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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 19h

New Zealand Timber Industry 1967 10c 2 weeks ago management realised that the guy in my team who produced the data for our company's impending FSC and PEFC audit left several months ago. Bit of a panic and my busy busy period got even busier. Finally sent the last bit out on Wednesday evening.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nearly went with the Greenland one myself as the cap is so pleasingly jaunty :)

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

France, from a set I bought from John :) Un chapeau très jolie!

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clearly it's going to be Egypt but I've spiced things up with an overprint. Excuse slightly nibbled corner

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was going to do the same Danish hat as Daniel so I'm glad I saved a second one to my phone.

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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 · 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 · 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

As a bonus you can have the Melilla version of the 'stamp' too. Melilla is another Spanish city enclave on the coast of Morocco. Makes me wonder why Spain is so grrr about Gibraltar when they have a bunch of similar enclaves in other countries themselves?

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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 · 27/07/2026

Not doing the meme but horrified to look up this fellow I recall liking when I was young and realising how much he looked like I did at the time aged about 10)

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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 · 23/06/2026

I was surprised to see this Greek European cup winners stamp from 2004 as I didn't really think they were a big football nation

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Oh bum I spent so long trying to get my England winners stamp to load that I didn't notice you'd already posted it. Have some Bretton wrestling from France

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A bit of shot-putting from Dominica.

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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

Amused that on Instagram it changed 'dickery' to 'society' and also suggested 'rockery'. It is indeed difficult to visit anywhere that isn't blighted by some form of rockery these days

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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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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 · 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 · 22/04/2026

Here's the whole set of aquatic plants and the 'it might be a wisteria'

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Oooo this one sent me on a wild goose chase. Ended up with waterlilies but spent ages looking for wisteria and found something that looked wisteria-y but might not have been.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

If you squint really hard at this Vietnamese stamp there's a bunch of flowers. Other than that it was going to be the 'English Rose' Queen Victoria on a Victoria stamp. I even scoured the borders of Vatican stamps looking but found nowt.

A comely communist lady from Cuba giving a bunch of flowers to a comely communist lady from Vietnam. Honestly I'm totally here for this wholesome representation of sapphic communism.

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Ms Sarah Orange @msorange.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Sorry it's late, I took this on the day then got distracted

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