Let's face it. Do we really want to get on a flight where they drop the temperature so low that icicles form on your nose and you have to wear a mask throughout the flight while your legs are dangling in the aisle because there is no leg room? Well, of course we do. It is the quickest way to get somewhere, although the...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Sunday, December 5, 2021
December 25th, Christmas Day, a time for rejoicing for the entire Christian / Catholic world (some celebrate a week or so later, like in Georigia). Despite being Jewish and not celebrating Christmas, it is nice to see the spirit of Christmas and the many pretty stamps that are issued all over the world.
Ireland innocently...
Thursday, December 2, 2021
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Dec
As stated in the title, there is just news today.
You remember I asked you to vote for me last week? The PTS (Philatelic Traders Society) awards ceremony to announce winners of the People's Choice is today. If I win, it is thanks to you, if I don't, well at least we tried. Thank you very much for your votes, much appreciated.
On...
Thursday, November 25, 2021
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Nov
I have been nominated for a PTS Award. This year they are giving the general public the chance to cast their vote. Help me win this award. Vote for me! https://www.thepts.net/peoples-choice.html
Thank you for your suppo...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Who has heard of Rhodesia? Raise your hand. You have? You are showing your age. Today people know it as Zimbabwe.
We will use Rhodesia from here on because philatelically that is where the fun is. Now we all know that the Digital Philatelist and his award winning site was once head of the Rhodesian Study Circle so why...
Thursday, November 18, 2021
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Nov
I haven't written a blog for a few weeks. Sounds like an apology but it isn't, it is a statement of fact. I am trying to broaden the amount of people who view my channels, not for me, but for all of us. There are many videos out there about stamps and you get the feeling that they are technical, oh this stamp is expensive...
Thursday, November 11, 2021
11
Nov
OK, you are right. I haven't written a blog for a few weeks. There is a reason for that. I believe that the way to get others involved in my work of love is by short videos.So here is one about a Postal War. I hope you enjoy it. Please watch to the end so that YouTube will acknowledge it as wel...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Second episode. I hope you like it. Don’t forget to click like, it is important for...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
We learned from a previous post Jerusalem is under siege that from December 1947, Jewish Jerusalemwas under a de-facto siege. At this time there were about 100,000 Jews and about 65,000 Arabs living in Jerusalem, but the vast majority of those Arabs lived in the old city. (Jerusalem is the small red blob on the middle...
Thursday, October 14, 2021
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Oct
This is my first attempt. I hope you like it.&nb...
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Today I have another surprise for you. Another very good friend has volunteered to write something for us. So thank you Jean Wang for joining us.
For collectors of medical philately, the pandemic has provided lots of fodder, with so far over 100 official stamp issues, slogan machine cancels and meter marks, pictorial...
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
05
Oct
Some religious people say to you, "May the Lord be with you" or "Go with God", which is pretty nice but if you are a Star Wars fan, you probably say "May the Schwartz be with you". But this is a blog about philately and so we will leave the Force and the Schwartz alone.
Some of us who collect prephilately, whether it is...
Monday, September 27, 2021
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Sep
Today we look at a letter and quite often we don't give a thought to how the letter arrived, if we are luck enough for it to arrive. Very often our main mode of communication is WhatsApp or something similar or even an email, although sometimes our mail goes into a spam folder.
But this was not always the case. Are any...
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Today I have a surprise for you. A very good friend has volunteered to write something for us. So thank you Yoram Lubianiker for joining us.
On November 29th 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution (#181) for the termination of the British mandate. Palestine was to be divided into a Jewish...
Monday, September 13, 2021
Throughout history Jews have always been the scapegoats for everything. Hitler found it easy to gain support by blaming the Jews. The anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer often wrote, "The Jews Are Our Misfortune." So why not blame the Jews for Hitler's mistakes and failures during WW2?Remember the cute story of Operation...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
We recently spoke about the Israeli interim period in which the British had not yet left, but were still playing games with us and one of those games was interefering with the transfer of mail. I wrote two posts about this, one "When a label is not a label" and the other "Whiskey Mail". Here comes another in this fascinating...
Monday, August 30, 2021
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Aug
I was preparing a page for my exhibit and trying to think of what to use and I cam across the stamp on the right. The stamp shows the coat of arms of a Czech town called Česká Třebová situated on the border of Bohemia and Moravia.
According to the information sent to me by their webmaster, the name of the town is based...
