Great job and great topic Ted! Robert Heinlein popped into my head as I saw Bradbury pass by. Now I'm curious if he's represented on any stamps. Sounds like something to do on this cold rainy day. Might have to break out that old snowblower where you are.
Thank you, Greg. If you saw Ray Bradbury pass by, then you saw Robert Heinlein pass by seven stamps earlier. He was the 1st one shown of that series, "Straniero in Terra Straniera." Would love to see a movie made of it.
Ted, have to say that directing the "favorites' did make me notice the more recent US issues. After experiencing the frustration of the USPS issuing stamps ( I call them "stickers or labels" now) with cartoon characters, TV shows, just silly things , it reminded me of the stickers I give out in my office to the young children. The attempt by the USPS just to issue them to garner revenue from collectors, while making them difficult to archive ( adhesives) made me focus on pre 2000 US stamps. The stamps highlighted are very creative. Thanks for putting in the effort to share this. As always, good job!
It just ain't right, Ted my friend, that your silly forum creation should have garnered almost twice the views and three time the comments as your scholarly endeavor. Why I oughta .....hmmm, congratulate you or commiserate with you? Either way a couple of beers are in order.
Another good Video, Ted. Looks like you have moved into your new digs.
I was pleased to see you mentioned one of my heroes, Richard Feynman. You know about his fascination with Tannu Tuva, right?
Ironically enough (or is it Spiritual Quantum Entanglement), I just got clearance from Amy to sell PDF album files and this was the example I sent her...
Besides this, I will be offering pages for US Plate Blocks as well as physical pages with mounted stamps
Yes, I know of his unfulfilled dream of visiting Tuva. I learned of it on the same CD in which he "performs" with Kongar-ool Ondar (at 1:04): Giddagabudagahooyah, orange juice, orange juice Gimme little bit o' orange juice now Juice, juice, juice, juice
Ah yes....I remember those heady days back in the late 70s, early 80s when postage rates went up every coupla months and stamps had letters instead of prices to keep up. I have most of them.
Are those ours? No..un- unh. No way. No. That's, well, those are repulsive. Did we run out of money for real artists? Does the new postmaster have something to do with this? No. I would not even put those on a seven-year old's lunchbox. Those, oh crap. Just never mind....
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If you saw Ray Bradbury pass by, then you saw Robert Heinlein pass by seven stamps earlier. He was the 1st one shown of that series, "Straniero in Terra Straniera." Would love to see a movie made of it.
I was pleased to see you mentioned one of my heroes, Richard Feynman. You know about his fascination with Tannu Tuva, right?
Ironically enough (or is it Spiritual Quantum Entanglement), I just got clearance from Amy to sell PDF album files and this was the example I sent her...
Besides this, I will be offering pages for US Plate Blocks as well as physical pages with mounted stamps
Giddagabudagahooyah, orange juice, orange juice
Gimme little bit o' orange juice now
Juice, juice, juice, juice
USA, Scott Nr 2521 (1991)
Can you imagine, issuing a stamp, the design of which consists solely of operating instructions for that stamp?
I have most of them.