Sunday Stamps - June 8, 2025
This week's Sunday Stamps theme is stamps that are Engraved or Illustrated. I went with Engraved.
USA 1937 - David Farragut and David Porter, civil war commanders and adopted brothers, and their ships.
I really like this stamp! There is so much going on with the coat of arms. Plus, I love the colors, the crispness, and how it's in such good condition for its age.
Guatemala 1902 - Lake Amatitlán
Australia 1937
Did you know that in 1943 Winston Churchill requested a live platypus be sent to Britain, but unfortunately it arrived dead? At the time it wasn't unusual for Australia to gift live platypuses as diplomatic gifts to allied nations.
Men Who May Be Fathers (at work or play) will be the stamps for next week.
Engraved stamps are my favourite, but they are scarce nowadays.
ReplyDeleteI really wouldn't like a platypus as a gift!
They do have a certain charm (the engraved stamps, not the platypus!).
Deleteawww....poor platypus, but i like the stamp. And also the British South Africa one!
ReplyDeleteYeah, they really didn't treat animals well back then. We do better, but still have a way to go.
DeleteEnjoyed the first stamp as I was nearly a history major in college, but my favorite was the British South Africa Company stamp. I would never believe it was from 1896, and I liked the lion with the human-like face.
ReplyDeleteThat one is my favorite too. I was never big on history, and as a child our family vacations were to forests and places like Yellowstone, not historic sites. Stamps make it interesting now!
DeleteAnd how was he planning to care for this poor platypus, I wonder? That pop of purple on the 1896 stamp was unexpected. I like how the lines on engraved stamps can sometimes make me think of fingerprints.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean by fingerprints, especially on that Guatemalan one. The sky and mountain look like them!
DeleteThose are great. Sad about the platypus.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I wonder who many survived being gifted. I doubt they knew much about their care.
DeleteWow that South African stamp looks as though it has just been printed. Platypus presents, how weird the past was, although come to think of it the times we are living through are pretty weird too, just in a different way.
ReplyDeleteIt does look new, the perforations are so clean. So true about our times.
Delete