It’s a perennial question for stamp collectors: What do you do with all your extra stamps? I enjoy the meditative action of sorting through kiloware with an audiobook playing in the other room. But I’m not a worldwide collector. So, what can I do with all my extra stamps? For now, they are all neatly... Continue Reading →
Message to the Shepherds, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi🇭🇺 Hungary, 4–30f | Issued December 1, 1943 | Scott 617–619 There are many ways to approach stamp collecting: by topic, by nation, by volume. But in any collection, primacy is a key component. What came first? The issue of what was the first Christmas stamp issue... Continue Reading →
"The Little Mermaid" sculpture, Copenhagen 🇩🇰 Denmark, 3.20 dkr | Issued February 16, 1989 | Scott DK 865 185 years ago today, the world was introduced to a story that has transformed from its original incarnation almost as fully as did its main character: “The Little Mermaid.” Written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, the... Continue Reading →
Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait with Straw Hat” 🇳🇱 Netherlands, €0.39 | Issued January 2, 2003 | Scott 1139, Michel NL 2083v Behind every painting is a story. And the same can certainly be said of stamps. Postage stamps have long borrowed from fine art, from presidential portraits painted by American masters to great works of... Continue Reading →
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