Sunday Stamps: Christmas

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

It's a cold crisp day in the American Midwest, and it's the Christmas season.  So it must be time to share Christmas stamps.

The UP Postal Service always issues a religious (usually a Madonna and Child image) stamp and a secular stamp or stamp set.  I am sharing both today.  Scans are from the USPS.

And the secular stamp set.  FinnBadger has already shared the poinsettia stamp.  Here is the whole set.

A great way to spread holiday cheer.

Happy Holidays everyone!

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Sunday Stamps: The Color Red

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is raining, not snowing, this gloomy morning in this part of the American Midwest.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme this week is the color red.  My first stamp was issued for Valentine's day in 2024:

Older but still a neat stamp.  My second stamp today was issued for global postage, and is appropriate for the season:

This is a Forever stamp, always good for the current postage rate, which keeps going up.  International postage is now  US $1.65 which is why I don't do Postcrossing anymore.

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Sunday Stamps: Glass

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a sunny day and about 40 degrees F here in the American Midwest.  It is time for Sunday Stamps.

I start with a stamp I have shared before - but it's so beautiful!

This is the stamp that started it all for me, back in the 1980's.

I had noticed stamps before of course.  I was in graduate school and my current boyfriend at the time collected stamps, which I thought rather amusing.  Then C. visited my university as a postdoc and started receiving packages from home, in France.  This stamp was on one of the early packages.  It took my breath away.  Such detail, of a beautiful stained glass window, in such a small frame!

Putting stamps in an album lasted as long as the boyfriend (not long) but I still love stamps.

And another glass stamp:

A penny stamp of a Tiffany lamp, to make up postage.

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Sunday Stamps: other languages

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cold sunny day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is foreign languages.  I am sharing stamps from Russia, with Cyrillic letters, and the Russian language, which I cannot read.

(I have shared these stamps before).  A beautiful lace stamp, but what do the words say?

Also note:  the stamps are Russian, but the image in the right corner is of the Soviet Union!  CCCP!  This Postcrosser used an older postcard.

Have a good week!

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