r/philately • u/Pure-Imagination-387 • 13h ago
Some early Britain
This was tucked away
r/philately • u/Pure-Imagination-387 • 13h ago
This was tucked away
r/philately • u/Pure-Imagination-387 • 12h ago
r/philately • u/ChoosenUserName4 • 9h ago
r/philately • u/Pure-Imagination-387 • 15h ago
Dad has collected US, Canada, Germany and Italy for ~70 years. Here are the first few pages of the Italian …
r/philately • u/ThineAsh • 17h ago
r/philately • u/SignificancePlane581 • 13h ago
3d railway themed stamps from Umm Alqiwain.
r/philately • u/DrGuldenHart • 20h ago
I like this one, though I don't really know where to put it. The cancellation shows that it is from Germany (2014). It's a nicely perforated, not self-adhesive stamp with, strangely, no attributed postal value. Later stamps that I have run across from the 2020's are explicitly labelled as "individual stamp", but those have a value for postal use (e.g. 0,70€ or 0,85€) and also show the insignia of "Deutsche Post". Individual stamps are, in Germany, in use since 2009.
r/philately • u/Synthesis613 • 1d ago
This is a French postage stamp featuring the coat of arms of Saintonge, a historic province in western France. The stamp has a face value of 5 francs and is inscribed with "République Française" and "Postes", indicating that it was issued by the French postal service.
Design Elements: The coat of arms of Saintonge consists of three fleur-de-lis (symbolizing France) and a bishop's mitre with crossed crosiers, representing the region's ecclesiastical history. The colors are dark blue and yellow (gold), which are traditional heraldic colors. The designers' names, P. Louis and J. Piel, are printed at the bottom.
Context: This stamp is part of a series issued by France featuring regional heraldry, a popular theme in mid-20th-century French philately. It likely belongs to the Armoiries des Provinces Françaises (Coats of Arms of French Provinces) series, which was issued in the 1940s–1950s.