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:
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5 comments:
I love your 'origin' story :)
And clever to think of the 1c Tiffany lamp. That series of low values stamps will be withdrawn from point of sale at the end. of the year.
That stamp is superb. I am not surprised it has attracted your attention. Thanks for sharing your story!
I'm glad you have included the lamp, too. Those little stamps sometimes are ignored, but usually their designs are very good, like this one.
I do really like the Tiffany lamp stamp - a shame it will be withdrawn. I wish I could remember which stamp was my 'first' to attract me to collecting, but yours is so striking I can understand.
Super stamp, the stained glass design fits it perfectly. So often stamps just show a detail of the stained glass but here you have the full story.
Stained glass is so pretty. So you were a late-comer to stamps! I say that because my brothers (older than I) collected them as children, so I did too, later. My kids tried, they were bored. Shame!
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