1866: stamps from Virgin Islands, Sainte Ursula whose name inspired those who named this archipelago. #philately

Lost on a decrepit wall in a village in central France this French #postboxsaturday

1880s: right GB QV stamp was used by the Department of the Board of Trade. It is perforated with a crown and the initials "B.T." #philately

1918-23: US stamps, 6c & 16c Curtiss Jenny aircraft in flight, 24c carmine De Havilland aircraft. Neither of them does a loop unfortunately (not inverted Jenny here 🥺) and not fast plane either. 😉 #philately

1859-60: stamps of the Republic of Venezuela, coat of arms. Different shades and face values. #philately

1870-82: US stamps, President Jefferson. Two different prints: the one on the left without the secret sign, therefore a print run by the National Bank Note Co., and the one on the right with the secret sign (see photo), therefore a print run by the Continental & American Bank

1925: only for connoisseurs 😉😂, sexy Malta postage due stamp. #philately #Malte #Malta

French #postboxsaturday, on an exterior wall of Lille train station and the entrance to a FNAC store. #Lille

1895: stamps from Tonga, King George Tupou II. 🇹🇴 Anecdote: 1773-1777, James Cook made contact with the islanders of Tongatapu. He named the archipelago the "Friendly Islands" because of the warm welcome he received there... despite the massacre of several of his men. #philately

1935: Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 stamps, Memorial Park and Government House. #philately #Trinidad #Tobago

1854: 4 stamps from India, not yet studied. #philately

1854: Queen Victoria embossed issue, 6d. mauve. Cut-square worth more than cut « polygone ». Note that they exist different « quality » of embossing, left one is average and right is pretty much better. #philately

1896: Falkland Islands stamps. In April 1982 the Falklands War began when Argentine military forces invaded the Falklands in the South Atlantic, briefly occupying them until a UK expeditionary force returned the territories in June. #philately #falklands

1862 (printing): first stamps of Costa Rica, printed by the American Bank Note Co. New York (see engraving). The oldest letter franked with a single 'medio real' dates from April 21, 1863, it was sent from Cartago to San Jose. #philately #CostaRica

#postboxsaturday 1941 #ww2 A postwoman empties a pillar box having taken over duties from men in WW II.

I was watching the series House of Cards and I noticed a copy of a stamp on the wall… 🤔 this one was never issued; it's a cinderella printed in 1958. To promote a jazz musician's album, Thelonious Monk, a publicist for the Riverside record Co, printed booklets of 100 stamps

1936: Interesting French philatelic cover, Airmail, air show. Beautiful Cinderellas. Semeuse type stamp. #philately

1959 : A postwoman empty a pillar postbox of letters and mail into a mailbag and into the back of a Royal Mail van in Harrow, north west London. #postboxsaturday

1877: French postcard, mobile box (BM), Blois to Paris, stamp type Sage, 15 centimes. #philately