The 2nd stamp in my "STAMPS of the countries where my Flickr contacts reside." project/set. See others here: www.flickr.com/photos/rjhayphotography/sets/7215760709634... When I was much younger, this was one of my favourite Australian stamps. I have never been to Australia but outside of Australia this Australian symbol was often referred to as a "Koala Bear" because of its close resemblance to the children's "Teddy Bear" popular in North America. The original "Teddy Bear" was created as a stuffed animal toy around an incident involving U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and a black bear. The Australian Koala is a marsupial and is not related to a Black Bear in any way but, much to the dismay of those interested in proper nomenclature, the term "Koala Bear" has stuck like glue to this image of a cuddly animal from Australia. The Koala diet consists of leaves of the Eucalyptus and although the Koala in the stamp looks to be wide awake, real Koalas sleep most of the time. According to information in Wikipedia, they have fingerprints just like humans do. I find that most fascinating. I did a quick search of my contact's photos and found that Macdonnelliensis has an interesting collection of Koala photos in his flora and fauna set of Victoria, Australia including this stamp like image with eyes closed: www.flickr.com/photos/centralaustralia/1803365418/in/set-... Pay his set a visit. Very interesting collection of photos of interesting bird and animal life in Australia. Follow my travels and photographic adventures at: www.MegapixelTravel.com
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A fundamental purpose of a stamp is to show the prepayment of postage. Every country around the world is required to have its own name on almost all types of stamps. This kind of denomination is done to indicate the monetary value. To…
Several months ago (January this year actually) I did a 2 inch postage stamp quilt that I really liked- such a great way to use up those scr...
A fundamental purpose of a stamp is to show the prepayment of postage. Every country around the world is required to have its own name on almost all types of stamps. This kind of denomination is done to indicate the monetary value. To…
Don't see the stamps you are looking for in my Etsy shop? Check out my website of vintage postage stamps for mailing or collecting at www.treasurefoxstamps.com where you will find more stamps that I sell that are not available in my Etsy shop. Use the link to browse through my inventory of other exciting and beautiful postage stamps at treasurefoxstamps.com. *********************************************************** Pack of 10 Vintage Unused US Postage stamps of the: 13c Colorado Statehood stamp of 1976 Issued: May 21, 1977 Scott catalog #: 1711 U.S. #1711 commemorates the centennial anniversary of the state known as the “Centennial State.” Colorado is so named because it became the 38th state of the Union on August 1, 1876, the centennial year of American independence. The Colorado Statehood stamp pictures the columbine, the state’s official flower, and the majestic Rocky Mountains. 10 Mint unused postage stamps with original gum as issued by the Post Office. These stamps are genuine and valid to use as postage for current mailing. Be sure to use enough total postage to meet the current postage rate for mailing a letter if you want to use them for mailing. Please be sure that the Mailing address provided to me by Etsy is your current address. Also good to use for scrapbooking or displaying in a small picture frame. It's a miniature work of art. If you would like me to put a custom order together that includes this stamp please convo me with your questions or request a custom order. I have a large inventory of Vintage US Postage stamp for you to buy from.
