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2 days ago · 2025 stamp programs. Stamps from around the world, including specialty programs |and whatever delights my fancy. #Stamps #2025Collection #philately

Jan 30, 2025 · The 2025 US stamps offer up a lot of familiar faces, among them Betty White. We’ll always miss her. I’m a bit late in creating the US page. It’s normally up by the middle of January. This year, I took more time to decide a few issues. This …

2 days ago · Geelong News paper report on finding the Welcome Stranger nugget. Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 – 1929), Wednesday 17 February 1869, page 3

Jan 27, 2025 · Tết 2025 means it’s time for the snake to shine. Tết Nguyên Đán, the first day of the Lunar New Year festival in Vietnam takes place on January 29th. It’s a major festival and a time for families to gather. It also marks the 4th Tết article for Bitter Grounds. It’s a stamp I ...

Nov 1, 2023 · Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005) Black Heritage Month 1 stamp, commemorative panel, 2 FDCs, 2 cancels (digital colour cancel and black cancel),, sheets of 20, framed stamp, field note journal

December. 12 articles. Türkiye 2023 stamps – artists, designers … oh my! – published December 31, 2022 Be still my heart – France’s 2023 stamps – published December 27, 2023. This way to Bermuda’s 2022 stamps – published December 27, 2022. Kicking the Isle of Man 2023 stamp program – published December 25, 2022. 2023 Canada Post stamp program released – published December ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Hard to believe it’s time for a new Jersey stamp program. Yet, here we are. Jersey issues one of my favourite programs primarily because the stamps are perfect island ambassadors Jersey Post sources so many local artists and photographers to highlight the Island’s culture and history, it’s hard to think of a better put together program.

Jan 19, 2025 · Japan Post 2025 has reaffirmed it’s still one of the best at designing exquisite, tiny cancels. For any cancel hounds out there, if you are looking for a new country to explore, Japan with it’s beautiful postmarks should be your first stop.

Dec 26, 2023 · Mary Ann Shadd Cary: the Black press and protest in the nineteenth century by Jane Rhodes Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ©1998. Archives Canada has a copy of Shadd’s 1852 A plea for Emigration or, Notes of Canada West, in its Moral, Social and Political Aspect: with Suggestions Respecting Mexico, W. Indies and Vancouver’s Island for the Information of Colored Emigrants.