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 DKeys on March 30, 2011 at 9:54pm
Glad mine arrived Kat. I received one from Carla and David loved them both thank you!
Comment by David Stafford on March 30, 2011 at 9:35pm
I'm down with that...
Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 30, 2011 at 9:28pm

Hey Katerina! Two suggestions: i) you post these images way AFTER the Space Day -- otherwise it spoils the element of surprise for the rest of us if we are all going to get the same sort of piece; ii) you act as the Space Day Photo-Archivist and keep a record of all of them -- again AFTER the Space Day.

Wotcha think?

Hey all other Astronauts: Mission Control requests posting of Space Mail AFTER the Space Day;

Regards, Mission Control

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 30, 2011 at 9:28pm

Hey Katerina! Two suggestions: i) you post these images way AFTER the Space Day -- otherwise it spoils the element of surprise for the rest of us if we are all going to get the same sort of piece; ii) you act as the Space Day Photo-Archivist and keep a record of all of them -- again AFTER the Space Day.

Wotcha think?

Hey all other Astronauts: Mission Control requests posting of Space Mail AFTER the Space Day;

Regards, Mission Control

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 29, 2011 at 7:41pm
Angie! that is an amazing event...there really will be 5 weekends in July! Once every 800 years or so...we will have to commemorate the event.
Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 25, 2011 at 2:00pm

Cambridge and castles and knights! Thank you, Val!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 18, 2011 at 2:52pm

And Postage stamps that today tell another "story" and "history":

4 mail art pieces arrived in Greece today, Friday, March 18, 2011. Always with mail art comes an array of postage stampin and stampings. They tell a story, even before we open to see the art that is contained inside. Here is, at the top, from Hamburg, Germany: a QR Code...quick response code, no longer any need for perforated stamps. Then there is our ferless leader, Val, in France, sending a great collage of kitty-cat US stamps (more of the horde I've sent him).

Always beautiful and exotic are the stamps that Cheryl sends from South Africa! And then there was this heart-stopper....from Marie  in Japan. she had sent out her "Circles of your mind" mail art book on the day of the earthquake. It is postmarked 11.III.11 ...March 11, 2011, last Friday.

May she be safe and well, and our thoughts go to all in Japan. May Spring and butterflies and flowers, and children playing with grandmother ...all return soon!

Comment by Louise Kiner on March 16, 2011 at 2:21pm
That's really very funny. Great!
Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 16, 2011 at 2:06pm

Stamps with a Story! Val has made a great "Menu" from the mass amount of old US postage stamps I have been sending him. This is amazing...and yummy!

Dinner for Two at 8:00 pm, table 4, and the Menu cover:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 14, 2011 at 8:36pm

Postal History...and Postage with a Story! from Japan:

Japanese postage stamps on two mail art pieces that arrived today in Greece. They were mailed with such joy, with such cheer...a moment in time BEFORE the destruction of the earthquake and the tsunami, before  fears and saddness. One cancellation reads 7 III 11, March 7, 2011, from Tokyo, and the other reads on the lower left: 8 III...., March 8, 2011. I shall treasure this mail art and the stamps that brought them to me before disaster. May the senders be safe and well.
 

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