This and That: A Blog

  Sunday Stamps is the letter P this week.  P latypus Australia 1938 P ine Chafer Czechoslovakia 1992  P artridge, Red-Legged Oman 1982 Q is often a difficult letter, so come back next week and see how I did!

 St. Vincent de Paul had some small boxes of ephemera a few weeks ago.  I love looking through those!   I found quite a few postal cards. Postal cards are government issue postcards with a printed stamp.  The first official postal card was issued by the Austro-Hungarian Empire on Oct. 1, 1869.  A year later Germany issued their first. Germany then quickly became known for publishing postcards, especially in the Golden Age  of postcard production, 1890s-1914.  A few months later the UK joined in, followed by many other countries.  The U.S. was late to the game, the first postal card being published in 1873. Region: Bavaria, Germany Freistaat Bayern (Free State of Bavaria) postal card issued c. 1919, shortly after Bavaria declared itself a Free State within the Weimar Republic.  It is overprinted after the fall of the Bavarian Socialist Republic.   Saargebiet (Saar Basin) The Saar Basin was administrated by the League of Nations ...

  L  is the theme of the week for Sunday Stamps .  L ynx, Eurasian  Czechoslovakia 1966 Part of the Game Animals series. L ove USA 2024 L ightning Bug USA 2018 L eopard Nigeria 1966 Come back next Sunday for M stamps.