"A record 10% price rise in the U.S. Postal Service’s 50-cent “Forever� stamp was struck down by a federal appeals court, which sided with a San Francisco man who said the arbitrary boost set an improper benchmark for future increases in the cost of mailing a...

Jawohl, Herr Kellogg, drei mal ist perfekt, da alle gute Dinge sind drei, wie bekannt! (Translation: Yes, Mr. Kellogg, three times is perfect, because all good things are three, as known). It's an old German proverb. A short notice: why shouldn't be the same postings repeated in their...

Canada wins international stamp design awards Canadian postage stamps have once again been awarded top honours at international stamp design contests. The Continental Cup for the most beautiful stamp in America, was awarded to the Lunar New Year stamp (Year of the Horse) issued by Canada Post on...

Here we go again. This time Rwanda is the victim. Blair --------------------------------------------------- Rwanda - Illegal postage stamp issues From the postal administration of RWANDA:

Over the years, there have been many governments in exile. A number of these also issued stamps (or labels). To get started, here is a short list of governments in exile. government-in-exile - a temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their...

Hi everyone My ten year old son has repeatedly shown an interest in starting a stamp collection and I agreed to help him build a collection, I thought it would be quite fun myself and a good project we could share. So we've been taking the stamps of the little mail we do get, but unfortunately it...

Hello! It's come to my attention that SG has reprinted the 2 foriegn volumes of the New Ideal Albums into 3 volumes with printing on one side. Can anyone verifiy this? Did they allow for expansion? Any comments? Thanks, Tim

I would like to know what you think of mint & used stamps. In Scott (USA) & Yvert & Tellier (French) catalogue both mint & used stamps have the same value, ( more recent ones from 1980 to nowadays) & in Stanley Gibbons, it is the contrary, that is recent used stamps have more value than mint (in...

An Italian Artist and Stamp Designer Appears on His Own Stamp (which he designed) While researching an answer to one of Rodney's questions, I came across a name that I was not familiar with. For many years, I had seen the name C. Mezzana connected with the Italian State Printing Office and...

Hi all! After I've asked a few months ago for your opinion on stamps catalogues and received useful info, now I'd like to ask what software you are using in order to archive your collection. I'm using for years Paul Dembowski's (Liberty Street Software) "CoinManage" program for my coin...

I would be interested in said stamp and others, I am easily reached at I just happened across this site or page. So please contact me using my email either way if you have the stamp or not. Thank you

Nicaraguan 1890 loco and telegraph set. The master die impression must have been "enhanced" for all the Peso values. I note the 2 peso green is the only issue that missed shading in the value tablet, and the 1 peso has a different frame. Just thought I would share that with you :)

Hi, through unpredictable happenstance, I happened to be in a position to "inherit" a sizeable collection of stamps, perhaps numbering about 3000-4000 items. I am not a regular collector, so all shorts of questions come up, at moments. As of now, there is no need or incentive to sell or exhibit...

There is a seller advertising a Mini Sheet which comprises 6 stamps in it. In the item description he says it's MNH but there are post office seals placed over the 6 stamps! Sure, the post office seals look very odonate and look like they are placed by a machine and not by hand. But they are...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6738055.stm "Tirana's streets had been cleaned, US flags were draped over buildings and a commemorative set of stamps had been issued for the occasion. " Any images of the stamps? Dag T. Hoelseth --

Hi all! Since I've recently started collecting stamps (I've collected stamps as a young boy but randomly and most of them cancelled), I have a few dumb questions: 1) is there a guide for new collectors like the one for coins "Coin Collecting for Dummies" or similar? I want (mostly) to learn the...

I sent away for the Mystic color catalog of US stamps recently. It arrived along with some old used US stamps (which I returned unopnened.) The catalog is really quite a work of art, with great photography. However, Mystic's prices seem to be very high. Far higher than I've been paying for stamps...

Howdy - Doo... Does anyone know if there were ever any hand stamped precancels? I have the precancel catalogs from the Society, but don't have them available at the moment. I see cancels that "look" like precancels, but they look more like parcel cancels - rectangular, with city and state...

Scented stamps include, but are not limited to: (1) Bhutan issued rose stamps on scented paper over 30 years ago, in 1973 (Scott 150-150E) (2) In 1999, Brazil opted for the smell of burnt wood on four of their stamps for forest-fire prevention. (Scott 2717a-d) (3) In 2000 South Korea issued four...

Merry Christmas to you as well Victor. I have a question regarding AOS. Most modern browsers do not support Java, will you be providing a non-java way to navigate the site? All the best, Alyn On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 1:50:07 PM UTC-5, Victor Manta wrote: We wish you all of the best...