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 Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on July 16, 2011 at 6:59am: Too funny, Jen! Thanks for the "vote of confidence", though! The original stamp is lovely vintage:

Comment by Jen Staggs on July 16, 2011 at 6:54am: Now there's a queen I would vote for! Oh, wait...

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on July 16, 2011 at 6:42am: Thanks, David! Left-over "artistamp" from that trial-and-error phase some time ago. Never could get too involved with it.

And, perhaps Val is correct...somewhere I do have a Royal Wedding stamp? Did that come with the coin??? Me will have to check and search one day when i am in the city...memory gets hazy, is that a sign of my age???

Comment by David Stafford on July 15, 2011 at 4:08pm: Like that jaunty angle on your tiara, Katerina....

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 15, 2011 at 3:31pm: Hi Katerina! I sent you a Royal Wedding stamp at the start of May -- a second mailing because the first got lost -- that included Kate & Wills. Did you get it???

Regards, Val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on July 15, 2011 at 7:03am: How I never got a Royal Wedding stamp from UK? Must speak to the Queen...

Regards,

Princess Kate

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 14, 2011 at 8:48pm: if you want to keep them, please send her majesty the queen $10 and you can have them forever.

Comment by Jen Staggs on July 14, 2011 at 2:17pm: Very envious of the royal wedding stamp!!! The couple is here in the US this week, tramping around in jeans and cowboy hats, looking like a sheep dancing on two legs. Very silly, but very cute.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 14, 2011 at 10:54am: Dear Katerina, Angie & Snooky, Dean and Jen, Many thanks for your 'Fives'. It was great to come back from the UK and find them here waiting for me. They all lined up and sang 'Welcome Home, Val' -- Five times, of course!

Regards, le Tour de Val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on July 14, 2011 at 6:59am: I guess we are holding back, and not posting the "5" mail art yet, until others receive? Oh great leader, Valentine, should be returning by tomorrow to Sigean, so we will get the word then? For now, special thanks to Val...'got his "Five" Funny Four ;-) And Louise's FireBall XL5!...also with great Canadian postage. (My FIRST "Royal Wedding" stamp!Thank you, thank you!)

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