Postal History Boutique

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Postal History Boutique

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.

 

Members: 93
Latest Activity: Sep 24

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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 Valentine Mark Herman on August 7, 2013 at 5:43pm

A&S: you might, just might, hit on a treasure -- such as a Mauritius Blue, which would be worth millions. Or not. If not, just fill yuour bucket with pretty looking stamps that you can re-cycle/re-use on your Mail Art stuff.

Happy bucket-ing. Val

Comment by David Stafford on August 7, 2013 at 5:10pm

The Library of Congress has wonderful collections of photographic prints. Here's one of a Post Office in Washington, D.C.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 9, 2013 at 8:26am

Using some for 25 years of IUOMA :-) 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 7, 2013 at 5:06am

Thanks for keeping it going MomKat? Where have all the Postal Art Historians gone??

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 6, 2013 at 5:06pm

Wow...remembering this group and adding some "Dean-made" stamps:-)

Comment by yves maraux on December 11, 2012 at 7:12pm

a 1900 poet Frank Nohain

Comment by yves maraux on December 6, 2012 at 8:54am
Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 4, 2012 at 7:37pm

Oh well, let me know when y'all decide something definite (and then I can draw on the fabulous collection of US stamps that Katerina gave me!)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 4, 2012 at 5:17pm

Loose stamps in an envelope...'could definitely do that!

...along with a few arty stamps, too?

Make-a-snake out of stamps??

Zazzle (a print-out place on the internet ...in Australia, me thinks,)

makes printed stamps with champagne glasses. Also on Amazon there is a rubber stamp of a champagne bottle :-)

Comment by vizma bruns on December 4, 2012 at 1:09pm

Oh yeah, loose stamps in an envo is what I'd like.

Is there such a thing as a Champagne stamp?

 

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