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Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Well, seeing that we always start at the end and then work our way back home, so that we do not easily get the feeling that we wish we could be home, and when we eventually do, we’re almost there (holidaying with a psychological edge) we went from Switzerland to Germany! Spent [...]
Tour of Europe (II)
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
We’re still in Switzerland and we’re still at the fair in Zurich! And you can picture me still looking for those Helvetia with Sword issues! Now what I like about small format definitives is that they look so very nice in a block of four. That, or so I’ve been told, is [...]
Stamp Collector Day At The Pasadena Playhouse
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
California’s Pasadena Playhouse will host Stamp Collectors Day: A Celebration of the Stamp tomorrow, Saturday, April 11 from 12 noon to 3 P.M. in honor of their current production Mauritius.
Mauritius is a tale of two half-sisters who vie for the rights to a recently inherited valuable stamp collection. As they [...]
APS YouTube Video Competition
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
American Philatelic Society (APS) member Omar Rodriguez writes in an e-mail to APS members that APS President Wade Saadi and APS Past President Janet Klug have each put together a 2-minute video about a personal topic they feel passionate about - illustrated with stamps.
Wade’s video is about toy trains, Janet’s [...]
APS YouTube Video Competition
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
American Philatelic Society (APS) member Omar Rodriguez writes in an e-mail to APS members that APS President Wade Saadi and APS Past President Janet Klug have each put together a 2-minute video about a personal topic they feel passionate about - illustrated with stamps.
Wade’s video is about toy trains, Janet’s [...]
Tour of Europe (I)
Submitted by Akphilately Blog
Hi everybody, I’m back from my wanderings through Europe! It’s good to be back home in the rain and gales from Bonnie Scotland! Had a great time, both stampwise and non-stampwise, and will show you the results here during the coming days.
My first stamp stop was Zurich, Switzerland. Lovely city! And as [...]
Newspaper and Periodical Stamps
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
The HistoryBuff.com Web site has an interesting article about “back of the book” newspaper and periodical stamps.
According to author Craig Whitford in the early 1860s most newspapers were sent in bundles on trains and by steamboat for local distribution by dealers.
Craig writes, “…newspapers moved so slowly through the mail that [...]
College Stamp Collectors “Come Out of The Closet”
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
The Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges Web site, The Bi-College News, reports, “Thanks to Haverford’s newest club, dozens of students have been able to publicly admit a passion they have harbored for years.”
Archie Carter,class of 2010 is quoted as saying, “It’s time to come out in the open with it. [...]
First Class Alaskan Postmaster Retires
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
Alaska’s Peninsula Clarion reports local postmaster, Carol Joyce, shown here, is retiring after more than 2 decades of service. She’s been at the Kasilof, Alaska Post Office for 22 of the 32 years she has been a postal employee.
Before Kasilof, Joyce initially worked for 11 years in the Clam Gulch [...]
Putting A Stamp on Collecting
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
The Daily Star of Oneonta, New York ran a nice feature recently on collecting stamps and Dorothy Scott Fielder, shown here.
Contributing Writer Brian Kamsoke writes, “People collect stamps for a variety of reasons: commemorate a time in history, for the aesthetic and artistic value of the stamp, because of an [...]
Girls Brigade Learns Stamp Collecting
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
The CaymanNetNews web site reports that the George Town Girls Brigade responded enthusiastically to a lesson in stamp collecting given by the Cayman Islands Postal Service (CIPS).
CIPS class instructors Ivan Burges and CIP’s Philatelic Manager, Karen McField gave practical instructions on how to soak used stamps and where to get [...]
Executive Director Mastrangelo to Leave APS
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
The American Philatelic Society (APS) has announced that Executive Director Peter Mastrangelo, shown here, would be leaving the Society at the end of April.
Peter was hired by the APS in the spring of 2006. He directed the affairs of the American Philatelic Society and the American Philatelic Research Library, with [...]
The Simpsons Go Postal
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
Like some bad April Fool’s joke, USPS announced yesterday that The Simpsons characters Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie will be on five 44-cent (the First Class postage rate beginning May, 11, 2009) stamps later this year.
Artwork for the images was done by the cartoon’s creator Matt Groening and will [...]
China’s Stamp Museum Provides Glimpse into History
Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
Reporter Julianne Page recently visited the China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum in Beijing.
The stamp museum was first opened in 1985 and in 2007 it was expanded to include a postal museum. It now covers four floors and contains over 1,000,000 stamps. The museum has a main stamp gallery, [...]
