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My Philately (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
(I'm currently writing this post from Ottawa airport. I'm waiting for my flight to Montreal and then to Paris. This is a pitty that during last week spent in Chicago and Ottawa I could not find any time to visit a post office in order to buy some stamps ! May be next time...) As an echo to my yesterday post showing stamps from Uruguay, I'm glad today to share with you my first cover received from...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
(I know, I haven’t written in my blog since ages… several weeks in fact. The reason is that three weeks ago I have starting a new job, within the same company, that kept me very busy. A lot of new things to learn, a lot of new people to meet. This new job is going to give me the chance to travel even more than before: this week I have been two days in Chicago, I’m currently writing...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Just a short note to tell you that I just published an update of my website about frogs and toads. http://www.philatelic-frog.fr
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
I have already shown here on my blog several items from Japan bearing nice picturial red cancel. I am very happy to share with you the latest one that I got : a red cancel picturing a frog ! The red cancel is from Matsuo Post Office, Iwate prefecture. The date of the cancel 57.11.10 represents the 10th of November 1982, the 57th year of the Emperor's reign! The frof pictured on the cancel is a living...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
From the 11th of May 2009 to the 15th of May was held the World Ocean Conference (WOC) and the Coral Triangle Summit (CTS) in Manodo, Indonesia. The purpose of this conference is, as you could guess, to discuss about preservation of the oceans. At this occasion, the Indonesian postal administration has issued four stamps picturing marine animals and the emblems of the conference. I recently got a...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
As announced in my last post, I’m glad to share with you my first cover coming from the Republic of Macedonia. This is a registered cover that was used by the seller of the stamps I showed you in my previous post. The cover was sent from Skopje, the capital of the country. The seller used not less than twelve stamps on this cover. Here it is. From left to right and top to bottom, let me give...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
I’m always pleased to see how many stamps picturing frogs and toads are issued every year (well my bank account is may be little less pleased ;-) ). One of the most recent issues is coming from the Republic of Macedonia. The stamp is a part of a set of three stamps and one souvenir sheet dedicated to Fauna of Macedonia and issued on 9th of September 2009 (FDC of this set would make interesting...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
As you noticed last week was again a very busy week with low number of posts in this blog… But today I am very proud to share with you my first cover from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Thank you Ganesh for this very nice cover. I owe you a cover on my side, thanks a lot for your patience. Here is the cover. The large stamp is part of a set of two issued on the 26th of May 2002 and picturing...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
On the 1st of September I published a post related to a souvenir sheet to be issued by Czech Republic the day after and picturing a frog. At this time I had only a small picture of the sheet. Now that I have purchased the sheet on an auction website I can share with you a bigger picture. The sheet is really nice and deserves it. As you can see a lot of animals and plants are pictured. For each of...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
I initialy thought that this week would be a bit quieter than the previous ones but I was wrong... Anyway I decided tonight to make a break and to spend some time on stamps and my blog. For today I have selected a cover that I got from Thailand. This is the second one I get from this country. As you can see, the cover is franked with a mini sheet of ten stamps, quite impressive! This stamp has been...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
It is almost two weeks since last time I have written in my blog! Two weeks of silence... this is almost a record since I have started this blog I think. And I feel sorry about that, but last week I have followed a very intensive training in a very nice castle but with an Internet connection so slow that I did not dare trying to access to my blog. I wonder how they could call that a high speed Internet...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
(I have been REALLY busy this week so I had no time to write in my blog. I do regret it. I hope next week will be better). I missed the previous interesting dates such as the 07/08/09 so I decided that this time I would not miss the chance to get a cancel dated on the 9th of September 2009 (09/09/09). The best way was to send a cover to myself: here it is. You can click on the picture to see better...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
I just received a set of four WWF pre-paid postcard that I bought on an aunctions website for mt frog collection and I would like to share it with you. The set contains four postcard issued in 2005 by Czech republic to celebrate the "day of WWF". Each postcard is illustrated with a nice drawing of an endagered animal. The first one picture a butterfly, the Apollo (Parnassius apollo), also...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
The debate around what should be and what should not be pictured on stamps seems to run is several countries, not to say in all countries. As a member of the American Philatelic Society , I receive, once a month, the American Philatelist, the very good philatelic publication of the APS. I like reading the letters of readers to the editor. In one of the last issues, a reader was complaining about the...
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My Philately (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Some postal administrations do have the very good idea to publish on their website pictures and information about future stamp issues and not only about past issues. This is the case of the postal administration of Czech Republic. I visited its website yesterday, a bit by accident, and I discovered that tomorrow is going to be issued a souvenir sheet that will fit into my frog stamp collection. Here...
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