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1461. 🇨🇦 Canada Post Commemorates Moon Landing. - 🇨🇦 *Canada Post *released a se-tenant pair of self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 10 (5 x 2 different designs) and 1 miniature sheet contain...
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Crewkerne 1959 and Highbridge 1933 - The item below is from Crewkerne to Bath but was "*Accidentally dropped on way to postbox during snow storm*" as a result of which the postage stamp came o...
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Stafford Stamp Show, County Showground, ST18 0BD. June 14-15 2019 - The Stafford Stamp Show remains, overall, very impressive; we go regularly go to it. As usual we went on a Friday - one of the joys of retirement - but thi...
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Europa National Birds Stamps 2019 - The subject for 2019’s Europa stamps is National Birds. Spain has a bearded vulture on its 2019 six-stamp Premium Sheet. The bird is adapted to live in t...
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Over 500 000 page views ... - I see today that the page views of this site have now gone past 500 000, which averages out at just under 1 000 views for each of the 542 blog posts. I d...
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GERMANY ~ Bonn Postal Tower ATM Cover - Germany Bonn Postal Tower ATM cover, special posted on May 4, 2019 from Nurnberg to Taipei with arrival postmarked on June 13, 2019. The special postmarke...
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Firing Letters: The 60th Anniversary of Missile Mail - By Nancy Pope, Curator and Historian One of the two containers used to hold the envelopes on the Regulus I missile flight. Both containers are in the Natio...
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Verical Coils Single Stamps - I am currently unloading a few more Machin stamps via eBay. This week I am trending a few vertical and horizontal coils and a few singles from vertic...
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Errors, Freaks, and Oddities (EFO): Inverted Jenny - Inverted Jenny is one of the most famous postage stamps and definitely one of the most famous stamp errors and therefore one of the most valuable stamps ...
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Some more 19 codes - This month we have the recent new values, all M19L MAIL an showing a bright fluor. Next we have two 1st Class issues, each in Royal Mail red. The M18L M...
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Stamps and collecting as therapy - As long term readers might recall the story of SCB started out when I was experiencing what felt like the biggest crisis of my then life. Well, decade late...
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Common stamps - but what were they used for? - *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...
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Blog de timbrofil. This is it! - 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...
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Topnimarka's Flood of Illegal Stamps to "honor" the 2018 World Cup - BUYER BEWARE!!!! - So I am looking around Delcampe to check out new issues for various countries and I notice one of the most prolific philatelic wallpaper producers, Topnima...
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Å ilutÄ— 1942 - 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 ...
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I Focus... On the 1d Yellow Ochre (Part 3) - 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...
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Party Political Conferences showcase Post and Go capability - Autumn is the start of the political party Conference season in the UK and as in previous years Royal Mail are keen to showcase their brand heritage ...
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Poppy Post and Go Stamp Inspires BFPO Northolt Official First Day - The Poppy design from the Symbolic Flowers Post and Go stamp set was re-introduced for use on the 24th October and will be on issue until 13th November 201...
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New Directions - 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...
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Our blog has moved! - This is the last blog you’ll find here, but we haven’t disappeared – we’ve upgraded! In a little more than a year, we will be opening the doors to The Post...
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Millennium 16 : CN Tower - *[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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1940 Centenary of World's First Adhesive Postage Stamp - On May 6, 1840, Britain issued the world's first adhesive postage stamp,the "Penny Black", featuring an engraving of a young Queen Victoria. A set of s...
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