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.
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| USA - 26 May 1999 |
The first Daytona 500 race was held in 1959.
The 150th Anniversary of the RSPCA series of stamps included this -
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| 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.
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| 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:
great stamps. That puppy is so cute.
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 :)
A great set this week. I wouldn't have thought of a checkered flag for the theme.
The choice of the flag is clever! :)
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.
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