kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jan 3, 2023 14:13:58 GMT
For those with access, Talking Pictures TV will show the 1936 British documentary film, ' BFI: Night Mail' on Monday 16 January at 15:00.
The film documents the operation of the Royal Mail train delivery service; With a running time of 116 minutes, the film shows the various stages and procedures of the operation of the train where the mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and ultimately delivered in Scotland overnight.
Other viewings may be available...
Have fun and happy collecting!! It's glorious. Breathtaking with the excitement of a lost world. And new to me. I got impatient; found it on Daily Motion:
That version is just 22 minutes, though. I' have no idea what the rest on Talking Pictures might be. And the Auden poem: allpoetry.com/Night-Mail |
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Post by captphil on Jan 3, 2023 19:23:51 GMT
I don't believe anyone has yet mentioned Thomas Pynchon's early novel "The Crying of Lot 49." The title refers to the auctioning of a spurious Thurn & Taxis stamp, but that is the just one of many storylines. One never knows what Pynchon is writing about, he's just writing and I always enjoyed unraveling his knots into bits of loose string.
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Post by captphil on Jan 3, 2023 19:27:07 GMT
I also recall an episode of Top Gear in which they raced a letter carried by Royal Mail from London to the Orkneys. The letter won.
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BermudaSailor
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What I collect: British colonies, primary Bermuda
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Post by BermudaSailor on Jan 23, 2023 18:54:41 GMT
I just saw an episode of the Crown on Netflix in which there is a few scenes that set the context of the relations between Russia and the UK featuring King George V at the family breakfast table. He is immediately portrayed as a philatelist, as he points out to the royal family a variation of color on a Ceylon war issue stamp. Moving forward he seems to have difficulties concentrating on matters of state, as he discusses other variations.
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kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jan 23, 2023 23:32:16 GMT
I just saw an episode of the Crown on Netflix in which there is a few scenes that set the context of the relations between Russia and the UK featuring King George V at the family breakfast table. He is immediately portrayed as a philatelist, as he points out to the royal family a variation of color on a Ceylon war issue stamp. Moving forward he seems to have difficulties concentrating on matters of state, as he discusses other variations.
Huh, King George V, too? Stamps routinely distract me from issues of state, also. Can't my minsters do anything themselves?
Mary! The tea's gone cold again!
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marki
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Post by marki on Jun 10, 2023 20:46:46 GMT
‘The Lost Letter’ (2017), a book by Jillian Cantor tells the story of a young Jewish apprentice engraver in nazi Austria who, apart from his work for the Germans, helps the Resistance sending underground messages and forge papers. The most important message he had managed to pass on was only discovered some 50 years later🙂
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marki
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Post by marki on Jun 10, 2023 20:53:32 GMT
In his autobiography ‘The Tongue Set Free’, Bulgaria-born Austrian Nobel laureate Elias Canetti recalls his uncle getting him hooked into the stamp collecting back in his native Ruse and later, when moving to Manchester, exchanging stamps with his schoolmates.
Interestingly enough, the stamp dealer in Ruse, another prominent member of the Ladino Jewish community in the city, was among the first stamp dealers in Bulgaria and by far the most important one.
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