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Husband, father, grandfather, business management consultant, Microsoft Word expert, philatelist, atheist, and published author. https://wordmanspeaks.com https://dicksstamps.online
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Not a lot of Greenland at Dick's Stamps! Here's a souvenir sheet for the 24th Arctic Winter Games (held between the USA, Canada, and Greenland) held in Nuuk in 2016. Only Greenland has ever issued stamps for this event #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting
A Burma issue of 1938–1940 overprinted to commemorate the postage stamp centenary in 1940, and surcharged 1 anna on a 2 annas 6 pies stamp featuring a royal barge and HM King George VI.
Thanks for asking! I use PowerPoint. I created a US Letter portrait template with slide layouts for left and right pages. A box with a grey outline for each stamp, about 1mm smaller in both dimensions than the mount, with a text box underneath for the stamp details. And then it's just patience...
Celebrating the art of Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (c.1811–1880), a pioneering Romantic painter of Arab-Javanese ethnicity, considered to be the first “modern” artist from Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies) #Stamps #Philately #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...
1967 Paintings of Raden Saleh - Dick’s Stamps Online
Celebrating the art of Raden Saleh, pioneering Romantic painter from the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.
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LOL. One could only hope...
A nice (and timely!) find!
Here's (then recently reunified) Germany's Europa 1991 issues, when the theme was European aerospace. The 60 pfennig stamp features the European Remote Sensing (ERS-1) satellite, and the 100 pfennig features the DFS Kopernicus telecommunications satellite #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting
What @ericewing.bsky.social said! Stamps are little pieces of art and little pieces of history. I sometimes marvel that I have in my hand a piece of gummed paper over 100 years old, a miniature work of art that tells use what was happening when it was printed #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting
Part of what draws me to #philately is the wonder that stamps like these have survived more than 175 years of history. They have passed through wars, revolutions, and hands long turned to dust, serving as quiet reminders that even the smallest things can carry a story.

#StampCollecting #History
One of four issued for the International Exposition of Art & Technology in Modern Life, held in Paris, France, from 25 May – 25 November 1937 ("the Paris Expo"), a 1.75 franc stamp showing the Algerian Pavilion at the event #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting
Nope. Still stuck in Beirut... ☹️

I created several other websites for work and a non-profit I'm associated with, so my own website is just fun. I ran out of space on my free Flickr account, so I decided to build the website to be able to present all my scanned pages. It's all part of the hobby...
Currently 304 portfolio items, i.e., collections. I'm not sure how many scanned pages, some multiple of that... 😀
Similar vintage, here's my Gambia 10/- King George V definitive from January 1922 #stampcollecting #philately #stamps
Here's a 15 centavos Columbus Monument issue of 1929 overprinted for the 50th Anniversary of the Pan American Union (now Organization of American States) in 1940 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting
Cool. I mainly stick with HipStamp, eBay, Delcampe, and occasionally StampWorld.
I have some stamps from a dealer in Lebanon being "held" at customs in Beirut, for example, for nearly a month now. To be honest, I've given up hope of ever seeing them... ☹️
There seems to be a good variety of worldwide dealers, but currently, some European dealers won't sell stamps to US collectors due to de minimis customs fee uncertainty, and increasingly dealers are getting to old to continue and closing shop. My fear is philately Is just hobby for older people.
From when the League of Nations granted France a mandate over Syria (and Lebanon) after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, here's a 25 centime French stamp issued for the VIII Olympiad held in Paris in 1924, overprinted in French and Arabic and revalued at 1.25 piastres for use in Syria #Philately
One of my favorite movies! A comedy classic.