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China MinisheetName: Liangping New Year Woodprints (梁平木版年画)Number: 2010-4Date of Issue: 06 February 2010Denomination:1.20元 (4-1): Gate God (门神)1.20元 (4-2): Stealing the Immortal Grass (盗仙草)1.20元 (4-3): Peace Leads to Happiness (和气致祥)1.20元 (4-4): Exiting the Pass with a Stolen Token (盗令出关)The Liangping New Year Woodprints, originated in Liangping County, Chongqing Municipality, and sold...
China StampsName: Liangping New Year Woodprints (梁平木版年画)Number: 2010-4Date of Issue: 06 February 2010Denomination:1.20元 (4-1): Gate God (门神)1.20元 (4-2): Stealing the Immortal Grass (盗仙草)1.20元 (4-3): Peace Leads to Happiness (和气致祥)1.20元 (4-4): Exiting the Pass with a Stolen Token (盗令出关)The Liangping New Year Woodprints, originated in Liangping County, Chongqing Municipality, and sold...
Hong Kong Minisheet FDCName: Hong Kong 2009 East Asian GamesDate of Issue: 05 December 2009This set of stamps is issued to celebrate the 5th East Asian Games held in Hong Kong from 5 to 13 December 2009. The event marks an exciting milestone in our sports history, as it is...
China Sheetlet IIName: Site of Shanghai Expo (上海世博园)Number: 2010-3Date of Issue: 21 January 2010Value: 8 stamps/sheetDenominations:80分 (4-1): Expo Center (世博中心)Covering a floor space of some 140,000 square meters on the southern bank of the Huangpu River to the west of the Expo Boulevard, the Expo Center will serve as the...
China Souvenir SheetName: Site of Shanghai Expo (上海世博园)Number: 2010-3Date of Issue: 21 January 2010Denomination:6元: Expo Boulevard (世博轴)Stretching one kilometer in the central part of the Expo Site, the Expo Boulevard is a two-story, semi-opening structure, which serves as the transportation hub of the Expo Site, topped by white films. Covering...
China StampsName: Site of Shanghai Expo (上海世博园)Number: 2010-3Date of Issue: 21 January 2010Value: 4 stamps/setDenominations:80分 (4-1): Expo Center (世博中心)Covering a floor space of some 140,000 square meters on the southern bank of the Huangpu River to the west of the Expo Boulevard, the Expo Center will serve as the operational...
Gulfmann Stamps Collection
Turkish owl cover, posted on February 15, 2010 from Turkey Passaport to Taipei....
American CCCC cover, posted on February 20, 2010 from West Point,KY to Taipei....
MACAU ~ Macau Registered Cover
Macau registered cover, posted on February 27, 2010 from Macau GPO to Taipei....
MYANMAR ~ Myanmar Registered Cover
Myanmar registered cover, posted on February 20, 2010 from Yangoon to Taipei....
TURKEY ~ Turkey Olympic Sports Cover
Turkish cover, posted on February 15, 2010 from Passaport to Taipei....
SINGAPORE ~ Durian Fruits Cover
Singapore durian fruits cover, posted on February 12, 2010 from Singapore to Taipei....
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Title: Year of a Tiger - AzerbaijanDate of Issue: 1 March 2010Country: AzerbaijanDenominations: 60qep Source: www.azermarka.azwww.mycovercollection.blogspot.com...
Japan Post Service Co. such as graduation and entrance stamps, greeting them with the Snoopy character is so popular with all ages available to celebrate the spring season. Title: SNOOPY hen it is that yourDate of Issue: 3 March 2010Country: JapanDenominations: 80 yen x 10 (1)Snoopy Letter(2)Peppermint Patty...
Year of the Tiger (2010)- Vietnam
Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) issues the stamp set "Year of the Tiger" to welcome the year 2010 - Year of the Tiger - Year to celebrate 1.000th anniversary of Th?ng Long - Hà N?i. The stamp set shows the image of Tiger, the...
Year of the Tiger (2010)- Vietnam
Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) issues the stamp set "Year of the Tiger" to welcome the year 2010 - Year of the Tiger - Year to celebrate 1.000th anniversary of Th?ng Long - Hà N?i. The stamp set shows the image of Tiger, the 3rd symbolized animal in...
