These were both in my mailbox on the same day. I sent them back in September of 2023. The station postmarks were updated slightly a few years ago and these are the first examples from these stations that I have received. The Mawson cover looks good. And the Davis cover is ok but the inkpad must have been dry in places or partly frozen or something. The slogan on the back of that one says "Davis Station. Riviera of the South"
Three stamps from Singapore are from a 2024 set of four that depict flora of the Lowland Dipterocarp Forest. Dipterocarp forests are dominated by trees from the dipterocarp family. These tall dense hardwood forests promote a extreme floral diversity. At one time Singapore was covered by such a forest but now only small pockets remain. And with the destruction of these forests also went much of the biodiversity. Obviously. But what remains is protected and cared for. Some of the critically endangered plants in the remaining forests are represented on these stamps.
More 2020 solar system stamps from Brazil. From left to right: the sun, Venus and Jupiter.
Bamfield is a small coastal community on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It was home to a telegraph station along what was known as the All-Red Line: a network of telegraph cables that circled the globe, connecting the British empire. An undersea telegraph cable connected Bamfield to Fanning Island in the Pacific (Kiribati).
First day postmarked in Indiana. They came to me on the same day and would have been held up by the Canadian postal strike. The USPS is still not accepting new mail bound for Canada until the backlog is cleared. These four Dungeons and Dragons stamps were from a set of 10 stamps issued on 1 August 2024 in a sheet of 20 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the game.
