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Stamp posts for 2016

by | Sep 25, 2021

12 articles 

George V St Helena Cleft Rock Flaw – posted 28/01/2016

Alcock and Brown’s flight – 1919’s amazing feat – posted 31/01/2016

3 Rocket mail stamps & explosive packed tubes – posted 09/02/2016

1894 North Borneo state stamps – where I torture a bit of history & show a few stamps – posted 2016/02/17 

A little philately, climbing Dhaulagiri in Nepal & a trip down memory lane – posted 22/02/2016

Toronto’s first post office, rebellion & a little Upper Canada history – posted 11/03/2016

BC Airways semi-official stamp & Canada’s first passenger plane crash – posted 05/04/2016

The magnificent 2007 cork stamp Portugal – posted 2016/05/11 

Canadian philately – the amazing 1859 5c beaver stamp – posted 23/05/2016

Canada’s 1969 sad little stamp commemorating the 1919 transatlantic flight – posted 26/07/2016

Before drones – delightful oat driven parcel post mail – posted 13/09/2016

Nifty present for stamp collectors – mail them a balsa plane – posted 02/12/2016

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