Epic Mail Day:
Vložit
- čas přidán 8. 11. 2021
- Let’s catch up on some viewer mail and explore stamps, postal history, amazing postcards and more. #philately #history #stampcollecting
Follow me on Social Media:
Twitter: / exploringstamps
Instagram: / exploringst. .
Support the Channel:
ko-fi.com/exploringstamps
exploring-stamps.creator-spri...
Links (In order of appearance)
World Postcard Day: worldpostcardday.com/Postcros... www.postcrossing.com/
Bec’s Vintage Post: www.etsy.com/au/shop/BecsVint...
Dovre Railway Line: www.fjordtravel.no/destinatio...
MogCherie Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/mogcherie/E... www.etsy.com/?ref=lgo
Swap-Bot: swap-bot.com/
Simon @ Africa Stamps: south-africa-stamps.co.uk/
Richard Philatelist: / richardphilatelist
Lisa @ Stampcat Stamps: / stampcatstamps
Victoria Schaal (photography): victoriaschaal.com/Victoria Schaal’s
Instagram: victoria_sc...
Themistocles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themist... a Scent (Feel Greece): feelgreece.gr/send-a-scent-2/
Kiribati: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati
Atoll: • Birth of an Atoll
Bank Note Series: www.hobbizine.com/page0019.htm... addresses: www.americanstationery.com/bl... www.nationalww2museum.org/war...
Ethel B. McCoy: invertedjenny.com/owner/129
Chanel No 5: • CHANEL N°5 - For the f...
• N°5, 100 years of cele...
Singapore & Straits Settlements video: • Singapore & Straits Se...
Aiden's Instagram Account (Philately65) philately65?utm...
Aerogram/Aerogrammeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogram
Postal Stationery: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_...
Alan Brignull: / the_rambling_urchin
JPR Williams: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._R...
British Lions Rugby Tour SA 1974 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Br...
Exploring Stamps Hindenburg Video: • Zeppelin/Airship Stamp...
Titanic Clerks:postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibitio...
Titanic Postcard “Wish you were here”www.antiquestradegazette.com/...
Another example of Titanic Mail:www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...
Video of Thom Cholowski: • Meet Thom Cholowski, o...
Thom Cholowski (Typewriter Repair Man) Socials
Facebook: people/Thom-...
Thom's work is so good it is somewhat frightening!!!
Yes it is.
Few weeks and Laura will have hundreds of Harry Potter stamps. Many thanks Graham once again for such a magnificent video.
Uh oh... what have we done?!😅😂. Thank you so much for watching, glad you enjoyed the video!
As always, great video and honestly the 40 minutes is too short for philatelic but superb content.I love your Straits Settlements/Singapore video and appreciate the efforts and research put in to produce such video
I really love this longer videos!!! Fantastic mail you have received!!! And, thank you for let us know a little more your family!! Another fantastic video. Thank you Graham!!!
Thank you Ricardo, glad you enjoy the longer format 😊
You are the only one I know who could make such a great video from mail you received! Great job. Lots of fun. Nice to see Laura on camera. Many thanks for your hard work.
You are too kind, Mark 😊. Thank you so much for watching!!
I love watching your mail videos :) so interesting!
Thanks Karen 🙏 😊
An amazing episode Graham. As always learnt a lot. Best wishes and keep exploring... 👍👍👍
Awesome mail video Graham! Fun fact: the postcards sticker in the bottom left hand side of my postcard is also from Mog Cherie! Antonia has one of my all time favourite shops 🤩 Thanks also for the feature 💛
I only noticed that during the editing of the video!! Thank you sooooo much for sending the postcard my way, always a pleasure to feature your beautiful work 😊
I put on calendar! I mailed so many aerograms. My local coin/stamp shop had piles at half cost. I had to mail one for Stamp collecting merit badge Boy Scouts and went to the post office to buy one. I'm old.
Outstanding video again, Laura is the best 💛
Thank you Penny, Laura is pretty cool! 😊
What a relaxing and enjoyable way to learn something. And yes, I paused the video at the first few minutes and went out to buy some drink 😅.
