The Ephemera of Philatelic Fiction

Extreme Stamps
Ape & Essence

Ape and Essence: China's Monkey King, by Frederick Highland

Chicago Philatelic Society Medal

The Mystery Box book is the proud winner of a Silver Medal awarded by the Chicago Philatelic Society CHICAGOPEX Literature Exhibit

Read the Book Review by Barbara Kinne of the APS American Philatelist

The ephemera of philatelic fiction

Ephemera: Printed matter of passing interest

My Curiosity is Aroused

The Stamp Exhibition

Loving books, stamps depicting authors or their titles was a great beginning. It soon expanded to include writing on stamps, such as the amazing Austrian stamps in the story "Chain Letter" depicting writing media through time, an stamps with similar themes. This interest took on a life of its own, compelling me to greater and greater forays on this quest. Like going to a Stamp Show.

I recall attending my first Stamp Show. It was the Boeing Stamp Club Show, one of the most popular in the Puget Sound. After my initial awe at the throngs of people who sure looked like they know what they were doing, I dove in along with them.

In a quiet room off the main floor were several collector exhibits. The most remarkable was a display of women on stamps, complete with period photographs, appropriate verses from literature, and other complementary memorabilia. Meticulous, elegant, and at times lovely to behold.

What deceptively simple treasures.

I meet Mrs. Hare

bunnie movie I met a charming lady philatelist named Mrs. Hare. And, yes, she collects rabbit and hare topicals. Her enthusiasm expanded into Stiefel bunnies, Hummel bunnies, and other fine pieces featuring rabbits, including one of a pair of silver carving knife and fork rests... to which she seeks the mate.

Surely this sort of creativity had entered the written philatelic word? Or had it?

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The ephemera of philatelic fiction