Designed to add details to the Postage Collage die and stencils for a complete airmail theme. This 3" x 4" set includes 18 clear photopolymer stamps.Approximate Size:First Class Mail - 1"w x 1/4"h50 cents - 1/4"w x 1/4"hEnvelope - 7/16"w x 5/16"hWaves - 1 3/4"w x 1/2"hSending Hugs postage - 1 1/8"w x 1 1/8"hHugs Inside postage - 1"w x 1"h You may also like:Postage Collage Collection
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John G. Keulemans's painting of the purple macaw in Lord Walter Rothschild's Extinct Birds (1907) Famed for their gaudy plumage, macaws come in many colours, but purple has never been one of them – or has it? The genus Anodorhynchus – the so-called blue macaws - contains three present-day species (though one of them, the glaucous macaw, may have lately become extinct). Interestingly, in terms of plumage colouration, this genus's trio can be arranged in a very neat gradation, beginning with, as its name indicates, the intense hyacinth-blue shade of the hyacinth (or hyacinthine) macaw A. hyacinthinus, then moving subtly into the slightly more turquoise-blue hues of Lear's macaw A. leari, which then transforms further, yielding a paler, turquoise-green shade, in the aptly-named glaucous macaw A. glaucus. Brazilian postage stamp portraying all three species of recognised Anodorhynchus macaw - hyacinth (left), glaucous (centre), Lear's (right) But what if this colour gradation were also extrapolated in the opposite direction? That is, in addition to the hyacinth macaw's striking blue hue faintly greening into turquoise and thence even more so into a glaucus tone, how about deepening it, to yield a macaw whose plumage was a darker, predominantly violet or purple shade? If this quartet of macaws were then arranged in a continuous linear spectrum of transforming colour, running from purple into blue into turquoise-blue into pale turquoise-green, the line-up would be: purple macaw, hyacinth macaw, Lear's macaw, and glaucous macaw. Of course, the purple macaw is purely hypothetical – isn't it? In reality, such a bird may indeed have existed. Based upon certain centuries-old eyewitness accounts, in 1905 no less an ornithological authority than Lord Walter Rothschild - founder of the famous ornithological museum at Tring in Hertfordshire (now part of London's Natural History Museum but still based at Tring) - formally described a mysterious long-extinct macaw-like bird from Guadeloupe, which he christened Anodorhynchus purpurascens, the purple macaw (also referred to by some authorities as the violet macaw, and sometimes accorded the incorrect specific name purpurescens). His description of it was published in volume 16 of the British Ornithologists Club's Bulletin. A pair of photoshopped purple macaws (original source unknown to me) Rothschild also included this species in his book Extinct Birds (1907), together with the specially-prepared colour plate included here in this ShukerNature post of mine. His original source of information was a brief account penned by a 'Don de Navarette', entitled 'Le gros Perroquet de la Guadaloupe [sic]', which appeared in Rel. Quat. Voy. Christ. (1838). This writer was actually none other than Martin Fernández de Navarrete y Ximénez de Tejada (1765-1844) - a Spanish sailor-historian who rediscovered an abstract by Spanish reformer-bishop Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566) of the log made by Christopher Columbus during his first voyage to the West Indies. This account stated that according to Columbus, who visited the island in November 1493 during his second New World voyage, there lived on Guadeloupe a very large type of macaw that was entirely of a deep, intense violet/purple colour, and which the native Carib people referred to as the oné couli. No such bird lives there today, however, and neither a single preserved specimen nor even an illustration prepared directly by an eyewitness exists of this enigmatic purple macaw. Conversely, until the early 18th Century, a second species of parrot with violet feathers definitely did live there. This was the Guadeloupe amazon parrot Amazona violacea, which was formally described and named by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789, around which time it became extinct, due to hunting for food and wholesale clearance of the forests in which it thrived. John G. Keulemans's painting of the Guadeloupe amazon parrot in Lord Walter Rothschild's Extinct Birds (1907) Although, just like the purple macaw, there is no known preserved specimen of the Guadeloupe amazon in existence, unlike the purple macaw this showy parrot is nonetheless known from good, consistent descriptions of it given by several naturalists (such as Jean-Baptiste Labat, and French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson) and travellers (notably