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

2024 stamp programs. Stamps from around the world, including specialty programs |and whatever delights my fancy. #Stamps #2024Collection #philately

2 天之前 · 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 …

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 ...

2025年1月19日 · 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.

2024年3月8日 · March 120th Anniversary of the Founding of the Red Cross Society of China. 1 stamp, sheets of 12 . Designer: Xia Jingqiu 夏竞秋 Jingqiu is a graduate of the Fine Arts Department of Shenyang University Teachers College.

2023年12月26日 · 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.

2022年1月2日 · 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 ...

2024年12月15日 · December Christmas Seals. There isn’t a philatelic Christmas stamp this year. The annual Christmas Seal set takes its place. Stamps, pins and notecards are available. This year’s seal motifs follow a tradition dating back to 1907, marking the current royal succession in Denmark and honoring the King and Queen.