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    Glengarry Highland Games on Canadian Stamps Depicts Colorful Scottish Games

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    Each year, hundreds of bagpipes musicians gathered in various bands offer concerts to enthusiastic crowds
    all over the world and they are the key element to any Highland Games.
    Wearing the MacDonald kilt, Ottawa bagpiper John-Hugh MacDonald is pictured here on the Canadian stamp issued in 1997 to commemorate the 50th Glengarry Highland Games held in Maxville, [...]

    Mythical Creatures on Stamps and Orkney’s Tale: Dragons, Unicorns, Giants, Pixies, Mermaids and Fairies

    Mairiuna, imagine receiving an enveloppe in the mail on which you would find postage stamps depicting Dragons, Unicorns, Pixies, Giants, Mermaids and Fairies ??!!!
    It could happen for real you know, because Great Britain recently issued  a collection of six stamps, depicting “Mythical Creatures” found in British folklore.
    These stamps were created exclusively for Royal Mail by [...]

    The World’s Oldest Post Office: Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

    Mairiuna! I just received a package in the mail from our dear Scottish friends, Iain and Margaret, from Sanquhar, in which I discovered that the oldest post office in the world is located in their picturesque town on the river Nith, in the Dumfries and Galloway region.
    Wow.. I’m so glad to learn about this [...]

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World” on Postage Stamps

    I am thrilled to let you know Mairiuna that indeed , I do have stamps commemorating The Lost World . They are from Liberia and were issued in 1999.  It came in the format of a  sheet of 6 stamps and a souvenir sheet.
    Dinosaurs on stamps is a very popular collection amongst topical stamp collectors.
    The [...]

    Solution to Sherlock Holmes Philatelic Stamp Mystery…

    Hi Mairiuna ! I doubt you have been able to find the solution to the stamp mystery, since you would need a magnifying glass and the physical copies of the stamps to find the hidden letters.
    That’s why I will give you the solution right now!

    The letter D is found on The Hound of the Baskervilles stamp, at [...]