Archive for September, 2009
« Previous EntriesStamps: Much More Than a 10-Year-Olds Pastime
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“History, geography, politics, entertainment — it’s all there in postage stamps,” writes reporter Jessie Faulkner of Northern California’s Times-Standard.
Jessie reports members of the Humboldt Stamp Collectors Club held their 24th annual Stamp Show this past weekend, “providing a world that goes far beyond the somewhat maligned pastime.”
Club secretary/treasurer Carolyn Podratz [...]
Asian Collectors Get Passionate About Stamps
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Duncan Mavin reports in the Wall Street Journal, “…Asians from China to India to Japan are emerging as serious buyers willing to fork over large sums for sought-after stamps, thanks in part to rising fortunes in the region, as well as the ease with which fledgling collectors can now get [...]
New Video Tour of the American Philatelic Center
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Janet Klug sends this along via Facebook…
“There is a new video ‘Tour of the American Philatelic Center’ on the American Philatelic Society’s YouTube channel. Check it out!”
Click on the center of the picture to begin the 10 minute presentation narrated by Janet.
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The Narrowing of the Waters
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2008 marked the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the City of Québec. The Canadian and French postal authorities marked this with a joint stamp issue in May 2008. A hundred years before, Canada Post went it alone and released a still very popular set of eight stamps to mark the city’s [...]
Picture Gallery
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Honduras, 1961
The 1c from the airmail set to mark the settlement of the boundary dispute with Nicaragua.
The stamp depicts a map of the disputed border and King Alfonso XIII of Spain who determined that border in the early 1900s.
Printed in recess.
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New William H. Gross Stamp Gallery Announced by National Postal Museum
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William H. Gross, the founder of PIMCO and a stamp collector, has donated $8 million to the National Postal Museum to create a new 12,000-square-foot gallery that will be named in his honor. The new gallery, which will give the museum public space at the street level, is expected to [...]
Heavy demand for Cory Aquino stamps
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TO satisfy the public clamor for Cory stamps, the Philippine Postal Corp. (PhilPost) started distributing the second series of the Cory Aquino se-tenants stamps on Friday in several post offices nationwide.
Postmaster General Hector Villanueva said the tremendous demand for Cory stamps is obviously driven by the continuing adulation for [...]
British Navy Uniforms on New Stamps
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The Royal Navy Fleet Diving Squadron launched the special edition release Photo: PA
The Royal Navy Fleet Diving Squadron launched the special edition release with an underwater photo-shoot at its training tank in Horsea Island, Portsmouth.
Each of the six stamps charts the development of the British naval uniform, beginning with the [...]
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Great Britain, 16 June 1982.
The 24p value from the Maritime Heritage set. The stamp depicts Lord Nelson and HMS Victory, which is preserved at Portsmouth.
Printed in recess and photogravure, engraved by Czeslaw Slania.
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Stamp Designer
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As a result of inheriting his father’s stamp colllection, contemporary Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser became interested in stamps and designed stamps for many countries including his native Austria as well as Cape Verde, Cuba, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Senegal and the United Nations.
According to Wikipedia, Hundertwasser first achieved notoriety for his [...]
Twigg- Smith Pony Express Collection to Be Auctioned
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The Pony Express collection formed by noted philatelist, Thurston Twigg-Smith will be auctioned off by Siegel Auctions sometime during October or November.
According to the Siegel Dispatch, “Estimated at $2.5 to $3.5 million, the collection contains dozens of important pieces, including one of three known First Day Covers, the unique Pony [...]
Rotary Stamp Could Set a Guiness World Record
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The Times of India reports when school teacher PS Seshadri walks into his classroom students immediately start asking to see his “special” stamp albums.
According to reporter Lakshmi Kumaraswami of The Times, what they’re interested in are the albums filled with a 2005 Australian stamp marking Rotary’s centennial. His collection could [...]
