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 January 13, 2015 at 9:18am: The series that the US Post sent out did have a few "new" old ones right way up...and only about 100 of them. So they are selling for $40,000 and more!

Question for stamp collectors:

How do we "save" these self-stick stamps?

We can no longer soak and mount in old stamp albums...sigh.

Comment by Alan Brignull on January 13, 2015 at 8:03am: They produced a few deliberate 'errors' with the plane the right way up which are now the valuable ones

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 12, 2015 at 3:04pm: New...old...US postage stamp. Super nice!

some worth lots of $$$

here:

Jenny Upside-Down

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 6, 2015 at 12:13pm: not "postage" stamps...

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 6, 2015 at 12:13pm: On the Twelfth Day of Christmas...artistamps :-)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 24, 2014 at 1:12pm

Comment by Alan Brignull on August 21, 2014 at 1:18pm: Maybe they ignored the gibberish and just read the postcode, but a 'cheeky' card from Val Herman just arrived successfully here in 'Ouivenneaux', addressed in pure Franglais.

Mercy buckets, Val.

Comment by Alan Brignull on August 19, 2014 at 8:21pm: Who quality controls the quality controllers?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 20, 2014 at 12:36pm: Alan, I have various perforated and unperforated 2d Blues of different plates. You're right, these were cut out of a (SG) catalogue;

Comment by Alan Brignull on June 20, 2014 at 7:12am: Val is even richer than I thought if those twopenny blues are real! (I think they must be cut out of a catalogue)

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