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IGPC’s Year of the Rabbit Stamps 2023
I have a love-hate relationship with agency stamps. Philatelic agencies are generally companies that design, issue, and sell product for a number of clients bearing the names of postal entities that either have no interest in producing their own stamps or simply cannot afford to do it. In many cases, the resulting items are not Continue reading
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United States 2023, Part 1 (Jan/Feb 2023)
On January 5, 2023, in High Point, NC, the United States Postal Service® issued the School Bus stamp (Non-denominated Additional Ounce Rate) in one design, in a self-adhesive pane of 20 and coil of 100. The issue celebrates the iconic yellow school bus and its role in ensuring that millions of children get to school Continue reading
2023, Black Heritage, Ernest J. Gaines, Everglades, February 2023, first day covers, Floral Geometry series, football on stamps, foxes on stamps, geometry, Great Smoky Mountains, high-value definitives, January 2023, Lunar New Year, National Parks on stamps, private cachet artists, sailboats on stamps, school buses on stamps, sports on stamps, United States, USPS, women's soccer, Year of the Rabbit -
Post #2000: Mid-February Updates
This is the 2000th post written and published for Philatelic Pursuits with the first appearing on 25 May 2015. Only 339 remain on the current (WordPress-hosted) site; the others disappeared last year with the (self-hosted) .com site. Perhaps less is more… Over the past few days, I have had an increase in workload as my Continue reading
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Tristan da Cunha 2023, Part 1 (Feb 2023)
The Creative Division of British Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood, Surrey, England, has coordinated a small omnibus release scheduled for 15 February when five of the seven territories that they act as philatelic agency for will honor HM Queen Elizabeth II, each with a pair of stamps and a miniature sheet containing those stamps. I suspect Continue reading
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 2023, Part 1 (Feb 2023)
The Creative Division of British Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood, Surrey, England, has coordinated a small omnibus release scheduled for 15 February when five of the seven territories that they act as philatelic agency for will honor HM Queen Elizabeth II, each with a pair of stamps and a miniature sheet containing those stamps. The issues Continue reading
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Great Britain 2023, Part 1 (Jan/Feb 2023)
Royal Mail’s first release of 2023 for Great Britain1 truly a “Monsters of Rock” issue in different senses of the phrase — Big Band and Big Set. I never take issue with design or subject matter but it is the sheer NUMBER of items that makes cataloguing this material daunting, to say the least. Royal Continue reading
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Falkland Islands 2023, Part 1 (Feb 2023)
The Creative Division of British Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood, Surrey, England, has coordinated a small omnibus release scheduled for 15 February when five of the seven territories that they act as philatelic agency for will honor HM Queen Elizabeth II, each with a pair of stamps and a miniature sheet containing those stamps. The issues Continue reading
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Germany 2023, Part 1 (Jan/Feb 2023)
The World of Letters definitives were designed by Bettina Walter of Bonn. Deutsche Post describes them by stating, Artistic, imaginative, surreal – this is how the motifs of the new permanent postage stamp series “World of Letters” can be described in a nutshell. In a playful way, she connects the most diverse worlds with the Continue reading
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King Charles III Stamps Unveiled
It is probably an odd thing for an American Southerner to be a self-avowed Royalist but I have had a fascination with the British monarchy since I was eleven or twelve old. While living in West Texas a few years before, my sister’s and my best friends from the neighborhood moved to Lincolnshire in England. Continue reading
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Ascension Island 2023, Part 1 (Feb 2023)
The Creative Division of British Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood, Surrey, England, has coordinated a small omnibus release scheduled for 15 February when five of the seven territories that they act as philatelic agency for will honor HM Queen Elizabeth II, each with a pair of stamps and a miniature sheet containing those stamps. The issue Continue reading
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