have a great philatelic weekend
Dear Members, have a great philatelic weekend.. I wish you lots of sales, and in between times if you have a flash of inspiration about a topic or want to write a piece for the June issue of the Newsletter, please get in touch with me. Michael ipdasecretary1@gmail.com
Celebrating May 1st
Today is May 1st so I thought it timely to say welcome to May. It is actually an ancient European Spring Festival celebration so if you want you can go and dance around the May pole and not feel ridiculous. But that has nothing to do with stamps. So I will just stay with philatelic […]
a “giant Easter egg”
Sometimes you just have to say. ok! so they were desperate for a stamp design theme – maybe this is one of those times. 10 years ago, issued in 2009 to commemorate “Roadside Attractions”, yes they were desperate for a topic I guess, or someone had just visited Australia and seen the 2007 stamps issued […]
the periodic table………….
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the periodic table as created by Dimitri Mendeleev. He was a Russian chemist who wrote out the then known 63 elements on cards and arranged them in columns and rows according to their chemical and physical properties. To celebrate this anniversary the United Nations has proclaimed 2019 to be […]
enjoying my Machins..
Some people hate Machins with a passion but some of us adore them. Is that a good word to use? adore… So interesting and so much to study. As everyone knows the one design has been around for 50 years. Must have got something right. Well to keep those of us interested, 6 new […]