MetaFilter posts tagged with philately

"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job." - N Hill

anastasiav — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:57:17 -0800

Porn for Philatelists

Effigy2000 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:00:58 -0800

European Stamps claims to have pictures of nearly 80% of all postage stamps issued in Europe. But if you're searching for an image of what is perhaps the world's most valuable stamp, often referred to as 'Philately's Greatest Error', you'd best look elsewhere. Like here, specifically.

"Swedish post horn" sounds like it should mean something

Kattullus — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:35:36 -0800

Arago: People, Postage & the Post is the online database of the National Postal Museum. It has lots and lots of lovely things. Some examples are a high quality scan of an 18th Century envelope, a sampling of comic strips featuring mail carriers, a collection of stamps on the theme of map projection and a Swedish post horn.

39¢ Heroes

grabbingsand — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:10:40 -0800

39¢ Heroes. On January 8, the price of a First Class US Postage Stamp will creep up another two cents. But fear not, True Believers, because 20 of those new stamps will feature costumed crusaders from DC Comics "including Superman, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man, Batman, Green Arrow and many more." (Newsarama has more on the story, including the featured cover images for each hero.)

Garcia stamp petition.

xowie — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:18:46 -0800

Deadheads go postal.

Avertising Cover, Bisect, Cinderella, and so on...

taz — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:01:33 -0800

Dear M E F I, I just love Alphabetilately, and I think you will too! Yours sincerely, taz.

Chinese Philately

hama7 — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:26:30 -0800

Chinese Philately: stamps and cancellations of Imperial China.

plep — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 01:04:09 -0800

The Postage Stamps of Donald Evans (scroll down a paragraph or two) A rich and complex internal world expressed through postage stamp art.
'When Donald Evans (born Morristown, New Jersey USA in 1945) was a boy, he drifted from his hobby of collecting postage stamps to creating his own postage stamps of countries he made up in his imagination ... He left behind an astonishing planet seen through its nations' postage stamps, thousands of them, all drawn to postage-stamp size, with all the familiar periphery of postage stamps hand-done ... '