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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Latest Activity: Jan 18

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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 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

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 8, 2013 at 5:00am: Yes, Eraser, they were. It was a cunning plot by Sir Roland Hill and friends to keep philatelists busy for the next 173+ years.

Well, it keeps me busy anyway.

Comment by Eraser Heed on August 7, 2013 at 9:04pm: I think early english stamps were made with the purpose only of collecting them with all these plates and letters in their corners..

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on August 7, 2013 at 8:54pm: Please will someone send me a Victorian Penny Red, Plate 77 (I have examples of all the bother plates)?

Thank you. val

Comment by Eraser Heed on August 7, 2013 at 8:44pm: Why arent my art valuable when I keep messing it up all the time?

Comment by Eraser Heed on August 7, 2013 at 8:43pm: Yellow is the new black. Green was so last year. Collecting stamps is close to collecting art, the two worlds of so called high gallery art and expensive stamp collecting is full of drama and trying to make something grand out of stuff we dont need... but I love those small bits of paper and I dont only mean money.

Comment by David Stafford on August 7, 2013 at 8:22pm: Pick me one those too...Stamps are the only enterprise where the rewards for fucking up are huge....

Comment by Eraser Heed on August 7, 2013 at 8:20pm: A year ago or so the Blue penny museum in Mauritius had a mail art call to send mail about the so called postoffice stamps, quite fun subject but heard nothing more from them after the deadline.

Another great stamp; the yellow 3 sk bco of Sweden from 1855 (should have been green). A bargain for 2 million dollars. That makes price per kilo; 56 billion dollars.

Comment by David Stafford on August 7, 2013 at 7:29pm: There's one with a bi-plane upside down...I'd like one of those....

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