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Happy new year 2013 1 Jan 2013 | 06:46 pm
I wish you all a very happy new year 2013. I hope this new year will bring you all what you may desire. I wish also that it will be full of philatelic surprise. As you could see I have been away from...
Errors on stamps… even on the country name! 7 Oct 2012 | 05:44 pm
Errors on stamps are more frequent than we can imagine. This is always surprising for me as I guess a stamp goes through a big numbers of controls before being issued. But still, from time to time a s...
A nice set of stamps from Monaco issued in 1966 6 Oct 2012 | 05:43 pm
If you follow my blog regularly you have probably noticed that, recently, I haven’t updated it very frequently. I’m quite busy these last days, not to say these last weeks. Busy at work, with very few...
Back from London 20 Sep 2012 | 12:22 am
I'm just back from London where I spent a very nice week of holidays. Actually, I arrived in London at the last day of the Paralympic games and I could attend to the Marathon. A very impressive experi...
Cute frog on prepaid evelope from Canada 26 Aug 2012 | 06:34 pm
On the 16th of July the Canadian post issued a pre-paid envelope bearing a printed stamp picturing a cute frog. The enevlope is sold with a card bearing the same picture. Here is the envelope and a z...
Edith Piaf and Miles Davis on a FDC from USA 18 Aug 2012 | 08:16 pm
I recently received this nice FDC from USA and decided to share it with you as it gives me the opportunity to come back on a stamp set that I really like. As you can see this is a First Day Cover for...
A simple but nice cover from Italy 9 Aug 2012 | 12:16 am
The Olympic Games of London are not the only story filling the news these days, there is also the landing of Curiosity rover on Mars, the red planet. On this last event I’m shared between being impres...
New frog stamps from Montenegro ! 8 Aug 2012 | 02:05 am
Today I’m happy to add one country to the list of countries that have issued stamps picturing frogs: Montenegro. On the 21st of May 2012, Montenegro has issued a set of two stamps illustrating the pro...
London 2012 7 Aug 2012 | 01:56 am
If I tell you 4, 14 and 30 ? Do you see the link? These are the ranks of the Olympic Games organized in London: the 4th ones in 1908, the 14th ones in 1948 and the 30th ones that are on going. I don'...
Franchise post office in Canada 7 Aug 2012 | 01:46 am
I’m always very happy when I get feedback from visitors of my blog and when they help me to get more information on the subject I’m writing about. This happened again recently: I received a nice lette...
