This 1919 set of Czechoslovakia comes in 3 denominations, 15 haléř , 25 haléř and 50 haléř. The depiction is a lion, The Bohemian Lion in fact, breaking it’s chains. They were Czechoslovakia’s first semi-postal stamps issued and the added surtax was used to raise money for orphans of Czechoslovakian Legion, who fought on the side of the…
I confess that I’m a little infatuated with any stamps having Queen Elizabeth II. Of particular interest to me are the Omnibus Set issued in 1953, a year after her Coronation, and I have always wanted to have 1 album to mount all the stamps from that set in. So, I went ahead and made…
In 1984 Czechoslovakia issued a set of 5 se-tenant stamps depicting various space satellites along with a label showing the flags of the different countries involved in the inter-national space program at the time. The Steiner page has places for the stamps with labels attached. I went ahead and made a page for just the…
Just a little recount of a neat little hike we took at the Mary Ann Brown Preserve near St. Francisville Louisiana. got some nice pictures too.