I Have Not Made A Post About Stamps For Some Time,

and I have to admit I have yet to unpack my collection,

 so here goes, for those of you lucky enough to live in America, here is news of a new series, all images © United States Postal Service, the United States Postal Service announced this week that it’ll be releasing 10 stamps inspired by renowned sculptor Ruth Asawa, 

 born in 1926, Asawa was forced into a Japanese internment camp by the U.S. government with her family during World War II. She learned to draw during her detainment, before eventually attending Black Mountain College, where she studied with Josef Albers and began to delve into wire weaving and sculpture,

later in her career, Asawa described her looped artworks as “a woven mesh not unlike medieval mail. A continuous piece of wire, forms envelop inner forms, yet all forms are visible (transparent). The shadow will reveal an exact image of the object.” the forthcoming stamps feature photographs by Dan Bradica and Laurence Cuneo, with the selvage image taken by Nat Farbman for a 1954-issue of Life. To see more of Asawa’s wire works before you pick up the postal packet, check out the Instagram account that her estate manages. here is a thing,why not design your own issue of stamps?

as we watched a programme about Lundy last night, above are a few bogus stamps,

these are generally issued to deceive collectors, and Gerald M. King is a master of producing them, here are a few of his here, and as it happens his bogus stamps are collected by philatelist that follow his work, so there you go, just buy pre-perforated sheets and print your own stamps! but what ever you do, they are not legal to use as postage stamps!