If you know the philatelist, you know the jacket ๐
The pink is from old envelopes, the leaves are cut from the 1987 Michigan statehood stamp, & the bananas are cut from Japanese stamps (note blue Chiquita sticker!)
A lovely little card commission - Happy 80th Birthday PC ๐
I was so excited to get my XP1 badge on piXPost after pinning 100 XP1s!
XP1 = pinning a postbox on the map which no one else has pinned yet - itโs totally addictive!
And look what arrived! An ACTUAL badge! Thanks LGJ ๐พ - you guys are the best!๐งก
If I can explain how exactly the overall weather of India looks like in the month of July-this is the #stamp.Either its too much rain, too much sunny, too mich stormy or too much dry.Just like Indians, weather of India also has too many emotions. #storieswithstamps#philately
Design this yearโs Stampex postcard! Yes, you! Or your friend, colleague, kid, grandkid, grandparent!
As we celebrate 70 years of Stampex, we are excited to see your designs!
We will print thousands of cards this year. Will it be your design that visitors to Stampex will pick up, collect, pop in the post?
Stampex in London takes place from the 28th to the 31st October 2026. At the Business Design Centre. Free to attend on all four days.
Find out how to enter, read T&Cs, and see last yearโs winner at https://t.co/baz06w0N9U
Itโs impossible to go into an antiques shop and not go on a stamp huntโฆ but is it possible to step out empty handed if you find something?
Would you have purchased these? Around ยฃ6/$8 a sheetโฆ ๐ธ๐ช
When you go through Border Control at Boston Logan and theyโre like โoh, youโre another one of the stamp collectors!โ. The philatelic world descends! @Boston2026Expo