Lunar Year of the Tiger - Macau
Macao post issued the third series of the Chinese Zodiac, the "Lunar Year of the Tifer".The stamps combine the different forms of the Tiger and the distinguishing characteristics of "Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth". This year, the tiger’s nature from the “Five Elements” is “Metal Tiger”, so it...
New website www.philatelynews.com
Hello Friends,I am very much thankful to all of you for helping me to grow and keep my blog live.By seeing the demand for change and more flexibility we have moved to new domain called www.philatelynews.com, giving all your favorite stamps, exhibition, auction and club updates.I kindly request all my...
Stamp Collecting Blog
Carol suggested in a recent blog comment that I should write a piece about the stamps you see on the blog’s header image. Tough each of the stamps has been covered thoroughly on the blog during year 2009, newer readers of the blog might not be familiar with them. A...
As some know I’ve been having my winter holidays this week. Although things didn’t go quite as planned (I got some heat/fever for few days), I still did have a quite enjoyable week with my family and some stamps. Here’s my youngest kid playing with her own stock book and...
Shifted overprint on Congo (Kinshasa) stamp
Here’s another item from EFO (”Error-Freak-Oddity”) collection that I’ve been lately building alongside my worldwide stamps collection. It’s 1961 Congo (Kinshasa/Zaire) 20c (mint) stamp with heavily shifted overprint. I don’t think it’s hugely rare (or valuable) as somewhat similar shifted overprints on Congo stamps are more or less constantly...
Somewhat related to last post about golden era stamp collectors and philatelists is this Finnish booklet commemorating collector Agathon Faberge. Yes, he was a member of the same Faberge family that created the fabulous Winter Eggs for the Russian czar. But above all, he was one of the first...
Golden era stamp collectors and philatelists
One of my favorite stamp related books is “Filatelian taito” (roughly translated “The art of philately”) written and printed in the 1950’s. Why such old book? Besides the very obvious reason that very few stamp related books exist in Finnish language, I’m very much in love with...
Gulfmann Birds Stamps
Israeli seabirds ATM cover, issued on January 3, 2010....
ISRAEL ~ Seabirds ATM Postage Label
Israeli seabirds ATM postage label, issued on January 3, 2010....
Latvian birds cover, posted on April 18, 1994 from Latvia Valmiera to Taipei....
BELGIUM ~ Peregrine Bird Stamp
Belgium Peregrine bird stamp, issued on January 21, 2008....
BELGIUM ~ Nutcracker Bird Stamp
Belgium nutcrackr bird stamp, issued on January 21, 2008....
Belgium Hedge sparrow bird stamp, issued on January 21, 2008....
MB's Stamps of India
The Naval Philatelic Society was founded,on 17 October 1979, at Visakhaptnam, by Cdr.S Shekhar and Cdr.U.N Acharya with an aim to promote Naval Philately and to persuade the Govt. to release more stamps on Indian and Merchant Navy.Also to assist the Navy in their effort to get stamps on Naval...
Port of Hamburg (Hamburger Hafen)
Port of Hamburg named Germany's "Gateway to the World" is the largest port in Germany and the third-largest port of Europe (after the port of Rotterdam and the port of Antwerp) It is situated on River Elbe.The card released for the 800th birthday of the port and which was celebrated...
Protul Chandra Sorcar, the famous Indian magician, who was known for his stage shows by the name "Indrajal" was well known magician all over the world. India post has issued a stamp in his honour for his achievements on 23rd Feb.2010....
A stamp was released on 21st Feb 2010 on Bible Society of India on its 200 years of serving the Indian Churches and society of all the ethno-linguistic communities....
William Hall, V.C., was born in Circa 1825 in Nova Scotia, to African-American parents who had been liberated from the U.S Slave Trade. He launched his seafaring career at a young age, first joining the crew of an American trading vessel as a merchant mariner in 1844. In 1852 Hall...
India Post has in its website published the stamp issue programme for the year 2010. For the list visit the website of India Post...
Stamps Blog
USPS Considers Post Office Lottery
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog A post on the USPS Inspector General’s blog asks, “Could Longer Lines Be Coming to Your Local Post Office…Lottery Lines?” It goes on to report, “According to a representative on the Postal Regulatory Commission’s staff, a Postal Service-run lottery ‘could offer the potential for substantial profits...
Space Stamp Artist Robert McCall, 90, Dies
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Space.com reports, “Artist Robert McCall, whose visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have graced U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, and the walls of the Smithsonian, died on Friday of a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 90.” According to reporter...
