Stamp of the Day

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 …

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 …

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, …

The 1840 Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system, is today's #stampoftheday. The stamp, which features a profile of Queen Victoria, was issued in Great Britain on May 1, 1840, but it was not valid for use until May 6, 1840. Before the stamp was issued, recipients, not senders, …

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 …

The "ruptured duck" on May 9th's #stampoftheday spurs a narrative that goes from honoring soldiers, to a mid-20th century film star, to Bluetooth and finally to Mel Brooks. Here goes...the stamp is a 3-cent stamp issued in 1946 "Honoring All Those Who Served" in World War II. It pictures the Honorable Discharge Emblem, surrounded by five …

Two offerings for today's #stampoftheday which, as seems increasingly be the case, will take on digressions that will include 26,000 lightbulbs, the Grateful Dead, an unsuccessful effort to monopolize the American organ industry, 10,000 pairs of left shoes, and a flag blowing the wrong way in the wind, and "if only he were around," a …

The country of Israel’s first stamps are today’s the #stampoftheday. Israel declared its independence on Friday, May 14, 1948. However, Israel Post, the Israeli postal operator, waited until Sunday May 16 – the day after Shabbat – to issue the country’s first stamps. Designed by Otto Wallish, a Czech graphic artist who came to Palestine in …

A postcard sent by one of my mother's friends to my father postmarked May 19, 1944, is today's #stampoftheday. I found it among the cancelled envelopes in my dad's collection - many of them the envelopes from letters he sent to my mom and his parents when he was in training and then in Europe …