I was struggling to find a good #stampoftheday for today when I realized that May 8 is the 75th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of WW 2 in Europe. My father’s collection doesn’t include any of the stamps marking this, mainly because most of those stamps were issued after he stopped being an active […]

Several possible options today for #stampoftheday but I’m going to go with two related to the 1939 New York World’s Fair, which opened on April 30, 1939 on over 1,200 acres of land at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. (Apologies for such a long post but I’m having fun here…) Over 200,000 people attended the fair’s opening

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