Japan Post Readies Stamps for Mariner’s Ichiro Suzuki
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Kyodo News reports that the Japan Post Group will issue commemorative stamps featuring Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki if he records a ninth consecutive 200-hit season, an achievement unprecedented in the majors.
To be issued by Japan Post Network Co., the postal service arm of the Japan Posts Group, is a [...]
Finally
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I’ve been doing a bit of research on the Dutch stamps for the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which have been issued ever since the 1930s. The early ones, up to the 1950s, consisted of current stamps with an overprint in gold.
I was bascially wondering whether they were more gimmicks [...]
Old 9/11 Stamp Hoax and New 9/11 Website
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Shown here is a picture of a painting that has been rumored for some time now to be the design of a new U.S. postage stamp commemorating the Attack on America on September 11, 2001.
According to the TruthorFiction.com website, “Although the painting is inspiring to many because of the depiction [...]
40th Anniversary of the First Man on Moon Stamp
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The Collectspace.com website reports that it was 40 years ago this week on Sept. 9 that the United States issued the 10-cent First Man on the Moon airmail stamp.
According to the site, the stamp was produced using an engraved die which was carried on-board the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed [...]
Have You Seen Me? Postal Service Helps Find Missing Children
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Since 1985, U.S. Postal Service letter carriers have delivered special mail once a week that often represents the last hope for families searching for their missing children.
“The America’s Looking For Its Missing Children program has won widespread recognition as one of the nation’s most effective public service initiatives,” pens Debra [...]
Montana Artist Creates Envelope Art
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The Billings Gazette features an article about local artist David Dube who, according to the paper, is “one of an obscure group of artists whose work embellishes the envelopes of newly issued stamps.”
Reporter Donna Healy writes, “His fascination with envelope art began in 1953, when his parents took him to [...]
Philatelist Wins “Silent Samaritan of Bengal” Award
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India’s Telegraph reports unsung heroes who have contributed silently to society in various fields have been recognized in India with the “Silent Samaritan of Bengal” Award.
The awards were given in four categories — bravery, education, medicine and sports — to four persons from the city.
Octogenarian Mohini Lal Majumdar received the [...]
Stamp Club Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
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The Contra Costa Times reports that the Diablo Valley Stamp Club near San Francisco will celebrate its 50th anniversary this month.
Retired elementary school teacher Dave McDonald is quoted in the article by Jennifer K. Rumple as saying, “Our club is basically a trading club. Members exchange their stamps with each [...]
Post Office to Sell Greeting Cards
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Bill McAllister, Linn’s Stamp News Washington correspondent reports in the Sept. 7 edition, “Your local post office might be having a sale on many of the non-postage items on display in the lobby, to make way for new merchandise.”
According to Bill, USPS is seeking to strike a deal with Hallmark [...]
Kennedy Family’s Postage Stamp Legacy
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Alexander Haimann posts on the National Postal Museum’s new blog, “The passing of Senator Edward Kennedy on August 25, 2009, the third longest serving Senator in U.S. history, marked the death of the last of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s sons.
“The first U.S. postage stamp to depict a Kennedy son featured [...]
A Visit to the Canadian Postal Museum
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Alison Hobbs writes on her blog, Juxtapositions, about visiting the Canadian Postal Museum with her mother.
She posts, “We saw pictures of Canada’s first mail men in 1874, of trams and of mail trains where the clerks who were banished from the ships must have worked. (Mum said she remembered Darlington’s [...]
Picture Gallery
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France, 27 April 1963
The 30c value from the “Celebrities of European Economic Community Countries” set. The stamp includes a portrait of the Dutchman Hugo de Groot, flanked by the Peace Palace in The Hague on his right and St. Agatha’s Church in Delft on his left.
Printed in recess, engraved by J. Combet.
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Firefighters Honored with New Stamps
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With the hillsides ablaze not far from where I live in Glendale, California, it seems fitting that Great Britain should be honoring firefighters with the release of a new set of stamps this week.
According to the BBC website, “The six stamps are intended to show the range of situations faced [...]
