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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 19h

Free French stamps printed in London in 1944 for use in Wallis & Futuna, featuring an ivi po’o (small bone cylinder) carved with a tiki #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

1944 Wallis & Futuna London Issue - Dick’s Stamps Online

Free French stamps printed in London in 1944 for use in Wallis & Futuna, featuring an ivi po’o (small bone cylinder) carved with a tiki.

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 1d

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

2016 Greenland souvenir sheet for the Arctic Winter Games

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 1d

Free French stamps printed in London in 1945 for use in Guadeloupe #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

1945 Guadeloupe Dolphins (London Issue) - Dick’s Stamps Online

Free French stamps printed in London in 1945 for use in Guadeloupe in 1945.

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 2d

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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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 2d

LOL. One could only hope...

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 2d

A nice (and timely!) find!

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 3d

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

Eric Ewing @ericewing.bsky.social · 3d

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

This image pictures the United States' first adhesive postage stamps, the 5¢ Benjamin Franklin and 10¢ George Washington issues from 1847.

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 3d

Unissued imperforate Tongan stamps from their 1953 pictorial issue, overprinted in 1967 with “The Friendly Islands welcome the United States Peace Corps” and revalued/surcharged #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

1967 Arrival of the US Peace Corps in Tonga - Dick’s Stamps Online

Unissued imperforate 1953 stamps, overprinted and revalued/surcharged in 1967 to welcome the US Peace Corps to Tonga

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 4d

Currently 304 portfolio items, i.e., collections. I'm not sure how many scanned pages, some multiple of that... 😀

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 4d

As promised, @stamplab.bsky.social!

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 4d

Commemorating the entry of Tonga into the British Commonwealth in June 1970 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

1970 Tonga Entry to the British Commonwealth - Dick’s Stamps Online

Commemorating the Entry of Tonga into the British Commonwealth

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 5d

The coral reef is Belize’s top tourist destination, popular for scuba diving and snorkeling and attracting almost half of its 260,000 visitors. It is also vital to the country’s fishing industry. #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

1984 Marine Life from the Belize Coral Reef - Dick’s Stamps Online

The coral reef is Belize's top tourist destination, popular for scuba diving and snorkeling and attracting almost half of its visitors.

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Wordman @iamwordman.bsky.social · 7d

Similar vintage, here's my Gambia 10/- King George V definitive from January 1922 #stampcollecting #philately #stamps