Space, The Final Frontier

Hmmm, How many towns in US named MARS ? I found Mars, Pa., Le Mars, IA, Mars Hill,NC, Mars Hill, ME. Maybe a new collecting idea for postmarks. Is there a town named Sol or Sun, then Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, etc.

Need my pills !

Jim

I like that idea--a new collecting craze!
Gussyboy1

If anyone gets a decent list of cities named after planets I would like to get ahold of it I think that it would be fun to get covers from those cities.

Tossing up, Space or Cinderella

An unusual Space Topical
2nd anniversary of Gagarin's flight.
(Wonder if they had approval to copy images?)
notice the error on the tab?

ladies and gentleman those ar enot real space issues

unfortunately time travel rules prohibit me from showing the stamps that are used to carry mail in space :)

That sentence has a space issue

It is good you have not broken confidentiality, Spock1k.
I hear the Romulans are pleased....

the romulans are looking for you rod they think you will make a good leader. they want to go to war and they dont have a leader who can talk his way to a win as opposed to fight they were still having doubts so I told them you have all the rare stamps from 2020 in your possession that convinced them

so as they say

be seeing you :)

Phil B. said:



I was just reading about that in my Linn's U.S. Stamp Yearbooks that I purchased from John Macco. How many did you get signed, Phil?

David

Still among my favorites. Wife bought me a small stack
on the day they were issued..

That's a magic minisheet towards2112,
I still find it hard to grasp we have something
running around up there.

Hi Gussyboy,

Nice Project Mercury stamp. Did you know that Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. I was researching a stamped cover that was addressed to a man who played a part in Project Mercury and found the history and facts made for a interesting read. You should check out some of the articles online.

Lucky

Remember these 3d stamps back in the 70's?

hahahaah hahahaha

we used to consider them fae unwanted issues in the 10980's hahahhh


how things change sigh

Referred to as "Lenticular" stamps.

Some associated gossip:
acknowledgement authors rcsd:

This is a lenticular lens with very fine spacing - the old 3D
stamps of Bhutan, Umm al Qiwain, etc. use a lenticular lens to come up
with their 3D effects. In the case of the decoder, a few US stamps are
printed with designs that will show up under the lens, if the lens is
held at the correct angle relative to the microlines printed on the
stamp. Maybe the most common of them is the $1 fox definitive? When
you hold the lens against the stamp, a small fox silhouette shows up
within the fox's body. The lens directs your vision to different parts
of the design, depending on the angle you are at relative to the lens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens

"Scrambled Indicia" is the copyrighted term for the company that
makes these things. Here's their home page, and an animated GIF showing
the $1 fox stamp image.

The closest I have got to a postally used lenticular:
Under magnification, the remains of the cds appears on the plastic.