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Emma Kat Richardson writes on the Bookslut website, “War is hell, and Sarah Blake, author of the new novel The Postmistress, has 101 ways to prove it.” The story takes place in 1940 and tells the story of events in pre-World War II New Hampshire as...
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog According to the Alphabetilately website, “A bisect is a postage stamp cut in half (usually diagonally), and used to pay half its face value, e.g. half a ten cent stamp to pay five. The practice has been permitted (in the US at least) only for...
Five Myths About the U.S. Postal Service
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog Postmaster General John Potter writes in today’s Washington Post, “For 235 years, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered your mail in snow, rain and dark of night. However, tough market conditions are creating new challenges for our business. Misconceptions about the future of our enterprise...
Korean War Memorial Sculptor Wins Stamp Photo Appeal
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog The Am Law Daily reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled, 2-1, in favor of 85-year-old sculptor Frank Gaylord regarding a photo of his Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. that was used on a U.S. postage stamp. According to the article, “John...
The Stamp Collecting Round-Up
The Happiest Mail Boxes on Earth
Patricia Raynor writes on the National Postal Museum blog, "If your vacation destination this year happens to include Walt Disney World® in Florida, try playing the game of who can spot the most mailboxes. From Main Street U.S.A. in the Magic Kingdom® to the international pavilions at Epcot,® careful...
A Printer, a Gallery and the New Abstract Expressionism Stamps
Tom Buckham writes in the Buffalo News about a "serendipitous convergence of business and art." Tom reports, "When Ashton Potter USA Ltd. in Amherst bid last year on a contract to print a series of postage stamps commemorating the art movement known as abstract expressionism, no one there realized...
National Postal Museum: Victim of "Modernization"
"James" writes on his Everyday Correspondence blog about visiting the lobby of National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.He points out that,"Originally the main post office serving the District, the museum building was designed in the Beaux Arts style, and was completed in 1914...On one side of the grand hallway are...
USPS Considers Post Office Lottery
A post on the USPS Inspector General's blog asks, "Could Longer Lines Be Coming to Your Local Post Office…Lottery Lines?"It goes on to report, "According to a representative on the Postal Regulatory Commission’s staff, a Postal Service-run lottery 'could offer the potential for substantial profits for the Postal Service and...
Space Stamp Artist Robert McCall, 90, Dies
Space.com reports, "Artist Robert McCall, whose visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have graced U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, and the walls of the Smithsonian, died on Friday of a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 90."According to reporter Robert Z. Pearlman of CollectSpace.com,...
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Emma Kat Richardson writes on the Bookslut website, "War is hell, and Sarah Blake, author of the new novel The Postmistress, has 101 ways to prove it."The story takes place in 1940 and tells the story of events in pre-World War II New Hampshire as well as bomb ravaged London...
Rainbow Stamp Club
Exquisite Items from Australia…
Song Birds – 9 September 2009 Hi ! Here are some most beautiful items issued by Australia Post. I am so pleased to share this items here as sent by my old best college friend, Sunita from Australia. Though she...
Great loss to Indian Philately....
Great Loss to Indian Philately I deeply regret to write that Noted Philatelist of Hyderabad,Shri M.G. Pittie passed away today. I just got this news from Mr Yogesh Kumar who is away from India to attend a meeting and has expressed his deep condolences....
Hi ! I just recd a nice cover from Israel with beautiful stamps of Light Houses of Israel. I express my gratitude to my friend Dr Eli Moallem who sent me these...
“Where others aim to be good, I aim to be the Best..” -- PC Sorcar Hi ! Here are some wonderful philatelic items issued by West Bengal Circle of India Post. The one shown above is a...
Hi Here are some recent covers sent to me by my friends. The first cover with nice stamps from France was sent to me by Mr Maurice Zolne of...
Great Urdu Poet – Firaq Gorakhpuri
Firaq Gorakhpuri Death Anniversary – 3 March Raghupati Sahay 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri ( (1896-1982) was one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets of India. Raghupati Sahay, was born in 1896, Gorakhpur in a Kayastha family.He left his imprint on three important genres of Urdu...
Digital Philatelic Workshop
Do You Prepare Your Exhibits on a Computer?
Filed under: exhibiting Tagged: philatelic exhibiting ...
