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Cover Club: The Sketch Book

photos by Jeremy The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. By Washington Irving Popular Edition, 1848 I found this in a bookstore in the U District in Seattle. The cover is...

Cover Club: Tabi ha Guestroom

I was recently visiting Dongguan in China's Guangdong Province on a family-related trip. It's not really a city that tourists would visit and I hadn't been in almost ten years...

Philatelic Friday: Trefflé Berthiaume

1984 Canada I love the design of these stamps of Trefflé Berthiaume from my box. I had no idea who he was, but all the text running over his portrait...

Cover Club: Leaves of Grass (1860 edition)

Today is Walt Whitman's birthday and there is a lot written about his personal life and his life as a writer, but much less is written about him as a...

Philatelic Friday: Talkies

After watching the epic "Andrei Rublev" last night, it only seemed appropriate to share this awesome stamp from my box celebrating the 50th Anniversary Year of Talking Pictures. 1977 USA...

Philatelic Friday: Austria's Lindauer Hütte

I picked this gem of a stamp out of my box when the red border caught my eye and then the incredibly detailed drawing made me want to find out...