Sunday Stamps: Fish

 Hello and welcome to my blog.  It's a hazy morning in the American Midwest, and promises to heat up quite a bit.

It's Sunday, and time for Sunday Stamps.  The prompt this week is fish.  I have some USA stamps from some time ago:

How do I know?  Because their face value is 22 Cents for a first class letter.  And when I first showed these on my blog in 2012 or so, postage was higher than 22 cents!

A variety of fresh and salt water fish are shown.

Other fish are featured at SeeitonaPostcard.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Yellow

 Good day, and welcome to Sunday Stamps.  I am on a short family vacation to a State Park - but they have internet connectivity!

So here is my post for Sunday stamps, and the theme this week is Yellow.

From the US Postal Service, the iconic American School bus, in a well known bright yellow.  This scan is from the USPS.

Other vehicles are featured at SeeitonaPostcard.

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Sunday Stamps: The Inverted Jenny Stamp

 Hello and welcome to a pretty Spring day in the American Midwest.

It is time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is our choice.

I am showing the US Postal Service's reprint (at a different denomination) of one of the most famous misprints in stamp history, the "Inverted Jenny:"

This is available now in the USPS store.

The original air mail stamp, with a face denomination of 24 cents, was printed in 1918.  Only one sheet seems to have gone through the printing press upside down - 100 stamps.

Prices at auction for single stamps vary from $500 K to a million US Dollars.  

More at Wikipedia's entry (lots of detail).  Interesting detail I might add.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Women

 Good day, welcome to a cloudy but nice day in the American Midwest.

It's time for my contribution to Sunday Stamps.

The them today is women.

I am featuring a stamp released this year by the USPS of Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019), author and Pulitzer Prize winner.  In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.  She is the author of Tar Baby, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, among others.

I am sorry to say I haven't read any of her books.  But I can look forward to reading them.

These images are from the USPS website.

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Viridian