Stamps issued by the Nyassa Company, a royal company in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, then known as Portuguese East Africa #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

The national flag of Cuba (Estrella Solitaria, or Lone Star flag) was designed in 1849 and officially adopted May 20, 1902 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Designed by Roberto Franzoni (1882–1960), stamps issued by San Marino in 1953 illustrating various sports #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Ethiopian stamps commemorating Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd (and longest serving) US president from 1933 until his death in 1945, and the only one to have served more than two terms #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Time for a #DinoDash 10k!

Hungarian stamps commemorating Venera 1, the first spacecraft to to fly past Venus. Launched in February 1961, it flew past Venus on 19 May. Radio contact was lost before the flyby, resulting in it returning no data #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

A little overcast right now, but looking forward to seeing our horses run at the @breederscup.bsky.social World Championships! Straight No Chaser in the Cygames Breeders' Cup Sprint and Seismic Beauty in the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff.

1963 Monegasque stamps celebrating the protection of local birds useful to agriculture, stamps designed by Pierrette Lambert, noted banknote and stamp designer, and engraved by all the top French engravers #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Commemorating the national anthem of the Dominican Republic, composed by José Rufino Reyes y Siancas, with lyrics by Emilio Prud’Homme, in 1882, and officially adopted in 1934 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Paintings by José María Sert (1874–1945) for Spain’s 1966 Stamp Day #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

I thought my numbered lists in PowerPoint looked a little plain, but bold is better. Not as easy as Word, but it can be done! #PowerPoint #Word smawins.com/news/to-bold...

My weekend: time to mount another Europa set, this one from 1992 commemorating 500 years since the discovery of the Americas by Columbus, the last year the CEPT logo was used, and the addition of former Eastern bloc countries #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Commemorating the short-lived garrison established in 1816 by the United Kingdom to secure possession of the Tristan da Cunha islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, making them a dependency of the Cape Colony in South Africa #Stamps #Philately #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

This was my "go to" when I was #StampCollecting, several decades ago. I forgot I had it! I think this was produced for many years, but I'm not sure when this one was printed. Sometime in the early 1960s, I'm guessing. I know I always put my tie on before breaking out my #Stamps! #Philately

French charity stamps featuring the coats of arms of French cities, designed and engraved by French artists #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Free French stamps printed in London in 1944 for use in Wallis & Futuna, featuring an ivi po’o (small bone cylinder) carved with a tiki #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Free French stamps printed in London in 1945 for use in Guadeloupe #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Celebrating the art of Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (c.1811–1880), a pioneering Romantic painter of Arab-Javanese ethnicity, considered to be the first “modern” artist from Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies) #Stamps #Philately #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

What @ericewing.bsky.social said! Stamps are little pieces of art and little pieces of history. I sometimes marvel that I have in my hand a piece of gummed paper over 100 years old, a miniature work of art that tells use what was happening when it was printed #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting

Unissued imperforate Tongan stamps from their 1953 pictorial issue, overprinted in 1967 with “The Friendly Islands welcome the United States Peace Corps” and revalued/surcharged #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Commemorating the entry of Tonga into the British Commonwealth in June 1970 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

The coral reef is Belize’s top tourist destination, popular for scuba diving and snorkeling and attracting almost half of its 260,000 visitors. It is also vital to the country’s fishing industry. #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Back at remountsville, here is my set of oversized, embossed and die cut gilt foil Tongan stamps commemorating the first Polynesian gold coinage. I cannot imagine there were ever stuck on envelopes for actual postage... #Stamps #StampCollecting #Philately dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts. These 1938 San Marino souvenir sheets featuring the bust of Abraham Lincoln, made for the Grand Council Hall in the Palazzo Pubblico in 1937. Lin­coln accepted honorary citizen­ship from the republic in 1861. #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts over the last weekend. Here are my two examples of the minisheets (actually repurposed booklet panes) issued for the 1936 Johannesburg International Philatelic Exhibition (JIPEX) in South Africa #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Some more from my "save for later" box. I thought I had a full set, but no, I had all the 1984 values with the two high-value 1980 stamps. So I had to get the rest to have a complete set, of course! #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts: A set of eight stamps issued by Bolivia in 1982 featuring native parrots #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

My 5th Long Beach half completed, 2:58:35.

At Parkers Lighthouse having dinner before the Long Beach half tomorrow...

I received the 2013 Russian booklet I was missing to complete my Universiade (FISU University Games) collection, from a dealer in Lithuania of all places! #Stamps #Philately #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Inspired by @philatelovely.bsky.social's Tonga post the other day, I remounted my 1964 10th Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association (PPSEAWA) meeting stamps last weekend #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

My wife and I had the pleasure of listening to VP Harris last night at the Wiltern in L.A. on her book tour. What an intelligent, funny, and thoughtful human being.

I do appreciate lagniappe. I received these as a gift from a dealer when I bought some relatively expensive stamps. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was the complete set for the 1964 Spanish Navy! Very nice! #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Well, I found this set in my 'save for later' box, having totally forgotten I had them! Here are the 1938/1943 King George VI definitive issues for Malta #Stamps #StampCollecting #Philately dicksstamps.online/collections/...

A nice souvenir sheet from Vanuatu issued for their hosting of the 10th Pacific Mini Games held in Port Vila in 2017 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

I finally finished my 1962 "World United Against Malaria" collection, ending up with 50 custom album pages. On to the next one... #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

I got this set years ago and finally got around to mounting the stamps. Not valuable, but since my wife and I have interests in some racehorses, very relevant! Hungary, 1961, designed by Ádám Cziglényi #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

New set: The XVI Asian Games were a regional multi-sport event held from 12–27 November 2010 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

A new set I laid out and mounted up over the weekend, inspired by a post on the Spanish Armada by @pageandpostage.bsky.social l a month ago. #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts: The Belgian Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960 to become the Republic of the Congo, now Democratic Republic of the Congo. This collection commemorates the 1st anniversary of their independence #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Yet more remounts: Sketches of Berlin in the mid-1960s. But, I just received some more Scott/Prinz mounts from Global Stamps, so who knows what this weekend's Briefmarkenarbeit may bring! Stay tuned #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts: I love the beautiful engraving on these 1963 Hungarian folk costume stamps! #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Commemorating the All-Africa Games from 1995 through 2023 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts. Just a nice issue of flower stamps from Hungary in 1958 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts. King Saint Stephen was the last grand prince of the Hungarians and first king of Hungary. Canonized by Pope Gregory VII, his feast day (20 August) is a public holiday commemorating the foundation of Hungary #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More remounts. This, a nice set from Austria commemorating the 1st Great Austrian Art Exhibition, an exhibition of painting, sculpture, graphics, and applied arts, held at the Künstlerhaus on Karlsplatz in Vienna, in 1947 #Philately #Stamp #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

More long-weekend remounts. Here’s a nice set of stamps from Hungary featuring water fowl, designed by Tamás Papp, and issued in 1959 #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

I've been remounting some old sets of stamps over his Labor Day weekend. Here's a 1967 set from Hungary commemorating the 25th session of the Danube Commission, who maintain and improve navigation on the Danube River #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

I thought I had all the stamps for this collection, but turns out I was missing a Russian book pane! What a pain! Ordered and waiting. Meanwhile, here is my Universiade collection, a work-in-progress #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...

Finishing off my Central American and Caribbean Games collection (with the exception of 1986), the sets for 2002, 2006, and 2018. Now, I just need to find the two Panama stamps from 1986!!! #Philately #Stamps #StampCollecting dicksstamps.online/collections/...