Good to know the postcards from Guernsey and IOM has arrived.
Thank you for sharing the information, especially your story with Laura.
Hi Jonty😁
You are the best, Richard. Thanks for sending the postcards and for enjoying this video (with a drink).
Happy Exploring 😊
There's a plot twist in the aerogramme that I sent. The postage required to send the aerogramme was only 15 INR. But someone told my grandfather, who dropped the letter in the post box, that the aerrogramme requires 27 INR; and he bought and affixed another 12 INR stamps. 🤣
BTW, enjoyed the video a lot, especially the scented packet from Greece and Jonty (I remember the name Jonty Rhodes every time I hear the word Jonty 😅). However, thank you for showing up my aerogramme.
*Happy Collecting* 😄
Fantastic 😂 so many lovely stamps on one aerogramme! Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks again for the mail, and yep Jonty was named after the cricket player 🏏
Awesome video Graham. A very enjoyable and relaxing insight into your mail 😀
Thank you kindly! 😊🙏. Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow! So interesting! Your channel is so informative. Keep up the good work Graham. Love all your different content!!
Thank you Jeffrey! 😊. More content to come.
Thank you very much GB. Got some cool new tips.
Thank you Lawrence! Glad you enjoyed it 😊
absolutely loved this video , you got talent to Talks about in very interesting way 👍 👏 😀
Thank you Roger, glad you are enjoying the episodes 😊
Awesome mail day! Always enjoy your longer mail video! :)
😊 Thank you Chris!
Graham so many interesting things! What an amazing mail day video.
- Loved when you teleported to Greece - that scented envelope card is really neat!
- So nice to learn more about Laura! I was actually wondering those questions, too (if she was a collector, etc.) I LOVE her pink album. You guys are a great production team!
- Let me help you with "Saskatchewan" although your final attempt was near perfect: "Suss-CATCH-uhwon" Or at least, that's how we pronounce it out Tuh-Ron-oh way (not pronouncing the second T of Toronto is apparently a mark of pride/a sign that you're a local here... I actually grew up state side in Indiana so had to learn all of these 'Canadian things' when I repatriated back in high school.)
- I will be following your comments section closely with regards to illegal stamps ... very curious about that topic as well!
Bravo bravo!
yes, I agree with you. If I bought my wife a Penny Black (previous video), she would have said, "now lets go and trade it for diamond earrings".
"Hey my dear, I don't have money for diamond earrings so I bought you an antique instead"
I would be sleeping on the sofa for a year
Ah, thanks so much Lisa... I'll need to practice. "Suss CATCH uhwon"".... yikes I'm terrible 😅
Glad you enjoyed the video. thanks for watching!!
Loll.... Laura probably thought it, but hasn't yet brought up diamonds.... don't give her any ideas 😅
@@ExploringStamps I promise I will not, but I cannot guarantee what my wife will say to her.
Lots of great stamps and covers! I will be returning to France in a couple months and I'll see what else I can find. Always interesting and entertaining!
Merci Jim! I blame you for causing me to watch Chanel commercials on CZcams... its all your fault 😅
Lol! How about having to have your girl friend buy you stamps at the post office because no one understands your futile attempt at French? 😌
Another wonderful day of philately
😊😬
Hi Graham....46 minutes are not even enough.😣...I haven't even realised at the end that 46 minutes were ..🤔..already...not enough..😁😉😎
Thanks Fred! 😅. Good!! I thought it might be a bit too long. Thanks for watching :)
One more thing - I was intrigued enough by that weird baby cherub hammering an anvil thing to try to find out more. I think it might be based off of something called "New Years Babies" - apparently a popular Illustration on a magazine called Saturday Evening Post. In the 1900s issues the baby signified the new year... then as the times went on the baby was depicted doing other things that fit with contemporary events including air travel, women's sufferage, and participating in the war effort. The cover from December 1931 looks almost exactly like that Cinderella. I'll comment the link below in a reply. I noticed youtube deletes comments if they have links but hopefully you get to see it. Cheers!
