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I am visiting relatives so I have to be quick today. In our tour of the alphabet we are up to the letter P and I have some stamps from Portugal:
A still life with a guitar featured.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a cool cloudy day in the American Midwest, with the possibility of snow late tonight.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter "O".
I have an older owl stamp from Great Britain:
No cancellation that I can see. It is removed from paper so it must be from the short period I was accumulating stamps (the influence of a long-ago boyfriend).
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a cool cloudy day in the American Midwest. It is also, for Americans, the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. We set our clocks back one hour, and feel disjointed for a few days.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter "N". I have some stamps from the Netherlands:
I don't know what they are about, but they are pretty cool, and an unusual shape.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. Today started out cloudy, but now we have sunshine in the American Midwest. And temperatures are about normal for this time of year.
It's time for Sunday Stamps.
In the tour of the alphabet, we are up to the letter M. I have a first day cover of Minerals:
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From 1974, long before I had my short stint of collecting stamps. This must have been a gift, but I am not sure from whom! Still, a beautiful grouping.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a rainy morning here in the American Midwest - but we need the rain.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter "L". I have an older set of stamps from the USA, featuring lacemaking:
The USA does not have a history of lace making, not like Brussels or other countries. But they are still pretty stamps. This is another set of stamps I found in the mystery box downstairs in the basement.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a cool sunny morning in the American Midwest - more autumnal weather than last week.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter K.
I am sharing a stamp I have posted before - a stamp from Korea (South Korea).
At the time I did not know the details about this stamp. Someone in the comments noted that this was a stamp commemorating the Korean Coast Guard. This stamp came to me on a Postcrossing postcard.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a nice autumn day in the American Midwest. It is expected to reach 82 degrees F today, and my phone tells me this is 13 degrees F higher than normal. It's been a very warm autumn so far.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter J. I have a stamp from Japan I'd like to share.
Nippon is the name used for the Japanese country by the Japanese. This may be a copy of an older artwork.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It's a beautiful sunny morning in the American Midwest. We did get some rain last week!
In the tour of the alphabet, we are up to the letter "I". I have two stamps from Iceland:
A lava field from a large eruption on the top, and what looks to be a radio telescope on the bottom? I am not sure.
I am having fun finding stamps for each letter of the alphabet.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog.
It is a warm sunny day in the American Midwest. We really need some rain.
We are up to the letter "H" in the tour of the alphabet. Here is a British stamp celebrating Edmund Halley:
Edmund Halley (1656 - 1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He is remembered most, I suspect, for computing the orbit of a bright comet, and predicting its return. This comet is known as Halley's comet now. This illustration is a mash-up of Halley's face and the comet. I am not sure it's successful.
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Hello and welcome to my stamps blog. It's a warm sunny day in the American Midwest and dry. We need some rain.
In the Sunday Stamps tour of the alphabet we are up to the letter "G". I am sharing another stamp I found in the stamps box, an older British stamp:
This commemorates the setting up of the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian for all the world. This is to designate a 0 line of longitude, and to measure east and west of this line. I thought this was determined earlier, say in the 1700's, but no. Different countries had different prime meridians of longitude.
Wikipedia explains more HERE, and another web page explains it HERE.
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Good day, welcome to my blog. It's a cool Fall-like day and cloudy, in the American Midwest. Well it is September.
We are up to the Letter F in the tour of the alphabet by Sunday Stamps. I have two stamps today. Firstly, a stamp from Finland:
A cute teddy bear writing away. And a stamp from France:
This is a self-portrait by Albrecht Durer. This is an engraving after the original portrait, which is below (from Durer's Wikipedia page):
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It's a sunny and cool morning, a bit of Fall a little early.
I have spotty internet connection today. Funny, you don't know how much you use the internet, even at home, until it's gone.
Well, it's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter "E". I have a former president on a stamp to share:
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the USA, serving from 1953 to 1961.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It's a beautiful day in the American Midwest, great summer weather.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and we are up to the letter D.
In cleaning up a closet, I discovered a small wooden box with various stamps I have collected in the past, some soaked off paper, some still on their envelopes. There was a packet or two of stamps sold to collectors. I found stamps from Dominica:
And from Denmark:
I will continue looking through the box to find other countries, or topics, appropriate for the tour through the alphabet.
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Good Day, and welcome to a cloudy day in the American Midwest. We continue the tour of the alphabet with Sunday Stamps.
For the Letter C: A compass rose stamp form the US Postal Service, for international mail (now $1.70):
This arrived on a postcard from relatives, in December 2011. They were having a great holiday.
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Good day, and welcome to a nice day in the American Midwest. It's time for Sunday Stamps.
In our tour of the alphabet, we are up to the letter B.
Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a cool sunny morning in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.
SeeitonaPostcard is starting a series where we work our way through the Alphabet. I hope the USPS has a variety of stamps. And that I have a variety of stamps that I have shared before.
In any case, for the Letter A, the Appalachian Trail:
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a warm muggy morning in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday stamps.
Each year, the US Postal Service issues a religious Christmas stamp, usually an image of the Madonna and Child. They also issue a secular stamp or set of stamps. The Christmas stamps for 2025 have not been issued yet, nor have they shown up on the USPS website. So I am sharing a stamp issued last year in the fall of 2024:
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Good Day, and welcome to my blog. It is a warm cloudy morning in the American Midwest.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is blue.
Here is a new stamp, to be issued by the US Postal Service on Aug. 14 of this year:
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Good day, and welcome to my stamps blog.
