Monday, May 18, 2009

(Virtual, non-existent yet) maximum card: Year of the Rat, or Year of the Flat(-Broke)?

(Future?) maximum card: Year of the Rooster (should I say Cock?), or Year of the Booster (which World Leader will be the Booster of the Economy?)


(Future?) maximum card: Year of the Dragon, or Year of the Draggin' (your feet, from paycheck to paycheck)?

MC: Year of the Tiger, or Year of the Geiger(-Müller counter, a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation -> nuclear attacks)?

Maximum card: Year of the Monkey, or Year of the Money - gone, baby, gone...

Maximum card: Year of the Snake, or Year of the Brake (and Break - of the world economy)?

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Maximum card: Year of the Dog, or Year of the Fog (in finance, etc.)?

Maximum card: 2009, a great year for the auto industry!

Maximum card: Year of the Ox, or Year of the Cow (or Year of the Sox/Sucks - the world economy)?



What kind of year is 2009?

Maximum card: Year of the Horse, or Year of the Worse (economy)?

Maximum card: Year of the Rabbit, or Year of the (Damn it - recession)?

Maximum card: Year of the Ram, or Year of the Scam (so many...)?



In Vietnam, it's Year of the Goat (or 2009 is Year of the Scapegoat? :) )

Maximum card: Year of the Pig, or Year of the Pig Flu?

Saturday, May 16, 2009

My preferred dealer for all UK stamps is my friend Ian Billings!

Ian Billings
Norvic Philatelics APS#207617
P O Box 119
Dereham, NR20 3YN
United Kingdom

That APS # means he is member of the American Philatelic Society. Among other philatelic clubs and societies.
Check out these links, for stamps, postmarks, maximum cards, etc.
Excellent websites!

Website: http://www.norvic-philatelics.co.uk/
On that page, scroll down and click here to see postmarks that YOU, too, can obtain:
Permanent special and pictorial postmarks 3 May 2009
Other special postmarks 3 May 2009

Online store: http://www.norphil.co.uk/catalog
News blog:: http://norphil.blogspot.com/

"The web's number 1 resource for up-to-date news about new stamps of Great Britain, as well as all the new postmarks, many of them pictorial and of interest to thematic or topical collectors."

Great blog, voted #1 in a certain Top 50 site, with wonderful links

http://stampcollectingroundup.blogspot.com/

Dragon Cards = First Day Cover cards by my friend Lloyd A. de Vries (USA); very cool (and non-traditional, some of them)!

http://www.dragoncards.biz/

See many interesting and useful links at Fabio's Stamp resources!

http://fly.to/philatelic

See many hot and useful links at virtualstampclub.com!

http://www.virtualstampclub.com/hotlink.html

Friday, May 15, 2009

Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus) maximum card




Lesser White-fronted Goose is considered an endangered species, but there are programmes to reintroduce animals into the wild to strengthen the population. Additionally it is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anser_erythropus

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