British Occupation of Iraq 1918-1920
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Quick Review of Linn’s Stamp News Digital Edition
The Stamp Collecting Blog has an interesting review of Linn’s Stamp News Digital edition for philatelists. The annual subscription includes access to digital archive – meaning access to past issues of Linn’s Stamp Magazine and Scott’s Stamp Monthly (from the last 12 months). In addition there’s a mixture of bonus material...
What Layout Software do You Use?
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World’s First Multimedia Stamp Spins Business Fairytale
Exclusive interview with Aigo’s Yao Wei - World’s First Multimedia Stamp Spins Business Fairytale. Touching the stamps with a special pen-shaped device, called the aigo pen, allows a chip in the pen to recite some of the greatest poems from the Tang Dynasty, including work by Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai...
The Philatelic Database - Stamp Archive
Stamp Collecting in Indonesia (1976)
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Cetinje, Montenegro Via Suez From Mackay, Qld: 1894 Postcard
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The Printing of United Nations Stamps (1956)
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Australia: Urunga Post Office, NSW 2455 (2009)
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A journey of stamps through First Day Cover (FDC)
Christmas Island Year of the Tiger 2010 Zodiac sheetlet FDC from AUSTRALIA
FDC Name:Christmas Island Year of the Tiger 2010 Zodiac sheetlet.Issue Date:12th JAN'2010Details:Third in the Chinese zodiac,The Tiger is the sign of courage.Tiger people are fearless leader although somewhat unpredictable and emotional.In the last century Tiger years have included 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010.Famous tigers include...
Bible Society of India (BSI) FDC from India
FDC Name:Bible Society of India (BSI)Issue Date:21st FEB'2010Details:The Bible Society of India (BSI) is a Christian body that is authorized to translate, produce, distribute and market the Holy Bible. The Central Office of the BSI is located in Bangalore city in the state of Karnataka in South India Christian following...
FDC Name:P.C.SorkarIssue Date:23rd FEB'2010Details:Pratulchandra Sorcar was born on 23 February 1913 in a middle-class family in the village of Ashekpur in Tangail district. He was attracted to magic early and learned magic from Ganapati Chakravarti. While still at school, he started performing in magic shows. In 1929, he passed the...
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Reserve Bank of India FDC from INDIA
FDC Name:Reserve Bank of India.Issue Date:16th JAN'2010Details:The Reserve Bank of India (RBI, Hindi: भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक) is the central bank of India, established on April 1, 1935 during the British-Raj in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. The Central Office of the Reserve Bank...
Election Commission Of India FDC
FDC Name:Election Commission Of India.Issue Date:25th JAN'2010Details:The President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil released a commemorative Postage Stamp in the denomination of Rupees Five along with First Day Cover. Shri A. Raja, Minister for Communications and Information Technology gave the introduction of the commemorative stamp prepared & issued...
Joe Hahn's Philately Blog
Several years ago, Bill Welch loaned me a lot of his material to scan so that I would have a record of it. Since his collections will now be sold, I would like to share a few unusual, sometimes rare, items with other collectors.The firs item is an 1893...
In an article I wrote that appeared in the November-December 2008 issue of The Collectors Club Philatelist, I discussed the unusual method used to print the 1906 Escalon issue of El Salvador. (This same method was used for the 1907 National Palace issue, the 1910 Figueroa issue and the...
A Look at the Departmental Stamps of Argentina
A fascinating, but challenging, area to collect is the Departmental Stamps of Argentina. The challenge is not the cost as few of them beyond the pocketbook of most collectors but the ability to find them.The stamps were issued between 1913 and 1937 and so appear on the regular...
Ships calling at El Salvador ports
Several months ago, Guillermo Gallegos, Director of Philately of the SFIES-ACES, visited me and brought along digitized scans of the Diario Oficial of El Salvador. The file is about 47 Gigabytes as it contains over 100,000 scanned pages of the publication from 1845 to 1950.I have been reviewing the...
I recently did a review of Danilo A. Mueses’ new book La Emisión de 1880 y sus Derivaciones for “The American Philatelist” that will appear in an up-coming issue of the magazine. In the book, he states that certain of the postal stationery items are quite rare, which they...
U. S. Philatelic Classics Society
I just returned from viewing the exhibits on display at the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, 4th Annual Postal History Symposium held at the American Philatelic Building in Bellefonte, PA.As many of the readers of this blog know, I do not collect U.S. stamps at all although I have done so...
