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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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 …
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 …
Stamps of the day are a series of stamps commemorating the Louisiana Purchase that were issued starting on April 21, 1904, 100 years after the purchase. First four have pix of Robert Livingstone (namesake of the town near where I grew up in NJ), Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and William McKinley. Monroe and Livingstone negotiated …
There aren't any first day covers for today in my dad's collection (Earth Day, which is today and has been honored in stamps, came after he stopped serious collecting). So I have to be creative for #stampoftheday. Today is the 131st anniversary of the land rush into what is now Oklahoma, which had been set aside …
April 23 is another day without a first day cover so another day of being creative. Today is the 404th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, who finally got a stamp of his own in 1964. I love the fact that in the "official" partially filled Scott stamp album that also was part of …
Today's first-day cover is especially timely. It's the April 24, 1953 first-day cover issued by the UN, honoring the UN's work for the protection of refugees. In the UN's first two decades, many people, including my father, collecting their stamps, reflecting the high hopes and high opinion many people had for the UN. And this …
Today's #stampoftheday is the 5-cent "Toward United Nations" stamp issued on the day that representatives from 46 war-weary nations that had their first meeting (in San Francisco) to discuss what became the United Nations. The stamp's simple design, including its wording were suggested by President Franklin Roosevelt, an avid stamp collector who died about two …
The #stampoftheday for Sunday, April 26, is the 10-cent 1940 stamp honoring Jane Addams was a social reformer who was the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. She is best known for being the founder of Hull House, which offered social, educational, and cultural opportunities to the large immigrant population of Chicago and …