Roadmap for 2010 – year two begins
January 1st, 2010 admin
New Year is traditionally a time to review the past and make new beginnings. Thus I will take advantage of it to highlight some new stuff on the blog as well as well as to summarize some of the last year’s events. What’s new ? As promised last year, the blog will start new year with
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A year long festival of exhibitions and events celebrating stamps, their design and postal heritage kicks off in January 2010. The “London 2010: Festival of Stamps”, coordinated by The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA), will show the important role that stamps play in our lives: as a key part of a nation’s heritage they...
Croatian Post has commemorated the start of one of the most important sporting events in the world, which takes place from 11 June to 11 July, with the release of a football-themed postage stamp. The stamp was designed by Dean Roksandic, Zagreb. It was printed in 200.000 copies, in sheets of nine stamps. —splitterQSWEDFR—Croatian Post...
The U.S. Postal Service has issued the third of 12 stamps in its Celebrating Lunar New Year series, which began in 2008 with the Year of the Rat. The Year of the Tiger begins on Feb. 14 and ends on Feb. 2, 2011. Art director Ethel Kessler worked on the new series with illustrator Kam Mak, an artist who grew up in New York City’s Chinatown...
Australia Post has released its traditional Christmas stamp series. This year’s Christmas stamps feature three themes: iconic figures from the Nativity, familiar symbols of the Christmas season and creatures from Christmas Island.—splitterQSWEDFR—Australia Post has released its traditional Christmas stamp series. This year’s...
Carol suggested in a recent blog comment that I should write a piece about the stamps you see on the blog’s header image. Tough each of the stamps has been covered thoroughly on the blog during year 2009, newer readers of the blog might not be familiar with them. A common nominator for all these
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Now’s a great time to pick up a copy of Janet Klug’s Guide To Stamp Collecting . Amazon.com is selling the $19.95 book for as little as $1.49 in used (but like new) condition. There are several “new” copies selling for under $3.00. Harper Collins writes on their website, “Whether you’ve always wanted to start a...
by Gavin McGuffie, Catalogue Manager Last year I blogged on the 2009 file openings at the BPMA . At the start of every year we make a batch of Royal Mail Archive material available to public research for the first time. These are files that reached the thirtieth anniversary of their closure the previous year, so for last year files which contain...
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Our 2010 Events Guide has just arrived in the office and is now available online . As usual the BPMA are hosting an exciting programme of Exhibitions, Walks, Discover Sessions, Talks and Tours. Many of our exhibitions and events next year will also be part of London 2010: Festival of Stamps and relate to the theme of George V, the philatelist...
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