Perhaps the Confederate Post Office Department’s last issue, a 5-cent stamp featuring Fräulein Julie in a photograph by Angelo of Budapest.
Mail, Maybe
The Cook Islands’ “catch as catch can” tradition of Sea Post delivery was celebrated with this pair of 2-shilling stamps with art by N.C. Wyeth.
Frosty
Rarotonga paid this half-penny tribute to Pietra degli Scrovigni as painted in 1884 by Marie Spartali Stillman, once a student of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, as it happened, translated Dante Alighieri’s poem about the cold-hearted Lady Pietra into English some time in the late 1840s.
Safe
Peggy
The Cook Islands’ half-penny homage to actress Peggy Shannon, who knew how to wear a hat.
Magic
The very rare U.S. air mail issue honoring magician Handy-Bandy and Nadia-Nadyr
The Hound Dog
The nation of Zanzibar, upon learning that George “The Hound” Lorenz was broadcasting from the Club Zanzibar on Williams Street in Buffalo, N.Y., thanked the pioneering disc jockey with this 5-rupee commemorative.
