Sheldon the Stamp Man

Sunday, June 28, 2020

SCOTT 2216-19 PRESIDENTIAL SHEETS SET OF 4

The Presidential Miniature Sheets honor our first 35 Presidents in chronological Scott order. All had already been featured on finely engraved stamps, so it was decided that woodcut-like images would provide an interesting variety of design. Each stamp bears a facsimile of its presidents signature

Thursday, June 25, 2020

SCOTT #4165 TIFFANY 41 CENT

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was best known for his creation of stained glass windows and lamps. This 2007 stamp depicts Tiffany's Magnolias and Irises, created around 1908.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

SCOTT #4192-95 THE ART Of DISNEY MAGIC 41 CENT

     The Art of Disney Magic features:
      Sorcerer's Apprentice
      Peter Pan and Tinker Bell
      Dumbo and Timothy Mouse
      Aladdin and Genie

Saturday, June 20, 2020

SCOTT #4475 MOTHER TERESA 44 CENT

     Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa (1910-1997)-- A Roman Catholic nun and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize---served the sick and destitute of India and and the rest of the world for nearly 50 years.
     In 1996, President Clinton and the U.S. Congress awarded her honorary U.S. Citizenship, an honor bestowed on very few.

Friday, June 19, 2020

SCOTT #4465-66 NEGRO LEAGUE 44 CENT

Considered the "father" of Negro Leagues baseball, Andrew Rube Foster (1879-1930) established the Negro National League in 1920, the first successful league of African-American baseball teams. He served as president of the league until 1926 and established its slogan, "We are the ship, all else the sea."

Sunday, June 14, 2020

SCOTT #3333-37 ALL ABOARD 33 CENT

"All aboard". Those magical words reverberated through spacious high-cellinged train stations to summon travelers to the gleaming, streamlined railway passenger cars of the 1930s and 1940s. Industrial designers of the time put their mark on everything from radios to electric toasters to automobiles.

But nowhere was the streamline style more grandly expressed than in the luxurious, high-speed, regularly scheduled trains that linked America's largest cities.

Friday, June 12, 2020

SCOTT #3091-95 RIVERBOATS 32 CENT

The Riverboat stamps introduced anew kind of mint stamp---self adhesives that separate with the backing intact.
This se-tenant pays tribute to all the steamboats that opened the Hudson, Mississippi, Missouri, Columbia, and Chattahoochee-Apalachiola rivers.,