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NZ 1935 Pictorials This post is about a journey exploring New Zealand (NZ) stamps. More accurately it is the pursuit of a particular issue, the 1935 Pictorials. In the DigiClerk Stamp Collection there are already two sets of 1935 Pictorials. This photo shows two pages of stock book ‘011’ with a colour copy of one…
This post is about New Zealand stamps and includes some of the planned developments for the DigiClerk Stamp Collection. We are digitising and uploading stamps from an old stamp album, The Tasman Stamp Album of New Zealand. The stamps in the album are all from New Zealand and date back to 1855 and as far…
DigiClerk seeks a sponsor for the Yachting Collection. The sponsor is most likely to be a business or organisation with an interest in reaching out across the maritime leisure sector. Yachting Collection the beginning The collection started with a request from David Harding, a yachting journalist and photographer. Practical Boat Owner, a yachting magazine, put out…
Today has been spent loading more yachting records onto the Yachting Collection. They have mostly been boats beginning with ‘Q’ or ‘R’ and they have produced some interesting images of some quirky boats. Rana Plast The first photo is of a Rana Plast Skipper and two rather inappropriately dressed gentlemen. Rana Plast appear to still…
In celebration of Bermuda Day 24 May Bermuda, self-governing British overseas territory in the western North Atlantic Ocean. It is an archipelago of 7 main islands and about 170 additional (named) islets and rocks, situated about 650 miles (1,050 km) east of Cape Hatteras (North Carolina, U.S.). Bermuda is neither geologically nor spatially associated with the West Indies, which lie more…
In celebration of Yemen Independence Day 22 May The present Republic of Yemen came into being in May 1990, when the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) merged with the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen). By stipulation of the unification agreement, Sanaa, formerly the capital of North Yemen, functions as the political capital of the…
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