I've been going through my collection and cataloguuing it...............I noticed that for some stamps, there is a huge disparity in price for the same stamp. For example The 1974 Orchids series from Barbados, the $0.12 variety used (Dendrobium aggregatum) Scott 403 (2000...

Hi Everyone! I scanned and posted on my website the new Israeli stamps that were issued in May 2008. (The Postal service just sent them out this week. The stamps I announced last month were from April.) I included the stamp itself, the first day cover, and an English and a Hebrew flyer about the...

That recently come up, with two stamp in set - I really think that this issue are one of best for EUROPA 2008 topic - still didn't see all issue from all countries - but when I saw Serbian issue it fascinated me. Picture can see on my blogpage http://serbiastamp.blogspot.com with some opinion and...

OFF TOPIC. Does anyone here by chance use Copernic Destop Search? If you do I would very much appreciate your help understanding a particular function of the program (as I cannot get Copernic to reply to my emails). Thanks in advance. -- Tony Vella Ottawa, Ontario,...

Here's an interesting piece of hypermodern postal history: http://cjoint.com/?hdhLTTHOgJ My club sent out a batch mailing to prospective new members. One card, addressed to a Mr. Gabbard, was sent by the membership secretary through the mail processing center in Jackson, Mississippi. It...

Good morning, Could someone tell me if I can find somewhere the postal rates of Tanganyika (since its first occupations, the postal alliance KUT, until its independence)? Thank you in advance. Bonjour, Quelqu'un pourrait-il me dire si je puis trouver quelque part les tarifs postaux du...

Scott's Standard Postage & Stamps Catalogue (1928) Edited by John N. Huff & Hugh M. Clark http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270251786780 Book Description: Scott Stamp & Coin Co., New York, 1927. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Eighty-Fourth Edition. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2"....

I webmaster the following web site: http://www.somestamps.com It has a few thousand web pages on a wide range of world stamps, as well as lots of specialized content on Argentinean stamps, for example: http://www.somestamps.com/issues/issues-argentina-1935-51.htm

I'm curious why Scott 279b didn't get its own Scott number. Does anyone have any history on this? Thanks, Kent

Found in a box lot was the following aerogramme from 1990: http://cjoint.com/?gChYKIsSeA http://cjoint.com/?gChZgRbkRo It would not have caught my notice, except for two interesting facts. First, the endorsement on the front to "HOLD UNTIL COLLECTED with Mosman Rugby Club Centenary Tour" and a...

We all receive some kind of postage paid envelopes, usually with some type of junk mail or advertising. This stamp dealer created his own neat "stamp" when telling us that postage was paid from Cape Town. http://www.adirondack-pc.com/CapeTown.jpg ( 435 k ) He did a little work on one the...

I know we've discussed a little of this before, in dribs and drabs, no doubt. OK... Why would dealers or even collectors get mint copies of official stamps or postage due stamps - say, U.S. only for the moment. One may reply because the post office gave them sheets as receipts of something or...

Looking up Ralphael's Guyana (non?)-issue, I found that SG's online catalogue is all different. You now have to register/log in at http://www.stanleygibbons.com/ to use it. Then select My Collection. It says "You are able to browse and search our online catalogue without images in basic form for...

October 13, 1998 , Bridge Joint Issue between Guyana and Surinam. I have Surinam but have no information on the Guyana stamp. I haven't found it in Scott. Anyone got another catlog listing this stamp? I am just about ready to to send this one to the dead file to join several others that I could...

Of course, you'd immediately think there's a joke going on here, yes? Well, this is a bit more serious, but it did catch some attention, no? http://www.adirondack-pc.com/Rien.jpg "Remember! ..." "Nothing German! ..." This, of course, refers to the "frightfulness" inflicted on Belgian & French...

Thanks for helping me to average 1300+ pageviews per day for the month of June! Let's hope some of the readers will return to our great hobby. Here are the entries for the last couple of weeks. Stamp Issuer - Anjouan http://www.stampsofdistinction.com/2008/06/stamp-issuer-anjouan.html Stamp...

With the exception of a few - very few - countries, my stamp-collecting interests stop at January 1, 1960. My Scott catalogue is of 2005 and so I have no reason for getting a newer edition. I see a lot of reference by honorable members of this group to the Stanley Gibbons system of numbering...

Ok, we all know that the "city of love" has had a lot written about it. Well, here's a little label that seemed to have done postal duty of some kind. http://www.adirondack-pc.com/Paris.jpg Take a look at the right side. Those are cancel marks. Many people put labels on their envelopes and I'm...

We were trying to find some stamps with the devil / Satan on them and here you go, one from the Belgian 1897 Exposition: http://www.adirondack-pc.com/Expo97.jpg This one displays St. Michael dueling with the king of the underworld. What is funny is that we were discussing this and I kept passing...

The latest official inflation figure for February is reportedly 165,000%. Should the inflationary pressure maintain its recent momentum till year end, then Zimbabwe’s official inflation will be 2,017,000 % by mid year further worsening to 24,672,000% by year end. Once inflation reaches such high...