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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Cottbus, Germany, 1946 These semi-postals (stamps with a bit added to support a cause) were issued in 1946 to help fund the rebuilding of Cottbus, a German city near the Polish border. It is a cultural centre for the Sorbs, a Slavic people indigenous to the area.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately My Duran Duran stamps arrived today, nice timing! I've gone with the Rio one because even after all these years it is one of my favourite albums, not a bad track on it and several outstanding ones. #BrummiePride

The artwork for the album Rio by the band Duran Duran. It features a stylised drawing of a beautiful dark haired woman in long pointy earrings wearing an off the shoulder dress with a large cerise frill

8 stamps with Duran Duran album covers and a mini sheet with 4 stamps with their tour posters on

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#stampoftheweek #philately GB 2025 Last weekend I was at the Strange Days in Wiltshire listening to talks about oddities and myths. I remembered that I'd bought this British folklore set (even though I don't tend to collect modern stamps) as it goes nicely with my subscription to Fortean Times.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Worry not stamp friends I have prepared a stamp of the week this week. I just need to check details for text and boom.

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Funny how newspapers devote endless column inches castigating the young, ill, disabled or asylum seekers for supposedly not wanting to work but they never question how fash can always find the time to go "protest" or go nonce around with flags

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I bought myself a new t-shirt, it's my whole vibe now (From Ollie's Art Club if you're wanting more cheerful nihilism)

A blue haired woman wearing a black t-shirt with a white print of a cheery worm in a hat with the text "every single day there is something to do... and I am sick of it"

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's the most magical time of the year! Leeds (mostly) Annual Vibrator Decorating Grand Prix

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today I've done some lino printing. So very far away from the quality of the Paddington as Death woodcut I bought for the house I'll post pictures of the prints after they've been handed out at the vibrator decorating contest on Saturday

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I bought us something nice but also silly for our anniversary - it's beautiful in the flesh (as it were) Hopefully it will inspire me tomorrow when I'm doing the lino prints for the vibe contest :)

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I bought us something nice but also silly for our anniversary - it's beautiful in the flesh (as it were) Hopefully it will inspire me tomorrow when I'm doing the lino prints for the vibe contest :)

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you like stamps and you're unaware of Philatelovely go and follow John now he's delightful

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I forgot to warn you that we're in a rocky period for 'stamp of the week' as it's a Friday thing and I'm away most Fridays 'til mid September 'Do it on another day' - mate I'm very AudHD it's a Friday task, if I remember at all Stamp club starts up again on the 8th Sept so I should be re-invigorated

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm on a train to Birmingham. As is traditional I have a Boots' meal deal. As is also traditional I have finished it well before lunchtime. It's important to observe traditions.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One for @theblogginggoth.bsky.social Child it's what the prophets want the president to do

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Post you from a different era in your life

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately This week's stamp isn't actually a stamp it's a Cinderella, a way to donate to a cause and has no postal value. There are a few other Ceuta stamps but I didn't have any in my bag of Spanish so you get this one. Shame as I like the ones with crests on :) Anyhoo...

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#StampOfTheDay #Philately Greece 1983 I went to see the Odyssey on Tuesday. It was a proper assault on the senses and the peril felt very perilous. Great stuff. This stamp is from a series of Homer represented in ancient art and pictures the escape from Polyphemus on a vase from the 6th century B.C

A Greek postage stamp with a picture of an attic black-figured vase from the 6th century B.C featuring a man tied under a sheep as he escapes the cave of a Cyclops

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Someone posted an article about Leopold I of Belgium and it lead me into thinking about how different the world might be if Charlotte of Wales, his first wife, hadn't died in childbirth. She was 2nd in line to the British throne after her father later George IV so would likely have become queen

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Berlin, 1951 To celebrate my 2-yr stampiversary here is one of the stamps that started it all, the slightly grubby 30pfg liberty bell (clapper right)* from my Dad's childhood album. The one on the right (clapper left) was bought at the LPS stamp faire in earlier this year

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Norway. It's either 1937-38 version or the 40-41 one. I was tending towards the earlier but can't see a watermark. They're not always clear though. What I am interested in is the crazy red embossed posthorn mark. Any stamp hounds know anything about that?