The theme today for Sunday Stamps is stories or folk tales. I have a stamp I shared a long time ago, from Russia:
At the time, in 2012, I did not know anything about this stamp. Now I know this is part of a set of stamps issued by Russia, and shows Ailyp and Golden Hair. She is not Rapunzel, and the story is quite different!
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a warm humid morning in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.
The theme this week is Summer. I have a stamp I have shared before, one of a set of 4 celebrating the state or county fairs of the USA:
This scan is from the US Postal Service. A Ferris Wheel is shown in the background.
My children, when little, used to love going to the local fairs.
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Good day, and welcome to a warm morning in the American Midwest. We are under the heat dome. It's 8:30 AM and already 80 degrees F (26.7 C).
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is of the sea. The US Postal Service has two sets of stamps that fit the theme.
1. Save sea turtles
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It is a gray cool day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.
The theme is Men who might be fathers. I don't think these men were biological fathers, but are considered fathers of the USA:
Two humble 1 cent stamps, affixed to many a postcard in the past. Benjamin Franklin on the left, and George Washington on the right.
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Good day, and welcome to my stamp and postcard blog.
It's a gray day in the American Midwest, but should clear up a bit later.
It's time for Sunday Stamps. The theme is engraved stamps. I have some I have shared before, but the actual stamps are buried in a stamp album, deep in a closet. They look engraved, but I can't check.
A set of stamps ... on stamp collecting! Newer stamps are printed a different way, and don't have such detail. They are from some years ago, given the postage rate printed on them.
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Good morning and welcome to my blog. It is a cool sunny late Spring day in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.
The theme today is creepy-crawlies. This could be insects, or other invertebrates. Yes insects are on stamps, though not often.
First:
A butterfly from the USPS. This stamp is for square envelopes. Most people find this insect beautiful.
And then there's an older stamp:
A dung beetle, from a set of stamps featuring insects released in 1999. Eww. Well, the entomologists were happy with that set of stamps.
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Good day, and welcome to my postcard and stamp blog. It is a cool May day in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday stamps.
The theme this week is Cities or urban scenes. I have a stamp of Paris:
That was a joint issue with China. This stamp was issued some time ago. I also have an urban scene:
A streetcar and some nice birch trees from Finland. When I was in Postcrossing I received many postcards from Finland.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a beautiful sunny day in May, and it's mother's day in the USA.
It's time for Sunday Stamps. The theme this week is women.
Two recent stamps have been issued by the US Postal Service, or are about to be issued.
First, a recent stamp:
Betty White, actress, TV personality. I know her from the shows The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Golden Girls.
And a stamp to be issued June 10:
Barbara Bush, wife to President George H.W. Bush, and mother of President George H. Bush.
It's good to see women honored by stamps!
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Welcome to a cool rainy day in the American Midwest. It's Sunday morning, and time for Sunday Stamps.
The theme today is furniture.
A stamp issued in 2008 celebrating the work of Charles and Ray Eames, a husband and wife design partnership.
According to Wikipedia:
Charles Ormond Eames, Jr. /ˈiːmz/ (1907–1978) and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Kaiser Eames (1912–1988) were an American design married couple who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture. Among their most well-known designs is the Eames Lounge Chair. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art, and film. Ray Kaiser Eames and Charles Eames worked together as creative partners.
It may be art, but it looks uncomfortable to me.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a cool (for late April) day but sunny and clear. It's time for Sunday Stamps.
The them for this week is Patterns. This stumped me for a bit. I finally settled on this stamp from Turkey:
This is from a series on Calligraphy, I believe. I picked this because of the subtle pattern in the background.
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Good day, and welcome Easter Sunday! It is a nice sunny day here in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.
Our theme is Churches, and I have a stamp I have shared before, but it's a great one for today.
Good day, and welcome to my stamp blog. It is a cold cloudy Spring day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.
The theme today is the color white.
I have a stamp I have shared before - issued in 2009 by the US Postal Service.
The cake looks delicious!
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Good Day and welcome to my blog. It's a cool rainy Spring day in the American Midwest, and the rivers are flooding.
But it's still time for Sunday Stamps.
The theme today is waterfalls. I don't have any stamps in hand, but I went to the USPS website and found a set of Appalachian Trail stamps, just issued in February. And three feature waterfalls!
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Good day, and welcome to my blog.
It is a warm but cloudy Spring day in the American Midwest.
It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is Military. How appropriate then that the US Postal Service has just put up for sale a set of stamps to be released on April 16 this year.
Battlefields of the American Revolution set:
These images are from the USPS website.
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We had a few days of warm weather in the American Midwest, and some buds have opened. But it's back to cool weather today.
It's Sunday and time for Sunday Stamps. The theme is lighthouses.
I have a stamp from Taiwan, which I have shared before:
No water in sight, so perhaps this lighthouse is up on a cliff. A stamp from my Postcrossing days.
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Hello and welcome!
I was traveling today so I am getting to Sunday Stamps late.
The theme is winter or cold vacation spots.
Perhaps hiking or skiing in these snowy woods. Perhaps you might see:
Some white tailed deer. I prefer a warm sunny vacation spot myself.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a cool but sunny day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.
Our theme today is warm vacation locations. This will be followed by cold vacation locations next week.
I have one beach stamp - I assume it's a vacation location.
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Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is a cold but sunny day in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.
Our theme today is famous women, and our hostess has shared a famous astronaut. This made me think of a stamp I have shared before, from Russia:
This is Valentina Tereshkova, first woman to have flown in space (in June 1963). Still the only woman to fly a solo mission (at 26 years old!). This stamp is for the 50th anniversary of that flight. Her call sign was Chaika or "seagull" therefore the bird appears on this stamp.
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