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Winnie the Pooh stamps, from a Royal Mal Presentation Pack issued 10th October 2010. 116 in 2016 #18 Winnie the Pooh Day.
This is one of few ruins which remain from the Farwell Mill No. 2, a stamp mill plant for processing gold from the Independence lode.
Photographed using a Sony A7R using a Nikkor 43-86mm lens.
making some stamps from rubber...very addictive....after reading "Carve,Stamp,Play" by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer .I like the ones that look like wood block prints.
Working on the stamps for my showroom at @Ilustrafic. Come and participate, we are going to have fun! ^_^
United States postage stamps of The Simpsons, a popular cartoon family on television. These stamps were released in May, 2009.
I went on the stamp mill tour at Bodie and got to see lots of interesting things left behind. Its a great place to imagine what life was like long ago.
Can you tell that the face stamp is seperate from the body?-All the girls look a little different-oh well!
My stamped twoey for the month of May 2021 - 60 stamped this month! A celebration of Spring time in Michigan. And NO, no one has ever mentioned the stampings I have done on the $2 dollar bills. But I have many stories to tell about people making comments when I do spend my $2 bills - from “Sir, we do not take Canadian money”.... “are these real - let me check with my manager” ... or the one “all you can eat” restaurant that refused to take them. Of course I get a lot of people saying “Oh, I have to save this, I have quite a collection" I do not mention that they can get as many as they want from their local bank.
I sometimes send postcards to family, friends and even to myself when I travel. During the 2018 visit to New York, I bought rather quite a lot of stamps for future use, so that if I go to a place in the U.S. with less access to a post office, I've a supply of stamps with me.
I think I still have some of them left in my home, waiting for travelling to be safe and to be allowed again.
Text reads: "I'm learning to carve stamps! and I'm having so much fun, too. It really is quite addicting! this is one of my first, and I have to say I really like it."
It's all thanks to superdilettante who sent tools from the States because I couldn't find them here. How seriously nice is that!
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Oh and another thing, it's summer and I have some time to create, so I'm working on a new bunch of quote post cards and other random collages. Let me know if you want to trade!
Welcome to another installment of "Collecting with Bill"; we're glad to have you here with us today.
In the world of stamp collecting, there are many different items that are stamp-related. Today we have an "FDC" - First Day Cover. FDC's come in many different fashions and cover a wide range of topics. FDC's typically feature a cancelled stamp on an envelope. The envelopes often have a "cachet", which is an image or artistic feature pertaining to the issued stamp. The stamp is cancelled on the day it was made available to the public. The FDC highlights the newly issued stamp and provides a marker in history of when the stamp was first issued. Plus, they're another fun thing to collect!
This FDC displays a stamp issued in Bolivia on 31 Jan 1991; the cachet on this envelope depicts a Spectacled Bear - a/k/a Andean Bear - and its cub.
It's especially meaningful to me on a personal level. I am blessed with a truly amazing son - he's 16 now - and the cachet reminds me very much of one particular night I had with him. He was around 2 or 3 I suppose; me and my wife would take turns reading a book to (and with) him when it was time for him to go to sleep. (Disclaimer: She did it much more than I did. It took me quite a long time for me to adjust to the role of having a son. Bless her heart.) Anyway, I was reading a book to him that I previously considered way too "touchy feely" for me to indulge in....straight-up male ego. I had a great time that night and he enjoyed the experience quite a bit. He was familiar with the book, so he knew all the features, twists and turns. Surely enough, off to sleep he went when we finished the book.
This is but one example of the multitude of things that I find appealing about stamp collecting. And, to an extent, an example of something I enjoy about Flickr. In general terms, I'm less than thrilled about social media. The only other platform I am a part of is stamp-related; I don't expect that to change much if at all. There was a time when I HAD TO rack up 100 faves and 25 comments...I'm just in a different part of the same room I guess.