Archive for December, 2008
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On January 20, Barack Obama will become America’s 44th president.
In observance of the inauguration, the Postal Service is offering a philatelic folio which includes a collectible stamped envelope with silk portraits of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, and a digital color postmark dated Jan. 20, 2009.
The folio also includes photographs [...]
Old TV Shows Get Spot in 2009 Commemorative Program
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The US Postal Service has released its 2009 stamp program.
Besides Oregon, Hawaii and Alaska Statehood; Abe Lincoln: Gary Cooper; Bob Hope; Gulf Coast Lighthouses; Civil Rights Pioneers; Edgar Allan Poe; State Flags: Supreme Copurt Justices; Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Wedding Cakes, the new issues will include Early TV Memories(shown above).
The [...]
Who done it
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Who was it that started the trend of collecting stamps in blocks of four? It was once the in thing to do. Over here, King George V insisted, I believe, that all new material would be in multiples, and the Dutch catalogues, to name but one, even have listings for blocks of [...]
Lincoln Stamps
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Cheryl Ganz, chief curator of philately at the National Postal Museum is quoted in an article that appeared in the Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal as saying a certified plate proof of the four-cent 1958 Lincoln stamp (shown here) is really the work of two artists.
“First, there is the artist who designs [...]
USPS’ Equipment Recovery Project
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Alabama’s Birmingham News reports, “The Postal Service has launched what is being called the ‘Equipment Recovery Project’ in an effort to reclaim its crates, trays and pallets.”
“The Postal Service wants them back, and the agency is sending postal inspectors around to area businesses to collect,” writes reporter Robert K. Gordon.
Gordon [...]
Her Majesty’s Stamps
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The Ottawa Citizen reports the Canadian Postal Museum is opening a seven-month-long exhibition later this year titled Her Majesty’s Stamps.
According to an article by reporter Paul Gessell, “The exhibition will include 400 of the Queen’s prized stamps, including examples of the world’s first-ever stamp, the so-called Penny Black of 1840, [...]
Young Philatelic Leaders Fellowship
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This past summer The American Philatelic Society initiated the Young Philatelic Leaders Fellowship (YPLF).
The newly formed group encourages the development of the next generation of stamp collectors, writers, exhibitors and dealers.
According to an APS press release, “For years, many of the brightest and most energetic young collectors have found that, [...]
Groundbreaking
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Next year sees the 50th anniversary of the St Lawrence Seaway, the seaway between Canada and the US that was so long in the making. There was a natural seaway between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, full of falls, shallows and rapids. Canada needed this searoute to open up trade [...]
At it
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The Italians were always at it in the Balkans, it seems. In my previous post I dealt with their occupation of the Ionian Islands during WW2, but they also invaded the islands in the 1920s. When the Italian general Tellini, part of a committee to establish the borders between Greece and Albania, [...]
Young Philatelic Leaders Fellowship
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
The Young Philatelic Leaders Fellowship (YPLF) encourages the development of the next generation of collectors, writers, exhibitors and dealers.
According to an APS press release, “For years, many of the brightest and most energetic young collectors have found that, while they are welcomed into philately and encouraged to begin, there is [...]
Merry Christmas!
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Here’s wishing you and yours a very merry philatelic Christmas!
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Artist Loses Suit Over Korean War Memorial Stamp
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Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has an interesting post on his website, Suits and Sentences, about an artist who tried to sue the U.S. Postal Service over the 2003 Korean War Veterans Memorial stamp.
According to the post, Vermont artist Frank C. Gaylord, a former World War II Army paratrooper, spent [...]
Philatelic Libraries Celebrate Anniversaries
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Round-Up reader Larry T. Nix reports the Special Libraries Association will be celebrating its centennial in 2009.
Larry says, “One of the most unusual types of special libraries is the philatelic library. Philatelic libraries, which are few in number, range from small volunteer run libraries to libraries connected to some of [...]
Spelling lessons
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
When the Italians occupied the Greek Ionian Islands during WW2, they issued stamps with various overprints in May 1941. For the islands Cephalonia and Ithaca they issued pairs of Greek stamps with the overprint “ITALIA Occupagione Militare Italiana isole Cefalonia e Itaca”. Very impressive, but it should have read “Occupazione”. This mistake [...]
Club packet
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The added bonus of being with a philatelic society, whether a local or a specialized one, is the club packet. Those books with stamps that are sent round to the members. I got my latest one from my local club yesterday, and immediately went in search of anything nice. Now, being here [...]
Winners of Texas Youth Holiday Stamp Design Contest Announced
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Douglas Moss, editor of The Texas Philatelist and First Vice President, Texas Philatelic Association (TPA) writes to announce the winner of the Texas Philatelic Association 20th Youth Holiday Stamp Design Contest.
For twenty years the TPA has encouraged children to design a holiday themed postage stamp. Every child who entered the [...]
The First “Real” Christmas Stamps
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Round-Up readers continue to ask,”What was the first Christmas stamp?”
Moleman on the FunTrivia.com website says, “This is a subject of much debate. Canada produced a stamp bearing the words ‘Xmas 1898′ in 1898. However it was not necessarily produced for Christmas.
“Denmark claims that the first Christmas stamp in the world [...]
Origins of the word “Philately”
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Recently the Oxford University Press’s website selected “philately” as its word of the day.
The write-up by Charles Hodgson says, “The word ‘philately’ was invented by a French stamp collector named George Herpin and proposed in a French stamp collecting magazine in 1864.”
“The phil- in philately is the same as in [...]
The American Indian in Stamps
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The National Postal Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian have worked together to create a new online exhibit on the Arago website.
Titled The American Indian in Stamps: Profiles in Leadership, Accomplishment and Cultural Celebration, the exhibit, which combines stamps and artifacts, traces the history and culture of [...]
Scorching
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
In the early 1900s, the Dutch postal authorities were starting experiments on how to speed up the processing of mail. They were also interested in an invention by a Mr Van der Valk, who claimed to have made a machine that could not only process mail quickly but would also solve the [...]
Online Exhibiting and FDC Courses
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Gretchen Moody, director of education, at the American Philatelic Society writes to say a couple of exciting online courses are slated for early next year.
Janet Klug will be teaching Keys to Exhibiting Jan. 26 – Mar. 6, 2009.
Beginners as well as advanced collectors are invited to sign up to learn [...]
New Film Features Stamp Collecting
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The new film, The Reader,has two scenes in which stamps and stamp collecting are featured and which are central to the story.
Phil Kloer, movie critic for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, summarizes the film as follows;”Set in Germany over four decades, from 1956 to 1995, The Reader follows the relationship between [...]
The Busiest Mail Day of the Year
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Baltimore’s WJZ-TV reports millions “flooded” to post offices around the country on Monday - making it the busiest day for postal workers in the whole year.
In Baltimore City post offices they were expected to process more than 2.1 million pieces of mail according to reporter television reporter Kelly McPherson. That’s [...]
Woodrow Wilson Comes to Europe (5)
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General Tasker Bliss was the fourth plenipotentiary selected for the Peace Conference.
He was already in France, for he was the American military representative for the Supreme War Council. It was said of him that he loved to read Thucydides in Greek, whilst in bed with a hip flask within reach. But he [...]
Too much?
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Yes, I know, I’ve been neglecting you lot, but then, I’ve had so much to do! Three articles for Stamp Magazine to write, one for stamp & Coin Mart, a Dutch stamp blog which has asked me to do something on a more or less regular basis, the Machin stamp blog which [...]
