It's still blowing here and has done for over 24 hours so we are inside doing stamp projects. The scarce numbers and not particularly valuable theme that I have been pursuing is bicycles on stamps. I have been wading thru various old albums I have acquired and there are plenty of maps on stamps and lots of Australian stamps that I am after but never many bicycles. There are currently 917,917 different stamp designs produced in the world since the first in 1840. I wonder which country will score the 1,000,000th design. Of these, 1606 are bicycle related and my paltry quota is 113 bicycle stamps. Even when you are looking at the stamp you may not spot the bike, like the one below. I poked around on the internet and ordered a book today titled "Bicycle Stamps" an illustrated history. This copy is an Ex library book from the USA. It was USD$6.00 and will probably be three times that much to post it here and three months to arrive.
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