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Sunday 6 September 2020

Sunday Stamps - Black & White: USA, Great Britain

 I could have posted this last week if only I had realised the USA's Celebrate the Century Series included a flag from Stock Car Racing.

USA - 26 May 1999

The first Daytona 500 race was held in 1959.

The 150th Anniversary of the RSPCA series of stamps included this - 

Great Britain - 23 January 1990

Who could resist a puppy like that?

If you had a job like hewing coal you definitely would get very black. Stamps for Social Reformers included one for Thomas Hepburn and a man doing just that job.

Great Britain - 28 April 1976

I guess that no one does this job anymore as all the deep mines in the UK have closed.

For more black and white stamps just visit Edward at Sunday Stamps.



5 comments:

viridian said...

great stamps. That puppy is so cute.

violet s said...

Thank goodness there's no more coal mines - that kind of blackness needed to be replaced. (though I'm sure those miners were proud of their work at the time)
The checkered flag is a brilliant inclusion for this theme :)

FinnBadger said...

A great set this week. I wouldn't have thought of a checkered flag for the theme.

Mail Adventures said...

The choice of the flag is clever! :)

Joy said...

That flag must have just been waiting for this week. Those Reformers stamps were very black and the detail looks much better when seen here.