From the left: Uranium ore, quartz, aragonite, and malachite, on stamps from Benin. I last showed these stamps in August of 2011.
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Viridian
Showing posts with label mineral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mineral. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Sunday Stamps II 38
This week's theme at See it on a Postcard is one of my favorites - Rocks and Minerals!
From the left: Uranium ore, quartz, aragonite, and malachite, on stamps from Benin. I last showed these stamps in August of 2011.
Visit See it on a Postcard this week to see who else is playing!
Viridian
From the left: Uranium ore, quartz, aragonite, and malachite, on stamps from Benin. I last showed these stamps in August of 2011.
Visit See it on a Postcard this week to see who else is playing!
Viridian
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Sunday Stamps #117
Oh my, I have been looking forward to this week's Sunday Stamps.
Our theme is minerals, rocks, geology, environment.
As some of you have deduced, I love this topic! Imagine my excitment recently upon receiving a card from the Ukraine, and turning it over to find:
Stamps of tiger-eye and Beryl (I think). The stamps appear iridescent and have that 3-D look to them, which the scan cannot capture. Marvelous! And triangular too! Join me this week, and don't be afraid to interpret this theme broadly.
Theme next week: Lighthouses, or other public structures.
Viridian
Our theme is minerals, rocks, geology, environment.
As some of you have deduced, I love this topic! Imagine my excitment recently upon receiving a card from the Ukraine, and turning it over to find:
Stamps of tiger-eye and Beryl (I think). The stamps appear iridescent and have that 3-D look to them, which the scan cannot capture. Marvelous! And triangular too! Join me this week, and don't be afraid to interpret this theme broadly.
Theme next week: Lighthouses, or other public structures.
Viridian
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Sunday Stamps #22
Hello and welcome to the theme of anything you wish. Here is one kind of stamp I like:
Minerals! Ok it may not by your favorite subject but it is for me. From upper left, and moving clockwise: gyps, or gypsum, amethyst, malachit or malachite, and halite or salt. Gypsum by the way is mined and ground up and used in drywall (sheet rock in some places). Who knew?
This is an older set (Clue: the DDR) with different denominations on each. In fact this gives me an idea. The theme next week will be a set of stamps that really should be pictured together, as the design is continued from one stamp to the next. Any topic. These are se-tenant stamps, correct? Remember I amass stamps, I don't seriously collect them.
Viridian
Minerals! Ok it may not by your favorite subject but it is for me. From upper left, and moving clockwise: gyps, or gypsum, amethyst, malachit or malachite, and halite or salt. Gypsum by the way is mined and ground up and used in drywall (sheet rock in some places). Who knew?
This is an older set (Clue: the DDR) with different denominations on each. In fact this gives me an idea. The theme next week will be a set of stamps that really should be pictured together, as the design is continued from one stamp to the next. Any topic. These are se-tenant stamps, correct? Remember I amass stamps, I don't seriously collect them.
Viridian
Friday, February 18, 2011
This is a postcard of a Lake Superior agate that someone has polished to show the beauty inside. There are beaches on Lake Superior where one used to be able to look at the pebbles and find some that, not looking like this, at least had the potential to polish up like this. I suspect those beaches have been pretty picked over by now.
I saw this postcard in the postcard gallery on Postcrossing and saved an image for myself. :-0
Thank you Beth for hosting Postcard Friendship Friday!
Remember: My meme Sunday Stamps opens again late Saturday night.
Theme this week: Presidents/world leaders/statesmen or stateswomen. You don't need to follow the theme however.
Viridian
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