French missionary Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre). Consequently, in his authoritative book Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World (2nd revised edit., 1967), ornithologist James C. Greenway Jr from the American Museum of Natural History suggested that Navarrete's description of the violet-plumed oné couli may in fact have been nothing more than "a careless description of A. violacea". In my view, however, it would need to have been an exceptionally careless description in order to confuse a long-tailed parrot the size of a macaw with a much smaller, short-tailed amazon. Moreover, whereas the purple macaw was said to be entirely violet/purple, in the Guadeloupe amazon this particular colour was confined predominantly to its head and neck (and even there it was a slaty black-violet rather than an intense purple). In stark contrast, this amazon's back, tail, and much of its wings and underparts were deep green, with portions of its wings additionally sporting bright yellow, red, and jet-black feathers. Not only with regard to its size and shape, therefore, but also in relation to its multicoloured plumage, I fail to see how this species could in any way be mistaken for a wholly purple macaw. Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World (2nd revised edit., 1967) by James C. Greenway Jr A second suggestion offered by Greenway, and one that is also supported by various other ornithological scholars, is that Guadeloupe's purple macaws may simply have been hyacinth or even Lear's macaws imported by trading natives into Guadeloupe from the South American mainland. Again, however, it is difficult to see how the unequivocally blue plumage of the former species or even the slightly more turquoise tones of the latter one could come to be described as deep violet or purple. So here, leaving it lingering perpetually in a shadowy ornithological limbo as a avian of tantalising ambiguity unless any additional information concerning it should one day become available, is where we must take our leave of Guadeloupe's very perplexing purple macaw – a bird that may, or may not, have existed, but which, if it truly did, and was indeed a macaw, must surely have been one of the most beautiful creatures ever seen by the eyes of its extremely fortunate beholders. UPDATE - DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE BLACK MACAW EITHER! On 16 May 2012, I received a much-anticipated newly-published book – Extinct Birds, by Julian P. Hume and Michael Walters. Unquestionably the most detailed book ever prepared on the subject, it documents many extraordinarily obscure species and subspecies that, despite my longstanding interest in such birds, were new to me. One of these was the black macaw Anodorhynchus ater, a truly cryptic species in every sense. It was first documented by De Laet in 1630, and then described by British naturalist Dr John Latham in 1781 (who dubbed it the black macaw), followed by German naturalist Johann F. Gmelin in 1788 (basing his description upon Latham's and christening it Psittacus ater – its first taxonomic name). According to these accounts, the black macaw was native to Guyana, but Hume & Walters consider it to be an invalid taxon based upon inadequate descriptions. I have yet to see the three accounts noted above, but if I can locate any of them, I will expand this section accordingly at a later date. Incidentally, this mysterious macaw should not be confused with the very familiar hyacinth macaw A. hyacinthinus, which is occasionally dubbed the black macaw, due to its local Tupi Indian name, 'arara una', which translates literally as 'dark macaw' or 'black macaw' (even though its plumage is blue!). A fake online photograph of a purple-plumaged macaw, resulting from computer modification by person(s) unknown of an online photograph of a hyacinth macaw (source unknown to me)
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Miniature squares can make a big impact that looks modern and traditional at the same time. Red Pepper Quilts has us inspired to combine tiny square scraps into a larger design. Let us show you some of our favorites. The riot of squares with a modern stripe border of this Summer’s End Quilt draws our […]
Your kids can design a own postage stamp or book of stamps. Includes a big list of ideas for using this free printable postage stamp.
What do you do with those tiny bits of fabric leftovers? Well, for starters you definitely don’t throw them out. Instead, we suggest you use this fun and extremely easy technique to make fabric postage stamps. Amy from Nana Company dreamed up this amazing idea for all your small scraps and turn them into something […]
My scrappy postage stamp quilt begins with a variety of 2 1/2" squares of fabric. I picked up this box of pre-cut fabric a...
