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Are stamps a good financial investment ? My answer to this question is : no ! And I suppose the same reply will be given by most readers of this newsgroup. Collecting stamps brings a lot of satisfactions but not often world cruises ... I was amazed to discover that a well known company is...

Radio Sweden reported this recently ... worth a l@@k ... wonder : has anyone encountered these in NA ? http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Nyheter=&artikel=739815

For collectors of H.C. Andersen the checklist is updated with issues from The Maldives http://maldivespost.com/v2/?lid=24&iid=4 and The Falkland Islands http://www.falklands.gov.fk/pb/fi/hans-christian-andersen.htm Thanks to Jill and Thomas for notifying me :-) -- Best regards

Early (US) Auction Sales of Stamps Auction sales of stamps have come a long way since the first sale in the United States was held by John Walter Scott in New York in 1870. The sale took place Saturday evening, May 28th, and, quoting Scott, "it was held in the elegant auction rooms of Messrs....

S. Allan Taylor -- (US) Local Fakes Samuel Allan Taylor well earned his notorious reputation. His long career in stamp dealing, dating from 1863 until 1905, was devoted almost exclusively to counterfeiting, and he fashioned numerous "fantastic" designs of stamps for posts that never existed. A...

My web sites/subsites: Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://www.pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/ Communism on Stamps: http://www.values.ch/communism/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.values.ch/sna-site/ are out of service. My Swiss provider announced me in written form, at...

Counterfeiters "Buried" The older philatelic magazines are interesting to browse through. One at hand, The Stamp Journal, 1877, described on its masthead as, "Fearless and Independent," regularly carried a box, headed, "The Cemetery," in which they named counterfeiters currently

Bisected U. S. Stamps "Bisects" or "Split Provisionals" -- that is, stamps cut into halves or otherwise -- were used from time to time by various postmasters when they found themselves with a shortage of stamps or their stock of some denomination exhausted. They are always interesting when tied...

USPS reports that on May 30 it will start issuing the Distinguished American Diplomats stamps, including one for Hiram Bingham IV, who is being honored because a bunch of lobbyists sold the Postal Service a bill of goods. "While serving as a diplomat in France during World War II, Hiram Bingham IV...

I have just posted some new lots available for exchange ... TRADE 100 FU MACHINS : 10 SELCTIONS OF 10 EACH ... mine for yours ... visit here http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mack.strathdee.index2.htm

I have just posted some new lots available for exchange ... TRADE 100 FU MACHINS : 10 SELECTIONS OF 10 EACH ... mine for yours ... see elliptical and regular perf tables ... visit here http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mack.strathdee.index2.htm

United States Guide Lines J. H. Davis-Reynolds, President of the United States Guide Line Society, has just published the 1949 edition of his booklet on United States Guide Line, a catalog of the guide line markings to be found on U. S. stamps printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The...

First US Bureau Postage Stamps If you were to ask most collectors to name the first postage stamps printed and produced at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the answer would undoubtedly be, "The issue of 1894." While organized in 1862, the Bureau in its earlier years was engaged solely in

I have the US issue of 1, 2 and 4 cent se-tenant trio, with the 4 cents being the inverted Jenny. I intend to stick them on an envelope, add a 30-cent stamp and mail it to myself. Will that be considered a canceled to order? CTO means many things: Issued with a cancellation, as many countries do...

The gold and (various colors) eagle stamps persumably exist with the year date 2004. Why has every one I've ever seen been dated 2003?

One of my collecting buddies presented me with a gift while we were on our way to our club meeting last night: a glassine envelope that once held "war-economy" stamp hinges that doubled as record documents. Here's an image of the envelope: http://www.ingraham.ca/bob/stamphingesweb.jpg. Believe it...

http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0066/index0066_011.htm PRE-STAMP MAIL ON FUTURE CZECHOSLOVAK TERRITORY 1564-1850 other 67 exhibits: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/ Bret

Howdy! When I was younger, I started collecting stamps and at some point my dad gave me his collection from when he was a boy. He assembled it in the 1950s and it has quite a few stamps from that time and a few older ones, even a few that are worth a fair bit. I added quite a bit to it, mostly by...

the definitive issue 1966-67....... 50b.value.......Samail Fort. Gibbons No.101 and 101a ...........cat. 40p and £8.00 in the 1996 catalogue (a lot more in the 2005 catalogue). Have Gibbons got these two stamps the wrong way round ? I have 3 copies of the supposedly valuable one and...