Oh wow, I didn't think of a new year's baby... that is very possible! What an interesting use of the baby forging a horse shoe?! If you do have the link please share, I will keep an eye out on my "held for review" comments as you are totally correct, youtube hates it when people comment with links 😅... Thanks so much Lisa.
Link to article that Lisa is referencing: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/12/new-years-babies/
Wonderful video, Graham. Thanks for the pointers to Richard and Lisa. They are producing some great/fun content.
Thank you Renee! Yes they are superb philatelic content creators, I can't promote them enough!!
Another great video. A real mix of different topics, links, stories & stamps.
Thank you Iain 😊. Glad that you enjoyed the video...thanks for watching!
great video Graham! I was drinking hot chocolate and yes it is very well done up! Excellent job! Hope you could come here soon and I'd be honored to be your tour guide to explore the unknown jewels of Singapore- I mean less touristy places that can be better than the usual Marina Bay, Gardens by the Bay or any old museum in the central business district! Anyway, happy exploring!
Cheers,
Aidan (Philately65)
Thank You Aidan. I hope to visit Singapore in the near future, I would love to explore and experience the city, it really looks beautiful. Glad you enjoyed the video, and thank you for your letter 😊
Woohoo, always look forward to the next episode! By the way, I am a big plant nerd. I now have the Singapore Skyline stamp in my collection. Because it shows the Gardens by the Bay. Summer Rayne Oakes did a tour of the Gardens by the Bay on her channel PlantOneOnMe. So when I saw the stamp on your channel I was like "oh shit" I gotta have that. lol.
Oh excellent!! I'll have to check that video out, especially before visiting Singapore in the future. 🌱
Nice video and I got your letters and exploring stamps stickers, thank you 👍👍
Love your work G, keep up the splendid work!!! Best wishes from QLD, OZstralia!!!
I have the full set of those Benin stamps. I didnt know they were illegal. I got as far identifying them as cindarellas. Im a bad boy now. Hope the postal police dont knock on my door. Library police did once as a kid though. Different story, different time.
First library, now this? .... I'd keep a low profile if I were you... 😉
Kiribati was formerly known as the Gilbert Islands. The British Commonwealth territory was known as The Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The Ellice Islands is known today as Tuvalu. I, at one time, collected stamps from Tuvalu.
Ah, such an interesting place... a far corner of the world that few people seem to know about. Thank you William, I totally want to learn more (and travel there 😬). Thanks for sharing!
I collected Tuvalu from its first independent issues. I used to get the philatelic bulletin and was fascinated to hear about life on the islands and the postal service. I got stamps from other British commonwealth countries direct from the philatelic bureaus. Unfortunately Tuvalu got greedy as did some of the other countries. They allowed each of the coral atolls to issue stamps and they joined in omnibus issues called Leaders of World with other countries which had pictures of cars, planes etc which were nothing to do with the countries themselves. I felt that it was exploiting collectors and stopped collecting them. Later there was a scandal about manufactured varieties such as intentional inverted watermarks etc. There was a big court case but it was concluded that fraud hadn’t actually taken place as people got the varieties they ordered. I feel this was wrong as people would have bought varieties on the basis that they were accidental. I did thin’ it was odd at the time that a stamp dealer was advertising varieties before the stamps had actually been issued. It is a shame. I recently go back into collecting but I have been buying French territories rather than British commonwealth. The good thing is that you don’t get endless portraits of royalty.
Whoa!! So many interesting facts and concepts explained. Got to know about aerogramme and zeppelin covers in this video. Keep educating us Graham👍
Thank you Saurav!! Glad that you enjoyed this mail day episode, more to come!
Hi Graham! I just want to say that I am lucky to have found your channel, as I am new to the hobby of philately, and you are so lucky to get so many cool stamps and postcards!
Thank you 😊. Glad you found the channel, and welcome to the hobby!
Titanic covers are something I think I always knew existed in theory, but never saw any actual examples of. Shipboard philately is definitely a topic I should look into more.
