There are small snakes who eat smaller frogs, and there are bullfrogs who eat those small snakes. Moral: be careful what frogs you choose to kiss/eat.
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That's bull****! The asteriscs are F-R-O-G...Maximum card USA, from "Wonders of America" 2006 series of 40 stamps
There are small snakes who eat smaller frogs, and there are bullfrogs who eat those small snakes. Moral: be careful what frogs you choose to kiss/eat.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Splendid Arabian Purebred Horses: Ras-Al-Khaima stamps
This is a wonderful stamp series of artful (not artsy-fartsy) drawings of horses. I got the 5 lower denominations while I was living in Romania. Then, in 1973 I traveled thru Hungary to GDR, so I bought from Magyarorszag the full series of 6 and the gorgeous souvenir sheet :). I still love this series...
So what if it's a CTO (canceled-to-order)? To me it means that I have to pay only 25% of the mint price, in general. The appetite for general culture was ignited and maintained thru affordable philatelic stamps, at least in my case. :)
In this website http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/ART/709289966/1239/LIFE
I have posted this:
"I have enjoyed philately, in general, and the stamps from the Emirates, in particular, for a long time.
Many condemned the excessive number of stamp issues in the 70s. But I thought: why don't you, the other countries, issue stamps as beautiful and interesting as those from the Emirates? As for quantity, I buy only what I want and can afford. "According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist". Stamp collectors are not (or shouldn't be) addicted to buying EVERY stamp issue. Choose, and focus on what YOU want.
The future of philately is in collecting creatively, not just passively. Explore my websites to see how we create our own stamps, in some countries. Consider, also, maximaphily. I love it! The most creative branch of philately.
There's good and bad everywhere, so best wishes to all the good people from the Arab countries! :)
http://www.freewebs.com/dorinco
http://dorincard.blogspot.com
Dorin Cojocariu, Herndon"
Monday, September 28, 2009
Pussycats Galore...Ye, men! Maximum card from Yemen
Going somewhere in a handbasket?
:)
Or here to stay?
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Some feedback received about me and my blog here
[DORIN'S NOTE: There are over 100 million websites.]
"There are 1,699,250 sites with a better three-month global Alexa traffic rank than Dorincard.blogspot.com.
About 43% of visitors to the site come from France, where it has attained a traffic rank of 152,077.
About 80% of visits to the site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are bounces).
Dorincard.blogspot.com's visitors view an average of 1.5 unique pages per day.
Visitors to the site spend roughly two minutes on each pageview and a total of three minutes on the site during each visit."
- Maximum Delight
- Feb 21, 2011
Postcards and stamps, mainly featuring mammals and birds but Dorincard also has other creations
and interests he likes to share.
His enthusiasm for Maximum cards (a postcard and a similar themed stamps sent through the
postal system) shines through.
He shows how he gets the right card, stamp and postmark together.
Visiting his site you will also learn things about the natural world told with a dry sense of humour,
possibly with a play on words, and a unique style of headings.
Topical and informative both for the enthusiast and casual visitor.
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