Archive for February, 2009
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A reprint of an article that originally appeared in the New Zealand Stamp Collector, the official journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, was posted on the Philatelic Database Web site.
According to the author, D. J. Jarvis, “The Royal Philatelic Society was privileged recently to hear an interesting [...]
Postmaster Wants to Starts Stamp Club
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An local postmaster is looking to start a stamp-collecting club according to the Statesman Journal in Salem,Oregon.
Though not currently a stamp collector himself, Raymond Berg collected stamps as a child and is a board member of the Salem Stamp Society.
Berg is quoted in the article by Denise Ruttan as saying,”People [...]
French President Forms Stamp Club
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UK’s Telegraph is preporting French President Nicolas Sarkozy is sponsoring the newly formed Elysée Philatelist Club.
According to the article by Peter Allen in Paris, “Paris-based Gala magazine revealed the existence of the stamp-collecting club, describing it as ‘an independent association based at the presidential residence.”
Sarkozy is said to pursue his [...]
Trashing Student Stamp Collectors
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Joe Klobusicky of Carnegie Mellon’s The Tartan Online has a student Q & A column.
Yesterday he posted this question, “Don’t laugh at me, but I have a stamp collection. Even for being a Carnegie Mellon student, I get harassed every day for searching through catalogs and the Internet to find [...]
Tamper-proof Stamps
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The UK’s Mirror reports, “Tamper-proof stamps are to be issued to thwart fraudsters who peel off or soak old ones to reuse them.”
According to an article by David Collins, “The new security Machin stamps have two sticky panels that tear if they’re peeled off, and are printed on special paper [...]
Behind Every Stamp There is a Story
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Reporter Joe Kovac Jr. of the Macon, Georgia Telegraph.
writes, “Berdia Felder collects stamps the way a lot of kids collect baseball cards. She stashes them by the thousands in boxes under her bed and in her attic. She has no organized albums or fancy display cases for them.”
He goes on [...]
Vera Felts Named ATA Executive Director
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Last month Vera Felts of Carterville, IL was named to the position of executive director of the American Topical Association (ATA).
She offically takes office March 1st according to an ATA press release.
Vera has previously served as the ATA Checklist Coordinator for three years.
According to the release, Vera was chosen primarily [...]
Off
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Hi there! I’ll be off for a wee while, but don’t despair, I’ll come back with hopefully nice new stuff to show you! So until then I’ll leave you with this image of the (so far) most beautiful stamp issued this year!
Adrian
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Round-Up Makes The Collectors Weekly Hall of Fame
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Dave Margulius, editor of The Collectors Weekly Web site, writes to say the Round-Up has been chosen as “one of the best collector sites for our Hall of Fame.”
The description on the Website reads, “Don Schilling’s long-running, in-depth blog on stamp collecting and postal operations. Schilling stays up on all [...]
Obituary for Stamp Vending Machines
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Will Atkins of the Oak Hill Gazette in Austin, Texas, wrote this “obituary” for stamp vending machines….
“The stamp vending machines were first introduced back in 1908, and were touted as vendors of ’sanitary stamps. In the late 1800’s it was believed that most diseases could be spread easily by germs [...]
Fragile
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I received a lovely set of flora definitives from Austria the other day (thanks again, Florian!).
They were introduced in 2007 and replaced the “Beautiful Austria” definitives.
I quite like the fact that they managed to depict the fragility of the flowers, very stylish.
My favourite of the by now eleven stamps is the one [...]
Mail is a Bargain Compared to Yesterday
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TV Channel 10 News in Central New York rpeorts mail today is a bargain compared to yesteryear.
So says stamp collector Ed Bailey in an article A History of Stamps by reporter Joleene Des Rosiers.
In the piece Ed points out, “The first stamp printed for the U.S. was 1847. A five [...]
Marginal copies
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Just to put all your minds at rest! Here’s a picture of how I eventually mounted those marginal copies I showed you earlier!
Adrian
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Zumbox - The Alternative Postal System
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Hank Green on the EcoGeek Website asks, “Why on earth do we still have snail mail? For packages? OK. But everything else, really? All the paper, all the transportation, all the man-hours delivering to you thousands of little pieces of paper every year.”
He says a new company called Zumbox wants [...]
Eliot Laudau’s “Lincoln, Slavery and the Civil War” Exhibit
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Art Daily reports Eliot Landau (shown here) will discuss his award-winning philatelic exhibition “Lincoln, Slavery and the Civil War” at this year’s Maynard Sundman Lecture at Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Saturday, March 7, at 1 p.m.
In addition, the collection will be on display in the museum’s Franklin Foyer from Friday, [...]
Tom Hanks Spends a Fortune on Postage
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The Times of India reports that, “Tom Hanks is so obsessed with his secret collection of typewriters that he doesn’t mind giving up a fortune to ship them from all corners of the world.”
According to the paper, the Oscar winning actor has more than 100 manual, portable typewriters from the [...]
Forty-Nine Years as a Stamp Dealer
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The Malaysia Star reports Steven Tan became a stamp dealer in 1960 because he had a fascination for stamps and to help finance the arrival of his first child.
Reporter Grace Chen writes, “Tan revealed that he had started with almost zero capital as his early collection of stamps had been [...]
More on the New Lincoln Stamps…
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According to the Springfield, Illinois, State Journal-Register,first-day sales of the new set of postage stamps commemorating Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial birthday drew a big crowd Monday at the Old State Capitol State Historic Site, where the stamps were officially unveiled.
Numerous public officials were present at the unveiling, including U.S. Postmaster General [...]
APPEAL!!!!
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I need help! I have to write an article on the 2009 Europa issues so far, and I need images! Now most images floating around on the internet are of such a low resolution that they do not print in a paper magazine. So if somebody’s reading this and has the 2009 [...]
Charity Auction for Australian Fire Victims
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Melbourne auctioneers, Prestige Philately, have announced that they will be conducting a charity auction to raise funds for the Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Relief Fund, at their Belgrave office on Friday, March 13th.
According to a press release received from Prestige Philately, “Some one thousand homes have been lost and more [...]
What would you do?
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My latest trophies are from the Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands Indies era (1942-1945). They are definitives that are overprinted in violet with the small overprint “Dai Ni Hon Yubin”. These were used in Riau, the West Coast province and Jambi. The 2c value is from the Kreisler set (named after the [...]
Lincoln’s Arizona Connection
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The Arizona Daily Star reports Alex Lutgendorf, 81, a volunteer at the Postal History Foundation in Tucson, Arizona and the curator of the Western State Postmarks for the museum,has been busy cancelling envelopes with a special cancellation in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s historical connection to Arizona.
According to the article, Lincoln [...]
APS Summer Seminar on Philately 2009
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The American Philatelic Society will be holding its 30th Annual APS Summer Seminar on Philately June 21-26.
Held in the education wing of the American Philatelic Center in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Summer Seminar begins with a Sunday evening reception.
The remainder of the seminar week, Monday to Thursday, features 4½ hours daily of [...]
Valentine Postmarks
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More than a dozen Post Offices in communities with loved-themed names are offering special postmarks for Valentine’s Day according to a USPS press release.
Often these same towns are sent wedding invitations to be remailed.
MSNBC reports, “Romance, Arkansas Postmaster Angie Davis and Postmaster Relief June Sullivan postmark about 7,500 valentines and [...]
Post Office Comes Out #1 in Trust Survey
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Federal Times reports that, according to a new survey by the Ponemon Institute, USPS was the #1 federal agency Americans most trusted to protect their private information from leaks and security breaches.
In the 2009 Privacy Trust Study of the United States Government survey, the Post Office came out on top [...]
