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Thematic StampsWelcome to the Penny Black 1840 Blog looking at the stories behind postage stamps and taking a wide look at philately and stamp collecting around the world.

Whilst leafing through some old stamp albums from childhood recently I suddenly felt a renewed interest in some of the postage stamps that I had long ago dismissed as a merely juvenile collection of jumbled commemorative issues from around the world, in favour of my adult interest in Victorian line engraved stamps. With a jolt I realised that most of these stamps had been issued in the late 1960s and early 1970s and that I’d hardly looked at them in last thirty years! Although none of them were particularly rare some them of them were actually rather interesting…

I’m now in the process of scanning and researching the stories, anniversaries and events behind the postage stamps in my collection and will post them here regularly.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY GOLD COMMEMORATIVE STAMP JOSEPH PRIESTLEY GOLD COMMEMORATIVE STAMP
Paypal 0 Bid US $5.00 21m
GIRL SCOUTS USA 1987 Commemorative MNH Stamp 2251 GIRL SCOUTS USA 1987 Commemorative MNH Stamp 2251
Paypal 1 Bid US $.49 24m
ASSORTED 1960s US COMMEMORATIVE STAMP LOT USED VF ASSORTED 1960s US COMMEMORATIVE STAMP LOT USED VF
Paypal US $3.99 2h 27m
THE AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE STAMP ALBUM THE AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE STAMP ALBUM
Paypal 1 Bid US $5.00 6h 26m
CANBERRA Commemorative stamps 1927 CANBERRA Commemorative stamps 1927
Paypal 0 Bid US $9.69 6h 48m
OVER 100 AUSTRALIAN COMMEMORATIVES off paper OVER 100 AUSTRALIAN COMMEMORATIVES off paper
Paypal 0 Bid US $3.22 7h 9m
1893 Columbian Commemoratives 237 Black Brown D Gum 1893 Columbian Commemoratives 237 Black Brown D Gum
Paypal 0 Bid US $50.00 7h 10m
ROSE AND LOVE LETTERS 40 commemorative USPS stamps NIP ROSE AND LOVE LETTERS 40 commemorative USPS stamps NIP
Paypal 0 Bid US $24.99 7h 39m
US POSTAL SERVICE MINT SET OF COMMEMORATIVE 1981 US POSTAL SERVICE MINT SET OF COMMEMORATIVE 1981
Paypal 1 Bid US $3.99 8h 42m
US POSTAL SERVICE MINT SET OF COMMEMORATIVE 1979 US POSTAL SERVICE MINT SET OF COMMEMORATIVE 1979
Paypal 0 Bid US $3.99 8h 43m
US POSTAL SERVICE MINT SET OF COMMEMORATIVE 1978 US POSTAL SERVICE MINT SET OF COMMEMORATIVE 1978
Paypal 0 Bid US $3.99 8h 43m
OLDER 3 CENT COMMEMORATIVES IN VF NH BLOX OF FOUR OLDER 3 CENT COMMEMORATIVES IN VF NH BLOX OF FOUR
Paypal 1 Bid US $2.99 9h 38m
AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE PANEL VFW VETERANS AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE PANEL VFW VETERANS
Paypal US $5.50 10h
AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE PANEL SKYLAB AMERICAN COMMEMORATIVE PANEL SKYLAB
Paypal US $6.00 10h 39m
RWANDA STAMPS MIXED LOT COMMEMORATIVES SPECIALTIES RWANDA STAMPS MIXED LOT COMMEMORATIVES SPECIALTIES
Paypal 0 Bid US $.99 10h 48m