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 13, 2011 at 5:28pm: Thanks Louise. An impressive guy, that Konstantin T. Regards, Val

Comment by Louise Kiner on April 13, 2011 at 4:12pm: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrocketTsiolkovsky.htm

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 13, 2011 at 5:24am: Nice photo, Canadian Astronautte; Who's the guy?

Regards, Mission Controller

Comment by Louise Kiner on April 12, 2011 at 9:32pm: Mission Control,

I photographed this while on mission at the Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa last month.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 12, 2011 at 6:17pm: Oh, yes, here and at Space Archives, too

Space art from Mission Control, we all got one, and it is a beauty:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 12, 2011 at 3:38pm: Good idea Katerina -- then we can capture the infinitesimal nature of space (art).

(It is with some embarassment that I must admit that I made a 'batch' of identical pieces and mailed them out -- well, the responsibilities and time consuming nature of the Mission Control position meant that I had no time to be more creative.)

If Dear katerian, you have an image of my piece, would you kindly post it here, because I am scanner-less, and the Local Scanner man won't be around until the middle of next week?

Val the ex-Mission Controller

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 12, 2011 at 3:32pm: These are the first Space mailings that landed at GrecoSpace Center . But actually, each of us should post, maybe at Space Archives 1961-2011-2061 discussion page, all the Space mail we received...as many sent individually different art to many.That way all the Space Art will be "exhibited" in one place, say what?

Comment by Nikki Soppelsa on April 12, 2011 at 3:17pm: First Man in Space - NikkiSoppelsa.blogspot.com

If you haven't received your mailart from me yet ...DON'T LOOK !

AND ... I have started making a 'book' to house the mail I receive from this project...will make a nice way to keep it all together and am hoping to receive all 13 pieces.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 12, 2011 at 3:09pm: Hi Katerina! As Mission Control is no longer enforcing the'No photos' embargo, are you going to make an 'Archive' of this Mailing? IUOMA could find it very useful to have in 2061.

Regards, Val

Comment by David Stafford on April 12, 2011 at 3:04pm: those are khrushchev's actual shoes too....

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