Yep - Cherbourg is a popular one for mail brought from Southampton. Although anything from Queenstown would have been on the ship. Its highly likely that there will still be covers in the on one of the decks on the wreck that can be salvaged!
I was interested to read about the legal issues with recovering the mail.. it looks like the mail will still need to be delivered to someone, it would be a fascinating scenario should it happen!
Totally! That would be a fascinating topic to explore on its own.
@@ExploringStamps That's true! Still quicker than AusPost. :P
Awesome video , I loved it , great content , keep the great work
Thank you Bernardo 😊. Glad you enjoyed it.
Its really interesting to watch your mail day.
another Great one Graham! THANK YOU! By the way your wife is way to pretty for you! ;-)
Thank you Wayne, my friends and family say the exact same thing about Laura being way too pretty for me. 🤓
Keep these longer videos coming I sell QV postal history on ebay but have also had in the past similar postal covers that you showed in this video, and original Zeppelin mail envelopes as well.
Thanks Duncan 😊...Postal covers with historic significance (such as Zeppelin and most QV covers) are just sooo fascinating. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for this wonderful video, Graham!
You are very welcome, thank you for watching, Josh 😊
a 200th like from a relatively newer subscriber from coastal Goa in India. Every vlog you put up is much informative and as would anyone pursuing philately, we appreciate your efforts put in. thank you so much could be as best an understatement.
Thank you so much!! That really means a lot, its great to see that you are enjoying the channel! Thank you for watching in Goa 😊😊
12.07 min into the show; I noticed that someone sent you a letter with Singapore stamps ( night creatures, wildlife of the dark.) These are “glow in the dark” stamps. In a dark room, you will notice the eyes of the 4 animals glowing. Perhaps the sender did not draw your attention to it. I remember I missed this issue and just bought it from a stamp dealer last year. The stamps were issued in 2003. I have enjoyed all the videos, so far. Good job, keep them coming.
Another cracking episode, keep up the brilliant work!
Hi, i'm a laid back Indian stamp collector who inherited/continued my father's & mother-in-law's stamp collections. Been collecting since age 4, but did nothing serious. Recently while trying to organise my stamps, i stumbled upon your videos. Watched them all. You do an absolutely amazing job, researching the stamps & providing the knowledge. You are an inspiration to me.
However i'm scared to touch one of my inherited stamp albums (all stamps are hinged) - its a SG stamp album belonging to the Indian Philatelist Jal Cooper. He has inscribed "very carefully mounted" and signed off dated 1 Oct, 1958.
Hence, just trying to organise the remainder stamps & sad that i cant include the stamps from the Gibbons album.
Anyway, good luck with your upcoming videos, & i'll try to find some Rhino/windmill stamps for your collection. Cheers. Apologies for such a long writeup.
Graham........great episode!
I too love lenticular......anything. can you please tell me more about that neat lenticular post card.......who makes it, item number, as much as is available on how to buy one. Thanks!
Thank you Louis! The only information that is visible on the lenticular card is the following:
"Northern Lights, Annfjorden, Norway. Photo: Frank Olsen
Product by eyePOC - www.eyepoc.no "
When I went to the sight, I had trouble navigating as I couldnt translate the page easily to English.
Let me know if you have better luck.
@@ExploringStamps Now I have to try to learn how to order from that catalog............if I figure it out.......I'll let you know
@@ExploringStamps Okay......I got my order in. let's see if it arrives here safe and relatively quickly. I will let you know.
@@LouisGedo 🤞😬
New subscriber here, loving the content. I'm from the UK, started collecting GB stamps when I was kid aged 11, just after my family moved to South Africa in 1982. I lived in Witbank, 100 km east of Jo'burg. We moved back to the UK in 1984, but I have fond memories, never got my head around the brutal Apartheid regime though. I have some MNH RSA and SWA stamps from 1982/83, but my focus is on GB only these days. Baie Dankie!
