Some OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return stamps from 2023 decorate this tidy cover from Alaska.
My Stamp Stuff
Monday, March 18, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
Italy's Zucchelli Station
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Flowers from Finland
I know spring is coming when I start to get covers with flower stamps in my mailbox. Although it has felt like spring here off and on for the past couple of months. We barely had a winter.
Monday, March 11, 2024
New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II stamps
On this cover from Whanganui are stamps featuring the Queen of England and one of her mother. Clockwise from upper left, a 2001 stamp from a set commemorating the Queen's 75th birthday. This particular stamps shows the Queen during a Royal visit to New Zealand in 1986. A stamp from a 2023 memorial set. A 1997 stamp commemorating the Queen's 50th wedding anniversary. And a stamp from a set issued in 2000 showing the Queen Mother at age 7, from a set commemorating the 100th birthday of the Queen Mother.
Friday, March 8, 2024
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, Taiwan FDC
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Pro Juventute and Pro Patria
A pair of semi-postals from the 1980's make an appearance on this cover from Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. On the left is a 1985 children's charity stamp with the theme "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" and to the right is a 1987 national interest charity stamp showing an antique wardrobe. And the final stamp on the right is 2022 river landscape stamp that shows the Aare river near Rubigen in the Canton of Bern.
Monday, March 4, 2024
Spring Greetings from Osaka
Annual spring greetings stamps on this first-day cover from Osaka. On the left is are horsetails and on the right are violets.
Friday, March 1, 2024
Algerian Customs Agents
This FDC commemorates Algerian customs officers and the difficulties they face protecting the borders of Africa's largest nation.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Turin, Italy
Lots of stamps on this cover with a Torino philatelic bureau handstamp. From left to right: a 1974 stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Italian financial police, a 1974 stamp commemorating the European Athletic Games, a pair of 1975 stamps commemorating the Holy Year, a 2009 stamp commemorating the 200th birth anniversary of Charles Darwin, 2023 Europa stamp and a 2004 stamp commemorating the 600th anniversary of the University of Turin.
Monday, February 26, 2024
Port Menier, Quebec
Friday, February 23, 2024
Port Louis, Mauritius
Some savage postal employee thoroughly defaced the wonderful stamps on this nice cover from Mauritius. I wonder sometimes if it's just done out of spite. From bottom left to right, a cowrie shell from a 2017 sea shells set, a 2022 stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of the municipal theater in Port Louis, a 2023 stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the State Bank of Mauritius, and a Mauritius Blue Pigeon from a 2022 extinct species definitives set.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Italian Food Companies
The stamps on this cover from Colnago, Italy, commemorate Vismara, a cured meat company that has been in operation since 1898. And Cirio, a company that has specialized in canned tomato products since 1856.