Postal History Boutique

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Celebrate national postal history through mail art exchanges embracing stamps, postcards, envelopes, stickers, postboxes and whatever else anyone comes up with. Managed by Valentine Mark Herman.

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Leap Year : : 29 February 2016 19 Replies

It only happens twenty-five times in each century, that odd day on the calendar, 29 February. What a great opportunity to sneak in some postal history to your mail art this year.At the end of this…Continue

Started by Keith S. Chambers. Last reply by Heleen de Vaan Jun 22, 2016.

FIVE: Postal History Boutique Special July Mailing 123 Replies

Bonjour boys and girls! Angie and Snooky told us yesterday that:"This year July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens once every 823 years."I propose that we celebrate it…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) Jul 26, 2011.

Stop stealing the UK's postboxes (and making them into mailboxes, too)!! 2 Replies

From today's UK Daily Telegraph Postboxes stolen and sold on eBay for thousandsBritains world-famous red Victorian postboxes are being stolen by criminals who sell them abroad for thousands of pounds…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Valentine Mark Herman Jun 28, 2011.

A postal experiment 2 Replies

In the very early days of the postal system -- and going way back before postage stamps were introduced (in the UK in 1840 -- addresses were very simple, or even non -existent (and of course there…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by John Tingey Jun 21, 2011.

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Comment by yves maraux on August 18, 2013 at 12:19pm: http://rainbowstampnews.blogspot.fr/

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 12, 2013 at 1:35pm: hahaha, Angie that is worth-a-million! Ok, send it on to David,

and I'll take the ol' Greek stamps. Did you find any old BLUE

George Washington's? There are a few misprinted ones worth

a few thousand $ :-)

(I like 'em cause they are BLUE!)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 11, 2013 at 10:06am: "...a Penny Red that's over 160 years old"!

I am so there, Val!

Angie, did you find any of these:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 11, 2013 at 5:01am: A&S: they are called 'Machins', after their designer Arnold Machin. They consist of the Queen's head, and the value of the stamp -- and nothing else, not even the name of the country.

From a Postal History point of view 3 things might be of interest:

i) the Machin head stamp was introduced in 1967, and it's design has not changed since then, even though Lizzie has aged by almost half a century. She has consistently resisted all efforts to change (ie 'update') the image.

ii) there are hundreds (possibly thousands)of different versions of the stamps -- by colour, perforation, watermark, value, etc. Collecting Machins can be a very serious, and expensive business

iii) I read that the Machin image -- which is also used on GB coins and stamps from some of the British colonies is the most used image ever. i forget the estimate of how many times it's been used, but it runs into billions.

The End.

Comment by Eraser Heed on August 11, 2013 at 1:12am: Nice pile of goodies and I see You also got the Yellow stamp for me :)

Comment by David Stafford on August 10, 2013 at 8:57pm: Hoarding is so cool.......

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 10, 2013 at 8:22pm: correction (keyboard problems!)

I CLAIM THE MAURITIUS 2d BLUE!!

Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 10, 2013 at 8:21pm: I CMAIM HE MAURITOU 2d BLUE!!

Val

Comment by David Stafford on August 10, 2013 at 8:06pm: hmmmm, lower left hand corner looks like mine....

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 8, 2013 at 5:01am: SPECIAL MAIL ART OFFER.

If you send me some Mail Art marked 'Postal Boutique Swap', I'll send you back a Penny Red that's over 160 years old.

Val

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