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Dgn 846: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5"x7" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 |
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Dgn 846a: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5"x7" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. Pictorial Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00 |
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Dgn 846c: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5"x7" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. The Pictorial Postmark ties the U.S. stamp and the Japanese souvenir sheet. — larger illustration (new window)...$8.00 | |
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Dgn 846e: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5"x7" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. The Pictorial Postmark ties the U.S. stamp and the Singapore stamps. — larger illustration (new window)...$10.00 | |
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Dgn 846f: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5"x7" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. The Pictorial Postmark ties the U.S. stamp and the Taiwan stamps. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.50 |
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Dgn 846g: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5"x7" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. The Pictorial Postmark ties the U.S. stamp and the Christmas Island self-adhesive single. — larger illustration (new window)...$9.00 |
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Dgn 852: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5½"x8½" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. The Pictorial Postmark ties the U.S. stamp and the Korea souvenir sheet. — larger illustration (new window)...$8.00 |
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Dgn 852a: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5½"x8½" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. The Pictorial Postmark ties the U.S. stamp and the Taiwan souvenir sheet. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 |
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Dgn 852b: Sc. 5952 Year of the Snake — 5½"x8½" Dragon Card with colorful original art of a lunar new year parade, featuring giant snake puppets. The Digital Color Postmark ties one copy of the stamp, the Pictorial Postmark another. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 | |
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Dgn 847: Sc. 5956 1794 Compass Rose — 5"x7" Dragon Card featuring AI-created artwork (by Dragon Cards) of a late-18th century compass rose. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$6.00 |
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Dgn 847a: Sc. 5956 1794 Compass Rose — 5"x7" Dragon Card featuring AI-created artwork (by Dragon Cards) of a late-18th century compass rose. First Day of Issue postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$5.00 |
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Dgn 848: Sc. 5956 1794 Compass Rose — A label featuring AI-created artwork (by Dragon Cards) of a late-18th century compass rose is affixed to a No. 6¾ Sc. U571 Seafaring envelope whose indicia shows a compass rose.In the "sea" areas of the label is legend "here be Dragon Cards," similar to early maps that warned travelers of unknown dangers at the edges of the earth. The Digital Color Postmark ties the new stamp, the indicia and the label.. — larger illustration (new window)...$6.00 |
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Dgn 848a: Sc. 5956 1794 Compass Rose — A label featuring AI-created artwork (by Dragon Cards) of a late-18th century compass rose is affixed to a No. 6¾ Sc. U571 Seafaring envelope whose indicia shows a compass rose. "Here be Dragon Cards" is missing from the label, so the cachet is unsigned. The Digital Color Postmark ties the new stamp, the indicia and the label.. — larger illustration (new window)...$6.00 |
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Dgn 849: Sc. 5956 1794 Compass Rose — A label featuring AI-created artwork (by Dragon Cards) of a late-18th century compass rose is affixed to a No. 10 Sc. U571 Seafaring envelope whose indicia shows a compass rose.In the "sea" areas of the label is legend "here be Dragon Cards," similar to early maps that warned travelers of unknown dangers at the edges of the earth. The Digital Color Postmark ties the new stamp, the indicia and the label.. — larger illustration (new window)...$6.50 |
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Dgn 849a: Sc. 5956 1794 Compass Rose — A label featuring AI-created artwork (by Dragon Cards) of a late-18th century compass rose is affixed to a No. 10 Sc. U571 Seafaring envelope whose indicia shows a compass rose.In the "sea" areas of the label is legend "here be Dragon Cards," similar to early maps that warned travelers of unknown dangers at the edges of the earth. However, this is the smaller label that was intended for No. 6¾ envelopes, and it, the new stamp and the indicia are tied by the FDOI postmark. (There was one extra small label and one extra No. 10 envelope.) Only one was produced. — larger illustration (new window)...$6.50 | |
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Dgn 850: Sc. 5957 Allen Toussaint — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing him in front of an open grand piano. Under the photo is a quote about the importance of music in his life. Digital Color Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$4.00 |
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Dgn 850a: Sc. 5957 Allen Toussaint — 5"x7" Dragon Card showing him in front of an open grand piano. Under the photo is a quote about the importance of music in his life. Pictorial Postmark. — larger illustration (new window)...$3.00 |
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Dgn 851: Sc. 5957 Allen Toussaint — 5½"x8½" Dragon Card showing him in front of an open grand piano. Eight additional stamps show other jazz pianists. The Digital Color Postmark and Pictorial Postmark tie all 9 stamps. — larger illustration (new window)...$20.00 |
The other stamps are Sc. 3096 Count Basie, 2211 Duke Ellington, 2986 Jelly Roll Morton, 2988 Eubie Blake, Toussaint, 2990 Thelonious Monk, 2985 James P. Johnson, 4807 Ray Charles, and 2992 Erroll Garner.
And here's a secret about the combo: There's an 80% B&W image of each stamp below each one, to help with placement. Except at the last minute, I decided to replace the Marvin Gaye stamp with Ray Charles, because he was more "jazz" than Gaye.
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