Hello, yes I finally made some time to write and show you some stamps. These I rather like. They are for Valentines day from the Philippines as I think you can tell.

They are in a sheetlet of course but with pairs se-tenant showing the King and Queen of Hearts. I think Phil Post have done a nice job. How challenging must it be to come up with something new, year after year, for Valentines day stamps.

These stamps feature the Filipino King and Queen of hearts in national costumes to show the Filipino ways of celebrating the "Araw ng mga Puso' which means hearts day or Valentines day in tagalog. The image is meant to display the King giving his heart to his Queen and in return the Queen gives her words of endearment as an expression of her love for the King.

Happy Valentines day Enjoy your stamps Michael

Hello, something I doubt many of you will see. A 200 peso stamp.  Local mail here is 12 peso and up so this is a very high face value stamp. I was in Manila earlier this week and visited the Central Post Office for my supply of stamps that I use of my order mailings. One of our local Post Offices has no stamps, only labels and the other very rarely gets  anything other than the basic low value stamps - which require too many to go on an order mailing.  So a regular trip to Manila  is required - combined with shopping for the CEO of course! Anyway, a  rather nice stamp.    Have a great weekend   Michael

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We try to list between 5 and 10 copies of a given stamp and we select the postal cancel, where we can, to ensure the stamp shows it was used in the period it was issued or it is a nice clean cancel. Not always possible especially as many stamps were generally only used on parcels or larger envelopes and not machine cancelled, but we do try to list what we think will look good in your collection. We believe collectors want to have postally used copies in their collection that are from the period the stamps were issued and not reused 20 years later as is so often the case these days.

Anyway Enjoy your stamps. We are away in Manila for a few days from tomorrow and will be coming back with some nice new issues to show you :-)

See you soon. Michael cddstamps.com