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

Jan 20, 2025 · August 150 Years of Diplomatic Relations Between Peru & Italy Se-tenant pair, FDC, cancel offset. Designer: Marco Antonio Quispe Yalli Marco has designed over 50 stamps for Peru, starting with his 2014 Extreme Sports pair.. Release date: August 29, 2024

19 hours ago · Poking around the PostEUROP website seems to be a good way to spend a blustery, chilly winter day here in Canada. I peeked out the curtains and saw snow and decided nope, stamps it is. Yea, not a fan of slogging through the white stuff. The EUROPA 2024 winner This year 57 countries participated ...

2 days ago · Tết 2025 means it’s time for the snake to shine. Tết Nguyên Đán, the first day of the Lunar New Year festival in Vietnam takes place on January 29th. It’s a major festival and a time for families to gather. It also marks the 4th Tết article for Bitter Grounds. It’s a stamp I ...

6 days ago · The Malê slave revolt (Revolta dos Malês) that began Salvador, Bahia, Brazil set the stage for abolition of slavery 50 years later.Centenary of the Slavery Abolition Issued in 1985 by Brazil post Designer: Darlan Rosa. On January 24, 1835, Salvador, then capital of the province of Bahia, was the scene of one of the most significant manifestations of …

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

Nov 1, 2023 · Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005) Black Heritage Month 1 stamp, commemorative panel, 2 FDCs, 2 cancels (digital colour cancel and black cancel),, sheets of 20, framed stamp, field note journal

Dec 26, 2023 · 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.

Lunar New Year - Year of the Rabbit 2023