My Philately
(I'm currently writing this post from Ottawa airport. I'm waiting for my flight to Montreal and then to Paris. This is a pitty that during last week spent in Chicago and Ottawa I could not find any time to visit a post office in order to buy some stamps !...
Frog on margin of stamps from Uruguay
(I know, I haven’t written in my blog since ages… several weeks in fact. The reason is that three weeks ago I have starting a new job, within the same company, that kept me very busy. A lot of new things to learn, a lot of new people to meet....
Just a short note to tell you that I just published an update of my website about frogs and toads.http://www.philatelic-frog.fr...
Frog on a red cancel from Japan
I have already shown here on my blog several items from Japan bearing nice picturial red cancel. I am very happy to share with you the latest one that I got : a red cancel picturing a frog ! The red cancel is from Matsuo Post Office, Iwate prefecture. The...
A new cover from Indonesia birds on a souvenir sheet
From the 11th of May 2009 to the 15th of May was held the World Ocean Conference (WOC) and the Coral Triangle Summit (CTS) in Manodo, Indonesia. The purpose of this conference is, as you could guess, to discuss about preservation of the oceans. At this occasion, the Indonesian postal...
As announced in my last post, I’m glad to share with you my first cover coming from the Republic of Macedonia. This is a registered cover that was used by the seller of the stamps I showed you in my previous post. The cover was sent from Skopje, the capital...
The Argentina 1935-51 Definitive Series
5p1E on cover from the Jantzen correspondence
I have two of these covers, both with 5 pesos stamps. The other cover is posted in 1936. This one is posted in May of 1938....
'Fonopostal' used as regular stamp.
These stamps were intended for mailing records. They were printed in a very small run and are sometimes found used as regular postage. Here is a cover with the 1.18 pesos value from 1940 to Geneva, Switzerland....
Interesting marking on cover to Germany
Here is a cover from 1936 to Germany.The marking has been crossed out.Here is a detail of the 2 pesos stamp....
1p1E on 1942 plates printed in wrong order
This example shows the background plate printed on top of the foreground plate. It is posted in 1942, and is one of the 1E papers.Here is the stamp.These two high resolution details show the inverse order of printing clearly....
I still need to do a fair amount of work on the late papers. This is how I currently defined the families of papers:1. 1E1 of 1936, 1E3(a,b,c) and 1L1 (wavy rays, mid-size RAs).2. 1E2, 1E4, 2D, and 2C (semi straight to straight rays, large RAs).3. NGR, NOP of 1948,...
Additional 5p1L1 plate varieties
These two stamps have Upper Left corner scratches.This stamp also has outer scratches Lower Left corner. ...
Faroese Stamps
Baleia Piloto / Long-finned Pilot Whale
Issue: Long-finned Pilot WhaleValues: 50.00 DKKIssue: 22-II-2010Author: Edward FugløPerforation:Technique: Offset + Metal FXPrinter: Southern Colour Print, New ZealandThe pilot whale (Globicephala melas) is an extremely gregarious animal that regularly swims along the Faroese coast on its migration within its habitat in the northern Atlantic Ocean. During...
Issue: ButterfliesValues: 6.00, 8.00, 14.00 and 16.00 DKKIssue: 22-II-2010Author: Astrid AndreasenPerforation:Technique: OffsetPrinter: LM-Group, CanadaTo date, 154 different species of butterflies have been registered in the Faroe Islands. Most of them do not breed here, but arrive with the help of warm currents of air from the south, sometimes all the...
O Fundo do mar / The bottom of the sea
Issue: The bottom of the sea Values: 1.00, 6.00, 8.00 and 12.00 DKK Issue: 22-II-2010 Author: Ingi Sørensen Perforation: Technique: Offset + Metal Silver Printer:Southern Colour Print, New Zealand A fabulous submarine world seen through Ingi Sørensen’s...
Covers of the Faroe Islands XIX
Registered FDC sent from Torshavn to Torshavn in Faroe Islands. Cover sent on 6 of October 1980. Technical data: Europa - Celebrities Linguists and folklorists Values: 150 and 200 øre Date of issue: 6-X-1980 Date of withdraw:...
Posta – Win a trip to the Faroe Islands Postcard
I filled in and sent my postcard... now it’s just wait.. I maintain alive the dream that I will go to win one of the trips......
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