Good day, and welcome to my blog.
It is a normal temperature today in the American Midwest, after two day of warmth (55 - 65 Degrees F).
It's time for Sunday Stamps. The theme this week is calligraphy. I don't have any stamps that feature a typeface that looks like handwriting, but I do have a stamp that may fit the theme:
A USA stamp available now, honoring women cryptologists.
From the USPS webpage: The stamp image: the background is a WAVES recruitment poster, with an overlay of characters from the "Purple" code. The Purple code was used by the Japanese government to encrypt diplomatic messages. The key to this code was was discovered in Sept. 1940 by Genevieve Grotjan. The USA could read and exploit the information in Japanese diplomatic messages for the rest of the war.
The women could never talk of their work, and did not do so, even after the war.
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4 comments:
Great stamp for today, I don't think I've seen that typeface on a US stamp before
According to the USPS webpage, you need to buy the pane in order to get the code to decipher the apparently random letters on the stamps. How clever!
Getting the full code from the pane is a neat idea.
A striking and clever idea.
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