Sunday, January 2, 2022

New(ish) stamps

 Today's prompt for Sunday Stamps is new and recent issues. I decided to interpret 'new' as also meaning latest to show up in my mail box. And it is an extension of last week's theme of Christmas, as these all arrived on cards that arrived between Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Finally some of the Otters in Snow arrived - two of the four stamps. The holiday postmark obscures them a little bit, however I still love them. they were the final stamp issue by USPS in 2021 - October 12.






And a beauty from Fafa - there is a subtle foil effect on the numbers that is hard to appreciate in a photo. the stamp celebrates 500 years of the tradition of Christmas trees. 

The stamp was issued 22 November, 2021.

Bonus image - last week another card from the UK arrived - but I think Brackley post office didn't have their date stamp set correctly!

Have a great start to the new year, everyone, and for links to more stamps, visit Sunday Stamps.

8 comments:

  1. I love otters - in snow, water and land.
    I also hadn't realized Christmas trees were 500 years old!

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    1. Same here - I was under the impression they were a Victorian invention.

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  2. All wonderful stamps for your Christmas tree! :D

    The date on the last one is quite odd. Maybe it was posted in a Time-Machine-PostBox™, too.

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    1. The postmark date is earlier than the issue date of the stamps :)

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  3. A nice variety. Otters in the snow are my favourite. Prince Albert introduced Christmas trees to the Victorians from his native Germany and presume with the shifting borders of France they came from the same direction there but a lot earlier. Go far enough back and sacred trees/glades were a thing in per-Christian times for the Germans.

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    1. I feel like trees have been sacred to people for a long time. It made for a beautiful stamp.

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  4. Happy new year. The otters are a great issue.

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