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 Keith S. Chambers on March 13, 2015 at 5:27am: Stamp Art by Shirley Baskin Familian.

www.shirleyfamilian.com

Fantastic collage work using stamps. Currently Ms. Familian has an exhibition at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 13, 2015 at 7:40pm: 2014 Thessaloniki was "Youth Capital"...a bit to "punk" for me,

but many liked it...and it happens to be the stamp for international mail:

0.90 euro for 20 grams. It seems there are still many around :-)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 13, 2015 at 7:36pm: Thanks for the info...'will try a few,

or just cut close to the "perforated" edge and put them in a

stamp album with "pockets", i guess. I just have to "slip-in" the stamp and the bottom half is clear enough:

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on January 13, 2015 at 7:26pm: Thanks Angie. Good work.

Comment by Neil Gordon on January 13, 2015 at 6:07pm: I love that Thessaloniki stamp!! You sent me stuff w/ that before.. I love the guy w/ the Mohawk-"punks not dead" and colorful too!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 13, 2015 at 2:14pm: Katerina: stamp shops and dealers sell special mounting strips that come in al ldifferent sizes. They have clear faces so that you can see the stamp, and sticky backs. You place the stamp inside the strip and stick the back of the strip to your album or whatever it is that you save them in.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 13, 2015 at 9:24am: Greece came out with its very first series of "stick-it" stamps,

but limited issue it seems :-(

I can't find them at any post office now :-(

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 13, 2015 at 9:18am: The series that the US Post sent out did have a few "new" old ones right way up...and only about 100 of them. So they are selling for $40,000 and more!

Question for stamp collectors:

How do we "save" these self-stick stamps?

We can no longer soak and mount in old stamp albums...sigh.

Comment by Alan Brignull on January 13, 2015 at 8:03am: They produced a few deliberate 'errors' with the plane the right way up which are now the valuable ones

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 12, 2015 at 3:04pm: New...old...US postage stamp. Super nice!

some worth lots of $$$

here:

Jenny Upside-Down

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