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United States Stamps 2025: Freshwater Fishing Lures (New!)
About These Stamps Celebrate the beauty and ingenuity of some of America’s most successful freshwater fishing lures with this colorful pane of 20 Forever® stamps featuring five different, close-up photographs of five popular lures. The collection is a sampling of modern fishing lures used in different environments: Crankbaits, or plugs, are popular among anglers because Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: American Vistas [Updated]
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About These Stamps American Vistas, two new Presorted Standard stamps from the U.S. Postal Service, evoke the beauty, variety, and vastness of our country’s natural spaces. The stylized and minimalist scenes started as vector illustrations created by the graphic design and illustration firm DKNG Studios, which then turned them into screen prints, using just three Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: Allen Toussaint [Updated]
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About This Stamp On January 30, 2025, in New Orleans, LA, the United States Postal Service® will issue the Allen Toussaint stamp (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate), in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 486000). This stamp will go on sale nationwide January 30, 2025, and must Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: 1794 Compass Rose [Updated]
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About This Stamp On January 24, 2025, in Peachtree Corners, GA, the United States Postal Service® will issue the 1794 Compass Rose Global Forever® International rate stamp, in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 10 stamps (Item 581700). This stamp will go on sale nationwide January 24, 2025, and must not be Continue reading
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Thailand Stamps 2025: The Little Prince (Children’s Day Issue)
Children’s Day Stamps 2025 Set (1283) First day of sale: 11 January 2025 Price type: 10.00 baht (2 types) Stamp size: 31 x 31 mm. Image: Image from the novel “The Little Prince” 10.00 Baht (Type 1) : The picture of the Little Prince in the Desert is courtesy of the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Foundation Continue reading
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Thailand Stamps 2025: Year of the Snake
Zodiac Stamps (Snake) Set (1282) First day of sale: 3 January 2025 Price type: 3.00 baht Stamp size: 30 x 40.5 mm. (vertical) Picture: Image of the Year of the Snake, a painting by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Modeler: Mr. Thanetphonchaiwong (Thailand Post Company Limited) Printing method and color: Lithography – multicolor Continue reading
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Christmas Stamps Around the World 2024
I have been posting about Christmas stamps for more than ten years now, including a concise history of them on my personal blog in 2014. Posting about the new holiday issues each year has been one of my favorite thematic series each year but this year I just have not found the time to do Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: Love [Updated]
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Updated 19 December 2024 About This Stamp On January 17, 2025, in Kutztown, PA, the United States Postal Service® will issue the Love stamp (Forever® priced at the First-Class Mail® rate), in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps (Item 581800). This new Love stamp from the U.S. Postal Service celebrates Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: Priority Mail – Spiral Galaxy & Star Cluster
The U.S. Postal Service celebrates our continued exploration of deep space with a captivating new Priority Mail® stamp. Like a sprawling celestial nautilus located 32 million light-years from Earth, spiral galaxy NGC 628 provides clues to how star formation occurs, and galaxies evolve. Captured in unprecedented detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in Continue reading
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Year of the Snake 2025: United States [Updated 17 Dec 2024]
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Updated 17 December 2024 About This Stamp On 14 January 2025, the U.S. Postal Service issues the sixth of 12 stamps in the newest Lunar New Year series. The Year of the Snake begins January 29, 2025, and ends on February 16, 2026. Beginning in 2020, in observance of the Lunar New Year holiday, the U.S. Postal Continue reading
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