In this episode, host Frank Roche is joined by Postcrossing execs Paulo Magalhães and Ana Campos to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the launch of the global postcard phenomenon. We talk about the origin story of Postcrossing, the challenges of scaling up so rapidly, the dance that Paulo and Ana…
View More The Postcardist: Postcrossing’s 15th Anniversary with Paulo Magalhães and Ana CamposVenezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. The territory of Venezuela was colonized by Spain in 1522 amid resistance from indigenous peoples. In 1811, it…
View More VenezuelaThe Postal History Symposium is biennial event, jointly hosted by the American Philatelic Research Library and the National Postal Museum. The 11th Symposium was held virtually. Along with the events, the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society co-sponsored the symposium and the American Philatelic Society provided a full list of speakers under…
View More Postal History Symposium 2020Inini (Territoire de l’Inini) was an inland territory of French Guiana, administered separately between 6 June 1930 and 19 March 1946, after which all of French Guiana became a department of France. The territory remained governed as a special entity, until 17 March 1969 when it was dissolved into communes,…
View More IniniFrench Guiana (Guyane Francaise) is an overseas department and region of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. Before European contact, the territory was originally inhabited by Native Americans, most speaking the Arawak language, of the Arawakan language family. The people identified as Lokono. The…
View More French GuianaSolomon Islands 1992 Guadalcanal Anniversary aerogramme with previously unrecorded missing colour error. Insights into how it was determined which colour was missing plus a look at the 1956 stamp which inspired the aerogramme’s design. Check out the Zeboose online store HERE.
View More Zany About Stamps: Solomon Islands 1992 Guadalcanal Anniversary Aerogramme
It’s the story of a very personal and emotional letter written shortly after the death of King George VI. The sender is Princess Margaret (1930-2002), his younger daughter.
View More Peter’s Real Royal Mail: The Death of a King and FatherThe Orient is a term for the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, in relation to Europe. It is the antonym of Occident, the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the continent of Asia, loosely classified into the Near…
View More Thematic: OrientComics is a medium used to express narratives or other ideas through images, usually combined with text. It typically takes the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. The size and…
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It’s in the title. Which could be expanded to Zany About Stamps, Proofs, Covers, Artwork and Related Stuff. Or changed to Stamp Collecting. Or even Philately – The Hobby of Kings, The King of Hobbies. Or something equally vacuous. Sassy and succinct it is… Zany About Stamps.
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