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 Valentine Mark Herman on April 16, 2011 at 5:44am: Philatelically, some things are sacred to we Brits, such as the Machin head of Queen Lizzie on British stamps. First designed circa 1965, Liz has refused to change it -- even though it now depicts how she looked almost 50 years ago -- and is the world's most used visual image -- 200 billion hits by 2007 I believe.

God Save the Machin Head
Liberty VALence

Comment by David Stafford on April 15, 2011 at 8:16pm: It does seem tacky in the extreme but man, that's the way the zeitgeist is blowin'

Comment by Jen Staggs on April 15, 2011 at 8:11pm: Maybe it was subtle anti-French sentiment. Either way, I was appalled. It's not like the English would accidentally cut a stamp of the Madame Tussuad's Queen.

Comment by David Stafford on April 15, 2011 at 8:01pm: Embarrassing and somehow so totally apropos of the country...Real or Vegas? Let's go with Vegas.....I can see how it happened too...Some poor graphic designer searching the web for pictures of the Statue of Liberty...Hmmm, this one looks usable...and it's showtime....

Comment by Jen Staggs on April 15, 2011 at 7:51pm: I just read a story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110415/us_yblog_thelooko...

That the Lady Liberty stamp actually uses the replica Statue of Liberty in Las Vegas rather than the 125 year old New York version! How embarrassing!

Comment by David Stafford on April 15, 2011 at 6:50pm: heaven, of course.....

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 15, 2011 at 6:35pm: And worms are from...?

Comment by David Stafford on April 15, 2011 at 6:32pm: Angie's are from Mars, Snookies are from Venus...

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 15, 2011 at 6:19pm: You guys are missing the obvious: Angie IS a Martian chick. 5Although I'm not quite sure what that makes Snooky).

Regards, Val

Comment by David Stafford on April 15, 2011 at 3:39pm: As a compulsive liar I second that emotion...

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