Because of their large size and pastel colours, the 20 lepta and several other values from Greece’s 1896 Olympics set provide great scope for postmark collectors...
Our #Sherlock miniature sheet celebrates four adventures which Sir Arthur #ConanDoyle considered among his finest.
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Portugal 1862-4 King Luis complete set: 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 reis. They were, like the earlier British embossed stamps, printed in a labour-intensive process requiring an individual operation for each stamp in the sheet of 24. The printing press is now in the mint museum in Lisbon.
#OTD 2012, the world said goodbye to Ernest Borgnine. He was a kind man, wonderful actor, and stamp collecting enthusiast. Here's his 1977 PSA urging all of us to collect stamps. He may be gone, but there's still time!
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#Didyouknow: John Edward Gray, keeper of the zoology department at the @BritishMuseum, is considered to be one of the first #stampcollectors. Gray claimed he “began to collect #postagestamps shortly after the system was established and before it had become a rage.”
Weekend plans? I’ve just re-discovered this beautiful lot of mainly unused Portuguese ´Ceres’ definitives that I need to integrate into my collection 🤪
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