Earlier this month, Royal Mail issued some stamps commemorating 150 years of the Rugby Football Union. I bought some 2nd class and some 1st class stamps, plus one £2.55 stamp. I didn't bother with the £1.70 value.
On the foreign stamp front, I still get a lot of the chrysanthemum global forever stamps on incoming mail. I do like the postmark the USPS applied - it came out quite tidily.
As I sent out some postcards on World Postcard Day through Postcrossing and they have mostly all arrived at their destinations, my address has been given out to Postcrossers. This stamp, one from Hungary fascinates me... There is a hole, the bit scrubbed out by the Hungarian resistance when Russia invaded and put a symbol in the flag. Timing was quite poignant because on a television programme, The Repair Shop, I watched just before one I wanted to view, there was a woman who brought in a teddy bear in need of some tender loving care, one that had been given to her as a refugee child from Hungary in an Austrian camp.
As you have been publishing stamps on Sunday, I would invite you to join "Sunday Stamps". It consists in what was called "a link party". Do you remember that? Every week, there is a theme, and different bloggers write a post about one or more related stamps, and add the link to the post on the comments of the host blog, See it on a Postcard.
ReplyDeleteThe themes can be as freely interpreted as you wish, and you can participate when you wish. No duties here, just for fun!