The Gay Philatelist

An amateur stamp collector. I wanna share the joy of stamp collecting! Stamps are truly amazing and I wish more people my age were into them. They’re not boring I promise!

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WW Stamp of The Day #1

For my first ever Worldwide Stamp of The Day I selected one of my first ever stamps!

This is a used Japan 1940 Kirishima National Park stamp. I actually have this whole set and maybe as I continue this series you’ll get to see the rest! You can see that this stamp has been cancelled three times from receiving postmarks along the route it travelled when it was still attached to an envelope. Japanese stamps are one of the main focuses of my collection and this was one of the stamps that started it all!

It depicts a torii gate, which in Shinto marks the transition from between the average world and sacred spaces. This stamp was printed with the photogravure method in the colour scarlet. It was issued on 8/21/1940 with a print run of 350,000. There’re no variations.

I love this stamps because it exemplifies what I love about stamp collecting! It’s both a beautiful piece of art and reflects the history and culture of the country it’s from! Stamps are an extremely accessible way to collect art while learning more about the world too.

Catalogue #’s: Stamp Number JP 310, Stanley Gibbons JP 370, Sakura JP P27

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Some interesting themes cancels from the DPRK (North Korea)! As I said in my last post most DPRK stamps are cancelled to order, or CTO, this means that they were never used to send mail and are cancelled for the benefit of collectors. It’s harder to find mint DPRK stamps (stamps without a cancel) as opposed to unused CTO stamps for this reason. These are some cancels I find interesting from my personal collection!

First we have an adorable little panda cancellation on that 1991 panda stamp. I actually have the full set but this particular stamp has a beautifully full cancellation on it.

Next is a 1984 shipping boat stamp with a lovely boat stamp also beautifully centered. Because of how centered this one and the panda one are I have questioned if they may be first day cancellations rather than CTO. I believe the ship depicted in the cancel mark may actually be the same one from the stamp!

The next one is a bit hard to see but in the upper left there is a somewhat cartoonish fish cancel mark. The stamp is from the 1990 Fishes set.

Next up we have another 1990 stamp, this time from the Birds set, and it has a bird cancel! (Who woulda guessed!) The bird in the cancel mark seems to be a crane most likely, though it could potentially be a heron.

On to the last couple, next up is one that is unfortunately not the best example. On the top right of this 1983 train stamp you can see just the very front “bumper” of a train. Since it’s not the best cancel mark let’s just move on lol

Lastly we have this glorious bus souvenir sheet from 1992 with 2 bus cancellations on it. As you can see the bus on the cancellation looks like the bus on the top right stamp as well. This is pretty common with DPRK themed CTOs, they’re generally a stamp depicting a simplified lineart version of one of the stamps on the sheet. This is also a great example of what collectors mean when they say CTO. It obviously was never used to mail anything and yet it’s already been cancelled. You can also see how the cancellations have been placed on the intersection between multiple stamps which is the most common way of canceling sheets like this to endure all of the stamps are cancelled as efficiently as possible.

(As an aside: while I am showing off DPRK stamps in this post I do not believe in financially supporting the DPRK in any way.I only support collecting items from the DPRK if it is done ethically. If you are buying items from the DPRK please educate yourself on how to do so ethically.)

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Omg two of my posts have actually gotten 1+ notes!!! Ahhhh!!! Thank you all so much I love you!!!!!!

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Stamps are boring? Tell that to my Rilakkuma stamps! Or don’t collect stamps, more for me 😈

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Some lovely DPRK (North Korean) stamps from my collection! To my knowledge all of them are CTO or cancelled to order, as is the case with basically all of my DPRK stamps. CTO means that these stamps have never been through the mail and are cancelled for the sake of collectors. It’s difficult to find non-CTO DPRK stamps however, it can lead to some very interesting cancels! I’ll be uploading another post soon with some cool DPRK cancels I have!

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Hehehe got a shipment of some fuckin’ amazing stamps today!!! 50 stamps in total :D

I’ll definitely talk more in detail about several of them in the coming days. For the time being they’re going in Temporary Housing! Can you tell one of my collection focuses?

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Got this stamp today (along with about 20 others). I don’t have much to say about the history or anything but look at this fuckin cute cat!

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I know this might not look too flashy, but this might be my favourite stamp sheet. These Estonian stamps are a language tree of the Uralic languages.

Going anti-clockwise from the bottom middle stamp, we have:

The Samoyedic Languages: Nenets, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, and Kamasin

The Ugric Languages: Hungarian, Khanty and Mansi

The Permic Languages: Komi and Udmurt

The Mari and Mordvinic (Erzya and Moksha) Languages

The Sami Languages (Nortern, Southern, Skolt, Inari, Lule, Ume, Pite, Ter and Kildin Sami)

The Baltic-Finnic Languages: Veps, Karelian, Ingrian, Livonian, Finnish, Estonian and Votic

Languages in brackets weren't mentioned in the stamp, but I thought I'd elaborate anyway

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Omg I need this because it actually freaking includes the Samoyedic languages :O yet another thing I can add honouring my Native family!!!

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I *finally* got a new phone that doesn’t have a camera that’s fucked beyond repair so I can actually post on this account :D

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Obviously immediately after I make this account my phone camera gets fucked up… I’m going to take some pictures and queue up some posts tonight though to come out in the following days! :D

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I am genuinely shocked Tumblr, the site that banned porn, let me put “fellationist” in my @