Unable to find a stamp that was issued today or one that honored someone who was born or died today, I went rummaging in the detritus of my late father’s collection and turned up a wonderful gem: a leather postcard from Mohonk Lake, NY mailed on September 20,1907. On its own, the postcard – with […]

When he was a kid in the 1960s, my late brother was very proud of the fact that he could recite, from memory, the following statement: ”Crest has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional

It is oddly appropriate that I am writing today’s #stampoftheday while sitting on my back patio, having just returned from a wonderful and bucolic week on a lightly settled pond in Liberty, Maine. Oddly appropriate because the 3-cent stamp, which was issued in 1952, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Society

Are you old enough to remember paperboys? I am. So I smile when I look at today’s #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp, issued in 1952 in honor of America’s newspaper boys. Or as the stamp say, it’s “in recognition of the important service rendered their communities and their nation.” The stamp itself merits a closer look.

A 3-cent stamp issued in 1952 on the 125th anniversary of the granting of a charter for the B&O Railroad brings Tom Thumb, Cooper Union, and McSorley’s Old Ale House to the fore as today’s #stampoftheday. The stamp pictures the first American-built steam locomotive, and steam locomotives are important because in the early 1800s most

Oddly enough, today’s #stampoftheday, which features flora from four different parts of the US, captures a thought I had in the shower last night, not long after I posted yesterday’s #stampoftheday. It occurred to me that in the “before time” (i.e the time before COVID), we would often travel and one of the things I

Today’s #stampoftheday honors the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment requiring that women be allowed to vote (and the day after Michelle Obama’s extraordinary speech at the Democratic National Convention). It does so via a 3-cent stamp, issued in 1938, picturing Susan B. Anthony, who played a pivotal role in the women’s

“A visit to Dr. Thoreau” is the journey I’m going on with today’s #stampoftheday, a 5-cent stamp picturing Henry David Thoreau, author of “Walden or Life the Woods,” which was published on August 9, 1854. The stamp itself was issued on July 12, 1967, which would have been Thoreau’s 150th birthday and was my 10th

Stop! Read this #stampoftheday post! Or maybe just speed through this post to get to whatever is next in your Facebook feed… I’m sorry, but who can resist such a lede when the #stampoftheday is a 5-cent stamp issued in 1965 with a stop light and the extremely controversial admonition to “Stop traffic accidents”? It’s

For several reasons, I have a soft spot in my heart for the two 2-cent stamps that make up today’s #stampoftheday offering. The stamps were both issued on August 3, 1927. One explicitly celebrates the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of Vermont becoming an independent republic (named New Connecticut) in 1777 as well as the Battle of