Season 2, Episode 6, “The Botched Language of Cranes” Close your eyes. Wait, can you still read this? Open them! Open your eyes. Alright, don’t close your eyes. But before you read any farther, take a pause and name the top female TV fashion icons of the ‘90s. You probably remember “the Rachel,” the hairstyle... Continue Reading →
Lunar Voyage Cachets, set of 5 covers 🇺🇸 United States | Issued April 1972 Fifty years ago, three men did what barely a handful had done before them: They flew to the moon, landed, had a look around, and brought a few souvenir pebbles home. In fact, their accomplishment was much more astounding than that.... 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 →
Marine Timekeepers: Decorated Enamel Dial 🇬🇧 Great Britain, 24p | Issued February 16, 1993 | SG GB 1654 Since 2020, many people (myself included) have felt that time isn’t what it used to be. Days are too long and too short at the same time. Hours take weeks. Months go by in a flash. We... Continue Reading →
Some of the Literary Arts stamps in my collection. John Steinbeck | 🇺🇸 United States, 15¢ | Issued Feb. 27, 1979 | Scott 1773 Edith Wharton | 🇺🇸 United States, 15¢ | Issued Sept. 5, 1980 | Scott 1832 Nathaniel Hawthorne | 🇺🇸 United States, 20¢ | Issued July 8, 1983 | Scott 2047 F.... Continue Reading →
The Penny Red (red plate printing) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 1d | Issued 1864–1879 | Scott 33 Color and contrast enhanced for clarity. Somewhere out there, someone is keeping a list of stamp superlatives. What’s the biggest stamp? The smallest? What’s the “weirdest” stamp? Some of these superlatives may be subjective, but there is one everyone... Continue Reading →
🇹🇬 Togolese Republic | 0.50F, 1F, Abraham Lincoln, In Memory of J.F. Kennedy overprintIssued March 7, 1964 | Michel TG 407, TG 408 I was recently gifted a lovely Togolese stamp depicting an Iberian caravel, a 15th-century sailing ship. When I went to place it with my other Togolese stamps, two in number, I was... Continue Reading →
🇭🇺 Hungary | 2Ft, “Stephenson and his Nonpareil”Issued June 12, 1981 | Cat# 2697 When I was first reviewing the stamp collection I inherited, there were a number of beautiful Hungarian stamps with gold leaf and interesting designs. But this train stamp with an engineering-friendly grid design and E13B typeface caught my eye. The top... Continue Reading →
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