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Posted in Flags on Stamps, History on Jul 25th, 2008
Twenty-six years before I designed the Texas stamp, my immense love and fascination for the Alamo found its genesis when my father took our family to a movie set in south Texas.
At the age of twelve, I was full of awe as we strolled through John Wayne’s Alamo movie set near Brackettville, a [...]
Posted in Flags on Stamps, History on Oct 11th, 2007
General Pulaski 2¢ stamp
I write occasionally about U.S. postage stamps with the American flag on them, so it was a lovely coincidence this week, that I flipped open my stamp bible and came to the General Pulaski stamp. I am usually a day late, but this time I was right on time.
General Pulaski [...]
Posted in Flags on Stamps, History on Aug 17th, 2007
Honoring the “75th Anniversary of the Purple Heart” Stamp
At The Daily Flag, I like to write about American postage stamps where the U.S. flag or state flags appear. Sometimes the flag is the primary focus of the stamp, and sometimes it is simply part of the overall scene. My main resource for finding “stamps with [...]
Posted in Flags on Stamps on Aug 14th, 2007
In the spring of 2008, the U.S. Postal Service will issue ten stamps, the first in a new series of sixty stamps, which will highlight and celebrate the fifty states and their flags. In addition to the state flags, USPS will issue four new Stars and Stripes stamps, and stamps for the District of Columbia [...]
Posted in Flags on Stamps on Aug 2nd, 2007
This week Larry and I have been writing about the 100th anniversary of the founding of Boy Scouts in England. Regular readers at The Daily Flag know that I like to write about the U.S. and state flags as they appear on U.S. postage stamps, so today I thought I would show you two stamps [...]
