Saturday, March 14, 2009

Singapore stamp: postal services through the years

letter from Singapore

I got this great letter a few days ago from a pen pal in Singapore, who always writes lovely letters in her beautiful handwriting. But she also shows me the array of gorgeous Singapore stamps, of which this has to be my favorite:

Singapore stamp: postal services through the years

Love the barefoot postman with umbrella, c1910! What visions of old-time tropical mail this brings.