*** *** *** I'm stampolina and I love to take photos of stamps. Thanks for visiting this pages on flickr. I'm neither a typical collector of stamps, nor a stamp dealer. I'm only a stamp photograph. I'm fascinated of the fine close-up structures which are hidden in this small stamp-pictures. Please don't ask of the worth of these stamps - the most ones have a worth of a few cents or still less. By the way, I wanna say thank you to all flickr users who have sent me stamps! Great! Thank you! Someone sent me 3 or 5 stamps, another one sent me more than 20 stamps in a letter. It's everytime a great surprise for me and I'm everytime happy to get letters with stamps inside from you! thx, stampolina For the case you wanna send also stamps - it is possible. (...I'm pretty sure you'll see these stamps on this photostream on flickr :) thx! stampolina68 P.O.Box / Postfach 6 3250 Wieselburg Austria - Europe * * * * * * * * * stamp italy 5 lire orange italien postes italian postage porto timbre bollo sello maerke marke briefmarke stamp marka cancelled5 Lire Italija markica 义大利 邮票 إيطاليا طوابع italien frimærker Briefmarken Itálie razítka timbre italie Ιταλία γραμματόσημα イタリア スタンプ Itālija markas Италия марки 이탈리아 우표 Itália selos sellos İtalya pulları bélyegek Olaszország อิตาลี แสตมป์ Italia perangko इटली टिकटों timbre stamp selo franco italian bollo postage porto sellos marka briefmarke Italy
Get your pen, because the Wee Are The World pals are back and ready to correspond with you and your neighbors, near and far. I have twelve stationery sets of Wee Are The World kids, one for each pal from the collection. They are the sweetest, little sets for you to get and share with you local pals and friends across the seas. If you like them all you can even get the complete Wee stationery sets for a special deal. The stationery sets are now available at Lettering Delights and you can get right to them by clicking on my Sheri’s Creations sign at right or click here. Each stationery set comes with a card, two notes, three labels and an envelope. You can see each of these sets below, complete with all seven pieces. The sets available are Frenchy, Mukluk, Sushi, Tajie, Nina, Bongo, Tiki, Poncho, Dutchy, Java, Tawni and Cairo. They are only grouped in pairs below to save space, but are sold individually on LD. Below is a sample of one stationery set similar to what you will get from LD. You will simply print, trim, fold, and glue the pieces. The only thing left to do is write to your pals and send. Please note, these envelopes cannot be sent in the mail as is, they are legally too small, and of course the free postage stamps cannot be used for actual postage. They are just for cuteness sake. :) Above is a sample of the Mukluk set; trimmed, folded, and ready for use. I also have a freebie to share! It is a set of twelve postage stamps to complete the sets. The postage stamps are designed to match the wee kids, and you can download them free here or at my U-Pick sign (at right, then choose the file title WeePostageStamps) to help decorate your wee envelopes. You can reduce the file before printing to 50% to get a traditional stamp size, or keep the art at full size as a mini global gallery or other crafting projects. Sample of free wee postage stamps (above); you must click on my U-Pick sign (at right) to download the file. Head on over to LD to get these darling pen pal sets from the twelve global kids and share the joy of letter writing on mini cards and stationery. Think of it as a mini break from typing and texting, but an enjoyable one for you and your recipients!
"I'm bored!" They're the two words kids say that every parent dreads. OK, they're not the only two, but the moment they're uttered, it can sometimes feel like an impossible task keeping them entertained. Instead of leaving them to their tablets or the TV, this is the perfect opportunity to create long-lasting — and in this case tangible —memories.How, you ask?Pull out the coloring pencils, crayons and markers, and give the kids free reign to scribble their hearts away. And luckily for you, we have plenty of printable craft templates on hand to help kids embrace their artistic talents and...
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I can’t tell you how good it feels to finally finish another quilt! It’s.been.forever. Probably close to three years since I’ve completed a quilt. But a few months back, I found myself stalking…
*** *** *** I'm stampolina and I love to take photos of stamps. Thanks for visiting this pages on flickr. I'm neither a typical collector of stamps, nor a stamp dealer. I'm only a stamp photograph. I'm fascinated of the fine close-up structures which are hidden in this small stamp-pictures. Please don't ask of the worth of these stamps - the most ones have a worth of a few cents or still less. By the way, I wanna say thank you to all flickr users who have sent me stamps! Great! Thank you! Someone sent me 3 or 5 stamps, another one sent me more than 20 stamps in a letter. It's everytime a great surprise for me and I'm everytime happy to get letters with stamps inside from you! thx, stampolina For the case you wanna send also stamps - it is possible. (...I'm pretty sure you'll see these stamps on this photostream on flickr :) thx! stampolina68 P.O.Box / Postfach 6 3250 Wieselburg Austria - Europe * * * * * * * * * great stamp Canada 25c (maple leaf, Ahornblatt, 枫叶, hoja de acre, клено́вый лист, folha de bordo) postage stamps poste-timbres Canada posta pulu sellos selos 5c Briefmarken Kanada porto franco francobolli postzegel 一张邮票 加拿大 ма́рка Кана́да
Turn a bunch of fabric scraps into an adorable postage stamp quilted pillow. A cute fussy cut quilt project. A great beginner sewing project.
