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PostDay – 20th January 2023
On this page: Awesome Åland “In philately a maximum card (also known as a maxi-card, or maxicard) is a postcard with a postage stamp placed on the picture side of the card where the stamp and card match or are in maximum concordance (similarity).” Wikipedia definition from Maximaphily page This beautiful maxi-card features an illustration by stamp designer Allan Palmer. Allan has contributed several issues…
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PostDay – 8th Feb 2023
On this page: Postcard from Fukuoka This is the unmistakable style of the great master of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock printing, Hokusai. There are fishing boats like these under the looming Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831), from Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mt Fuji. Here too is the dynamic heave and dip of a great swell,…
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Postcard from Ukraine
From Dmytro in Kyiv 3rd February 2023 A defiant image from a proud nation fighting for their survival. I have been moved by how Ukraine has refused to accept the world’s expectations that the Russian invasion would overwhelm them. Sometimes the concept of a nation “mobilising” and news of the statistics of senseless destruction is…