Stamp of the Day

April 2020

Finding My Footing at the XVIIth Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce and the National Capital Sesquicentennial

Day 3 of my my #stampoftheday project brings us 1959’s 8-cent stamp honoring the XVIIth Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce. And a bonus of 4 different 1950 stamps honoring the National Capital Sesquicentennial with stamps of the White House, the Supreme Court building, the Capital, and the statue of Columbia on top of […]

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Beginning Where It Ultimately Ends…in Brussels at the Universal and International Exhibition

Day 2 of the first-day cover project is not off to a good start because I can’t find a cover for April 19. So instead here’s one from April 17, 1958, which was my father’s 33rd birthday (he would have been 95 last Friday). It’s the ever popular 3-cent “Compliment to the Brussels Universal and

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As it Should, It All Starts with Paul Revere (as well as Water Conservation)

Though I’ve had them for years, it’s only in the last year that I started to look at my late father’s stamp collection which goes from the late 1800s until around 1960. Here’s two first-day covers issued on April 18: a Paul Revere stamp from 1958 and a water conservation stamp issued in 1960. I

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