Postal History Boutique

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Postal History Boutique

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.

 

Members: 93
Latest Activity: Sep 24

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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 Mikel Untzilla on May 7, 2023 at 7:10pm

Fabio Di Ojuara 230403-1

Comment by Mikel Untzilla on April 30, 2023 at 11:15pm

Chiara Bertoncello 230325

Comment by Mikel Untzilla on April 10, 2023 at 11:26pm

Carien van Hest 230325-1

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 24, 2023 at 12:07pm

FDR has fallen on Spring mail art cards :-)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 23, 2023 at 9:15am

It will take some time for me to sort them all once again, sigh. I am not a professional stamp collector, so I had them on pages by "theme", and now to separate them and once again place them in their proper "pockets" hahaha!

i see that I have loads of the same US stamp in many categories, so I am working on more "altered postcards" with postage stamps, thanks to Mim's idea!

(lots and lots of FDR... and "George" !)

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on March 22, 2023 at 5:13pm

That looks like 'The Great Escape of the Stamps'!...

Hopefully their adventure took not too long (it is unsafe for stamps, wandering on floors). Hopefully you caught them all and brought them back where they belong: safely in your album :-)

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on March 22, 2023 at 3:00pm

Oh no Kat!!!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 22, 2023 at 11:09am

...everywhere, everything, all at once!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 22, 2023 at 11:08am

The stamp album is the type with "pockets", so the stamps are not "stuck" on the pages, but one "slides" them into the paper section, sigh...

and now thousands of US postage stamps have "slid" out!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 22, 2023 at 11:05am

There was an accident this morning with my big US postage stamp collection, AACK!

The whole album slipped and fell on the floor:

chaos...

 

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