Sunday Stamps: Christmas in July

 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:

This image is from the USPS website.

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Sunday Stamps: Blue

 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:

It will be issued then for the 2026 World Stamp Show in Boston.  I believe that is Paul Revere, riding along.  Note the older style of this stamp.

These two scans are from the USPS website.

Very pretty I think and it fits the theme for today.

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Sunday Stamps: stories or folk tales

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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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Sunday Stamps: Summer

 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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Sunday Stamps: of the Sea

 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

And 2.  Save the Manatee.

All these images are from the USPS website.

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Sunday Stamps: Men who might be fathers

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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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Sunday Stamps: Engraved (or looking like it)

 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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Sunday Stamps: Creepy-crawlies

 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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Sunday Stamps: Cities/Urban

 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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Sunday Stamps: Women

 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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Sunday Stamps: Furniture

 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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Sunday Stamps: Patterns

 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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Sunday Stamps: Churches

 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.

This is an image of one of rose windows in Notre Dame in Paris.  It was produced by Zazzle.com, under a contract with the US Postal Service.  You could produce your own customized postage stamps (for a fee of course), or choose from designs made by other people.  Zazzle is still in business but discontinued the postage stamps in 2020.  I did a few sheets of my own postage stamps once.  Zazzle produces all sorts of personalized products.

I wonder how collectable these Zazzle stamps are?

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Sunday Stamps: the color white

 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.

White cake and white flowers.  In 2009 this was issued for large or overweight first class mail.  Wedding invitations in the USA often include a reply card and reply envelope, so would be overweight.

The cake looks delicious!

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Sunday Stamps: Waterfalls

 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!

These scans are from the USPS website.  They look like they feature beautiful scenery.

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Sunday Stamps: Military

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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.

Calm scenes today, but not back then.  It's been 250 years since the initial confrontation at Concord, MA April 16, 1775, and the "shot heard around the world."

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Sunday Stamps; Lighthouses

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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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Sunday Stamps; Cold vacation spots

 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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Sunday Stamps: Warm vacation spots

 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.

This is Bay of Fires, Tasmania.  The beach looks very empty but inviting.  This is a stamp from my Postcrossing days.

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Sunday Stamps: Famous Women

 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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Sunday Stamps: No English words

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

Our theme today is "no English words".  This made me think of Russian or Soviet stamps.

A stamp featuring children's art, from the CCCP (that is, the USSR).  It is from 1979.  (I have featured this stamp before.)

No English words, and also the Cyrillic alphabet, so I am really lost.  But it's a sweet image.

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Sunday Stamps: Flags

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog.  It is snowing briskly under a gray sky in the American Midwest, and the roads are slippery.  Time to stay inside and post to Sunday Stamps.

I am sharing a stamp from a postcard I received from Postcrossing, some years ago now.  But this country is back in the news:

(I have shared this several times.)  I like that this Postcrosser included the surrounding printed material, so that you can really see the waving flag.

And, a standard flag stamp from the USA:

This scan is from the US Postal Service.

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PS.  I dislike the current political direction the USA is going, but that is all I will say about that.

Sunday Stamps: Minerals & Gems

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cloudy Sunday and about 33 F here in the American Midwest.  Later today will be the Superbowl for American football, but more importantly (to me), it's time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is minerals and/or gems, a favorite theme of mine.  Here are some I last shared in 2011:

From the left: Uranium ore, quartz, aragonite, and malachite, on stamps from Benin.   I must have purchased these in a grouping from a stamp dealer, maybe off Ebay.  I never received a postcard from Benin when I was in Postcrossing.

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Sunday Stamps: Reptiles/snakes

Good day, and welcome to another cool cloudy Sunday in the American Midwest.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.

It's Lunar New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Snake, and the USPS has issued stamps for the occasion.  As requested by Finnbadger, here is the scan of the full sheet, from the USPS:

Their scan of one stamp:

The USPS calls this a mask of a snake, but it sure doesn't look like one.  And the foil aspects of the stamps don't come through in these scans.

Happy Lunar New Year!

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Sunday Stamps: Composer Allen Toussaint

 Good day, and welcome to a cloudy day in the American Midwest.  It's about 33 degrees F.

It's Sunday, and time for Sunday Stamps.  I have a great stamp today for the theme of authors, poets, composers.  It's a new stamp, to be issued on Jan. 30 this year.  This image is from the USPS.

Allen Toussaint is associated with the rhythm and blues scene in New Orleans.  He was a singer, songwriter, composer, arranger and producer.  His Wikipedia page is HERE.

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Sunday Stamps: Birds

 Good Day, and welcome to a cold cloudy day in the American Midwest.  Tonight it will get down to -1 degrees F and be very cold for 2 days.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.  The prompt this week is birds.  I have a stamp issued as part of a set in 2024 by the US Postal Service:

I don't have this in hand; the image is from the USPS.  This is a female ruby throated hummingbird.  Ah, Summer days!

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