Stamps In The Movies!

I'm reviving this long dormant topic because I've recently seen stamps in a TV series that's so new, it hasn't even finished its run yet. I'm referring to the series "Atlantic Crossing" now showing on PBS's Masterpiece. It's the story of the struggle of the Norwegian nation, and in particular the Norwegian royal family in World War II after the country was invaded by the nazis. It focuses in particular on Crown Princess Martha and how she escaped with her children early in the war, first to Sweden, and then to the United States where she was welcomed and aided by President Franklin Roosevelt. In one scene in I think it's episode 4, we see FDR presenting a stock book with Norwegian stamps to Martha's son, the then 3 or 4 year old Prince Harald, who would eventually go on to become the present King Harald V. FDR asks the young boy if he recognizes the man on the stamps,and Harald replies that it's his grandfather, and indeed they are the stamps which appear to be the King Haakon VII definitives issued by Norway in 1937-38, Scott 177-180. The actor who plays Haakon on the series looks remarkably like him, I'm enjoying it very much, and Kyle McLachlan does a terrific job as FDR

This 2013 movie which I just saw for the first time today had an extended scene with philatelic discussion in a quite crowded Paris, France stamp shop. Later over dinner a discussion of the number of bird stamps issued by one country, Romania I believe, was discussed.

Short title: Last Love.
Long Title: Mr. Morgan's Last Love

Stars, Michael Caine and Clémence Poésy.
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The 5 cent "Movie Stamp"

As small holding of stamps, covers were offered with a postal card with film images from the movie attached in the Scott Ward sale, Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC Sale - 734 The Ward Collection of the U.S. Parcel Post Issue - February 20, 2020 as Lot 1129. Estimate was $500-$750 with the hammer being $1200.00 without buyers premium, tax and shipping.

Edit: Foxcatcher from 2014 is not in this tread (it is mentioned here: https://www.stampcommunity.org/topi...IC_ID=40529& ). It is a good movie about a disturbing subject with John du Pont as the focus. He owned the 1 cent British Gianna along with other stamps as a collector. The movie explains why he was forced to sell since he could not take the collection with him while serving 13-30 years in prison for murder. Convicted in 1997, he died in prison in 2010.

Thank you modern_who for this. For the past year I have been trying to remember where I saw the scene where a chubby boy had been swindled out of a stamp. But I thought it was an Inverted Jenny. Maybe I'm thinking of another movie/tv show.

This evening MeTV ran a 1967 Batman episode entitled "Batman's Satisfaction". Amazing guest cast, including a window cameo by Edward G. Robinson and a Green Hornet crossover with Van Williams and the legendary Bruce Lee. The Special Guest Villain is Roger C. Carmel (Star Trek's Harry Mudd) as Colonel Gumm, who plots to steal valuable stamps from the International Stamp Exhibition. Rare stamps mentioned in the episode are the Gotham Gothic, the Howling Monkey, and the Inverted Blue Nile.

The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald, a Travis McGee novel. Deals with investing in stamps. Came out in 1973. Always wondered if this was inspired by Weingarten(sp?) of the British Honduras magenta stamp fame or vice versa.

OK, this one isn't from a movie, it is from a TV show.

In the 1965 episode "Yesterday's Enemies" of the series Danger Man (Secret Agent), British spy John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) uses his "do it yourself post office kit" to put together a decoy piece of mail. He applies a real stamp but uses his own ink stamps to apply the needed cancellation.

^ I used to watch reruns of that show back in my college dorm days. Someday I hope to find the time to watch my 17-DVD box set of the entire series....

Oh, you have that set, too? ;-)

I actually have THREE different sets, 1 US market, 2 overseas because oddly enough, quality varies episode to episode, set to set, and the foreign ones have nice extras!

(yes, I am a McGoohan fan)

Although not the central plot of the movie, in the opening scene of the 1987 movie "Burglar" (starring Whoopi Goldberg) the main character cracks a house safe to steal, among jewelry and other items, a mint $2.60 zeppelin stamp. In a later scene when she tries to sell the stamp, she's told that she needs to go to New York as that's where stamps can be bought and sold.

Another TV series but one that had Season 3 (2017) revolve around a rare stamp is Fargo. It was highly entertaining in IMO and I think of it once in a while.

This is the stamp:



A billboard promoting the series:



https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamp...ilately.html

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel ran a series, originally in 2013-2014, called Signed, Sealed, Delivered. It was about four postal workers from the dead letter office in Denver who went well beyond requirements to see that letters that arrived in their section were delivered to their intended recipients around which the stories were built.

There were real stamps shown on letters and packages, once even offering a date clue going by the year the stamps were issued.

One of the four 'detectives,' in particular, was a stamp collector and was once shown with a make-believe rarity. In another episode that involved a nursing home, one of the residents offered him her stamp collection and as they looked through it together, another make-believe rarity appeared.

I found it entertaining and it involved some life and death situations.

If interested, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries seems to repeat it annually.

Here is the description of the series from IMDb:

"A group of postal detectives work to solve the mysteries behind undeliverable letters and packages from the past, delivering them when they are needed most."

IMDb also says that it is available on Hallmark's subscription service, Hallmark Movies Now.

Walkman - hey GOOD one!

I've just been watching an episode of the classic British comedy series, Mr. Bean starring the supremely talented comedic actor, Rowan Atkinson. In the episode Back to School, Mr. Bean, which first aired on October, 1994, our hero goes to an orientation day at an adult education school. He wanders around the hall, observing what classes, crafts, hobbies, etc are featured. he briefly stops at one desk to look at a display aimed to interest people in stamp collecting. There is an album on the desk open to a double page spread of Austrian stamps, the very common ones from the early 1920's. Mr Bean pretends to be so bored that he starts yawning and actually flops down onto the album, as if he were falling asleep from boredom. He quickly recovers and as he gets back up, one of the Austrian stamps is sticking to his forehead, and as he walks away, the stamp falls to the floor

I recently re-watched a movie I saw when it first came out, the 2008 film The Reader, starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes. The plot hinges on a torrid affair between a 36 year old German woman, a tram conductor (played by Winslet) and a 15 year old boy (portrayed by actor David Kross as the younger version of lawyer Michael Berg, the older version being played by Ralph Fiennes) Early in the film, Michael is recovering from an illness and, being bedridden, works on his stamp collection to while away the hours. We see part of his collection, which appears to be mainly 20th century German stamps in a stock book. Later as the story develops, we see him, desperate for cash to spend on his lover, selling the collection.

The TV show Endeavour has a few stamps shown on envelopes from time to time.

As with the rest of this magnificent program, they did their homework, and got straight A's.