Blog archives (July 2023)

Bat’s Private Post releases Devil’s Garden, Hermes stamps

I have a couple of new stamp issues from Bat’s Private Post out of Beverly Hills, California, to report.

The first is a 20¢ stamp picturing The Devil’s Garden near Palm Springs, California. Bat’s Private Post in February issued a set of nine official stamps featuring the same scene, but those were printed on white paper. The new stamp is printed on fuchsia paper and covers Bat’s fee for mailing a postcard or letter at a Mexico City post office.

20#162; Bat’s Private Post stamp picturing The Devil’s Garden — 20#162; Bat’s; Private Post The Devil’s Garden stamp

Oddly, the envelope containing the copy of this stamp that I received was mailed in April, but it only reached me this month, and I’m not even that far north of the border! Not sure where this was floating around in the interim.

More recently, Bat’s Private Post on July 18 issued a set of four stamps depicting a sculpture of Hermes by Flemish artist Giovanni Bologna.

10#162;, 56¢, 76¢, & $1.55 Bat’s Private Post stamps picturing sculpture of Hermes — 10¢, 56¢, 76¢, & $1.55 Bat’s Private Post Hermes stamps

The 10¢ stamp covers Bat’s fee for transporting a local letter to a post office. The 56¢ and 76¢ stamps cover Bat’s and United States postage for domestic postcards and letters, respectively, while the $1.55 stamp covers Bat’s and United States postage for First-Class Mail International letters and postcards.

Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch sends sunflower business reply envelope

Incredibly, this is my first post of July 2023. I’ve had a busy month with some work travel and am still catching up on a few things.

One of the items arriving in my mailbox over the past few weeks was a mailing containing a business reply envelope from Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch. It has three preprinted copies of a stamp-sized design picturing sunflowers and, as you can see, a detachable reply form designed to be returned inside the envelope along with a donation.

Cal Farley’s business reply envelope bearing three stamp-sized designs picturing sunflowers

The flower design looks very familiar to me for some reason, but I’ve looked back through my previous blog posts regarding business reply envelopes of this sort and I can’t find anything that matches. There are plenty of flowers, though, so maybe that alone is making me think I’ve seen the image previously.