The Stamp Collectors Corner

So many countries around the world were affected by WWII and many have created postage stamps to pay tribute to their fallen soldiers and those who served in what will hopefully be the last world war.
In May of 2004, the United States Postal Service also released a postage stamp to honor the men and women [...]

Some mythical creatures are believed to originate from real creatures that were often described from traveler’s tales.  For good storytelling purposes, mythical creatures often took on the form of two actual creatures combined into one making a new hybrid creature.  Others were just ones that were made up and downplayed for good storytelling purposes.  Over [...]

Anyone who has ever had the opportunity to visit Washington, DC and the pleasure of visiting the World War II Memorial can surely attest to the amazing beauty of the site.  Majestic and serene come to mind when I think of the times that I have been there in the past.  The incredible monument pays [...]

The Punch and Judy puppet show can be traced back as far as the 16th century.  Originally of Italian roots, the marionette show made their debut in London, England in 1662.  It did not take long for the show, which was originally geared towards adult audiences, to become very popular among the crowds.  As word [...]

Great Britain is often known for making seemingly normal everyday items into fantastic looking postage stamps.  In August of 2009, they released a miniature sheet of four stamps that feature England’s iconic wall mounted red mail post boxes.  Along with the set is a fully illustrated presentation pack that contains information about the past 200 [...]

The Little Prince was written in New York in 1943 by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.  He was a French aviator who was working and living in the United States at the time of its writing and it was by far his most famous novel.  Although the book is considered a simple children’s tale, it is filled [...]

The United States Postal Service joined forces with Great Britain in a joint issue with a couple of adorable postage stamps.  Issued on January 10, 2006, each set in the US and England contained eight stamps, but only two of the stamps in each set were issued in both sets.  The stamp sets featured popular [...]

In continuation from Friday…
Once the artist for the stamp design was chosen for the Wildlife of the 50 States set, he went about his task of creating a list of the 50 forms of wildlife.  To his surprise 46 of the 50 that he submitted to the Citizen’s Advisory Committee was approved, at least initially [...]

In continuation from Wednesday…
One of the reasons that the Citizen’s Advisory Board chose to create these wildlife postage stamps is that they found that the general public was more interested in animals than the other suggestions that were coming in from the public.  One road block that they encountered, however; is that not all states [...]

In June of 1987, the United States Postal Service released a much anticipated set of 50 postage stamps called the “Wildlife of the 50 States”.  The USPS had released other large panes prior to the release of these wildlife postage stamps, but none quite as artistically impressive as this particular set.  Previous sets included 50 [...]