yeovil
via Taunton and Bristol to Oxford via the cross post. The mileage is over
80 mile...
Christmas Around The World – How Is It Celebrated?
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[image: Christmas Around The World Main Article Image]
At this time of year, it’s not just families in the UK who gather in order
to celebrate Christmas!...
ROC ~ Cross Strait Direct Mail Services ATM Cover
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Republic of China (Taiwan) Three color print (BLACK, RED and GREEN) 10th
Anniversary of the Cross Strait Direct Mail Services commemorative ATM
express r...
Ooh La La
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Baeckeoffe (bake oven) is a casserole dish that is typical in the French
region of Alsace which is situated on the borders of Germany and
Switzerland. Th...
Tanzania postal history; 'Stamp' Jan 2020
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*Stamp *magazine, January 2020
Time to mention the excellent January 2020 *Stamp *magazine as it has my
article on the early postal history of Tanzania. ...
Would anyone like some used GB perfins?
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A GB collector sent me a batch of about 100 used perfins and asked me to
find a good home for them if I didn't want them. I'm willing to mail them
to anyon...
More fluor, 19 codes and some shades
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Lots of new stamps discovered by my supplier this month. The 5p M19L and
1st Large M19L MFIL are new and there is a distinctly paler shade of 10p.
The othe...
Common stamps - but what were they used for?
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*The first set of Machin definitives included an 8d in red (or bright
vermillion) issued on 1 July 1968. This was just one of the range from ½d
to 1/9d rep...
Blog de timbrofil. This is it!
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This is it! From now on, ‘Blog de timbrofil’ – as I called my stamp-related
blog a few years ago – has became history! It will still remain online with
its...
Å ilutÄ— 1942
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Postmark of Heydekrug March 1942
Sender's address: Kolleschen bei Jonaten Kreis Heydekrug (Ostpr.)
It has been long since I have posted something here the ...
I Focus... On the 1d Yellow Ochre (Part 3)
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It began life as an experiment in a new type of stamp vending machine. The
five stamp multi-value horizontal coil strip was issued in these new
vending mac...
New Directions
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It is summertime, here in the US Pacific Northwest. Historically, I never
did much with my stamp collections during the summertime-- I expect this
holds tr...
Millennium 16 : CN Tower
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*[This post is another in a series profiling each of the 68 stamps issued
by Canada Post Corporation on September 15, 1999 on the occasion of the new
Mill...
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