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Thursday, February 22, 2007




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The first photo stamps, the Penny Black, was issued by Britain in 1840. It pictured a young Queen Victoria, was produced without perforations (imperforate), and consequently had to be cut from the sheet with scissors in order to be used. While unused examples of the "Penny Black" are quite scarce, used examples are common, and may be purchased for $25 to $150, depending upon condition.

Children and teenagers were early photo stamps in the 1860s and 1870s. Many adults dismissed it as a childish pursuit.
During the late 1800s many of those collectors, now adults, began to systematically study the available postage stamps and published research works on their production, plate flaws, etc.

Some stamps such as the triangular issues of the Cape of Good Hope became legendary. (See Stamps of the Cape of Good Hope).

It was not until the 1920s that publicity about valuable photo stamps a large increase in the number of stamp collectors. This rapid increase in postage stamp values was largely due to very few of the older stamps being saved in good condition. Especially difficult to find were pairs, triples, and large blocks of older photo stamps.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007


Each week photo stamps posts a photo assignment. Your mission is the creative interpretation of the week's theme. When you're done, post the picture you took to your website and submit your link to photo stamps.

Photo stamps is about challenging our participants to be original and creative within the constraints of the week's theme. It's not a competition. Anyone with a camera and a place on the internet to post pictures can participate.

How We Pick Challenges
A great Challenge is relatively easy to accomplish, but leaves plenty of room for creativity. Want to suggest a Challenge? Great! Send it in, and if we use it, we'll credit you with a link to your site.

About The Noteworthy Section
Noteworthy links are chosen by visitor vote. Each week between 12:01am Friday and 11:59pm Sunday CST (UTC-0600) a 'cast noteworthy vote' link will appear in the header frame of the Link Viewer for the previous week's challenge. Click the link to cast your vote.

The six photo links with the most votes will be published to Noteworthy the following photo stamps.

You can vote as often as you like - and for as many different sites as you like, including your own - but only one vote per site per visitor will be counted.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007


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Photo stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber. The rubber is often mounted onto a more stable object such as a wood or an acrylic block to produce a more solid instrument. The ink coated rubberstamp is then pressed onto any type of medium such that the colored image has now been transferred to the medium. The medium is generally some type of fabric or paper. Other media used are: wood, metal, glass, plastic, rock. High volume batik uses liquid wax instead of ink on a metal stamp.


Commercially available Photo stamps fall into three categories: stamps for use in the office, stamps used for decorating objects or those used as children's toys.