Color shift on Finnish 2nd class Baby Bear postage stamp
It’s been a long time since I showed some of the EFO’s, but I think they will match perfectly with my current writings about stamp quality. Here’s something I picked up last night from kiloware I had soaked few days earlier. The first below stamp is the normal copy, and beneath it is the “whacked”
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IMHO the 1995 Christmas postage stamps are bit like the day before the Christmas eve. You have a feeling there’s still plenty to do, but at the same time you feel to be adrift. The domestic discount rate stamp features a skating Santa: Normal (internatianal) rate stamp features poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) floating in front of
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In 1986 the Finnish Post issued their first, and so far also the last, se-tenant Christmas postage stamp issue. At the same time Christmas postage stamps returned back to use of two separate face values: discounted rate for early domestic mail and regular rate stamps for normal and international delivery. The discounted se-tenant stamps feature
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Just to show a case of good luck in contrast to last post. This is something I found while sorting stamps I had soaked from kiloware… An Argentinian 10 peso definitive postage stamp issued in 1995. It looks like any modern day topical stamp, but if catalogs are to believe, this one is worth 30€
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The 1981 Christmas postage stamps celebrate the Christmas tree. Like the 1980 stamp issue, the set contains two separate values and designs. Once again, the stamp displays an idyllic image of past Christmas times when it was common for people to cut their own Christmas tree. These days most Finns live in cities and Christmas trees
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Shown above a photo by Sid Avery of movie star Yul Brynner. Taken in 1953, it appears Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950-1965 along with other celebrity photos. In Avery’s 2002 obitiuary The New York Times wrote, “Mr. Avery’s work in the 1950’s and 60’s was a departure from the glamorized, soft-focus portraits of...
Keeping on eye for the quality is something I think many collectors do. Personally I admit that I’m in constant process of enhancing the quality of items in my collection. For the next couple of posts I’ll be writing up some notes about quality in general as well as diving more in-depth into world
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The City of Toronto has unveiled a picture postage stamp to celebrate the city’s 175th anniversary. Four thousand limited edition stamps, with an image of City Hall, will be available as a keepsake free to Torontonians while quantities last. The stamps will be distributed for free at this year’s Cavalcade of Lights opening night ceremony...
The 1992 Christmas stamps are the very first Finnish stamps that focus entirely on religious side of Christmas. The domestic discount rate stamp displays a picture of early Christmas morning church. The Church of St. Lawrence (finnish: Pyhän Laurin kirkko) was established c. 1460, and it is one of most prestigious churches in Finland. The
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The 1989 Christmas stamp makes a very clear note on how the Finnish society and christmas traditions have evolved in the past decades. The meaning of countryside and it’s traditions has decreased a lot as more and more people have moved to larger cities. The discounted christmas rate stamp displays a city Christmas.
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The 1993 Christmas postage stamps display drawings by children. Philatelicly this years stamps are very interesting, as they were the very first Christmas stamps issued both in miniature sheet and booklet format. The discounted domestic rate stamps features santa and a bunch of Christmas elves around the Christmas tree. The sheet stamp has
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