Thursday, June 23, 2011

So far, I have created over 129 personalized stamp designs at Zazzle alone. Plus a few at endicia.com, stamps.com, TNT (Netherlands), Australia Post and Royal Mail United Kingdom. I will create (not necessarily buy, too) at least one such design from each of the 24+ countries that currently have a postal administration that is smart enough to offer the public the chance to create personalized stamps, perfectly valid for postage and highly desirable for collecting/philatelic purposes

I have several stamp designs in my Private Gallery (not posted for sale) at zazzle.
You are not allowed (by the system) to see them/buy them.
Sorry. Can't peek on my Private...
But I can move them anytime to my Public Gallery, if muşchii  mei so desire...:)
"Private Products

Your finished products. Click any design to view its details, change options, or add it to your cart."


I have several designs in the In-progress Gallery, including those designs temporarily or definitively rejected
 [don't get me started...:)...].
You can't see them, either.
Curiosity killed George...or the cat?
:)
"In Progress Designs

Masterpieces in the making! Click any of your designs to continue creating. "


However, please take a look at my 119 stamp designs in my Public Gallery at zazzle (there are 10 more HIDDEN - only I can see them, until and unless I change my mind)
 http://www.zazzle.com/dorinco/gifts?cg=196687342138137670

The good news for you is that you, too, can design FREE OF CHARGE stamps and over 200 other products at zazzle, but not at any other issuer of personalized stamps in the world, AFAIK!

After you design, you submit for approval IF you want them in the Public Gallery.

Then, you or anybody else in the world can buy them (but shipped ONLY to an American address!).

Then, you will get a royalty payment, eventually, if anything sells.
If nothing sells, at least you had fun! :) 
Seriously.

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Borat - "Throw the Jew Down the Well!!" [His audience seems unaware of his sarcasm...]. Also, read from BBC: Jewish bodies found in medieval well in Norwich, UK. Also, a British maxicard of piled wood logs, a symbol for those unfortunate people piled up (or down) in the well. Beware of well-wishers...


His audience seems unaware of his sarcasm...

Who hasn't seen the movie Borat, outrageously funny and offensive on purpose?
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat


Isn't this awful?
Please read from BBC:

Jewish bodies found in medieval well in Norwich

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13855238

The point of the maxicard is the animal called The Stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the ermine or short-tailed weasel.

But I also say that it could symbolize that horrible pile-up of bodies.
Not all's well in the well.
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Near the neck of the stoat, I see a wooden heart shape. Do you? :)

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Last Huskies - maxi cards from the Australian Antarctic Territory, even more Down than Down Under. Nobody will let the dogs out again in the freezing cold of Antarctica







Australian Antarctic Territory
Flag
Map of Antarctica indicating Australian claim
Map of Antarctica indicating Australian claim
Capitalnot applicable
Largest research stationMirny Station(Russia)
GovernmentTerritory of Australia
 - Governor-GeneralQuentin Bryce1
Area
 - Total5,896,500 km2
2,276,651 sq mi 
Population
 -  estimateless than 1,000


"The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) is a part of Antarctica. It was claimed by the United Kingdom and placed under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1933. It is the largest territory of Antarctica claimed by any nation. Since the Antarctic Treaty came into force in 1961, Article 1 of which states "The treaty does not recognize, dispute, nor establish territorial sovereignty claims; no new claims shall be asserted while the treaty is in force", most countries do not recognise territorial claims in Antarctica."

"AAT consists of all the islands and territory south of 60°S and between 45°E and 160°E, except for Adélie Land (136°E to 142°E), which divides the territory into Western AAT (the larger portion) and Eastern AAT. It is bounded by Queen Maud Land in the West and by Ross Dependency in the East. The area is estimated at 5,896,500 km².[1]
The territory is inhabited by the staff of research stations. 
The Australian Antarctic Division administers the area primarily by maintaining three year-round stations (MawsonDavis and Casey), which support various research projects."

"Australia issues postage stamps for the Australian Antarctic Territory. 
The first issues came in 1957, and sporadically thereafter, settling into a pattern of an annual issue by the 1990s. All have been Antarctic-themed, and all are valid for postage in Australia and its territories, including Antarctica."

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