A first day of issue cover or First Day Cover (FDC) is a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for use within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority. Sometimes the issue is made from a…
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Stamp Chats: Graham Beck – “The Making of Exploring Stamps”
The American Philatelic Society‘s guest is Graham Beck, creator and producer of the YouTube series, Exploring Stamps. In this talk, Beck shares the ins and outs of production and lessons learned. Both encouraging and pragmatic, Graham offers a candid look into three seasons of creating the series; the good, the…
View More Stamp Chats: Graham Beck – “The Making of Exploring Stamps”British Library’s Philatelic Collections: From Music to Meme
This short by the British Library’s Philatelic Collections online lecture discusses the way national anthems are incorporated and depicted in stamp designs to help construct an underlying, non-extremist & endemic type of identity which the Sociologist Michael Billig terms ‘Banal Nationalism.’ In doing so stamps are highlighted to be an…
View More British Library’s Philatelic Collections: From Music to MemeBahamas Philately: Gleneagles Guest House
Gleneagles Guest House was established in 1954 and was located opposite Fort Montagu Beach Hotel, a block away from Fort Montagu Beach, Nassau. Although listed as a residential club, it was considered more a guest house dormitory. The house was noted for being surrounded by orchard full of fruit trees…
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Using modern stamps from the British Library’s Philatelic Collections issued by Sri Lanka to commemorate Vesak, this presentation discusses how the lives of the Buddha, his teachings and the Buddhist community have been represented on stamps. It questions whether the production as well as the distribution of Buddhist themed stamps…
View More British Library’s Philatelic Collections: Buddhist Themed StampsDanish West Indies
The Danish West Indies (Danish Antilles or Danish Virgin Islands) were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix. Water Island was part of the Danish West Indies until 1905, when the Danish state sold it to the East Asiatic…
View More Danish West IndiesAlberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. Before becoming part of Canada, Alberta was home to several First Nations like Plains Indians and Woodland Cree. It was also a territory used by fur traders of the rival companies Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Company. The…
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Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada. Saskatchewan has been inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous groups. Europeans first explored the area in 1690 and first settled in the area in 1774. It became a province in 1905, carved out from the vast North-West Territories, which had until then…
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Manitoba is a province of Canada. Indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the early 17th century, British and French fur traders began arriving in the area and establishing settlements. The Kingdom of England secured control of the region in 1673 and created a territory…
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Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called Canada and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years’ War, Quebec became a British colony:…
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