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of the Rat (page 1) Gwen Ifill (this page) Colored
Hockey Championship (this page) Maine Statehood (this page) Arnold
Palmer (this page) Earth
Day (page 3) History
of Radio (Canada) (page 3) | Fruits
& Vegetables (page 3) Bugs
Bunny (page 4) Innovation (page 4) Thank
You (page 4) 19th
Amendment: Women Vote (page 5) The
Mayflower in Playmouth Harbor (page 6) Hanukkah (page 6) |
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| Dgn 709: Sc. 5432 Gwen Ifill — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing her at the 2012 Republican National Convention. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 | |
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| Dgn 709a: Sc. 5432 Gwen Ifill — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing her at the 2012 Republican National Convention. Pictorial Postmark . — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00 | |
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Dgn 709b: Sc. 5432 Gwen Ifill — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing her at the 2012 Republican National Convention. The new stamp and Sc. 2442 journalist Ida B. Wells, Sc. 4624 publisher John H. Johnson, and a Cinderella (faux stamp) for Max Robinson, the first African-American male major network news anchor, are tied by the pictorial postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 | |
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| Dgn 709bb: Sc. 5432 Gwen Ifill — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing her at the 2012 Republican National Convention. The new stamp and Sc. 2442 journalist Ida B. Wells and Sc. 4624 publisher John H. Johnson are tied by the pictorial postmark. I'd like to say this variety was made for purists, but the truth is I forgot the Robinson "stamp." Two produced; more possible if there really are any purists out there — larger illustration (new window). | | |
More Black History Issues
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| Dgn 708: Sc. 3233 Colored Hockey Championship — 5"x7" Dragon Card featuring closeup of a pair of skates and a taped-up hockey stick plus the caption "All-Black Hockey in the Maritimes between 1895 and the early 1930s." Canada's first-day postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 | |
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| Dgn 708a: Sc. 3233 Colored Hockey Championship — 5"x7" Dragon Card featuring closeup of a pair of skates and a taped-up hockey stick plus the caption "All-Black hockey in the Maritimes between 1895 and the early 1930s." The CHC stamp and the "historic" stamp from the History Of Hockey souvenir sheet are tied by Canada's first-day postmark. A rare Canadian combo FDC! — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 | | |
More Black History Issues • More Sports Issues
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| Dgn 710: Sc. 5455 Arnold Palmer — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a golfer hitting a drive. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 | |
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| Dgn 710a: Sc. 5455 Arnold Palmer — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a golfer hitting a drive. Pictorial first-day postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00 | |
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| Dgn 710b: Sc. 5455 Arnold Palmer — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a golfer hitting a drive. The stamp is placed higher on the card than on 710a and tied with the pictorial first-day cancel. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00 | | |
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Dgn 710c: Sc. 5455 Arnold Palmer — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a golfer hitting a drive. The new stamp, Sc. 1932 Babe Zaharias, Sc. 1933 Bobby Jones, and Sc. 2965 Golf from 1995's Recreational Sports set are tied by the pictorial first-day postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 | |
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More Sports Issues
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| Dgn 711: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of the Head Light near Portland. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 | |
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| Dgn 711a: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of the Head Light near Portland — the same lighthouse shown in the postmark. Pictorial first-day postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00 | |
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Dgn 711b: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of the Head Light near Portland — the same lighthouse shown in the postmark. The new stamp and Sc. 1391 Maine Statehood (1970) are tied by the pictorial first-day postmark . — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50 | |
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| Dgn 711bb: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of the Head Light near Portland — the same lighthouse shown in the postmark. The new stamp, Sc. 1655 Maine State Flag, Sc. 1971, Maine State Bird (Chickadee) and Sc. 1391 Maine Statehood (1970) are tied by the pictorial first-day postmark. One produced — larger illustration (new window). | | |
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| Dgn 712: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of the Marginal Way, a scenic walkway along the seashore in Ogunquit. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 | |
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| Dgn 712a: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of the Marginal Way, a scenic walkway along the seashore in Ogunquit. Pictorial first-day postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00 | |
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| Dgn 712b: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of the Marginal Way, a scenic walkway along the seashore in Ogunquit. The new stamp and Sc. 1391 Maine Statehood (1970) are tied by the pictorial first-day postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.50 | |
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| Dgn 713: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of Jane de Vries visiting the Head Light — the same lighthouse shown in the postmark. Pictorial first-day postmark. Not produced for commercial sale — larger illustration (new window). | | |
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| Dgn 714: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 5"x7" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of rocks along the Maine coast, similar to the scene on the stamp. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 | |
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| Dgn 715: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 8˝"x11" Dragon Card similar to Dgn 711, reproducing an original photo of the Head Light near Portland. The new stamp, Sc. 1655 Maine State Flag, Sc. 1971 Maine State Bird (Chickadee), Sc. 1891 Flag coil (showing the Head Light) and Sc. 1391 Maine Statehood (1970) are tied by the pictorial first-day postmark. Two produced. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 | | |
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| Dgn 716: Sc. 5456 Maine Statehood — 8˝"x11" Dragon Card reproducing an original photo of rocks along the Maine coast, similar to the scene on the stamp. This is a larger version of Dgn 714. The new stamp, Sc. 1655 Maine State Flag, Sc. 1971 Maine State Bird (Chickadee), Sc. 1891 Flag coil (showing the Head Light) and Sc. 1391 Maine Statehood (1970) are tied by the pictorial first-day postmark. Two produced. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 | | |
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| Dgn 721: Sc. 5456/5464 American Gardens-Maine — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing a photograph of Dragon Cards proprietor Lloyd de Vries at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The Maine Statehood and Coastal Maine (American Gardens) stamps are each tied by their pictorial first-day postmarks. Not produced for commercial sale. — larger illustration (new window)...$0.00 | | |
Why Maine and not other Statehood issues? I decided to produce a Dragon Card when the first-day for this issue was moved to my birthday. I don't think there's been a stamp issued on March 15th since 1981 — 39 years ago, before I began making Dragon Cards! (Feel free to let me know if I missed one.)
Then I realized my wife and I had visited Maine in October 2018, and I looked for photographs I'd taken that I thought were evocative of the Pine Tree State. I found three I liked, and the results are above.