I learn a lot from the videos 👍 (l saw a advertisement for a penny black going up for auction in the UK on the 7 December 2021 valued 4 to 6 million pounds )👍🇦🇺😎
Super Important Note: Laura actually named our dog Jonty 😅. I corrected this in the later mail day episode: czcams.com/video/kLYMD0uprbc/video.html
I have an Aerogramme from Katmandu, Nepal that I sent to my parents while I was stationed at the American Embassy as a Marine Security Guard. Around 1977.
Another great video! 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊. Thanks for watching Thomas.
@@ExploringStamps Thank you 🙂
I recall using Aerogrammes from Belize when I was volunteering there as a teacher back in 1990. I should see if I can find one (as long as the content is not too personal).and send you a copy Graham.
👍👍👍👍👍👍Thank you for sharing 🙏😃
You are very welcome, thanks for watching!
Damn it's cloudy plus windy and Graham's in the rain jacket? Wind breaker? Hello winter.
😅. I guess it was both... it was supposed to rain at any moment, but I was using it as a wind breaker... winter is coming.
@@ExploringStamps lol. This weekend in San Diego we are supposed to go into the high 80s.
Thank you so much sir!
Most welcome! Thank you for the postcard 😊
Hi Graham. Great episode. (I'm still catching up!). Regarding Censor mail it won't surprise you in the world of Philately there is a Civil Censorship Study Group. I believe the volume of mail later in the war (WW2) - between the allied countries - meant that some mail just wasn't examined due to manpower constraints and lessened security risks, especially after the second front was opened up. I have mail sent between Canada, India and the UK that isn't censored. Also some military mail was censored before sealing and usually carries an explanatory handstamp of some kind. 👍
Looking forward to this episode!
Thanks Louis, hope you enjoy it 😊
I used to have a west highland terrier. She used to watch tv especially action movies and anything with wildlife.
Westies are the besties!
Those aerograms brought some old memories back. My dad used to work in gulf countries most of the time, and hence my mom who stayed with me in india, used to write on these aerograms and mail them to him. It was i think around the year 97/98/99. I really like the design of these aerograms.
Omg! The atoll diagram from Miro is brilliant.
interesting video! thanks 👍👍👍
I love Aerogrammes 💕
Awesome :-)
Thank you :)
Спасибо большое за обзор. Лайк в поддержку.
I have a set of around 6 or 7 covers from the same person in India to the same pastor in the us, from the 1880s to the 1910s fairly interesting
Speaking of fantasy stamps I’d recommend to look into Marco Fontana’ stamps and the story
So just a thought (and I could be completely full of it) but the Canadian cinderella with the baby foraging the horseshoe could possibly be more of a New Years' symbol. A lot of old french postcards for New Year feature children and horseshoes. So it could be the New Year Babe bringing luck if that makes sense? I'm JUST getting started stamp collecting but I started in postcard collecting a few years ago.
You are totally in the right area. Lisa from Stampcat Stamps pointed to the yearly artwork release of the New Years baby, one of which has them forging with an anvil. So I think you are right with ringing in luck for the year! See Lisa’s comments on this video for more.
@@ExploringStamps Hi Graham, the cross of Lorraine probably indicates a tuberculosis fund raising cinderella issue..?
Literally watched in the day and it ended the same way as nightfall.
😊🙏
i love your videos were you look through mail sent to you by your fans please make more i would love to send you some of my stamps but my parents wont let me ,
From Thomas😄
The name Kiribati is the Gilbertese language name for Gilberts. The islands were named for a British captain. In the Gilbertese the ti is pronounced as S. As there is no S in the Gilbertese alphabet.
You should check out the fantasy stamps of Discworld
Go Mira!!!
Like the new music.