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sorry I've not posted stamp things much recently. I've hit a known bug in android that hides photos from other apps for hours if they've been edited and saved over the original file. The work-around is to 'Save A Copy' instead so hopefully now I've figured that out I'll be right back on my bullshit

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Ukraine 2026 A powerful set of stamps 'commemorating' the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl meltdown. The left-hand stamp has a verse from Revelations and the right-hand stamp mentions Russia attacking the protective shell in 2025

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Czechoslovakia 1919 I'm sure I've done Mucha before as my stamp of the week as he's an artist I adore and this one has a good postmark Thanks to @philatelovely.bsky.social I now have even more stamps in my Mucha section (excuse ghostly reflection of my face at end)

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Got a lovely bunch of stuff today, sent by my lovely Boston-based stamp-chum Yolanda (@yap617.bsky.social) Czech out that wonderful Lenin FDC. And the space one. There's someone who knows I love eastern block propaganda and space 😍

Two first day covers from Czechoslovakia, one Lenin and one space related. To the left is an envelope with various space and eastern block stamps

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today I received a delightful postcard from the Boston expo sent by @yap617.bsky.social 😍 It arrived an awful lot faster than her previous postcode which took a couple of months to get here

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Turnip has opinions about me working

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately The Leipziger Messe (trade fair) was first recorded in the 12 century and has cemented Leipzig as a centre of commerce internationally. A purpose built site in the north of the city was opened in the 1990s

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

In Leipzig for WGT this week so stamp stuff is on hold. Going to swelter wearing too much black in blazing sun instead. Have a photo of me and my chum Ellen instead

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately China, 1963 I've always loved the steep rocy mountains of Chinese art. I should visit China before I'm too old and creaky to enjoy it. I don't like the Tibet and Uyghur stuff but it seems difficult to visit anywhere that isn't blighted by some form of dickery these days

A drawing of a tree growing on a typical jagged Chinese mountain. Rendered in beautiful shades of yellow, green and blue

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Me: I don't buy modern stamp sets they're clearly just a cynical money-making ploy and pretty dull. Also me: *looks at September*

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Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

So excited to be able to announce an unusual live Storytelling event this July I'll be telling in the Cavernous vaults beneath Brunel's Bristol Bridge. Troglodytical tales and subterranean stories await! Get to see not only me but also the normally closed vaults. Tickets at cliftonbridge.org.uk

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Your occasional gentle reminder that, on Bluesky, hitting Like on posts does not increase the number of people who'll see them. If you want to amplify a post here, you need to repost, not just Like, it. ps please repost this one!

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a cartoon of a penguin holding a megaphone that reads thank you

ALT: a cartoon of a penguin holding a megaphone that reads thank you

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Hungary 1959 I honestly live for weird Eastern Block shit like this. 10/10 absolutely perfect, no notes. (I don't actually collect modern stamps as such but joyful nonsense like this goes into a special envelope and I'll eventually put together an album of ridiculousness)

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I do rather enjoy this part of the loading screen to 'The Long Dark'

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

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a man 's head is visible in a dark room with lots of lights

ALT: a man 's head is visible in a dark room with lots of lights

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In lieu of a singular #StampOfTheWeek please except 500 of them. I opened the pack I found in the auction gubbins box ($7 from the Smithsonian a billion years ago) Me being me I counted them and put them in a spreadsheet. The Czech ones were welded to each other as usual, what is in their glue?

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I noticed the other day that I have a monthly donation to Led By Donkeys* so I'm glad they're still keeping up the good work *not a surprise, nothing shady, I'd just forgotten.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately 1998 USA I rather like this Alfred Hitchcock stamp with its little cut-out of his profile. It was in a bunch of USA stamps sent to me by my stamp-chum @yap617.bsky.social after I sent her some British stamps. It's quite exciting getting intercontinental post!

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Found this in the box of gubbins I was handed after the LPS auction. 500 stamps in a suspiciously thin packet bought for $7 from the Smithsonian. It feels almost a shame to open it. I expect there to be a wild stamp-splosion when I do like a confetti canon.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Newfoundland 1919 I wanted to put up a moose stamp but I don't have the 1953 Canadian one. This is a caribou which is as close as I can be for now. This week I have been playing The Long Dark, an excellent survival game set in a frozen Canadian wilderness. Cont...

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#StampOfTheWeek #Philately Netherlands 1926 I found this set in a box of random crap that was foisted on me at the end of the LPS auction. This is another set of Dutch charity stamps, very different to the modern 1931 ones I posted a few weeks back. The silver is lovely on the 2c stamp, a great find

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Ack this stamp gives me the eepy creepies. Pls enjoy 3 of them on one letter

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