Archive for April, 2009
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Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
For the past 20 years Neal Matti, 82, has been gathering stamps from local businesses in the small Wyoming community of Gillette.
According to the Gillette News-Record, workers at dozens of offices gather up old envelopes each week and leave them behind them for the dedicated senior who believes in helping [...]
Lost and Found - New Deal Post Office Murals
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, “In 1939, two renowned New York artists, Raphael and Moses Soyer, received federal commissions to paint murals for the Kingsessing branch post office under the heralded New Deal post office art program.
“Their artwork - two 15-foot-long murals made up of three panels each - depicted iconic [...]
Little Pieces of Home
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The Air Force Link Web site reports, “One of the nice things about deploying is the outpouring of support given by family, friends and even strangers from back home through care packages and letters. However, without the people who run the post offices on base, none of those well-wishes would [...]
Imperiale
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
While at Scottish Congress, I managed to get a few items for my Imperiale collection, even though my favourite European dealer wasn’t there. Now in an ideal world where nothing ever matters, I would love to go for whole sheets of stamps but as that would be hardly possible, I opt for [...]
Philippine Philatelic Walking Tour
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The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports, “The postal heritage walking tour around Manila hopes to resurrect the dying art of stamp collecting in an age of e-mail and instant messaging through leisurely strolls around historic sites around the country’s capital.”
Reporter Jeannette Andrade writes, “What’s magical about the tour is the Filipinas [...]
“Naked Maja” Postcards Cause a Fuss in 1959
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An interesting item appeared in the International Herald Tribune fifty years ago this week.
According to the New York Times, which reprinted it, “The Post Office Department has reserved decision following a hearing on the mailability of colored postcards bearing a reproduction of Francisco Goya’s painting ‘The Naked Maja,’ used in [...]
Australia Post - 200 Years
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Australia is celebrating 200 years of postal service this year.
Ten stamps have been released as part of Australia Post’s bicentenary celebrations. The stamps highlight the contribution the postal service has made to the lives of Australians.
The stamps, designed by Lynette Traynor of the Australia Post Design Studio, feature key historic [...]
Hybrid Mail
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Sarah Sharpe of Hellmail.com reports Pitney Bowes has joined the hybrid mail market in the United Kingdom with the launch of ‘Click&Mail’, an online service that enables businesses to send post directly from their computer desktop.
Once the document or letter has been prepared, users simply click ‘print’ for their document [...]
Scottish Wildings
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
I’ve written about these before here and here but I’ve now got two lovely new items that I’d like to share with you.They are two black & white photographs of unadopted essays for the series. The photographs were made by the National Postal Museum for the 1990 Glasgow Exhibition.
The first essay dates [...]
Earth Day
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In case you missed it, yesterday was Earth Day.
Jeevan Jyoti, editor of the Rainbow Stamp News and moderator of the Rainbow Stamp Club Web site, reminds us all that 22 April is globally celebrated each year as Earth Day.
He writes, “It is is a day designed to inspire awareness and [...]
“Stamps In Your Closet” at Michigan Show
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This weekend the West Suburban Stamp Club of Plymouth, Michigan will host its 40th annual stamp show according to an article by Julie Brown that appears on the HomeTownLife.com Web site.
The show will feature 2,400 pages of exhibits, 40 dealers from the U.S. and Canada, U.S., U.N. and Nordica [...]
Learn About Stamps
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The American Philatelic Society reports a new philatelic Web site, Learn About Stamps, has been launched. The site was designed to help newcomers to the hobby get information about stamp collecting and provides answers to questions such as:
What is stamp collecting?
What is postmark and cover collecting?
How can I begin stamp [...]
Perforated Propaganda
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On Thursday, April 23 at 8 PM, Daniel Piazza (shown here) will be speaking at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif. Dan, an assistant Smithsonian National Postal Museum curator, will be dicussing American, German and Italian postage during World War II, and the messages they were intended to project at [...]
Stamps Can Give Stocks a Licking
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In an article that appeared in Canada’s Star Phoenix, Financial Post reporter Rick Morrison asked Geoff Anandappa, Stanley Gibbons’ investment portfolio manager, “Are stamps a good investment?”
Geoff responded, “Stamp prices don’t fluctuate like stocks because 99% of stamps are bought by collectors, not investors, and collectors have a tendency to [...]
Wine, Food and Corkscrews on Stamps at Spellman Museum
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The Weston Town Crier reports the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History in Weston, Massachusetts is spotlighting “Wine and Food on Stamps” and “Antique Corkscrews” as their latest exhibit.
According to the paper, “The show features about 1,000 stamps from all parts of the world. Africa is represented by stamps [...]
Scottish Congress
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
I’ve just come back from the philatelic congress in Perth, Scotland (yes, I know, I’m on the go at the moment and there’s more, albeit non-philatelic, to come, so my writing schedule may be a bit erratic until next month) where I’ve had a lovely time, meeting old friends, meeting dealers, wonderful [...]
A Stamp of Disapproval (Stamp Collecting’s Fate in the Internet Age)
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Robert McHenry writes on the Encyclopedia Britannica Blog, “One of the innocent victims of our Brave New Electronic Age has been, I suspect, the hobby of stamp collecting.”
“I’d give odds that there are a great many young people who are only dimly aware of the existence of the institution known [...]
Tour of Europe (end)
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
So yes, I was able to indulge heavenly when at the local post office in Kell am See. Much more than at the one but largest post office in Trier where I had no chance of finding anything other than those same coil stamps. No sheet stamps, no Ganzsachen (postal stationery), nothing.
But [...]
Senior Collector Gives Stamps To College Students
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The Central Michagan University Web site, cm-life.com, reports a senior stamp collector is sparking students’ imaginations by giving them stamps.
Brian Wood,95, shown above, gives a local coffee shop thousands of stamps from his personal collection with the goal goal of inspiring young people and making them happy according to an [...]
Tax Stamps
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According to Wikipedia, “A revenue stamp, tax stamp or fiscal stamp is a type of adhesive label used to collect taxes or fees on various items. Many countries of the world have used them, for documents (often called stamp duty), tobacco products, liquor, drugs, playing cards, hunting licenses and other [...]
Linn’s 2008 U.S. Stamp Popularity Poll
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The vote totals are in for the Linn’s Stamp News 2008 U.S. Stamp Popularity Poll which closed in early March reports Jay Bigalke, Linn’s online editor and Postmark Pursuit columnist.
According to Jay, Linn’s readers shared their opinions about stamp design and subject choice by voting in three stamp categories: commemorative [...]
Oh BABY, here’s the scoop!
Submitted by Vive Le Vegan Blog
Through the last number of months I’ve eluded to being particularly busy - and also having some personal matters to attend to - and also having an overly-active interest in developing dessert recipes. So, here’s the scoop… I’m pregnant, and we will soon be welcoming a third child into our [...]
National Library Week
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Round-Up reader Larry T. Nix of Middleton, WI writes to remind everyone that this is National Library Week.
National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate.
National Library Week 2009 will be [...]
Easter Island Stamps
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The RapaNuiCentral.com Web site reports that on April 5, 1722, a small fleet of three Dutch vessels discovered a small volcanic island in the middle of Pacific Ocean. Since it was Easter Sunday, the captain of the fleet baptized his discovery with the name that is universally known, Easter Island.
It [...]
Public Invited to Simpsons First Day Ceremonies
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MetaFilter.com, a community Weblog, has a write-up on the new Simpson stamps which are shown above.
It reports, “The Simpsons creator and executive producer, Matt Groening, who created the original artwork for the stamps, is scheduled to participate in the dedication ceremony, along with executive producer James L. Brooks and several [...]