Glad you liked the tunes 🎶 😊
Your “illegal” stamps are cancelled to order- possibly at the time of printing. The Arab states which are now the United Arab Emirates issued a lot of stamps in the 1960s / 1970s. Some claim that many of these were not authorised. Some of these stamps are very beautiful, especially space related stamps which were popular at the time.I used to buy them on packets issued by a company called ACE who used to sell their stamp packets in branches of the UK drug store chain called Boots. These stamps and ones from USSR countries got me into collecting. It was a source of frustration and disappointment to me that Stanley Gibbons did not list the Arab states stamps in their stamp catalogues. There reason was that they thing that these countries had too liberal issuing policies. This was hypocritical as Gibbons sold stamp packets for young collectors which contained many of these stamps. At the time I felt it was snobbery. It was off putting for young collectors whose collections would mainly consist of these stamps. Nowadays very few countries would meet Gibbons old standards for a restrained issuing policy.
Thank you James, that is some really interesting insight regarding the Stanley Gibbons not recognizing the stamps in catalogs, yet actually distributing them in packets for young collectors...ugh! Ill have to keep a look out for the Arab States stamps, I probably have several already 😬
@@ExploringStamps The countries were Sharjah, Ajman, Um Al Quwain and Ras Al Kaima. They all became part of the United Arab Emirates.
I forgot Fujiera
Go A.P.O. 500. My home town!!!
Etsy commercials run almost every hour everyday on Hallmark Channel. Yes, I've become an old lady binging on romantic Christmas movies until Golden Girls Frasier and Reba reruns return in 2022.
Oh I can be the same! I will watch that nonsense and even get caught tearing up at times... not ashamed at all 😅😊. Thanks so much for watching Enrique!!
Hi, I am Samuel Michael from India. I live the capital city of the state of Karnataka which goes by the name of Bengaluru in South India.
I have been watching you presentations on CZcams and they are quite good I should say.
I am a philatelist, having stamps starting from the very first issue in 1947.
I have miniature sheets starting from the very first issue.
What I really want from you is, could you please try and make a presentation of stamps of India. I feel general public needs to know more about philately, more so the young generation. With the advent of telecommunication, stamps have lost their importance as a means of improving once knowledge, know about one's country and so on.
Look forward to your feedback
God bless
Michael
I am a medical doctor by profession.
I was able to get aerograms in Japan as late as 1996.
Ah! Good to know, the ‘90s might have been the final decade for most aerograms
🤝👍 Let me send you a friendly postcard from Moscow
Do you plan an episode on fakes/counterfeits or what ever they are called. I am not interested in definitions or examples of a few counterfeits. I’d be interested in the percentage of stamps that are fakes - in my case I’m interested in vintage BNA. Such information would be a great aid in looking at potential purchases. Certification is not a real answer to fakes if you don’t own the stamp or the process costs much more than the stamp’s value.
i feel bad. me and my dad collect stamps and we have got a huge collection of 14 3 inch binders. some of our guests came to our house. they asked what do you collect me and my father said stamps . they didnt even now what stamps are !!!! my dad said back in his day more than half the people collected stamps. and now only 1 percent of people collect stamps
oh and by the way nice video
La Puebla de Don Fadrique.
I enjoy your high quality and fun videos. just a small point. people who lived with pre decimal 12 pennies to the shilling coin systems call a half penny a hapenny pronounced haypnee. the pural of penny is pronounced punce. if the sum is shillings and pence you don't mention the shilling or penny you just say something like 1 and three for 1/3d or 1 shilling and threepence. Of course seeing as you have to be at least 58 to remember using pounds shillings and pence. perhaps this info is obselete. Keep up the good work.
So what's cooking with Numismatics collectors or dealers or Museum or art collector's & philatelist it makes me wonder if artificial intelligence is also collecting data I wonder if AI is also interested in art piece & peace ✌
What are flip-flops?
🩴 🩴…foot thongs if u are an Aussie
@@ExploringStamps i must have missed this joke somewhere in the past videos.
We use the same term in the UK.
Please make a video on India 🇮🇳.
Graham, where is your accent from?
A mix I suppose, originally from South Africa, now live in New Jersey.
A long video indeed hahaha.
Yes! But I hope it didn’t feel that long 😬
No problem, this one is worth it :D
hello Philatelic community serious inquires only please for sale stamp collection dates start from 1861 many countries one hundred thousand $$$$ amazing investment.