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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Latest Activity: Mar 3

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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 March 10, 2016 at 2:02pm: and new MOON stamp from Finnbadger:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 10, 2016 at 9:24am

Perfectly postmarked:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 7, 2016 at 8:48pm: Postmarked 29.Feb.2016 from Stripygoose arrived today,

well, the postmark is not on Her Royal Highness,

but Stripygoose did add a nice one:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 3, 2016 at 9:37am: From Heleen, postmarked Amsterdam: 29-II-16 :-)

Rare postmark: 29-II-16 from the Netherlands :-)

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 3, 2016 at 9:18am: From the Artist in Seine came French postage postmarked 29-2-2016, too:

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Rare Postmark: 29-2-2016 from Paris

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on March 2, 2016 at 8:24pm: Fantastic; I'm waiting with anticipation to see more leap day postings . . .

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on March 2, 2016 at 10:41am: From Katerina Nikoltsou, Blue Time Post stamped 29 February 2016

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 14, 2016 at 11:24pm

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 14, 2016 at 10:07am: for February 14:

Comment by Reyes Muñoz on December 2, 2015 at 8:00pm

Hello friends, I will like to share with you Cheers, Reyes

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